How has the coronavirus affected your personal life?

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There's just a million people in our county, but it's almost as big as New Jersey. In the San Joaquin Valley, we're not really fighting the density issue like Jersey folks or LA folks. Some towns here got hit hard and some did not. I don't know if this is related to affluence directly, but this is the wealthiest part of the county.

I am VERY lucky to live here, as property is quite expensive, and we did not come from wealthy families.

Locally, we had Covid cases very early on, but they faded. Now, finally, our hospital is filling up with overflow cases sent from the west county. Typically it's too far for them to come initially, being on the easternmost side of the valley. They have to drive past the Valley Med Center, our Community Hospital, Kaiser, and huge St. Agnes complex. There are also innumerable clinics. Fresno is a regional hub for health care.

Anyhow, it appears we will finally get hit with a spike in the new year, as more come here for treatment.
 
Doctor who discovered Ebola warns new deadly virus set to hit mankind (msn.com)

Hello; First this link is not directly about the covid19 virus and it's mutations. There is a relationship in that covid19 is the star of the moment. I know I keep going back a few decades when I get started on these stories. I will try to make sense. As in some of my other stories the first I knew of these sorts potential epidemic outbreaks was many years ago.
There were discussions about how human activities were setting the stages for new disease outbreaks. The easy ones both oldies and goodies. Crowded buildings and cities for one. Buildings had two strikes against them as I recall. One, related to disease, was the closed ventilation system found in so many building of the last few decades or so. How many of us today want to be inside one of those buildings? (Note- technology can help the airborne disease spread I think. UV lights in the ducts.)
The second issue we talked about 40 to 50 years ago had to do with how many new buildings has windows which can not be opened. This forces some sort of power consuming HVAC to be running all the time. I close up my home in the cold season but the windows are opened any time the weather allows.

Back to the link for a bit. Overpopulation rears it's head again. Why are we pushing into wild areas where the chance to run into some exotic pathogen may lurk? Over many years, maybe thousands or hundreds of thousands, the animals or plants have been attacked by some virus, parasite or bacterium. Odds are lots of the animals die of the infections but some do survive. The pathogen and the animal/plant come to a biological sort of understanding/compromise, a balance of sorts. (malaria and sickle cell)(Ability to carry the pathogen but not getting disabled or dead)
Then some human comes along without any portion of that biological compromise on hand. In the older times there likely were outbreaks that stayed confined to small areas as we were not moving around so fast and easy as we can now. So the population in an area get to a point of living with some, not all, pathogens. You know, the places where they tell you to not drink the water.
Some some local person catches a bat or some other animal and takes it to a "wet market" or sells it to a lab. The local may get slightly ill or maybe no thing at all as he/she has made a compromise over time. But when that pathogen finds me some thousands of miles away I am not part of the compromise it may have taken generations of locals to acquire. I get plenty sick or worse.

So waiting out in the remote parts of the world are pathogens which are relatively harmless in their local area but will be very bad news if they find a vector to my neighborhood. Same could go for me. I may carry some bug which does me no real harm, but might be hard on dome people far away. Think of the new contacts of the Europeans with the native Americans a few hundred years ago.

Enough from me.
 
Just wanted to add a little something to this thread. I did get Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine on 1/7/21. No ill effects so far. Getting the second shot in 21 days.
 
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kno4te said:
Just wanted to add a little something to this thread. I did get Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine on 1/7/21. No ill effects so far. Getting the second shot in 21 days.
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Hello; Good for you. My state, TN, is starting with regular folks 75 or older only. At 73 I am further down the line.
 
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This State Is Vaccinating Smokers Before Essential Workers (msn.com)

Hello; I am 73. In my state, TN, I have to wait until those 75 and over get the vaccine. I think critical workers are in front of me also. This makes sense.

However putting smokers to the front of the line does not make sense. I cannot help being at risk for being 73 but could and did quit smoking long ago. So if I lived in that state someone who smokes and is much younger would be in line front of me maybe.
 
Well I am 65 and they say you can get it at 65 in California now if you ask.

If you want to drive out here you can have my dose.
 
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Well I am 65 and they say you can get it at 65 in California now if you ask.

If you want to drive out here you can have my dose.
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Hello; No thanks. Anyway last news I saw there were not enough doses yet for those over 75 here.
 
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