{COVID-19} Coronavirus Pandemic II: Easter is Being Rescheduled to July 15th

[6souls]

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronav...testing-enough
https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1244637360706342917

"If 80-90% of the people test positive, you are probably missing a lot of cases," says Michael Ryan, executive director of the WHO Health Emergencies Program.

That's because more positives means the tests are being used mainly to confirm obvious cases, and as a result health authorities are not getting a clear picture on the scope of the epidemic in their area.

In places where every close contact and suspected case has been tested, the percent of negative cases is high. Ryan says in countries that have extensive testing, fewer than 12% of their tests are positive.

"We would certainly like to see countries testing at the level of ten negative tests to one positive, as a general benchmark of a system that's doing enough testing to pick up all cases," Ryan says.

[Dimmauk]

There are health care workers that are risking their lives in treating people and instead of thanking them for their sacrifice, Trump decided to call them thieves.

[Khajit]

I'm still curious about how some people are asymptomatic, some have mild flu like symptoms and some people get hammered.

I saw a marathon runner had it bad, lost her ability to taste, but survived. Originally, people thought only old people or people in poor health, or people with lung issues. But now I'm hearing people with blood pressure problems and even people with sleep apnea. WTF? Why is it so random. I need more data. Are certain races or sex more susceptible?

China lied. We all knew they'd lie, but they lied so hard that I think almost all of their data is fucking with the rest of ours.

[Anoat]

The NCAA is granting an extra year of eligibility to all student athletes whose spring season was cut short or canceled due to COVID-19.

[Souj]

I'd love to lose my sense of taste. Would be so much easier to eat healthy. Much easier than having a basic sense of self control. And a lot of different people are having wildly different impacts on their body, probably because the virus is still trying to find a niche in the human body. But idk shit and just talking out my ass.

[6souls]

I'd love to lose my sense of taste.

Not sure if I could live with not being able to taste curry ever again.

[Corrderio]

I don't think I could stand not being able to taste. After a bit I think the sensation of something being on my tongue but not being able to taste it would drive me nuts.

[Tyrath]

Not sure you know what you're asking for wanting to lose the sense of taste lol

[Byrthnoth]

Not being able to taste things is commonly cited as a reason for decline in elderly patients. They can't taste things, so they eat less, they lose weight/muscle/bone mass, and then they die of something dumb

[Ker]

By tomorrow both France and the United States will have a higher death toll than China joining Italy and Spain. Good thing China has a totally legit hold on the virus and are absolutely not lying about their Infected and death numbers.

[AoE]

Found out one of my neighbors has COVID-19 so that's fun. People have been isolating themselves pretty well on my street though so I'm not too worried. However, I think there's still a lot of people that have the attitude that it's not a big deal which means they're not gonna take it seriously until they get it or someone they know gets it which is dangerous.

[archibaldcrane]

According to the WaPo tracker we hit 3000 dead in total tonight, and also today was the first 500+ death day.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graph...-cases-deaths/

[6souls]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/med...3xA?li=BBnb7Kz

CDC to recommend everyone wear face masks in public.

[Ker]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/med...3xA?li=BBnb7Kz

CDC to recommend everyone wear face masks in public.

how? There is a massive shortage of masks.

[6souls]

how? There is a massive shortage of masks.

CDC guidance on masks remains under development, the federal official said. The official said the new guidance would make clear that the general public should not use medical masks — including surgical and N95 masks — that are in desperately short supply and needed by health-care workers.

Instead, the recommendation under consideration calls for using do-it-yourself cloth coverings, according to a second official who shared that thinking on a personal Facebook account. It would be a way to help “flatten the curve,” the official noted.

Such DIY cloth masks would potentially lower the risk that the wearer, if infected, would transmit the virus to other people.

So, scarves.

[Souj]

Wife wants her mother to come to our place and visit the newborn on Thursday. Having a baby at this time was real shitty and we managed almost a week and a half without any visitors but no family seeing the baby and the latching breastfeeding problems have begun to compound dramatically on top of her depression. Personally, I'm more worried about going to his 2 week checkup on Friday than I am the motherinlaw visiting as far as catching it goes.

[zoobernut]

Wife wants her mother to come to our place and visit the newborn on Thursday. Having a baby at this time was real shitty and we managed almost a week and a half without any visitors but no family seeing the baby and the latching breastfeeding problems have begun to compound dramatically on top of her depression. Personally, I'm more worried about going to his 2 week checkup on Friday than I am the motherinlaw visiting as far as catching it goes.

Man I really feel for you. Our daughter is just about to turn 5 mo old so we are in the thick of it too. It is really stressful. We are being extra paranoid and careful and it is made even harder because so many people are not taking it seriously. We had to cancel her checkup. It just isn't worth it right now. Hang in there and do what is safest for the baby. It is the most important thing you can do as a parent.

Try setting up lots of zoom or google hangout meetings with family to show off the baby and take lots of pictures to send to them. I send photos of our kids to my dad almost daily. He is 86 and lives alone. We usually visit with each other once a week since we live in the same town but since he is a high risk person I am staying away for his safety. We make up for it with photos and phone calls though.

[Psion]

I'd love to lose my sense of taste. Would be so much easier to eat healthy. Much easier than having a basic sense of self control. And a lot of different people are having wildly different impacts on their body, probably because the virus is still trying to find a niche in the human body. But idk shit and just talking out my ass.

do you get migraines and/or seizures? there's a medication called topamax used for treating both that has both a common side effect of weight loss... and that also changes most peoples sense of taste when it comes to carbonated drinks. (hint: soda generally tastes awful to most people.) my dietitian prescribed it because i get frequent migraines anyways so might as well kill two birds with it! between that and the metformin i've lost about 12 lb over about a month and a half without effort. it's fluxuated between 8-12 lb, with 12 being the lowest i've seen a week ago.

my dietician thinks the reason i never lost weight over my life is due to the insulin resistance my blood work showed (she also put me on metformin when the results came back, which also has... a side effect of weight loss. lol) it wouldn't surprise me since i've never really been much of a pig - i never really ate HEALTHY food, but i generally don't eat more than 1900-2k calories a day on average. some days i glut a bit, some days i barely eat anything at all out of sheer laziness. or lack of money. <_< I MEAN HEALTH REASONS. TOTALLY HEALTH REASONS.

after a few weeks of the med combo though i noticed my bowel movements became more regular and less uh... irritable than they used to be. it's continued to do so, to the point where i'm no longer dreading the daily bathroom visits.


aaaaanyways! work update #6:

things definitely slowing down at work, likely due to the stay at home order in michigan and/or peeps running low on cash. eggs have gone up in price. like waaaaaaaay up. a dozen eggs used to cost like 1.50ish and are now about 4.30, with 18 count running around 6.20. the funny thing? the local, cage free, grass fed, organic eggs are 3.83. thats right, the hippie eggs are the cheapest option atm. i actually got a random call from a customer saying in a monotone: you've been reported to the attorney general for price gouging on your eggs. i read about it on facebook. ::click:: according to our store owner though, it's just the normal markup on eggs, it's just they cost a bloody fortune atm to get. not surprised, all the big stores are probably buying all the stock in the area.

more people are showing up with masks than before, and i had a coworker call saying she heard a rumor from her sister about today being the last day for stores to sell alcohol. (lol wut?) our store owner hadn't heard that one either, though he thinks it was a facebook rumor (of course) that started because of a reminder from the governor about bars and restaurants not selling alcohol or something. he did say he'd be really pissed if that was the case though, since he just placed a really huge order to restock his beer and wine shelves lol.

also, i am really starting to hate the smell of moisturizer. i do not get how people enjoy this stuff. i can't wait to get back to the days of not having to use sani-wipes all the time and drying my hands to the consistency of the sahara desert.

oh and... the TP craze continues still, as seen here:


that small box in the lower left? that's the single rolls of toilet paper, all we have left. lol.

[Outlaw]

At least 74 residents at Tennessee nursing home, 33 staff members test positive for coronavirus

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...us/5085851002/

There was another nursing home here that I heard about on the local news were all 94 people there tested positive. I can't find the link right now.

[Byrthnoth]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/pelosi-...ne-11585609787

How can they honestly even write this?

Trump screwed the pooch on this whole Coronavirus thing and Pelosi is the villain for pointing it out? Get fucked, WSJ

Edit: btw, apparently we aren't even counting the dead right:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article...tors-hospitals

I wish it was some nefarious plot by the government (like China), but it's probably just incompetence.