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We're quite remote in our part of the country so there's not much we can do except stay isolated, but in the spirit of helping out (and lightening the mood here a bit) we are fostering two abandoned dogs (brothers) from our "local" shelter (still 30 minutes away.)
Their paperwork claims they are an Australian shepherd/border collie mix, but I think I see a little retriever in them as well...
Rooster (blue eyes) is very bright. Colt (mostly white) is more of a knucklehead LOL...
Both are very affectionate.
That said, three dogs in a 700sf cabin is really pushing it! Josie is not impressed...
there is a controversy in my country about wearing mask or not,
following, some studies about mask efficiency (home-made mask, surgical mask, ffp2 mask) , decide for yourself :
it would be annoying for me to sacrifice some 12 years old scotch wiskey, no , beeing confined myself with my family for 10 days , going out (to grocery store) i use gloves, mask and Sanytol spray (killing 99.9% bacteria and virus)(hypoallergenic).
Another point, infected surfaces and lifespan of the virus (from hours to 9 days, 4 days on average).
Even if in my local hypermarket all employees are wearing mask and gloves (but what about some neglected customers ?), i am following a strict protocol (advice given by my family doctor) : coming back from grocery store , most of all items are stored in my garage for 5 days and kept untouched.
The cold lengthens the life of the virus, always washing hands after getting out perishable goods of the freezer.
About Hydroxychloroquine toxicity , "the world is going crazy" , the last announcement of Pr Raoult (not perfect, many translation errors but use english subtitles)
Can you imagine being in “blinding pain” for weeks, constantly gasping for air as you feel like you are being suffocated, and screaming for mercy because you are in so much constant torment? As you will see below, coronavirus survivors are telling us about their hellish ordeals, and they are warning us to do everything that we can to avoid this virus. Of course they are the lucky ones. As I detailed in another article, the global death toll has doubled over the past six days, and so far the very high death rate in the United States is extremely alarming. So those that survive should consider themselves to be very fortunate, but many of those same individuals will be left with permanent lung damage.
This virus attacks the respiratory system with a ferocity that is shocking doctors, and those that are still attempting to claim that COVID-19 is “just like the flu” need to stop, because they are just making things worse.
Researchers have found that this virus has an incubation period of up to 24 days, and people can spread it around long before they are showing any symptoms.
And you don’t even have to encounter someone with the virus to catch it. According to Bloomberg, new research has discovered that this virus can remain on surfaces “for as many as 17 days”…
Traces of new coronavirus were found on surfaces in cruise-ship cabins for as many as 17 days after passengers left, researchers said, though it wasn’t possible to determine whether they caused any infections.
Researchers looked at the rooms of infected passengers aboard the Diamond Princess, both those who showed symptoms and those who didn’t, according to a study Monday in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
When you combine those two factors, it makes COVID-19 nearly impossible to contain.
This is a major emergency, and it makes me angry that there are prominent voices out there that are still trying to downplay this pandemic. As a result, many people are not taking proper precautions, and a lot of them are going to end up catching the virus.
If you are reading this and you still don’t think that COVID-19 is a big deal, please take a moment to consider the following five stories about coronavirus survivors…
#1 26-year-old Fiona Lowenstein
That night I woke up in the middle of the night with chills, vomiting, and shortness of breath. By Monday, I could barely speak more than a few words without feeling like I was gasping for air. I couldn’t walk to the bathroom without panting as if I’d run a mile. On Monday evening, I tried to eat, but found I couldn’t get enough oxygen while doing so. Any task that was at all anxiety-producing — even resetting my MyChart password to communicate with my doctor — left me desperate for oxygen.
#2 55-year-old Kevin Harris
“Imagine your lungs turning solid. It’s like suffocating without holding your nose,” said Harris, who owns an auto body shop and typically runs 5 miles every day.
“Every time I lay down, my breathing gets lower and lower. I thought my lungs would fail me. I was screaming for mercy and praying to God.”
#3 25-year-old Connor Reed
A Welshman who caught the coronavirus in China has described how the deadly disease hit him “like a train” leaving him “suffocating” and in blinding pain for weeks.
Connor Reed, from Llandudno, got ill while working as an English teacher in Wuhan.
The 25-year-old described how it started as “just a sniffle” on November 25 – a month before authorities officially announced the virus – but over the next three-and-a-half weeks he got increasingly ill and was unable to move.
#4 39-year-old Tara Jane Langston
‘It’s like having glass in your lungs, it’s hard to explain, but every breath is a battle.
‘It’s absolutely horrible and I wouldn’t want to go through anything like this ever again. I’d been ill for about five days before I was taken to hospital in an ambulance.
‘I’d originally been diagnosed with a chest infection and given antibiotics and advised to take ibuprofen and paracetamol. I was taking about eight ibuprofen a day and they now think that that exacerbated the problem.
#5 A 12-year-old girl in Georgia named Emma
Emma, a 12-year-old girl, is “fighting for her life” in an Atlanta hospital after testing positive for the coronavirus, according to her cousin.
Justin Anthony told CNN that Emma was diagnosed with pneumonia on March 15 and tested positive for coronavirus on Friday night. As of Saturday, she was on a ventilator and is currently in stable condition, Anthony said.
As you can see, this virus is not just hitting “old people” extremely hard.
But if you are above the age of 60, please understand that you at very high risk, and you need to stay away from public places for the foreseeable future.
I know that it can be hard to stay home day after day, but this is truly a very, very deadly virus.
At this point, even doctors and nurses are “scared to go to work”…
Doctors and nurses on the front lines of the fight against the coronavirus in the United States say it’s “the first time” they’ve been scared to go to work. With a shortage of personal protective equipment, some have resorted to using bandanas to cover their faces.
“It’s the first time we’ve ever been truly scared to come to work, but despite being scared we are trained to save lives and we’re committed to doing that,” Dr. Cornelia Griggs, a surgeon in New York City, told “CBS This Morning.” “I’m embarrassed to say, but prior to this, my husband and I had never gotten around to writing a will, but this weekend that became one of our to-do list items.”
As I have been writing this article, over 2,000 more confirmed cases were added to the rapidly growing total here in the United States. And as I discussed yesterday, it looks like the U.S. is going to have a very high death rate just like we are seeing in western European countries such as Italy and Spain.
So please take this pandemic very seriously. A lot of Americans are going to die, and it is going to be a great national tragedy.
Please pray for those that have caught the virus and are deeply suffering. It is in our darkest moments that we need a miracle the most, and there are a whole lot of people out there that need one right now.
I read an article commenting on a video by the director of NHS telling people wearing masks could be "dangerous" if not properly used. He wore the mask on inside out and upside down in the video. Then he went on to say don't use masks because we need them (hospital staff).
I would like to highlight I mentioned spraying the outside of the mask with Vodka.
Why?
2 reasons:
1. the wet mask catches the airborne droplets better and (hopefully) disinfects them
2. when you take it off you are taking off a dis-infected mask (but still wash yours hands).
One needs to accept the reality that the "health" authorities lie and misrepresent the truth plus they haven't a grain of common sense.
Certainly, a loose fitting mask is not as good as a proper one. I have a good quality mask with an air-tight rubber gasket around the mouth and nose and it has two breathing filters on each side. I bought it several years back in preparation for a pandemic.
I thought it was good enough for vapours (you know like Varathane when doing construction work) but my friend told me it is good for fine dust particles - not vapours.
(I bought it in a hardware store along with extra filters. (In an earthquake you need a mask to prevent choking on drywall dust. )
But on the commonsense part - in January the govt should have bought thousands of masks for the public and made them available later. They should have prepared. They should have closed borders then. Everyone from the epicenter should have been put into a government quarantine facility. They should have recommend that people with enough money buy a little extra non-perishable food at each trip --- in January and in that way the poor who cannot afford to stock up would not find empty shelves. They should have identified unused motels and rented then as virus treatment centers - not send people to the hospital to infect others and the staff. They should have testing centers - like the drive through and others - just for testing and nowhere near a hospital. The list goes on and on.
But lapping up established authority crap (especially medical authorities) is very dangerous. Use your own brain and own common sense.
How many nurses and doctors do you see without masks?
