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May. 3rd, 2020 07:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ravena_kadeYesterday I straightened out some things, washed windows, and hung the living room drapes.
Had a fun chat with the Phoenix Swords folks. Thank youmalterre and fbhjr for inviting me.
I did go out yesterday for some house supplies at a small hardware store... they need the money. They also had a deal on grills that included free delivery, set up, and fuel. Perfect for a truck-less van less me. It took a bit to wait in line to enter the small place...but it was nice out and everyone had masks.
woke up this morning at 3 AM feeling incredibly dark...like the darkness got so bad that it was what woke me up.
It could be work anxiety... it could be stir crazy.
I did find a documentary on Public Broadcasting about the city of Flint and the the poisoned water. How terrible our government is...even under a president who is a decent man...
Started watching some news and it makes me think... While I believe that social distancing is important to the stop of Covid, what is it doing to our resistance to other things? Just wondering...not denying the distancing.
Other thoughts. 61% of the deaths in my state are from people in nursing homes. Sad...but maybe this will change them. I HOPE. My heart is broken that I trusted my Mom on one of those places just for 20days... and she died. A lot of the places are dirty because the staff are way under pain and just don't give a crap. I saw that.
One thing on the news mentioned vaccines... I do hope there is one... but I also know that they have not come up with a vaccine for some other killer viruses. Dengue fever is one. More than 22,000 die of Dengue a year. I know of it because my Texas Uncle had it in Viet Nam. If he is exposed again he will die. He has been watching the spread of it through South America and Mexico. He allows said if it got close he would move back north. Not sure if the vaccine thing is another one of those situations where it is mostly poor people affected...Like Flint here... so no one can make a profit off the drug so no one cares to do the research.
Had a fun chat with the Phoenix Swords folks. Thank you
malterre and fbhjr for inviting me. I did go out yesterday for some house supplies at a small hardware store... they need the money. They also had a deal on grills that included free delivery, set up, and fuel. Perfect for a truck-less van less me. It took a bit to wait in line to enter the small place...but it was nice out and everyone had masks.
woke up this morning at 3 AM feeling incredibly dark...like the darkness got so bad that it was what woke me up.
It could be work anxiety... it could be stir crazy.
I did find a documentary on Public Broadcasting about the city of Flint and the the poisoned water. How terrible our government is...even under a president who is a decent man...
Started watching some news and it makes me think... While I believe that social distancing is important to the stop of Covid, what is it doing to our resistance to other things? Just wondering...not denying the distancing.
Other thoughts. 61% of the deaths in my state are from people in nursing homes. Sad...but maybe this will change them. I HOPE. My heart is broken that I trusted my Mom on one of those places just for 20days... and she died. A lot of the places are dirty because the staff are way under pain and just don't give a crap. I saw that.
One thing on the news mentioned vaccines... I do hope there is one... but I also know that they have not come up with a vaccine for some other killer viruses. Dengue fever is one. More than 22,000 die of Dengue a year. I know of it because my Texas Uncle had it in Viet Nam. If he is exposed again he will die. He has been watching the spread of it through South America and Mexico. He allows said if it got close he would move back north. Not sure if the vaccine thing is another one of those situations where it is mostly poor people affected...Like Flint here... so no one can make a profit off the drug so no one cares to do the research.
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Date: 2020-05-03 12:25 pm (UTC)People didn't even want to admit to it at first!
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Date: 2020-05-03 02:55 pm (UTC)I don't like to say this because I know that many care homes and their workers are excellent, but not all care homes are equal. When I was looking for a nursing home for my mum there were some I wouldn't keep humans or animals in. Not perfectly clean and often smelly and with lax procedures. There's a high turnover of staff as well and although many get training courses there is often not enough staff with years of experience. Those homes in particular put residents at risk.
They are working hard here, like other countries, to find a vaccine or a medication that really works well. They are trialling blood plasma from people who have had the disease. Herd immunity will help eventually but that needs at least 70% of the population to have had covid-19.
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Date: 2020-05-04 03:27 am (UTC)This is just my personal theory, so take it with a grain of salt. I've heard that even the cleanest nursing homes have been hit hard by Covid-19. A lot of older people have been getting put on CPAP machines to help with sleep apnea. I was reading an article where someone was asking about converting CPAPs to ventilators, but the problem is they're not "negative pressure" and a CPAP basically shoots what you exhale back out into the room. So one person with covid-19 on a CPAP could aerosolize the virus and get it into the air at a nursing home and things could just snowball from there.
There are dozens of Universities and pharmaceutical companies working on a vaccine. But it takes a really long time to develop, test, and approve vaccines.
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Date: 2020-05-04 02:15 pm (UTC)