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#16
Cloth mask protects them from you. A N95or KN95 is supposed to protect both of you.
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#17
(05-10-2020, 05:58 AM)Tyson Rayles Wrote: Cloth mask protects them from you. A N95or KN95 is supposed to protect both of you.

Thanks Mike, that's never been clear nor discussed. They just say, 'do this or that" and not tell you why. They are now saying that grocery stores will change forever and we may see the end of the buffet. Will we have to practice social distancing from here on, or will things get back to the way they were soon? Spotted something I wanted at Walmart, had to go down one aisle and back the next one to get it even though it was in sight, since all aisles are now one-way. I'm not there to do a marathon, I just want to get what I need and get out of everybody's way.
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#18
Drugs and medications will help in the short run but a vaccine will allow us to get back to what we used to consider normal.

Tom
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#19
This is getting close. A life long friend lost her aunt-in-law to the virus. The former Director of Personnel of my former work place was another victim. He had retired over 20 years ago. He was in his eighties. Work also lost another consultant. I did not know her personally but I do remember seeing her around the office. A fellow employee who started the same time I did and retired just after I did is in the ICU from a stroke. He was healthy but apparently in some people COVID can cause a stroke. At the school my daughter works at one of the teachers, 30 year-old, physically fit also had a stroke out of nowhere.

There are numerous cases at the nursing facility my FIL is at with several on his floor. This is getting more and more scary.

Stay safe folks.
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#20
Our friend, who is 36, does have the Covid-19. The wife & I have been self-isolating for 11 days now. We should be back to work next week. Neither of us have any symptoms. Our friend just was released from the hospital yesterday and has to take blood thinners for 2 more weeks. She may have to see a lung specialist for rehab.
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#21
So far we've not known anyone that has caught the virus, so we're doing OK in that respect. Our circle of friends is small and we're not prone to large gatherings anyway. Shopping is easier, buy what we need, maybe an extra can of soup if they have what we like. Still hard to find certain things like some canned goods, but plenty of paper products and other things that folks were acting like piranhas at a feeding frenzy to get just a few weeks ago. Maybe the hoarders have run out of room or money to buy more stuff. I still see visions of that woman at Costco with a basket overflowing with TP and actually fighting to protect it. I just hope that the media isn't starting a hoarding session on meat with their talking about scarcity. That's always a good trigger...

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#22
I am going to admit the last week or so I have been getting the doldrums. Not sure if it is the stay at home stuff or something else. I am avoiding the news as much as I can. I have found the constant barrage to be disturbing and at times too much. We do go outside and get out of the house when we can. Most times it is in the yard, working on the gardens or pond. Other times we just sit and enjoy the improving weather. I do have to go out to the pharmacy and the grocery stores at times and used to welcome getting out but lately I can find it to becoming more and more stressful. My wife and I have gone done a few "drives to nowhere" just to try to recharge. I guess this is all part of cabin fever.
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#23
My wife and I are still doing well. We just got back home from a vacation staying in Vegas and Utah. We wore cloth masks when walking between our units where we stayed and our car, but put on the N95 masks when out in public places with other people around. She is issued the N95's when she works at the hospital, and they are replaced after each shift so she brings her mask home rather than throw them away.

We just didn't trust being where masks are not regularly worn by the people around us. The N95 masks protect us and the people around us from any germs we might have. The downside is that they are more difficult to breath with. Also if left on long enough, they can leave painful red marks on the face!

She has helped other nurses with putting lotion on their faces after a shift where the masks were chafing their faces.

About 30 of the other nurses in the hospital have gone out with covid19 the last she heard about two weeks ago. So far none of the nurses or doctors that caught it at the hospital where she works have died, but many of the nurses that have gone off with it, discover that when they try to come back to work, they are physically unable to work due to exhaustion. They work a partial shift and need to go home and take more time off!

In addition to all of the other unknowns about this disease are long term after effects.
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#24
I keep praying they find a vaccine or cure sooner rather than later, hopefully by the first of the year.
Mike

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#25
They are well along in some of the trials. Russia claims to have a vaccine, but their methods of testing don't come up to U.S. or Western European standards.

The modular club that I belong to has not been to a show in months. It looks like there won't be any shows until a vaccine is on the market and most are vaccinated and masks are no longer needed.
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