Covid Close To You

New2trees said:
My next door neighbor Pedro had it.

He is 62 and runs a car repair shop and is a non smoker/drinker/drugger in good shape.

He started at Suburban Hospital then after 3 days was transferred to Hopkins then a couple of week later UMD medical center. He spent 24 days total intubated on a ventilator and his wife was told he was going to die after 12 days at Hopkins Baltimore before she had him transferred from Johns Hopkins to UMD medical center (lucky for him she would not take no for an answer and knew a few who worked in the medical field) where they were just starting convalescent plasma therapy which seems to have saved him.
The big thing I did not know is that many times you are not unaware of your surroundings like when undergoing an operation under full anesthesia.
My neighbor was one of the ones who was fully aware of his surroundings just completely paralyzed and unable to communicate.....while doctors and nurses walked around talking about whether he was going to live or die like he was not there.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26178073/

In his case they had him on 100% oxygen and he said his breathing rate felt like he had just run a mile.........Meantime for days he was unaware of why his wife or family was not by his bed, wondering if they had died from the disease till one of the nurses said I am not sure if you can hear me but this is whats going on.

Imagine three weeks of this kind of torture!

By the grace of God and some fantastic work by the staff at UMD he has been home over a week now and luckily his organs and mind seem to have done well.....he even made it all the way around the block with his wife and me yesterday.
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Agreed thanks for taking the time sharing this. Do you mind publicly stating the date of his first symptom to the date he was able to walk around the block?
 
U.S. hit 150,000 dead today. Another 10,000 since last post. This time it was only 9 days for 10,000 people to die instead of 16 days last time.

Keep safe.
 
What is so horrible about wearing a face covering while out in public? I don't get it. If it's hard to breathe through your mask, get a different mask. Just wear one of the buffs that come free with your equipment orders. They're easy to breathe through, free, washable, and at least partially effective (doubled they seem to be pretty effective based on the "blow out a candle" test).

If you want to have your kids back in school, WEAR A MASK. It'll protect your kids and their teachers. In this environment, there aren't going to be very many substitute teachers available. I'm a recently retired teacher, and was planning on subbing next year. Now, not a chance in hell. Not until there's a vaccine available. Without subs, when teachers get sick (or need to quarantine) they'll have to shut down the schools. And if teachers are sick, they won't be able to teach remotely either.
 
dmonn said:
What is so horrible about wearing a face covering while out in public? I don't get it. If it's hard to breathe through your mask, get a different mask. Just wear one of the buffs that come free with your equipment orders. They're easy to breathe through, free, washable, and at least partially effective (doubled they seem to be pretty effective based on the "blow out a candle" test).

If you want to have your kids back in school, WEAR A MASK. It'll protect your kids and their teachers. In this environment, there aren't going to be very many substitute teachers available. I'm a recently retired teacher, and was planning on subbing next year. Now, not a chance in hell. Not until there's a vaccine available. Without subs, when teachers get sick (or need to quarantine) they'll have to shut down the schools. And if teachers are sick, they won't be able to teach remotely either.
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If I can’t go inside McDonalds or go to a gym my kid is not going to school!!
 
The schools here have not decided yet. Philadelphia is going virtual at least for the time being, as of the last news article I found. Closer to home they’re still unsure - a lot of the students in the cities and smaller towns are not capable of online schooling, so if they don’t have physical classes these students will continue to be left out like they have been since March.
 
Aug 6 now 160,000 dead. 8 days this time if the math is right for this 10,000 people. Not good.

I have to admit I'm averse to a mask cause it fogs my glasses but fortunately I work outside and stay away from crowded situations mostly. It'e the law now here to go into a gas station or store etc and I'm ok with that.
 
Another 10,000 unneeded funerals on schedule. Something's not going right. I dislike putting up this info but it might awaken some life saving behaviour. I know I was slow to mask use.

take care
 
Just heard 190,000 on the news. 12 days again. Also heard about the connection of Covid to heart damage commonly diagnosed in previous times as POTS i.e. covid doesn't kill you but leaves a nasty parting gift. Athletic people turned into fainting prone people with no stamina.

stay safe
 
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Bart_ said:
Just heard 190,000 on the news. 12 days again. Also heard about the connection of Covid to heart damage commonly diagnosed in previous times as POTS i.e. cover doesn't kill you but leaves a nasty parting gift. Athletic people turned into fainting prone people with no stamina.

stay safe
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@Brandon Pankey wasn't this your diagnosis? Maybe they were wrong on your antibodies or couldn't admit it due to the timing of original sickness? Crazy stuff.
 
Do I have to post the ding ding ding ding we have a winner 200,000 dead post or does someone else want the honours? It's probably today.

stay safe
 
Yesterday 210,000 dead. Just date stamping the milestones. Heard some predictions based on maskless behaviour etc that it might double before all is said and done e.g. 400,000 sometime next year. Vaccines might start to make a dent next summer. Meantime same old. And the Fall flu season is kicking in everywhere, zoom, skyrocket the numbers. A customer of mine who works in gov told me back in May they knew the shit was going to hit the fan in the Fall. Who'da thunk they'd be right, what with all their experience and knowledge. With access to internal data they also said lower income areas were hit much harder, clear as drawing boundaries on a map. So that part is not made up either. Lots of the world is re-locking down to try to prevent a numbers explosion. Parts of the U.S. are breaking records of numbers of cases.

stay safe
use the easy, well known protections - the virus doesn't give crap who it gets and healthy people do die from it
 
Anyone else find it curious that the statistics for Covid only account for total infected since the beginning and total dead. As it stands we have had 7.7MILLION infected, if we assume these people are all contagious, I'd have to say we are utterly fucked... But, we don't have the data if this is 7.7 m total infected from the beginning, or currently infected and considered contagious. Just wishing for more data 9 months into this mess..
 
I think today is 220,000. Someone on the news said that's more than the amount of American lives sacrificed in all of WW2. And in 9 months, not 4 years. And it's accelerating again.

edit - the news story was misspoken, the stat is 400,000 in U.S. for ww2, that's the eventual projection for covid some months down the line
 
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southsoundtree said:
I'm curious what working conditions are like for crews, currently.

I haven't hired because of it.

Iron isn't susceptible.
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Super hard to manage, bids are a shitshow and everyone’s has their opinions.
The crew isn’t on board, two dudes who just want to get it and get it over with..
needless to say my stress levels are through the fucken roof
 
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