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19th November 2020 17:50
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Covid Caution
In my wildest dreams, I never thought I would start a COVID thread. Other than adding a few news stories to the Covid 19: Global Reports, News and Update thread I have been fairly ambivalent about the COVID situation. My feeling is that it is a personal choice to wear a mask, social distance or take the vaccine when it becomes available. There should be no shame regarding whatever choices you determine are best.
Two personal situations have prompted me to start this thread.
A friend of ours was diagnosed with COVID about 2 months ago. He tested positive and the doctor prescribed some meds and he was told to recover at home. He is 32 years old and in good health with no underlying medical conditions. After about 5 days of being very sick, he started to recover. At the end of two weeks, he said he felt fine but had some shortness of breath. At the end of a month, he tested negative for COVID and returned to work. This week while at work he felt a tingling sensation down the left side of his body, his coworkers thought he may be having a stroke so they rushed him to the ER. After they ran a series of tests they found significant scarring in and around his lungs caused by COVID. This is something that he will have to live with for the rest of his life.
We have another friend who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer nine months ago. As most people know this has a very high mortality rate, above 90%. Two days ago she passed away. Yesterday I called her husband to check on him just to let him know that I was thinking about him and to see if I could offer any help or assistance. After a fairly long discussion, he mentioned that it will be three weeks before he can get her into the crematorium. In the USA most services and funerals are held within a week after someone dies, two weeks would be considered a very long time. They are overwhelmed at the number of deaths due to COVID. I understand that COVID may only be a contributing factor and the actual death may be from some other chronic disease but the point is more people are dying at an alarming rate and COVID appears to be the primary cause or at the very least a contributing factor.
As a side note, we do not live in a high-density region of the USA and we have some of the best medical facilities at our disposal.
I don't think that there is any question that politicians and in particular the mainstream media have weaponized this horrific disease but that does not make it any less real. The goal here is not to create more COVID porn fear, God knows there is enough of that but to relate two situations which have given us pause and provided us with a moment of caution.
Last edited by rgray222; 19th November 2020 at 19:37.
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19th November 2020 18:14
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