Strategies for coping
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Today I'm seeing a lot of posts about how most people survive the Covid19 virus, how the only people who will be affected are 'old' or 'vulnerable' so the rest of the population doesn't need to worry about it.
Um.
I am in that vulnerable slice of the population. I get that some people are happy to ignore that people like me (and a whole lot of other vulnerable folk) might get very ill, might even die, but that they won't.
What that kind of statement says is that those people don't care if I and others get really sick and die - because THEY won't.
They don't seem to be willing to take a step back and miss out on a concert, a conference, a sporting event. They seem quite...petulant...about it.
Some people - like the basketball player who arrogantly and recklessly made sure to touch every single microphone from the journalists in the room interviewing him - and who has now tested positive for the virus.
Essentially he could have infected every single one of those journalists. I wonder if he thinks about that. Or if he even cares.
Someone asked how, if someone isn't showing symptoms, they could infect others.
Thing is the virus can be in someone and not cause symptom for days. May in fact, cause only very minor symptoms - a cough, a sniffle, a very slight fever, too low to really register. That person might touch their mouth (eating a burrito or something?) and then touch surfaces upon which the virus can live for hours and even a couple of days depending on the surface. Subsequent people coming along might then touch that surface (door handle, book, condiment dish at a restaurant) and then touch their face or mouth and boom - immune suppressed, the virus settles in and makes them very very ill.
As a conference organizer, needing to cancel for any reason at all was a bit of a nightmare. But in this case? It is absolutely the correct call. And kudos to those event organizers who went ahead and did the right thing.
If the Olds College classes get cancelled, I will regret that it is so. But I will understand completely the necessity of so doing.
Until today my town was free of the virus. A recent post by a friend says that the first case has happened. So far, just an informal up date, but everyone needs to wash their hands. Not touch their faces/mouths/eyes, stay away from large gatherings.
The progress of the virus needs to be slowed or else health facilities will be overwhelmed. There will be insufficient medical supplies.
Wash your hands. Wash your hands. Wash your hands. With soap. Just plain, ordinary soap. Anti-bacterial soap is for bacteria and while it will help with the virus? It's the soap part that is the active ingredient. Save the anti-bacterial soap for dealing with bacteria.
Pretty picture - because it's the internet:
Tranquility scarf - because we could all use some about now
Today I'm seeing a lot of posts about how most people survive the Covid19 virus, how the only people who will be affected are 'old' or 'vulnerable' so the rest of the population doesn't need to worry about it.
Um.
I am in that vulnerable slice of the population. I get that some people are happy to ignore that people like me (and a whole lot of other vulnerable folk) might get very ill, might even die, but that they won't.
What that kind of statement says is that those people don't care if I and others get really sick and die - because THEY won't.
They don't seem to be willing to take a step back and miss out on a concert, a conference, a sporting event. They seem quite...petulant...about it.
Some people - like the basketball player who arrogantly and recklessly made sure to touch every single microphone from the journalists in the room interviewing him - and who has now tested positive for the virus.
Essentially he could have infected every single one of those journalists. I wonder if he thinks about that. Or if he even cares.
Someone asked how, if someone isn't showing symptoms, they could infect others.
Thing is the virus can be in someone and not cause symptom for days. May in fact, cause only very minor symptoms - a cough, a sniffle, a very slight fever, too low to really register. That person might touch their mouth (eating a burrito or something?) and then touch surfaces upon which the virus can live for hours and even a couple of days depending on the surface. Subsequent people coming along might then touch that surface (door handle, book, condiment dish at a restaurant) and then touch their face or mouth and boom - immune suppressed, the virus settles in and makes them very very ill.
As a conference organizer, needing to cancel for any reason at all was a bit of a nightmare. But in this case? It is absolutely the correct call. And kudos to those event organizers who went ahead and did the right thing.
If the Olds College classes get cancelled, I will regret that it is so. But I will understand completely the necessity of so doing.
Until today my town was free of the virus. A recent post by a friend says that the first case has happened. So far, just an informal up date, but everyone needs to wash their hands. Not touch their faces/mouths/eyes, stay away from large gatherings.
The progress of the virus needs to be slowed or else health facilities will be overwhelmed. There will be insufficient medical supplies.
Wash your hands. Wash your hands. Wash your hands. With soap. Just plain, ordinary soap. Anti-bacterial soap is for bacteria and while it will help with the virus? It's the soap part that is the active ingredient. Save the anti-bacterial soap for dealing with bacteria.
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I saw that basketball player, and thought what a dastardly thing to do! You can replace the "d" in dastardly with a "b", and it would still be the way I felt.
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