Sunday, May 31, 2020

week 11


The first official cases of covid-19 were announced in this country in February but I have talked to or read about a lot of people who think they had it in December and January. Case in point, my sister spent 3 weeks with our brother up in the PNW over the christmas holiday and was sick as a dog, thought it was the flu, thought she was infected on the plane ride up, thought she was gonna suffocate, took about six weeks to get over the horrible cough and tightness in her chest. She didn't go to the doctor then or when she got home, just the flu after all. She went to one of her annual physical exams Wednesday and her doctor thinks she had covid-19 and wants her to get an antibody test. And I was talking to a neighbor the same day and he related that another neighbor thinks her son had it in January, same thing, same symptoms,thought it was the flu, finally went to the doctor and no, not the flu and took forever to finally get over. I wonder how many flu deaths were really covid-19.
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I mostly stayed home this week just going out for groceries and even fewer people were wearing masks.
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Democrat Brian Sims of the PA state legislature has just informed us that at least one Republican member of the legislature had tested positive, knew he had tested positive and still continued to interact with Democratic members and exposing them who then went home to their families possibly exposing them as well and the Republicans knew it and purposely did not tell the Democratic members. This is the Republican party folks, people who think it is perfectly fine to knowingly expose the members of the opposition party to a deadly disease.
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My county is up to 53 known cases now, a big jump of 9 from last week. Usually they report just a few so this is a big increase.
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Trump has withdrawn the United States from the WHO. In the middle of a pandemic. It's as if he's trying to kill off as many people as he can.
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Interesting and informative article about research into SARS-CoV-2 otherwise known as covid-19. There is mounting evidence that it isn't a lung disease so much as a vasculotropic virus, that it attacks the vascular system, particularly the endothelial cells that line the insides of our blood vessels, gaining entry through the lungs when they are compromised which explains the blood clots and inflammation of the heart and why people with heart disease and vascular disease and diabetes are particularly at risk and why death is caused as much by heart failure as suffocation as well as damage to the lungs, kidneys, liver, intestines, and encephalitis and black toes. If this bears out then the use of statins and ACE inhibitors might be a better approach to dealing with this disease since they tend to stabilize the endothelial lining of the blood vessels instead of antiviral drugs and a small study did show that those already on those drugs were linked to a higher rate of survival.
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When was the last time we had a report from a disease specialist or scientist? When was the last time Dr. Fauci addressed the public, or even Dr. Birx? Where are the updates on the spread of covid-19 and research into treatments and the progress on developing a vaccine? Pandemic news has evaporated this week as the country erupts over the murder of another black man by another white cop but the virus is still out there, still spreading, still killing people and Trump has decided it's over, done deal. Over 100,000 dead, 40 million people unemployed, riots all across the nation, and he thinks the country is doing great while he agitates for more violence.
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Current US statistics as of today 5/31/20, 23:48 GMT (last ten weeks' totals in parenthesis): cases – 1,837,525 (1,685,367, 1,512,267, 1,384,681, 1,168985, 976,403, 741,230, 534,494, 312,223, 123,958, 38,757); deaths – 106,190 (99,286, 90,206, 81,724, 67,954, 54,965, 39,103, 20,637, 8,483, 2,231, 400); (no longer care about recoveries).




12 comments:

  1. I do believe this Lunatic President is using the Virus as a Purge for 'cleansing', now that he knows which demographics it is decimating the most, my opinion, but what do I know... except what looks obvious on the surface. His Lunatic Fringe Base and those he attracts most seem very similar to what History has taught us is grotesquely inhumane and elitist. He is destroying our Country systematically and those who should stop him, aren't, I'm dismayed by it all.

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  2. this virus is going to stick around for while- this has been a test run I think. 2020 has been a test run...seriously frightened now.

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  3. They locked Trump in a safe room, wish they would lose the key then the World would be safe from him.

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  4. It's as if our brains just can't hold a thought for longer than a few months. I, too, am growing ever more complacent. Not that I'm going anywhere. Not that I want to go anywhere.
    I don't know what Trump is thinking. He may be trying to kill us all. It wouldn't surprise me.

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  5. From my safe (enough) distance, your country looks like boat that bobs back and forth in the waves helplessly, without steering and without direction.
    I wonder who is watching in the wings.

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  6. Trump has moved on. He thinks it's time to intensify his campaigning. That's all he cares about.

    Interesting theory about the blood vessels -- I hadn't heard that. But it DOES explain the "Covid toe," doesn't it?

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  7. Not sure about Pam's illness while she was up here. We were both in close contact with her and didn't seem to catch anything - but both of us are vaccinated for flu and pneumonia. I felt my immune system fire up briefly but that is about all. It will be interesting to know. Both of us are on statins and ACE inhibitors.

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    1. and while she was sick in your house, she says she stayed well away from you both. she doesn't plan to get the antibody test though as it's not completely reliable but it would be nice to know.

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  8. I saw somewhere (too much internet to remember) that Dr. Fauci has not talked to the orange man for two weeks. TWO WEEKS. He is going to kill us all. I had read about the ACE inhibitors but not the statins. That would be good to have something that ameliorates the symptoms. I really hope we don't catch this since we're old.

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  9. I am overwhelmed by this president to the need of a ventilator.

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  10. And the police got to get their riot on and use all their toys this weekend

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  11. This world is going to hell in an orange handbasket :(

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