The main thing is just that they can’t treat everyone. They aren’t even assessing the over 60s. Sixty is not old, people are dying because the health service is overwhelmed. There may be effects from social practices like kissing hello, or smoking, or demographics, but most of it I bet is just overwhelm. What I’m hearing out of Lombardy is shocking, utterly shocking. I am staggered, and horrified by it.
I cannot say this strongly enough. This now is the point of explosion. If you can - Stay home. Keep the vulnerable home. Avoid any and all gatherings of people. If you’ve got kids, keep them home. Take vitamin D. Wash your hands. Take your shoes off at the door. Get your groceries delivered or go at a quieter time.
any country that hasn’t closed down absolutely everything non essential is now on a course to be like Italy in a fortnight.
You know ive been fairly calm this whole thread. I’m not prone to panic. So this is me telling you now : Stay home, if you can. If you need to lie through your arse to your employers and the kids schools, do. No ones coming to check you’re coughing. We have two weeks to serious, catastrophic overload. Please, fellow kiwis, stay home. Godspeed. It’s about to get very bad.
You know, it's funny you saying that. Because I get that impression as well.
Today is kind of Day '0' - at least where I am in the UK. And I live in the the second highest most infected area, London being the first.
I'm not panicked. But tonight's the night as Neil Young said. No, that's not right. Today's the day! That's it.
The lady in the shop was looking at me a bit sideways as whe was pumping me for information. I told her that I was self-quarantining. But she didn't dismiss me outright. It was more a kind of 'what does he know that I don't know' kind of look.
And that's the thing. I've been following this since January. Crunching my own numbers. I've been active on some other very active forums as well that are giving good info on this. I know what time it is, boyeeee!
She has just caught up. But it's more than what she is reading in the news. This is word of mouth. It's friends on the internet. Like me she's a Gen-X'er so not a boomer.
It sucks that I already am a little bit ill, but I've been like this for a few years now. Auto-immune can creep up on you slowly, especially if it is mild. But I'll ride it out before going in to any doctor's surgeries I think.
I can't put any more food in my cupboards - they are bursting. In fact I need to clear a couple out for new deliveries in a few days. I've got some Hydrogen Peroxide and I'm going to make up a small solution to spray down my goods, then clean them off with all that TP I've been hoarding! J/K - but I've got a lot of kitchen towels for the purpose.
Self-quarantining now, ASAP, after you have supplies in is the best thing to do. Little measures like spraying goods with Hydrogen Peroxide are inconvenient and may not help much, but they will help a bit.
Don't forget to keep everything clean. Reason being, when you came back from the shop a day or two ago this virus might have plumped itself on your surface tops. So clean it down. Wash your hands after everything. Keep the toilet seat down when flushing because it's airborne in faeces and what you might have flushed out and got away with you might just breath back in again to get properly infected.
It's a virus. It's size is so small you can not imagine. It will attach itself to whatever it can freeload off before hitting the mother lode - your body!
It's not sentient. It doesn't need to be. It's just damned devious.
Maybe in a few days time we will all know a little better what we are dealing with. But there is no cure or vaccine, not until next year at least, by which time it will have moved on again probably.
My heart goes out to those working in the medical fields. Those keeping the lights on. Those mopping the floor. They are at the very front line, doing their duty, while we hide away in our little hovels. But it's better for everyone that those of us who are not infected, do not become infected. By making sure of that we will be doing our very small part.
