in my experience something feeling better after getting it moving is a really good sign.
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The weather also helps, since viruses don’t seem to flourish in sunshine for whatever reason.
Glad I can still train vicariously through you, though; I’m hunting down kettlebells etc. to keep me ticking over while all the gyms shut down.
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Woke at 259.5 lbs, looking less bloated.
@BOTSLAYER I’m hoping so. There is still some discomfort closer to the shoulder but it isn’t worse than before yesterday
@mattjp I’m running through plans in my head for if we get closed down too.
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So I’m coming down with a cold/flu as far as I can tell. Yay. Thought it may have been coming on last night but when I went to bed I was feeling better. Woke up and seemed ok, but within an hour throat was scratching and nose started running a bit. I was already at work by then but told my foreman and left just in case.
According to the guidelines I don’t need testing but they’re hazy on what I should do apart from that. I know it’s relatively unlikely it’s anything other than a cold but I don’t know for sure. I’m going to call the information line to check later. I don’t want to miss work if I don’t have to, but I don’t want to be the arsehole who puts everyone at risk either.
Because I’ve been out and about there is, as far as I can figure out, a chance that I have been in contact with someone who does have it. Hell, my boss came back from Japan a couple of weeks ago. He isn’t sick and I haven’t spent time with him but other people at work have.
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Advice in most places is to stay at home for two weeks if you’re showing symptoms. Which sucks some serious balls.
Hope you’re alright though in any case.
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It also is something I won’t do unless required, because I’m not missing work for two weeks just because I might have it. If I had been in contact with someone who did, absolutely. Except as far as I know, I haven’t. We have had two cases in Canberra so far. I’ll call our health people in a bit to find out what the go is.
We’re basing our decisions on fever. If we test at 100.4 or higher then we go home. If it goes away for two days then we can go back to work.
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I’m pretty sure I don’t have a fever, but I know I’ve got something. I’m on hold with the hotline now, hopefully when I get through they give me some advice as to what to do. Until I hear anything, I’m not going to go out or do anything.
The two main symptoms are fever and a cough. Hopefully you don’t have it, but anything is possible right now. Get well soon.
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Well, I got off the phone and the advice was that I don’t need to isolate because I’m not in the group that is being screened for the virus. So basically if I’m sneezing and couching a bunch stay away from people and if I get worse see a doctor. Otherwise work, etc as normal.
In other words, I won’t get tested unless is gets worse, and unless it gets worse I can also go back to work if I want. I’m going to see how I go by later today and then as my work if they want me to stay away for a day or two to see what happens or if they want me straight back.
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Seriously, they are telling you to go back to work? That doesn’t sound right at all. Over here the recommendation is to self-isolate for 14 days if symptoms aren’t severe. With the advice they are giving you, it will be a miracle if Australia doesn’t have a major outbreak.
If might not be coronavirus, and if it’s not then nothing to worry about. But if you get a fever and cough or shortness of breath then you really shouldn’t be going out anywhere.
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As far as I can tell, we’re going nuts to protect small portion of the population. It’s the first time I’ve lived through an experience where the majority is going to suffer for a few.
Our county health geniuses are predicting that 80% of us will get infected. Well, if 4 out of 5 people are going to get the virus then what the hell is the point of crashing the economy with this nonsense?
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That’s the exact same thing I was saying. The cure could very well end up being worse than the disease. The US and Canadian governments are already rolling out multi-billion dollar “aid packages”, but we will be the ones stuck paying the bill. I can only hope that shutting things down really is the better option, because otherwise we are getting fucked over for nothing.
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Basically yes @chris_ottawa so I’m going to stay home today, and tomorrow as well when I have an actual doctor’s appointment, and then I’ll reassess based on what the doctor and my work say. If this bug is going to develop, it’ll do so overnight I would think.
@Frank_C my understanding is that the shutdown isn’t meant to stop people getting it, but to make sure not everyone gets it at the same time. That way the healthcare resources will always be available in sufficient quantity.
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Don’t take ibuprofen, if it’s coronavirus it could make it worse:
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At a mortality rate of 1%, which is a low estimate, the virus would wipe out over 3 million people just in the US. Doesn’t feel like an insignificant number.
Because health services can’t cope if everyone gets hospitalised at the same time. That would push the mortality rate through the roof. Now you’re not looking at “only” 3 million people, but far far more.
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Can’t believe they just send you back to work.
Here if you have the slightest symptoms you stay away for 14 days, at home washing hands and don’t go out.
On another note the most used word these days are Corona and it’s not used in the bar.
My country is about to shut down, France has made it illegal to go out, unless you have reason and a permit.
Hope it’s just a cold, and that you’ll be back in notime.
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Not to mention that we’re talking about the US, so the impact on the economy when the 15 million or more people who recover after receiving ICU treatment receive their six-figure medical bills will be a LOT bigger than what’s happening right now.
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@MarkKO sorry if this is hijacking your log. I can remove this if you don’t want to have this discussion on-going here.
@Frank_C, with regards to
it is my understanding that the issue is not that tightly coupled to the number of people that will contract the disease, but rather the problems that arise if a large group contracts it more or less simultaneously because that has a large impact on mortality.
Nor is it about only protecting a certain group or groups of individuals. While it is true that the elderly and the immuno-compromised are at a greater risk, i.e. suffer a greater chance of dying than the rest of the population, they are not the only ones that will succumb to it.
Every group,
10-19
20-29
30-39
40-49
…
has mortalities. Some more than others. Granted, the older, the greater the number. I’m not comfortable taking someone else’s numbers and dressing them up in my own words. But here’s a text that models COVID-19 as if it were the flu and compares different strategies:
and here’s a distilled TL;DR:
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Yeah this is what I’ve been thinking.
The economy is going to crash people are going to become horribly depressed
We’re going to lose more people to suicide and substance abuse and homelessness than the virus
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