It’s the feeling of being trapped in and tied to machines that I really don’t like. Even if they let you move around there are only so many times you can do laps around the hospital floor dragging the IV tower with you. Cabin fever sets in quickly.
Also, the food was abysmal even by cafeteria standards.
A thing a lot of people don’t know is that unless there is a food restriction specified, you can have food brought in.
My last stay was bland (no sodium), but I did sneak a chicken nugget. And half a litre of coke when nobody was looking. 
I just read a Time article about the stats of this plague. The global mortality rate is 3.4%; however, countries that test more have a lower rate. For example, South Korea has tested more people than any country and their mortality rate is 0.6%.
No one knows what’s going on in Italy and the article summarized that this is closer to the flu than anything else we’ve seen.
SARS had a mortality rate of 10%! I’m not sure if the spread was slower or what the difference is, but it supports my opinion that we’re over reacting. I’m all about better hygiene and preventing the spread of the flu, but it’s concerning how the world is behaving.
The market just had its biggest drop since Black Monday in 1987 and it occurred on a Thursday…
But that’s the point - it’s not about the mortality rate. Ebola has a way higher mortality rate than the flu, but flu kills a ton more people. The fact that we can test 14 people on a cruise ship and none of them even knew they were sick but all test positive for COVID means it’s a sneaky virus. You can’t track it, and you can’t contain it. As I said, people are overreacting because they’re idiots - but the danger associated with a virus doesn’t have solely to do with its mortality rate. Overall I’m sure we’ll be fine, but remember - SARS had 8 cases in the US and no deaths. There are 60 COVID deaths in the US already, and the death toll in China has surpassed that of SARS with possibly 1/20th the mortality rate.
I’m considering training at home or going to my work gym to limit my exposure. I’m (falsely) confident that if I’m infected then I’ll be asymptomatic, but I don’t want to unknowingly be the harbinger of death for others.
As much as I despise eating yourself into a state of vulnerability, I still don’t wish death upon those folks.
Bingo. This is the key thing that I feel people don’t fully grasp.
I was just invited to an “anti-social distancing party” last night by a buddy. his reasoning was that everyone there was gonna be young and would be fine if they caught the virus. It’s frustrating that people aren’t willing to make fairly easy sacrifices for the good of society as a whole… But that’s nothing new. SMH.
I’m 100% positive I’ve been around someone with the virus, and I’ve very likely been around 10 or more people. I might have even had it having been around the virus for over a month now. It’s a fine line between overreacting, and underreacting. But fuck, I sure don’t want to be the reason someone else’s parent dies 20-30 years early. I’m still going to my gym, but it’s a small hole-in-the-wall job with maybe 30-40 people through it during a busy 24 hours. I’m spraying things down constantly, wearing mechanic gloves and throwing any clothing i plan to reuse (gloves, sweatshirt, bag) in the dryer on hot for 20 mins once I get home.
It’s been a spooky week here.
Having kids helped me learn about being an unaffected carrier. I had to get a whooping cough vaccination. I couldn’t catch it (or at least be harmed), but I could carry it and be the reason my infant child caught it. That was an eye opener.
Being the delivery agent of a deadly illness to your child tends to catch your attention.
It was comical how much my face and head itched at the gym yesterday. Having the thought “don’t touch your face” instantly activates all the nerve endings in that area.
You have lice
This is exactly my attitude towards it. I’m pretty relaxed about the idea that I might catch it, but I’d hate to be the reason that some little old dear catches it. Luckily, I guess, we’ll never know of we were a link in that chain or not.
I’m hoping I’ll be (mildly) symptomatic, so I can put in my two weeks of quarantine and know it’s over and done with.
This madness of not knowing is killing me.
2 weeks home with grumpy kids? Then catching up on 2 weeks worth of work after? That’s a hard pass, thanks.
I’m waiting for my work to collapse, along with my income. I don’t have little kids, so I’d just be sitting home worrying that my income has stopped and my husband’s job has suddenly become shaky. Along with worrying about my kids, who are establishing their adult lives.
When you put it like that, my worries of a slightly inconvenient few weeks and maybe a cancelled holiday are pretty minimal.
No, no, I’ve done time trapped with small children. It’s a legit concern!
I have coffee, I’ll be fine.
Hope you and yours stay safe.
I figured this would be boom time, like new clients and extra sessions and all of that stuff.
When I was cutting trees we’d get micro-bursts every so often. Aside from the clean up work, we’d also get people reacting to it. That would guarantee 16-18 hr. days for months. (blessing and a curse)
Fuck this shit. Traveling for work and never have time for food. Now I can’t eat out for four weeks.
Imagine how the servers who rely on tips to pay their bills feel.
I realized this yesterday and tipped a server $100 on a $30 meal. Hopefully she made enough last night to survive four weeks.
