COVID Dashboard: "The Virus and How it's Wrecking my Life".

The other day I got my can of Lysol spray which I had on back order from the grocery store since January. It's like winning the lottery !!!

What is tearing at my heart is that the death's of our loved one has become political foot ball for Andrew Cuomo and other North East governors that had make it so. I myself have lost my wife of 55years of Marriage. Cuomo is taking Credit for handling the onset of pandemic saying he saved lives in assisted living blaming the lose of lives of these seniors to our president which the fact i Cuomo sent positive patient from hospital's into these nursing facilities infecting 33.000 seniors which is documented on U2 By his action he has wrecked thousands of these poor senior families like mine. I am all alone now she was my was my life and he took her away from me !!!!!

He is a very Cruel and uncaring person and needs to apologized for what he did to all our families for his decision he made then.

Joel, instead of dwelling on it and placing blame on Cuomo, have you thought of sitting down and composing a letter or an email to your Govenor to tell him your thoughts and feelings? It may help you resolve feelings.

Your venting seems a little unhealthy. Have you spoken to your doctor?

joel

I am sorry about what happened to your wife and the many others. That was terrible.

Stacey here, has given you some good advice.

Our mayor recently announced that New Orleans will not have Mardi Gras next year. Most likely won’t have our music festivals either.

Our outbreak in New Orleans came shortly after our last Mardi Gras. The city is jammed with locals and tourists watching the parades.

The city will lose a significant amount of money but we can’t possibly have Mardi Gras with Covid.

Last year we weren’t aware of Covid being present here.

This year is completely different. News of Covid is everywhere!

Joel
Cuomo's behavior lately is disgusting. I doubt he would accept responsibility he would receive in a letter from you. He has earned a sizable amount from his recent book and is supposedly devoting a portion to Covid but I don't know in what capacity.
Perhaps take heart in his waning popularity. Lately he has no control of his emotions and sounds petulant to put it nicely. Most of what comes out of his mouth is lies.
I am sorry for your loss. I have an aunt who lost her 97 year old husband in March. It was not Covid but because of it she was not allowed in the hospital after a fall. She was told he was stable and then told a few hours later he had died. She now has rapidly formed serious dementia and lives with constant grief. They were married for over 70 years and always together. She wished she was with him at the end.
Covid has affected so many lives. I had not seen my mother since March as she resides in an AL facility. She endured so many periods of having to quarantine in her room. Suddenly over a week ago she developed a blood infection and now is on palliative care. The CDC guidelines were so severe and all the isolation for these seniors were very punitive. The hospital kept asking me if I knew how sick my mother was. I talked to her frequently but I hadn't seen her for months.
Perhaps you should write that letter. Someone on Cuomo's staff will read it. His smug face needs wiping off!

Joel, my heart breaks for you every time you post. There are really no words, just know that your wife mattered and what happened is inexcusable and reprehensible. And someday, Cuomo will pay. He has to answer to the ultimate authority eventually! May God have no mercy on his spoil!!

Cuomo has to go. I saw him making disgusting remarks on TV the other day. He basically said if you are obese, it’s your fault for eating cheesecake! If you have poor health, it’s because you ate cheesecake!! The governor who killed off thousands of vulnerable senior citizens has some nerve saying that!! All those people had families who loved them and who couldn’t even see them because of COVID and he killed them off! And then he writes a book touting his success bearing COVID? If he was successful, why did NYC schools shut down and why is NY headed for a statewide shut down? Why is he sounding the alarm again? What happened to his success?

Newsom aka Newcum aka Newsolini is no better. His first stay at home order did not work. His 2nd order did not work. His tier system is not working which is why 98% of the state is shut down. Meanwhile he is going to dinner parties, sending his kids to school and lawmakers are violating travel restriction in order to live it up in Hawaii this week! I cannot blame anyone who doesn’t take COVID seriously. I have said before, my family is young and healthy. my parents are high risk and my dad has cAncer now. We choose to keep living. We can’t take many risks because my county has been CLOSED since June. So there isn’t really any risk involved when I drive across the state. I can get there on a tank of gas no need to stop. No risk when we hang out with family because it’s a small circle and most work from home. All our cases are coming from the 2 poorest zip codes (most densely populated areas) and most work in the fields. So I cannot blame anyone who doesn’t take COVID seriously. Newsom doesn’t follow his own rules and nothing he has done has slowed the spread of COVID. He should have the data, he should know the science by now. But he does absolutely NOTHING to help the vulnerable population that has the most cases. If the first 2 shut downs didn’t work, why is there a third? Why not try something else for a chance? Or admit he’s a privileged idiot who is in over his head and step down? His statewide curfew is not going to slow the spread because maybe he forgot but....NOTHING is open after 10. Only retail stores and salons are open during the day. He’s had everything else closed for months. If shutdowns work, why is california doing so poorly? Mask compliance is high. Maybe people would take this more seriously if they didn’t governors and mayors and the speaker of the house constantly breaking their own rules? Its like....if COVID is that serious (don’t get me wrong, we all know for the elder it is very serious, but the survival rate for 49 and under is 99%) would the politicians and the elite be hiding out in bunkers? Instead they are still traveling all over, getting their hair done, living a life of luxury behind in their gated communities! And yet we all look at one another and blame each other for people not following the guidelines. I won’t judge anyone who militantly follows the rules and I won’t judge the people (except the politicians and experts) who don’t follow the rules.

Well, I just pray and go on about my business. God will take care of the rest.

It does however hurt me that people are getting sick and dying. Some can't see their family.

Just keep praying for things to get better. That is the best we can do.

Where I am from, different organizations are giving away free boxes of food. I think that is so nice.

2,000 deaths yesterday. That's on us, to be frank, not our politicians.
We all know what we need to do.
NPR compared this a.m. the states of VT and So Dakota. Both about the same population. Both with Republican Govs. One went one way and one the other on mask mandates and etc. You can listen if you are at all interested, but long and short is that one State has about 150 new cases daily and the other about 700 daily. I will let you guess which is which.
We will soon have a 911 every day here.
Cali, sadly body type will almost certainly predict your chances IF you get covid. You can look at the body types who die. Almost always a lot of belly fat and short neck. It is just a fact of how the body works. As to what we eat and how fit we stay and how we control the natural human inclination toward fats, sweets and salts. Sadly that is on us. As a true blue liberal I am not into fat shaming as we now call it. But I am saying that how we live our lives does have consequences.
Sometimes Joel posts to us that Cuomo killed Joel's wife. Sometimes Joel tells us to get our OWN seniors out of care right NOW as his putting his wife in care resulted in her death. So I fancy somewhere within himself Joel has more sense about what happened, and what mixed responsibility is shared for the death of his dear wife; even the virus bears some responsibility, but the virus don't care. There is a good deal more death coming. Again, I say, 2,000 yesterday.
There are no devils in the works here. It is just a virus, likely one caused by man whether purposely or by accident in wet markets. There will be MANY MANY more coming. We all know what we should be doing to help protect ourselves. It is on us whether we decide to do what we can or not. And there will be consequences of our decisions to deal with.
Humanity has had, in the past, many good culls. Many. Think of plague and the middle ages. Think of the combo of WWI and Spanish Flu. Without the two of them the world would already be overrun with the likes of us. This isn't even amounting to a good cull on us; we have no natural enemies now, not even warfare that kills in any huge numbers. So this little virus will do it's best, the poor dear. But it won't make a huge difference overall on our march like lemmings to the sea. Vaccine coming already.
We are such a mixed bag, so much brilliance, so much stupidity, and on we go.
I often come to "discussion" on Forum (or as I like to call it "Below the Belt") in an effort to check on a few of us dealing with issues, who post updates here. I am not going to do discussions anymore. I much prefer questions and answers on AgingCare. This is where I always end. On Facebook I am down to 79 pals because I don't like to see very many very often very up close, hee hee. Not much of a humanist. That leaves arts, crafts and photos, books and gardens, hee hee.
NeedsHelp, Pamz, Elaine, Lealonnie, and all others dealing now with personal health issues for self and family, if I don't comment on current things you are dealing with, it isn't that I don't care, and if you PM me I will definitely respond.
All take care.Mask up. Stay safe and well. With your health you can battle anything else.

Well, my youngest daughter called me. She was sent home from work.

She feels awful and is going to get a Covid test.

Concerned because Covid is rising in Denver.

Grrrrrr.

Alva sorry but no, it’s not “us”. It’s not the folks who haven’t caught the virus and spread it. Its on the politicians who politicized this and blatantly disregard their own rules.

Alva, it is the people who are selfish, ignorant and deniers. The people who do not care for others.

You are slightly older than my mother and younger than my grandmother. I personally perferred to try to stay safe to protect them since they have conditions.

I have covid due to selfish a$$holes who knowing came into my home either positive or exposed by their kid who tested positived, exposed someone and none of them had the common sense to warn others.

The best part is I "forced" everyone living in my home to be tested, paid for it. Now, the vulnerable adult's dr threatened to call APS because I forced a test and it was positive. Go figure, lol.

I am so tired of the ignorance. I am in good health but do you understand how messed up it is getting winded walking to get the mail?

Do not leave your own discussion.

✌

Edit: My mom is a nurse who goes into elderly peoples homes to set up meds and do intakes. If I ever got my mom sick, I would be putting others in danger and I personally would not be able to live with myself if something happened.

Stacy,

I am so sorry for all you are struggling with. I pray for a fast and complete recovery for you.

This vaccine can’t come soon enough! Will most people take it?

Who is going to get the vaccine first? Elderly? Healthcare workers?

Take care.

Update on my Mom's condition and situation at her nursing home: We are at Day 12 and are so thankful that, even with all her health issues, she has been mostly asymptomatic. There have been 21 cases in her wing and both a husband and wife passed away within a week of each other. It's like a punch in the gut.

I am in upstate New York and agree with Joel that Cuomo not only put so many seniors lives in danger with his March 25th directive, he is not being truthful about the actual number of nursing home deaths. According to the State's site, they show approximately 7,000 nursing home deaths. In fact, it is probably closer to 17,000. They decided not to count a nursing home resident who died from COVID in a hospital as a nursing home death. Every other State around us does so when Cuomo touts his "low" numbers, it is just smoke and mirrors. This is a letter my husband recently sent to the Editor of our paper:

"NYS Dept. of Health may be Underreporting Nursing Home Deaths by over 10,000

Why does NYS report its total COVID deaths as about 26,000 when many reputable sources (Johns Hopkins, CDC, Worldometers, NYTimes) report between 33,000 and 34,000 deaths?

And why do all of NY’s bordering states report adult care facility (nursing home/assisted living) deaths as 50-76% of their respective total COVID deaths, while NY reports only about 15%? If you assume NY is really at the lower end of the neighboring state range of 50%, actual adult care facility deaths could be about 17,000. That’s approx. 10,000 more than NY’s reported number of 6,722 ACF deaths.

NY is not including people in their nursing home death tally if they contracted COVID in the nursing home but then died elsewhere. Why not? Could it be that the Governor is using some sleight of hand to make it look better than it really is? Dr. Howard Zucker, you have been asked for several months to shed more light on actual adult care facility deaths. How do you expect us to take your public service announcements seriously when you can’t even give us the real facts?"

It's been over 100 days since one of our local news stations asked Zucker for the real numbers and still no response.

AvaC42,

Will keep you, your mom and all of NY in my thoughts and prayers.

Be careful everyone. Just found out my sisters husband has Covid and she’s getting tested as well. The scary part is they are super careful

Marty,

I have heard of similar stories. I know a man, an attorney who only goes into his office and his home. He didn’t come into contact with many people at all. He always took precautions and he got it too.

It is scary. We can’t live in an enclosed bubble but we have to amp up precautions as much as possible.

My hands are so dry from washing them. I have always been a germ freak and washed my hands often and now I feel like I am experiencing severe OCD with my hand washing!

I read an article from USA Today the other day and it stated "STD is on the raise, according to CDC." I guess people are not socially distancing themselves. With nothing to do, people will be people! 🤔

Well I carpool, and one of us went to FL for a vacay with her hubs and another couple. I rode with her 2 days after she got back, but she wore her mask in the car "just in case". That was on Thanksgiving. Haven't been with her since. But the other gal rode with her last week, only wore her mask one day in the car. So yesterday she texts that her MIL who lives with her is getting COVID test, then she woke up with a fever, so they both got tested. Turns out she is positive, MIL is negitive. So she is out for 10 days, other friend is worried ( I get it) and my antibody tests came back negitive again. I am not worried I may get it from FL traveler,, its over 10 days,, but if other friend was exposed,, now I have to think about that! So here we go... I worry more about the FL exposure than work exposure,, we are all very careful at work..

Pam
I am sure you are find. I hope your friends beat it! It really is scary!

Hugs!!!

Pam, hope you are OK!!!!

Shell and Golden, so far she says she feels fine except for a low grade fever. And MIL is all better.. who knows! She has 4 kids who are always sick, and a hubs who lives in the basement on the computer all day,, so I know she is run down and stressed, so that does not help either. If I were her I would kick his butt upstairs to do the kids hands on stuff, and quarenteen in the basement myself,, and get a dang break! "Just leave my food on the stairs and I;ll get it" . I joked with my other friend that if we all get it we are going to quarenteen together at a hotel! I will be taking my temp and watching how this goes.

You know what to do. My sil was exposed on a work bus 3/4 hr drive but all were masked and distanced. He was tested about a week later and found negative. I suppose he will be tested again at the end of his quarantine. I've told them to stay away till I get vaccinated. I'm playing it as safe as I can. The older you are the smaller the virus load needed to infect you as your immune system is weaker.

sorry Golden I deleted. I mean I think we will all be exposed at some point. Sorry for any confusion . I dont mean to start an arguement

kellse - not sure what you mean

Pam,

Will keep you in my thoughts and prayers.

There are STUPID people in this world!

Our local news reported a story of a ‘swinger convention’ meeting here in New Orleans.

Idiots! They usually have around 1000 members attending but due to COVID-19 they only had 250 members attending the four day event.

They claimed that many took tests right before the event. They were social distancing and in groups of four. On the last day they decided to forgo their social distancing and 41 people ended up testing positive for COVID! They were staying at a local hotel, NOPSI.

INSANE!

Oh goodness, need. That's awful.

Golden,

It’s just a crazy thought, isn’t it? You can read about the embarrassing story online.

Couldn’t they have skipped their event this year?

They usually do a huge parade in the streets! Not this year!

New Orleans benefits from tourism. So, I am guessing the hotel was glad to have the business, restaurants too, but seriously! It’s really dumb! Plus those 41 people spread it to more people. No wonder our numbers keep going up with idiots like that!

I bet a large chain hotel would have refused the group. The independent hotel booked their stay. Geeeeeeez!

There are the naysayers that just do not believe the danger. There are those that believe and think they will not get it. There are those that know they have it and go about their business as usual. Takes all kinds sure would be nice if, for once, all could live cooperatively. This is not a political issue, though many try to make it that way. It is a public health issue.