I am the primary caretaker for my mother who is in a private independent care facility--but she is hardly independent. I have a nurse in with her Monday through Friday, but on weekends and evenings either I'm with her most of the time or a member of my family when I'm sick. Yesterday when I went to see her I discovered the facility wouldn't let me in at all--only medical personnel. My mom just got out of the hospital due to congestive heart failure and she has advancing Alzheimer's. I can't believe I can't even get in to see her.
This morning, I woke up from a real-like dream or nightmare. I came down with the virus and infected oldest sis, too. .. I woke up... Realized it was a dream. I Hope this is just a dream generated by stress. Not a premonition.
So sad, huh? Wow!
Well, just this morning, our attorney general has informed the police to: book and release or book and confined. Due to the coronavirus, he strongly recommends the 1st one. So, those gang of teenagers that vandalized several tenants' cars parked in their apartment's parking lot - have been released. Same teens turned against the owners who came out to try to stop them. Even broke a window and tried to break the door of one tenant's apartment....
Soooooo… What message is this telling the law abiding citizens? And to the law-breaking ones? … Our house is surrounded by the federal gov't section 8 clients.... My stress level has just increased more. The question is now: WHEN will our home have a break in while we're in it sleeping???
The 1st hooligan that bites the dust will get people's attention to stop with the shenanigans.
I pray that you are safe and have no problems.
P.S... a local clinic doctor is complaining because the clinics are asked to help alleviate our 2 hospitals. How can the clinic stay in operation if the supplies they ordered are being confiscated?
Because my local area is a somewhat isolated regional trauma center and could face a large number of incoming cases from an industrial accident at any time (a nuclear fuel rod production facility, a military ammunition producer, and a major chemical plant), a certain amount of critical supplies are kept stockpiled above normal operating needs according to anticipated needs, including ventilators. When elective procedures were discontinued, the freed resources meant we had a relatively large amount of PPE and vents available for our population and have only experienced around 120 CV cases so far.
Down the road in Nashville and Memphis, much better funded health care systems surrounded by large hospitals to share the load and supplies in short term crisis situations developed emergency response plans and needed supply lists but chose not to fund any significant stockpiles. When CV hit and suddenly all the hospitals needed supplies, the short term borrowing model failed.
On one hand, no one wants anyone to die because a needed vent is unavailable. Or see health care professionals required to work in unsafe conditions because of there isn't enough PPE available. On the other hand, CV doesn't make a potential industrial accident less likely, it may even make it more likely. Our state and local emergency management team and health care system decided to send 70% of our stockpiled supplies out to NYC, Nashville, and Memphis; hopefully ordered replacements should make it here before we hit our forecasted peak but we could still come up short if there's a major incident at the chemical or nuclear plant or the CV peak comes sooner or harder than anticipated.
I have a real problem with the idea of the state seizing all the stockpiled supplies and then deciding how to distribute them without any input from the people who had the discipline to raise the funds and purchase those supplies. Politics being what they are, I think more affluent districts will get more than their share while less affluent districts will be left to cope with shortages. I find the prospect of someone in a less affluent district dying because of a vent shortage while vents their funds purchased are off saving lives somewhere else really disturbing. I prefer the state agencies identify the need and _ask_ for needed supplies instead of seizing others' property.
NYC and NY state both had an emergency management plan identifying the amounts of emergency supplies needed for an infectious disease crisis and both decided to not fund even 5% of those requirements; Nashville and Memphis followed a similar path. Hopefully after this crisis, voters will push to fund emergency management needs a bit better.
Told HR what happened. They were able to go buy the thermometer after speaking with the emergency management director. So, actually got a couple, one for me and one for my other assistant.
MAybe that is where all the t.p. is, locked up in managers offices being reserved for the hospitals?😄
Presumed positive assistant now on quarantine.
“i can’t go because of coronavirus”
- whiny
- boring
- weak
“i’ve sworn an oath of solitude til the blight is purged from these lands”
- heroic, valiant
- they will assume you have a sword
- impossible to check if you really have a sword because of coronavirus
I'm conservative myself and I love the constitution and the declaration independence more, but this is not a constitutional issue now anymore than it was with the health problem of 1918.
This is not something unconstitutional like what the American businessmen did to Hawaii. That was unconstitutional.
Hawaii was a sovereign nation with royalty and a palace, but we took that away from them. It is the only state in our country that has a palace. And the palace has running water and an elevator. It was made that way form the beginning.
Here on island, the governor is planning to open the farmer’s market and the flea markets. She’s still trying to determine what other non-essentials will be allowed to open. I hope people continue with the social distancing and wearing masks when this happens.
There’s also been an increase of pets (cats) getting Covid but it’s not as bad an illness as humans. So far, people can infect the animals. Animals does not infect people. They recommend that when walking your pets, please keep social distancing and avoid dog parks.
I'm wearing a mask these days as I didn't feel well and he hates it, he tries to take it off my face to kiss me. Poor animals, all of them, what have they done wrong.
This morning, in my YouTube history and in my Watch Later, the news video is missing. It’s as if I never watched it. On the top of the Watch Later screen, it states “One or more videos have been deleted from YouTube.”
So... YouTube is curtailing more and more information worldwide. We won’t be able to intellectually decide from the various contradiction news of Covid. Instead, only videos agreeing with WHO’s recommendations be permitted in its channel.
Ohhh, this sounds soooo familiar... controlled media to reflect one view...
Interesting. Reminds me of ‘walking pneumonia’....