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Annael
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Mar 5 2020, 4:31pm
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What do you think about COVID-19?
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Here I am in Washington State, a couple of towns over from the epicenter. Our shelves are bare of sanitizer and gloves and masks (masks don't help anyway), the news media hardly talk about anything else, and restaurants and other businesses are struggling as people stay home.
I'm over 60, but in robust health, so apart from diligent hand-washing and not touching things directly, I'm pretty much living life as usual. I am quite concerned about my 95-year-old father, but he's not!
But I'm not making any predictions.
(This post was edited by Annael on Mar 5 2020, 4:32pm)
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Ataahua
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Mar 5 2020, 5:29pm
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would depend on the country you're in and your accessibility to health services, I expect. What is important is that people get their health information from a government health body, not from social media.
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Annael
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Mar 6 2020, 2:29am
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I do like some of the advice on social media
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Like "wash your hands like you're Lady MacBeth" or "wash your hands like you just peeled a bunch of hot peppers and you need to put in your contact lenses."
And my favorite so far; "instead of shaking hands, let's all do 'jazz hands' at each other."
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Ataahua
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Mar 6 2020, 4:18am
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at getting simple messages across but when it comes to science and news, I get wary. Call it the old journalist in me.
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CuriousG
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Mar 6 2020, 11:16pm
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The official line is that the US public shouldn't buy masks since they won't help. Oh, and we're not supposed to buy them because they WILL help health workers who need them. I'm a little irritated that the official message is so contradictory since it creates a credibility gap. All the same, I'm not buying any masks, just washing my hands and realizing I really do touch my face several times a day without realizing it. Hard to break bad habits when everyone does it and no one realizes it.
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dernwyn
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Mar 7 2020, 3:02pm
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That's probably the biggest problem
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The things we do, without even realizing we're doing them!
I work with books and little kids and all their germs, so I'm used to automatically touching my face with the back of my hand if I do, and washing a lot. But friends and I were talking this morning about people who diligently wipe doorknobs in public places, but touch the metal plate on "push" doors, or push buttons, without thinking!
Maybe we should go back to wearing gloves when outside the house, like they did in our grandparents'/great-grandparents' day?
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ElanorTX
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Mar 8 2020, 12:55am
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The uncertainty about social and economic effects
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is one of the most troubling aspects. I had expected to see my daughter at SXSW.... my own professional conference in San Francisco next month is cancelled ... the CDC and local leaders in San Antonio disagree about how to handle evacuees ... several universities are bringing students home from abroad ... etc., etc. Often the problem is the fear of being stuck in quarantine as much as catching the illness itself.
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Annael
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Mar 8 2020, 5:57pm
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Often the problem is the fear of being stuck in quarantine as much as catching the illness itself.
My siblings & I have a plan for if I am the one who gets it and has to self-quarantine for two weeks, leaving my dad to fend for himself - which he can't do. (He said he'd change the analog clocks in the kitchen last night; bless his heart, he put one of them TWO hours ahead and the other half an hour ahead . . .)
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Annael
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Oct 1 2020, 7:36pm
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I note that I believed masks don't help. Reversed myself on that one pretty fast!
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dernwyn
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Oct 1 2020, 9:16pm
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we all had no idea how easily spread and lethal this virus is. Then it hit us like the proverbial ton of bricks. It was a painful learning process.
I wonder if there's few people now who are more than two degrees of separation from someone who's died from it.
I still think about your friends' chorus. 
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Starling
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Oct 2 2020, 1:46am
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That story made me feel so sad and really stuck with me.
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ElanorTX
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Oct 2 2020, 4:50am
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San Antonio is down to green level (5%)
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but I still think a lot of restaurants and other businesses are reopening too soon. I'm staying home except for pharmacy and doctor visits.
Tonight the news is all about Hope Hicks and the Trumps. No matter what your political views, I hope we can all wish them a speedy recovery.
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Ioreth
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Oct 30 2020, 1:54pm
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not only being myself in 3-4 risk groups but I know lots of others who are too ... And have seen far too many "young folks" (15-30-year-olds) totally ignoring the restrictions we in fact did and do have even here in Sweden. They do not seem able to realize that they themselves perhaps not might be getting really ill but that they could spread it to the more vulnerable groups in the population.
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Ataahua
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Oct 30 2020, 8:36pm
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when you're doing your best to keep yourselves and others safe but you see people just not caring. That attitude lengthens the time that restrictions will be needed for (as well as puts their family members/friends in danger).
My best wishes to you, Ioreth. I hope you stay safe over there.
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Ioreth
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Oct 31 2020, 12:18pm
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is the word.
Especially since most of the restrictions in Sweden were for "people older than 70 and all in several riskgroups" - the others had far fewer restrictions / recommendations.
But last week finally ALL have more or less the same restrictions ... Which of course some of the younger ones have started complaining about ...
Well well. We can only hope that some people sometime WILL understand and FOLLOW the most basic precautions ...
Thanks 
I try do everything I can myself. Even if that means three layers of protective clothing and double layers of gloves - and I have sewn me a pretty Coronadress out of 3 old bed sheets. Plus sewn 2-to-4-layer masks. I look funny but I do not care. I do not want to end up in the ICU.
Despite nothing like that being required or even recommended here in Sweden.
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