COVID-19 Information updates

[Debi]

It's been just over a year since the first death from COVID-19 was reported in China and now the virus has claimed the lives of over 2 million people.

 

[Lone Wolf]

We're out of vaccinations here already and it's going to be one month before we get another shipment. Mask wear has increased but most are still without.

 

[Debi]

Sharing the story with you of one of the people I know who has passed. He used to do Santa for my friend Kathy at her store every year for the kids. Kathy lost her husband right before Xmas to the virus as well. Faces to the numbers...those numbers are real people.

Faces of COVID: He spent his life bringing joy to children across central Indiana

Jerry Foley is known for playing Santa Claus and Mr. Mystic the Magician. The 61-year-old died with COVID-19.

www.wrtv.com

 

[Lynne]

Sharing the story with you of one of the people I know who has passed. He used to do Santa for my friend Kathy at her store every year for the kids. Kathy lost her husband right before Xmas to the virus as well. Faces to the numbers...those numbers are real people.

Faces of COVID: He spent his life bringing joy to children across central Indiana

Jerry Foley is known for playing Santa Claus and Mr. Mystic the Magician. The 61-year-old died with COVID-19.

www.wrtv.com

This is so sad, it makes one feel helpless. I hope we get ahead of this virus soon.

 

[Benway]

I have said from the beginning (if you care to back read lol) this came from a lab. And I also say it's been tampered with. At least part one of my statement appears to be coming through as fact.

Lab leak is the 'most credible' source of the coronavirus outbreak

Donald Trump's Deputy National Security Adviser Matthew Pottinger told politicians that even China's leaders now admit their previous claims the virus originated in a Wuhan market are false.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Not one fact or piece of evidence there though and the virus is totally in line with other virus mutations with nothing unusual about it. The only difference between this and the first SAARS outbreak is that last time the WHO had a great leader who took no crap from anybody and the countries involved listened to her when she spoke and took all the actions she demanded. The arrival of this kind of virus was totally expected.. what wasn't was that the head of the WHO would fail to do anything for so long or that so many world leaders would ignore instructions when they finally came. Add in the WHO insistence (against many of it's own scientists) that it was spread mostly through contact (unlike any other coronavirus) and that we shouldn't wear masks and we have a global catastrophe over something which should have been routine.
Maybe it came from a lab. China is stalling over inspections... but then that's SOP for China. There's no evidence to suggest it otherwise, and even if it did leak from a lab, it could still have been stopped at many points. This disaster is a disaster of incompetence in my opinion.

 

[Benway]

Sharing the story with you of one of the people I know who has passed. He used to do Santa for my friend Kathy at her store every year for the kids. Kathy lost her husband right before Xmas to the virus as well. Faces to the numbers...those numbers are real people.

Faces of COVID: He spent his life bringing joy to children across central Indiana

Jerry Foley is known for playing Santa Claus and Mr. Mystic the Magician. The 61-year-old died with COVID-19.

www.wrtv.com

I'm so sorry. It's a fine tribute to him. It's all so unfair.

 

[Paintman]

Chinese ice cream contaminated with COVID-19, report says

China has come up with a new ice cream no one wants to try. During routine government testing recently, three samples from a northern China ice cream company came back positive for COVID-19. Offici…

nypost.com

Welp , I guess that's the end of several of my favorite flavors including Kung Flu Cream and Crazy Bits 'O Bats.

( Just Gotta Laugh to Keep from Crying)

 

[Benway]

Chinese ice cream contaminated with COVID-19, report says

China has come up with a new ice cream no one wants to try. During routine government testing recently, three samples from a northern China ice cream company came back positive for COVID-19. Offici…

nypost.com

Welp , I guess that's the end of several of my favorite flavors including Kung Flu Cream and Crazy Bits 'O Bats.

( Just Gotta Laugh to Keep from Crying)

Don't forget pistachio pangolin! Lots of crunchy bits and ants won't go anywhere near it! It will be much missed in the summer when I have to picnic (in a biosphere) with just ordinary non-ice-cream pangolin, bat and kung-fu.

 

[Debi]

SPREAD
CITIES QUARANTINED
SNAKES COULD BE SOURCE
COVER-UP FEARS MOUNTING
SUSPECTED CASE IN TEXAS
VIRUS SCARE LAX

I've been watching this since I first heard about it about two weeks ago. Didn't post it then as I didn't want to be a doom porn type, but the fact it's such a virulent and mutating virus has me posting it now. The death rate is high on it, although they are trying to downplay that.

This one can scar your lungs. About two years ago I ran into a flu that did just that to me and has left me on 02 for life. I'll be watching this situation, and I post it to warn all of you to take some safety precautions out there if we hear this is starting to spread more. We already have two cases in the US, and it doesn't take much to let these things loose in the world.

Hoping we don't have a Captain Trips moment here....

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This was my first post on the virus, almost one year ago on Jan. 23rd. It had set off a psychic alarm bell in me, as it did for several of you members here who contacted me privately after the post or made posts on the thread. My comment about Hoping we don't have a Captain Trips moment here.... well, it turned a bit prophetic.


Although this was in January, the full impact of this didn't truly hit us until March. The Great Toilet Paper Run happened on March 12, and the first actual stay at home orders began on March 19/20th here in the US, so the actual quarantines began about 10 months ago. I know it seems like years, but I'm trying to add some perspective here.

Yes, it's been a very long 10 months. A very scary year from the first reports in early January. And yet, here we are with a vaccine and hope that we may get this beast cornered. I've heard people say "Why no flu reports?" Well, because this very nasty coronavirus has outbid the normal flu this year for bodies to inhabit because it spreads faster than it's little cousin. Viruses don't like to share. This virus is a true beast.

Can we overcome this thing? I say yes. At one point, we thought we couldn't beat smallpox. We did. Will this virus always be out there? Most likely. Just like measles that you hear about from time to time, herd immunity by vax doesn't make the virus go away...it just keeps you from getting it so easily and it then becomes the rare outbreak instead of a norm.

When anniversary dates of bad things come along, people can get very depressed. I'm here to tell you that although we still have a fight ahead with this thing, it can be beat. Don't give up hope. Don't lose your faith. Hang on just a bit longer. We can do this.

 

[Debi]

Hundreds of children being admitted to Arizona hospitals for COVID-19

Hundreds of children in Arizona are being hospitalized for COVID-19, says a Banner Health spokesperson, citing a study done on trending cases among children. "Parents, please make good choices to keep your children and the community safe."

www.fox5ny.com

More kids are being affected now, so please watch your children for signs of problems.