Coronavirus Outbreak

Things that are not part of politics happening presently and how we approach or address it as Anabaptists.
temporal1

Re: Coronavirus Outbreak

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Ken:
.. And, without a vaccine or immunity from earlier infections, those numbers could be larger.
Sobering.
Questions about immunity, and, if not, the idea of worse symptoms in following infections, gives me a “royal” headache. :-|
The world might lose an awful lot of us annoying old people right-quick.
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Ken
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Robert wrote:
Bootstrap wrote:how have pandemics been handled by past administrations?
Can you give me a list of pandemics? I know of none since 1918.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resour ... emics.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_flu_pandemic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza ... #Asian_flu
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A fool can throw out more questions than a wise man can answer. -RZehr
Valerie

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temporal1 wrote:
Ken:
In any event, that's just a really long way of saying that the "I'm sorry for you in your blue prison, and sorrowful about the state of the country" just comes across as patronizing and dismissive
even though I don't think you really meant it that way.
no, i don’t mean it that way.
i feel trapped in the blue prison, in Illinois and WA, worse, my family is in it on the west coast.

i know not all of WA, CA, or OR, is in the blue prison, but, the prison dominates.

(i’m not sure if i can imagine living in a place like you describe. i’m not sure i would care for it.
non-stop politics, no matter which camp, is just “no way to live.”)
Well the west coast is now referred to as the "Left" coast.
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Bootstrap

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For what it's worth, the CDC has a useful page for following the Corona Virus:

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/Novel_Coronavirus_Reports.html

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report is an excellent source of information on outbreaks like these ...

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index2020.html
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Szdfan

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Apparently, a second case of Coronavirus with an unknown source has been identified in California.

Hopefully unrelated — I’ve been dealing with some sort of respiratory flu thing for a couple of weeks that I haven’t been able to shake. I’ve had to take a couple days off of work over the past couple of weeks.

I’m at urgent care right now because I had a slight fever at work this afternoon.

It’s been a brutal flu season this year.

P.S. — “Hopefully unrelated” is a joke. A bad one.
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Szdfan

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You know what’s not fun...having the other person in the waiting room at urgent care ask me about how many people I think are going to die from coronavirus.
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Bootstrap

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Szdfan wrote:You know what’s not fun...having the other person in the waiting room at urgent care ask me about how many people I think are going to die from coronavirus.
Shooting up a prayer for you.

How anxious are you?
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Szdfan

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Bootstrap wrote:
Szdfan wrote:You know what’s not fun...having the other person in the waiting room at urgent care ask me about how many people I think are going to die from coronavirus.
Shooting up a prayer for you.

How anxious are you?
Thanks.

Not anxious. I’m just tired of being sick.
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Szdfan

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Still alive. Doctor thinks it’s “walking pneumonia.” On my way to get antibiotics. Thanks.
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Dan Z

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Szdfan wrote:Still alive. Doctor thinks it’s “walking pneumonia.” On my way to get antibiotics. Thanks.
Take care of yourself my friend. :hug:
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