Talked to A Nurse Today About COVID-19

[PHIL9611]

Hello I talked to a Nurse About Covid-19
Just Wanted her Opinion You can Agree with it or not.
She seems to think its way overblown too as do I
In my Area, There are not that many cases she would know better than anyone cause she works in The Hospital
Shutting everything down is not very realistic Like a ghost town.
Craziest thing I ever seen.It's not the black plag Were millions of people are dying.
According to the Nurse People who get this have weak Immune systems
Which attacks the body.I agree with this too.
people that I see with gloves Masks I really doubt it will help you lots of different articles on this.
It boils down who to belive like anything else you read on the internet
Most of it is BS.you will make yourself crazy believing everything you read.
Anyways That's pretty much my take on this
Good Luck

 

[jimmy schmendrik]

Agreed. A lot of folk been saying this all along.

 

[Izthewiz]

The media is making it a big deal
Imagine if they covered heart disease!
That would be a epic thing!!
650,000+ deaths per year in The U.S.

 

[Guitarist41]

I would imagine it depends on location more than anything else.

 

[jimmy schmendrik]

Sorry for this being in French but it's encouraging news.

Nouveaux essais cliniques, aucun décès en Chine… Ces bonnes nouvelles dans la crise du coronavirus

French doctors are having success injecting plasma from folk recovered from covid into patients suffering from it.

They are also using plasma from sea worms which contain 10 times more oxygen than human plasma

 

[Cuchculan]

The Prime Minister of the UK thought it was nothing too. Look at him now. ICU. Major cities will get it worse for obvious reasons. Lots of people there. Rural places will be the safest places to be. It attacks the lungs and that makes older people more at risk. Young people are getting it too. I would not say all their immune systems are low. Few sport's stars have caught it. I would class them as fit and healthy. In the US it is still in the early stages. See if you still think it is nothing much in about 3 weeks time. By then it will hit peak in the US. So takes the number of deaths now and consider those to happened in the early stages. Not sure if the nurse you spoke to was a medical nurse or worked with animals. Over here we have a lot of dead nurses from the virus. Because they are the ones dealing with patients around the clock. Over exposure to the virus is killing health workers off.

 

[TruthHurts]

I think that people that aren't taking it serious need to start! Just wait until you or someone that you love gets sick or dies. 1.4 million confirmed cases Worldwide more then 80,000 deaths! That's with the lock downs/quarantines etc the countries are taking. The reason for these measures is to try to slow the spread of the virus until they can come up with a short term remedy that will help until they can come up with a long term solution which will be the vaccine. Maybe you think it's a joke or overblown others that have been hit hard by this pandemic will disagree.

 

[mollyfin]

I live in New York City. True, the percentage of the population getting it and dying from it as a small number from the point of view of percentages, but tell that to the workers in every hospital here. There is nowhere to treat those who have it, and nothing to treat them with. Other illnesses come in waves that are manageable. We aren't prepared and people are dying because of it. At-home deaths have quadrupled. People are doing intensive chemo treatments as outpatients because it's less dangerous than being an inpatient. We have health care workers coming out of retirement; we have podiatrists and dermatologists working in the ER; we're filling trucks with dead bodies because the morgues are full.

My mother ticks every high risk box for mortality if she gets sick, and there's no ICU bed for her if she does. In a normal flu season, there would be. My SO is immunocompromised and has diabetes from an autoimmune condition.

We also don't know what the long-term effects are. Some people think reinfection is more deadly than the original infection; some people think the virus causes significant heart and lung damage, some people think the virus never actually leaves your body and can flare up at times. We won't actually know for quite a while, and until then people also have the chance of dying from inadequate care because nobody knows what they're doing; they can't.

And Trump is declining to send the necessary amount of ventilators because he hates our governor, so...that's going great.

In the history books, this won't look like much, probably. But in real time, in the middle of it, it's not so easy to say "Okay, but it's really not that many people, though."

 

[jimmy schmendrik]

Thanks for your cheery input Mollyfin

 

[Cuchculan]

Is a bank holiday weekend here. The police will stop anybody trying to leave Dublin to go elsewhere in the country. In Italy it spread due to mass movement of people. At one point 40,000 football fans arrived in Milan from the main infected area in the North of Italy. That was just stupid. Others had holiday homes and tried to flee their home cities. All they done was spread the virus. Italy is one country to look at if anybody thinks this is not bad. Maybe explain to us all why so many died there? Why so many others got infected? They all got low immune systems in Italy or something?

 

[mollyfin]

I'm just being realistic. You say it's no big deal, I say, to us, the above is a pretty damn big deal. My new GP is an infectious disease specialist and a healthy middle-aged guy. He opens his mail wearing a mask and quarantines groceries that don't need refrigerating. This is his specialty and he's affiliated with one of the best hospitals in the city if not the entire country. But maybe he's just overreacting, too.

I'm not saying people should be acting like it's the end times, but it's a dangerous illness that should be taken seriously.

Others had holiday homes and tried to flee their home cities.

People here did that too; in about three weeks, outbreaks started ramping up in Long Island. Oopsy doodle.

 

[Guitarist41]

I live in New York City. True, the percentage of the population getting it and dying from it as a small number from the point of view of percentages, but tell that to the workers in every hospital here. There is nowhere to treat those who have it, and nothing to treat them with. Other illnesses come in waves that are manageable. We aren't prepared and people are dying because of it. At-home deaths have quadrupled. People are doing intensive chemo treatments as outpatients because it's less dangerous than being an inpatient. We have health care workers coming out of retirement; we have podiatrists and dermatologists working in the ER; we're filling trucks with dead bodies because the morgues are full.

My mother ticks every high risk box for mortality if she gets sick, and there's no ICU bed for her if she does. In a normal flu season, there would be. My SO is immunocompromised and has diabetes from an autoimmune condition.

We also don't know what the long-term effects are. Some people think reinfection is more deadly than the original infection; some people think the virus causes significant heart and lung damage, some people think the virus never actually leaves your body and can flare up at times. We won't actually know for quite a while, and until then people also have the chance of dying from inadequate care because nobody knows what they're doing; they can't.

And Trump is declining to send the necessary amount of ventilators because he hates our governor, so...that's going great.

In the history books, this won't look like much, probably. But in real time, in the middle of it, it's not so easy to say "Okay, but it's really not that many people, though."

That’s completely untrue about Trump hating Cuomo. The truth is that Andrew had PLENTY of money for preparation previously and spent it on other things. He wasn’t prepared for this... no one was, no one knew how to prepare.

 

[Izthewiz]

That’s completely untrue about Trump hating Cuomo. The truth is that Andrew had PLENTY of money for preparation previously and spent it on other things. He wasn’t prepared for this... no one was, no one knew how to prepare.

President Trump gets blamed for everything.
Can't catch a break at all.

 

[Guitarist41]

I'm just being realistic. You say it's no big deal, I say, to us, the above is a pretty damn big deal. My new GP is an infectious disease specialist and a healthy middle-aged guy. He opens his mail wearing a mask and quarantines groceries that don't need refrigerating. This is his specialty and he's affiliated with one of the best hospitals in the city if not the entire country. But maybe he's just overreacting, too.

I'm not saying people should be acting like it's the end times, but it's a dangerous illness that should be taken seriously.



People here did that too; in about three weeks, outbreaks started ramping up in Long Island. Oopsy doodle.

I think it’s a very serious thing. However, I know many doctors who are germaphobic. Not just about this.
I also seem to recall an article saying that using sanitizer on your hands has shown that it can work against your bodies natural ability to fight infection. That’s been years ago though.

President Trump gets blamed for everything.
Can't catch a break at all.

Yep, ALWAYS does, but it’s not a time to talk politics or complain.

The Prime Minister of the UK thought it was nothing too. Look at him now. ICU. Major cities will get it worse for obvious reasons. Lots of people there. Rural places will be the safest places to be. It attacks the lungs and that makes older people more at risk. Young people are getting it too. I would not say all their immune systems are low. Few sport's stars have caught it. I would class them as fit and healthy. In the US it is still in the early stages. See if you still think it is nothing much in about 3 weeks time. By then it will hit peak in the US. So takes the number of deaths now and consider those to happened in the early stages. Not sure if the nurse you spoke to was a medical nurse or worked with animals. Over here we have a lot of dead nurses from the virus. Because they are the ones dealing with patients around the clock. Over exposure to the virus is killing health workers off.

Thankfully, the PM does seem to be doing better.

Coronavirus: Boris Johnson 'improving' as intensive care treatment continues

The update on Boris Johnson's health comes as a record 938 UK virus deaths are reported in a day.

www.bbc.com

 

[TruthHurts]

Jan 8th - First CDC warning
Jan 9th - Trump campaign rally
Jan 14th - Trump campaign rally
Jan 16th - House sends impeachment articles to Senate
Jan 18th - Trump golfs
Jan 19th - Trump golfs
Jan 20th - first case of corona virus in the US, Washington State.
Jan 22nd - “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.” “We’re in great shape … and I think China’s in good shape too, by the way,”
Jan 28th - Trump campaign rally
Jan 30th - Trump campaign rally. “China is not in great shape right now.”
Feb 1st - Trump golfs
Feb 2nd - “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China."
Feb 5th - Senate votes to acquit. Then takes a five-day weekend.
Feb 10th - Trump campaign rally. “And by the way, the virus, they’re working hard.” “Looks like by April, you know, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away.”
Feb 12th - Dow Jones closes at an all time high of 29,551
Feb 15h - Trump golfs
Feb 19th - Trump campaign rally
Feb 20th - Trump campaign rally
Feb 21st - Trump campaign rally. Stock market closes the week with 12% drop.
Feb 24th - “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”
Feb 25th - Stock market loses 8% in one day. “CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.”
Feb 25h - “I think that's a problem that’s going to go away… They have studied it. They know very much. In fact, we’re very close to a vaccine.”
Feb 26th - “The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.”
Feb 26th - “We're going very substantially down, not up.” Also "This is a flu. This is like a flu"; "Now, you treat this like a flu"; "It's a little like the regular flu that we have flu shots for. And we'll essentially have a flu shot for this in a fairly quick manner."
February 27: “One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.” “It will be gone by Easter.”
Feb 28th - “We're ordering a lot of supplies. We're ordering a lot of, uh, elements that frankly we wouldn't be ordering unless it was something like this. But we're ordering a lot of different elements of medical.”
Feb 28th - Trump campaign rally. “This (Covid19) is their new hoax.”
March 2nd - “You take a solid flu vaccine, you don't think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?”
March 2nd - “A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and they’re happening very rapidly.”
March 4: “If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.”
March 5th - “I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.”
March 5th - “The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!”
March 6th - “I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.”
March 6th - “Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.”
March 6th - “I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.”
March 6th - “I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.”
March 7th - Trump golfs
March 8th - Trump golfs
March 8th - “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine-tuned plan at the White House for our attack on Corona Virus.”
March 9th - “This blindsided the world.”
March 10th - “We stopped it.”
March 11th - “No, I’m not concerned at all. No, I’m not. No, we’ve done a great job. Thank you very much.”
March 13th – US declares state of emergency. “It will go away,” Trump said at a meeting with Republican lawmakers. “It’s really working out.”
March 17th - “This is a pandemic,” Trump tells reporters. “I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.”
March 20th - “I don’t take responsibility at all.”
March 23th- Dow Jones closes at 18,591.
March 25th - 3.3 million Americans file for unemployment.
April 2nd - 6.6 million Americans file for unemployment. 245,213 infected with COVID-19, 5,983 deaths.
April 3rd - Coronavirus claims over 1,000 U.S. lives in a single day. "With the masks, it's going to be really a voluntary thing. You can do it, you don't have to do it. I'm choosing not to do it, but some people may want to do it and that's OK".
April 4th - The US leads the world with 308,000 COVID-19 cases, 8,500 Americans have died. “Maybe we could allow special, for churches, maybe we could talk about it. Maybe we could allow them, with separation outside, on Easter Sunday."

 

[Guitarist41]

Jan 8th - First CDC warning
Jan 9th - Trump campaign rally
Jan 14th - Trump campaign rally
Jan 16th - House sends impeachment articles to Senate
Jan 18th - Trump golfs
Jan 19th - Trump golfs
Jan 20th - first case of corona virus in the US, Washington State.
Jan 22nd - “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.” “We’re in great shape … and I think China’s in good shape too, by the way,”
Jan 28th - Trump campaign rally
Jan 30th - Trump campaign rally. “China is not in great shape right now.”
Feb 1st - Trump golfs
Feb 2nd - “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China."
Feb 5th - Senate votes to acquit. Then takes a five-day weekend.
Feb 10th - Trump campaign rally. “And by the way, the virus, they’re working hard.” “Looks like by April, you know, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away.”
Feb 12th - Dow Jones closes at an all time high of 29,551
Feb 15h - Trump golfs
Feb 19th - Trump campaign rally
Feb 20th - Trump campaign rally
Feb 21st - Trump campaign rally. Stock market closes the week with 12% drop.
Feb 24th - “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”
Feb 25th - Stock market loses 8% in one day. “CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.”
Feb 25h - “I think that's a problem that’s going to go away… They have studied it. They know very much. In fact, we’re very close to a vaccine.”
Feb 26th - “The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.”
Feb 26th - “We're going very substantially down, not up.” Also "This is a flu. This is like a flu"; "Now, you treat this like a flu"; "It's a little like the regular flu that we have flu shots for. And we'll essentially have a flu shot for this in a fairly quick manner."
February 27: “One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.” “It will be gone by Easter.”
Feb 28th - “We're ordering a lot of supplies. We're ordering a lot of, uh, elements that frankly we wouldn't be ordering unless it was something like this. But we're ordering a lot of different elements of medical.”
Feb 28th - Trump campaign rally. “This (Covid19) is their new hoax.”
March 2nd - “You take a solid flu vaccine, you don't think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?”
March 2nd - “A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and they’re happening very rapidly.”
March 4: “If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.”
March 5th - “I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.”
March 5th - “The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!”
March 6th - “I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.”
March 6th - “Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.”
March 6th - “I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.”
March 6th - “I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.”
March 7th - Trump golfs
March 8th - Trump golfs
March 8th - “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine-tuned plan at the White House for our attack on Corona Virus.”
March 9th - “This blindsided the world.”
March 10th - “We stopped it.”
March 11th - “No, I’m not concerned at all. No, I’m not. No, we’ve done a great job. Thank you very much.”
March 13th – US declares state of emergency. “It will go away,” Trump said at a meeting with Republican lawmakers. “It’s really working out.”
March 17th - “This is a pandemic,” Trump tells reporters. “I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.”
March 20th - “I don’t take responsibility at all.”
March 23th- Dow Jones closes at 18,591.
March 25th - 3.3 million Americans file for unemployment.
April 2nd - 6.6 million Americans file for unemployment. 245,213 infected with COVID-19, 5,983 deaths.
April 3rd - Coronavirus claims over 1,000 U.S. lives in a single day. "With the masks, it's going to be really a voluntary thing. You can do it, you don't have to do it. I'm choosing not to do it, but some people may want to do it and that's OK".
April 4th - The US leads the world with 308,000 COVID-19 cases, 8,500 Americans have died. “Maybe we could allow special, for churches, maybe we could talk about it. Maybe we could allow them, with separation outside, on Easter Sunday."

Obama: lets give Iran 1.8 billion
Obama lets soldiers die in bengazhi
Trump closes all flights from China, he’s xenophobic and racist (this according to democrats)
Democrats in NY tell people, no need to panic, go about your normal lives, there no danger here. Keep riding the subways, come to all events! We’re all fine.

Give me a break with all of your partisan blame games.
Let me also add that the spread isn’t all Trump’s fault, as much as people would like everything in this world to be... the spread would slow down a whole lot more if people stayed their asses home, like we have all been asking and trying to do.

 

[TruthHurts]

Obama: lets give Iran 1.8 billion
Obama lets soldiers die in bengazhi
Trump closes all flights from China, he’s xenophobic and racist (this according to democrats)
Democrats in NY tell people, no need to panic, go about your normal lives, there no danger here. Keep riding the subways, come to all events! We’re all fine.

Give me a break with all of your partisan blame games.
Let me also add that the spread isn’t all Trump’s fault, as much as people would like everything in this world to be... the spread would slow down a whole lot more if people stayed their asses home, like we have all been asking and trying to do.

The only thing Trump is good at is misuse of power. I'll give you a perfectly good example how.... Trump himself said that the governors need to be appreciative of him. The governor of Florida is very pro Trump, so Florida gets supplies. The governor of California is anti Trump, so we don't get supplies. Just remember in November people, that your lives are in the hands of the relationship of your governor and Trump. If you live in a blue state, there is a good chance your state is going to have to fend for themselves. This will me my last post regarding Trump and politics. Have a good day

 

[Bobnnat]

Here’s the bottom line folks: Not everything is a “democrat” hoax. This is real **** folks. The hard truth is that Trump surrounds himself mainly with sicophants who need to tell him he’s their dear leader to stay employed. Thank goodness though for the likes of Dr. Fauci and at least dear leader is listening to him and other experts. What ticks me off most is his nepotism. Who the hell is Jared Kushner to head up the COVID response? His line the other day sickened me. “It’s our stockpile”. Whose? His and Ivanka’s? Dear leaders? He was given that incredibly important task for one reason, and it’s because of who he curls up in bed with each night.

Let the Dr Fauci’s of the world run the COVID show. All politicians, D or R need to just keep out of his way.

The only thing Trump is good at is misuse of power. I'll give you a perfectly good example how.... Trump himself said that the governors need to be appreciative of him. The governor of Florida is very pro Trump, so Florida gets supplies. The governor of California is anti Trump, so we don't get supplies. Just remember in November people, that your lives are in the hands of the relationship of your governor and Trump. If you live in a blue state, there is a good chance your state is going to have to fend for themselves. This will me my last post regarding Trump and politics. Have a good day

Agree. If he should be impeached for anything, it should be that..playing God with his narcissism.

 

[Guitarist41]

Both of you are free to vote for Biden, he would just be a figurehead anyway.
A shame you’ll be crying when Trump wins again.
Let me state again... talking politics right now is very low. I will say this. You’re VERY misinformed about Ca governer.
Example...,

Here’s the bottom line folks: Not everything is a “democrat” hoax. This is real **** folks. The hard truth is that Trump surrounds himself mainly with sicophants who need to tell him he’s their dear leader to stay employed. Thank goodness though for the likes of Dr. Fauci and at least dear leader is listening to him and other experts. What ticks me off most is his nepotism. Who the hell is Jared Kushner to head up the COVID response? His line the other day sickened me. “It’s our stockpile”. Whose? His and Ivanka’s? Dear leaders? He was given that incredibly important task for one reason, and it’s because of who he curls up in bed with each night.

Let the Dr Fauci’s of the world run the COVID show. All politicians, D or R need to just keep out of his way.


Agree. If he should be impeached for anything, it should be that..playing God with his narcissism.

Lol! Instead he got impeached over hearsay...

 

[Izthewiz]

The impeachment is over.
Lets move forward peeps