If they’re concerned, and speaking publicly about it, and especially that they’re talking to their family about their concerns, then you should already be taking early measures and start to take mental and physical stock. Will you be okay if the worst happens and you can’t or don’t want to leave your home for an extended period of time?
Now is the time to prepare, BEFORE the S H’s the F, when the stores are all stocked, life is normal and services, amenities and logictics are running at a normal capacity.
This isn’t to fear monger. It’s to bring the reality of disasters to light and ensure you are prepared.
If they’re concerned, and speaking publicly about it, and especially that they’re talking to their family about their concerns, then you should already be taking early measures and start to take mental and physical stock. Will you be okay if the worst happens and you can’t or don’t want to leave your home for an extended period of time?
Now is the time to prepare, BEFORE the S H’s the F, when the stores are all stocked, life is normal and services, amenities and logictics are running at a normal capacity.
This isn’t to fear monger. It’s to bring the reality of disasters to light and ensure you are prepared.
“More and more colleges are testing wastewater from dorms to monitor the spread of the coronavirus. It’s often cheaper — and can detect an infection days before respiratory symptoms show up, or even if they never do.”
Interesting work being done by colleges to prevent/control the spread of COVID-19!
Wearing a face mask takes some getting used to. To get the most benefit, you need to avoid these common mistakes.
Masks in a variety of colors, styles and materials have appeared on the faces of people around us. While it’s good news that many people are doing their part to slow the spread of coronavirus, the bad news is that many people are wearing their masks wrong.
“Wearing a mask takes some getting used to, for sure,” said Dr. Scott Segal, chairman of anesthesiology at Wake Forest Baptist Health. “You are probably wearing it exactly right if it’s a little stuffy.”
One of the biggest mistakes people make is that they fidget with their masks, and pull them under their noses or completely off their faces to rest under their chins. “You should absolutely not be pulling up and putting down your mask while you’re out,” said Shan Soe-Lin, a lecturer at the Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. “If you’re going to go to the trouble of using a mask, leave it on.”
Here are the dos and don’ts of wearing a mask.
And once you’ve figured out the correct position for wearing your mask, follow these tips to stay safe:
Always wash your hands before and after wearing a mask.
Use the ties or loops to put your mask on and pull it off.
Don’t touch the front of the mask when you take it off.
For apartment dwellers, put the mask on and remove it while inside your home. Elevators and stairwells can be high-contamination areas.
Wash and dry your cloth mask daily and keep it in a clean, dry place.
Don’t have a false sense of security.
Masks offer limited protection, and work better when combined with hand washing and social distancing. “It’s not that one excludes the other,” said Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee, assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University. “They compound the effects of the other.”
I’ve already said this, but my older mother is immunocompromised with a bevy of issues. My younger brother looks strong and healthy and does physical work, but has pneumonia damage to his lungs and some circulatory damage. EITHER has a very good chance of dying if they’re allowed to catch COVID-19, which – even if it doesn’t kill them – has a reputation of causing weird clots and bouncing through bodies like a pachinko machine in those who get seriously ill from it, causing long-lasting lung, heart, brain, or other damage at random.
Please vote for Biden, alright, if you haven’t already? No matter how long you have to wait in line? Make plans, gear up with masks and sanitizer, take the time off work, go as early as possible. Please vote in numbers so overwhelming that he can’t cut the count short in certain states later this week with a lawsuit, purloin another term, and let my family get infected. You can’t tell me to just “get out of my bubble” when he won’t even show people they should wear a fucking mask.
I’ve already said this, but my older mother is immunocompromised with a bevy of issues. My younger brother looks strong and healthy and does physical work, but has pneumonia damage to his lungs and some circulatory damage. EITHER has a very good chance of dying if they’re allowed to catch COVID-19, which – even if it doesn’t kill them – has a reputation of causing weird clots and bouncing through bodies like a pachinko machine in those who get seriously ill from it, causing long-lasting lung, heart, brain, or other damage at random.
Please vote for Biden, alright, if you haven’t already? No matter how long you have to wait in line? Make plans, gear up with masks and sanitizer, take the time off work, go as early as possible. Please vote in numbers so overwhelming that he can’t cut the count short in certain states later this week with a lawsuit, purloin another term, and let my family get infected. You can’t tell me to just “get out of my bubble” when he won’t even show people they should wear a fucking mask.
I know I’m not going to sway any opinions here, but could as many of you as possible please, PLEASE vote for Biden in November?
My mother is immunocompromised with a bevy of issues. My younger brother looks strong and healthy and does physical work, but has pneumonia damage to his lungs and some circulatory damage. EITHER has a very good chance of dying if they’re allowed to catch COVID-19, which – even if it doesn’t kill them – has a reputation of bouncing through bodies like a pachinko machine in those who get seriously ill from it, causing long-lasting lung, heart, brain, or other damage at random.
If he steals this election, or god forbid even wins “fairly”, I’m going to have to uproot my life and apply for asylum in Canada with most of my family to keep them from dying. And then staying there because we’d prefer to live in a democratic country that isn’t going to find a DIFFERENT reason to let us die for its own convenience.
Please don’t make me do that. I like living here. Please vote in numbers too overwhelming to manipulate. Mom and I are even going to vote in person with as much protective gear on as possible, since Texas doesn’t allow mail-in. Please, please vote.
This existential crisis has me cryin’ behind my eyelids. Someone asleep next to me, so my screams are only silent. Paranoia creepin’ in, got people feelin’ kinda violent. All because of selfish deeds from that orange tyrant.
So you’re probably like me: your family and friends see you’re in the medical profession. Or maybe you’re not in the medical profession but you’re pretty well read and you keep up with news. And they want to know if they should believe the panic. What’s accurate? What’s old? What’s new? What’s reliable?
I’ll tell you right now that keeping on top of the information itself has been an Olympic-level task unto itself.
This is not meant to be comprehensive, but designed for folks who need a few key, reliable resources to touch upon.
Those with NEJM access: Use it. The front page is doing a great COVID19 update every day, so check that out!
