By R.C.
Sat, Apr 18, 2020 7:09 pm
"80% of Restaurants Say They May Not Reopen -- 11 Million Jobs on the Line -- While Pelosi Sits at Home with Her Chocolates, Refuses to Approve More Loan Money."
And just two days ago, genocidal racist and kleptocrat Bill de Blasio had the nerve to praise Pelosi and Schumer, while taking pathetic, partisan shots at Mitch McConnell.
When I was 12 yrs. old or so I went with my brother to spend the night at my grandparents house, at the time I had a head cold which was annoying at that age but something a young healthy immune system would simply shrug off. A couple days later my grandfather came down with a cold that progressed into pneumonia that had him hospitalized for a week or so. I realized at the time he may well have caught the bug from me and I was stricken with guilt, thankfully my grandfather recovered and returned home healthy. However, he did die a few years later when his lungs failed after contracting another respiratory illness. What it was we don't know, it happened very suddenly and our grandmother said he had been feeling sick then complained about not being able to breathe and died suddenly. He was 80 yrs. old so there was no real autopsy to determine the cause of his death, the doctor just said his lungs failed.
ReplyDeleteI have to wonder if he had died in this era of Coronavirus if his death would have been considered "Coronavirus" caused or related. How easy would it be to just lump him in with one of "those" deaths and add him to the tally of supposed Covid-19 victims? What are the standards being used to determine a Covid death anyways? Is it the same at every hospital? Does every medical examiner follow the same set of protocols? I'm not there working in the hospitals, I'm not a virologist and only know what I see in the headlines. I don't know anybody personally who has it and don't know anybody who knows anybody who does. There are all sorts of anecdotals stories in the news but they vary wildly from seeming to support the hysteria or downplaying it. Then there are scientific or statistic based articles that also present two sides. Here is an example of one: https://theconversation.com/the-coronavirus-looks-less-deadly-than-first-reported-but-its-definitely-not-just-a-flu-133526
This one definitely downplays it and even cites some research in S. Korea that draws back the deathrate from the virus to .065 percent, comparable to pneumonia. Is this true? I just don't know but the media in our country is working hard to make people feel guilty for lending credence to anything that doesn't contribute to the hysteria and I always assume whatever the media is telling us is probably false or slanted.
Getting back to my grandfather, it occurs to me that the elderly have always been in danger from their children and grandchildren bringing infections diseases into their homes and possibly killing them. Not only that, they can catch it when they are out shopping or doing any other kind of social activity, yet we accept the risk because risk is a part of life. in 2017 2.56 million people died from pneumonia, a third of which were children under the age of 5. Imagine the hysteria you could create putting young children on the front page of the papers who have died from pneumonia and telling everybody it's their fault for not practicing social distancing. https://ourworldindata.org/pneumonia
I realize this is a "new" disease but if you take care of yourself physically and have reasonable sanitary habits your chances of contracting it and having it kill you are extraordinarily low, even going about our previous normal habits in life.
Someone needs to invent a mask with a slider(like on Ziploc storage baggies) that opens near the mouth,so people can go to eat at restaurants.They'd sit down with full anti-COVID regalia in place(slider closed),then when the food arrives,pull the slider across so you can start shoveling in the steak,ribs,fish,potatoes etc.
ReplyDeleteJust have to hope the forks and knives,provided by the establishment, have been properly handled and washed.I've gone to a particular place for years and the busboys/girls bring out freshly washed silverware and throw it in the various spaces using bare hands.
Maybe throwaway plastic forks and knives are the answer to that.As I remember,most of the colds and flu I ever got was from that restaurant and the YMCA(60/40).It won't be easy for many folks,but I'd probably go back to eat there if they opened again.
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Restaurant I have been going to for over forty years now temporarily closed. I bet it never reopens. Very sad.
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