Wyldnwoody44

I was at Saratoga state park last week, and while there were some people on the trails, it was nothing like yesterday. I've been on the less popular side of the spectrum since this started, I was and still am all for herd immunity. It's the way it's been done for a long time before the last few decades. I don't mean this in a grim, I want everyone to die sort of way, but I do feel that what's happening now is blown way out of proportion.

No this needs to end in general. The first nice day in this area and the park was basically at capacity. I get everyone being bored as hell but social distancing wasn't really applying at all today, what's the point if that's the case. I used to play in undergrad, I was never that good, my buddy is a pro, he beat me 6-0, 6-1, but I pushed a couple games to my AD, for a first time out, ill take it. I also got sunburned lol

I played tennis today, I've never in my life seen Como Park as absolutley mobbed as it was today... Jfc this needs to end

Maybe I'll be able to travel there finally!! I have been wanting to for a long time

I haven't really seen this hit hard at all, and I've done a pretty good job of avoiding most media coverage, so I'm coming at this from a different point of view than most. Once this is over, we should grab a beer and I can pick your brain on your thoughts from a medical perspective on this, since you're internal medicine and are def dealing with this being at Joe's.

Diabetes, heart disease, COPD, things we excel at in Merica'

In the end, this is going to be on par with a nasty flu season, and it will be annoying. I can't wait for the next shutdown in response to the rhinovrus, global warming or because the organic store is out of tofu.

Idk if I missed something but the golf courses in springville have been packed all week, I can go to Ollie's (because they sell perishable goods) and a lot of other annoying things, these don't seem essential in the least, honestly, it doesn't bother me much as I'm ready for this to be over, but just strange to see these things that can still operate.

I'll let your brain decide....

Being a Navy vet, I can assure you that inks statement is true ??

Just out of curiosity, as I honestly don't know.... How are other countries handling this, I canceled my big trip next month, mainly because the borders are closed and there was a mandatory 14 day quarantine in govt facilities for US citizens that do fly in. No thank you on that front. Are we leading the way in what other countries will do still?

I'm at the point where the curve has flattened enough, let's get these people back to work, we now have trillions of dollars to make up from stimulus funds that won't mean anything if we don't get things up and running again. The health care system can handle it.

Oh definitley, for example, I am an independent contractor but technically with a group. The nurses are in a union, but only at select hospitals, there are several subcontracted medical specialty groups, then there are actual hospital employees as well. Up until recently there were a couple of primary care docs that did their own admission and etc, but I think that is done. It used to be much simpler

The hospital has officially started cutting hours in all departments even the ED!!! they're losing money like crazy since they are so far out of the pandemic zone. Things really need to get back to normal soon, all we hear about are the hot spots but layoffs, furloughs and etc are a big deal to many health care workers that rely on their jobs. I'm sure that isn't being televised but they'll keep throwing the BS hero word around while handing you a pink slip. Just frustrated by some friends and colleagues that have been screwed over by the hospital systems in the face of this.

Before and after, also ripped out my 1970s dishwasher and am going to "try to" install tomorrow after I gather up the rest of the pieces I need for the install. Did this all today and it's only one coat so far, a total remodel is out of my budget, so some hard work and 80 bucks and you can change the room to anything ya want ? The issue I'm running into is the cupboards are so ugly, and the blueish material doesn't match anything now, I'm debating buying some bonding primer and doing all of those center pieces of all the cabinets a tan or deep walnut color to match the olive green. The other option is to find some cool contact paper and make inlays for them all, either way is going to be time consuming as hell. I'm far from a handyman and I'm open to any suggestions

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I've been cooking a lot. Homeade lasagna, cheesecake filled gingerbread muffins, chicken souvlaki with Greek potatoes, etc.

I'm going in fully aware that this test many be only 60% accurate.... As for immunity going forward, just from a pure patho standpoint, if I test with a high "titer" in my blood, I'll have some confidence in dealing with patients in the hospital compared to a baseline of zero, but the research regarding immunity is still in the works.

My one hospital I work at is now offering free antibody testing for all employees, ill head in for a blood draw sometime this week. I'm actually quite curious if I'll have some IgG as I think I probably had this in January.

With this triahalon training I'm eating even more than I was before... Whole large pizzas, trays of lasagna, I love carbs right now even more than before. Luckily I'm staying steady at around 190lbs, but I need to get my diet a little more in order

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Mika Noronen or Jocelyn Thibault, it's a coin flip really.

For the record, that chick needs to take some benadryl and get some sleep, I just now watched the video and she appears strung out as all hell. "I have Googled everything" so has everyone else! She also probably thinks green lizard people sent the virus here from the galaxy nefaroun to steal our children's adrenochrome. I have taken diamox, when mountain climbing.... That stuff has this nasty little side effect of peripheral neuropathy, I was in the unlucky 15% or so..... I woke up in Peru after day 4 with my feet feeling like 2 million pins and needles, the feeling you get when you fall asleep on your arm, only worse, but this lasted for 3 days, AFTER, stopping the diamox. I switched to a regimen of dexamethasone after that, has good effect and not as many side effects. But that sucked so much, I would probably rather deal with the Rona. I've heard the altitude sickness theory multiple times since this all started, and while it's similar in appearance, the patho behind it is not. Sure the drugs could help, but going into the woods and eating random plants could help too. I hope for everyone's mental, physical, financial health that we do come up with a valid cure, and soon. But I'm going to let people with more advanced degrees and intricate labs make that call and not let scared Google searchers try to play hero. FTR this is the kinda sh1t patients come into the hospital with all the time.... "I've Googled this and you're wrong, or I Googled this and I am demanding you do this test or procedure" For as great as Google and search engines are, they are also dangerous.

I just cancelled all my flights next month, I had 14 one way flights booked in such a great combination for an involved getaway and most just give credits and not refunds, so I will most certainly lose when I do get to rebook. I realize that it's a first world problem and I travel more than most people I know, combined; but it really really sucks that this is the way the world has to be for now.

Some of my own viewing of this is definitley coming from the eyes of working in an area that is relatively safe, it does make it harder to digest what's really going on as we are sheltered. I do know that the testing hasn't ramped up significantly here and the inclusion criteria for testing are still very involved.