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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.

Very low scores indeed, based on what, I have no idea. But it also says peak of 4/7 which was 12 days ago. So if we have hit the peak and should theoretically be on the way down, I don't understand how we can be assigned a score considering Erie county was not hit very hard in the grand scheme of everything.

In NYC sure and maybe the other big cities, but where I'm at mostly, it's been pretty slow, actually slow to the point where they're losing a ton of money. The thing about reimbursements is that they lag 60 days as well so it may not hit home until summer. There are only like 30 confirmed cases in the main county I work, granted we test so little it's definitley more, but not bewildering numbers.

So anything new about this virus that is ruining the world in which we live. Can't get to the DMV, no traveling, hospitals either over filling or on brink of furloughs, let's keep the politics away from here.

I know when I treat patient that work there, a doctor note doesn't do anything for them, they get "points" regardless of the cause for missing time, I always found that strange. I'm unfamiliar with how they are to employees otherwise.

I was at Wal mart earlier in Cheektowaga, I needed molasses for a recipe, the place is terrible and busy (also there is A drive up Covid testing area in the front, that was a madhouse) I see no molasses on the shelf, empty where the price tag says it should be, ok, I go up to the employee/associate and ask if there are any left in the back.... She looks at me blankly, and in nice English say "I can't speak English" I get that not everyone will be a scholar, or have even the best English, but if you're employed by a big store such as Wal mart and have an employee working on the floor, don't you think they would speak English?? This isn't the poor girl's fault, she needs a Job, but it just caught me way off guard.

Add a homeade Pina colada and that was my afternoon ❄️?

Theory is that this acts more like a lung that is injured by altitude sickness moreso than a viral pneumonia, this is why we're finding that intubation really shouldn't be a first or even 2nd option as the increased Peep (positive pressure) from the ventilator may actually be damaging lungs further, rather than helping. These drugs works in all different ways, they alkalize blood and allow for better oxygenation of the blood cells (plus many other responses, anti inflammatory possibly, etc) We're starting to get into the realm of now just grabbing things and trying them, I would have to imagine the success of these is very limited. When it comes to the science/patho/medicine of the disease process itself, it's very muddy, ever changing. We have a solid viral base, but that's about it.

I won't be getting any either, and if I did chances are high that I would find a way to wire it to my cause in Africa.

I was up in the andirondacks all week, just got home....hiked prospect mountain and into Hadley, Lake George and Placid were ghost towns, it was eerie. And in Keene, the general store made sandwiches and bakery goods where you called from your car and the put them on an outdoor table. You could only get your food once the store keeper went back inside and there was no on else outside. Strange times. My little trip was, not what I expected, from both a social standpoint and from the copious amounts of wind and snow that were encountered.

Its not "manly" but I enjoy a good hard seltzer, especially sitting in the hot tub with one.