Update.
Meh. Same.
I don’t quite know how I’ve slept so damn much. Saturday, I woke up at 3pm. Stayed up for maybe an hour and went back to bed. Sunday, I woke up at 3pm. Been up most of the day since, but soooooooooooo tired. What gives illness?
Because I’ve been having a “time” with breathing issues, I just splurged and bought a simple pulse oximeter for piece of mind. I need all the piece of mind I can get right now. And it was under $20. I’m still learning the difference between some asthma attacks vs anxiety attacks. I’m familiar with anxiety after 20 years of experience…the asthma scares me, piece of mind at home will be nice.
The other night HWMMS came to bed, I “corona-cuddled” up to him and said “I don’t want to die.”
At least I know my depression meds are working, 3 months ago I wouldn’t have cared.”
Now time for some light reading for everyone Re: Coronavirus. Be safe. Be smart.
Washington Post: Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to “flatten the curve”
This so-called exponential curve has experts worried. If the number of cases were to continue to double every three days, there would be about a hundred million cases in the United States by May.
That is math, not prophecy. The spread can be slowed, public health professionals say, if people practice “social distancing” by avoiding public spaces and generally limiting their movement.
Social Distancing: This is Not a Snow Day
“I also realize that not everyone can do everything. But we have to try our absolute best as a community, starting today. Enhancing social distancing, even by one day, can make a large difference.”
We just don’t know what’s out there without widespread testing…
But it appears that a Massachusetts coronavirus cluster with at least 82 cases was started by people who were not yet showing symptoms, and more than half a dozen studies have shown that people without symptoms are causing substantial amounts of infection.
NPR: Opinion: Early Coronavirus Testing Failures Will Cost Lives
This week, in Massachusetts, testing has been permitted only for patients with respiratory symptoms requiring hospitalization, or for patients with such symptoms who have traveled to endemic areas or had contact with confirmed coronavirus cases. Similar criteria apply in other states. The problem with this approach is that, according to all indicators, it is almost certainly missing a large number of cases.
The Atlantic: The Coronavirus Called America’s Bluff
“If Chu had found this information a month earlier, lives might have been saved and the spread of the disease might have slowed—but even after the urgency of her work became evident, her lab was told to stop testing.”
“The president himself did not want the disease talked of too widely, did not want knowledge of it to spread, and, above all, did not want the numbers of those infected to appear too high. “
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