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Everything is great here. We, in the Cayman Islands although we do have the corona Flu( for whatever that is worth) tend to tune out of social and mainstream media, both of which are awful. More than awful, they have such an agenda.
#keepwoke #lawandorder
Sorry to hear about Newsom. Well, one good thing about these people (certain governors), is that any national aspirations they had are now dead. Same in Michigan and Maine I go to San Diego and really love Mission Hills.Quote:
Originally Posted by tailor STATELY
Itīs good to know, that you are both doing well, but go on being careful even with tests. Corona seems to be the most treacherous virus known in our times. As in US pandemie is being mixed up here with election. Some of the governors and majors want to be elected or reelected. That accounts for the ambition, for example, in showing that São Paulo is vanquishen Corona, and programming openings of commerce, bars, restaurants, hairdresser, etc. even if the numbers are still increasing.
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Why did you delete your answer Tony?
About Covid-19 tests.
In Brazil, we have about four or five different types of tests. Each of them seems to cover one determinate moment of the illness. There is mainly the test, were they take a drop of blood out of oneīs finger to confirm if one has already acquired antibodies against Covid. Then there is the viral test that verifies if there is a current infection.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_testing
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019...g/testing.html
Testing here is still irregularly applied. How is it in your countries?
Corona quickly became and will remain a proxy for the global political divide - one, that those of us in the West are very very very (3 verys) aware.
In full transparency: I avoid the topic, because if you disagree with what is the mainstream media and social media view is - you will get browbeaten or probably patronised.
"In full transparency: I avoid the topic, because if you disagree with what is the mainstream media and social media view is - you will get browbeaten or probably patronised."
I see, Tony. Indeed the views about it are still conflicting. It goes from people that still believe, that the pandemics are an invention to people, who have lost several family members to it.
Covid-19 testing is really mind-boggling out here in Gold Country, USA. First, we need to have everybody tested (face the facts, Jack)... but some politicians say no for Heavens-know-why, and there still are not enough test kits for e-v-e-r-y-o-n-e to get tested. I was lucky (twice)... let me explain:
Monday, late evening last, I get a weird dry cough episode and start to feel short of breath... paranoia sets in. OK, taking friend to doctor's appt. Tuesday where we both go for checkups. On Tuesday wheel him into the clinic and I'm asked to go back outside and call the very same office I just wheeled my friend in to make arrangements for someone to see me outside... ooooo kkkkkk. 45 minutes or so? (I fell asleep in SUV) my friend is wheeled out and bundled into SUV waking me up. Hazmat Susan, not her real name, in gown and mask and face-shield asks me a few questions, takes temperature, BP, and swabs my throat, then deftly breaks the stick that the swab is attached to and places it into a vial... "your results will be ready in 5-8 working days, please self quarantine appropriately"...
That's not going to fly, my dear... my wife has one kidney and COPD (past smoker) and asthma and I (informally) care for a 75 year-old man who has a history of heart/stroke/etc. So I'm a bit perturbed... so's my Daughter... ver-ry perturbed. Since my daughter's husband works at a nearby hospital (not a caregiver) I get advised to go to the ER at a hospital the next day so hopefully I'll get quicker results. Wife stays at sister's house for the night and I can't sleep a wink.
Arrive at the ER reception entrance Wednesday after 10 am and talk to receptionist about what's up and then asked to wait... 10 minutes later see the triage nurse: BP 170ish, shortness of breath, and lungs "feel" tight, yes: 6'4" (1.95 m) too many pounds, soreness in mouth... then taken inside the ER proper and given a room and asked to take off outside shirt only (important to note) and put funky gown on with opening facing the rear. I do so and sit on the exam gurney. Not too long later a bevy of caregivers, one by one for the most part all entering through a side door (???) not the front entrance, attend me including one young lady I recognized from church in the past (I didn't let on I knew her keeping things professional). More vitals, Q & A's... and then a nurse comes in to "swab" my nose. It felt as bad as one would expect a pithed frog might feel before oblivion... a long deep probe forced up into the nether reaches of the nasal sinus, twice, once for each nostril. Again, sample placed into vial to be analyzed.
It was explained to me that they had a 3-tier approach to test results: Tier 1 gets test results quickly (usually the same day), Tier 2 less quickly, Tier 3... not a clue. But this is all predicated on whether they even have enough reagent to test anyone who isn't full-blown covidating (my nonce word). They don't tell me which tier I fall in at the moment because that's not up to them (sigh).
So I'm allowed to take a short nap with the lights down low and then wakened and whisked away on the gurney through the crowded corridors to get chest x-rays: one facing apparatus, one side-ways to the apparatus. I didn't hear Parker giggling but I'm sure she did... technician asks me if I'm wearing a pen (oops!); so I unclip Parker from my garment and set her down nearby and get another set: one facing apparatus, one side-ways to the apparatus.
Another short wait and I'm told x-rays fine (Parker notwithstanding), BP down to a more reasonable 140 (still high), and please self-quarantine until tests results come in... grrr.
Get the test results that evening from the ER pharmacy (woohoo!)... negative !!! So wife gets to come home and life looks so much brighter all of a sudden. Only one problem, I still have a tightness in my lungs and shortness of breath - so I'm just taking it a little easier than usual (I'm usually quite chill anyway) and will forgo 2-picnics on Saturday and a few other "things" as needed.
The end ?
Still waiting for test results from Tuesday...
From a previous post... a poem?:
E - E
Educated fleas ?
Glory Hanna ! I just know
love makin's not our
pandemic questions' reflection
... social trepidation
Upheaval: vague weariness
Xanadu yearnings... zombie
apocalypse by cracky !
Don't even !!!
"Doctor on Covid-19 task force briefings: 'Stop screwing around' "...
https://edition.cnn.com/videos/healt...tez-nr-vpx.cnn
6/28/2020
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Sorry, tailor, that must have been a stress for you and your family. As you first wrote about your test, I thought, they were just sampling in your part of the country, as they have been doing here. They just test people randomly to get an idea how much infected the district is.
It also mustnīt have been very agreeable to encounter as patient a person you are used to meet in church.
Anyway, the good news are, that not only the Covid exam was negative but also the X-ray. My father had tuberculosis and in his time all those modern exams didnīt exist. But he had a good doctor and reliable old X-ray.
One thing treacherous Corona does to all of us, is leaving us permanently unsure. We have the feeling we might be infected even if we are not. All one can do is observe oneself. If your symptoms persist it would be good to go to the hospital again, preferably without your charge. But keep in mind that the infected people go there too.
Hang in there Tailor.
I read your post Tailor, and have to say that what the lamestream media has done to people, to you - well it boils my blood. And I know other litnetters feel the same way. Turns out your fine. But the lamestream media has got you in a state that things can never be fine, not with all that Fear they are marketing. Damn shame.
I hope this environment improves we can makes things as good as they really should be again.
I was talking about the mainstream media and social media, both are with few exceptions are terrible sources of news. They have their own agenda, and I suspect it differs from most litnetters.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danik 2016
Tony,
I avoid the social media, that is to say FB, Twitter, Instagram, etc. I prefer forums, where things are toned down and one has a better idea whom one is talking too.
But I donīt avoid journalism. One has to know, what is going on, so as not to be surprised. Of course, one has to make choices which news can be believed.
Hopefully, we can move past the recent troubling troubles. I'll be sitting by the pool either way.
I am not sure if there is neutral media. But yes, letīs hope this will pass soon.
(Litnet specially impossible today. Tried to answer you 3 or 4 times).
Yea it has been slow.
#bewoke #question everything
Second test (actually the first test from last Tuesday)... negative.
A giggle in a time of woe:... roller coasters: what could go wrong ?Quote:
An association of theme park operators in Japan has issued a new set of guidelines that ask people to not make loud noises or scream while at theme parks amid the coronavirus pandemic... https://www.deseret.com/entertainmen...me-parks-japan
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Congrats, tailor, not only for the results of the tests, but also for living near a good hospital, that seems to be doing a good follow up. A priceless thing in these confused and confusing times.
Good news Tailor.
Good news for us all!
Several of the international vacines are being tested here: the Oxford one, the Chinese one and the one from Pfizer (US and Germany I think). The mysterious Russian one is going to be tested in Paraná.
The good news is that the testing age limit for the one from Oxford(which is at the most advanced stage) has been moved from 55 to 69 because of the good results.
Ladies and Gentleman! Please keep visiting our site regularly. Itīs our way of knowing, that you are well.
A new, cheaper and less invasive Corona test that was developed here in Brazil. The patient collects the material him/herself, by spitting into the collector:
https://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/en/...-test-covid-19
Probably a good alternative for the corona flu test.
My brother described the test as feeling like, "having soda shot up his nose" - he was really shook up and traumatised. Additionally he suffered other effects included nasal discomfort, headache, earache, and rhinorrhea, which lasted a couple of days.
Just warning readers about what happens, quite a bit with the invasive test.
Thanks Danik.
Thatīs very invasive indeed, Tony. I hope your brother tested negative after all this.
Here in São Paulo people queue up at the drive-through when free PCR tests are offered. Tests here are still much to few and the results sometimes take a lot of time. They are not at all automatic as they seem to be in the USA. Thatīs why the researchers developed this other test. Unfortunately these test are subjected to a lot of issues until they can be put to use.
... not automatic, still unsatisfactory delays for most if you can get a test. The current state of affairs re: Covid-19 in the USA would easily remind one of circus clowns capering about under the Big Top.Quote:
They are not at all automatic as they seem to be in the USA.
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
"A Brazilian City (Manaus) may gave had enough COVID-19 cases to reach herd immunity"... https://futurism.com/neoscope/brazil...-herd-immunity.
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, and his wife, Melania Trump, test positive for COVID-19 after finding out Hope Hicks, President Trump's aide, tested positive.
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
They'll both be fine. I am happy to see Law and Order restored many of the US states. I travel a lot to Chicago and hated to see that kind of behaviour, which is deplorable. The national guard did such a great job.
I think they will get well quickly, because they probably have first rate medical aid.
As for Manaus, that possibility of herd immunity is often mentioned here and not only for Manaus, but nothing is sure as yet.
The good news: Brazil has sunken from an average of 1000 deaths daily to about 800 or less!
Update on Cayman: All is well here! I think you are right about the president, and this will likely work in his favour. Always look ahead in the game of life. He does. We do, too. I am feeling very positive and look forward to a prosperous and orderly future.
I was amused and touched at this NY Times article about safe choir rehearsals during corona. Itīs very simple. All you need is some cars, a quiet street to park them, wireless radios (please read exact description in the article or watch it in the first video, some musical equipment and here we go. Alternatively some of the singers or musicians can stay in their rooms with the wireless radio:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/a...034f35b9c22796
https://artsongcentral.com/2020/sett...ant-rehearsal/
Safe Choir Rehearsals during Corona
I was amused and touched at this NY Times article about safe choir rehearsals during corona. Itīs very simple. All you need is some cars, a quiet street to park them, wireless radios (please read exact description in the article or watch it in the first video, some musical equipment and here we go. Alternatively some of the singers or musicians can stay in their rooms with the wireless radio:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/a...034f35b9c22796
https://artsongcentral.com/2020/sett...ant-rehearsal/
Some Brazilian quarantine choirs (basically exploring the possibilities of Zoom:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoLB7yc2aQk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG6PcSbxWc4
Just reminding that this is an unusual year. Here are suggestions for a virtual Thanksgiving and I think the same goes for the following end of the year festivities.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/18/t...034f35b9c22796
No choir rehearsals for us (sigh) and California is issuing evening curfews soon for a minimum of 1-month for the great majority of the state. Church services will most likely be home-based again after several months of modified services at our church. Bible study in our church building has been given the kibosh (studied John's Revelation chapters 11 - 13 just last night), and Family Home Evening (Mondays) for we empty-nesters is up in the air right now. Our county had been doing so well in our little corner of the world but cases are up and becoming more local (schools).
Zoom is being considered for church services... I don't know if zoom for Thanksgiving would be a good family fit for us; I don't even like video calls. Football and other pro sports have lost their lustre on the telly for me. Still looking forward to turkey, et al, with fewer family members than usual... maybe 9 ?.
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
I think California is on the right track, choirs might be mortal at this point. Just some months more of patience, I believe things will get better there.
I hope there will be turkey for those that celebrate Thanksgiving, but not crowded celebrations. The Brazilian turkey graces the table at Christmas, but I donīt expect Christmas celebrations this year.
Important link, hope you get into it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/23/h...034f35b9c22796
After jumping through a few hoops I got in:... and thus the circus continues.Quote:
Social gatherings have become a convenient scapegoat for political leaders flummoxed by the steeply climbing numbers, some experts said.
It seems like theyre passing off the responsibility for controlling the outbreak to individuals and individual choices, said Ellie Murray, an epidemiologist at Boston University. A pandemic is more a failure of the system than the failure of individual choices.
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
I agree, tailor. But some political gatherings are in itself the proof of the pudding. For example, in the White House gathering to welcome the Judge appointed by the president to succeed Ruth Ginzburg a lot of people were infected.
A humorous article about the recent mask culture:
"Recently, at a funeral, I got to thinking about the lesser challenges of the mask."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/o...034f35b9c22796
Part of the problem in this country is top level autocrats telling the public to do one thing while flouting their own rules to suit their needs... no harm, no foul unless they get caught, and then they smarmily apologize.
re: Article: Very funny... “And who am I beneath this mask I wear?”. My various masks were/are unfitting to my face and personality. I even had some decorative masks sewn for me by a member of the church with 4-yarn dangles that I would try to tie. I still try to smile at the appropriate times; I wonder if my eyes light up? An odd complaint I have is the masks scratching my eyes when they ride up too high.
The white/blue masks are the ones I wear mostly now; unfortunately I watched a video on facebook (early on) on the making of these masks flying off the "assembly" straight onto a filthy floor - then gathered up for shipping... similar to this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8SAYIGZA3g
Praying we survive this madness,
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
re1: Sounds familiar, tailor
re Mask: Oh my! Yes, one prefers masks one knows where they come from and anyway one has to wash them before using. I have found out that masks with elastic around the ears adjust better to the face. Like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFFidOT7eHA