Covid Support Thread
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I called our school guidance counselor on Friday to ask about something and she told me that two students at our school, from different families, lost parents to covid this week. I asked how old the students were and she said one was in kindergarten and one in second grade. This was confirmed on a zoom call with some friends last night by my friend whose neighbor is knew one of the parents who died. So, our school community has now lost at least one teacher and two parents that I know of and maybe more. This is hard to process. It was bad enough knowing how hard it’s been for the third-graders who lost their beloved teacher. But to lose a mother, a father at 5, 6 years old?
And then you have dipshit don and who stupid cult of personality followers protesting restrictions meant to mitigate these kinds of losses and it’s mind-boggling.
I can’t watch or read any coverage of him any more. So many people are suffering and dying and he goes on TV to brag about how fantastic he is and and how he’s being unfairly criticized. I feel defiled by it.
I definitely don’t think anyone should be watching his “briefings.” It’s pure propaganda and it’s poisonous.
I know there’s a lot of false information floating around out there. Someone I know said something the other day about people who’ve had the virus having lifelong immunity. Like, critical thinking, please. Even if you don’t know the facts, how could that possibly be known to be true? This same person thinks the whole country needs to be opened immediately and that the media is conspiring to scare people and create hysteria. They won’t name the news sources they read. There’s a lot of this going around.
That’s heartbreaking Wendy!! I’m so sorry your kids have to grapple with this! I spent the last month worried my kids were going to lose a parent. Thinking about how my 2yo wouldn’t remember me. I take a lot more pictures with myself in them now. I checked fb this morning and saw these posts: enjoying the family bonding, going to FL because they opened up the beaches, and several stating we should sacrifice lives for the economy. Done with people!! FFS! I’m so sad about all the teachers and nurses dying. And the kids who have to deal with the loss
@Wendy I spoke with my friend today who lives in Harlem and she told me her daughter’s teacher died from Covid. Her daughter is inconsolable and now afraid to return to NYC. The left the city a month ago and went back to Michigan. I am just so sad for them and have no words to help.
We’ve got to hang in there everyone
That’s so sad, Bethany, and it is consistent with what I’m seeing, too. I’m hearing a LOT of “I hate New York city, I wish we didn’t live here, I want to leave an never come back.”
The good news here though is that we are on a descent from out apex/plataeu of hospitalizations and deaths. For the past few days, the rates have been dropping around 6% a day. This is actually really good news. I just hope the nice weather we’re having today and the combination of that good news doesn’t tempt people to defy social distance or else hospitalizations will be back up within a week…
I live in Philadelphia in the city, but I have been pretty envious of suburban friends during this. It would be nice to have some private outdoor space and generally more sparsely populated areas outside my dwelling. I can’t imagine what this must be like for people living in small apartments. We have not been hit nearly as badly as New York, but we have a third of the state’s cases. I don’t think that I would do it but I do idly think about escaping to some place in the middle of Montana where we could be safer.
I haven’t really watched the “daily lyings” much since… Arizona. I’ve just seen snippets.
Oh —- I was aghast when Dr F took to task some blonde nitwit on Fox for saying “we had no vaccine for HIV. Life went back to normal.” He said “No. Not a good comparison, we have great treatment now fir HIV.”
Huh? I mean — yeah. We do NOW. But back then the real reason we didn’t shut down the nation was HIV is simply far trickier to catch. Typically through very intimate, sexual contact. I mean, HELLO?! How do you NOT mention this?!?
Yeah. That moment really made me scratch my fucking head.
Terrible about the teachers dying. Just awful. 🙁 Just truly awful.
Vapid Desert News Update: our wild desert iguana (saw him a lot last summer) has awoken from hibernation and —- once again —- is now frequently hanging out very near the back patio. Think a foot away… Where —- once again —- he has dug his den curiously nearby human activity. He is pretty dang fearless/blase’ about seeing me. I now suspect he likes his homebase inside the chainlink fence as he is safe from the road runner when he is slow and sluggish and needs to warm up in the sun… Anyway, yeah, he’s pretty cool. Glad he’s back. ?
I have literally slept all day today. No idea why. I was up fairly late, slept until like 12:47, snuggled with my pups until 2:30pm, we had “lunch” and went outside for awhile, came back in and I was tired again so we went back to sleep from 7-9. Why?! It’s not like I don’t have things to do…I do! Ugh.
Decently productive weekend (and certainly a break in the weather!). It was nice to have RadioStar home and on primary parenting duty on Sunday so I could run solo and not worry about being in two places at once.
Today: it’s not even 9 am and I feel like I’ve been wrangling my toddler for five hours already.Been loving the desert flowers, @BGM. So beautiful. You really have a knack of cultivating beauty.
I am looking forward to going home at some point. Florida is on the verge of suspending SIP and people are just stupid enough that it’s going to run rampant.
@Kate – you already know those people are stupid. But if you have the patience, remind them that measles booster shots exist and people who have had chicken pox later get shingles. We also have no idea how much exposure is enough exposure. If you had the mildest of case, maybe you have a super awesome immune system and therefore will never get it – or maybe you had so light an exposure that your system could kick it to the curb quickly but just maybe a higher level of exposure would kill you. Conversely maybe those with the greatest of illness will be antibody rich OR maybe they’ve been so compromised that their immune system couldn’t handle another round of exposure. We just don’t know.And no one has yet seen how this mutates and what that means for us.
Part of me wants to send contagious people to those damn rallies to infect as many people as they can. And part of me wants the mayors/governors of those cities to print up the list of those who have died and put it in front of the city hall or where ever they are protesting to remind people what’s at stake. Or just roll out the people in the body bags – which I know is totally illegal but how many people would keep going if they were standing in front of 5000 dead people.
BGM I’m frustrated I have to explain to so many people why we didn’t shut everything down during the HIV epidemic but we are now. We absolutely altered our behavior to avoid catching HIV. Huge push to use condoms and limit sexual partners. Sex ed was actually taught at some schools! It wouldn’t make since to avoid public because that’s not how you caught it dumbass! So many people. I’m surrounded by idiots
