Covid Support Thread
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@BGM I’ve been following your picture posts on Instagram. They are such lovely pictures! I hope you can keep posting them 🙂 And I hate wind…there is a lot of wind where I live and it drives me bonkers. So I feel ya!
Colorado is set to start opening up some of the same businesses as other states this Friday. Hair salons, tattoo parlors (I mean really?), and others. No restaurants or bars yet, that’s around May 1st. Denver was the most hard hit area of Colorado (unsurprisingly) I don’t live in Denver, thankfully.
I have been going to see a physical therapist though. I didn’t want to get out but the pain in my shoulder/arm area (caused by a neck issue) just got so intense to where my fingers were going numb. So yesterday they tried dry needling…and it hurt like a MFer. Supposed to try again Friday…ha, maybe.
Ugh. Our mayor just said that our shelter in place is likely to extend through June.
EDT: I mean good! Compared to other states who are being ridiculous. But I guess I was hoping for some slow reprieve by June 1st.
I needed a balm to my anxiety and listening to Cuomo give his briefing is always a help. I really need to hear the calm and direct approach that he has right now. Whenever I listen I feel like we are really going to get through this as a country.
Although, I extremely glad that my governor is a trained doctor. He has received enough epidemiology training to know how dire this situation is/can be.
@ Helen and others worrying about coronavirus mutations: I’ve been researching coronavirus pretty steadily, and it seems that it mutates fairly slowly compared to other viruses like the flu. Here’s some good articles I found on that: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/25/820998549/the-coronavirus-is-mutating-but-that-may-not-be-a-problem-for-humans and https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/science/new-york-coronavirus-cases-europe-genomes.html
What were you hoping would open by May 1 in Chicago? You guys know that you you haven’t hit your apex yet, right? Models show it still weeks away. You’re up to a thousand new confirmed cases a day and over 100+ covid deaths a day and that is WITH really tight restrictions, and that is where we were – per capita – a few weeks before our apex too.
My friend is a nurse in Chicago and she’s scared and exhausted. My other friend is a funeral director and business is FOUR times higher right now than average. You guys are so so lucky your mayor and governor was more aggressive with restrictions than ours were here. Maybe you won’t have to go to any zoom memorials like almost everyone I know here has. But that’s not going to happen if you ease restrictions before you hit your apex.
The whole idea of the peak is based around the idea of restrictive policies continuing. Even after the peak, the number of infected people out there will be very very high-far higher than it was when everything shut down. It will still be extremely dangerous a month or two at the minimum. I normally don’t want to lecture others about what to do but please everyone keep your going out to a minimum even if your state starts to open up. It’s going to be dangerous for a while.
I am not shaming anyone. I understand why people want to get out. I don’t want the people here to put themselves in danger and I think that a lot of the public discussion around opening up has grossly misstated how dangerous it is still going to be while the case numbers are still high.
I have no clue what everyone is reading or relying on. The governor of Georgia has access to the same info too.
