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We rented a minivan Wednesday in Redding to move some useless and outdated items belonging to some relative or other to a storage unit, and the agent (properly distanced and wearing a mask and gloves) kept asking us if we were going to be picking a lot of people up from the airport. Like she asked three times. We weren't sure if it was better to say we'd just getting their minivan dirty as hell with furniture older than any of us, so we demurred. I imagined her going home after work and telling her family about the San Franciscans packing a van full of COVID victims to deliver to local resorts or something. Most people up here, though, seem to be in denial--no masks, social distancing only when they are forced to do so, etc. They don't seem to think it's going to come here. I hope they are right, but I think it's just a waiting game. At least we're more spread out up here. We don't need to worry about coming into contact with random people in the hallway and stairs, on the sidewalk, train, bus, etc. like in San Francisco. We wear our N-95 masks to the grocery store, and aside from the van rental, that's the only contact we have with the locals (today is the 14th day we've been here, and nobody is symptomatic). |
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Buy the full suite of Cities:Skylines and its expansions. Play your fantasy cities in simulation style and experiment to see how they function in practice. |
No pandemic is gonna put In-N-Out out of business. Apart from no in-restaurant dining allowed, it looks like business as usual. Yup, the drive-thru line goes around the block. This is the closest In-N-Out to my apartment.
I took these pictures around 45 minutes ago. https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net...46&oe=5EAE9C30 https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net...9e&oe=5EAF608E https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...a9&oe=5EAD2913 |
They should change their name to Wait-n-Line
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And for the record, I haven't been to an In-N-Out in probably over a year. I haven't had a burger in about that time, too. I started eating healthier last year, and basically stopped eating red meat (will have it on occasion, though). |
I don't know about you guys, but with all the hand-washing I've been doing and hand sanitizer I've been using, my hands have become really dry.
This Finnish hand lotion does wonders. And it's not greasy. https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...1e&oe=5EAE3F55 Photo by me And this evening, I learned that this is pretty good: https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...23&oe=5EAD1DC0 Photo by me |
As far as I can tell, the Oregon and Washington graphs were flat two weeks ago. Local media reports that's only 3 percent of Seattle emergency visits are respiratory related right now also. Not declaring victory but numbers indicate everything seems to have stabilized. I hope the rest of the country can follow suit soon. Stay safe.
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I guess I'm going to count on this and plan my return to the Bay Area in early June:
https://uniim1.shutterfly.com/ng/ser...118202/enhance https://covid19.healthdata.org/projections |
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You know I'm surprised all of these big population states with large amounts of international traveling are so low in per capita cases and deaths.
California. Florida, Texas... Very low cases per 100k... very low. What is going one here is it the climate? It might be a correlation or not but most states have less then <1 case per 100k and not just a few states but a lot. Really only 3-4 states stand out. NY, NJ, LA and MI. And a couple more if you want to get picky, like CN, and WA. But that's really it. My hospital is not on a strain, the exact opposite. We are waiting for the foot to fall and canceled all elective surgeries and outpatient surgeries and our census is only at best 60-65% normal. A lot of surgical RN's and outpatient RN's and support staff have been furloughed btw in the last week. Elective and outpatient surgeries are our bread and butter and that is how we as an organization makes money. I would expect after the curve that there will be a huge backload on knee, hip replacements, and back and spinal surgeries that would have normally happened. But it cannot be explosive because we only have so many surgeons and their teams to do it. It might have to go on 7 days a week vs 5-6 days a week as we used to see. It could take a full year to catch up. And hopefully everyone in the hospital will fully be gainfully employed again in a few months. |
Furloughing medical staff is beyond ridiculous (not blaming the hospital here, but you would think the stimulus package would have ensured hospitals are fully staffed).
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[QUOTE=bnk;8885485]You know I'm surprised all of these big population states with large amounts of international traveling are so low in per capita cases and deaths.
California. Florida, Texas... Very low cases per 100k... very low. What is going one here is it the climate? It might be a correlation or not but most states have less then <1 case per 100k and not just a few states but a lot. Really only 3-4 states stand out. NY, NJ, LA and MI. And a couple more if you want to get picky, like CN, and WA. But that's really it. My hospital is not on a strain, the exact opposite. We are waiting for the foot to fall and canceled all elective surgeries and outpatient surgeries and our census is only at best 60-65% normal. A lot of surgical RN's and outpatient RN's and support staff have been furloughed btw in the last week. Elective and outpatient surgeries are our bread and butter and that is how we as an organization makes money. I would expect after the curve that there will be a huge backload on knee, hip replacements, and back and spinal surgeries that would have normally happened. But it cannot be explosive because we only have so many surgeons and their teams to do it. It might have to go on 7 days a week vs 5-6 days a week as we used to see. It could take a full year to catch up. And hopefully everyone in the hospital will fully be gainfully employed again in a few months.[/QUOTE So in your opinion, do you think we have been prudent in our actions or is this the world's largest overreaction? I just hope when the dust settles, we all hope the fallout will be worth it..... |
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It's counter-intuitive to lay off/furlough healthcare workers during a pandemic. And I'm sure many in healthcare felt that their jobs were pretty secure; can you imagine? Out of work healthcare workers. And because we here in the US use a capitalist model for healthcare, I'm sure these medical groups are "losing money" and will struggle financially, and even possibly cut healthcare workers' pay (the ones that weren't furloughed).
This pandemic has really exposed how flawed US healthcare is, especially with most Americans getting health insurance through their employers. You shouldn't have to rely on being employed to have health insurance. And obviously, with this pandemic, many are losing their jobs, and are thus losing their health insurance. We in the US really have a flawed way of how we get our healthcare. |
I'm currently watching a documentary of an ER, probably in NYC. It's horrifying, in that the chance of surviving once you're on a ventilator is only 20 percent. Most of those patients suffocate. All those people who don't take it seriously need to do some research on what really happens in ERs, and how many of the patients are young and have no other health problems, yet they don't make it.
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Actually Santa Clara County (Silicon Valley) has about the highest per 100k rate in the state probably because it does have so much back/forth travel to China but even there there’s hope things will soon stabilize because of an early lockdown. |
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