Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Russ Carroll

Jim,

I’ve been to the ER twice this week. New blockage in my heart/arteries. I do not ha e COVID-19, but I have now been around it in a city not yet even near a peak yet. It is awe full.

Even if you could somehow contain the deaths in some uniform way as you describe, which defies everything that is going on right now, what you cannot control is the devastation on ERs and hospitals as well as the incredible suffering inflicted on the public by this disease. I had to spend three hours in a virus airborne infection isolation room until results came back that I did not have COVID-19. That alone was a horrific experience knowing that I was Sleeping g in a room the COVID-19 patients had been in recently waiting for life-saving treatment. I am extremely lucky that the ER and hospital I was in was not overrun by COVID-19 patients as I may not have survived a delay. Many deaths in cities that are now being overrun like Dallas and Phoenix will have nothing to do with COVID-19 but the lack of medical care at ER’s because of it.

This virus has a life and a mind of its own and it’s not going to be managed by simple equations like taking the total number of deaths per year and dividing it by 365. It is much closer to a hostile adversary striking at cities with a disruption that is far more devastating than simply picking off a few people here and there on a daily basis.

We are not even treating this at the national level with the seriousness that it demands and I guarantee you from what I have seen and experienced we are going to pay and enormous price that probably did not have to happen. This will go down as one of the truly incredible tragedies primarily caused at the political level as idiotic as that sounds.

I have to go in for another heart procedure this coming week, and I’m obviously not looking forward to it but I am grateful that it’s even available to me...at least for now

Russ

PS I fully expect to recover because of the life-saving work done in our ERs and hospitals.

Originally Posted by James Brown

Hi Rod:

Could be, but my understanding from folks in California is that the bars have re-closed and people are taking their distancing obligations seriously.  Here, I went to the Safeway grocery this weekend and 100% of the customers were wearing masks.  The store was signed. "no shirt, shoes, or mask, no entrance."  What do you see in your neck of the woods?  

Jim

Originally Posted by Maurice Clark

The BBC looks at Florida.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53357742

Maurice