I'm tired of the at risk warning, enough!

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  • TeddyandBears_Mom
    TeddyandBears_Mom Member Posts: 1,811 Member
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    Thanks for all of the

    Thanks for all of the articles Ladies!

    CQ, I deal with one just like that in my family. Sometimes, too smart for their own good.  ugh!

  • BluebirdOne
    BluebirdOne Member Posts: 656 Member
    edited May 2020 #23
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    We all have our own opinions

    and experiences. But facts are stubborn things. One big fact is that without this lockdown, millions would die. We will have more than 100k deaths in a few months, if not weeks. The real death toll is being underestimated as so many died at home or in nursing homes and were never tested for Covid. Sweden’s death toll is the one of the highest per capita in Europe, higher than the US! Sweden also is telling the vulnerable to stay home.

    Florida’s Governor refused to allow the number of Covid deaths to be released to the public. Why? If the success story was so great in Florida, they would be using it as an even bigger excuse to open the state 100%. One persoon, feeling immortal, going into public places without PPE, can infect untold others. Asymptomatic carriers are infecting hundreds. Sure this is hard, but dying of Covid is horrible. My husband and I live in a rural resort community with mostly retired folks, but plenty of young family come and visit. We see the carelesness on our streets, stores, and take out food places. So we don’t trust anyone to be free of virus. A very good friend who is an attorney, whose husband has stage 4 sarcoma thinks that our book group should be starting up in a few weeks!!! Another woman in our group who is 80, has an invalid husband who is 80+ and has many health issues is willing to ”take a chance”, because she doesn’t want to miss the season and needs to get out of the house. She also thinks this is just the flu. Because these people are so careless I cannot be around them. 

     

     

  • Maxster
    Maxster Member Posts: 102 Member
    edited May 2020 #24
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    EZLiving66 said:

    Northern Wisconsin has almost

    Northern Wisconsin has almost NO cases and the few they had did not require hospitalization.  One was an employee of McDonald's and another was in a nursing home so you'd think more people would have it, but NONE! Our county has had NO one test positive yet they're all shut down. We have been getting together, 10 of us, 6' apart in someone's driveway for happy hour. We also have been having card club once a week using new cards with the same group of four. The more I read, the less I worry. Being born is the #1 cause of death. Here in Florida a 91 year old man with terminal lung cancer supposedly died of Covid 19; heck, if somebody jumped out and said "BOO" he probably would have died. 

     

    I believe the deaths are inflated and 10 to 15 times more people are infected than what they're saying based on studies of raw sewage. That would bring the percentage of death in the population way down!!!

     

    Love,

    Eldri 

    Wisconsin[-['p

    I also live in Wisconsin and have witnessed how quickly the virus has infected Brown County.  We do not test at a good rate so we do not know really how many have the disease.  However, what we do know is how vulnerable we are to it. What is the death rate for over 65 cancer survivors or patients?  That's the number that affects us.  I am very lucky to have a research physician oncologist for a son-in-law at the best place in the USA.  He is adamant that I exercise the utmost caution when leaving my home, which is rare.  However, he has seen cancer patients with the virus and it is not pretty.  None of us might survive a bout with this virus. Be careful that what you read is not confirmation bias--picking and choosing what we want to believe.   My daughter lives in Stockholm and says older and vulnerable populations are told to isolate and they do. Overall they have a very high death rate there and are beginning to question their policies which have NOT saved their economy.  I don't have a crystal ball to decide when and how a person might die but I do know I will do what I can to make sure I do not contribute to anyone's death by selfish behavior.

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