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Showing Original Post only (View all)Does anybody else feel the stark realization [View all]
Last edited Wed Apr 1, 2020, 07:47 PM - Edit history (2)
that they could very well die form this?
I am in New York(staying in place) and I have come to grips that I will probably contract the virus. If or when I do, it could kill me.
It is a sobering experience.
Addendum: I live in Queens NY, where we have the famously overwhelmed Elmhurst Hospital. If I do get ill, I might have to decide whether to die alone in a hospital corridor, waiting for a ventilator than probably won't come. Or stay and die at home with my wife.
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That's the point so many people are ignoring. Heat isn't doing away with this virus.
BComplex
Mar 2020
#197
What if the virus does reinfect, but people upon reinfection remain asymptomatic?
Moostache
Mar 2020
#203
There's no signs of Italy bottoming out infection cases, we're doing the same thing they're doing
uponit7771
Mar 2020
#175
We've done that before and it killed a crap ton of babies, I don't think they're
uponit7771
Mar 2020
#187
Most people don't die, or even get very sick. I'm trying to look at it that way.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Mar 2020
#3
Depending on where you are, you probably can't get tested unless you are hospitalized
The Velveteen Ocelot
Mar 2020
#25
I was just telling my husband that by the time this is at least calmed down,
yellowdogintexas
Mar 2020
#213
That's great that you have that information - they're not breaking it down like that here
HotTeaBag
Mar 2020
#207
the fact that some are surviving or are deemed mild doesn't negate what is happening hcs overwhelmed
Meowmee
Mar 2020
#216
As of today, in Florida you can't get tested in blue counties (PBC, Broward, Dade)
Submariner
Mar 2020
#212
Of course there's control, they'll get fired if they deviate from the message.
HotTeaBag
Mar 2020
#192
I think that's the true metric people are worried about talking about.
AtheistCrusader
Mar 2020
#206
It would be great if there were enough tests to determine whether
The Velveteen Ocelot
Mar 2020
#198
We have only a tiny fraction of the vents we're going to need. If you have 3 patients and one vent
Hekate
Mar 2020
#99
Make it through the next couple months; therapies and outcomes will be better. And...
blitzen
Mar 2020
#6
yes ME I have Crohn's so I take chemo and also during the year found out I had Diabetes II
demtenjeep
Mar 2020
#7
Remember: Always think on the bright side. You might not die and have to live through another 16
LiberalArkie
Mar 2020
#15
Hope you're right, I use the figures from this site....don't trust figures provided by the Fed.
Dan
Mar 2020
#157
I am 72 with asthma, bad ticker. But my cardiologist and my respiratory doc say that I am
LiberalArkie
Mar 2020
#11
I would hate for that to be anyone's last thoughts but yes we need to escape out of the
lunasun
Mar 2020
#61
Sorry to hear that. You should just stop reading about it to lower your stress.
GulfCoast66
Mar 2020
#156
im 40. i have one lung. its not conjecture. I'm not worried. I've got to get as much done now as i
Pillow talk
Mar 2020
#35
I was awake into the wee hours wondering if I should write goodbye letters to my family members now.
Grasswire2
Mar 2020
#58
The total collapse of the economy is assured...this may not be the only trigger though...
Moostache
Mar 2020
#82
Yes, feel the reaslization. BUT, we gotta think positive. Stay in (except to get food & meds),
iluvtennis
Mar 2020
#69
Yes. I have felt that all along. I'm 72 & feel I have so much unfinished business in this life...
Hekate
Mar 2020
#85
Dear Ed, this is how you feel today. Tomorrow could feel altogether different
Thekaspervote
Mar 2020
#97
Get a prescription for inhalers. Many are available. Combivent is THE best for COPD.
ancianita
Mar 2020
#190
Cool. Happy for you, then. I didn't read that you said that, so thought I'd suggest it.
ancianita
Mar 2020
#210
While I share your attitude on not worrying, Italy and Spain are not 3rd world countries.
GulfCoast66
Mar 2020
#159
No one is doomed. But an extremely contagious disease with a 1% death rate is worthy of concern
GulfCoast66
Mar 2020
#163
There is very, very little more stark than having this become fatal for you or anyone you know.
BobTheSubgenius
Mar 2020
#127
Lets see, I've had pneumonia, have cancer, am old, my wife is old and during January and
marble falls
Mar 2020
#129
Never thought I would consider having had bladder cancer a blessing. Bit now it is.
GulfCoast66
Mar 2020
#162
Yes, with 2 kids as doctors, I know despite the precautions taken in the house
OhioChick
Mar 2020
#183
If I am infected with Covid 19 ... which I am doing everything to avoid...
littlemissmartypants
Mar 2020
#189
I feel this way every time I get on my bicycle or motorcycle and ride in Seattle traffic.
AtheistCrusader
Mar 2020
#205