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In reply to the discussion: I walked out of a convenience store last night (UPDATED) [View all]progree
(10,907 posts)42. What if one isn't afraid for oneself but rather for someone of fragile health that they take care
of or just live with?
For example my sister's husband has serious COPD (and no, he never smoked), and is elderly, and she worries a lot about infecting him.
What if the fearless person doesn't want to put someone else that they might infect through this?
https://www.propublica.org/article/a-medical-worker-describes--terrifying-lung-failure-from-covid19-even-in-his-young-patients
... The ventilator should have been doing the work of breathing but he was still gasping for air, moving his mouth, moving his body, struggling. We had to restrain him. With all the coronavirus patients, weve had to restrain them. They really hyperventilate, really struggle to breathe. When youre in that mindstate of struggling to breathe and delirious with fever, you dont know when someone is trying to help you, so youll try to rip the breathing tube out because you feel it is choking you, but you are drowning.
Sorry about this, I don't like posting it. But if a few more people are extra careful as a result of reading this, and if consequently it spares one or two people from ending up in this situation, then I will be very gratified. I know it's affected how much risk I'm willing to take. Not just for myself, but for others I might infect.
Too many people assume they will be pretty much knocked out with drugs, so won't be that bad, ... may not be a good assumption.
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RussellCattle
May 2020
#6
Tell me again how wearing a mask is fear but carrying a gun is protection
Bernardo de La Paz
May 2020
#19
I stole it before you :) Oh, there will always be dead-ender flu-bro trumpanzees. . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
May 2020
#32
I will wear mine straight thru the fall. My state is not going to allow the real numbers of death
Oppaloopa
May 2020
#47
A small market near my home, the owner doesn't wear a mask or gloves. He wore a mask one day
C Moon
May 2020
#28
What if one isn't afraid for oneself but rather for someone of fragile health that they take care
progree
May 2020
#42