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Originally Posted by thefish1337
The risk to old folks is incredibly high and I'd chance a guess that many orchid societies are heavily weighted towards older members. It's also selfish to think that just because the risk to *you* isn't high that spreading a highly infectious disease is no big deal. Our healthcare system is not equipped to deal if hospitalizations increase and people avoiding getting sick will go a long way to preventing problems.
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As an RN who worked for 8 yrs one on one with HIV as a community health nurse, and always as soon as it was identified it was in the 1970's in Los Angeles. I had the responsibility of working with those close to death. I took protection, gloves, and avoided needles, and was never very afraid until I stuck my finger with a clean needle, going into an IV port. My vision was changing and as soon as I was finished a few weeks later with this patient, I decided this was my last.
yesterday morning NM was one of a dozen states that had no reported Covid 19 cases. Tonight we have 5 and two of them have no know contact to high risk others, no travel to Egypt, no flying from NY, but as of tonight community spread, they range in age from 40s to 70s.
The legal clinic I coordinate one a month at the District Court where I usually interview from 9 to 2 pm, was cancelled by the Supreme Court Justice for all clinics in the near future/ Albuquerque Schools are canceled, all gathering as of this morning that was greater than 100 people are canceled, and many more.
Today I bought 3 weeks for Groceries at a major store, They put things on two to one sales, limited bleach and
waters, to 4 and the shelves were starting to become bare of those.
I have made the decision in the next month to only see my retinal doctor and will drive myself, sit in my car until safe to drive back home, and do genealogy, watch the news and watch my orchids grow.
this is no joke or just a panic. Look up the 1918 Spanish flu and see how many died from no treatment in the USA and world wide. My grandmother was a nurse from 1898 until the 1930s and told me about riding the buggy to take care of the ill with the home doctor in Missouri she worked with and three of her 9 children died.
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The horrific scale of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic was untreatable. Like 2020, it was untreatable. The world had no air or car travel,
That virus infected 500 million people worldwide and killed an estimated 20 million to 50 million victims— that's more than all of the soldiers and civilians killed during World War I combined.
Why the Second Wave of the 1918 Spanish Flu Was So …
fyi look it up
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