That Hick! He certainly has a way with words. We were discussing the fear pr0n of the coronavirus all over TV. Not making light of the situation. I'm just a bit puzzled on how people in a nursing home caught it. Surely they were not vacationing in China, or taking cruises.
"With what I've heard about the test kits, how can they be sure that coronavirus was the cause of these deaths? It's not like those people were out mingling in casinos. Was that facility a Grand Central Station of visitors? I just can't make sense of it."
"You and your conspiracies! But I will say, my friend from high school, the one who's in a nursing home in Pennsylvania...she's been at death's bed for over six months now. With her broken leg, and pneumonia, and her overall health. If somebody said she died of coronavirus, I'd say there were a lot of other problems that were killing her already."
"Wait. She can be 'at death's door'. Or she can be 'on her death bed'. But don't say she's 'at death's bed'! That makes her sound like a floozy looking for some action!"
"Heh, heh. You know what I mean. Death's DOOR, then. She hasn't been well for a while, so I wouldn't be surprised if something happened to her."
That Hick. He's like my 2nd best old ex-teaching buddy, Karen, who always proclaimed she knew me like a book, and could read me like the back of her hand.
People who are frail, elderly and bad health are susceptible, as well as infants. Scary, scary.
ReplyDeleteI didn't see anything about infants, but children do not seem to be adversely affected.
Deletehttps://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/we-simply-do-not-understand-why-coronavirus-sparing-children-puzzling-n1147951
Often the cause of death is cessation of breathing.
ReplyDeleteI think one issue with this new virus is some people are infected but are not so sick they can't run around and spread it among friends. A visit to the nursing home would find lots of people with weak immune systems.
Just saying, the months I spent visiting a nursing home several times a week, there was not a crowd beating a path to see their loved ones. Many residents stay in their rooms and don't mingle, don't have visitors.
DeleteThe odds of an infected person spreading it to so many in one residential care facility is what I question. It's not like they're roaming through a store, touching merchandise, or coughing in a crowded gym watching basketball.
I'm puzzled by how a nursing home got infected too, those old people mostly confined to beds and wheelchairs don't go gaddying about in casinos or flying off around the world all willy-nilly.
ReplyDeleteYes. And if the "carrier" was a visitor or worker, surely they would also have infected other old people in their daily travels, and there would be other "victims" not residing in the nursing home.
DeletePerhaps a visiting infected-but-didn't-know-it careworker, coughed near an air-conditioning unit, I've heard it is an airborne virus.
ReplyDeleteSurely they would also have driven/ridden in a car with other people, passed it to them, who would then infect those they were in contact with...the whole scenario seems illogical to me.
DeleteThe entire cruise ship population didn't come down with it, even though they were all trapped together for quite some time with infected travelers. I'm pretty sure there would have been old sick people on a cruise ship!
My daughters OB said he would not be surprised if this virus was an old one people already had in the states they just hadn't been tested. Yes compromised people are knocking. But don't worry about Hick or Hub's they are only compromised in the brain area....
ReplyDeleteWe are not sitting behind stockpiles of toilet paper and hand sanitizer, shaking at the though of infection. Compromised Hick had a wild idea to head to a casino yesterday (though I think the pawn shop near it was his main destination, to buy more Storage Unit Store wares). The casino was absolutely crawling with old people. First of the month, business as usual around here.
DeleteThat is the problem with something highly contagious, you don't necessarily have to go out to be exposed. One of the staff could easily bring it to work after they pick it up from their children or friends. At least, that is what I read on the back of your hand.
ReplyDeleteThe back of my hand is a font of information!
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