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I live in Florida and we started reopening this week. Beaches and parks now open with distancing. This week restaurants could open up for indoor dining at 25%, as well as non-essential retail.

Going out today almost looked like a regular day, except for a few stores still closed.

I don't know how I feel about it, a lot of people are ready to be done with this. I understand people have to work and get back to life. I have to admit I've been able to work through this so far, we've been very busy and I'm in an essential field, but I don't work with the public.

After not being in a store in a month, I did something bad and went to a garage sale, they can open now too again. You had to wear a mask and distance. It sounds bad but after a month+ of no fun, I gave in to temptation and risked it.

On another note, don't want to create false hope and make people think the situation isn't still bad. But there was a report out of AZ this week that scientists have found a weakened strain of the virus. It suggests it may be starting to become something weaker. That's interesting, because that's what happened with SARS in 2003 before it fizzled out. Not sure if it means much, but there is a glimmer of hope this will not be with us much longer.
 
You know, a LOT of that is fear mongering... and a bit of fake news. Check the link below. Different media outlets reported the deaths of children in the UK, Portugal, and Belgium. THEY ARE ALL THE SAME CHILD. It's absurd! The media is grasping at straws to make the virus look as bad as they can. Yes, some young people die, and some old people live. There are always outliers in any statistics. The same can be said about the regular flu. There are some young people that die from it. So far as I can tell, in my humble opinion (not to mention having had it), it's not that bad. It's nasty, but it's not the black death. Just a nasty flu.

I've heard lots of people talking about having a nasty flu in January / February. It's entirely possible that was the first wave.

I'm not saying we shouldn't be cautious, though.

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I have been off mostly for close to two months but my side of work was slow already, then non essential businesses got shut down. I also got a bad cold for about a week just before we shut down and was on unemployment so they didn't need me and closed up. Couldn't smell anything and even got a low fever of just over 100 eventually. I got over whatever it was and feel fine now. Unemployment has been paying except for when they have questions and hold things till I answer the questions. You can't get through on the phone but fax works thank God.
I will say remember that thing called swine flu. I caught it in 2009 and other than when I got Meningitis as a young kid it was the sickest I've ever been. The day I finally felt slightly better I took my temperature and it was 102.9. I took Tylenol and went to the Doc and she found out I barely had a case of pneumonia that she killed with antibiotics before it took hold.
I say better to play it safe and stay home if you can and wear a mask when you have to go out.
Some are going to get the severe version and it's highly contagious so not worth taking the chance as even if you beat it or get the lesser version some start feeling better than get pneumonia and die or spend weeks trying to get better.
I've also had walking pneumonia when I was 18 and we were moving so I didn't tell anyone even when I started coughing blood and that took a week to get over at 18 and in great shape.
This is more serious than some of you think and after several severe illnesses in my life I wouldn't want anyone to go through anything like I've experienced as several times did almost kill me, or could have with a little less luck and treatment.
Everybody stay safe, we have been fine so far with the unemployment and the stimulus check and can pay everything fine so far.
 
I always have a occasional cough between what I do for a living and maybe the few prescriptions I take. I don't think it was much worse than normal.
My litter sister is now convinced she had it and will probably take a antibody test. I will take one eventually I think as well.
If I did get it it wasn't as bad as swine flu was by a long shot but not everyone gets the mild version. My lil sisters hubby was coughing a lot when I was helping them move into the new house they brought in Washington and he works for a hospital that had cases. Lil Sister was getting sick shortly after I did and my sister who lives here got sick after I did. Lucky our stubborn 80 year old mom has been fine so far even after a surprise visit just as I was getting better.
 
Keep in mind that this is regular flu season. The news dominating everything and making people paranoid about having Coronavirus is what is overwhelming the hospitals. People rush to the hospital just to find out they have the normal flu or they are hot from hyperventilating from being in a anxiety or stress panic.

The common flu attacks your immune system. Coronavirus attacks your respiratory system. There is no way to not know you have it because it happens quickly. People go from being fine to being on a ventilator in a hospital bed in the span of under 12 hours. It's very aggressive.

Keep hands and face clean, dose up on vitamin C from those airplane sickness tablets or with orange juice (or both) and keep in bed. Ramen noodles work fine at keeping stomach acid down and won't make you sicker as opposed to eating burgers or pizza or etc. Most people in good shape recover from the flu in less than a week.
 
Flu

I got the flu or a virus 3 times. I don't think before this I had it that many. Times in my life.
One of the times was a week long all similar symptoms of covid. My wife had it and went to ER twice.
If I were to guess it could've been covid then.
We had an earthquake in late March here. When Rudy Gobert touched everything shutting down the NBA and that was Saturday and the earthquake was a Tuesday I think. We had fake news 9.5 earthquakes. My wife called saying goodbye. I was in shock. It's just been chaotic I don't watch the news.
I say get outdoors go on a hike, biking or even fishing. You need to get out get some sun and enjoy life. This constant stigmata it seems like it's impending doom everywhere all the time. I worry some but I now know tax time I'm running another water line and I'm getting a bidet. I'll be darn if those toilet paper hoarders are going to affect my hygiene.
Les
 
Well I got the flu shot early this year but who knows. I was very stuffed up and finally did Tylenol and Ibuprofen and 12 hour decongestant nose spray because what we had wasn't cutting it and I was hearing some rattles as I was breathing. It lasted almost exactly a week and I didn't get a fever till like the third day. I wasn't going to go to the emergency room unless it seemed really serious.
I was so sick with the swine flu way back I stayed in bed the first bad day after I caught it and felt slightly better the next day but still nasty. I didn't get a flu shot that year and it probably wouldn't have helped anyway.
Yesterday I replaced the front brakes on sisters 99 300m once I was feeling better because I had a rough morning. Nothing to do with the covid or flu, just not right but felt better later.
Today I eventually wandered out and mowed the front and back yard, then cleaned my security cameras and cleared out the down spouts on my gutters.
Been mostly laying around and doing whatever if I feel like it and trying not to overeat.
I have also had kidney stones off and on for over 20 years so I know a bit about pain and when it's time to give up and go in. Most times I tough it out and wait for them to pass and I have changed my diet and take B6 and magnesium which seems to change the chemistry in your kidneys so the calcium doesn't bond to the Oxalate pellet that starts the typical calcium stone most people get.
 
Whether you have corno or not, having a constant cough is a sign there are some issues needing addressing.  


 


Having a constant flow of kidney stones for 20 years?   Uggh.  There must be something with your nutrition.  Have you seen a nutritionist?


 


You are a stroke away from death.  With a compromised immune system (bad health) you are an excellent case for infection and death. 


That's how my Mother just died.  In her sleep.
 
Well the rocks have subsided pretty much with the vitamin and mineral thing and I get a checkup every year and no major issues. The ones I have are under control with the prescriptions. Plus one of them is known to cause a dry cough for some people that take it.
 
Has anyone found it strange that...

Nobody has gotten Coronavirus at Lowe’s, Walmart, or Home Depot? It would be a national story because you know some whack job would attempt to litigate against one of these companies if they even remotely suspected that they became infected in one of those locations.

I’m also a little shocked at the original narrative that it increases “exponentially” day after day. None of that has happened yet, either. Folks, we were victims of a deadly (to the elderly with underlying causes) virus and we were even more victimized at the terrorism that we created in our minds over this virus. I currently know of one person who recovered, oh and a 102 year old at my friend’s nursing home that has recovered.

Unreasonable fear sucks, doesn’t it?!
 
Yeah, this is a sick joke at this point. Old people in nursing homes dying of the flu is nothing new. And of course with any disease there are a minority of outliers... like some young folks. But when doctors are literally being paid to write 'corona virus' as cause of death on any death certificate they please... you should know that this is a load of BS.
 
The problem with this, is while if you don't have some unknown underlying condition, while you'd probably be ok going out, you could still get it and never have any symptoms. So when you come in contact with those who are older or otherwise could be at risk, you could give it to them that could have bad results.

Or even giving it to those who could also serve as carriers and then you've got a wide network of spreading the crap.

I'm skeptical of whether a vaccine will work or not. They're trying all they can to get one and already be ready to distribute and manufacture. In fact, some are already being produced in hopes they end up working.

We really need to get back to life and get things moving again for everyone. I think the best way to do that is to stop this virus before it can take over the immune system, but we don't have a way to do that yet.

Here in FL we've largely started to reopen. The stay at home orders were lifted this month. Restaurants and non-essential stores at 25% capacity, and of course essential businesses never closed down.

I think they are moving too fast though. This week salons and barbers could reopen with one patron at a time. In a few days gyms and bars can reopen. How can you socially distance at a gym where people are touching all the weights and equipment. And who is going to wear a mask while working out? How do you run or breathe well in a mask?

Even all the thrift stores in my area have reopened. Goodwill has plastic shields at the checkouts, masks, gloves, one way aisles, etc. Habitat is the only thrift I know that hasn't reopened but they are probably going to in a few weeks they said.
 
It's a risky business going out in public and being around a bunch of filthy disgusting people, touching things that they've touched, breathing in air they've breathed. Not knowing what kind of germs you're bringing home, or spreading to other people.

But that's no different from any other time before covid-19.
 

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