Summit just lowered their graduated discount points I suspect because of a downturn of sales caused by COVID?

Well, my tin foil hat still fits with my face mask on.

Keep us updated on your condition please. Wish you and your family the best.

100%. Best to you both, and GJ, best to you that you avoid this completely.

So I went to my doctor today to pick up my letter for my employer and everyone in the office was wearing a mask. Hmm. Coincidence? I don't think so.

I would have demanded the doctor Fax or Email that letter. My doctor wants me to come in and talk about my health issues. I said heII no.

I asked for him to renew my Staten prescription. That is what triggered the "I must see you first and talk"

Thank you for the well wishes. Over all, in the 48+ hours from the onsit we are doing much better. Not over it but 40-50% better. Lots of herbal teas, fresh soups and vegies. Humidifier running hard. Nasal and chest decongestants. Melatonin for sleep. Lavender and Eucalyptus scents for peace of mind.

"Kumbaya my lord, kumbaya" Come on everone, sing it....

My nephew that works at Becton Dickinson just texted me that their 2 hour COVID-19 test is out now that will run on existing BD Flu test machines, and their 20 minute test that runs on hand held machines will be out soon.

I asked them to email it but their internet wasn't working, said they have been in touch with their provider about it but still not working. There was only one person in the waiting room and I wore gloves.

OK, you've been told time and again to wash your hands. But do you really know the down and dirty of why? What happens when you sing "Happy Birthday" twice while scrubbing?

If you can spend 6 minuets, PLEASE watch this Y-Tube Vid. Share it to friends. These 6 minuets may save someones life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRqJaZO5yW8

that life may be your own!
Our son in law was an airforce medic and says most hand washing instruction fails to show correct washing of the heel of the hand. This vid quickly shows it. Make sure to wash from the "Karate Chop" area and up to at least the "knob" of the wrist. Almost everyone fails to wash that portion of hands/forearms.

It’s starting to hit close to home for me. My mom called yesterday and told me a patient in another wing of the assisted living place she lives in just got diagnosed.
And this morning a coworker whose cubicle is about 8’ feet from mine stood up shortly after I got in, and said he had to leave because his fiancé just called and said someone she works with just got diagnosed, so he left to self quarantine.
Meantime they are letting everyone work from home but I’m trapped because I’m one of the few who hadn’t been upgraded to a laptop yet. Ironically a coworkers last day was a week ago Friday and his laptop is still there. However, the bureaucracy of the IT department means you can’t just assign it to someone else. They are supposed to pick it up and then assign to another employee.
I’ll pretty much have the place to myself tomorrow so that is social distancing I guess....

In the "6 Degrees of Separation" rules that within 6 degrees you know someone that I know....

This Virus will hit someone you know. It may be tomorrow or 6 weeks down the road.

But if we can make the care-free ("I dont give a shiet" or "Its a Hoax") folks understand that it may not be them that get hit but someone dear to them because of their uncaring practices then half this battle is won.
Really, if you isolate your self to a mountain top and never go shopping or visiting you most likely will never get this virus.

My mom was recovering at home from Non-Hopkins Lymphoma treatments. She was doing fine until my stupid homeless drugie younger sister went in to visit her. My mom got SAR's and pneumonia killed her. But my sister is fine and does not care that she was most likely the cause.

https://www.sciencealert.com/who-recommends-to-avoid-taking-ibuprofen-for-covid-19-symptoms

Best to avoid NSAID drugs or any drug that has the side effect that it increases ACE2 receptors on human cells.

In my reading I am getting conflicting reports as to whether
Tamiflu ( generic Oseltamivir )
is also helpful for this different virus family of Wuhan coronavirus/COVID-19 or not.

Same for the newer Japanese invented, one dose pill Xofluza

https://www.scientificamerican.com/...flu-drug-that-is-taken-in-a-single-dose/

The Chinese seem to believe that at least some of the herbs of “traditional chinese medicine” are helpful, but I have not seen specific named herbs.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/coronavirus-covid19-repurposed-treatments-drugs

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/hea...-aged-100-recovers-disease-a4383741.html

Since the Corona viruses are basically common cold type viruses I wonder if some people may have an increased resistance to it. Some people don't get colds, I am one of them.

I reside in a rural small 1 traffic light town. I don't share many views but a lot of the values of the locals. I have become good friends with a similar age new owner of a after 8? years a very successful family owned pizza restaurant. I might be their best customer over the years. I spend a lot of time off hours chatting with the owner. He has over 25 employees, and they are for the most a younger group, but hard workers, and seem to be of good stock. The owner and I have nearly opposite views, but we also have similar values, listen to and respect each other, and socialize outside the restaurant. I also have been a business owner my entire life and understand the ups and downs of running your own business.

I decided since 3/1? I would limit my exposure to others as best I could during this COVID event. I have not been to his restaurant since, but talk on the phone. The restaurant has been steadily setting new sales records since opening, even as two weekends ago. I suspect in this small town, and the business they do, within 48 hrs everyone in town has only one degree of separation from someone who has eaten at the Pizza parlor. His client base has a heavy snow bird group to all the way to grade school baseball teams. He really is hands on and does a great job.

5? Days ago on the phone I asked him (suggestively) if he had considered going to take out/delivery only. He said had thought about it.

Yesterday around 4:30pm I again spoke to him and used all my best efforts to convince him to consider that he should be in front of this instead of waiting for the gov to direct, which yesterday Florida directed restaurants to limit to 50% capacity, which I commented means, they really just lack the political gonads to do the right thing. One point I shared was, he did not want to be Ms O Leary's cow in our small town, with effectively no real heath care within 30? miles.

Ironically, he is in the highest risk group of the entire staff.

I'm crossing my fingers today he will see light.

You gotta see this. MIT molecular and systems biologist really lays it out. Don’t miss. Spread it far and wide.
https://techstartups.com/2020/03/14/real-truth-coronavirus-according-mit-molecular-biologist/


Yes, to say this is overblown is the understatement of the century. Every winter 20,000 to 69,000 Americans die from the flu which almost always comes from China and we never heard a word of panic from the news media. Remember the term Super-Bug? Those were for the year the flu virus was especially virulent! We are watching the economy of the United States being destroyed day by day for a super-bug that in a months time killed maybe 100 Americans when over 18,000 have died from the common flu.

you spied a cluster of morons
as a mask doesn't do squat to stop spreading it
unless you already have it..

A load of BS. FP.

what? the mask or the fraud pandemic??

Speaking of morons then, only a moron thinks a "95" mask with a valve, prevents the spreading of COVOID to any degree if the wearer is infected.