Simple move of “less sitting, more sleeping” improves mood during pandemic

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-05-spent-mood.html

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Making these subtle changes was associated with better current mood, but light physical activity also provided benefits for up to a year, the study found. While the research was conducted prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Meyer says the results are timely given the growing mental health concerns during this time of physical distancing.

"With everything happening right now, this is one thing we can control or manage and it has the potential to help our mental health," Meyer said.

As states start to ease stay-at-home restrictions, Meyer is looking at changes in physical activity and sitting time with potentially interesting results for those who regularly worked out prior to the pandemic. Preliminary data from a separate study show a 32% reduction in physical activity.
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“Light activity” certainly means working on automobiles

Now the governor of NJ (Murphy) says he is not going to fully open up the State until there is a Vaccine.
Glad I don't live, or own a business in NJ... (I thought PA was bad enough)

Can you quantify that?

The point that is missed is that governors have had to rise to the challenge because there has been no leadership at the top.

In a normal world, our leaders would be working with governors to keep the public safe, but that's not what's going on.

one governor made an executive decision to purchase virus tests from a foreign country because he wasn't getting what he needed from DC,

When the state was seeing infections at nursing homes presumably caused by staff, DeSantis deployed what he calls “an expeditionary testing force,” 50 National Guard teams of four guardsmen together with Department of Health personnel that tested staff and residents.

When the dust all settles from this the governors who killed people by sending the infections into nursing homes will be the ones who get a lot of blame. It is pretty clear that a few states messed up on the nursing home situation and a lot of older people who had no option of getting out of the way were killed off in the process.

FL did seem to make some good choices on nursing homes. They figured out early that they needed to put some protective measures in place. Other places like NY made exactly the wrong decision. They forced people who had the virus into nursing homes where they infected other people who couldn't protect themselves.

What Florida did differently to protect its 350,000 citizens in 4,000 nursing homes:

https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/05/coronavirus-crisis-ron-desantis-florida-covid-19-strategy/

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First, Protect the Nursing Homes

Here, Florida is indeed quite vulnerable. The state has roughly 350,000 residents and staff at more than 4,000 long-term-care facilities.

The state took precautions with its seniors generally. “We advised, before there was even mitigation,” DeSantis points out, “if you’re 65 and older, stay home as much as possible and avoid crowds. And that was just something that made sense.” The state talked to senior communities like The Villages about what they were doing to mitigate risk, and they took common-sense measures, such as stopping big indoor gatherings.

But the nursing homes represented a different level of risk. “It was clear to me,” says Mary Mayhew, “that there were much higher standards related to infection control being outlined by the federal CDC that well exceeded what our nursing homes traditionally have been expected to adhere to. So we never had false expectations.”

Inspectors and assessment teams visited nursing homes. The state homed in on facilities where, Mayhew says, “we had historically cited around infection control. We used that to prioritize our visits to those facilities, understanding that the guidance from CDC was changing frequently. So our initial focus was to be an effective resource education to provide guidance to these facilities to make sure they understood how to request personal protective equipment from the state.”

Florida, DeSantis notes, “required all staff and any worker that entered to be screened for COVID illness, temperature checks. Anybody that’s symptomatic would just simply not be allowed to go in.” And it required staff to wear PPE. “We put our money where our mouth is,” he continues. “We recognized that a lot of these facilities were just not prepared to deal with something like this. So we ended up sending a total of 10 million masks just to our long-term-care facilities, a million gloves, half a million face shields.”

Florida fortified the hospitals with PPE, too, but DeSantis realized that it wouldn’t do the hospitals any good if infection in the nursing homes ran out of control : “If I can send PPE to the nursing homes, and they can prevent an outbreak there, that’s going to do more to lower the burden on hospitals than me just sending them another 500,000 N95 masks.”

It’s impossible to overstate the importance of this insight, and how much it drove Florida’s approach, counter to the policies of New York and other states. (“I don’t want to cast aspersions on others, but it is incredible to me, it’s shocking,” says the Florida health official, “that Governor Cuomo [and others] are able to kind of just avoid real questions about their policies early on to actually send individuals into the nursing home, which is completely counter to the real data.”)

Mary Mayhew had daily calls with the hospitals, with people involved in discharge planning on the line. “Every day on these calls,” she says, “I would hear the same comments and questions around, we need to get these individuals returned back to the nursing home. We drew a hard line early on.
I said repeatedly to the hospital, to the CEOs, to the discharge planners, to the chief medical officers,
‘I understand that for 20 years it’s been ingrained, especially through Medicare reimbursement policy, to get individuals in and out. That is not our focus today. I’m not going to send anyone back to a nursing home who has the slightest risk of being positive.’”

“What we said constantly is let’s not have two cases become 20 or five become 50,” she continues. “If you don’t manage this individual as you return them back, you will have far more being transferred back to the hospital.” Early on, when tests had a slow turnaround, there was a lot of pressure to give way, but Mayhew was unmovable on the question.

At the other end of the equation at the nursing homes, the state made it clear, according to Mayhew, “if you are unable to adhere to these infection-control standards, if you are unable to safely isolate and dedicate staff to an isolation wing or unit, you need to transfer that individual to a hospital.”

As the health officials put it, succinctly, “We wanted people out, not in.”

When the state was seeing infections at nursing homes presumably caused by staff, DeSantis deployed what he calls “an expeditionary testing force,” 50 National Guard teams of four guardsmen together with Department of Health personnel that tested staff and residents.

Most facilities haven’t had confirmed cases. “But the ones that have,” he says, “the majority of them have had between one and five infections. So the infections are identified, but then, you’re isolating either the individual or the small cluster before you have an outbreak.”

The state has just deployed a mobile testing lab in an RV that has a rapid test with results in an hour or two. It goes to a community and the staff goes to different long-term-care facilities. “If you’re talking about an asymptomatic carrier, if you can identify that person instead of waiting 48 hours for lab results to come back, I mean, that could be the difference between saving a lot of infections,” according to DeSantis.

The state has also started a sentinel surveillance program for long-term-care facilities, routinely taking representative samples to monitor for flare-ups.

Finally, it has established several COVID-19-only nursing homes, with a couple more in the pipeline. The idea, again, is to get COVID-19-positive residents out of the regular nursing homes to the maximum extent possible.

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Do you comprehend the destruction being done to this country every day that it remains closed? Debt, unemployment, businesses forced to close, people being spoon fed doomsday propaganda? And the relatively small number of deaths compared to what we were told could/would happen and prepared for? If not then there's no sense in even debating it. I hate to be cold and matter-of-fact about people's families and their loses, but how many less people dying would have it have taken for you to say, "Nope, don't need to destroy the country"s economy and the lives of healthy people for that"? Can you quantify that?



Not even close. Air travel from China was closed late in January - while China was allowing air travel from Wuhan to go internationally but not to other cities in China - and people screamed and yelled 'racism" and xenophobia" at the time. They ain't yelling that now, are they.

The major decisions were left to the states - Idaho knows what it needs better than anyone, same with Florida, NY, etc. Governors know - or should have known - what resources they have, what they need, etc. The federal government can't be everyone's Mommy. There are things better done at that level.

It's not the Presidents fault that so many Governors are agenda driven drones who are all in on fixing the upcoming election, even if it means trashing the nation to get it done.



Driving a hospital ship up to NY harbor, having the CoE build makeshift hospitals, rounding up equipment after they auctioned their's off, and having it all under-utilized is not working with Cuomo to help keep the public safe? On what planet? The only Governors I see trashing Mr.T are the one's who want to be Creepy Joe's running mate or be in his cabinet.



I wasn't aware that Mr.T was running the CDC. I thought that was being taken care of by the "experts". What I have seen is government red tape and dawdling cut through and a teaming up with private businesses to respond, get tests, equipment, and $#!^ done at a level and speed not seen since WWII. That's what has happened and I don't care if CNN and MSLSD feel the need to lie about it, or not.



You forget, the Chinese lied and covered this up for months, allowed sick people to fly all over the world and when spit hit the fan, this virus had a real head start, We started with knowing very little about what we were dealing with just a few months ago. I think we've made fantastic, historic strides, getting things done in weeks the used to take years. Sorry if your friends at MSN are lying to you. Some of us are paying attention.

Hospitalized nursing home residents who were now stable enough to be allowed to return to a nursing home should have been tested for Covid 19. The directive from the Dept of health in NY at the time prohibited that. Obviously a mistake. The notion that New Yorkers caused Floridians to become infected is with out merit. NYC airports take in people from all over the world. NYC in it of itself is a major hub of the entire nation. People come to the city and continue onto destinations all over the country including Florida. One of the biggest reasons NYC had such a major breakout of the virus is its huge mass transit system.
I would suggest that the finger pointing we see all too often would serve us better if it was stoped.
However what we see now is a failure to accept responsibility and move on to solve a crisis instead of shifting blame and we see it at the highest levels of government.
One might stop being spoon fed by various news media outlets and actually instead read and research rather then play the political agenda BS card. I can get enough of that on a car forum over in that [censored] house called the FBBO. That being the major reason I enjoy this forum so much that what goes on there isn't allowed here, or so I hoped
Apologies to moderators for language.

"With out merit" you say, Why then are New Yorkers still banned from hotels in Florida?

BTW, how many New Yorkers headed to Montana at the start of this pandemic?

I'm not IMO pointing fingers, just mentioning that travel restrictions earlier from hot spots would have likely slowed the progression. You can decide who was responsible for that dereliction of duty or lack of understanding how COVID spreads nationally timely.

BTW, I mentioned very early on in this(?) thread how neighborhoods were full of visiting family's with cars, in the now known counties in Fla with, highest COVID cases, having often New York and New Jersey Plates.

Your comment on lack of merit, lacks merit IMO.

A coworker got it. He was a healthy 40YO guy who ran marathons and played hockey. It took him 5 weeks to get over it and he lost ~25% lung capacity. He can barely walk 50 yards now without getting winded.

If anyone thinks we're overcounting covid deaths, please give this a read.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/coronavirus-deaths/


Also, from someone on a different forum:


Sure, most of the deaths may be old people in nursing homes, but it looks like there will be a lot of people that survive but have lasting health issues that we barely know about right now.

I sure don't want to get it.

Why blame New Yorkers, Floridians or anyone else for doing what people normally do? I'm tired of this crap too.

Mr. President has done a fantastic job