COVID-19 just got real

[BOAT]

Wow, it's a lot easier to type when i take off that silly mask covering my eyes!

[NiceAft]

Oh good. Now maybe we can see you.

[Jimmyt]

Oh good. Now maybe we can see you.

[Bill at BOATS 4 SAIL]

My wife and I got married on 5/21/77.so on our toast before dinner on the 21st of every month, I try to remember to say "Happy Anniversary". Or, if I think of it, as I did last night "Happy Anniversary Eve", on the 20th. We almost always toast something pleasant. If there's really nothing to toast I say "chin-chin Ho Chi Minh", or just "chin chin" which the response was "you too madame Nhu", as we said in Nam.
Now, if somebody's toast is "Cheers", my response is "WKRP in Cincinnati", both of which were TV sitcoms in the 70's.

[Catigale]

We are planing a trip to Annapolis from Philly. Our plans are for this to happen in mid June. The elephant in the room is the Corona Virus.

As has been pointed out, contact with a variety land obligations, necessities, etc.will create situations where we will be risking contact with the virus. That is what we have to weigh. At this time, it is iffy, but we are attentive to the worsening situation.

This excerpt is the latest I have read in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

“ Here’s the rub, according to experts: Whether emergency measures are stringent (mitigation) or ultra-stringent (suppression), COVID-19 will come roaring back when people resume their normal routines because they still have no immune defense against the new virus.

An influential report published this week by Imperial College London concluded that “the main challenge” of suppression is that it needs “to be maintained — at least intermittently — for as long as the virus is circulating in the human population, or until a vaccine becomes available” in 12 to 18 months.

The Penn scientists, meanwhile, predict that staying home could reduce spread of the virus to near zero by late May. But if the precautions are eased, two to four more rounds of mitigation will be needed until a vaccine is developed and administered to at least 145 million people in the United States.

“If we are lucky, and an effective vaccine is quickly developed, this could happen by the fall of 2021,” they wrote.”

These are good comments.

The thing with this virus is that there are two "good" times to get it: first is before everyone else so that if you need intensive care you can get it, and second is after a viable medicine or vaccine is found. If you get it at the same time as everyone else (in the wave that is inevitable without social distancing) and with no viable or available medicine, you are likely screwed if you have any pre-existing medical problems or are in your senior years.

The current social-distancing campaign is not designed to solve the virus. It is designed to allow time for the healthcare system to prepare and for researchers to develop treatment and/or vaccine. It is unrealistic to think that an effective vaccine is coming before a wave of patients overwhelm healthcare systems worldwide, but if we are lucky an effective treatment may be discovered. It doesn't look like hydrocholoroquine will be the magic pill, but Remdesivir and other anti-virals are giving some hope.

So if you can stay home and put off that trip, I would highly recommend it. Depending on where you live, if you get the virus now (and without social distancing you will) you are in between time 1 when the healthcare system can accommodate you and time 2 when there is an effective and available treatment. Forget the vaccine, that comes way later.

Almost everyone is going to get this virus. But if you can delay WHEN you get it to the point where the healthcare system has ramped up and has a supply of an effective medicine, then it won't be so bad. You don't want it now. Stay home.

This is the best summary post on Covid and is still completely valid.

We’ve been living with this in our house since December when the Admiral pushed the red button and told our employer serving 1,000,000 people to get their pandemic plans out and geared up. The Governor called her out personally for her service.

She has been doing 0530-2300 since, but it eased last week.

Where is my loss of consortium check?

[Catigale]

They found 3 more corona viruses in Oceanside over the weekend so they still will not let us go to the boat ramp. I wish there were no more of them. When are they going to go away?

That’s not A problem. I’m impressed they can find them, they are pretty small

Ta- dump, crash!

[BOAT]

They send us a little map every day to tell us where the littler buggers are. There are 53 corona virus in Oceanside and yesterday there were 52. They said when the number stops growing they will let us use the boat ramp. They said they are not closing the boat ramp because of Oceanside residents - they said they are closing the ramp to prevent people from Riverside and Orange County and Los Angeles from coming to the ramp and bringing the bugs with them.

When will the corona virus bugs go away?