The "Fuck you Covid19" thread

[gracie920101]

Gracie, baby wipes, towelettes, etc. are reusable. They can go through the wash unscathed (this is why they are so good at stopping up sewers). Our mothers washed diapers...this won't hurt us!

The only wipes box in my cabinet is preparation H.

Never had need for any other kind.

 

[cookiecat]

From friend, who is a social scientist and has spent her life specializing in health, place, and systems. She lives & works in DC.

"Isolation log day 10: we have the fastest spread rate among all nations. Within a few weeks, we have caught up with Iran and Germany. We are at 50% of the confirmed # of cases in Italy and 25% of China. If my math is correct, we now have a higher per capita rate than China and our medical system is woefully unprepared. I don't care where you stand politically, but if we are to ever claim the greatness of America, then channel that national pride into keeping this crisis from growing. If we can't act collectively through our individual actions, for the greater good of our nation and humanity, then maybe the values that made America great died before this threat even arrived. I ask each of you, please do your part to carry us to the deceleration stage. To put our growth rate in perspective, we were at 5k on 3/17. We are now ranked #4 and might surpass Spain by the end of the day.”

Very very scary.

 

[Tallcajun]

I pray for the safety of all and especially those here.
Y’all are good peeps.

 

[minette05]

I for one am feeling inordinately stressed by this thing due to the fact that I am a front line health care worker at the epicenter of the US Covid19 outbreak. My hours have more than doubled, I am being exposed to a virus for which none of us has any immunity, and the rest of my life feels upside down and topsy turvey.

All of us are feeling this in one way or another. I am so worried about people who have lost their jobs, or whose businesses are unable to operate and all of the parents suddenly having kids home full time without much school structure or any place to take them or send them. I am worried about our most vulnerable, those in institutions, the elderly and people who live alone and are further isolated by this virus.

I look around at my coworkers and *virtually* at my family and friends and worry who among them will succumb to this disease. Which of my beloved people will I never be able to hug again, never see in person again, never break bread with again.

I need a place to put all this. Maybe you do too. Post about your stress, the silver linings you are finding, your fears, you or your loved ones who are struggling with this virus.

Already the first MD in my state has died of Covid19 - a beloved person and a pioneer in the field of vascular biology and a longtime professor of pathology
I know he will not be the last of my professional colleagues who will die of this.

My employer is both seeking donations of additional N95 masks and looking into options to sew our own masks either to help extend the life of our N95 masks or to use as a substitute for less occlusive surgical masks. And we are not alone... the major hospital system in my state has a call for people to sew cotton surgical masks to donate to their multi billion dollar business in order to protect their doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists.

I don't know whether to scream or get depressed. Whether I should just get busy sewing or hide under my covers.

this is fucking real folks.

if you are not critical infrastructure please please please - #staythefuckhome

Fuck you Covid19 ​

I share all of your sentiments. I am in healthcare too. A friend sent me this for instructions in how to sew surgical masks


https://www.regmedctr.org/services/...rts/covid-19-(novel-coronavirus)/default.aspx

In peace and health....

 

[wallflower6]

Thinking about all of you. I hope we make it through this!!

I'm pretty much alone during all of this. My state isn't on lock down yet but I won't be surprised if it did. Remember to check on your friends and loved ones.

 

[cascadiabound]

I share all of your sentiments. I am in healthcare too. A friend sent me this for instructions in how to sew surgical masks


https://www.regmedctr.org/services/...rts/covid-19-(novel-coronavirus)/default.aspx

In peace and health....

Stay safe.

Link broken.

*edit* - it is working now.

 

[Apple_of_Eden]

SUPERHERO's

Cassie, I've been thinking of you since the virus hit your area. I know you are in the midst of things and each day is a challenge beyond compare. It's a scary time for all of us, especially those in healthcare and confronting this virus, literally face to face. I'm sending so many prayers and positive thoughts to all of my friends here and in my day to day life.

I've been keeping in close touch with several of my closest friends, all in healthcare. Many of my nurse and physician colleagues are doing their best to keep up their spirits and to remain calm and positive about what they face and what they are being called on to do, but it's getting more difficult each day. They aren't in the thick of things yet (based on the number of cases seen so far in our locations), and already they are dealing with shortages of protective equipment. Two of my best friends, both nurses, went out today to get materials to make masks. I never thought I'd see the day when something like that had to occur. To top it off, they are not at a small, local or rural hospital...they are in a major city, in a major teaching, medical center!

They are frightened, and I am frightened for them. Two of our doc's have tested positive. Several nurses are on quarantine due to suspected contact with an undiagnosed positive Covid 19 patient. They are preparing for the worst and praying for the best.

I think Moochi's poem says volumes and reflects exactly how they are feeling.

SelfIsolate StaySafe Love

~A

 

[Bramblethorn]

My state is shutting down schools on Tuesday, and instituting lockdown on all non-essential travel.

 

[twister947]

Stay safe.

Link broken.

Works okay for me.

 

[Goldenfool87]

Hello everyone, my name is Chris, weird thread to introduce myself but I felt compelled to reply here and none of you know me so... there it is.
Reality is so weird right now. I work as in the hospital. Our team is split into a "dirty" and "clean" team (poor translation, it sounds less plastic in my native language) to make sure there is staff to provide regular care for patients who are not COVID infected. I am in the clean team, so I am not allowed to see COVID patients. However it is all hands on deck for everyone. Large parts of the regular care us shut down due to shortages in staff. My colleagues and I try to keep the oncology care running but it is partly shut down as well... it all makes today feel very weird as it is my day off... I have been gardening in the sun this morning. Everyone needs their rest but it is so weird to be just relaxing and doing something you enjoy when you know that life is just going on outside your hedges and at your place of work there is so much to be done...

Scary times...

Love, and stay healthy,
The Fool.

 

[melimelissa]

Be safe

Be safe. Look after
yourselves and come to no
harm in horrid times

Méli

 

[Goldenfool87]

Oh. And welcome.

Thank you

 

[littlebirdjoy]

I am falling apart.
It’s on the inside, though.
I am screaming internally.
Every time I walk into work and get my temperature taken.
Every time I have to don a reused PAPR.
Every time I walk into isolation.
Every time a response is called overhead.
Every time I haven’t heard from Him for hours and fear the worst has happened.
Every time a new gauntlet is placed before me and my colleagues.
Every time a family member or friend asks me for information and I have to say “No one knows.”
Every time I hear of another closure effecting more people I care about.
Every time my innocent child says the word “coronavirus.”
Every time I hear of another person’s death becoming a statistic.
Every time our leaders spread lies that make my job more difficult...
I am screaming internally
Pretty much all the time.

I am planning a long hike into the woods next week
On my day off,
So that I can scream aloud,
But until then,
I’ll hold it inside,
And fall apart
Where no one can see.

ALL THE HUGS. YOU ARE CARED ABOUT. Thank you for sharing this. I wish I could do anything to make it better.

 

[gracie920101]

It can work with cooperation from everyone.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1241590500571910144

 

[gracie920101]

I’m doing my part.
I am walking. A lot. Alone, mostly, or with a friend. We don’t carpool together. We walk single file.

 

[twister947]

Right now, I am pist at my government, which has failed us so spectacularly. We pay taxes for this?

#madandgettingmadder

 

[cascadiabound]

Cassie, I've been thinking of you since the virus hit your area. I know you are in the midst of things and each day is a challenge beyond compare. It's a scary time for all of us, especially those in healthcare and confronting this virus, literally face to face. I'm sending so many prayers and positive thoughts to all of my friends here and in my day to day life.
[snip]

They are frightened, and I am frightened for them. Two of our doc's have tested positive. Several nurses are on quarantine due to suspected contact with an undiagnosed positive Covid 19 patient. They are preparing for the worst and praying for the best.

I think Moochi's poem says volumes and reflects exactly how they are feeling.

SelfIsolate StaySafe Love

~A

thank you Apple. It is surreal being so much at the center of this. I go from feeling frenetic to feeling immobilized. I have been at the forefront of developing protocols and screening tools. My brain hurts all the time.

Hello everyone, my name is Chris, weird thread to introduce myself but I felt compelled to reply here and none of you know me so... there it is.
Reality is so weird right now.
[snip] Everyone needs their rest but it is so weird to be just relaxing and doing something you enjoy when you know that life is just going on outside your hedges and at your place of work there is so much to be done...

Scary times...

Love, and stay healthy,
The Fool.

welcome Goldenfool. Please take care of yourself and know that the things you are doing to support the "dirty" team and continue to take care of your oncology patients is just as important as those who are having to deal directly with covid19+ patients. We are doing the same, limiting how many staff have contact with infectious people.

This. The dirty and clean. The nurses at my old hospital are doing this. The clean nurses are ordering pizza for the dirty nurses.

Cassie. I’m not in the hospital anymore. I am a nurse somewhere that is closed for the duration. I have done home care on the side, but no hospital since I’ve been on lit.
Thank you. And please check in. Please.

I have been calling testing centers. What do you all need the most? Tell me, and I will hit up my contacts here. They are all telling me they need me.

We need more PPE.
I am afraid that the next thing we will run out of is things like Albuterol.

and of course we need the public to #staythefuckhome



twister and gracie and lbj and meli - hugs to all of you.

 

[cascadiabound]

 

[Goldenfool87]

thank you for two posts full of wisdom dear cascadiabound!

Love,

The Fool

 

[cascadiabound]

thank you for two posts full of wisdom dear cascadiabound!

Love,

The Fool

you are welcome.

cb

 

[JCSTREET]

I for one am feeling inordinately stressed by this thing due to the fact that I am a front line health care worker at the epicenter of the US Covid19 outbreak. My hours have more than doubled, I am being exposed to a virus for which none of us has any immunity, and the rest of my life feels upside down and topsy turvey.

All of us are feeling this in one way or another. I am so worried about people who have lost their jobs, or whose businesses are unable to operate and all of the parents suddenly having kids home full time without much school structure or any place to take them or send them. I am worried about our most vulnerable, those in institutions, the elderly and people who live alone and are further isolated by this virus.

I look around at my coworkers and *virtually* at my family and friends and worry who among them will succumb to this disease. Which of my beloved people will I never be able to hug again, never see in person again, never break bread with again.

I need a place to put all this. Maybe you do too. Post about your stress, the silver linings you are finding, your fears, you or your loved ones who are struggling with this virus.

Already the first MD in my state has died of Covid19 - a beloved person and a pioneer in the field of vascular biology and a longtime professor of pathology
I know he will not be the last of my professional colleagues who will die of this.

My employer is both seeking donations of additional N95 masks and looking into options to sew our own masks either to help extend the life of our N95 masks or to use as a substitute for less occlusive surgical masks. And we are not alone... the major hospital system in my state has a call for people to sew cotton surgical masks to donate to their multi billion dollar business in order to protect their doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists.

I don't know whether to scream or get depressed. Whether I should just get busy sewing or hide under my covers.

this is fucking real folks.

if you are not critical infrastructure please please please - #staythefuckhome

Fuck you Covid19 ​

List your anxieties on paper

worried about becoming ill

worried about friends/family becoming ill

worrying about people losing jobs/livelihoods

worrying about ability of health care delivery system to cope


start with the first one or any ONE that you select - start by considering whether you have any control over it - a little, quite a bit - total

(accepting that no one has TOTAL control of anything)

if you have even a scintilla of control over that particularl worry, is there a course of action you can take today, tomorrow etc

====================

in parallel - list the blessings you still have - the abilities, the love and friendship you receive and reciprocate - the roof over your hear, the food in your larder etc etc

if you do these things on paper it will help you vent and let go

you have to do the work, however, to make these (to many people, silly) exercises work

Try affirmations - another thing that many people will scoff at

I am well
I am in perfect health
I am happy
I can help others

substitute any forms of wording or other affirmations you might think of

repeat often

out loud anywhere
to the bathroom mirror
to close friends
to the universe

--these are just some starting points

no guarantees

however, if they help you reflect a little - so far, so good

I hope you will remain safe and well

 

[cascadiabound]

List your anxieties on paper

worried about becoming ill

worried about friends/family becoming ill

worrying about people losing jobs/livelihoods

worrying about ability of health care delivery system to cope


start with the first one or any ONE that you select - start by considering whether you have any control over it - a little, quite a bit - total

(accepting that no one has TOTAL control of anything)

if you have even a scintilla of control over that particularl worry, is there a course of action you can take today, tomorrow etc

====================

in parallel - list the blessings you still have - the abilities, the love and friendship you receive and reciprocate - the roof over your hear, the food in your larder etc etc

if you do these things on paper it will help you vent and let go

you have to do the work, however, to make these (to many people, silly) exercises work

Try affirmations - another thing that many people will scoff at

I am well
I am in perfect health
I am happy
I can help others

substitute any forms of wording or other affirmations you might think of

repeat often

out loud anywhere
to the bathroom mirror
to close friends
to the universe

--these are just some starting points

no guarantees

however, if they help you reflect a little - so far, so good

I hope you will remain safe and well

good advice.

I found just starting this thread and having a place to talk about this stuff was a help in letting go of stuff I can't control. (most of it)

 

[Bramblethorn]

Hello everyone, my name is Chris, weird thread to introduce myself but I felt compelled to reply here and none of you know me so... there it is.

Nice to meet you!

It feels weird here. In the space between when we started taking things seriously, changing society drastically, and when the cases really start to flood the hospitals.

 

[littlebirdjoy]

Worried about Puck. Anyone seen him? Dardessta?

Fara, that's what I was worried about two days ago. I called him a few times and when I got no answer messaged her. He and she and " they" are all more than fine. Everything is okay, just life and busy ♡

( I'm glad you worry too.)

 

[gracie920101]

thank you Apple. It is surreal being so much at the center of this. I go from feeling frenetic to feeling immobilized. I have been at the forefront of developing protocols and screening tools. My brain hurts all the time.

We need more PPE.
I am afraid that the next thing we will run out of is things like Albuterol.

and of course we need the public to #staythefuckhome:

Home sewn masks:

Real need or busy work for the public? Can't decide whether to dust off the sewing machine or not. I'm reading that masks really don't do much for protection/prevention of transmission.