And it lives on cardboard for up to a day. So that amazon package that you got, may have had the virus and you just brought it into your house.
Yeah, I would probably set up a quarantine area for your boxes. Or handle with gloves. Cardboard isnât sneezing on you.
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Definitely not but I also donât think people are aware of how long this can stick on something like that. Stainless steel is 3-4 days it can stay on.
Whatâs frustrating about the whole thing is the people who refuse to at least respect the virus. Itâs just causing the whole thing to last months instead of weeks.
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Unfortunately, some people are downplaying it.
e.g.
Meanwhile, doctors and nurses, who are actually on the front lines, are posting testimonials about how horrible things are getting at their hospitals. Theyâre begging people to stay home.
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Watching the truck drivers come into my office and use the community ink pen on the corner of the desk and tell me this whole thing is ridiculous and its just the common cold while wiping their face with the hand they just used on the ink pen⌠I canât help but think about these drivers traveling all over the US touching doors and ink pens.
Not saying all the drivers I see do this but there are many. 2 out of the 4 today so far downplayed the virus. Watching everyoneâs quality of life crumble because of these knuckleheads not respecting the virus and knowing the virus will likely continue to spread for much longer than it really should is kinda just saddening really.
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where do you work?
Sawmill/lumber yard
suprised your company isnât using saftey measures for truckers. For us the truckers have to sit in their vehicle and call a number handed out of the guard shack.
Whatâs frustrating is shutting down the entire world over a virus that mostly kills very elderly people/people who were already sick. Kills less people than even the âregularâ flu.
I think a better solution, rather than crashing the economy over a handful of deaths, would have been to simply quarantine anyone over 70 years old and allow the rest of us normal people to carry on with our daily lives.
If this âlockdownâ stuff is allowed to go on for more than 4-6 months, weâll probably get the Great Depression 2⌠that will be much worse than any virus.
Itâs just simple math, canât have the entire population âjust staying at homeâ doing nothing for an extended period of time. If people are not making money/spending money then the system will fail.
Well the thing is regardless itâs gonna take a few months.
What we are trying to do is cause a lot less deaths. Less people getting sick until a treatment/vaccine can be made is important. Or you run out of ventilators like Italy did and then doctors are having to chose who lives and who dies.
The people downplaying it are the worst because yea they will probably be fine if they get it. Every place they go though theyâre gonna kill people though and they donât give an f cause they wonât really see it.
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You know that even healthy people are dying, right? Hospitals are getting overwhelmed and would be 100 times worse if they didnât shut down most of the statesâŚ
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Even in Italy, which was apparently hit hard by this, itâs almost all elderly people as the main deaths.
Like I said, the âregularâ flu kills many more people each year (but this little tidbit is conveniently ignored by the âTV newsâ). But they donât shut down the whole country over the flu, hmmmm 
From the official CDC website:
"CDC estimates that, from October 1, 2019 , through March 14, 2020 , there have been: *
38,000,000 â 54,000,000 flu illnesses
390,000 â 710,000 flu hospitalizations
23,000 â 59,000 flu deaths"
No âconspiracyâ here, just statistics.
What differs this from the flu is there is no vaccine. Probably wonât be for 12-18 months.
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Also we should look at percentages instead of total count.
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https://google.org/crisisresponse/covid19-map
very quickly catching up to China and Italy and we are still behind them in terms of when this all started. Also, our death rate is higher than recovery. This is still just the beginning but luckily action was taken somewhat early enough or it truly would have been a disaster.
Yea and living this far out in a small town, the clinics donât even have tests. The few places that do have tests (a county or two over) have such long waiting lines and limited resources that unless you have every symptom of the virus, they refuse to test you.
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I have two patients on my unit that are pending test results. One got so bad he was sent to the ER and then shipped to a more equipped hospital. The other is still on my floor but under precautions (which consists of a mask that doesnât even have a shield because no supplies) and we were told if they come back positive, they werenât going to test us still.
Scary stuff. Take care of yourself.
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Thanks! Iâm not even so much worried about myself, but every other person in my house. And the other workers who have kids/grandparents/other sick people they live with/etcâŚ
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