Coronavirus General Discussion (no politics, no flamewars!)

Yes, that is currently the protocol for outpatient clinic appt. (not ER)

That is what makes it difficult from a health care perspective. We are trying to instruct patients to treat at home with OTC treatments if it is not serious but people have different personal definitions of what "serious" is and so sometimes they still come in with minor injuries/illness. It is a balance to try to treat those that need medical evaluation for other conditions.

Gregsiem wrote in post #19038728
If you want a change of pace from Netflix and Prime Video, some of the British theaters are streaming past productions.


Globe Theater (London UK) - a different Shakespeare play streamed every 2 weeks starting April 6, plus a line up of Shakespeare plays in other languages

https://www.timeout.co​m …cebook#Echobox=​1585577536

UK National Theater - past National Theatre Live productions broadcast on Thursdays and free to stream on YouTube for seven days following, starting Apr 2.
https://www.nationalth​eatre.org.uk …9360413c1fa4dab​aa0b081f23

Royal Opera House : A major opera or ballet streamed every Friday at 7pm on You Tube for a month, starting with the 2010 Royal Ballet School production of ‘Peter and the Wolf'
https://www.youtube.co​m/watch?v=vF8iuOW7BwA - or search for YouTube Royal Opera House

That's very good to know Greg - thanks for the tip! Not long ago I discovered that our local library system has access to a very extensive movie streaming service called Kanopy. They have 30,000+ movies going back 115 years. The service is free - up to 50 movies per month - all you need is your library card. Our tax dollars at work

sapearl wrote in post #19038791
That's very good to know Greg - thanks for the tip! Not long ago I discovered that our local library system has access to a very extensive movie streaming service called Kanopy. They have 30,000+ movies going back 115 years. The service is free - up to 50 movies per month - all you need is your library card. Our tax dollars at work

Also check and see if your library supports the Libby Ap for free access to audiobooks and e-books.

This news story says it's possible that the virus can be spread by just breathing.

OhLook wrote in post #19038794
This news story says it's possible that the virus can be spread by just breathing.

This is no doubt true, but I suppose the risk is less than from sneezing.

I play in a band and some of the members are physicians. They speculated that playing a wind instrument could disperse droplets containing virus. Sounds plausible! The mental image is striking - 50 players blowing furiously in the double-f passages with the whole band immersed in a fog of virus.

But all the bands in the city have closed for now.

gonzogolf wrote in post #19038793
Also check and see if your library supports the Libby Ap for free access to audiobooks and e-books.

The Texas library system also has a similar system, OverDrive. Odd this is that they deliver mp3s but only have a limited numbr of audio book licenses to hand out so sometimes you have to wait for a while before you can get the book. They treat e-books and audio books as if they were paper books.

gonzogolf wrote in post #19038793
Also check and see if your library supports the Libby Ap for free access to audiobooks and e-books.

Thanks Gonzo - way ahead of you but I appreciate the suggestion LIBBY is the charm, as part of their Overdrive system; works beautifully.

I decided to resurrect a 7 year old Samsung Tablet that had been sitting on the shelf gathering dust. To my delight the battery still holds a good charge and even though the CPU is slow by today's standards it works fine. I immediately turned it into an "E-Reader" since we don't have a Kindle or anything like that. We're "old school" and routinely visit our wonderful local library system about 3 times/week for books and DVD's. That's now impossible and we are running low on our stock of hardcopy books.

I have a fast Gigabyte connection from my local Telco but that slower CPU takes a while to render and count all the pages once the EBOOK has been downloaded. Still, that's not big deal. And I'm now enjoying one of my favorite authors

OhLook wrote in post #19038794
This news story says it's possible that the virus can be spread by just breathing.

I'm sure this has some truth if the infected person "spits" when they talk or heavily exhales water droplets. If you are too close to such a person, it is possible to inhale some of the infected droplets.

gjl711 wrote in post #19038823
The Texas library system also has a similar system, OverDrive. Odd this is that they deliver mp3s but only have a limited numbr of audio book licenses to hand out so sometimes you have to wait for a while before you can get the book. They treat e-books and audio books as if they were paper books.

Yes, we have the same thing with the Cuyahoga County Library System here in Cleveland. Now that people can't sign out their paper books there seems to be an "E-Run" on popular titles. I'm sure it has something to do with digital rights, copyright, respecting the author's royalties, or something like that. Once downloaded we can "keep" the E-Book for 21 days before it evaporates.

I'm glad to hear you get to enjoy the Texas Library System like that. These are wonderful services, wherever they are around the country. My wife and I ALWAYS vote for the Library levies, now more important than ever.

I just dropped off two boxes (about 70 masks) of n95 rated dust masks that we had in the scene shop to our local emergency room.

re: home made masks.
Please don't malign them. No one is saying that even the best n95 will protect you 100% from the spread of virus. In the case of recommendations for home made masks for the rank and file vs. health care workers, that home made mask will go a long way to help prevent YOU from spreading virus if you are infected. It will go some way to help prevent you from catching it, ie: better than nothing.

And again, that is the point. All we can do is do what we can to be as little "a part of the problem" as possible. Wash hands, cover your face, (particularly when you cough)

I've got a Darth Vader helmet I am going to have to clean up and get ready for my trip to the grocery;
https://www.boredpanda​.com …anic&utm_campai​gn=organic

There's no consensus amongst health experts on masks for the general public. The WHO has said to not use them unless you are infected and need to protect others. However, apparently they're debating the issue now and they might change their viewpoint. Especially since an MIT study showed how a sneeze carries droplets much farther in a gas cloud than previously thought.

A link to the study with a video of the distance droplets can travel:

https://jamanetwork.co​m …cle/2763852?res​ultClick=1

kiwichris wrote in post #19038491
Well that's me, but I am not obese. yet!

You don't have to be obviously obese to be type-2 diabetic. The disease deepens when your body has expanded its relatively harmless subcutaneous fat cells to the maximum size and quantity, as determined by genetics, and then the body starts storing more visceral fat under the abdominal muscles, where it increases inflammation with high levels of cytokines, and interferes with operation of the pancreas and leptin-signalling of satiety, driving one to eat even more. Some people have no genetic propensity to store much subcutaneous fat, as is the case for many south- and east-Asian people, and others, such as those people you see on TV that need to have windows removed to get them out of the house, can get to six times normal body weight without getting diagnosed with type-2 diabetes.

One can appear to be thin, and have toxic visceral fat of low volume, and others, like many Sumo wrestlers, can be huge with only subcutaneous fat of significance.

Type-2 diabetes happens under two environmental conditions; one is frequent excess consumption of fructose when liver stores of glucose (glycogen) are already full (sweet deserts after high-carb meals), or when one perpetually eats meals and snacks that have both carbohydrates and fat in large amounts. The human body is not designed/evolved to eat mixed diets of carbohydrates and fat, as there are very few foods like that found in nature and available to a hunter-gatherer.

Genetics does play a role, as does the metabolic health of one's mother when pregnant with one, but genetics is often used as an excuse by people who don't want to give up their addictive, soothing-now/sickening-later comfort foods. A 1/4' dowel of balsa wood is genetically coded to burst into flames faster than a 1/4" mahogany one, in the same fire, but neither bursts into flames if there is nothing there to ignite them.

CyberDyneSystems wrote in post #19038841
I just dropped off two boxes (about 70 masks) of n95 rated dust masks that we had in the scene shop to our local emergency room.

re: home made masks.
Please don't malign them. No one is saying that even the best n95 will protect you 100% from the spread of virus. In the case of recommendations for home made masks for the rank and file vs. health care workers, that home made mask will go a long way to help prevent YOU from spreading virus if you are infected. It will go some way to help prevent you from catching it, ie: better than nothing.

And again, that is the point. All we can do is do what we can to be as little "a part of the problem" as possible. Wash hands, cover your face, (particularly when you cough)

I've got a Darth Vader helmet I am going to have to clean up and get ready for my trip to the grocery;
https://www.boredpanda​.com …anic&utm_campai​gn=organic

For a minute I thought I was watching Pulp Fiction. Looks like she left her whip at home.

CyberDyneSystems wrote in post #19038841
I just dropped off two boxes (about 70 masks) of n95 rated dust masks that we had in the scene shop to our local emergency room.

re: home made masks.
Please don't malign them. No one is saying that even the best n95 will protect you 100% from the spread of virus. In the case of recommendations for home made masks for the rank and file vs. health care workers, that home made mask will go a long way to help prevent YOU from spreading virus if you are infected. It will go some way to help prevent you from catching it, ie: better than nothing.

And again, that is the point. All we can do is do what we can to be as little "a part of the problem" as possible. Wash hands, cover your face, (particularly when you cough)

I've got a Darth Vader helmet I am going to have to clean up and get ready for my trip to the grocery;
https://www.boredpanda​.com …anic&utm_campai​gn=organic

That's wonderful you did that Jake! Your heart's in the right place and I'm sure people will appreciate your generosity plus the fact you ventured out in order to help.