Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Guess this place will be hopping for awhile.

 

Captain Trips or no Captain Trips, I sure am going to a baseball game as soon as I am able. I know it's for the greater good that we not have 40,000 people in one place right now, but no baseball just breaks my heart. I won't feel normal again until I can see a game. Dios lo quiera.

 

Remember this guy?



There's also one about George Soros' involvement in the "FLU panic."

 

Where's all his flair?

 

"Reasonableness" = Do what the educated people tell you.

Are they perfect? Do they know everything? No of course not. But they fuckin know more than lifetime cement heads like Clarke.

 

Jersey City with 10 pm curfew on bars and nightclubs. About the time Drunkville opens and people try to french kiss a lamppost.

 

Probably the best location to target oldsters, if you're a virus.

 

This could be better than Christmas!

 

Combine this with the performance of the Encore in Everett, errrrr Boston, prior to that property going dark and it's not been a great run for Wynn.

 

For what it's worth, this advice post is going around. Originally from Twitter, the poster said.
My emphasis on the medicine stuff. Did not know about alternating Tylenol and Advil. True that?

I know we’re all tired of hearing/talking about it, but one thing I HAVEN’T really seen going around is advice for what happens if you DO get coronavirus (many of us will), we're only seeing advice for how to try to AVOID it. So as your friendly neighborhood RN, a wee thread:

Things you should *actually* buy ahead of time (Erm, not sure what the obsession with toilet paper is?): Kleenex, Acetaminophen (Tylenol) in 325 mg tablets, Ibuprofen (Advil) in 200 mg tablets, Mucinex, Robitussin or DayQuil/NyQuil, whatever your cough medicine of choice is.

If you don’t have a humidifier, that would also be a good thing to get. (You can also just turn the shower on hot and sit in the bathroom breathing in the steam). Also a good time to make a big batch of your favorite soup to freeze and have on hand.
If you have a history of asthma and you have a prescription inhaler, make sure the one you have isn’t expired and refill it/get a new one if it is.

You basically just want to prepare as though you know you’re going to get a nasty respiratory bug like bronchitis or pneumonia. You just have the foresight to know it’s coming.

For symptom management, use the meds I mentioned. For a fever over 101, alternate Tylenol and Advil so you’re taking a dose of one or the other every 3 hours. Use both cough suppressants and expectorants (most cough meds have both). Drink a ton, hydrate hydrate. Rest lots.

If you're sick, you should not be leaving your house except to go to the doctor, and if you do, wear a mask (regular is fine, you don’t need an N95). You DO NOT NEED TO GO TO THE ER unless you are having trouble breathing or your fever is very high and unmanaged with meds.

90% of healthy adult cases thus far have been managed at home with basic rest/hydration/over-the-counter meds. We don’t want to clog the ERs unless you’re actually in distress. The hospital beds will be used for people who apamctively need oxygen/breathing treatments/IV fluids.

If you have a pre-existing lung condition (COPD, emphysema, lung cancer) or are on immunosuppressants, now is a great time to talk to your PCP or specialist about what they would like you to do if you get sick. They might have plans to get you admitted and bypass the ER entirely.

One major relief to you parents is that kids do VERY well with coronavirus— they usually bounce back in a few days, no one under 18 has died, and almost no kids have required hospitalization (unless they have a lung disease like CF).
Just use pediatric dosing of the same meds.