Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #52
May 2, 2020
Quietly, very quietly, and only noted at the bottom of one of those thin columns in the New York Times, did the closure of the Jacob Javits Center in New York get done.
The center had been converted a month ago to a 2500 bed hospital, ready for the onslaught of Coronavirus patients. Seven were treated and all were released, alive, yesterday, and the center was promptly closed. There is no need for it. The Corona tent in my own county got the same treatment, although it never saw one patient. Many people, as it is turning out, get the virus, go through the symptoms in a semi-minor way, and never even know they had the virus. Ninety percent of all virus sufferers do not need and do not get hospitalization of any kind. Most indications that someone has the virus have come from practitioners taking a history and then concluding that the potential patient has the virus.
Just how accurate is that? Not at all. Most of these numbers of virus sufferers nationwide are not coming from empirical test results, they are coming from unknown people checking a box on a form. Why are the states still shut down economically? Who is profiting from all this? Amazon. Target. Walmart. Netflix, Hulu, Vudu. All grocery stores. Political leaders. Rotten corporations without honor or integrity, like Harvard University and the Los Angeles Lakers, and so many more.
America was injected with a rare form of silly hysteria over something that should have been responded to scientifically and using the medical system already pervasive throughout the land. Instead, the nation got vapid drooling political stupidity and, once again, the poor, the homeless, the disabled, and the aged take it right on the chin. As always.
We must focus on praying for relief for these people and try to intensely hard to pray for the destruction and damnation of those who are demonstrating such a huge lack of compassion or care in these difficult times.
Well, that rant is off my chest this morning.
What do you want to any about the Coronavirus Pandemic?
I just wish that so many of those affected would not need ICU intervention and be 1ox more contagious than influenza and cause infection and even death among my fellow nurses.
I wish everyone would just stop getting sick and that this would go away.
But it’s not.
And there will always be a percentage of those who defy all scientific guidelines and will keep this going.
I am just glad we don’t have deaths so far like in 1918-9 where bodies were stacked up like wood piles, but it could have been that way. And it still might happen if everyone defies guidelines. And it will run the risk until a good vaccine is available to hit 60-70% herd immunity. It sure beats dying slow suffocation as lungs disintegrate and end up in a body bag like 5-7% of us would and the other 15% have permanent organ damage ending up glued to an oxygen tank.
I have no regard for the idiots waving guns and swastikas and Confederate flags flouting their perceived immunity to Covid as if one could shoot it away, probably spreading it around.
Let the areas with negligible cases open up and the cooped-up masses will flood there, carrying the virus with them.
I am sorry that I have not gotten back to your sooner but I was taken up with private matters and the finishing of the last novel in the three novel series of Thirty Days. It is done now, and online. It will take about a month to get in print, both soft and hardcopy. The first chapter of the next book, my recovery through the medical, the rest of my Marine experience and adapting back to society will come up online next week. That book is called The Cowardly Lion. Thanks for putting up with me.
Semper fi,
Jim
Lack of proper testing and reports from Italy led us to where we are today, a great unknown of fear driving every move. What was the cause of the testing failures? Some objective investigative reporting is in order James. Arrogance and indifference are pointed out if you follow mainstream media. I think it may run deeper. Here is a USA Today piece with a different slant. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2020/04/30/coronavirus-testing-stunted-low-medicare-reimbursement/3048943001/?fbclid=IwAR3AOieTnsFPUZ5h9UOA-Fh2bY5caAKyT-AtC5HwQL7v1e0h8xHp2gbKtpc
I am sorry that I have not gotten back to your sooner but I was taken up with private matters and the finishing of the last novel in the three novel series of Thirty Days. It is done now, and online. It will take about a month to get in print, both soft and hardcopy. The first chapter of the next book, my recovery through the medical, the rest of my Marine experience and adapting back to society will come up online next week. That book is called The Cowardly Lion. Thanks for putting up with me.
Semper fi,
Jim