Anyone going out because they're bored, to get a haircut, or to go shopping, should read this first

[renate]

“This is Susan, a twenty-two-year-old COVID positive female. She’s been self-isolating for a week, and was spotted on the ground in her garden by a neighbour who dialled 999.” The big bearded paramedic’s voice is muffled by his respirator, but he efficiently gives us the summary of what we’re dealing with.

snip

There’s no final, mournful note. Just silence.

The next day came the 28 year old tennis coach, and the 35 year old chef, and the 26 year old healthcare assistant, and the 18 year old student, and the 38 year old single mother and the 33 year old solicitor and the 19 year old scaffolder and the 39 year old programmer, and the…

(quoting Trump) “I think, very important, the young people and people of good health, and groups of people, just are not strongly affected.”

https://icudiary.com/covid-5/

[Delphinus]

1. Wow!

That is one heck of a diary.

[rocktivity]

2. Anyone who tests positive or asymptomatic should be placed in a proper medical setting

And the only way out of this now is to test EVERYONE:
http://yourhhrsnews.com/nj-mass-covid-test/


rocktivity

[uponit7771]

12. +1, the lack of federated common sense response to this plague is a crime against humanity and

... should be treated like such.

This many people shouldn't need to die

[Alex4Martinez]

3. Bookmarking. Riveting diary, thank you. eom

[niyad]

4. KNR and bookmarking

[leighbythesea2]

5. Harrowing

My best friend is a trained paramedic but is working in an urgent care.
Very good link.

[jmbar2]

6. I've been feeling sort of stir crazy today.

Glad you posted this sobering diary.

I feel like I'm supposed to be doing something productive with my time. I'm retired, and always dreamed of all the things I'd do when I was retired. Before the pandemic, I was doing things on my list. Now it's all on hold. And I feel sort of anxious about not being productive.

This diary affirms why I need to just learn to sit with that feeling some more. I don't want to be gurgling, or causing anyone else to gurgle on their way out of this life.

[Lucky Luciano]

8. One word: Coursera.

Your welcome

[jmbar2]

9. Thanks Lucky

I'm already doing a major learning project - guitar. Some of the coursera catalogue looks interesting. Going to explore more.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

13. That's a fine word. I'm amazed at what's available.

Maybe I'll learn French. I may have to scoot to Quebec if the November election goes badly.

[jmbar2]

15. Or Russian

In case you get swept up into a FEMA Gulag!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

14. I'm feeling the same way lately.

But (as some smart people say), these are first-world issues.

Being retired, I can't lose my job. The income (Social Security) is fairly secure, health insurance (medicare + supplement) is better than it was when I worked. I figure eighteen holes of golf is about seven miles. So, if I walk seven miles, pausing occasionally to curse the golf gods, then it's almost like playing golf. Then, there's yoga. I can pour a cup of coffee, sit on the couch, turn on a yoga video, why it's almost like exercise.

Congratulations on being retired.

[Karadeniz]

7. Wonderfully written!

[smirkymonkey]

10. K&R

[Hermit-The-Prog]

11. It's a diary from hell -- repeatable 70,000 times here?