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Do we really need a story like this?

I just really hate, come to hate, stories like this since the virus hit. Every news outlet in the country is posting stories about the danger all around us. It's maddening and this story from the New York Times just about sent me over the top.  Read it if you have the stomach for it.

Flushing the Toilet May Fling Coronavirus Aerosols All Over

 

 

Listen to us they said

Update the next day. The Today Show brought on another spokesman for the WHO who said the first person who gave the information below, jumped the gun and did not figure in something called, Pre-asymptomatic. Those people with this Pre-thing, can spread the germs which we then touch. I still believe they're now just making stuff up.

 

I'm telling you right now, I have had enough of the experts and their media spokespeople. From the World Health Organization (WHO) we've been told from almost the beginning of the stay at home orders wearing masks and washing our hands and sanitizing everything we own after coming home from being around people. Sanitize and wipe down everything that comes into the house, wear gloves if you can. Take off any clothes you wore out to the store and put them in the wash. This was because we could well come across someone who was Asymptomatic with the Coronavirus. They may not have had symptoms but they are carrying the germ.

Also stock up on clorox wipes or if they aren't available, then alcohol wipes or Lysol wipes/spray. Use them on door knobs, car steering wheels, gear shifts, countertops, iphones, anything that may have been touched after being out. We've been wiping down our grocery packaging, UPS delivery boxes, wine bottles and etc for three months! All those chemicals in the wipes have almost made us sicker than the disease.

And now who should show up in the news today with another shocking piece of news? WHO that's who. Get this: "Preliminary evidence from the earliest outbreaks indicated that the virus could spread from person-to-person contact, even if the carrier didn’t have symptoms. But WHO officials now say that while asymptomatic spread can occur, it is not the main way it’s being transmitted."

Then there is also this today from the CDC, Center for Disease Control. This on how we've made cleaning mistakes during the virus shutdown.

"Americans are putting their health at risk while trying to protect it.

About a third of Americans surveyed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have used some kind of risky cleaning practice to stop the spread of Covid-19, the CDC said on Friday.

People have put bleach their food. Others have gargled or inhaled it. And some have washed their bodies with household cleaning and disinfectant products.

None of this cleaning behavior is recommended by the CDC. But this gap in understanding how to safely clean and handle cleaning products during the Covid-19 pandemic may explain why there’s been a sharp increase in the number of calls to poison centers during the pandemic.

Can any of us believe anything anymore? I mean, seriously? Who was it who kept harping on the importance of sanitizing everything with bleach if possible, alcohol based products if bleach is sold out? These same guys who kept scaring us to death about seeing germs in and on everything.  Today they're saying we over did it to our detriment. One third of us drank bleach or doused our food in it. One third, thanks to these health experts who put us onto those germ killing chemicals.

I'm done. I'm over it.

 

No outbreaks

Somewhere yesterday came a news story from the Ozarks which said that there have been no reported incidents of the Coronavirus since the Memorial Day crowds down there.

And that's good news.

A mess of news and no news

I can't be the only one who can't take in all that is happening in the country right now. Not just the protests and violence and horrible police behavior which started this whole thing. But also the coronavirus business which is now off any news reports. What happened? I view this sudden disinterest with much interest. Was social distancing only important when nothing else was going on? Now we can gather by the tens of thousands in all of our country's big cities and there is no health issue? Was that virus thing just a made up thing?

Or will there be another huge outbreak? Did any virus outbreak happen after the Memorial Day crowds in the Ozarks? I've seen nothing reported and this bothers me. We should know by now if there was anything or nothing.

We are just beginning to open up the country, putting people back to work and what now? I would love to learn that the virus did not do much to all these people. That just might mean it's on it's way out. But we don't know and the CDC is now silent while tens of thousands are all bunched together. And while I understand why this is, I also wonder what on earth has kept the CDC silent. If this virus is on the way out tell us all. If not, we're in for it.

Packing them in

Lots of news about Missouri's opening up business and resorts today. The main news report we've seen over and over this morning is all the people packed together in pools and bars and restaurants in the Ozarks. Actually a pool may be a fairly safe place, they are chlorinated and in the sun. But who knows.

I would like to understand just what makes so many people think it is a good idea to head for these places on the first weekend they open and a Memorial Day holiday weekend as well. Do they not realize how many people they will brush up against at this time? It's hot and sunny which is good, they say, for killing the virus. But it won't kill the virus if it's on someone you are right next to in these crowds.

I don't get it. But I would like to think everything will be ok and we don't see a future spike in the Coronavirus.

Now they tell us

After weeks of wiping down every single thing that comes into our house from the grocery store or anywhere else, wiping down the steering wheel of the car and the doors, wiping door knobs etc etc, because it was said the virus can live on all kinds of surfaces. Cardboard, metal, plastic, paper etc etc. It has been exhausting to have to do this. Now some experts with the FDA are saying this isn't necessary, there is no evidence the virus can live on surfaces. And, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now says the novel virus “does not spread easily” from "touching surfaces or objects" .

"Many people were concerned that by simply touching an object they may get coronavirus and that’s simply not the case. Even when a virus may stay on a surface, it doesn’t mean that it’s actually infectious."

It does spread person to person.

If we haven't been driven out of our minds, this should send us over the edge.

Another crank

In the post below I told of shopping cart putter backers cranks, here is another example of how cranky we're all getting these days.

"We need to stop worrying about runners and cyclists without a mask and instead be concerned about the loud talkers in crowded indoor spaces, according to Erin Bromage, a biology professor who started a blog about the ways in which the coronavirus spreads."

The photo with this CNN story show Bromage in what looks like running or cycling clothes. I'd guess someone yelled at him as he whizzed past them on his bike without letting them know he was coming up behind them.

The first CNN link is annoying with too many loud video ads and moving screens. If you have twitter, here is a better look.

Trooth

One thing I wish all those well-meaning media people would stop doing is warning us of the possibility of virus germs on everything and how long the germs will live on each type of surface. This makes me more paranoid than I already am.

Who would have thought those great boxes delivered by Amazon or other companies might be covered in coronavirus germs? Well, according to the experts, cardboard can hang on to them for quite awhile. So anything that gets delivered to us, and we've had quite a few lately, I wipe down with antiseptic wipes and leave them outside in the sun the better part of a day. What's confusing is these experts also say that something that sits in the sun will have any germs killed in minutes. So I don't know what to think anymore. Sun is good. But doing both is better.

How do they get the disease

A question I've had for sometime now is this: How do so many older people in nursing homes get the Coronvirus if they haven't been outside of their facility? So many victims of this disease have been in these places it just puzzles me how they get it. It has to have been brought in by staff or visitors. Has anyone done any research on who working or visiting in nursing homes have also had covid19? It goes without saying the people in them have not been going out into public.

It's been so prevalent and deaths keep on occurring that you have to wonder how serious many of these places are in monitoring health safety controls when it comes to workers and visitors.