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Thread of tweets, good

artappraiser — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 01:58:06 +0000

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Thread of tweets, good description of what it's like to be in hospital now for NON covid-19 from issue someone who got out alive. He was in Philly, not NYC:

As some of you know, I recently had a (non-COVID) health scare, which left me hospitalized for several days. I'm on the mend now, thanks to some excellent medical care, but if you'll forgive the digression from my usual econ tweeting, I wanted to share a few quick thoughts.
— Ben Casselman (@bencasselman) April 16, 2020

Oh yeah no way I am going to

artappraiser — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 21:19:27 +0000

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Oh yeah no way I am going to the dentist even though one of the few chewing teeth I have left is acting up! they made me ill with an antibiotic resistant bacteria, why would I trust them with coronavirus? I'll eat soft foods Don't have the prices they ask anyways....

Edit to add: mho, dentists are taught very little about human health and I have years of experience going to Columbia Dental School.

And dentists, the NYT ranked

NCD — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 21:12:06 +0000

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And dentists, the NYT ranked dentistry as the most exposed job, with the closest contact with people, for the longest, with mists and sprays of water in their and patients face.

I don't think people realize

artappraiser — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 20:25:55 +0000

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I don't think people realize how there will be so many secondary unrelated handicaps and deaths from that from lack of getting care! Like you said, the health care system basically collapsing. I think of all the ramifications, they could be enormous. One example: Physical therapists and chiropractors having to wear hazmat suits and disinfect equipment after each patient, half of em would quit practicing for something else, the other half charge a fortune and limit to patients who just lost a leg or had a serious stroke. ...

forgot to put one of the

artappraiser — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 20:19:10 +0000

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forgot to put one of the questions, there was also:

have you had any difficulty breathing or felt pressure on your chest?

Failed fake MSDNC scary hoax

NCD — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 20:06:57 +0000

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Failed fake MSDNC scary Democrats hoax anybody can get a test if they really want bad data try positive like it will disappear like a miracle, we got everything under control except the virus so calm down only 35000000 dead so far....heckuva job !

Good advice. Gotta feeling as

NCD — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 19:57:59 +0000

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Good advice. Gotta feeling as this spreads out from coasts, and then does a 'second wave', we'll be lucky if we are largely clear of it by next spring.

There must be other studies

artappraiser — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 19:00:47 +0000

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There must be other studies out there on this because I must have heard it 10 times this morning on the cable news, they are really stressing it.

I just finished a half hour ago with a telemedicine followup to an in person appt. in January, not related to coronavirus, but which had been canceled two times because of it. With a bigwig rheumatologist at Mt. Sinai main hospital in Manhattan.

(Their telemed sucks, BTW, the software download is glitchy and feed and sound bad) she said I shouldn't be using the computer, works better on cell phones)

I just thought I would share the questions she asked at the end about coronavirus, filling in the answers on the computer, obviously being required by the hospital.

Are you wearing a mask when you go out? (Then she added: you can make one, and she showed me a pleated one made from a scarf)
Have you had a cough?
Have you had nausea, vomiting or other gastrointestinal distress?
Have you lost your sense of smell or taste?

Nothing about fever!

Oh and clearly she did not think accessing any on-site medical services would be wise for the foreseeable future. She made the next appt. for July. I could use a sonogram to more clearly diagnose something that was on an MRI and also physical therapy. She talked like those might be prescribed in July. Basically: you live with your ailments until this has calmed down.

What you don't test can't

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 17:42:39 +0000

In reply to 88% of 215 Virus Infected - No Symptoms NYC

What you don't test can't hurt you, right?