And because of people thinking like you is why FL is now the hotspot for positive COVID cases and why this pandemic will either continue for years or until we have a vaccine.
This isn't the flu. A 41 year old woman down here got it and she was asymptomatic until it caused a blood clot which gave her a fatal heart attack, leaving behind a 13 year old without a mom.
My father is one year removed from having his own issues and bypass surgery. He's one of the people in the "high risk" camp. It sucks that some people are only thinking of themselves and not others.
Allow me to give you another perspective of a "hot spot", Sam.....
As I posted in another thread on this site, I live about 70 miles straight north of Lucas Oil Raceway, and our local Tyson meat packing facility had a spike in cases that not only shot us to the top of the heap per-capita in the state of Indiana, but put us on the map nationally. Mayor of our little town was on several national news networks and the whole bit. And during that peak time of positive cases, the following happened, or I should say, DIDN'T happen:
1. After the entire hospital was put on call, not a single nurse was ever called in...….EVER.
2. The COVID unit, which houses 11, was never more than half full. This was after the percentages suggested that the COVID unit alone would have to deal with 200+.
3. After fielding numerous calls from surrounding hospitals offering to take the overflow that was obviously going to happen, not a single patient had to be transferred.
4. Multiple employees that work at the facility that tested positive during a mass test were miraculously released to return to work the following week, less than 5 days after testing positive. This is right smack-dab in the middle of the 14-day quarantine nonsense that was rammed down all of our throats.
5. I VERIFIED that the concern of the numbers being cooked for financial gain at the hospital(s) was, in fact true. So the numbers you see reported on a daily basis may not be complete bullshit, but make no mistake, there's a percentage of those numbers that are just that...…..bullshit.
Sam, all of these instances I mention above are FACT. I didn't get them from reading a half-dozen facebook memes, and I damn sure didn't get them from any number of the news outlets that prove on a daily basis to falsely report. This is real world stuff, folks. This is going down right here in my home town. A home town that isn't a single stoplight, 500-person 'burgh that had a handful of cases, but one that made national news. Yet nothing, and I mean NOTHING happened that they said was going to happen.
My Mother is an "at-risk" patient also. I quote that because people that are at-risk for this are the same people that should be taking precautions anyway from all the other viruses that jeopardize them, which was verified by an instance with my Mother back in March when all hell broke loose around here. She had to be hospitalized out of nowhere, and of course everybody around was saying she had it. She ended up testing positive alright...……….for influenza B.
We've got to start using our collective heads, folks. As I've stated before, I could care less who is in the White House. I simply have a better understanding of government than to worry about that particular office. But Ronnie Milsap can see that we are living in a time where the POTUS is among the most, if not THE most hated people to have ever held that office (by the opposing party, at least....). So you see, when I listen to all this stuff going on, KNOWING what I know, it's a tough pill to swallow. For most folks, the news outlets are all they have so I can understand to a point why the fear is there. But I have a frontline view of the reality of this. Does that mean I'm saying the virus isn't real? Of course not. I know there are a group of folks that have had it, had a real tough time with it and in some cases died from complications of it. But to get to a point where we have to shut everything down? Sorry, man, but you just can't get there if you're using factual information, especially if you reference what I point out above with #5 because you'll never know what the ACTUAL numbers are. None of this takes into account the issue of identified symptoms. How many times have they added to that list since this mess started? A dozen or more? If you add enough possible symptoms, you'll cover virtually every single ailment there is. C'mon, folks. We need to start looking at ALL of it.
Sean D
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if i get it, i get it. one thing for sure, at this point there are exactly zero experts i trust. i certainly don’t believe the news, in fact i never watch it.
