• Follow us on Twitter @buckeyeplanet and @bp_recruiting, like us on Facebook! Enjoy a post or article, recommend it to others! BP is only as strong as its community, and we only promote by word of mouth, so share away!
  • Consider registering! Fewer and higher quality ads, no emails you don't want, access to all the forums, download game torrents, private messages, polls, Sportsbook, etc. Even if you just want to lurk, there are a lot of good reasons to register!

Coronavirus (COVID-19) is too exciting for adults to discuss (CLOSED)

Jump to latest Follow Reply
Status
Not open for further replies.
Sort by date Sort by votes
jwinslow said:
The biggest takeaway I get from experienced people is that we are operating in the dark, and will be that way until a year or more from now...
Click to expand...

I'm not afraid of the dark. :biggrin2:

What is actually scary to me, however, is anyone else that needs any type of medical attention that isn't related to Covid in the immediate future. Yikes, you're pretty much on your own.
 
Upvote 0
heisman said:
Is this going to be like the flu vaccine? I've never received one and never gotten the flu (knock on wood). My wife and kids always get one, and still get the flu about once every 3-4 years or so.
Click to expand...
good ole working herd immunity right there ... and about every 3-4 years it seems the vaccine isn’t as effective on that years strain of flu... or the vaccine mutates during creation and isn’t effective against the strain...
 
Upvote 0
AuTX Buckeye said:
good ole working herd immunity right there ... and about every 3-4 years it seems the vaccine isn’t as effective on that years strain of flu... or the vaccine mutates during creation and isn’t effective against the strain...
Click to expand...

Well, remember the flu vaccine involves some guessing. So, each year the FDA recommends the formulation of the flu vaccines with like 3 different flu strains. (This is for the US, there would be different ones for different places) and what they're doing is trying to predict which strains of flu will be prevalent. So, if there's a type of flu that's not in the vaccine for that year, its not going to work well at all...
 
Upvote 0
heisman said:
I'm not afraid of the dark. :biggrin2:

What is actually scary to me, however, is anyone else that needs any type of medical attention that isn't related to Covid in the immediate future. Yikes, you're pretty much on your own.
Click to expand...
Urgent things are still getting care. Where it gets tricky is the mild side of the medium conditions. The things that need surgery in 3-6 mo but not now. Delaying can transform those into bad situations.
 
Upvote 0
heisman said:
I'm not afraid of the dark. :biggrin2:

What is actually scary to me, however, is anyone else that needs any type of medical attention that isn't related to Covid in the immediate future. Yikes, you're pretty much on your own.
Click to expand...

Getting a gout diagnosis, exam and prescription in a parking lot (complete with me taking my shoe and sock off and hanging the foot out the door) was certainly a new experience.
 
Upvote 0
Honor&Glory said:
well if another football game is never played again i’ll check out knowing the Buckeyes broke off a plunger in scUM’s ass one last time.
Click to expand...

If I could write the script I'd live to see 35 consecutive victories from here with one of them being worse than 86-0.

I don't get a vote however, so these last two would be just fine for my swan song.
 
Upvote 0
Couple interesting realities... Hospitalized Covid homeless are consuming beds a long time because there is no where they can go and quarantine.. thus they stay
same for Alzheimer and dementia patients.. no assisted living or hospice will accept them; same for addicts
Similarly those without insurance, citizens and non, are consuming beds if they need anything like just oxygen because no insurance to pay for it.. thus they consume a bed
 
Upvote 0
jwinslow said:
I think we can all rally behind the flag that the testing stinks and that the wizards at places like Pitt will come up with proper testing to rescue our lost world.

The biggest takeaway I get from experienced people is that we are operating in the dark, and will be that way until a year or more from now. Hopefully we can find a cure before then but we just won't understand it that well before Zach Harrison turns pro.
Click to expand...

 
Upvote 0
NJ-Buckeye said:
Couple interesting realities... Hospitalized Covid homeless are consuming beds a long time because there is no where they can go and quarantine.. thus they stay
same for Alzheimer and dementia patients.. no assisted living or hospice will accept them; same for addicts
Similarly those without insurance, citizens and non, are consuming beds if they need anything like just oxygen because no insurance to pay for it.. thus they consume a bed
Click to expand...
Who "deserves " a bed? Should we "triage" the homeless and alzheimer and dementia and those without insurance including "non citizens?
 
Upvote 0
Taosman said:
Who "deserves " a bed? Should we "triage" the homeless and alzheimer and dementia and those without insurance including "non citizens?
Click to expand...
wasn't posing for judgement... just the realities of hospital bed situations and how it rapidly raises bed consumption... plus 'the systems' inability to address when someone normally could leave/free up a bed but can't
 
Upvote 0
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top