My county’s hospitals are officially overwhelmed and I have feelings about it.
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in the end my sister decided not to travel halfway across the country with her family to go skiing
I’m happy they made this decision, and still baffled that they thought it was going to be ok to do it in the first place
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Read today that 1 in 1,000 americans has died of COVID-19.
Did a double take and a quick math and…
Yeah.
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330,000 deaths. 328 million people ish. Yeah that… that checks out. That should not check out. Jesus.
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Sigh the nannys mom lives in a high infection area in an older persons community. Cases are above 7k per day as if today. Considering just telling her not to come in this week, paid.
Why won’t the governor just lock us down already, fuck.
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Holy guacamole. I am going to have to sit with that number for a while.
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Black Americans passed this milestone back in September 
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A friend has covid. Lives in NYC, did absolutely nothing other than get groceries.
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I hope your friend has a mild case and recovers quickly!
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So sorry.
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It’s really making me more determined to just not go in a building, ever, until we are both vaccinated.
This friend was, like, the poster child for covid caution. When things were really bad in NYC he basically barricaded himself in his apartment, but he started going out to get his own groceries because he’s running out of money (was a full-time performer which obvs he cannot do now).
If he can get it, anyone can. And I thought NYC wasn’t that bad right now? I guess everywhere is bad now though. 
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NYC is bad right now. But also, in an apartment, it’s hard to know what air circulation from other units is like. Going out to get groceries may not have been a thing that did it.
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That’s true, and also a thing that keeps me awake at night as I live in an apartment. We have radiators, though, not central heat/air, which I read a long time ago was safeR (not SAFE) but maybe not foolproof, I don’t know. At least it’s only a 2-flat and not a high rise.
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I think you know I’m pretty darn worried, and I would not worry at all about radiators. This thing is airborne, and a radiator is not going to transfer air from unit to unit.
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Huh, for some reason I never thought about circulation amongst apartments. I didn’t think that was a thing? And that covid wasn’t technically airborne?
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I’m not a medical person but from my random reading the role of airborne transmission (aerosols - suspended particles …) is increasingly being accepted including by WHO etc. I think the push for upgrading ventilation to reduce risk is partly due to this understanding.
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I’m guessing it depends a lot on the building too. We have central AC/heat but each unit has its own closed system. The intake is in our unit and it only blows into our unit.
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Oh. Ours is like one per highschool. Definitely not good. But 3 per highschool…you’d be hard hit. Very hard hit.
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Great.
My coworker just texted me that we are closed for the foreseeable future. They are pretty sure her dad and a family friend that lives with them have it, and possibly her mom and also her. All because she let friends come over to visit a week ago. “I totally trust them, they are being really safe” Yup. They are still waiting on tests, but obviously there are symptoms happening or they would not bother with tests, or being closed…
My one other coworker and I are allowed to be in the building as long as we are alone because we cannot work from home and we both have a couple of projects that need done.
Ugh. Stupid people. I mean… of course I hope everyone who does have it has a mild case and all, but still, stupid.
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