Thatâs really sweet! Theyâre adding a surcharge and donating that to people drastically effected by the pandemic. Looks like they have a pretty creative mail service.
And another bites the dustâŚ
Curfew in Spain.
And the state of alarm was approved. It establishes common minimums for the autonomous regional governments to have legal support to enforce the curfew, and it also gives them a margin to adapt it to their necessites.
âwelcome the opportunity to further establish the truthfulness of its Times Square billboards through litigation and discovery,â
That was the most entertaining legal document Iâve ever read. I loved the last bit where the author points out that the billboard isnât causing Ivankaâs and Jaredâs public image to plummet, their incompetence is.
Sweet burns through and through.
Oh, a nasty thought: Perhaps some asymptomatic people arenât really getting off so lightly, itâs just that C19 is working especially good at blocking perception of the damage?
We have a family member with eventually terminal cancer, and weâve decided to risk traveling to take our kid to see them this year.
Ugh⌠what a year⌠
weâre in exactly this situation, including taking a kid. I canât travel to the country in question because I donât have citizenship and they are locked down. Flights were between $2200 (via Hong Kong with a 16 hour layover between 12 hour flights and no chance of a hotel room) and $35,000 (didnât even look at the details). Weâve opted for the flights via Vancouver and LAX.
A âcalculated riskâ indeed, at bestâŚ
Hopefully by the 7th of November the U.S. will be in the middle of a âpeaceful transitionâ.
I wish you the best of luck. Youâre right, it didnât need to be this way.
Hereâs a first person account of surviving coronavirus:
â99.9% of young people recover.â I was a 28 year old with no underlying health conditions. when I got sick in March. I walked 12k+ steps per day and had never smoked. Letâs talk about what ârecoveredâ looks like for me.
Pulmonary: My lungs are shit now, and anytime I get a cold it wipes me out for like two days. I have asthma now and carry an inhaler. I have breathing attacks if I try to move too much or too fast. I am off oxygen now but had a cannula for months.
Cardiac: I developed mitral valve prolapse and have frequent palpitations, sometimes bad enough to land me in the ER.
Reproductive: Period is irregular now and I have PMS symptoms I never had before.
GI: Probably TMI, but trust me, itâs not good.
General physical/mobility: I lost a ton of muscle mass from being bedbound for months, had to re-learn to sit, stand, and walk, I have such severe fatigue that I generally sleep 12-16 hours a day and am still exhausted all the time. My joints feel like theyâre full of sand.
Neurological: This is the biggie. I am significantly neurologically impaired due to something called hypoxic brain injury that I sustained while suffering from covid.
I have brain fog most of the time, canât read more than a few sentences at a time, canât focus, have âbrain lapsesâ where everything just shuts down mentally, I black out sometimes, itâs extremely hard for me to learn or process information, and I have grand mal seizures.
Emotional: Although I have amnesia (from the brain injury) and donât remember much about the months I spent ill with covid and covid-related pneumonia, I have serious PTSD and still have night terrors. I also suffer from survivorâs guilt.
So, when you hear ârecoveredâ donât think âall better.â Because it doesnât necessarily mean that. I intentionally donât describe myself as ârecoveredâ but âsurvived.â I am going to be disabled for the rest of my life. Covid is not a joke and herd immunity is not the answer.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
(this should say âtwo weeksâ not âtwo daysâ)
IMPORTANT NOTE: This is not a list of symptoms I had WHILE sick with covid, or in the months that followed when I had a near-fatal case of covid-related pneumonia. These are the issues I have NOW, months later, when I am supposedly ârecovered.â #SurvivedNotRecovered
(also my vision and balance have decreased significantly)
Itâs a full-on outbreak in his staff right now. At least FIVE have tested positive at this point.
donât worry though, pence wonât be isolating. the vote for barett is more important than worrying about killing senators and staff
In retrospect, nothing about the title âhead of the White House coronavirus task forceâ actually specifies that heâs tasked with controlling the coronavirus. Maybe weâve all misunderstood what exactly the âtaskâ entails.
Basically, the White House has officially conceded defeat to COVID.
Police enforcement of Irish lockdown.
Finally itâs affecting people Maggie Haberman cares aboutâŚ
