Hey Kids! Keep EVERYONE Safe! Help Stop Spreading COVID-19 Coronavirus!
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Thursday, March 19, 2020
The pandemic (meaning, “the worldwide spread of a new disease”) is now upon us with COVID-19 coronavirus.
While there are particularly worrisome aspects of this disease, one of the most overlooked aspects of it is that someone can be a carrier without showing any signs, or symptoms of infection, or disease.
In other words, folks are (not “can be,” but ARE) spreading the disease WITHOUT KNOWING IT.
So, why don’t they know they have it?
First, they’re asymptomatic – that’s medical jargon meaning “they don’t show signs of symptoms of having the disease.”
Second, they’ve NOT been tested. (And, I put the blame for that problem squarely upon Trump, because he gutted the National Security Council and White House infrastructures which would handle such crises.
In numerous articles published as far back as 2017, from a wide variety of sources, it’s broadly acknowledged that Trump asked Congress to severely reduce funding for disease security programs which were initiated during the Clinton administration, which continued through the Bush, and Obama administrations.
Even Tim Hudson, who “is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and former senior director for counterproliferation and biodefense on the National Security Council” wrote an OpEd entitled “No, the White House didn’t ‘dissolve’ its pandemic response office. I was there.” published in the Washington Post 16 March 2020 acknowledged that “It is true that the Trump administration has seen fit to shrink the NSC staff,” and that “Trump began streamlining the NSC staff in 2017.”
Yet he also wrote that while Trump was busy cutting the National Security Council, “it has left the biodefense staff unaffected — perhaps a recognition of the importance of that mission to the president, who, after all, in 2018 issued a presidential memorandum to finally create real accountability in the federal government’s expansive biodefense system.”
He then deflects and states that “when people play politics in the middle of a crisis, we are all less safe.”
He deflects again that writes that when “public servants are distracted when they are dragged into politics.”
His third deflection states “We’re less safe because the American people have been recklessly scared into doubting the competence of their government to help keep them safe, secure and healthy.”
He deflects yet a fourth time and writes, that “We’re less safe because the American people have been recklessly scared into doubting the competence of their government to help keep them safe, secure and healthy.”
His final deflection ends upon China, and he writes that “And we should be united in demanding to know why the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was aware of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan early in December, maybe even November, and didn’t tell the rest of the world, when stopping the deadly spread might have been possible.”
His next-to-last paragraph nearly concludes by writing that “CCP propagandists… are not only campaigning against the use of the term “Wuhan virus” (a more geographically accurate description than “Spanish flu” ever was about the 1918 pandemic) but now also promoting the false claim that covid-19 was created by the U.S. Army.”
And the cherry on the top of his dodge-ball sundae is the final statement in which he writes that “There are real threats emanating from this pandemic. We need to focus on getting our response right and save the finger-pointing for what comes after.”
Not once does he point the finger of responsibility at the Trump administration’s intelligence-gathering community who failed him – and the American public – by not informing him of what was occurring in China, and that “the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was aware of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan early in December, maybe even November.”
Nope, never accept responsibility for intelligence failures.
That’s very Trumpian.
“In the spring of 2018, the White House pushed Congress to cut funding for Obama-era disease security programs, proposing to eliminate $252 million in previously committed resources for rebuilding health systems in Ebola-ravaged Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea. Under fire from both sides of the aisle, President Donald Trump dropped the proposal to eliminate Ebola funds a month later. But other White House efforts included reducing $15 billion in national health spending and cutting the global disease-fighting operational budgets of the CDC, NSC, DHS, and HHS. And the government’s $30 million Complex Crises Fund was eliminated.” https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/31/coronavirus-china-trump-united-states-public-health-emergency-response/
So, anyway…
People With Mild Symptoms Can Spread Coronavirus, European Researchers Warn
“Typhoid Mary” Mallon is wearing black, appears in the center of the image.
Maybe you don’t recall it from American History, or maybe you never heard of it, but in the early 1900’s there was a woman named Mary Mallon who became known as “Typhoid Mary” because she spread the typhoid bacteria and infected many, many people.
But the interesting thing was, that she NEVER showed any signs of being infected, and she claimed that because she didn’t show signs of disease, she wasn’t infected, even though she was, but didn’t realize it.
“Typhoid Mary” Mallon in hospital bed (foreground) was hospitalized, but NEVER showed any signs of disease. She was a carrier, only, but was able to infect many others who did come down with typhoid fever.
She was what is called a “carrier,” because she NEVER showed any signs of active disease, but was able to spread it (and did) wherever she went.
Think of it somewhat like a postal carrier: They spread the mail around, but never take it for themselves.
As best we know right now, those who are younger, are appear to have a decreased risk of contracting the disease (coming down with the disease) BUT, BY NO MEANS are they in any remote way immune from its effects. In fact, they DO get the disease, and according to findings, account for about 12% of all ICU (Intensive Care Unit) patients who have become infected with COVID-19 novel coronavirus disease.
“Alfredo Garzino-Demo, a virologist based at the University of Maryland and affiliated with the University of Padua in Italy, says this characteristic, while not uncommon among viruses, makes this disease extremely hard to contain. “Many diseases have a window period in which you don’t have symptoms but you are still able to transmit,” he says. “But this one is particularly serious.”“
Bottom line?
Do your part to help keep your community and America healthy, and safe by following the recommendations of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by:
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prepare/prevention.html
Know How it Spreads
• There is currently no vaccine to prevent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
• The best way to prevent illness is to avoid being exposed to this virus.
• The virus is thought to spread mainly from person-to-person.
• Between people who are in close contact with one another (within about 6 feet).
• Through respiratory droplets produced when an infected person coughs or sneezes.
• These droplets can land in the mouths or noses of people who are nearby or possibly be inhaled into the lungs.
Take steps to protect yourself
• Clean your hands often
• Wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds especially after you have been in a public place, or after blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing.
• If soap and water are not readily available, use a hand sanitizer that contains at least 60% alcohol. Cover all surfaces of your hands and rub them together until they feel dry.
• Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth with unwashed hands.
• Avoid close contact
• Avoid close contact with people who are sick Put distance between yourself and other people if COVID-19 is spreading in your community. This is especially important for people who are at higher risk of getting very sick.
Take steps to protect others
• Stay home if you’re sick
• Stay home if you are sick, except to get medical care. Learn what to do if you are sick.
• Cover coughs and sneezes
• Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when you cough or sneeze or use the inside of your elbow.
• Throw used tissues in the trash.
• Immediately wash your hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds. If soap and water are not readily available, clean your hands with a hand sanitizer that contains at least 60% alcohol.
• Wear a facemask if you are sick
If you are sick: You should wear a facemask when you are around other people (e.g., sharing a room or vehicle) and before you enter a healthcare provider’s office. If you are not able to wear a facemask (for example, because it causes trouble breathing), then you should do your best to cover your coughs and sneezes, and people who are caring for you should wear a facemask if they enter your room. Learn what to do if you are sick.
If you are NOT sick: You do not need to wear a facemask unless you are caring for someone who is sick (and they are not able to wear a facemask). Facemasks may be in short supply and they should be saved for caregivers.
Clean and disinfect
• Clean AND disinfect frequently touched surfaces daily. This includes tables, doorknobs, light switches, countertops, handles, desks, phones, keyboards, toilets, faucets, and sinks.
• If surfaces are dirty, clean them: Use detergent or soap and water prior to disinfection.
• To disinfect: Most common EPA-registered household disinfectants will work. Use disinfectants appropriate for the surface.
Options include:
• Diluting your household bleach.
• To make a bleach solution, mix:
5 tablespoons (1/3rd cup) bleach per gallon of water
–OR–
4 teaspoons bleach per quart of water
• Follow manufacturer’s instructions for application and proper ventilation. Check to ensure the product is not past its expiration date. Never mix household bleach with ammonia or any other cleanser. Unexpired household bleach will be effective against coronaviruses when properly diluted.
• Alcohol solutions.
• Ensure solution has at least 70% alcohol.
• Other common EPA-registered household disinfectants.
• Products with EPA-approved emerging viral pathogen claims are expected to be effective against COVID-19 based on data for harder to kill viruses. Follow the manufacturer’s instructions for all cleaning and disinfection products (e.g., concentration, application method and contact time, etc.).
Glendora man, 34, dies of coronavirus infection after visiting Disney World, sources say
A 34-year-old man who tested positive for the coronavirus infection after visiting Disney World and traveling through Los Angeles International Airport earlier this month died Thursday at a hospital in Pasadena, according to medical and government sources.
The Glendora man, who spent nearly a week on a ventilator, had underlying medical conditions, including asthma and bronchitis, the sources said.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-03-19/glendora-man-dies-coronavirus-disney-world
Yes, Young People Are Falling Seriously Ill From Covid-19
In the U.S., 705 of first 2,500 cases range in age from 20 to 44.
New evidence from Europe and the U.S. suggests that younger adults aren’t as impervious to the novel coronavirus that’s circulating worldwide as originally thought.
Despite initial data from China that showed elderly people and those with other health conditions were most vulnerable, young people — from twenty-somethings to those in their early forties — are falling seriously ill. Many require intensive care, according to reports from Italy and France. The risk is particularly dire for those with ailments that haven’t yet been diagnosed.
“It may have been that the millennial generation, our largest generation, our future generation that will carry us through for the next multiple decades, here may be a disproportional number of infections among that group,” Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, said in a press conference on Wednesday, citing the reports.
The data bears out that concern. In Italy, the hardest hit country in Europe, almost a quarter of the nearly 28,000 coronavirus patients are between the ages of 19 and 50, according to data website Statista.
Similar trends have been seen in the U.S. Among nearly 2,500 of the first coronavirus cases in the U.S., 705 were aged 20 to 44, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Between 15% and 20% eventually ended up in the hospital, including as many as 4% who needed intensive care. Few died.
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