ConnorEl
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I was responding to ITC’s suggestion that generic dexamethasone would suddenly become very, very expensive in the US.
I’ve heard a drug called hydroxichloroquine may help?
I’m pretty sure there’s more likelihood this dexamethasone news is will hold up.
Half my shopping nowadays is figuring out substitutes or different recipes on the fly when certain things are gone. Not to mention picking up things not on the list that happen to be on sale but I’ll need in two weeks.
Update on my daughter. She feels better this morning - still not good. Body aches, fever (we think - she can't find a thermometer - really?), a little cough.
Greenville is an absolute shitshow. We have been on the phone all last night and this morning trying to find somewhere she can get tested. It is ridiculous. The CVS makes you do your own swab and there is no way she can do that - she is very squeamish about stuff like that. The Urgent Care only does 35 tests a day - she got there at 7:45 this morning, they open at 8:00, and there were so many people in line in front of her they shut down testing before she got in.
The hospital that is on the dept. of health website as doing testing just referred her to the CVS or Urgent Care.
There were doing testing at the convention center but that has now shut down.
At this point she is going to have to wait until tomorrow morning and try the Urgent Care again. Unbelievable. Her roommates are understandably staying away from her, so she is on her own.
I hope she’s okay scooter.
Does she know how she got it? Was she out and about in Atlanta/wearing a mask?
She has been out and about way more than we liked and we have been telling her to be more careful - her age group and her friends have just been way too blase about it all. So far all the friends she has been with and she has reached out to feel fine - no clue where she got it. Maybe this will wake some of them up? Doubt it. I'm sure she will be fine, I hope she hasn't spread it any further. She does have to wear a mask at work.
As an example of the attitudes around there, she was at work when she started feeling bad. She told them she was getting sick and thought she should go home. They acted like she was crazy for being concerned or wanting to go home? I don't get it. Around here if you say you have a sniffle they send you home and tell you to get tested. SC just seems out of touch?
This is all pretty wild but sadly indicative of why the virus will keep spreading. I mean if she's been out and about at restaurants and bars without a mask on there's no telling where she got it - could be anywhere since the virus is still wildly infectious.
Every state that has reopened restaurants and aren't requiring masks in open places of business are out of touch and off the rails. I don't know why people believe going back to the same conditions that were present in March when the virus spread rampantly before social distancing and shutdowns would make everything magically okay. The virus didn't disappear, we just took appropriate steps to slow the spread.
I can't imagine wanting to go out without a mask on even if it wasn't required. I don't even remember the last time I saw someone in a public business without a mask on up here. It's been at least two months. It's also why virus spread is declining and being contained in Massachusetts.
It sounds like your Republican governor has made good decisions. Thanks, Democrat Roy Cooper. Non-politically, of course.
But after they do and it sizes up, then we can agree that it's good news. Sorry for being optimistic!
Must be much easier to just see black and white rather than shades of gray for 2&2. Probably a big proponent of “democrats are the party of slavery why would you be a democrat in 2020?”
I’d wager Cooper and Baker are fairly similar in ideological views regardless of party affiliation. And yes I’ve been quite critical of Cooper, along with the 7 Republican governors who have widely opened other states with the current highest rate increases in the country.
I've actually been a fan of Cooper's attempts to follow the data and open things gradually. But, everyone seems to sees things only as either clamped down completely or wide open. So people haven't been able to handle the 'open businesses but still behave carefully' model.
Update. She found a link to the right telehealth place that gave her an order so she could go to the Greenville hospital and get tested at their drive-up - my other daughter, the nurse practitioner, figured it out for us. I don't know why that option wasn't listed on the DEHC website, but whatever. She has now been tested and should know results in 48 hours. Still feels bad - tylenol helps a lot. Fever only a little over 100. Test was not fun, but she is really dramatic about that stuff.
I’m starting to come more to the conclusion that we should kill the “lockdown” idea and try and go all in on distancing, masks, sanitizing, etc. I know America is way too stupid and entitled for it to work but it’s becoming more clear IMO that being too late to shut down really fucked us permanently and we are past the point of really being able to get this under control.
I’m starting to come more to the conclusion that we should kill the “lockdown” idea and try and go all in on distancing, masks, sanitizing, etc. I know America is way too stupid and entitled for it to work but it’s becoming more clear IMO that being too late to shut down really fucked us permanently and we are past the point of really being able to get this under control.