Can touching a barbell in the gym get you sick with the coronavirus?

[boost creep]

Where I work at the VP of HR sent out an email that banned work air travel. I sent an email back and questioned our company's wellness program which requires all employees to get a physical by July 1st, 10k employees. I said the first place a suspect CV case will go is doctors office?? The reply was "The company wellness program benefits outweigh the risk" lol.

Probably just like any other virus, it will run its course and there isn't shit we can do about it.

 

[master.on]

Actually, since it kills mostly the elderly, plenty of governments might welcome this virus.

Then Dr Scally at its old age would be one of the few Mesoers to go.

Stop watching liberal media, hit the gym and avoid leftists.

 

[ickyrica]

With direct contacts that are Chinese, living in China and have friends and family all over China I will say that they're reporting the situation is much larger than the state media is reporting. They're estimating 4x what is being reported. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

 

[Old]

Probably just like any other virus, it will run its course and there isn't shit we can do about it.

Hopefully it will run is course quickly ... if people would practice consideration, then less harm will be done.

So why isn't everyone flipping the fuck out over the yearly number of deaths via simple flu in the U.S. ?
Contrary to popular media belief ... the sky is not falling

You are right, the sky is not falling. As for the 'normal' flu(s), people are used to it and take it for granted.

Bottom line is, use common sense during seasons where flu strains are dominant.

You speak as IF people use common sense. It is more an issue of considering others and not sharing ones sickness. "Oh, I just had to come to work" ... "Had to get the [snot nosed] kids out". As my late father-in-law would say, "The way to get ride of the flu is to give it to others". If people would stay home when sick with ANY contagious illness, a lot fewer would suffer.

Up North a guy in Saratoga Springs has this flu. Until recently quarantined, he worked as a pharmacist at CVS. So for days has been counting out pills for sick and elderly. What should these folk do now? Not take their insulin? Soak their blood pressure meds in Purell ... oops, there has been a run on Purell so they can't do that.

With direct contacts that are Chinese, living in China and have friends and family all over China I will say that they're reporting the situation is much larger than the state media is reporting. They're estimating 4x what is being reported. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

People always like to think it is another person's problem ... that bad things aren't going to happen to them.
So when one's granny or sick wife or sick brother dies, then it gets more personal ... unless one can't stand their relatives.

Anyone want to see the last 10 years of 'normal' flu deaths, check out the CDC. Burden of Influenza

So the US has had this flu a couple of weeks. As of today, March 9th, there are 566 cases with 22 deaths. Coronavirus Update (Live): 111,645 Cases and 3,884 Deaths from COVID-19 Wuhan China Virus Outbreak - Worldometer

So 3.89% death rate compared to normal flu 0.14% [2017-18]. Of course predictions are that the death rate will be lower.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/images/about/burden/influenza-burden-chart2-960px.jpg

Then Dr Scally at its old age would be one of the few Mesoers to go.

Do you think that would be good because he is a liberal? Or that he posts because he is scared for his life at 66?

Remember the Steroid Act of 1990 was shoved down the throat of congress by George Bush. Hardly a liberal.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

COVID-19 Testing Houston ...

I called the largest hospital in the area and they do not provide testing as well. It is part of the largest hospital system in HOUSTON. Their testing is extremely limited! IOW, absent. http://www.memorialhermann.org/coronavirus/?banner=hp

There are a limited number of COVID-19 test kits available nationwide. To determine who gets tested for the virus, Memorial Hermann follows Public Health guidelines, which includes evaluating for relevant symptoms, travel history and potential exposure. If you suspect you may have COVID-19 and would like to consult with a healthcare provider, you are encouraged to use telemedicine and virtual care options.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

My GP is part of a very large medical practice in the Houston area with 15 locations. The area covered is extensive [see map]. Yet, they do not provide for COVID-19 testing [see PM].

 

[Kingsmountain]

COVID-19 Testing Houston ...

I called the largest hospital in the area and they do not provide testing as well. It is part of the largest hospital system in HOUSTON. Their testing is extremely limited! IOW, absent. http://www.memorialhermann.org/coronavirus/?banner=hp

There are a limited number of COVID-19 test kits available nationwide. To determine who gets tested for the virus, Memorial Hermann follows Public Health guidelines, which includes evaluating for relevant symptoms, travel history and potential exposure. If you suspect you may have COVID-19 and would like to consult with a healthcare provider, you are encouraged to use telemedicine and virtual care options.

I know it's not a lot in comparison to population but didn't the Surgeon General just do an interview last night and said that they had 75,000 testing kits on hand?

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Three workers at the Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens were transporting hundreds of thousands in dollars in cash on Saturday night when they were accosted by two gunmen, the police said. The thieves made off with more than $200,000, aided in part by surgical masks they wore to conceal their identities.

The masks, conspicuous items to wear at a racetrack, appear to have given the bandits cover among patrons who are increasingly wearing them as a protective measure against the coronavirus, people at the racetrack said on Sunday.

The three workers — a racetrack employee and two unarmed security guards — took the cash from gaming machines and were moving it to a safe upstairs as the racetrack was preparing to close on Saturday night, the police said.

The masked gunmen, dressed all in black, accosted the workers in a hallway and forced them into a room at gunpoint, the police said. The thieves confiscated the workers’ cellphones before fleeing with the cash.

The police believe the gunmen made off with $200,000 to $270,000 before the workers called 911 at 10:22 p.m. Investigators were still searching for the culprits on Sunday.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

I know it's not a lot in comparison to population but didn't the Surgeon General just do an interview last night and said that they had 75,000 testing kits on hand?

 

[Havah]

will do.

You really don’t think there’s mass hysteria over this?

Maybe I should panic like you and run the streets screaming we are all going to die!

Theres a middle ground between the 2 stands you took

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[ickyrica]

So on a positive note...

I switched from hourly to salary starting today. Fuck you coronavirus

 

[Kingsmountain]

Okay, cool tweets. However, you quoted my post and didn't even confirm nor deny the 75k testing kits available and I thought (maybe I was wrong) that was one of your points in a previous post (that there weren't any testing kits available)

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Italy extends coronavirus measures nationwide

Italy is extending its strict coronavirus quarantine measures, which include a ban on public gatherings, to the entire country.

Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said the measures, which come into effect on Tuesday, were necessary to defend the most fragile members of the community.

He added that the best thing for the citizens of Italy was to stay at home.

Italy's coronavirus death toll jumped on Monday by 97 to 463. It is the worst-hit country after China.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Italy extends coronavirus measures nationwide

Italy is extending its strict coronavirus quarantine measures, which include a ban on public gatherings, to the entire country.

Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said the measures, which come into effect on Tuesday, were necessary to defend the most fragile members of the community.

He added that the best thing for the citizens of Italy was to stay at home.

Italy's coronavirus death toll jumped on Monday by 97 to 463. It is the worst-hit country after China.

 

[kinkos]

Yeah “its just a flu, you will be fine”

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Switcher]

Cool, after the initial 2.1 and the follow up 4, we will only need another few 100 million or so lol.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

“In this respect, our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words, they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences. A pestilence isn't a thing made to man's measure; therefore we tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogy of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away. But it doesn't always pass away and, from one bad dream to another, it is men who pass away, and the humanists first of all, because they have taken no precautions.”

― Albert Camus, The Plague




Nearly every day of the past few weeks, all the mobile phones in Seoul have gone off at the same time: some days once, some twice, some more than that. The cause is Korea’s emergency alert system, which in the years I’ve lived here has warned of flood risks, heat waves, and exceptional densities of air pollution. But now, in the time of the novel coronavirus or COVID-19, it announces each new outbreak, with details running to the area of the city in which it occurred. (Other regions of the country get announcements of their own.) The increased frequency of these simultaneous rings and vibrations colors life in Seoul these days, as do the thousands of surgical-masked faces seen in the street, the Mandarin-speakers wearing “I AM FROM TAIWAN” buttons, and the subway-station announcements — repeated over and over again in various languages including an especially loud English — about the importance of thorough hand-washing.


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