81 thoughts on “C-19 Chat Post – April 24 2020”

  1. The USA seems to be racing towards 1 million cases and has passed the 50,000 death mark. I was silently a proponent of MA getting back to work/normal on June 1st. I think not.

    1. June 1st still may end up working. We’ll have to see how things go the rest of this month and into early May. I agree that it is not looking good at this point.

      The Massachusetts numbers looked grim yesterday, however, the number
      of tests increased dramatically, likely accounting for the increased numbers.

      We’ll see how it goes today. Then we have the weekend to mess up the numbers, so we have to wait until next week.

    2. I don’t think all Can be back by then but we might start opening some things up very slowly while still taking incredible caution. I have the sense our governor will move slowly. We just have to hope the president has not incited too much rebellion by that time and that folks will understand that it has to be done piecemeal. Left to our own devices, I think Baker and perhaps surrounding governors will do it right.

  2. Thanks to this guy some call there president ( I don’t have one ) makers of Lysol & the medical fuels are in a panic Telling folks not to drink it . Does this guy even have a brain did it fall of his circus train . Unfortunately some poor soul will end up doing it .

    2. No he does not have a brain. He is a total IMBECILE!!!!!

      He speaks out of his mouth and ass at the same time.

      I have NEVER seen such a moron in my life!!!

      I feel for Dr. Fauci. How he deals with that orange menace is beyond me.

  3. So I placed a food order the other day (Roche Bros.) and the total order came
    to $270. Care to guess how much of the order I received? Well it was $95 worth.

    NO MEAT. Could not get a pork or beef roast. One of our dinners
    was Bacon (as the meat) with Mashed potatoes and carrots. Hey whatever works.

    However, within that $95 we did score a pound of american cheese and 6 rolls
    of real paper towels (not bounty, but Viva. Who cares). And I finally got a package of
    hot dog rolls to go with the 2 packages of hot dogs already in the freezer.

    We used to have food fights in the cafeteria when I was young, but man
    this is a different kind of food fight! Never thought I would see this in my life
    time.

    2. I’ve been able to get meat both online (Whole Foods) and in person (Trader Joe’s or Stop n Shop). For the first 3-4 weeks I was shopping in the stores but since late March it’s been my wife. I’ve got an order in with Whole Foods to be delivered this evening with a little bit of meat (stew beef, etc). We will see if we get it Another thing I’ve been trying to stock up on since around March 1st are soups, pasta and prepared microwaveable meals (hormel meat loaf, etc…no refrigeration needed)…might not be the most appealing but it will work if need be. My wife has found that Trader Joe’s seems to be the best bet “in stock” items. Finally I’ve noticed that buying items through Amazon (soups, etc) is now next to impossible. Either they are out of stock (Amazon Pantry) or they basically profiteering charging crazy amounts of money for say a case (12 cans) of soup….those vendors are 3rd party vendors through Amazon. My goal is to stock up little by little over the coming 2 months on any items we use. Not to buy out everything at the store…just planning ahead. We are also considering buying a small freezer (something at Home Depot)…maybe 7-10 cubic feet.

      1. Thank you. Will check it out.

        We have a local store that sells meat. My son will be going to pick up some things tomorrow and he is going to get us some meat.

        If not available (was last weekend), then I’ll try outlets
        like Omaha Steaks.

        Thanks

    1. If touching the food contaminates you’re hands when you buy it, it seems to me it would then infect your hands every time you touch it. It lives in the fridge for up to a month and may survive freezing. I’ll find the links I read….I hope.

      1. I’ve seen a lot of the links surrounding this issue. I will probably continue to take the precautions I have been taking. Still too early to take one report and say that’s the one to bank on.

      1. And with Vietnam it took over a dozen years to reach those numbers…Now just 2 months. But according to some we should open back up as it’s not as bad as the regular Flu…….SMH

        1. With so many now testing “asymptomatic” is it possible that we ALL have Covid in one form or the other??

  6. I got some jars of better than bullion for beef and Also chicken. It works well if you don’t have broth.

    OS Omaha was out of a lot when I ordered a week ago

  7. Bizarre headlines like “Don’t inject disinfectant” and “Don’t ingest household cleaning products” fall into the category of things-you-never-thought-would-need to-be-said. My wife and I always laugh when we remember advising one of our sons “Don’t lick the driveway.” Of course, he was very young at the time and was not encouraged to lick it by George W. Bush. He came up with the idea all on his own!

    1. You mean the 3 hours I just spent in the tanning bed and getting ready to do some Lysol shots might not be a good thing?

  8. Thank you TK.

    Unfortunately we lost one of our branch managers to Covid this week. She was a longtime employee and friend to many of us. She had surgery a couple of weeks ago and then had pneumonia. They didn’t test her for Covid and sent her home on Sunday. She went back to the hospital by ambulance on Tuesday because she couldn’t breathe. She tested positive on Tuesday and died Wednesday. Needless to say we are heartbroken for her family as well as our work family.

  9. Keith I highly recommend getting a BJ’s membership too. They do offer delivery (though like everything else its hard to get a slot) and they have a lot of stuff the other stores in hingham didn’t have. (I found a coupon online for 25/year membership because we needed peanut butter, jelly, frozen burger patties, etc. – went in to see if they had it and bought a membership online while walking around the place lol)

    1. We have that and thanks for the reminder! 🙂 I’ve found that Trader Joe’s has been the best about availability, Stop n Shop second, The Big Y third (they were pretty bad even before this…much better when it was Hannafords), The Fruit Center fourth. As it stands now we are stocked with enough stuff for 4-6 weeks maybe a little longer. I’d like to eventually get up to 8-10 weeks at least. I do an inventory every week or so and go from there. It might seem excessive but it works for us.

      1. We have been doing the same. I so wish we had a Trader Joe’s our this way. I have said our local farm has been amazing.

          1. Yes. And I truly believe they need to be recognized by the town when we break out the other side of this

  11. Good news: Nation flattened the curve, at least overall. Hospitals are mostly able to keep up, treat patients, and not ration.

    Bad news: We’re NOT improving. Still have over 30k new daily cases and >2,000 deaths. Those figures haven’t budged. If anything average daily deaths have nudged higher over the last 2 week, while average daily cases have more or less remained the same.

    I’m very discouraged.

    2. I suspected the “peak” of the flattening would be a rather flat peak, i.e., it would last a while, maybe a few weeks. Then we’ll start to see a decline. Still feel this will be the case.

      1. Agree TK…the Flat peak might last a little longer than a few weeks though as some states that reopen get worse and those that don’t reopen have some improvements. The decline will be slow too.

      2. That is what I’ve been reading also. Baker made a good point today….we have no real idea of the what, when, where so we play a day or two at a time.

  12. I know some of you..like me have been experiencing feeling ill during this time period. I was lucky enough to get tested (albeit Oral Swab) and it came back negative. I was talking to a couple of friends of mine who are nurses (one around here and one in Boston) and they have said that both allergies and sinus infections seem to even worse this spring. I guess I’ve had that combo for a about 6 weeks now. The Z pack helped the probable sinus infection a little but it came back again (timed perfectly with a few bad allergy days). I can’t take normal allergy meds due to another condition (that usually affects a lot us guys over 60 LOL) so I take some homeopathy meds, along with lots of tea, lots of chicken soup and judicious use of vicks. It has helped but I still don’t feel myself. Usually my allergies start to wane around Memorial Day.

    2. It is such a worrisome time. I’m thrilled you are negative. But sorry you still don’t feel 100%

  14. I just cancelled my F5 Weather service (the one that gives me the Euro in addition to others). Being cooped up in the house, I needed to add another streaming service,
    so I cancelled one to pay for the other.

    We now have HULU.

    Anyone have any recommendations? Thanks

  16. Vicki, thanks for asking. I’m feeling fine. Don’t know if I had Covid-19. My son was sicker than I was. You may also recall he got very sick (103F-104F every day for about 5 or 6 days) in late January/beginning of February. Had to see a doctor about chest pain in mid to late February as he couldn’t shake the cough. So, perhaps that was Covid-19 and what he had a few weeks ago was something different. Don’t know. Being super cautious no matter what.

    TK, I too thought and think it’ll be a long plateau. https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuacohen/2020/04/12/us-may-be-plateauing-in-terms-of-number-of-new-coronavirus-cases-but-beware-of-the-fat-long-tail/#1919cc3a68cc

    Nevertheless, I was hoping to see more improvement by now.

  18. From the Massachusetts Covid-19 site, a delay in posting today’s numbers…

    Notice: Due to a national laboratory reporting issue, the April 24 dashboard is delayed. We will post it as soon as it becomes available.

      1. True. But, unless many of the positives are asymptomatic, this is a continuing and growing problem. Positivity rate is still too high – near 20%. 200 deaths a day for a small state is a lot.

    2. Be sure to read the note on page 1:
      PLEASE NOTE: Today’s data reflects a correction of a reporting error made by Quest, a national commercial laboratory, which affected case counts in multiple states including Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health received a backlog this week of almost 10,000 patient results (both positive and negative) from Quest dating back to April 13. These cases are included for the first time in today’s data.To most accurately reflect real-time trends, DPH sorted the Quest backlog and incorporated confirmed cases into state data based on when those test results should have been reported. In today’s dashboard, daily case counts from April 13 through today now reflect the corrected data.

          1. Agree.

            And though the case numbers partly reflect a backlog they’re still positive cases, 8% of which may need hospitalization. It’s far too many cases given our state’s population.

            1. Yeah the back log doesn’t do a thing I’m looking at those positives . Will be really curios to see if this trend continues through the weekend where it’s normally lower . Far, far from over .

    1. Crap down here in Brewster now.Tried out for Chatham A’s back in 1979 and didn’t make it. Breaks my heart for those boys . It is great baseball

  23. I got my hand sanitizer yesterday. Took precisely one week from placing the order to arrival. It’s a fat little bottle and the overwhelming scent is the alcohol used to make it – but it pours well (a little less thick than a normal hand sanitizer but I’d imagine adding a little more aloe gel to it might thicken it more if you wanted) and evaporates fairly fast. So overall I am happy!

    Picture of the bottle: https://imgur.com/a/sjUixj4

    So would recommend if you are in need of an obscure provider of hand sanitizer.

  24. Aidan, I so much agree. Love Cape Cod league baseball.

    Wow, you tried out for the Chatham team. That was back when I used to go to 5 games every summer with my parents and siblings – Orleans Cardinals’ home games.

    1. Yes kinda of like a “Summer Catch “movie .Lived in Chatham , landscaped for a local landscaper for the summers , went to college and played baseball and walked on for try out. Where it diverges is I failed to make it but it was fun. It’s amazing when you go up against the best of the best and you realize how far off you are, but again a great time of life .

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