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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Nov 18, 2020 7:11:04 GMT
So the big news this morning, Flinders University- 1 of the biggest campuses in my hometown has shut down because someone tested positive. It's a 10 min drive from my house and co incidentally right next to Flinders Hospital.. A local restaurant/pub was found to be "of interest" yesterday, its also literally a 5 minute walk from my old house around the corner. And it's day 2 of me working from home. Have spent about 2 hours with the I.T. people on the phone since yesterday morning because naturally nothing was working. I am using my work iPad as a telephone so that's fun.! :-( Live press release now on all tv channels and radio etc here.. Full lockdown as of midnight tonight.. It's 12:45pm now.. Only essential service workers are allowed out (looks like me as an essential service worker will be working from home longer than 2 weeks argh) - and groceries etc.. far out. So I got my official letter "signed" by the South Australian Police Commissioner today via email from the HR Department confirming again I am an Essential Services Worker- wife needs it as we are both classified the same and Junior is in childcare- children with 1 paren working from home are deemed to be taking care of their child/children during the next 6 days.. Fingers crossed its only 6. There will no doubt be anti-maskers derp derping all over the social medias etc.. GGRRR
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Post by tuigirl on Nov 18, 2020 8:43:03 GMT
So the big news this morning, Flinders University- 1 of the biggest campuses in my hometown has shut down because someone tested positive. It's a 10 min drive from my house and co incidentally right next to Flinders Hospital.. A local restaurant/pub was found to be "of interest" yesterday, its also literally a 5 minute walk from my old house around the corner. And it's day 2 of me working from home. Have spent about 2 hours with the I.T. people on the phone since yesterday morning because naturally nothing was working. I am using my work iPad as a telephone so that's fun.! :-( Live press release now on all tv channels and radio etc here.. Full lockdown as of midnight tonight.. It's 12:45pm now.. Only essential service workers are allowed out (looks like me as an essential service worker will be working from home longer than 2 weeks argh) - and groceries etc.. far out. You can be happy that your government is cracking down on this as it is. Because it means short term inconvenience and then long term peace. Just look at us- too little, too late, and it is a major inconvenience long term.
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Post by tuigirl on Nov 18, 2020 8:45:55 GMT
Live press release now on all tv channels and radio etc here.. Full lockdown as of midnight tonight.. It's 12:45pm now.. Only essential service workers are allowed out (looks like me as an essential service worker will be working from home longer than 2 weeks argh) - and groceries etc.. far out. So I got my official letter "signed" by the South Australian Police Commissioner today via email from the HR Department confirming again I am an Essential Services Worker- wife needs it as we are both classified the same and Junior is in childcare- children with 1 paren working from home are deemed to be taking care of their child/children during the next 6 days.. Fingers crossed its only 6. There will no doubt be anti-maskers derp derping all over the social medias etc.. GGRRR
I got one of these letters in my car, too, as an essential worker.
Oh, do not mention the anti- mask protesters. I get a rash by just thinking of them. You know what they call their demos now? "Civil rights and peace marches".
Today they have planned huge protests in front of the Reichstag in Berlin (which have been forbidden) but since the Nazi groups have now started to hijack the whole situation, things become more and more violent and the protesters have already threatened with violence.
Because this is exactly what we need right now- Nazis rampaging through the streets. Only thing I can hope for it that they continue to refuse to wear masks and that the problem solves itself that way.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Nov 18, 2020 9:04:51 GMT
Live press release now on all tv channels and radio etc here.. Full lockdown as of midnight tonight.. It's 12:45pm now.. Only essential service workers are allowed out (looks like me as an essential service worker will be working from home longer than 2 weeks argh) - and groceries etc.. far out. You can be happy that your government is cracking down on this as it is. Because it means short term inconvenience and then long term peace. Just look at us- too little, too late, and it is a major inconvenience long term.
We have this store across the road and down a bit from my house- a 3 minute walk:
Just went and bought a new 27" monitor and some basic speakers. Have to put the whole setup in the spare bedroom and not in the dining/lounge room area. Keeping the receipts I can claim them on tax.
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Post by tuigirl on Nov 18, 2020 19:03:57 GMT
As predicted, huge street battles in Berlin today between violent protesters and police. Mayhem, and the Nazis instrumentalized the protests and send around some pretty ridiculous social media messages to incite the violence even further. This is getting insane.
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Nov 18, 2020 19:14:10 GMT
As predicted, huge street battles in Berlin today between violent protesters and police. Mayhem, and the Nazis instrumentalized the protests and send around some pretty ridiculous social media messages to incite the violence even further. This is getting insane. Sorry to hear this. So many fools around.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Nov 18, 2020 21:30:31 GMT
As predicted, huge street battles in Berlin today between violent protesters and police. Mayhem, and the Nazis instrumentalized the protests and send around some pretty ridiculous social media messages to incite the violence even further. This is getting insane. Who would have thought, still having Nazi's in 2020..
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Post by tuigirl on Nov 18, 2020 21:41:44 GMT
As predicted, huge street battles in Berlin today between violent protesters and police. Mayhem, and the Nazis instrumentalized the protests and send around some pretty ridiculous social media messages to incite the violence even further. This is getting insane. Who would have thought, still having Nazi's in 2020..
:-(
Sad story is they keep popping up all over the globe. It is like a global plague of toxic mushrooms going mad in the current political climate.
Sad story is, one of the tweets they sent around today way that their saviour, Donald Trump, had landed and was taking charge of the country. Support was needed from true protectors of the Western World to depose the ruling fascist Federal Government and to wipe out the last of Merkel's resistance.
WTF?
I have even seen some in NZ when I was living there. And of course in Oz, too. Makes you wonder what is so attractive in being a xenophobic racist little *$$hole.
EDIT- I might have mis-worded that. I think the correct term in other countries is "Patriot". Just in my country, when someone walks around like that, I like to call them by the correct terminology.
Frustrated sarcasm off.
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Post by tuigirl on Nov 18, 2020 21:45:53 GMT
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Nov 18, 2020 22:26:11 GMT
Such a shame, I have been to Berlin a wonderful city
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Nov 18, 2020 22:42:24 GMT
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Post by barnabaslives on Nov 19, 2020 11:12:58 GMT
I'm not sure how I am doing lately. Just when we've all heard that Vit D will save us all from Covid, I started up on cautiously supplementing at only 1/16 to 1/8 the recommended daily allowance after my last trip to the doctor indicated that my Vit D levels were low, and proceeded over the next 10 days or so to have two bouts of respiratory distress and one panic attack so acute that neighbors in my apartment complex responded and offered to take me to emergency. (Same old business, my lungs are working but my brain has somehow been fooled into thinking they are not. Chronic obstructive with no obstruction involved). I also had a huge flareup of bacterial skin infection start at the same time I started supplementation. That is the first time this year I've had such dramatic complications as these.
I should add that the guy next door is a saint, I barely even know the guy and he stood there and talked me through two of these crises. I was so glad to see him the last time I wanted to tell him I loved him but I was afraid it might not get taken the right way (that and "why don't you have a mask on?", ouch). I just felt that, I was so grateful, and that someone was checking in on me without blaming me. Kinda want to be careful what you say though when you can barely talk and won't be able to explain anything that comes out wrong. I feel like I should bring him over a pot roast or something if I knew how to cook.
At the moment, I'm a bit concerned whether the Covid correlations behind the Vit D recommendations were considered carefully because I don't really know, but I'm again having to face up to the possibility of instances where Vit D or other immunommodlants may have the ability to coax the immune systems into battles that might be counterproductive (accounts of phagocytes hijacked by pathogens as a vehicle for dissemination come to mind). I'm really not up for looking at Covid research, I'm still hurting badly over the abuse I was subjected to for studying biology, but I'm also very concerned whether proper attention has been paid to the possibility of co-infection in Covid cases.
I've also seen understanding of most of not all of my medical diagnoses (or the ones I should have) complicated by "correlations". "100 percent of patients tested wore shoes, blame footwear" has become my standard way of describing some of this. "Chronic fatigue syndrome is caused by inactivity" blah blah blah. An estimated 4 million people have some of these things, and we can't seem to be able to find a doctor who understands the disease, or seems to want to. I've probably mentioned writing to the Mayo Clinic repeatedly about how physicians might be misled by looking at their page on one of these diagnoses, and wasn't dignified with so much as an automated response?
Just again today as a side-effect of checking my e-mail, I saw another article talking about medical symptoms in the aftermath of Covid and struggle with the idea that a pathogen that has left the building is continuing to produce symptoms, as opposed to some of things I've seen reported in research about certain viruses eliciting pathogenic behaviors from resident bacteria or fungi. Also as someone with a diagnosis of thrombotic disease, I'm well acquainted with the contention that certain common anaerobic bacteria can cause thrombosis, and concerned whether such things may be contributing to Covid symptoms.
I try so hard to keep myself distracted just so I can briefly occasionally experience some reality besides being sick and feeling sick, but if my concentration lapses, I get lost. At the moment I can't even listen to an audio just when I need one most, and instead have a bunch of tapes of my ex playing in my head, of her less than compassionate responses to the state I was in.
Talking to the only old friend who still speaks to me isn't helping, every time it's the same thing - he sounds a lot like my ex about doctors, same conversation every time: he says they aren't trying to help anybody but themselves, check, they aren't trying to cure anybody because there's no money in that and will dishonestly go out of their way to avoid addressing real causes, check, then he comes back with how I should bow down and worship them and tell them they're right even when they're wrong because they studied for five years, whereas I must have studied for five years and became some pathetic idiot who isn't smart enough to get on the bandwagon and blame himself for being sick. That's like my ex telling me how worthless all our local doctors are and then hopping straight on the bandwagon with them so she could blame me for being sick. "These doctors don't know anything" - unless it happened to justify one of her personal prejudices, of course.
I wouldn't wish it on anyone but I think if she were fed her own medicine, she'd catch Covid and get told it was her own fault for not eating more veggies. I don't know what to say to my friend. I've tried explaining a few basic things so he knows I got something out the education I tried to give myself and we communicate very well on that actually, but in the end it's somehow all my fault.
Right at the minute, somehow it really really hurts that the one thing I have never heard in 20 years is "We need to get you to see someone who will help you".
I'm also having to eat it because a few years ago, I dreamed up an online concert system because... you know, some of the bands I like are getting "up there", and the shape I'm in I feel really sorry for them having to get carted all over the place to do shows (or for any artists whose proceeds might not be that comfortably far enough above their travelling expenses). I had the thing named and all the features planned out and was thinking of doing mock-ups right before my life started to fall in around me. I can only imagine the potential of something like that in the lockdown era. I wasn't imagining becoming Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos or anything, but it would be kinda nice if I could afford to see one of the specialists that my ex went so far out of her way to discourage me from seeing back when I was married and had coverage for it.
It would have been even nicer if I could have helped people whose livelihoods must be taking quite a beating because they mainly depend on people congregating in number.
Sorry, don't know why I suddenly feel so talkative about the boring, depressing show that is my life, or why I suddenly feel so touchy about being given up for dead or made to feel like I'm worthless.
I'd say "Thank God I'm not in a hospital" because I SHOULD, but that's what my life has become, it's devoted to trying to stay out of the hospital. If something is supposed be good for but it's making me worse, I stop doing it before I end up in the hospital because I don't exactly have a wide margin of error here. I did that for five years because I was told we couldn't afford for me to go to a hospital or a specialist. Then people scream me at me for doing what seems to keep me out of a hospital, and doctors accuse me of lying when I say I followed doctor's orders and got worse? Then my best friend says (every time we discuss the subject), "Oh yeah well if you're so smart, how come you're still sick?" - I could tear my hair out - as I was supposed to become so medically omniscient as to obsoletize tests and Petri dishes?!? At least I've learned enough to know that Petri dishes might be in order which is apparently still well ahead of the learning curve. Sometimes I don't know why I get up in the morning except to use the restroom.
At this point I am pretty worried, not just for myself but for so many others. Hopefully I haven't ticked off poor tuigirl again just when she needs it least (apologies in advance for upsetting anyone), but sometimes I think all this is starting to get to me.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2020 12:11:55 GMT
Hey, I know it's probably there in the brain, but it's always good to hear from an external source -- we value you here, barnabaslives. You and what you have to say. You're not alone in this, however much it may feel like that at times.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Nov 20, 2020 1:26:52 GMT
WOW. Safe to say all of South Australia (my home town) are furious as of 30 mins ago.. Turns out 1 of the people who tested positive, he was a "security guard" in 1 of the Medi-Hotels, flat out lied to all authorities- thus causing this immediate state wide full lockdown. Lynch mobs are already forming on social media.. This person is here on a working Visa from overseas. He has cost the state 10's of millions of dollars already over the last 3-4 days. No doubt he will be deported based on the State Premier's reaction. Dissapointing.. GGRR
EDIT. Here is the news article.
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Nov 22, 2020 23:11:58 GMT
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Nov 24, 2020 19:23:38 GMT
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Nov 26, 2020 12:52:04 GMT
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Post by tuigirl on Nov 26, 2020 19:18:22 GMT
Right. So someone from my department has tested positive. That person had been in a meeting with people from my office yesterday. I am now a second grade contact. Tests will be run, but it could take until next week until we know for sure. I made the executive decision today that only the colleague directly opposite me and me will be running the show, with a third colleague in home office. Everybody else should stay away. Just to keep contacts and infectious pressure low. It will be a chaotic and very busy day tomorrow... and a lonely and very anxious weekend. Since it is my birthday, I had planned to travel home and spend time with my parents and siblings, but that now has to be cancelled. I just keep the hopes up that we do not have a major outbreak at my work, because that would curb the testing facilities of a whole region, plus the testing of all of our veterinary samples (which we do for several European countries including the UK). Not to mention all the high risk family members of colleagues now at risk. Here is to hope.
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Post by barnabaslives on Nov 26, 2020 19:34:29 GMT
It will be a chaotic and very busy day tomorrow... and a lonely and very anxious weekend. Since it is my birthday, I had planned to travel home and spend time with my parents and siblings, but that now has to be cancelled. Wishing you a very Happy Birthday in spite of everything that's happening. Take good care of yourself and treat yourself to something special. To hope!
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Nov 26, 2020 20:28:51 GMT
Since it is my birthday, I had planned to travel home and spend time with my parents and siblings, but that now has to be cancelled. Have a happy 50th! lol
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