Do you think you have Covid19? You aren't protecting anyone by wearing a mask and that mask is more likely to hurt you.
Nonsense! You're putting your
ignorance of really basic facts about
CoVID-19 on display here in
CathInfo.
It doesn't matter whether
I "
think" I have
CoVID-19. I can transmit the infection to other people regardless of whether
I--or anyone else--correctly diagnose my symptoms. The latter aspect is called being "
asymptomatic". In several countries, credible front-line emergency or i.c.u. doctors, plus nurses (the latter spending more time with patients than the 5--15-min. of e.r. doctors), figured
that out a few months ago.
No thanks to arguably
criminal foot-dragging by the WHO and CDC. That overall devious characteristic of the virus has already been shown to spread
undiagnosed infections to hospitals, long-term nursing facilities, and the general population. And
that was established before a few foolish state-governors, all Democrats, arguably
criminally decreed that long-term nursing facilities must accept any & all
CoVID-19 patients. Notably in New York, which leads our nation in confirmed cases of CoVID-19 by a huge margin, but also in New Jersey, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, where comparable decrees were issued. As if densely-populated public-transportation-intensive, and widely elevator-dependent New York City needed additional vulnerabilities.
For your own health and that of others, you'd be better off keeping away from old folks homes [....]
Hey-ell! I
am an
old folk. Should I conclude that my repeated mentions of receiving First Communion before Vatican II passed right over your head? I live in a community populated by such residents. But we're all
ambulatory, and no medical care is provided, so it's definitely
not a "nursing home".
For your own health and that of others, you'd be better off keeping away from [...] doctors, and hospitals.
Ummm,
no. Thanks to a hereditary
noncontagious ailment that surfaced quite late in my life, I need to present myself
frequently at a local
hospital for
chemical therapy. Alas, it's really only a mitigation, because there's no cure. As I was taught in my parochial school, "we all have our crosses to bear". So that's among the most significant of mine.
I've done that all of my life, nothing new to me.
So you and your family have been specially blessed during "
all of [
your]
life"
not to have older relatives who needed monitoring of their care, whether in an "
old folks home" or a "
hospital", or at least would welcome visits from your family? I'm envious, as I have no doubt that many other
CathInfo readers must be.