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| April or May 2020 and here I am after making my own mask to wear from directions seen on TV. It doesn't stay on my ears. I need to use my pharmacy-bought one from 2 years ago when we had forest fires with smoke coming into our city. I've had asthma, so needed to stay indoors then, too. Luckily, I had kept the box of masks. |
People then went through very similar things that we are today. You'd think we'd learn to prevent such a thing but that's not the case. Ours today started we believe, in China without a war yet came here. Today we have air travel that didn't exist in 1918. Yet we have vaccines that didn't exist then, either. One has to be created to fight this virus, and doctors are working on it still. One thing they learned is that so many of the cases died of pneumonia, as this hit the lungs the most.
A pandemic is caused by a contagious disease like the flu that becomes out of hand. It hits the whole world. This particular flu is scary because it harms the whole body of those it comes in contact with. All the organs will be permanently affected. Autopsies show that the lungs show signs of it even in those people who were carriers but hadn't shown signs of having the virus. Other killer diseases are horrible but not like this one. This one hops from person to person like a magnet with the speed of lightening. Groups have been attacked like in churches where people were close together, and high numbers show all were victimized.
Older people with immune systems that were damaged have been the first to die of this disease which came to our attention in March of 2020. I'm in this group and certainly want to live through it so am following all the rules. Luckily I have a son who is a retired RN who has constantly harped about what to do and why I need to stay home and out of harm's way.
The contagion caused our schools to close, jobs to freeze, life came to a halt. We're still in that phase of improving and crashing again. All are to wear masks by the decision of our governor so as to not spread the disease even if we think we're well, for younger people have been catching it. Many people feeling great may be carriers and are the ones spreading the disease. If you can't wear a mask because of physical reasons, please stay home and let someone else do your bidding. Don't frighten people with a bare face.
Today, with our advanced science where we know so much more than people from WWI 1914-1918 in that flu pandemic, and so realize all the more why this flu is so much more dangerous and how easily it spreads. We hope that our scientists will create a vaccine against it soon, but in the meantime we have to follow all these preventative measures; stay home, wear a mask in public, and wear rubber gloves when touching anything, too, like doors of buildings or in supermarkets.
We thought heat would kill the virus. The problem with that is that it's the worst in our southern states. Florida and Texas have been hard hit.
Since I'm Jewish Bubba, I must say something about that. In the Middle Ages, diseases spread and the Jews, who lived by their Mosaic laws, were not catching diseases like the rest of the non-Jewish population due to this as they were required to visit a mikvah once a month; yes, even men would go too, but not for the menses, of course; where they immersed in water, where they washed their hands before eating, right after rising in the morning; where they didn't eat certain meats such as that from a pig; and no insects, etc following the laws of Kashrut as they are called. The population would turn on them and do harm to them for not coming down with illnesses.
Our populations have reached a critical mass where disease spreads so easily. We are witnessing a change in our lives that no other times has experienced like the seriousness of of this era. We are adjusting quickly. Life has been doing that since the beginning, and if it hadn't, we wouldn't be here now. That's why homo-sapiens still rule on this planet. Where Neanderthal died out, we're still here and will use our intelligence to overcome viruses.
Other disease have killed more people, to be sure, but they were in contained areas, or could be contained, at least. This one is far more allusive. It's not a bacteria, it's a virus and reacts differently.
In Gresham, a married couple fighting the illness was asked to self quarantine after both made 3 trips to the ER. They're asking their community to take COVID-19 seriously.
Multnomah County
Oregon
United States
Worldwide
2,604,295
Confirmed cases in U.S.
126,882
Deaths in U.S.
Coronavirus deaths in the United States
Hover over a state to see how many confirmed cases and deaths there are across the country.
1-10 deaths
11-100
101-1,000
More than 1,000
Maryland
Confirmed: 67,559 cases
Deaths: 3,190
resource: pictures:
https://www.kgw.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/gresham-couple-fighting-illness-asks-community-to-take-covid-19-seriously/283-61013cf1-0e2e-4a1d-9ccd-ad1e8add9fe1
https://greshamoregon.gov/COVID-19/
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/coronavirus-deaths-united-states-each-day-2020-n1177936
https://www.livescience.com/6-months-coronavirus-pandemic.html?utm_source=notification
https://greshamoregon.gov/COVID-19/
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/coronavirus-deaths-united-states-each-day-2020-n1177936
https://www.livescience.com/6-months-coronavirus-pandemic.html?utm_source=notification
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