[T3] 2020 Invasion - POSTPONED

[Sean Bartnik]

Here in NYC pretty much everyone knows someone who has either had it and/or died from it.

I personally have a good friend who had it (confirmed case with positive test) and was seriously ill for a couple weeks. Young and otherwise healthy, this thing kicked her ass.  Luckily she did not have to be hospitalized and has now recovered. One common thing with COVID-19 that I’ve been hearing from first-person accounts is the roller-coaster nature of the illness.  You’ll feel like you’ve turned the corner and are recovering, only for it to come back hard on you again.  That second-week crash is when a lot of the sudden deaths occur. I know of a couple co-workers who have died from it, and several of my co-workers’ family members as well - sadly, one lost her mother and sister to COVID-19 within a couple weeks of each other.

Talking to an NYPD friend of mine a few weeks ago and he had noted that DOA calls were through the roof (this was before NYC had reached peak cases).  A lot more people have been dying at home than would normally be expected based on historical data. DOAs do not get tested for COVID-19 so one cannot say with 100% certainty that they died of COVID-19 but common sense would suggest that COVID-19 probably has some role in these excess deaths.

Many people have attempted to make hay about most of the people who die having some kind of underlying health condition.  Which is true, however, those underlying health conditions are extraordinarily common throughout the USA.  It’s not like we have the healthiest population. When you look at two of the main co-morbidities being obesity and hypertension, well that’s a LOT of Americans.

New York’s past is the other states’ futures. We waited too long to shut everything down.  But once we shut everything down, that worked.  We are now past the peak.  A lot of these states that are re-opening things even before they have reached their peaks, I’m afraid they’re about to have a really bad time.

-Sean

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> Out of curiosity, does anyone here know anyone who has actually had, 
> COVID-19, either mild or serious? No one we know personally has 
> caught it, but all of our friends are staying safely at home. How 
> many of you are working from home? Any of you still working, with 
> distancing, without distancing?
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