[T3] FW: 2020 Invasion - POSTPONED

[Keith Park]

well put!

In ALbany its been nothing like the city, but its still serious.
Im still at work, but most folks are working from home.  At GE,
they are taking things very seriously and as this evolved it was very
apparent they knew what was coming long before it hit the fan, and had a
plan!
 not that we
didnt miss the boat on stocking up on N95's but the measures taken make me 
feel quite safe at work and well, if im the ONLY one there...

Still, small business's are dropping like flies now, there a mental health
crisis in the foster care system amongst others... very tough on folks,
even the ones that arent sick but we all should remember, things were strong
before this and will recover, just in a different way from what they were.

Keith


Topnotch Restorations
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71 Squareback  "Hothe"
65 Notchback  "El Baja Rojo"
93 RX7  "Redstur"
13 Subaru Outback "Blendin"

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

> 
> 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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