News Worldwide impact of the novel coronavirus (covid-19)

[Justmehere]

I've been reading up...

animals living with sick individuals should be kept away from other people and animals (quarantined at home), just as people who live with sick individuals must avoid contact with others. https://vetmed.illinois.edu/pet_column/coronavirus-pets/

"If the owner is symptomatic they do discourage a lot of snuggling with it. They do say someone else in the household should be doing the majority of walking, and playing and feeding with the pet. Right now there's been no indication that it has been transmitted from pets back to owners," said Dr. Bonni Robilliard, DVM. Coronavirus: Can pets get it the virus? Local vet explains

From a vet at UC Davis Veterinary school of medicine:

If I think I'm infected, should I keep my distance from my pets?
If you’re exhibiting mild symptoms of the coronavirus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests you should limit contact with your pets, just as you would with people. If possible, have a non-positive member of the household care for the animal.
If you must care for pets while sick, the CDC suggests you wear a face mask and wash your hands before and after interacting with them. Worried About Your Dog Or Cat And Coronavirus? Here's What To Know

One thing to factor in about the transfer of care: the people that are the most contagious, emitting the most virus, in a manner that seems to make people the most sick, are those that get hospitalized. My home is tiny and would be a high concentration of the virus. If I am sick enough to need hospital care, I am going to be amoung the most contagious. That and every surface around me, including my service dog. I have already been following precautions that my dog can't sleep on my bed and the like. I wash my hands every time I've had a significant time touching her. I also want to do whatever I can do to risk transmission. We have a very large outbreak here.

For many reasons, I'm hoping my dog and I are staying safe in my home. No hospital trips. If it happens, I'll do every reasonable measure I can to reduce risk. If I can't do it, I can't do it, and we do the best we can with whatever happens.

There is a lot of good information and links to further info at these reliable well trusted sources in veterinary medicine:
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Questions and Answers on the COVID-19: OIE - World Organisation for Animal Health
Coronavirus and pets: Everything you need to know

 

[Friday]

I have all the compassion and empathy in the world. Until you stop following direct local and federal orders and put people in danger

Like going to work when you’re sick?

I don't exactly have a choice. I can't get the work from home. I cant call in using the flex time. And i cant call in more then 2 days in a row. I dont exactly have a choice here. It is work or not pay rent and bills.

Seems like you’ve got 2 totally different standards running... what other people should do, and what you should do. Might want to have a think on that.

 

[Friday]

Emailing my vet now.

(I followed the rest of this, but just to snag a quote from the issue at hand)

You might want to ask him if he doesn’t have any quarantine kennels or procedures on site (and most local vets don’t), if the ones at customs/international airport might be a resource for local vets to use.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

Like going to work when you’re sick?

I'm not sick

ETA: That sore throat went away the next day and never developed into anything. I vap [ETA: and talk 8 hrs a day]. Likely the cause. I have never been sick and would absolutely call into if I were.

I feel you are assuming at this point.

Seems like you’ve got 2 totally different standards running... what other people should do, and what you should do. Might want to have a think on that.

Where do you see that? I keep distance from people and even spent time yesterday, 30 extra mins [ETA: unpaid by the way], to move my desk. Not sure where you are reading that from.

ETA: Sorry, meant to edit the orginal comment.

 

[Mee]

Dogs are also an issue I am dealing with , though more positively. A lot of local people- in the local towns are having difficulty maintaining the two metre distance while exercising. Roads are still being well used so stepping of sidewalks is not viable in passing , and off road foot paths are very narrow . Designed for one width of a person normally- they make uncomfortable passing at the best of times - rarely do they meet the necessary standards.

After a discussion dH and I decided this was something we could offer a handful of people- Access to a field - no gates touched, left open only - and by appointment so that there is no crossing of paths/ risk of contact. It helps very very few. But it’s safer and obliged by lock down rules

 

[lostforgottensoul]

My sup gave us her cell number yesterday so I do have a direct line to her if something happens. Makes me feel better.

 

[Justmehere]

quarantine kennels or procedures on site

They actually do! (It's a huge clinic.)

. But I sure wouldn't hesitate to get the dog.

This is probably so true of people that know me and my dog here too.

Breathing a sign of relief to know there are options.

 

[Ronin]

@lostforgottensoul

If you have a sore throat, that is sick.
Esp in times when the sy overlap...
And *any* respiratory issues are a hazard.

Not only what it is for you. What it does to others or can.

Hell, even I, the bitchy drama king of Not gonna sit on my ass, went out *once*. On duty. Literal lives at risk & things people can't do for me the same.

And I was unhappy as f*ck I had to break the stay at home order. Because all precautions taken I could have hazarded unknown others *and* the people I came to assist. And the people *they* come in contact. Aka I woulda been happier if the whole situation did not arise.

(Not tight lockdown here / I'm not in quarantine / didn't skirt any regulations, but it still was not safe, because I've been respiratory compromised for about a month.)

What is the issue with an *office job* that needs doing so urgently? None.

 

[Freida]

@Justmehere have you checked with the humane society? I think they are setting up foster

I've been up since 2am, it's 4am now. I had a dream my mom was sick. Washington is now shut down, so I don't know if I can travel to another place in Washington.

We still have till midnight tonight before it completely closed so if you are able/need to go now is your chance. In my book caring for a relative counts as essential travel...I'm doing it for my dad and uncle. Most law enforcement agencies are doing education rather than criminal justice, so if you are traveling that's probably the biggest thing to explain. They don't want people aimlessly wandering - but it doesn't keep us from taking care of family

 

[lostforgottensoul]

If you have a sore throat, that is sick.

I don't have a sore throat. I did, one day, after work, panicked. I was prepared to call in the next day but it went away and there are zero signs of any illness at all WHAT SO EVER!

I would not work sick at this time nor would my job let me work sick at this time.

If someone is allowed to vent at 20 somethings, can I not vent about my neighors?

It was a vent. Nothing more, nothing less!

 

[Mee]

What is the issue with an *office job* that needs doing so urgently? None.

this isn’t entirely so. Office jobs include governance of this, logistics of getting supplies where most needed etc.

What isn’t needed is doing them IN an ‘office’

DH is this moment working despite on unpaid leave- because if he doesn’t do his office job others’ jobs are more at risk, medical supplies getting to somewhere they are needed are at risk, and other butterfly wing consequences....

But- he is doing it At home

 

[Ronin]

@Mee

I wasn't talking Govt / Other such logistics, decisions & policy makers.

Customer support LFS does that I *was* talking about is not your beau's kind of essential and all...

And there come the times people evac embassies, consulates, others to save lives & protect valuable personnel, their work, and their continued efforts in & for the location, too.