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

[blackemerald1]

If you take your temp under your arm, you add a degree, if you take it rectally it will be a degree higher than orally.

^In my country when taking temperatures anywhere we do not add a degree but we do note down the location/mode the temp was taken. Like orally, rectal, ear, armpit.

temp in the lungs, the norms would be higher because inside the body, your temp is higher.

^Yes, That's what I said, (meant?) Lungs are inside the body - but forehead is not.

The gases in the lungs will be the temperature of the body.... until... and once they are exhaled, Whether or not, into a mask is not relevant. T

Those same gases are not so hot that they would heat up a forehead where a temp is being taken. The gases would immediately cool to the temp of the air mass surrounding the head at the time.

Here's a relevant link about body temps and all of the variations that are factored into it. Body temp

As one can see.. wearing a mask and heating up a forehead is not mentioned. But there are many reasons why temps may differ, age, gender, illnesses etc.,

As the article says - if one gets one high reading it's good practice to take it again - try a different area or even a different thermometer especially now because so many implications and consequences arise from a elevated temp in respect to Covid etc.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

Were you anxious, in a hurry - even moderate exercise will raise body temp or wearing too many clothes on a hot day? All/any/possibly other causes more likely.

I was anxious, yes. Cause of wearing a mask. It's hot here in Florida right now but I was inside with AC. They do it as soon as you walk in, which is sort of stupid cause it's hot here plus I'm walking with a cane so I'm exerting more energy then someone that's fully able bodied would be just walking. Probably it's why he waited a bit with me sitting down and took it again.

It's just weird to me as I have never testing above 98 point something this entire time going. I always take my temp before going as well and I go every 3 weeks. Its been hot here this entire time and I have to exert the same amount of energy to walk. My oral thermometer said 97 point something before I left and it said 97 point something when I got back (as soon as I walked in the house). Have had the same amount of anxiety about the mask. Everything has been the same.

 

[bellbird]

Presently, a total of 999 thousand people are reported have died from coronavirus, worldwide.

I would imagine today is the last day where that number is fewer than one million people.
I wish people would wake up and stop calling this a hoax. The spread of misinformation is so dangerous.

 

[ms spock]

The spread of of much disinformation is deadly.

Sadly from my source it seems we have already passed that milestone.

Apparently the world has 1,006,379 Covid19 deaths.

Coronavirus Update (Live): 33,552,152 Cases and 1,006,379 Deaths from COVID-19 Virus Pandemic - Worldometer

 

[EmmaOwl]

^yes @ms spock I was wondering if it was appropriate to post this link I just got from the New York Times.
Coronavirus Deaths Pass One Million Worldwide

I don't know why each thing feels like just another blow. Are we not on the ground yet??

 

[ms spock]

^yes @ms spock I was wondering if it was appropriate to post this link I just got from the New York Times.
Coronavirus Deaths Pass One Million Worldwide

That's a breath taking read.

This made me stop breathing:

More than a million people — parents, children, siblings, friends, neighbors, colleagues, teachers, classmates — all gone, suddenly, prematurely.

I don't know why each thing feels like just another blow. Are we not on the ground yet??

I don't know what to say. It's so huge.

It all seems so surreal at times.

I hope that you have some good self care strategies that you can use, I know that doesn't help with the enormority of the pandemic but we have to keep on keeping on, the best that we can.

 

[blackemerald1]

Those stats are not accurate. Many countries deeply into the pandemic have no proper reporting method. One million imo was passed a long time ago.

And frankly... the numbers don't mean much after you've lost someone you love.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

Everyone everywhere is yelling food shortage coming up this fall. Warning to stock up on food. Way moreso then usual.

This pandemic is f*cking tiring! I'm in a never ending trigger.

 

[bellbird]

Those stats are not accurate. Many countries deeply into the pandemic have no proper reporting method. One million imo was passed a long time ago.

And frankly... the numbers don't mean much after you've lost someone you love.

Very good points, b.
I agree with you on both.

 

[EmmaOwl]

I hope that you have some good self care strategies that you can use, I know that doesn't help with the enormority of the pandemic but we have to keep on keeping on, the best that we can.

Thank you. My therapist of 15 years first got sick in Jan and somewhere in one of his hospital stays he picked up coronavirus. He is one of those "long-haulers." - he's been sick for months, his illness dipped and rebounded just as I've heard from others and read in the media. (and on myptsd, I believe there is a "COVID-Long Haulers" thread.

It's weird to watch events play out in neighborhoods that I've lived in and around, in the past, to see marches and violence and illness, shuttered windows and doors and streets either flooded with protestors and looters - or else entirely empty during the day, people venture out to protests at night.

Too many of the videos from nyc and philly that they put onto national news, are places I've lived or places I've spent a lot of time in. This sounds stupid but my favorite famous landmark nyc bookstore, the Strand, was quite close to being looted. People set fire to scaffolding across the street from this favorite shop on 8th & Broadway and the video of that freaked me out a little. (The scaffolding has been there since about 1986 and no one will miss it.) But it's bad to set ANYTHING on fire [Should I even have to say that???] and arrest people in the middle of the street, but here I was like "Oh the bookstore is safe!" and .. It just emphasizes how events are a little skewed to each and every person.

It is good that I am not stranded alone in a crowded city, but at the same time feeling a little guilty, thinking I should be physically present with others to witness the pain of my places in person and not just via news recaps. I feel for all these people who are forced to leave their homes, the places they've built for themselves, for ANY reason, including coronavirus. The whole world is wrapped together in a great big mess.

 

[blackemerald1]

The whole world is wrapped together in a great big mess.

^I hear the pain in your words. But not the whole world. Many parts of it are profoundly messed up but not the whole lot.

Take heart in mother nature quietly and efficiently doing her rounds, waking up and replenishing everything in her dominion.

 

[EmmaOwl]

^I hear the pain in your words. But not the whole world. Many parts of it are profoundly messed up but not the whole lot.

Take heart in mother nature quietly and efficiently doing her rounds, waking up and replenishing everything in her dominion.

Thank you! Trying to quit all-or-nothing thinking. I know that's not right.