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Post by northstarmom on Mar 3, 2020 9:48:48 GMT -5
I’ve read that 70 percent of the world is likely to get this and people over 60 and/or people with cancer or chronic diseases like hypertension or heart disease are the most likely to die. If you are like me over 60 and with a chronic disease, you can take this as an opportunity to think of if you were to die soon you’d die with major regrets about things you wished you had done when you were able. And if you’d die with those kind of regrets, you still have time to change the trajectory of your life.
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Post by lessingham on Mar 3, 2020 11:10:04 GMT -5
I has popped up in my home town. I am over 60 and in the danger groups. I am keeping myself sensibly safe. Wash hands, sneeze into a hankie and don't shake hands. As for popping my clogs, I have done all my bucket list things so no regrets. Except a threesome maybe..... Oh well.
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Post by Handy on Mar 3, 2020 11:10:39 GMT -5
Yea, being older and immune compromised does concern me.
Best defense wash my hands often, use hand sanitizer, stay away from people that might be sick or carriers (stay home most of the time) and take my temperature daily.
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Post by northstarmom on Mar 3, 2020 11:49:06 GMT -5
I’d have no regrets if I were to die now. I’m 7 years out of my SM, with the love of my life, and have wonderful friends. I feel grateful and lucky to be living my dream. It would be nice to see the Northern Lights but I’ve attained the things most important to me. I’ve come a long way. I’m taking precautions against the virus but if it kills me I won’t die with major regrets.
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Post by jim44444 on Mar 3, 2020 16:15:33 GMT -5
northstarmom, I do not believe you are going to see the northern lights while living in Mexico. I am not concerned with COVID-19. Four people have been murdered in my county this year. I have a better chance of being shot.
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Post by worksforme2 on Mar 3, 2020 17:14:50 GMT -5
I has popped up in my home town. I am over 60 and in the danger groups. I am keeping myself sensibly safe. Wash hands, sneeze into a hankie and don't shake hands. As for popping my clogs, I have done all my bucket list things so no regrets. Except a threesome maybe..... Oh well. Not having had a 3some is indeed something to regret. You are not dead yet so there is still time.. |
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Post by worksforme2 on Mar 3, 2020 17:28:34 GMT -5
I am on the main menu for this virus. But if it comes around I will not go quietly into the night. I am taking precautions and I try to make sure I limit as much as possible any physical contact with strangers, and I now carry sanitizer with me. I am really far more likely to be killed while on my motorcycle.
Fortunately I am doing a bunch of maintenance on my home; you know, drywall repair, painting, chucking out useless stuff so I am not going out and about much. I have lived a rich, full life. Made love with 3 score and ten females and traveled a lot, so my bucket list is quite small. If it gets me I will have few regrets.
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Post by lessingham on Mar 4, 2020 6:06:51 GMT -5
I has popped up in my home town. I am over 60 and in the danger groups. I am keeping myself sensibly safe. Wash hands, sneeze into a hankie and don't shake hands. As for popping my clogs, I have done all my bucket list things so no regrets. Except a threesome maybe..... Oh well. Not having had a 3some is indeed something to regret. You are not dead yet so there is still time.. £250 for a hour's threesome in London. It hangs like a sword of Damacles over my head. |
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Post by lessingham on Mar 4, 2020 6:07:52 GMT -5
Sorta proud of this group, spitting death in the eye with a "done it" list in their back pockets
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Post by saarinista on Mar 5, 2020 19:23:13 GMT -5
You guys. Coronavirus has a 3-5% death rate according to best guesstimates. Almost all those killed have been very elderly and in bad shape already. True, the death rate may go higher eventually, but a physician friend I spoke with said just to be prudent. Don't panic. Wash your hands, self quarantine and call your doctor if you feel sick, follow the advice of health authorities. i recommend checking for advice on cdc.gov in the US. Those in other countries can check on the world health organization website or you nation's analogous organization for prudent advice.
It seems to me that this virus is most likely to cause massive respiratory inflammatory responses in those with weak immune systems. Please note: I am NOT a health care professional but I read a lot. So those with COPD or chronic asthma for example, probably should be extra wary. And of course those with chronic conditions that predispose them to serious infections.
Maybe I'm nuts, but I feel like those of us who have survived sexless marriages are pretty tough and likely to be in the majority who won't be killed by the coronavirus outbreak.
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Post by lessingham on Mar 6, 2020 4:14:49 GMT -5
I feel bemused. The stockpiling of bread and toilet rolls is hilarious. Empty bread shelves but loads of strong bread flour and yeast. Heck, we made bread for 6000 years and just forgot? Betcha there are people here who remembered visiting grandparents with newspaper squares in the outhouse.
Hoarding paracetamol and ibuprofin is just plsin mean.
Who's hoarding vegetable seeds? A good root veg stew will get you through the day.
All you Americans and Australians are descended from people who crossed seas on nothing but hard tack and brackish water. Man up. And before you say it, indigenous families arrived through snow blizzards or floating on mats of rotted vegetation.
But to be on the safe side, I'm hoarding beer and wine.
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Post by Handy on Mar 7, 2020 2:09:21 GMT -5
Lessingham
...visiting grandparents with newspaper squares in the outhouse.
That is how I started life and it was that way until I was in the 5th grade. This set off the hunt for non-scratchy paper that was absorbent but not prone to tearing. The old Sears catalog was duel use once the new catalog arrived.
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Post by lessingham on Mar 7, 2020 4:42:48 GMT -5
How my love of science began? My gran's outhouse had no window, just a brick missing high up. It sent a shaft of light into the gloomy room and I would be mesmerised by the dust motes caught in the light. Their movement is called Brownian motion and Albert Einstein, no less, used it to conclusively prove the existance of atoms. I imagime ol' Albert sat on his toilet watching dust motes as he did his deed and shouting "Eurika!!!"
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Post by Handy on Mar 7, 2020 19:47:22 GMT -5
Brownian motion 1877, WOW, that was a while ago.
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Post by lessingham on Mar 8, 2020 4:18:18 GMT -5
Here in the uk they are talking about the elderly being shut it during the crisis. No definition of "elderly" or what is shut in and how to impose it.
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