Driving and covid-19

So what tips do you guys have for long distance driving since you are the experts..have to complete a 1300 mile drive soon from Iowa to SC coast. tips, suggestions?

 

Here's the thing. Those healthy people you see taking the extra precations to not contract it. Are most likely not doing it for themselves. But for an at risk loved one. Like myself. I have a fiance. Who, while younger than me, is at risk. Due to COPD and an auto-immune disease. So if I catch it. At the best. I can't take care of her and run errands to keep her home and safe. At worst. I infect her and cause her death. The woman heading up the US efforts has a real life example. Her grand-mother as a child infected her great grand-mother. Who later died from the Spanish flu. She had to live with that guilt for 88 years. So not everyone is being paramoid. Some have reasons, loved ones, to be extra careful.

 

I could not agree more.

From the New England Journal Of Medicine. DR Fauci is one of the authors. This is NOT a right wing website by any means. Take note of this paragraph directly from that article. This article is dated March 26th 2020.


On the basis of a case definition requiring a diagnosis of pneumonia, the currently reported case fatality rate is approximately 2%.4 In another article in the Journal, Guan et al.5 report mortality of 1.4% among 1099 patients with laboratory-confirmed Covid-19; these patients had a wide spectrum of disease severity. If one assumes that the number of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic cases is several times as high as the number of reported cases, the case fatality rate may be considerably less than 1%. This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%) or a pandemic influenza (similar to those in 1957 and 1968) rather than a disease similar to SARS or MERS, which have had case fatality rates of 9 to 10% and 36%, respectively.2

The above excerpt is NOT my words, but as one of the authors is Dr Anthony Fauci I would argue these are HIS words.

Let me also add that it is my understanding some experts in the UK have backed off their predictions as well.

After all of this crap is over there needs to be some serious actions taken to prevent such a Charlie Foxtrot from ever happening again!

 

There are some that think the actual infections in the US are well into the 10s of millions. In my case, I have some family ( I won't reveal where) that has tested positive. So far the total in that family testing positive is at 8. 6 are doing great and their biggest problems is boredom. 1 got sick and recovered. 1 is still sick and last I heard was in the hospital both are in their 60s. A member of that family recently was in NYC on a business trip. I have 2 friends here that are also positives. Both got sick but have recovered. One was in the hospital for a while because of COPD. Let's all hope this thing burns off come the heat of summer.

 

From possum lodge!!!!! Love Red Green

 

New Orleans?

 

Yes tell them u just dropped a hot load in italy 2 days ago and gotta be in china by sunrise lol

 

Delete. Relied to wrong post.

 

And here is Dr Fauci saying that Covid-19 is 10 times deadlier than FLU.
Coronavirus Is 10 Times Deadlier Than Seasonal Flu, Fauci Says

 

If youre a dude bring a bottle to pee in.
If you're a chick zip lock bag.

Like a true professional stand at the window holding it and ask so....what is your average unload time on this one and then ask for the nearest available bathroom.

 

Now, this begs the question AND gets to the heart of the matter! Which statement by the good Doctor is the correct one?