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Recent News (COVID-19)
How is everyone doing this week? I wanted to talk about some recent events and some more in depth news. COVID has been going on for a couple months now. So as off right now More than 4.3 million people worldwide have tested positive for the coronavirus, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, and over 294,000 have died.
In the United States alone there are over 1.3 million confirmed cases and more than 83,000 deaths. This is so sad to think about. I remember a couple days ago watching my mothers face drop when she heard this fact on the news channel: NBC-30.
• House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled a more than $3 trillion coronavirus aid package ahead of a Friday vote. But the legislation faces an immediate roadblock in the Republican-controlled Senate.
• The White House is now requiring staffers to wear masks while inside the West Wing after President Trump’s valet and Vice President Mike Pence’s press secretary tested positive.
• Worried you’re experiencing coronavirus symptoms? https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/worried-youre-experiencing-coronavirus-symptoms-heres-what-the-cdc-says-to-do-203952935.html
https://news.yahoo.com/coronavirus-covid-19-news-and-live-updates-120246923.html
Thank you for joining me this week, where we just spoke about some recent news on this terrible virus. I hope all of you are doing well! Stay safe and make sure you are showing your family love! Thank you guys so much!
Memorable Event: Spanish Flu
I wanted to speak about the Spanish Flu today, because it is similar to the COVID-19 Pandemic. The Spanish Flu was the pandemic that struck around 1918. This virus affected approximately 500 million people worldwide. This is crazy to me that is 1/3 of the worlds population. In total this virus killed 20 to 50 million people worldwide. It was estimated that 675,000 Americans died from this.
In fact most Doctors commonly refer to the Spanish flu outbreak as “the greatest medical holocaust in history”.
Now obviously this was a negative thing, I have never heard about this or even studied it in depth. But the fact this virus is pretty similar to the Coronavirus, how does this make you people feel? What happens if the COVID takes a path for the worst (god forbid).
Now that I am reading up on the Spanish flu, otherwise known to doctors as the “greatest medical holocaust in history” I get butterflies in my stomach. Just the quote right there will put fear into any mans heart. The good takeaway is that the Spanish flu took place over 100 years ago meaning that since then doctors and scientist have planned and took measures so no pandemic will get that bad ever again.
Interview With My Aunt
Interview with my aunt Diane Launderette:
How are you keeping busy? As an owner of a salon I am strictly forbidden to meet with clients at the shop. So what have I been doing in my free time? I have just been stocking up on goods we seem to run out of fast at the shop. I have also been practicing my braiding skills as it is something I’m weak on.
What is helping you cope? I’ve just been calling everyone in my family regularly. It is good to check on your family during these hard times. So having a good talk with everybody makes me feel better at the end of the day.
What still feels normal about your life? I still have to cook for my household which is very frustrating at the end of the day.
What doesn’t feel normal? The fact that I cannot work! I miss seeing all my regulars and I love hairdressing so its killing me not to be able to work! I have had a salon for 20 years and worked every day besides the weekends so this is killing me!
What is the closest thing to this that you’ve ever experienced before? Nothing. I have no experienced anything like this in my lifetime and I hope to never go through something like this again!
When this is over, do you think everything will return to how things were before? Or, how do you think things might be different? Do you foresee any changes because of this? I think everything will return to normal overtime. I don’t think that it will be right back to normal when this ends. I think it will take some time for everyone to get back into the swing of things. I just hope its fairly quick.
Time After Time.
Traditions, this is something that has been part of my family for a while now. My mother is 100% Italian along with her relatives. As Italians we have a huge pasta dinner every Sunday. Name an Italian food we got it here. The whole family would come to our house and we would have a four course meal. There is nothing better than waking up on a Sunday and smelling the fresh sauce for the pasta.
What is so important about this tradition? Well the main key point is that it keeps our family close and together. Most people don’t get to see there aunts and uncles for months on some times. I am lucky enough to get to see them every week. It is truly a blessing and I would not trade it for anything else. Italians have a good way of maintaining the true meaning of family. So we don’t get to see each other during the quarentine so what we have been doing is hosting huge zoom video chat with our whole family! It is truly awesome, and some times annoying. But it keeps us close together during this awful time!
My life
Thank you for joining me this week! This weeks post is going to be a little bit different. I will be answering some question about myself. How I am coping with the pandemic and a little bit more background information about me.
Where are you hunkering down? I am hunkering down in my hometown in the city of Bristol, Connecticut. Its a fairly small city we do have a pretty big hospital and we do have a lot of patients that are being treated for COVID-19.
Who are you with? And how is everyone there doing? I am with my Mother Roxanne, My father bill, and my brother Benn, and also two dogs dozer and tucker. We are all doing fine we are getting sick of this, just like everyone else is. We have been ordering grocery’s to the house so none of us have to leave and just being very cautious we want this to end!
What still feels normal about your life? Defiantly the homework aspect. I am constantly STILL getting bombarded by homework and its terrible.
What doesn’t feel normal? My city is very active, parks, we are home to the recreational park of Lake Compounce which is pretty famous and similar to six flags. There are always people walking around whether its to their jobs or to home or whatever. Now there’s is no one at all! Its crazy!
How are you keeping busy? How are you keeping sane? I have been playing video games. This is something I could not really do in school but it is keeping my mind off of this pandemic. Its almost an escape of reality is makes me forget about whats going on and just focusing on whats in front of me!
Life After Lock down?
This weeks blog post I will be speaking about when are we getting back to the normal life? I’m sure everyone is sick of this; staying at home, doing work all day, reading books. You know stuff you would never do if a pandemic wasn’t happening.
The Corona virus is taking such a big toll on America. We are over a million cases right now this is more than any other country, and sad to say the death toll is now up to 65 thousand. This is a heartbreaking fact. Can you imagine 65,000 dead people, and all those sad family’s? This was so unexpected… In reality this happened in only a couple months. I have done extensive research on this question I have scrolled through many interviews with scientists, journalists, etc and I have not found an exact date to this question. No one has an exact answer it is up to the people to social distance and be careful!
How soon will life go back to normal after this crisis? According to https://www.talktomira.com/post/when-will-coronavirus-peak-and-end-social-distancing
“Forecasting when the Corona vrius outbreak will end is difficult. First because “end” as a definition is not clearly defined. Here, we will use the scientific definition – when the daily death rate drops below 0.3 per million – as the indicator of the end of this pandemic in individual state.
In New York, the study suggests the peak will start on April 9 and last until May 1 – May 15. This means, on average, social distancing and self-quarantine will last for a month from peak date.” So after we reach the peak date we must wait at least one month, while continuing to disinfect, and social distancing to consider reopening!
This will be difficult people but we must continue to engage in social distancing! We can do it.
Last off I wanted to share something semi positive at the end of my blog. A journalist from the well known Chicago booth said that “My prediction, reading the research that we have in psychology, is that people are going to get back to hugging and spending time together and shopping in supermarkets much faster than they anticipate. Once the crisis is over, our human nature is going to bring us back together.” We need to maintain a positive outlook during this pandemic don’t forget who you are at the end of the day! Everything will fall back into place. Keep your heads up!
Thank you for joining me this week. Stay tuned till next week we will be diving more in depth in some of these common questions about the pandemic! Stay safe and always wash your hands:)
Symptoms
Thanks for coming back!
Today I would like to briefly talk about the symptoms of the Coronavirus.
First off the symptoms can appear anywhere from 2-14 days after exposure.
I would also like to speak about how this virus can spread. It is spread mainly from person to person. So this virus is airborne which makes it practically very easy to contract. So close contact with one another (6 feet). Also of course with the sneezing and coughing going on it is very easy con contract it (Through respiratory droplets).
Some common questions you might me wondering?
Can someone spread the virus without being sick?
The answer is yes. People are usually the most symptomatic when they are (the sickest) So anyone that has been relatively close to a human being that was near this virus, STAY AS FAR AWAY AS POSSIBLE. Also some people have stated that can attract the (COVID-19) by touching a surface that has come in contact with the virus, then of course by touching your own nose, mouth eyes, etc.
How easy does this virus spread?
What people need to remember is that this virus is new. It has just popped up recently so of course we are not going to know every little thing about it for a while now. So this virus can spread so easily if not properly quarantined. Some people have said that they are not sure how to contracted the virus when they have not been anywhere close to an infected area.
Join me next week as we discuss, treatment, prevention.
Vicious Virus
How is everyone doing today? I wanted to start off by shedding some knowledge on our most recent outbreak and the widely talked about Coronavirus (COVID-19). As of right now there are 79,737 people that have been infected with the Coronavirus, now of those many cases 2,628 people have died. This number is rising daily. In COVID-19, ‘CO’ stands for ‘corona,’ ‘VI’ for ‘virus,’ and ‘D’ for disease. Formerly, this disease was referred to as “2019 novel coronavirus” or “2019-nCoV.” (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/faq.html)
What is the source of this vicious virus you might be wondering? COVID-19 Stems from a large family of common viruses. This family of viruses can cause illness in both animals and humans. Rarely these animal viruses infect humans. This is what the CDC suspects.
What animal you might be wondering? “Researchers in Guangzhou, China, have suggested that pangolins — long-snouted, ant-eating mammals often used in traditional Chinese medicine — are the probable animal source of the coronavirus outbreak that has infected more than 40,000 people. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00364-2
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#page-top
Coronavirus Cases:
79,737view by country
Deaths:
2,628
Recovered:
25,271
If this doesn’t scare you I don’t know what does. This post was just some brief information on what this virus has done so far. Next week I will be speaking about symptoms of the virus, then get into prevention! Thank you!
Life As We Know It.
Today will be a different type of blog. I will be speaking on whats going on in my life right now and how it is effected by the COVID-19 crisis, also will be speaking on social distancing. Next week we will dive back into the nasty COVID-19.
As you may know we are in such a difficult time right now. I am a 22 year old man, and I never thought I would witness such a nasty epidemic in my life. I live in Connecticut everything feels as if there is a zombie apocalypse going on. This has totally revamped peoples life’s. We cannot go about our normal life’s anymore.
I would have never thought I would be stuck home during my senior year. We were supposed to have the time of our lives during senior year! Now we are stuck home, we cannot go hang out with friends, we cannot go to the bars, cannot go shopping we cannot do anything!
You maybe wondering what has happened to all of our classes? How will we continue our education. Right now we are stuck doing online classes. I my self have a learning disability known as ADHD. I cannot learn online. I need to be in a classroom to learn. So I think it is entirely unfair. Especially for some different types of majors like a theater major. You cannot teach somethings online. We use a program called “Zoom” which is a way to video chat with your class and interact.
Last off the necessary but annoying “Social Distancing” we as a whole community must engage in social distancing. This is keeping your distance from your friends, going out in general whether its shopping, or going to the bar etc. You must keep a minimum distance of 6 feet from each other. I am dying of boredom at home with my parents! But its not really about that, its about social distancing and keeping this virus as far as possible away from me and my parents!
Thank you for joining me this week! Like I stated before we will be getting back into the guts next week about the Coronavirus! We must work as a whole community, to get through this! Please join me next week!
Ryan Kelly 