If we had adequate testing here in the US we could have slowed this thing down. We could have been the modern country with advanced health care that people believe we are.
If the medical professionals in the CDC and other public health branches had been paying attention to the same material I had access to (in other words this isn't brain surgery) they would have stopped giving out false information a month ago. Instead they kept giving us interim guidelines that only people with symptoms were contagious and people with symptoms but no history of exposure didn't need testing.
I will never have confidence in our public health after this.
I'm sorry you're going through so much, Alpha Echo. I've come to the point of tears several times today. My retirement money that was supposed to come this week hasn't even had the final approval yet. All they have to do is some final last check. It's not like there's any doubt, just red tape.
Fortunately I have enough for another month's bills, but that means letting a couple credit cards accumulate interest. I used to always have those cards paid off every month.
I don't know if I qualify for a small business loan. We are supposed to go through our banks and my credit union closed all the branches. Who do I even talk to?
I really don't know if I should try to get by or let the debts build up even more.
And this morning my dog either had one serious nightmare or a seizure. He let out a blood curdling whine but by the time I ran to where he was it had ended. He was breathing hard, he had peed, and it scared the other dog. But he's been fine all day. He has had some kind of focal (petit mal) seizure for months. He jerks his head in a twitch and a couple times it included his jaw opening. But they mostly happen when we are outside and not inside, whatever that means. And the pet med websites say it's probably not dangerous. This morning's incident was bad timing. Hard to take him in to the emergency vet and have them run a full workup when I don't have thousands of dollars to pay for it.
None of us need anything else, do we. This is so stressful. It's no wonder crying comes with it.
If the medical professionals in the CDC and other public health branches had been paying attention to the same material I had access to (in other words this isn't brain surgery) they would have stopped giving out false information a month ago. Instead they kept giving us interim guidelines that only people with symptoms were contagious and people with symptoms but no history of exposure didn't need testing.
I will never have confidence in our public health after this.
I'm sorry you're going through so much, Alpha Echo. I've come to the point of tears several times today. My retirement money that was supposed to come this week hasn't even had the final approval yet. All they have to do is some final last check. It's not like there's any doubt, just red tape.
Fortunately I have enough for another month's bills, but that means letting a couple credit cards accumulate interest. I used to always have those cards paid off every month.
I don't know if I qualify for a small business loan. We are supposed to go through our banks and my credit union closed all the branches. Who do I even talk to?
I really don't know if I should try to get by or let the debts build up even more.
And this morning my dog either had one serious nightmare or a seizure. He let out a blood curdling whine but by the time I ran to where he was it had ended. He was breathing hard, he had peed, and it scared the other dog. But he's been fine all day. He has had some kind of focal (petit mal) seizure for months. He jerks his head in a twitch and a couple times it included his jaw opening. But they mostly happen when we are outside and not inside, whatever that means. And the pet med websites say it's probably not dangerous. This morning's incident was bad timing. Hard to take him in to the emergency vet and have them run a full workup when I don't have thousands of dollars to pay for it.
None of us need anything else, do we. This is so stressful. It's no wonder crying comes with it.