D&D and the rising pandemic

[Fenris-77]

I live a pretty isolated part of Canada (planes only) but I'm not convinced that will make a difference. I'm not that worried about my immediate family for age and health reasons, but the community I live in could get hit really hard if the virus makes it here. Overcrowding and a lack of ICU beds could end up being critical problems.

 

[TheSword]

Most areas badly affected seem to sensibly trying to delay the spread. By self isolating and reducing social interaction for a few weeks people are increasing the the time Health services have to prepare and respond. As well as slow the demand for intensive care.

Nobody wants to be in the situation Italian doctors and nurses find themselves. With war footing triage being used to determine who gets intensive care and who dies. There is little comfort to people who’s parents and grandparents die, that they would have gone in a few years anyway.

Delay the spread, be sensible.

 

[Todd Roybark]

but I would feel terrible if I ended up a carrier, spreading the virus to people in compromised health conditions, such as my in-laws.

You have no Agency, in that scenario. A finding of liability, would just be a point of fact, not a moral judgement. You were just living your life, normally.

I know, there is scant comfort in that. There is however, no need, for one to be a camel,
and shoulder, an un-needed extra hump of guilt for something, beyond one’s control.

This is a force majeure scenario. All we can do going forward, (and now),is take reasonable actions, and keep taking reasonable actions, when the dice go against us.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Just ... c'mon. I felt like pulling up to him and asking how his leaky anus was doing.

Yeah. You’d think the more likely physical reaction would be a super-strong clench.

 

[Umbran]

You have no Agency, in that scenario. A finding of liability, would just be a point of fact, not a moral judgement. You were just living your life, normally.

You are living in a community. You gain benefits from that. So, in return, some responsibility for the community's health does fall upon you.

You do have Agency. There are choices you can make. And just continuing to "live your life normally" in an abnormal moment is not living up to your responsibilities.

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

Yeah. You’d think the more likely physical reaction would be a super-strong clench.

Shhhh! You're going to provoke another run on the stores, and every last pair of vice grips will get bought up.

 

[akr71]

You are living in a community. You gain benefits from that. So, in return, some responsibility for the community's health does fall upon you.

You do have Agency. There are choices you can make. And just continuing to "live your life normally" in an abnormal moment is not living up to your responsibilities.

This. This is where I was going. It may be irksome to change my habits, or annoying to change plans, but to do so and look back thinking "that wasn't much was it" is far better than the alternative.

However, my wife is a nurse - she now works a desk job, but should things get bad, she will feel obliged to pick up shifts at the hospital. Our health-care system is stretched paper-thin as it is - the reality is, that it would not take much to overload it like Italy. That is what I find scary.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

You know, I did do an assessment of my liquor cabinet at the start of this. Good to ride it out on everything except bourbon and Drambuie (which, yeah, that's all of two cocktails I make using Drambuie, so no big deal).

I think I prefer my region's storm-buying habits. Preparing for Dorian last September, the longest lines I encountered were at the liquor store.

 

[lowkey13]

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[R_J_K75]

This is just my experience so don't take it as any medical or even logical advice. When we were kids we'd go out and party whether we had a 103 degree fever or not, and usually felt better the next day. Week before last I was sick for about a week and was still lingering as of last Wednesday. That day my friend came by and we knocked back a bottle and a half of gin. I woke up Thursday and felt better. We always used to say that alcohol killed the sickness. I wonder if there is any truth to that or not? I've heard that alcohol lowers your immune system and makes it harder to fight off illness, but seems there always one person in every group that drinks like a fish but never gets sick. Regardless I stocked the fridge this morning.