Healing vibes, prayers or whatever for our family, please!

[Heartstrings]

My grandson’s School Superintendent said something profound in his address cancelling school for the next 3 weeks. He said: “In the end, it will be impossible to know if we overreacted or did too much, but it will be QUITE apparent if we under reacted or did too little.”

Hear those words my friends.....

My grandson tested positive yesterday and we are all in quarantine....

[sheshe2]

1. Healing vibes.

Love to you and yours, Heartstrings.

Be safe.

[MFM008]

2. Kids are blowing this off

Alot better than us.
Luck and prayers for a speedy recovering! 🙏💛

[Heartstrings]

12. He is young, healthy and very active....

We’re all praying he’ll be fine....we just need to let it run it’s course, whatever that is. Medical professionals are doing everything they can. I met one of his dr’s and he looked exhausted! All we can do is quarantine our family.... And take elderberry, vitamin c, etc. and wash hands!

[Demovictory9]

3. sending good vibes your way!

[Demonaut]

4. healing vibes!!!

[MLAA]

5. Sending healing thoughts😍

[Walleye]

6. Oh jeeze. Good luck.

[jls4561]

7. I know this will be a trial for you all, but I hope you come through it with everyone well

[2naSalit]

8. Oh dear!

That is profound.

Do take care.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. May your grandson speedily get well and all of you with him!

It is a scary time, this unknown thing.

[TygrBright]

10. Holding you in the Light. May the grandson recover quick, and everyone else stay well! n/t

[sprinkleeninow]

11. L💜VE and a 🙏

[hamsterjill]

13. Please take care as best you can.

Sending you love, hugs, peace and comfort. Take care of one another.

Please keep us posted.

[StarryNite]

14. Please take care and keep us posted!

[Cha]

15. Oh Heartstrings.. I'm so sorry.

I wish the best for your grandson and all your healing

How will you get supplies? a virtual

[Dem2theMax]

16. I'm in isolation. I know the drill.

Take every precaution, but don't drive yourself crazy. Try to be as normal as you can in your own home. What I'm doing is going out at night when no one else is around. I take a walk, breathe some fresh air, and it helps me feel normal for a little bit. I only do this when I feel strong enough to take a walk.

You will go stir-crazy in the house. That I can promise.
If you have warm weather during the day, and a porch or a patio where you can sit outside, do that. It will make life feel a little more like life, and not Bizarro world.

And practically every store out there is doing home delivery. Just go online and take a peek. I have learned that I really don't need to leave the house right now.
Not allowed to, but also don't need to.

Hang in there. Keep your sense of humor. Laugh at anything you can. It will help you get through this more than you can ever imagine.

I had a skunk or something else go under my house last night. I had a temperature of 100.3, and I'm walking around in my house smelling skunk. There was absolutely nothing I could do about it. So I just laughed. That, and I took a pillow that I could sacrifice and put it on top of the vent where the smell was coming through. And closed the bathroom door where the offending odor was the strongest. It was life's way of reminding me that most of life really is the small stuff. Laugh at those things and it will help you get through the big things.

Sending you good vibes, prayers, and healing thoughts for your entire family.

[alwaysinasnit]

17. ..

[littlemissmartypants]

18. All the best to you, Heartstrings. Stay encouraged and know that you are loved. ❤

Thanks for sharing this most perfect quote.

“In the end, it will be impossible to know if we overreacted or did too much, but it will be QUITE apparent if we under reacted or did too little.”

We will get through this.

[DFW]

19. I hope you manage to touhg it out without going stir-crazy

My flight to Düsseldorf seems to be (finally!!) leaving, and I am at the gate in Madrid. We still have no word whether or not they are quarantining all passengers coming from Madrid, or just the ones who whose trips originated in Madrid. Many of the people at the gate seem to be, like me, passengers coming from other parts of Spain who missed their connections last night, and only spent the night in an airport hotel, far from the city. I'll know in a little over three hours if the flight leaves on time. Of course, if they put us in complete isolation, then it's a death sentence, as I need daily heart medication, but I can't imagine the Germans haven't allowed for that.

[NBachers]

24. I'll be watching for you.

[DFW]

33. You are far more efficient than the German authorities!

On the plane from Madrid, Iberia gave us forms to fill in as to our names, addresses, people to contact in case of emergencies or quarantines, etc.

When we got to Germany this morning (11:00 AM CET), there was no one meeting the plane. There were a few customs guys at baggage claim (EU baggage is not subject to search, but many people fly to Madrid from North Africa and change there to fly on to other EU destinations). I asked them if they wanted the forms. They said naah. Just for whom we were supposed to be filling these things out remains a mystery. My luggage arrived with the third wave, and my wife pulled up to the airport just as I was getting out of the terminal.

At least gas was the cheapest it has been in ten years. She had forgotten to fill her tank when she drove home from her mom's home in the North this morning, and was running on fumes. Gas was down to $5.38 a gallon. Usually it is at the very least $1.50 more, and $7.50 a gallon has been the norm these last few years.

[NBachers]

36. Well then, we'll consider you fortunate, on both counts. Living in San Francisco, I'm used to gas

being among the highest in the nation, but it's never topped five bucks, that I've seen.

There's always the question: We've got tankers bringing petroleum into San Francisco Bay; there are refineries and big storage facilities half an hour from here; you'd think our prices would be lower. Nope, somehow it doesn't work that way. When I go back to my hometown, an Erie Canal town near Rochester, New York, gas is a dollar-plus cheaper, and there ain't no refineries nowhere near there.

It's like when I lived in Miami, and my brother in Boston paid less than I did for orange juice.

[DFW]

37. The Germans are so obsessed with their taxes

With gasoline, they even tax the tax!

In days of yore, the pump price of gasoline here used to be the sum of the real price plus a huge tax called "Mineralölsteuer," or "mineral oil tax." Now the tax was way more than the price of the gasoline itself, but OK, distances aren't as great here, and they used the huge amount of tax they raked in to build a great road system.

But wait, the value-added tax the impose on everything else here wasn't imposed on gasoline! Can't let THAT go, now, can we? The fact that it was already taxed heavily wasn't enough, so the Germans decided to impose value-added tax on gasoline. But wait! Not just the gasoline. They took the whole amount of the gasoline PLUS the mineral oil tax, and then added value-added tax on to the sum of the two. So, Germans pay value added tax not only on the gasoline, but they also pay value-added tax on the mineral oil tax!

It just so happens that a neighbor of ours is a judge on the Düsseldorf tax court, and wrote his doctoral thesis on double taxation, something that is literally forbidden by the post-war German constitution (it seems a certain ethnic group was singled out for double taxation in the 1930s and 1940s, and a repeat of same was deemed worthy of prevention). Anyway, so I asked my friend if this double tax on gasoline wasn't unconstitutional. He said absolutely it was unconstitutional. As illegal under German law as you can get. Huh??

SO---how come it was enacted into law, how come it is still the law, and how come it hasn't been challenged? He said if it came before him, he'd rule it unconstitutional instantly. However, the state rakes in billions because of it. So the government won't challenge it. It takes an extra few dozen euros every month out the pocket of every individual that drives, but does one of them have a million euros for legal fees, and five years to pursue it through the courts, plus the legal purity to withstand the punishing tax audits instigated by an angry state, not appreciating someone trying to eliminate a few billion every year of their revenues?

So, WHO, exactly, is going to mount the challenge to get this tax repealed? It had better be an independently wealthy billionaire who lives addressless in a town without electricity in New Zealand somewhere, because anyone else challenging it stands to reap some ugly consequences.

[Laurelin]

28. German medical care is really good

Best wishes¹

[DFW]

32. First class German medical care is usually good

But only about 10% of Germans fall under that category. Those are the ones with "privat" insurance. Since I can't get the normal employer-linked health insurance (my employer is in the USA), I checked out the price of "privat" health insurance here. Due to my pre-existing heart condition, I was quoted $35,000 (€30,000) per year, and that was almost ten years ago.

The other 90% of the people here get the mass care, which ranges from very good to awful. When I first thought I had heart trouble, I called a cardiologist and was told they might have an appointment open in 2 months. I said I was from the USA and would pay cash upon receipt of invoice. They suddenly had an appointment that afternoon. Within three days, I was in a cardiac clinic on the operating table getting my life saved. They said three more days might have been too late. An ordinary German would have long since died waiting the two months for his appointment.

My wife almost died once due a raging infection which her dentist refused to to bother to find, even after repeated visits. She finally went to another dentist who told her she was a complete idiot for not going to a dentist for two years. She said she had been several times in the last month, and the guy almost called her a liar, saying no one could have overseen the festering infection she was suffering from.

When she had her operation for breast cancer in May of 2001, the doctor said she really should have had it done six months earlier. She had been to a cancer specialist six months earlier, who told her she had nothing that needed immediate attention.

SOMETIMES the care here is really good, but like anywhere, nowhere near always.

[Raine]

20. Sending good thoughts ❤

for you and your family .. ❤

[calimary]

21. I like that quote.

Better safe than sorry.

Take care, hunker down, and lay low. Maybe get some rest, if possible? Be good to yourself and the family.

And please keep us posted.

Here’s a virtual hug!

[lunatica]

22. Hugs to your entire family!

You should all probably include some deep breathing exercises that people who’ve had pneumonia do in therapy to strengthen their lungs.

It’s very simple. Breath deeply in through your nose then breath out with pursed lips and do it for longer than when you breathed in. Do it a few times in a row each time so you can get air into all your lungs. You can do this various times a day if you like.

We’re all rooting for you and your family.

[NBachers]

23. May you all grow stronger, closer, and emerge healthy, with many things to be grateful for.

[Meowmee]

25. Sorry hope

He and you all are ok and hanging in there

[mr_lebowski]

26. Healing vibes heading your way HS ...

I'm sure he's (and all of you are) going to be fine

What the guy said is very true and something I've been pondering a lot ... I worry that if this doesn't get that bad, people will think there was a big over-reaction. Which is silly given that we've done a LOT as a society to slow the spread already. Almost none of it thanks to IQ45, of course.

Nonetheless, there will be no way of knowing how much of it was 'necessary'.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

27. Big KY DU hugs going your way. I fear your story will become common here.

This is a good time for families to reunite, share, and shed off some of our current society's chains. I can feel that happening already in my little family.

Folks in isolation in Italy are singing to each other across the streets. We all in some way need to do that with our neighbors as well.

Best wishes and please keep us abreast of your situation........

[Laurelin]

29. Healing thoughts!

❤

[Croney]

30. A virtual hug and the best of thoughts.

May you all get through this safely.

[malaise]

31. Damn

[samnsara]

34. (((hugs)))

[backtoblue]

35. Love to your family

(((hugs))) from afar.