Before You Go To The Beach....Take A Read

[sheshe2]

With the pictures of so many disregarding shelter in place and out and about with no facemask on and not doing social distancing….
Take a glance at this thread.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

https://3chicspolitico.com/2020/05/06/open-thread-before-you-go-to-the-beach-take-a-read/#more-81870

Please follow the link and read the rest of the twitter thread. It is brutal. "Send this thread to any idiot fucker who posts an Instagram at the beach or a crowded park. Tell them my dad says see you later."

[Me.]

1. Horrifying

But thank you

[sheshe2]

3. It is horrifying.

What the model showed the other day, we will have 3K deaths a day is looking to be true. We were at 73K when I woke and we will be at 76 plus before I sleep.

[crickets]

11. Same. It was tough to read through, but we all need to know. nt

[BigmanPigman]

2. That happened to me when I

had "walking pneumonia" for a few weeks and got really weak. Then I collapsed in the parking structure at the hospital and had to get 3 transfusions of packed red blood cells. This is a certain type of anemia that goes with pneumonia. The white blood cells mistook the red ones as being bad and eats them. You lose all your blood internally...I lost 1/3 of mine. I threw up and it was bright green, like anti freeze, and my skin was grey. The new blood cells didn't get eaten and I was OK after the transfusions. No fun !!!!

[sheshe2]

4. Sounds awful.

I am glad you survived that, Bigman.

[SoonerPride]

6. Good lord. That is terrifying!

Holy hell that was traumatic just reading it.
I can’t believe you survived that. I’m so glad you did.

But omg that scares the crap out of me

[BigmanPigman]

8. And I worked up until 3 days before this since

the principal at my elementary school was harassing me for being the union rep and she wouldn't get me a substitute. Add that to the nightmare. She came into my room with surprise check-ins constantly. I had to sit down on the blacktop during my assigned recess duty, I was so weak. A parent finally went to see her to let me go home since I could barely stand up and finally was sent home 3 days before the collapse at the hospital.

This is one reason why I want people to stay home during this pandemic. Illnesses can hit you hard and you need to put yourself ahead of your job. I was out of work for a month...and she had to get substitutes for my class after all. Teachers hated the principal so much she retired early.

[StevieM]

7. I had walking pneumonia many years ago.

It was the sickest I have ever been in my life. Years later, when I mentioned it to a doctor, he told me that by that point there were new protocols, and I would have been hospitalized.

I have been wondering how Covid 19 compares to that experience.

Of course, it sounds like your experience with walking pneumonia was worse than mine was. But mine was pretty bad.

[BigmanPigman]

9. I had pneumonia several times but this was the worse by far.

I was sick all the time in the classroom environment and eventually had to stop teaching (my doctors said it was killing me). Tons of germs are in schools and I had severe black mold in my room (the 8 school rooms were demolished because of it, after I went to the union), had mono for 6 months, etc. Yuk!

[ancianita]

12. Having been in schools for 35 years, I'm struck by how bad that must have been for you.

Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions. And the public doesn't want to know. Even less do cheapskate district bureaucrats want to know. Glad we've had professional unions.

Glad you're out and better now.

[BigmanPigman]

13. We know too well that the priority of

schools is their bottom line/$$$ and not the health and safety of teachers and students.

I would have made 3 times as much money if I charged babysitter's hourly fees per student. I did the math. Instead I watch every penny since another stay in the hospital will bankrupt me and my health is permanently compromised due to the years working in an unhealthy environment. I wouldn't go into a classroom now (with Covid) even if you put a gun to my head.

[ancianita]

14. I hear you. I'll do that.

Me, neither! And I worked in great high schools.

These days, unions need to harden their stance on work safety no matter how liberal and high paying the district.

Teachers are the scholars of the community. Communities need to act accordingly, listen to them first and foremost over the cost/benefit politics of district bureaucrats, most of whom wouldn't be caught dead in a classroom.

[smirkymonkey]

5. K&R

[captain queeg]

10. Well I'm screwed. I have multiple myeloma which is cancer of bone marrow

Where your blood is made. I’ve been severely anemic, passing out, to where now I’m just slightly anemic even taking supplements. If this disease messes with your blood I’m screwed if I get it.