Skin doctors suddenly are looking at a lot of toes — whether by emailed picture or video visit — as concern grows that for some people, a sign of COVID-19 may pop up in an unusual spot.
If we had more widespread covid19 testing, we could learn a lot more about this, and all, symptoms.
How far along would we be if we had adequate testing from the beginning? Trump’s incompetence is a gift that keeps on giving.
“red, sore and sometimes itchy swellings on toes that look like chilblains, something doctors normally see on the feet and hands of people who’ve spent a long time outdoors in the cold.”
Chilblains, a word that takes a lot of explaining to those who never spent significant time in cold country.
But, but … then we might learn we might be sick and that would interfere with freedom to shop for new stuff!
You know, the CDC used to have disease surveillance programs. Oh, I forgot. “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” (H/T L.P. Hartley)
Aaaaaand just one more reason everybody should stay the hell home so you don’t get it or spread it in the first place. We’ve got Trump yelling send your kids to school, they’ll be fine, when in fact we’ve got a variety of damage being done to people of all ages because we don’t know what this virus does beyond the obvious respiratory things and some emerging syndromes like this. The madman is asking us to risk our lives and health for his reelection? Hard pass, pal.
Was out yesterday up and down the streets of town and masks were in the minority. If you’re not going indoors it might be safe enough, generally, but I take it as a sign people are figuring they’re safer than they really are because nothing happened right away, they’re bored and antsy, and familiarity breeds contempt. Looking for that new spike any day now.
Uniformed milling around without protection will in fact make the economy shrivel further as the next wave rolls in. I’m gonna lay low while folks learn the hard way.
It will come. Cases up by a lot in Wisconsin and Texas. What upsets me most is the stress and danger this will place on healthcare workers. Why the HELL should they have to risk their health and lives to treat the stupid? I hope if things get bad enough, they walk off their jobs. Harsh, I know, but what isn’t these days…
I can’t entirely blame average people when there are mixed messages out there because of shockingly corrupt politicians. If we had a sane government nationally we could persuade people more easily to keep up the good work most have done. This is our test, though, like a depression or a world war, and as a society we already flunked it. Damn shame.
Yes it would be very nice if at least our ‘tracing’ could account for what the person was doing. We don’t let people who abuse drugs get organ transplants, as an extreme example. If you are a healthworker, or old folks home patient, or worker who was subjected to these conditions…you get a bed.
If a drooling stoopid mfugger who was at the bars…you don’t.
It’s truly insanity and we are prolonging the pain indefinitely. Wait until the Fall, when people balk at flu shots.
IMO, we flunked the test back in November 2016.
Donnie seems to have a syphilitic brain…what there is of a brain…
“Everybody goes into the Trump relationship woodchipper,” said Trump’s former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci, who worked on the Trump presidential transition team with Thiel and who had his own falling-out with the president. “You either come out on the other side with your dignity and your personal story intact or you’re reformed as Trump compost and you’re fertilizer under his shoe…
You have to make a decision and it happens to everyone.” (Daily Beast)
That last sentence turns out to be true of every American.
Oh yeah. I know perfectly nice people who said "Well I couldn’t vote for her" and there’s a straight line from that to the refrigerated trucks full of body bags. We rejected hyper-competence in favor of drooling incompetence for the most consequential job on the planet, and whattaya know, there were consequences.
