He knows something about quarantine, and he’s protecting himself.
[Update a few minutes later]
This is good news for Buzz (and me) if he’s otherwise healthy: 99% of the deaths in Italy were people who had other illnesses.
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I guess as he filed his government travel voucher, he thought about then regretted not being able to ask for reimbursement per mile travelled.
I recall that they tried to claim mileage but it was denied because they were in a government vehicle. Their drives to and from the airport were covered but nothing in between.
Yes. The vast majority of people who died from this disease were old men who already have other conditions that would have killed them in the not-too-distant future.
The only reason we’re hearing about it is because people die from it after spending weeks in hospital rather than spending a day sick in bed. Even if it isn’t stopped, the overall death rate probably won’t be much higher this year than 2019 or 2021.
I’m in total quarantine, have been for over a week. No shopping, no in-person contact with other people (aside from one), no nothing. I plan on doing this for at least two months, though I hope it won’t be that long. And all of 44 people in my state have tested positive as of today. I am also personally in a low risk category.
So, why did I go total quarantine, and do so so soon? Because my elderly mother is very high risk for several reasons, and I’m her only caretaker.
Please remember; if you’re caring for someone who is very high risk, you can’t risk getting it anymore than they can – because if you get it, they probably will too. (I take some pretty strict precautions in flu season for the same reasons, in spite of both mom and I getting flu shots)
If you aren’t in my situation, though, and aren’t personally very high risk, no need to panic. Some pretty trivial precautions should be enough, and even if you do get it, the odds are really high that it’ll be like a mild flu, or less (about half the infected never get symptoms at all).