Coronavirus Outbreak

[NorwichDad]

Had an interesting conversation with DS today we walked the dogs thru the old Fort Hancock Army Base at Sandy Hook. She is an ER Nurse in a New Jersey Hospital. In March she was working about 70 hours a week as we were first hit with the Coronavirus. Scores of people then were walking in to the hospital each day with Oxygen levels in the 50s and 60s. They would be walking and talking when they came in and dead in a few hours. She thinks the initial reaction of people then was to use the old remedies. Start with NyQuil and Chicken Soup and get rest as you would with all flus of your life. You certainly did not want to go to a NJ hospital then, These people probably went days at low Oxygen Levels before coming to the hospital. The hospital had several freezer trucks outside the ER. Maybe all of us did not realize what was upon us. Maybe this thing has passed through all of us here in the greater NYC area. Her hospital has virtually no Covid patients now. My wife's hospital which is much larger now has only a few. There is a story on a hospital 30 miles north below. I pray for thus far unaffected areas. Seek Doctors advice immediately for any sickness. This Virus will burn through all of the population eventually. We cant stop it. Then it runs out of fuel and disappears. Just like in 1918.

Once called a ‘war zone,’ this N.J. hospital now has zero coronavirus patients
https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2020...spital-now-has-zero-coronavirus-patients.html

 

[MullenLE]

The relation to the comments above are: Secretary of Defense Esper’s priorities are to:

1) Protect our people,
2) Maintain readiness,
3) and support the national response.

So, to the extent this pandemic affects applicants and our military, that is the laser like focus that the DoD is following