SHOPPING FOR FOOD VS DINING OUT, ATTENDING CHURCH DURING PANDEMIC

 

COMPARED TO CONGRESS's SOCIAL DISTANCING (ABOVE) , THE SMALL CHURCH (BELOW) IS DOING A BETTER JOB. 

Some restaurants are using mannequins and some use stuffed toys to make sure diners follow social distancing. 

Compare the above to the checkout lines at a local grocery (below). 

I'd rather dine out with pandas and go to church with people I know, thanks.

IT USUALLY TAKES ME ABOUT AN HOUR, DEPENDING ON CHECKOUT LINES, TO SHOP FOR FOOD.

During that hour, I'm perusing aisles looking for the necessities of daily life, not just food, and NOT finding items means searching for possible replacements, maybe even visiting ANOTHER store, being near other shoppers, using shopping carts that I know from asking have NOT been 'sterilized' after each use.

It also means handling multiple packages, cans, frozen food containers, bottles, cartons, jars, a LOT of things that were stocked by possibly asymptomatic employees who are possibly carrying coronavirus, influenza, tuberculosis, bronchitis, a plethora of transmittable diseases common to mankind. 

I've seen some stockers and check-out people who were sneezing, coughing, who LOOKED ill. 
I'm told each employee is checked for fever before they can get to work doing what they do. 
I KNOW that many who have or who had this CV-19 NEVER ran a fever, never had a single symptom. 

YES, they all wear masks, but not all wear gloves, and even if they did, viruses and bacteria live on gloves as workers handle many things placed on the checkout counter or replaced on shelves by many shoppers in the course of a day. 

To be SAFER, masks and gloves would need to be replaced frequently, even after each checkout. 

The simple act of breathing into/through a mask leaves droplets on it, moisture, and that moisture increases by the hour. Fibers loosen, the masks become more porous, even less effective. 

Those stockers, bless them, have to handle hundreds of items a day brought in by trucks from all across the nation.
WERE THOSE WHO LOAD/UNLOAD THOSE TRUCKS CARRYING THE VIRUS? 

Do stockers who have to move items on shelves understand that those items they're moving may have been handled by dozens of shoppers and can be contaminated?  

Did a child or anyone not wearing a mask sneeze or cough on shelves and the things they hold?  

Did an ungloved customer contaminate a checkout counter, items near the counter? 

While standing that magical 6 feet apart, did the virus still get passed to others by someone pushing a cart between those checking out to get to the other side of the store? 

Once we get our supplies home, how can we 'sterilize' everything, especially produce, food packaging, but, actually, by that point, it's too late to do so.  

IF the virus is there, we've already spread it to our vehicle, our home, and it's with us.   

Maybe we set a handbag or a phone down on a contaminated surface and forgot to wipe that down. 

Maybe, in removing mask or gloves, we touched the outside of one or the other and didn't immediately clean our hands. 

Maybe we forgot that we used our hand to pull open a refrigerated or frozen food door to grab something, or that we had to lift a few packages of meat to find the size package we needed, etc. 

Maybe we brought the virus in on clothing, shoes, in our hair, on our skin, in cash we may have gotten as change for our purchase, or that card we stuck into the same slot that hundreds of other cards had been shoved into that day. 

If we have to type in any sort of PIN/code anywhere we shop, we're using the same keypads others have used.
(No one could tell me how often or by what means those card scanners get sterilized. But, NO, I was told, nobody sterilizes CASH.) 

WE HAVE TO EAT! 
WE NEED SUPPLIES! 

SMALL COMMUNITIES LIKE MINE DON'T OFFER GROCERY PICKUP OR DELIVERY! 

And about those gas pumps where we gas-up to go shopping or to go home...
Who's sterilizing those? 

Maybe we stopped and gathered our MAIL.
WHO ALL HANDLED THAT? 

Packages delivered from Amazon?
How many of their warehouses had to be shut down because of high employee infection rates? 

How any UPS or FedEx centers had to close for the same reason USPS was running short of staff? 

For those who DO wear gloves as well as masks, all it takes is ONCE touching your face, rubbing your eyes, touching the inside of that mask and it's a done deal...contaminated. 

What did we do with those used masks/gloves, our shoes and clothing, our wallets, car keys, those shopping bags or handbags once we got home?  
Who else in the household were exposed to those? 

How many surfaces inside home did we possibly spread a virus to? 
The refrigerator, pantry, oven, dishwasher, faucets, door handles, drawer-pulls, cabinet doors...what didn't we disinfect immediately and correctly? 

Did we run out and wipe down our vehicle from stem to stern, inside and out? 

Children like to play/sit on the floor, so did we sterilize the floor, our shoes so the kids  don't risk being infected? 

HAVE WE BROUGHT THE VIRUS HOME?  

IS THERE ANY WAY WE CAN "SOCIAL DISTANCE" AT HOME? 

WE CAN AT A RESTAURANT, AT CHURCH, AT LEAST AS WELL AS, IF NOT BETTER THAN AT A GROCERY STORE OR PHARMACY OR ANY "ESSENTIAL" SUPPLY STORE. 

A TYPICAL CHURCH SERVICE IS AN HOUR LONG.
A TYPICAL MEAL CAN BE CONSUMED IN AN HOUR OR LESS. 
SAME AMOUNT OF TIME WE SPEND IN OFTEN OVER-CROWDED STORES. 

We WON'T be faced with running the gamut of shopping aisles, checkout lanes, handling shopping carts, or taking contaminated items home like we face going into and coming home from the good old grocery stores. 

Churches AND restaurants can be configured just as CONGRESS has configured their meetings, or just as doctors' offices, imaging centers, hospitals configure their public places. 

Six feet apart, masks, gloves, the whole nine yards, is just as easy to attain in a church or in a restaurant as it is in a grocery store...or in Congress...or at a doctor's office. 

After all, NO health inspectors come into our private homes and give us a pass or fail grade so we can stay open for business, do they? 
At least restaurants HAVE to be compliant with certain health requirements and, as many advertise, their employees, like in hospitals, medical facilities, get frequent testing... like, dare we imagine, CONGRESS does? 

If we're "ALLOWED" to make the choice to wander the aisles of Target, Kroger, Trader Joe's, etc, why not let us make that choice for church attendance, for dining out? 

As we saw in China and here in the U.S., people wearing FULL HAZMAT PROTECTION still got infected by this damned virus...medical professionals, taking FAR MORE precautions than 99% of Americans do, STILL GOT SICK AND MANY DIED because of ONE little mistake in putting on or taking off their "full body armor", because of one tiny leak somewhere in the protective shielding.  


A STUDY BY CDC:

"71% of case-patients and 74% of control-participants reported always using cloth face coverings or other mask types when in public.
14% said they OFTEN wore masks.

Close contact with one or more persons with known COVID-19 was reported by 42% of case-patients compared with 14% of control-participants (p<0.01), and most (51%) close contacts were family members.

The agency further suggested that “direction, ventilation, and intensity of airflow might affect virus transmission, even if social distancing measures and mask use are implemented according to current guidance.”

“Most close contact exposures were to family members, consistent with household transmission of [COVID-19],” the CDC added.

LOOKS LIKE HOME IS A HUGE BREEDING GROUND FOR INFECTION, YES? 

The same month as this study, Fauci, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director, came out against conducting a controlled study on the effectiveness of masks to prevent the spread of the Chinese virus.

HOW ODD, ISN'T IT?

CDC admits the study has 'limitations'.

"The findings in this report are subject to at least five limitations.

First, the sample included 314 symptomatic patients who actively sought testing during July 1–29, 2020 at 11 health care facilities. Symptomatic adults with negative SARS-CoV-2 test results might have been infected with other respiratory viruses and had similar exposures to persons with cases of such illnesses. Persons who did not respond, or refused to participate, could be systematically different from those who were interviewed for this investigation. Efforts to age- and sex-match participating case-patients and control-participants were not maintained because of participants not meeting the eligibility criteria, refusing to participate, or not responding, and this was accounted for in the analytic approach.

Second, unmeasured confounding is possible, such that reported behaviors might represent factors, including concurrently participating in activities where possible exposures could have taken place, that were not included in the analysis or measured in the survey. Of note, the question assessing dining at a restaurant did not distinguish between indoor and outdoor options. In addition, the question about going to a bar or coffee shop did not distinguish between the venues or service delivery methods, which might represent different exposures.

Third, adults in the study were from one of 11 participating health care facilities and might not be representative of the United States population.

Fourth, participants were aware of their SARS-CoV-2 test results, which could have influenced their responses to questions about community exposures and close contacts.

Finally, case or control status might be subject to misclassification because of imperfect sensitivity or specificity of PCR-based testing (9,10)."  

YES, THAT CDC-INVENTED 'TEST' HAS BOTH FALSE-NEGATIVE AND FALSE-POSITIVE RESULTS. 

If you think a negative test result means you don't have coronavirus, you could be wrong," says MSN.

"A study in the medical journal Annals of Internal Medicine examined false-negative test results of people who actually had Covid-19.

The study estimated that during four days of infection before symptoms typically started, the probability of getting an incorrect/negative test result on Day 1 was 100%."

100% incorrect!
100%. 


THE YEAR TO DATE

165,696,240 total tests; some are repeat tests.
10,752,101 total positive tests.
236,953 total deaths since January, 2020.
DO THE MATH.

Johns Hopkins simple chart should show anyone how we are currently back to where we were in late March, early April this year. 

It is NOT a new 'apocalypse'. 
THE MORE WE TEST, THE MORE WE FIND. 

"When states report the number of COVID-19 tests performed, this should include the number of viral tests performed and the number of patients for which these tests were performed. 

Currently, states may not be distinguishing overall tests administered from the number of individuals who have been tested. This is an important limitation to the data that is available to track testing in the U.S., and states should work to address it." 

"You can get infected by just a few viral particles, but these will not be detectable until they have time to replicate to adequate levels to be detected," said Justin Lessler, a senior author of the study and associate professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. "There is no hard and fast rule, but the evidence suggests getting a test before the third day after exposure is not of much use," Lessler said.

Could I be contagious while testing negative?

Absolutely. "People sort of feel like if you test (negative), you're out of the woods. And you're kind of not," said Dr. Rochelle Walensky, chief of the infectious diseases division at Massachusetts General Hospital.

"For people who get sick with Covid-19, symptoms can take up to two weeks to appear, but the average time is about five days," Walensky said.


BUT WE NEED TO DO ANTIBODY TESTING AND RETEST (SWAB) ALL 331,740,000+ CITIZENS AT LEAST ONCE PER MONTH. 
WE NEED A MORE RELIABLE TEST! 
THAT'S A MAMMOTH UNDERTAKING AND NOT YET POSSIBLE. 

IT'S ALSO SOMETHING FAUCI, CDC, FDA, ET AL DON'T WANT. 

IF 2/3rds OF AMERICANS TESTED POSITIVE FOR COVID-19 ANTIBODIES, WE WILL HAVE NOT ONLY ATTAINED HERD IMMUNITY, BUT WILL ALSO SEE THAT DEATH COUNT PERCENTAGE DROP LIKE A ROCK. 

CV-19 WOULD BE RELEGATED TO THE BIN MARKED, "ZIKA, ZIKA!" AND SWINE FLU... THAT BIN OF PAST HYSTERIAS THAT NEVER ACCOMPLISHED KILLING ALL OF HUMANITY. 

In October, eight percent of long-term care facility residents diagnosed with COVID-19 died. The rising cases of the past few weeks are resulting in the highest number of deaths in months as states and facilities STILL FAIL to protect these most vulnerable Americans. 

Masks, social distancing, stay-home orders, businesses shut down HAVE ALL FAILED TO STOP THIS VIRUS. 

WHAT WILL MORE OF THE SAME ACCOMPLISH?

ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. 

UNLESS YOU COUNT DESTRUCTION OF OUR ECONOMY, THEFT OF OUR CIVIL LIBERTIES, LOSS OF FREEDOM, RUINED LIVES, A SHARP RISE IN SUICIDES, COUNTLESS EVICTIONS BECAUSE PEOPLE CAN'T GO TO WORK AND PAY BILLS, THE LOSS OF OUR ELDERLY.  

"COVID" HAS BEEN GREAT AT THOSE ACCOMPLISHMENTS. 

//WW