03-31-2020, 08:28 PM
At the moment, my area (Dallas Fort Worth metropolitan area) has over 1200 cases and it's growing faster and faster everyday. Besides having running nose and watery eyes, I feel fine so far. To clarify, March to May is typically my allergy season.
I am already employed at the time when the first COVID-19 case was confirmed in Frisco TX (not far from where I live). After a week the number of cases exploded around here. My employer initially wanted to put all of us home while getting paid. However, due to high demands on network infrastructure supplies and support from online customers and medical businesses. We were called back to work but with limited number of employees. Due to my new position as an inventory manager, I ended up having an authorization slip from my company that I am an expendable essential employee. All of the commonly touched areas like door knobs are cleaned every 20 minutes. We are required to wash our hands every hour and all of us are keeping a distance. On the bright side, at least my commute is more pleasant with far lighter traffic.
As for life situations, fortunately I am equipped with N95 masks (gave some to my roommate), hand sanitizer, and disinfect wipes. Most of these are given from my company before the pandemic. Besides work, groceries, running high priority errands, I avoid going out. When I do go out to a public place, I keep a good distance from everyone and protect myself with a face mask.
Admittedly, I did had several episodes of panic since I've been through the worst part of SARS in China back in 2003. I guess the traumatic experiences might've heightened that since I am calm most of the time. My roommate helped me to stop panicking and think rationally. Even when I'm in panic mode, I wouldn't even buy all bunch of toilet papers. However, I did ran out of toilet paper my roommate and I bought in 2019. Fortunately I picked the right time and bought a pack of 6 toilet paper rolls last Saturday. That'll last for at least 6 months or so.
Although I avoid political discussions but here are my thoughts:
The US health care system is the worst health care system in the world. I had bad experiences with them over something they didn't do couple of years ago. Although I have health insurance, I still have to pay some amounts of money just to get tested for COVID-19. However, some part of the US is free but I can't be certain with that. If you ended up in a hospital and recovered from the virus. Good luck paying couple of thousand dollars for treatment costs if you have insurance (without insurance, I won't be surprised if the bill is more than your annual salary). So basically, income privileged people are more accessible to better treatment. No wonder why Walter White started to cook meth to pay his cancer treatments. America would be far better with a health care system like Canada's.
Also, as for Chinese government. They have really done for themselves this time. When the virus was first discovered, doctors in China tried to give out warnings to the people but the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) silenced any whistleblowers and deny the disease. After they "contained"** the virus, they started to paint themselves as the hero who defeated the virus and blame other countries for introducing the virus. In addition, they take advantage of the situation to collect informations from other countries to fuel their propaganda. Once this is over, the CCP is responsible for all of the damages around the world.
**a lot of people in China spread the words that the number of COVID-19 cases in China are too low to be true. Most people (including several of my friends in China) believe the numbers could be millions. The CCP wanted to make the false sense of security that the disease is contained but they're still deep in the woods.
I am already employed at the time when the first COVID-19 case was confirmed in Frisco TX (not far from where I live). After a week the number of cases exploded around here. My employer initially wanted to put all of us home while getting paid. However, due to high demands on network infrastructure supplies and support from online customers and medical businesses. We were called back to work but with limited number of employees. Due to my new position as an inventory manager, I ended up having an authorization slip from my company that I am an expendable essential employee. All of the commonly touched areas like door knobs are cleaned every 20 minutes. We are required to wash our hands every hour and all of us are keeping a distance. On the bright side, at least my commute is more pleasant with far lighter traffic.
As for life situations, fortunately I am equipped with N95 masks (gave some to my roommate), hand sanitizer, and disinfect wipes. Most of these are given from my company before the pandemic. Besides work, groceries, running high priority errands, I avoid going out. When I do go out to a public place, I keep a good distance from everyone and protect myself with a face mask.
Admittedly, I did had several episodes of panic since I've been through the worst part of SARS in China back in 2003. I guess the traumatic experiences might've heightened that since I am calm most of the time. My roommate helped me to stop panicking and think rationally. Even when I'm in panic mode, I wouldn't even buy all bunch of toilet papers. However, I did ran out of toilet paper my roommate and I bought in 2019. Fortunately I picked the right time and bought a pack of 6 toilet paper rolls last Saturday. That'll last for at least 6 months or so.
Although I avoid political discussions but here are my thoughts:
The US health care system is the worst health care system in the world. I had bad experiences with them over something they didn't do couple of years ago. Although I have health insurance, I still have to pay some amounts of money just to get tested for COVID-19. However, some part of the US is free but I can't be certain with that. If you ended up in a hospital and recovered from the virus. Good luck paying couple of thousand dollars for treatment costs if you have insurance (without insurance, I won't be surprised if the bill is more than your annual salary). So basically, income privileged people are more accessible to better treatment. No wonder why Walter White started to cook meth to pay his cancer treatments. America would be far better with a health care system like Canada's.
Also, as for Chinese government. They have really done for themselves this time. When the virus was first discovered, doctors in China tried to give out warnings to the people but the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) silenced any whistleblowers and deny the disease. After they "contained"** the virus, they started to paint themselves as the hero who defeated the virus and blame other countries for introducing the virus. In addition, they take advantage of the situation to collect informations from other countries to fuel their propaganda. Once this is over, the CCP is responsible for all of the damages around the world.
**a lot of people in China spread the words that the number of COVID-19 cases in China are too low to be true. Most people (including several of my friends in China) believe the numbers could be millions. The CCP wanted to make the false sense of security that the disease is contained but they're still deep in the woods.
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