Planning To Go To A Beach Or Nail Salon? Twitter Thread Of ICU Doctor’s Daughter Might Change Your Mind
Screenwriter and bestselling author Bess Kalb has a stark warning for all of us who are thinking of visiting the beach or going to the nail salon. Her dad is an ICU doctor treating coronavirus patients and he told her just how bad Covid-19 really is.
Bess warned that the virus is serious business and that we shouldn’t relax too much: even young and healthy people are at risk. The writer mentioned everything from “cytokine storms” to “random strokes” and suggested that people send her Twitter thread to anyone who’s outside in a crowded public space.
The writer’s thread about her dad’s insights got more than 161.7k likes and 64k retweets and it shows just how widely their message about the dangers of the virus spread.
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Screenwriter and author Bess Kalb’s dad is an ICU doctor and he told her about the terrifying effects the coronavirus has on the human body
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Bess shared her dad’s warning on Twitter
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One Twitter user said that she heard similar things about the coronavirus from her sister in law
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Bess stressed that the coronavirus is not the flu and that we shouldn’t compare the two
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Los Angeles-based Bess is the author of the book Nobody Will Tell You This But Me and is the writer for Jimmy Kimmel Live. The Emmy-nominated writer is also a regular contributor to The New Yorker’s “Daily Shouts,” and her work has been published in The New Republic, Salon, Wired, The Nation, and elsewhere.
While a lot of countries are relaxing some of the quarantine measures in place, the coronavirus pandemic is far from over.
According to Johns Hopkins University, there are more than 3.58 million cases of people sick with the coronavirus worldwide and over 250k people have lost their lives because of it. Nearly 69k people died in the United States, 29k in Italy, and nearly 29k in the United Kingdom.
The US now plans to borrow 3 trillion dollars for virus-related financial relief. Meanwhile, The New York Times reports that it obtained an “internal document” that shows that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Federal Emergency Management Agency forecast around 200k new coronavirus cases each day by the end of May and 3k deaths by June 1. In other words, it might be too soon to relax and celebrate.
Here’s how some people reacted to Bess’ Twitter thread
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If you're going to leave a comment being all "well I should have my freedom, who cares about you" or "but lots of people survive it, you're skewing the story" then please please please do go outside in a big group and all die of natural selection for being an uncaring idiot. Regards, The inevitable progression of humanity
How about just going outside by yourself wearing a mask and social distancing. There is no reason people can’t just get some fresh air and sunshine while keeping safe. Going outside does not equal death. Going outside does not mean you’re an uncaring idiot. And going outside does not mean you deserve to die as part of natural selection.
Load More Replies...True story from my area: Kid went to Spring Break in Florida. Came hom eto Virginia. Three weeks later, his aunt and grandma are drowning in bloody fluid in their own lungs. Both elderly, both got hugs from loving grandson, both got Covid19, and all he got was "a cold". Yeah, he did. They died. STAY HOME! If you aren't in healthcare, STAY HOME. If you aren't able to stay home b/c you have "your rifghts"? WELL< WE HAVE RIGHTS TO LIVE TOO. So shut up and sit down and take up a hobby, but STAY HOME. I'm burned out, stressed out, holding patients to help nurses clean tubes and drain lungs and this is with *low* mortality rates compared to other viruses. (Smallpox, for example.) And that's in an area with "low cases". We just don't have the infrastructure for a bad flu outbreak let alone this... We're seeing wacky stuff outside ICU, so I can't imagine what ICU is like.... So STAY HOME. If you're not helping in the hospital, STAY HOME. PLEASE!!!
It’s easy for people who still have a job and money to pay the bills to tell others to stay home, especially the press. But not so easy for those whose mental health is suffering because they are broke, out of a job with no end in sight, stuck in a small apartment in a bad neighborhood, possibly about to be homeless. Suicides in my city have gone up. Just shaming people saying stay home isn’t a solution.
Load More Replies...i think she meant that there won't be a funeral procession
Load More Replies...Self isolation is not going to eradicate CV 19. It just spreads out the rate of contagion so the hospitals and first responders aren't overwhelmed.
And delays your chance of getting it until there is an effective treatment to mitigate chance of horrible death.
Load More Replies...Suicides and domestic violence have gone up in my city, food production is way down, cancer screenings are way down, businesses are being lost, people are losing their jobs and then their houses. Please be honest about the situation.
I am not a medical professional, but I am the loving and caring daughter of a sixty- three year old man who is immunocompromised. I don't want my father to get this virus because I believe with everything in my heart that it will kill him. His birthday is coming up in June and I want to celebrate my dad's sixty-fourth birthday. Thankfully, he has been smart enough to stay inside, but that still may not stop the virus if mother, sister, and I who work come into contact with it. Going to the beach or getting your nails done is not worth someone dying a painful and horrible death. JUST STAY HOME. I swear you will not die of boredom.
@Cesi Baca : I know I'm late to this thread, but I have to add you totally misunderstood the definition of herd immunity. Or rather HOW it is created. By definition, herd immunity means that enough people are immune to not spread the illness. But how it gets to this point? If you guessed that it requires a bunch of people getting the virus and survive in the first place, you guessed right. Now one more step: if a bunch of people gets the virus, some will not survive. If the virus is dangerous, more will die. That's the process of creating herd immunity. This or vaccine, which does not exist yet. Is it so hard to grasp?
Load More Replies...OK, pharmacy student here, I don't understand the blood transfusion thing. How does it come that coronavirus affects blood cells if it's not in blood in the first place? Is there anyone that can explain it?
From a momcologist when the kidney or liver (that's 7 year's ago and i'm the parent so) start to f up it basically eat the red blood cell too, that's the usual reason the other one being the immune system f up nazi mode and destroying the red cells bc they find them scary. One last reason would be a body reaction that is basically like gangrene for the blood that passed trough a infected zone, we got this weird immune system cell in my familly. (Wich make us great blood donnor as we have more neutrophile (teacher immune cell). My explaination of the why might be basic but that how i rember the basic info as i had to teach it to my child, and 5 years post chemmo and healthy
Load More Replies...But right now I personally feel that states easing the stay at home restriction is like having sex without a condom because the individual isn't showing HIV symptons. But instead of 10 years it can kill in 10 weeks. One uncovered cough can infect several individuals in a 12 foot radius paying for groceries, in a bar, etc. And that individual may not show symptoms at the time either. If a person with HIV/AIDS was infecting individuals being careless and not getting tested people would be in an uproar. But with this, the thought of telling the hot guy at the bar "we can do it without a condom. You don't have symptoms, and this small business needs revenue" feels like a disaster waiting to happen. But this is spreads so much more easily that it isn't limited to the hot guy it may also be the gross creepy guy two stools over whipping out a dirty w**g saying "do me next. I don't have symptoms either"
Same in my city (Berlin). Throngs of young (and older) peeps out and about partying. What frustrates me so much is that we crashed out economy to bring this virus to a halt, that we were actually really successful in doing so - and it was probably in vain. Partying and having a good time are more important than anything else. I had Covid 19, one of the near symptomless cases, and I feel VERY lucky and grateful reading this. Not sure why my body reacted the way it did, (I am neither young, nor healthy) but I need to thank the universe for that.
It's not. Pretty easy to confirm, considering how many people have died already.
Load More Replies...So where is the secluded part? That's the problem, too many in too close a space so that distancing in difficult if not impossible. Thankfully I live near a very rural area with access to creeks and springs that almost no one goes to. Very few people have that luxury I just feel for those who don't even have so much as a balcony.
Load More Replies...Embellish? Are you THERE?? I am. This is not "embellishment". WHY are you all out here doing this? People are suffering, and you constantly are putting your fingers in your ears and trying to drown out, sow doubt, or mock the people that are trying to help. Why happened to you to make you all like this?? This is REAL. You are not helping by being this way. Please help us, or get out of our way with your denial nonsense about what we are actually going through every day. I am so sick of it.
Load More Replies...As she states in her posts. It may not affect you much or at all if you are infected but you could pass it onto someone that reacts badly and dies. Staying indoors for a few months may be boring but at least some lives will be saved.
Load More Replies...Oh, spare us the useless criticism, maybe her dad is too busy, maybe he doesn't want to make an sns account. Her words are just as valid and yes, she's seeking for attention, the attention needed to make people understand.
Load More Replies...If you're going to leave a comment being all "well I should have my freedom, who cares about you" or "but lots of people survive it, you're skewing the story" then please please please do go outside in a big group and all die of natural selection for being an uncaring idiot. Regards, The inevitable progression of humanity
How about just going outside by yourself wearing a mask and social distancing. There is no reason people can’t just get some fresh air and sunshine while keeping safe. Going outside does not equal death. Going outside does not mean you’re an uncaring idiot. And going outside does not mean you deserve to die as part of natural selection.
Load More Replies...True story from my area: Kid went to Spring Break in Florida. Came hom eto Virginia. Three weeks later, his aunt and grandma are drowning in bloody fluid in their own lungs. Both elderly, both got hugs from loving grandson, both got Covid19, and all he got was "a cold". Yeah, he did. They died. STAY HOME! If you aren't in healthcare, STAY HOME. If you aren't able to stay home b/c you have "your rifghts"? WELL< WE HAVE RIGHTS TO LIVE TOO. So shut up and sit down and take up a hobby, but STAY HOME. I'm burned out, stressed out, holding patients to help nurses clean tubes and drain lungs and this is with *low* mortality rates compared to other viruses. (Smallpox, for example.) And that's in an area with "low cases". We just don't have the infrastructure for a bad flu outbreak let alone this... We're seeing wacky stuff outside ICU, so I can't imagine what ICU is like.... So STAY HOME. If you're not helping in the hospital, STAY HOME. PLEASE!!!
It’s easy for people who still have a job and money to pay the bills to tell others to stay home, especially the press. But not so easy for those whose mental health is suffering because they are broke, out of a job with no end in sight, stuck in a small apartment in a bad neighborhood, possibly about to be homeless. Suicides in my city have gone up. Just shaming people saying stay home isn’t a solution.
Load More Replies...i think she meant that there won't be a funeral procession
Load More Replies...Self isolation is not going to eradicate CV 19. It just spreads out the rate of contagion so the hospitals and first responders aren't overwhelmed.
And delays your chance of getting it until there is an effective treatment to mitigate chance of horrible death.
Load More Replies...Suicides and domestic violence have gone up in my city, food production is way down, cancer screenings are way down, businesses are being lost, people are losing their jobs and then their houses. Please be honest about the situation.
I am not a medical professional, but I am the loving and caring daughter of a sixty- three year old man who is immunocompromised. I don't want my father to get this virus because I believe with everything in my heart that it will kill him. His birthday is coming up in June and I want to celebrate my dad's sixty-fourth birthday. Thankfully, he has been smart enough to stay inside, but that still may not stop the virus if mother, sister, and I who work come into contact with it. Going to the beach or getting your nails done is not worth someone dying a painful and horrible death. JUST STAY HOME. I swear you will not die of boredom.
@Cesi Baca : I know I'm late to this thread, but I have to add you totally misunderstood the definition of herd immunity. Or rather HOW it is created. By definition, herd immunity means that enough people are immune to not spread the illness. But how it gets to this point? If you guessed that it requires a bunch of people getting the virus and survive in the first place, you guessed right. Now one more step: if a bunch of people gets the virus, some will not survive. If the virus is dangerous, more will die. That's the process of creating herd immunity. This or vaccine, which does not exist yet. Is it so hard to grasp?
Load More Replies...OK, pharmacy student here, I don't understand the blood transfusion thing. How does it come that coronavirus affects blood cells if it's not in blood in the first place? Is there anyone that can explain it?
From a momcologist when the kidney or liver (that's 7 year's ago and i'm the parent so) start to f up it basically eat the red blood cell too, that's the usual reason the other one being the immune system f up nazi mode and destroying the red cells bc they find them scary. One last reason would be a body reaction that is basically like gangrene for the blood that passed trough a infected zone, we got this weird immune system cell in my familly. (Wich make us great blood donnor as we have more neutrophile (teacher immune cell). My explaination of the why might be basic but that how i rember the basic info as i had to teach it to my child, and 5 years post chemmo and healthy
Load More Replies...But right now I personally feel that states easing the stay at home restriction is like having sex without a condom because the individual isn't showing HIV symptons. But instead of 10 years it can kill in 10 weeks. One uncovered cough can infect several individuals in a 12 foot radius paying for groceries, in a bar, etc. And that individual may not show symptoms at the time either. If a person with HIV/AIDS was infecting individuals being careless and not getting tested people would be in an uproar. But with this, the thought of telling the hot guy at the bar "we can do it without a condom. You don't have symptoms, and this small business needs revenue" feels like a disaster waiting to happen. But this is spreads so much more easily that it isn't limited to the hot guy it may also be the gross creepy guy two stools over whipping out a dirty w**g saying "do me next. I don't have symptoms either"
Same in my city (Berlin). Throngs of young (and older) peeps out and about partying. What frustrates me so much is that we crashed out economy to bring this virus to a halt, that we were actually really successful in doing so - and it was probably in vain. Partying and having a good time are more important than anything else. I had Covid 19, one of the near symptomless cases, and I feel VERY lucky and grateful reading this. Not sure why my body reacted the way it did, (I am neither young, nor healthy) but I need to thank the universe for that.
It's not. Pretty easy to confirm, considering how many people have died already.
Load More Replies...So where is the secluded part? That's the problem, too many in too close a space so that distancing in difficult if not impossible. Thankfully I live near a very rural area with access to creeks and springs that almost no one goes to. Very few people have that luxury I just feel for those who don't even have so much as a balcony.
Load More Replies...Embellish? Are you THERE?? I am. This is not "embellishment". WHY are you all out here doing this? People are suffering, and you constantly are putting your fingers in your ears and trying to drown out, sow doubt, or mock the people that are trying to help. Why happened to you to make you all like this?? This is REAL. You are not helping by being this way. Please help us, or get out of our way with your denial nonsense about what we are actually going through every day. I am so sick of it.
Load More Replies...As she states in her posts. It may not affect you much or at all if you are infected but you could pass it onto someone that reacts badly and dies. Staying indoors for a few months may be boring but at least some lives will be saved.
Load More Replies...Oh, spare us the useless criticism, maybe her dad is too busy, maybe he doesn't want to make an sns account. Her words are just as valid and yes, she's seeking for attention, the attention needed to make people understand.
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