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COVID-19 and Transplant Patients
Transplants | Last Active: Mar 6, 2021 | Replies (459)Comment receiving replies
@fiesty76, You are absolutely correct to be extra careful . As transplant patients, we have learned the necessity of germ avoidance due to being immunosuppressed to protect our organs. Hand cleaning, avoiding crowds during flu, and avoiding handshaking /germ transfer are our normal way of life.
Have you had to adjust to living without shaking hands? What are your thoughts about the information in Dr Poland's 33 second video thart I shared yesterday? (Is COVID-19 the end of the handshake as we know it?)
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@rosemary, Working toward 40 days of self-quarantine, I've not been tempted by handshakes...vbg...kitty Precious doesn't count, yes? Going forward, the instinctive reaction will be to shake hands and sometimes hug. Some habits are harder to break than others, right?
After 2 weeks of stay-in-place by our gov, he is reopening state parks 4/18th; all dept. stores with "retail to go" 4/24th and "eases restrictions on surgeries starting April 22. The goal of this order is to allow doctors to diagnose patients without an exception".
We are one of the worse states for testing/capita. Scares me to pieces that Texans will be stampeding back out and about!
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So sad that our world has become an even less personal, friendly place. I've worked in the sport fishing tackle industry most of my life. There are huge annual shows just for the industry every summer, plus all the consumer trade shows that many of us do, either in our part of the country or nationwide. Although there are a few major companies, even they're small compared to the "normal" world, and most tackle companies are Mom 'n Pop operations. Used to be that attending a show was just one hug after another as we saw people we didn't ordinarily see except once or very few times each year. The "Me Too" movement put an end to public hugging, took away the one bright spot of those shows, with their long hours and the same questions repeated over and over.
Now, we're learning to be distant from each other, no personal contact whatsoever, using electronic devices to avoid face-to-face meetings. We're learning to order things delivered, delivered without any personal contact. I don't think that this is going to lead to a kinder and gentler world for our future! While it's great that many stores have now put up plastic barriers to separate the store people from customers, they'll stay in place and become the norm, further depersonalizing our daily lives into the future. And, even though the barriers are better than masks for those of us who rely on lip reading, they further suppress what little useful sound we receive. We are most surely losing our humanity, becoming more and more dependent upon devices, far less aware of other people, their unique values, personalities, needs--and what we have gained from those relationships in the past.