COVID19 Infecting the Quarantined

Another person in quarantine has gotten coronavirus--this one is a city councilwoman here in Indianapolis. She says she and her husband disinfect all their perishable food, watch church services online and stay at home.

She's not alone. Among COVID patients going to the hospital in New York, 66% have been sheltering at home and avoiding the subway.

Meantime, Jacksonville, Florida opened their beaches April 17 to limited activities with social distancing. Doomers predicted--well, doom. Unacast (who gave Wyoming an F for social distancing) gave the county a D+ for social distancing. But the county saw emergency room visits for COVID-like illness, flu-like illness, cough-related illness and fever drop. Of illnesses reported, only shortness of breath stayed about the same. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis wants an apology from the doomers.

What's going on? Maybe in some places, people in quarantine are about the only people left to infect. Maybe it's that they stay indoors--research shows UV light weakens the virus. Maybe we need to get outside more.

I admit haven't been outside much the past few days--it's been too chilly and I've had work to do. But I've eaten the shirota yogurt I made from Yakult. The bad news: more than about a quarter cup upsets my stomach. The good news: I feel more energetic and mentally sharper. The latter wasn't one of the benefits Dr. Davis mentioned, but there it is. Solutions to problems that had stumped me are popping into my head: I read up on my low TIBC (total iron binding capacity) in Stop the Thyroid Madness and ordered some lactoferritin. I took some masks I'd thrown into the Goodwill box and adjusted them so they fit. I finally started taking my temperature a few times a day to get average daily temps to see how my adrenals are doing. It had just seemed too complicated before. I hope to figure out whether I should go out, when I'm well, with or without a mask, try to get the virus in the summer avoid it entirely.

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