I Just Want to Wish You All Well

bambinaki

bambinaki

Member Since 2010
Hello comrades!

As the college where I work has just closed because of corona and things are getting scarier, I would like to wish you and your kitties well. I'm glad I have stocked up on food, test strips, insulin, and syringes, and I hope you have too. (Even so, I hope I have enough!) Thank you for your help and encouragement, which I will still need as my kitty Maxi's diabetes is still out of control.

I send you all my best wishes.
 
Sending my love to everyone who needs it! Everyone stay safe and keep washing your hands!!!
They just brought back a cruise ship to the air base in my hometown here in Ontario(two people on it were confirmed to have corona and are currently under quarantine!) I wasn’t worried at first but recently I’ve been a little scared. :eek::arghh:

Hendrix and I wish everyone well especially your kitties! :bighug::bighug::bighug:

Be safe.
 
Wishing you well Karen. And EVERYONE, prayers for you and your families. It is a strange time, and of course we need to be aware and take precautions. I'm sure it hit you pretty hard in your circumstance, Karen.
It's a bit of a jolt to several people who have changing jobs, etc. Listening to all the news and cancellations is a little anxiety provoking. I have been watching national and local news and getting quite anxious (dumb, dumb), especially for the very elder loved ones - it is just so, so strange. It almost feels like a bad movie. It is Spring, like Awakening time around here, and now this is our Spring, cutting out the usual festivities, and waiting . . .there are cases popping up all around; just one in my county as of yesterday.

I just happened upon something from the Centers for Disease Control that cautioned anyone sick with this virus to also avoid their PETS - just like you would avoid other people while sick. The Unknown . . . . I sure don't want to add extra anxiety, but feel a little compelled to share this, that includes the caution to use around your pets if you contract COVID-19:

From the Centers for Disease Control
 
Prayers for us ALL in these turbulent times.

Pasted from my condo, cuz it's relevant... I am seriously concerned about the insanity that is gripping the world right now, as I know we all are. The social shutdown and financial meltdown we are witnessing in the wake of this disease outbreak, are unprecedented. I pray that humanity as a species doesn't go completely off the deep end. This virus is nasty, but its mortality is low, and IF we die at least we don't die bleeding out of our asses (ebola, anyone?). Prayers that this panic passes by quickly, that as few people as possible are sickened and that a vaccine or cure is forthcoming.
 
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Tina Marie and Jan said:
I just happened upon something from the Centers for Disease Control that cautioned anyone sick with this virus to also avoid their PETS - just like you would avoid other people while sick. The Unknown . . . . I sure don't want to add extra anxiety, but feel a little compelled to share this, that includes the caution to use around your pets if you contract COVID-19:
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Whoa - thank you for sharing that. That is the first suggestion I've heard that this virus **might** be transmissible human to animal. Yikes :nailbiting:
 
@SnowKat Kat, none of this is directed at you. We're all worried and we all love our cats.
It actually does matter to me what people think of me, primarily that I'm not a pompous ass and/or a know-it-all. I'm not an epidemiologist so here goes.
We're being bombarded daily with half truths, lies, doomsday scenarios and now this cat/dog thing. It's too much.
This is what I dug up, my words are in italics.
>A Corona virus is a group of viruses, what we're dealing with now is the Covid 19 virus.
> from the WHO
Coronaviruses are zoonotic, meaning they are transmitted between animals and people. Detailed investigations found that SARS-CoV was transmitted from civet cats to humans and MERS-CoV from dromedary camels to humans. Several known coronaviruses are circulating in animals that have not yet infected humans.
"Transmitted between animals and people" could mean just about anything. Science got it wrong with Mad Cow disease but for 40 years I've been up close and personal with very sick cats and I'm still here.
A civet cat is not necessarily a cat as we think of cats big or small.
> from Wikipedia
Civet cat is an imprecise term that is used for a variety of cat-like creatures including;
the zoological families Viverridae and Nandiniidae
Ring-tailed cat or North American Civet Cat, related to raccoons
Leopard cat
African wildcat
Spotted skunks
>There was just one dog in all of Hong Kong that had a weak-positive test result. I love dogs but they're slobs, licking their butts and then our faces. Cats walk through their own poop, groom each other and sleep on my bed. Humans are the bigger slobs and so far have been too stupid to restrict family visits to every nursing home. The filthiest thing in a waiting room are year old magazines, next comes doctor's ties getting dragged from room to room.
> The zoonotic connection people thought was impossible was what caused Mad Cow disease so there could be some truth to this. It's happened before with birds and pigs. I'm not a vegetarian but I'm almost there. I've worked at a cow factory and have seen things you just couldn't believe. I stick with chickens and seafood.
If you'd like to see how badly we smart humans have bungled things up in the past...
When I Googled "how did cows get mad cow disease"
https://www.google.ca/search?source...UGsAKHcV0DjAQ4dUDCAs&uact=5#spf=1584126853213
When I Googled " How did humans get mad cow disease"
https://www.google.ca/search?source...i251j0i22i10i30.1PTwd94x8cM#spf=1584126798914

Sorry everyone, there is no right time or place to do this. And if anyone in a lab coat comes to get our cats there will be an altercation.
 
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