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Rogin ([personal profile] rogin) wrote2020-03-12 04:58 pm

News from Tirol

The Corona virus is spreading rapidly in my area in the last few days. We are very close to italy and apparently it spread badly in skiing resorts and on student parties.

I don't like to admit it but I am scared. In Italy people are dying because they do not have enough intensive care units and the way it looks now, by next week things could look here in Innsbruck like they do in northern italy. The university closed down for students and they are closing down schools next week. I honestly hope it helps but I fear things will get a lot worse before they get better again. I am really scared for my eldery parents and my asthmatic sister. And for the first time in my life, I really would like to have a car, so I can get groceries to them without having to use public transport.
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[personal profile] beer_good_foamy 2020-03-12 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Take care of yourself. Hope everything remains manageable. *virtual, contact-less hugs*

Things over here aren't quite at panic level yet, but with half the population going "eh, it's just the flu" and the other half going "WE NEED TO SHUT DOWN SOCIETY AND LIVE OFF WALLPAPER IMMEDIATELY" I'm almost more scared of people than viruses at the moment. Right now all I can do about it is make sure I have enough food to survive quarantine if needed and wash my hads... but I'm glad my parents live deep in the woods with their own well.
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[personal profile] silverusagi 2020-03-13 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
I'm almost more scared of people than viruses at the moment

Ditto. I'm not saying this isn't serious, but with the way people are freaking out, you'd think it was something like smallpox that has a 1 in 3 mortality rate. Makes me worried about what would happen if a super deadly virus ever broke out, if this is happening now.
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[personal profile] jesuswasbatman 2020-03-12 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Hope everything stays OK. I'm worried not so much for myself as if I gave it to my father who is 79.
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[personal profile] lirazel 2020-03-12 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I hope your family stays safe!
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[personal profile] shapinglight 2020-03-14 09:09 am (UTC)(link)
Hugs and stay safe. What frightens me most is not what might happen to me (although I'm in one of the most at risk groups, the over-60s) but about the wider family, including K, who is asthmatic, and various members of the family who are incredibly chest infection-prone, including my husband. :(
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[personal profile] shapinglight 2020-03-15 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Should you know anyone who went skiing in Austria in the last two weeks, make them get tested.

Ironically, just before I read this comment I learned that my niece and her husband had returned from a skiing trip to Austria and gone into self-isolation, both feeling very unwell.

The only upside to this - assuming they only have a mild dose of the virus - is that she's an A&E doctor and will have developed some immunity before she has to return to work. :(
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[personal profile] shapinglight 2020-03-18 11:27 am (UTC)(link)
And I hope the tyrolian tourism mafiosi who are responsible for this go to jail. We are not allowed to leave our homes anymore but the skiing resorts were still open until the last minute.

That's terrible. :(

My niece and husband are recovering, thanks. Fortunately, they are very healthy individuals. Just as well, as they are going to have a very difficult time when they return to work. She's an A&E doctor and he's an army officer.