My First Hive Post | What it means to be in quarantine in Venezuela
Greetings, everyone
It took me some time to get around the new frontend. Access issues. I wish #Hive/ #Peakd the best. Let's hope this new stage in decentralized crypto communities overcomes Steemit limitations and perfects a system that promises a lot, but that did not deliver much in that first stage.
I hope we learn from past mistakes and make this new platform even better that it was. Hopefully Covid-19 will be for the world what Justin Sun/Ned was for Steemit. If we survive this pandemic it ill be great to be able to contribute to this project.
These have been very hard days for the whole world and here in Venezuela we were already having a hellish time to complicate it now with a potentially lethal virus that has forced the government to take measures they know the majority of the population cannot obey.
This is one of the main streets in Cumaná, State of Sucre. The second day of quarantine. Traffic as usual.
I waited some minutes in that corner at a drugstore trying to get some medicine and at lest 5 people came to that pile of garbage looking for food.
Very few people in Venezuela make enough money to buy food for weeks or months. Most people, professionals included, can buy food for a couple of days and have to go out to solve different domestic issues.
Not many people had masks and most of the ones I saw were home-made/improvised.
3rd day of quarantine (Tuesday 17)
By Tuesday there were about 40% of people wearing masks, but there were even more people in the streets.
There were long lines in every establishmente, especially in drugstores and mini-markets.
Even though by today Venezuela has not officially registered any deaths and has "only" 70 officially confirmed cases, we know the virus must have been circulating for months. With the opacity that characterizes the Venezuelan regime, we will never know the real numbers. Add to that that we lack all basic supplies and our hospitals were in shambles way before the crisis. People are rooting for a miracle. Being realistic, in our situation, if the virus hits us with the force it has hit Italy or Spain, the death toll will be shocking. If those countries, whose developed health systems, equipment, supplies, and logistics were unable to stop people from dying, imagine what the virus will do to us.
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Oh, I am so worried for you guys, @hlezama. All we can do is hope and pray that it does not hit hard, and that somehow it can ripple through without major effect. I truly wish things were better in Venezuela.
Thank you very much, @jayna
Hi my friend,
I'm very sorry to see that Venezuela is also affected by this virus especially with the difficulties to get food.
We have been hit very hard by the virus and me and my family are trying to stay indoors as much as possible. We have already over 6000 cases in my small country and it is one of the highest densitys of infected people all over the world. If I can give you some advice to deal with this Virus:
Good luck my friend
Best regards,
Achim
Those are alarming numbers indeed. Stay safe. Thanks for the tips and good wishes. Hopefully, the world will learn some lessons after this tragedy and be somehow better. I want to see Hive as an experimental micro cosmos of that.
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Thanks for your support, guys
Stay protected the best that you can. You are all on the minds of lots of people, as you show us there is little the Venezuelan people can do to accommodate the govt. orders. Never lose hope! Your day is coming!
We all hope so. Thanks for your support.
@hlezama,
Hey Henrry.
Here's a piece of information that ought to give you some comfort: The average age of Italians is 47. The average age of Venezuelans (2015) is 27.
This makes a HUGE difference. In Italy, the average age of fatalities caused by Covid-19 is ... 80. And, 99% of those who died had other illnesses (suppressed immune system).
For most younger people, the symptoms of the Coronavirus is not much different than the flu.
Hang in there, mate.
Quill
Hey, Quill. Good to have you back. That's certainly useful information. That's how I want to look at it to keep my sanity. Time will tell.
@hlezama,
People are over-reacting. WAY over-reacting.
In any event, do you remember "Katie's research" that got her $72,000 in university scholarships? We can use it here if need be.
Do you have access to Curcumin?
It's an extract from the spice Turmeric. Among other things, Curcumin is a broad-spectrum anti-viral. It is also anti-inflammatory and suppresses Interleukin-6 and other immune-related chemicals that result in "cytokine storms" which is what is actually killing people. Taking Curcumin pills, though, is useless as alkalinity (small intestine) destroys it. It is also 99.9% water insoluble (making it hard to absorb through the intestines) and what little does get absorbed is immediately destroyed by the liver.
But there are a couple of workarounds (the one Katie has been using requires lab equipment so I'll stick to things you could do in your kitchen).
Quill
That sounds fascinating, Quill. Since getting DMSO here will most likely be impossible, I guess option 2 would be worth trying
Oh man, that's just awful. I can't even imagine what you must be going through or thinking about on a daily basis. Try to stay healthy!
Thanks. It is mind-blowing. I hear people talk about all the sanitary measures they take, all the cleaning, etc. We have not been able to even buy bleach or any kind of desinfectant
Sorry to hear about the added strain the effects of the Corona virus is having on your country!
I hope you personally are fairing okay!
Glad to see you made it over to Hive!
Take care and Hive on!
Thanks, @porters. We are doing ok so far. Just went out to get some food. Lots of people in the streets. even though most of them are wearing masks, they are doing everything that must not be done given the current circumstances.
I finally made over to #Hive. I hope things get better over here
I've been wondering how this has affected Venezuela, hoping things had not gotten even worse for you. It seems as though they have. Thanks for the update, and let's hope this madness subsides soon.
Thanks, @owasco
Yesterday I had to go out for potable water. Today I have to go out to get some food. Almost 100% of people in the streets are wearing some kind of mask, but we have pretty much 100% or regular people in the streets in the streets. I even saw a bus (there are fewer now) packed with people. It was just unbelievable. There is no mask to prevent anything in an enclosed place like a bus full of people.
We are hoping the whole pandemic is not as bad as some report because if it is that bad we'll have people dropping like flies.