<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">I had to give up donating blood. They listened to my heart and waved me off. Now every doctor I go to listens and nobody says anything and I went to a heart doctor who said I was fine and don't come back unless you have symptoms. So I don't know why they won't let me. I do have PVCs (no plastic pipe: preventricvular contractions, supposedly harmless, and a little leak in the atrial valve, which all above say is normal.) So I am frustrated.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Do you think that the freedom of worship means that they can congregate all they want?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 11:58 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_2341267585407115504WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 21, 2020 8:38 AM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> [ExI] plasma<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">I just learned that virus survivors can donate plasma for those who are suffering from it and may save lives.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">Urge those you know who have had it (Spike?) to donate.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">bill w<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I plan to do that after the quarantine expires. My doctor advised staying back until then. Fortunately our local case load is merciful and manageable. I do what she says. The one time I didn’t, things went badly and could have been much worse.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Check this:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/health/coronavirus-us-maps-and-cases/" target="_blank">https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/health/coronavirus-us-maps-and-cases/</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Clearly the governors of New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Connecticut are to blame, the scoundrels.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Or mass transit is to blame: that is something all four of those states share, and it has the added bonus that it is a perfectly plausible vector.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">It would be interesting to see a comparison with European cities where they have subways and trains. Does the case load follow those tracks? They do in New York.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">The worrisome part: I contracted the viral pneumonia (we don’t know if it was C-19) about a week after I donated blood. None of the workers wore masks in December. If I caught whatever that was somewhere, good chance that is where.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I also had contact with another scout parent when we did Boards of Review, a stewardess who regularly travels to China, and we had a small room. I think those two sources are the most plausible, but of course it could be just a grocery store source: we have a lot of regular China-travelers in this neighborhood. There was a huge howl of local protest on 31 January when travel restrictions to and from China went in place: the US had no C-19 related deaths at that time and plenty of locals have manufacturing businesses in China, which were immediately impacted.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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