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PostPosted: Sat Mar 28, 2020 10:14 pm    Post subject: Re: Covid-19 Unexpected Time Off / You / A Vanagon Reply with quote

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I'm being redeployed from cardiology to critical care in a couple of days and am being assigned to an ICU where all patients are COVID-19 positive and the majority are on ventilators. I am not coming home for a while and am going to sleep in my van in the church parking lot adjacent to the hospital. Shower, work, shower, sleep, shower, work....that will be my life. Obviously, I am concerned about the welfare of my future patients, my family and me. Working on outfitting the van this weekend, along with my guitar. Wherever you stand politically/religiously on this issue, God bless and please keep isolated & safe.

If you have time, please watch the following video from an ICU doctor in NYC who gives some excellent common sense information on how to avoid getting sick and what to do if you do get sick. A bit long (45 minutes) but invaluable. The vast majority if the information is appropriate for the general public. It is the best that I have seen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxyH1rkuLaw&fe...-D_1JMMkwA


Thank you for your actions and thanks for the video link. I’m glad you have your van to use as a family safeguard (I always sleep better in the van anyways Very Happy ). Stay safe and thank you again for your service.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 29, 2020 4:15 am    Post subject: Re: Covid-19 Unexpected Time Off / You / A Vanagon Reply with quote

If you're reading this you need to share this "intelligent" video with everyone you know.
It is not another hearsay 2nd or 3rd hand news report, it is what is happening.

Thanks for doing what you do Colorado Yeti and sleep well in yoy Vanagon Isolation Chamber!
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 29, 2020 4:55 am    Post subject: Re: Covid-19 Unexpected Time Off / You / A Vanagon Reply with quote

Well, Medtronic/ Covidian has a nice PR story to manage this morning

They bought Newport Science in 2013 and cancelled they low cost vent program citing insufficient profits.

Bad on them and the government for letting them out.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 29, 2020 10:35 am    Post subject: Re: Covid-19 Unexpected Time Off / You / A Vanagon Reply with quote

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Luckily, the colder it is, the better I sleep. Must be my Nordic blood. There is a reason I am called the Yeti.

Nice. Thank you and stay safe.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 29, 2020 11:21 am    Post subject: Re: Covid-19 Unexpected Time Off / You / A Vanagon Reply with quote

tjet wrote:
Can you plug in to the church? That alone would make it easier, especially if you need to keep your van warm.

Stay safe


I would certainly ask the pastor/minister/elder etc about that possibility.

Churches exist as tax free because they are (or should be) providing helpful generous services to the community.

I’d say this qualifies big time!!

(Don’t use this as a springboard to discuss the pros or cons of tax free status, that isn’t my point.)

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2020 8:33 am    Post subject: Re: Covid-19 Unexpected Time Off / You / A Vanagon Reply with quote

A genuine thank you for all of the kind & encouraging words. They are greatly appreciated. Catch y'all on the flip-side.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 02, 2020 5:15 am    Post subject: Re: Covid-19 Unexpected Time Off / You / A Vanagon Reply with quote

Just wondering if when we should start converting our Vanagon's & Westy's into maternity wards? What do you think is going to happen in 9 months with everybody staying at home! Laughing Laughing Laughing
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 02, 2020 5:23 am    Post subject: Re: Covid-19 Unexpected Time Off / You / A Vanagon Reply with quote

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Just wondering if when we should start converting our Vanagon's & Westy's into maternity wards? What do you think is going to happen in 9 months with everybody staying at home! Laughing Laughing Laughing



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 02, 2020 6:53 am    Post subject: Re: Covid-19 Unexpected Time Off / You / A Vanagon Reply with quote

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Just wondering if when we should start converting our Vanagon's & Westy's into maternity wards? What do you think is going to happen in 9 months with everybody staying at home! Laughing Laughing Laughing



A Soaring Divorce rate?


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PostPosted: Thu Apr 02, 2020 7:17 am    Post subject: Re: Covid-19 Unexpected Time Off / You / A Vanagon Reply with quote

I've been daily driving my van to work (ER). It puts a smile on my face every time, part of my self-care right now.

Does this count as a trip report?
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 02, 2020 7:53 am    Post subject: Re: Covid-19 Unexpected Time Off / You / A Vanagon Reply with quote

Steve M. wrote:
Just wondering if when we should start converting our Vanagon's & Westy's into maternity wards? What do you think is going to happen in 9 months with everybody staying at home! Laughing Laughing Laughing


Well if the food stores close, there might end up being a lot fewer children.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 02, 2020 8:21 am    Post subject: Re: Covid-19 Unexpected Time Off / You / A Vanagon Reply with quote

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Well if the food stores close, there might end up being a lot fewer children.


There's logic here, but the reality doesn't lead to the conclusion.
Societies that have "food stores" actually suppress reproduction rates.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 02, 2020 9:05 am    Post subject: Re: Covid-19 Unexpected Time Off / You / A Vanagon Reply with quote

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Steve M. wrote:
Just wondering if when we should start converting our Vanagon's & Westy's into maternity wards? What do you think is going to happen in 9 months with everybody staying at home! Laughing Laughing Laughing



A Soaring Divorce rate?


Ha! I was just yesterday thinking about how this sorta reminds me of the married version of long distance relationships I had in my younger days- basically they were one month relationships that became 6 month relationships due to distance. We're cramming a whole lotta marriage into one compressed timeframe right now...
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 02, 2020 9:09 am    Post subject: Re: Covid-19 Unexpected Time Off / You / A Vanagon Reply with quote

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Steve M. wrote:
Just wondering if when we should start converting our Vanagon's & Westy's into maternity wards? What do you think is going to happen in 9 months with everybody staying at home! Laughing Laughing Laughing


Well if the food stores close, there might end up being a lot fewer children.


Im in conflict - PoisonWood Bible teaches us we spare the youngest to last, but cuisine guidance is the opposite.



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 02, 2020 9:32 am    Post subject: Re: Covid-19 Unexpected Time Off / You / A Vanagon Reply with quote

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Steve M. wrote:
Just wondering if when we should start converting our Vanagon's & Westy's into maternity wards? What do you think is going to happen in 9 months with everybody staying at home! Laughing Laughing Laughing


Well if the food stores close, there might end up being a lot fewer children.


Im in conflict - PoisonWood Bible teaches us we spare the youngest to last, but cuisine guidance is the opposite.


Never read it, but as a former chef, I can tell you that just like potatoes, they're never as tender as when they're small.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 02, 2020 9:39 am    Post subject: Re: Covid-19 Unexpected Time Off / You / A Vanagon Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 02, 2020 10:15 am    Post subject: Re: Covid-19 Unexpected Time Off / You / A Vanagon Reply with quote

Steve M. wrote:
Just wondering if when we should start converting our Vanagon's & Westy's into maternity wards? What do you think is going to happen in 9 months with everybody staying at home! Laughing Laughing Laughing


hope this is ok per moderators but it is a VW related pic since Dottie does several shows a year with our dog (buggies on the beach and lakeland VW classic now a few years)

funny statement for sure Steve! btw on a funny matter of maternity coincidence Dottie the pygmy goat who hung out in your syncro on your last visit to us and if you remember she found a brief moment of "Samba fame" here:

https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?p=9063826&highlight=#9063826


Dottie just had her first baby yesterday and I am thinking of moving her to a non running vanagon for her maternity ward! Cool

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 02, 2020 10:32 am    Post subject: Re: Covid-19 Unexpected Time Off / You / A Vanagon Reply with quote

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Dottie just had her first baby yesterday and I am thinking of moving her to a non running vanagon for her maternity ward! Cool

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You're going to have a use for that "VW" branding iron after all! Shocked
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 02, 2020 7:53 pm    Post subject: Re: Covid-19 Unexpected Time Off / You / A Vanagon Reply with quote

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You're going to have a use for that "VW" branding iron after all! Shocked

LOL!!! Laughing
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 02, 2020 8:58 pm    Post subject: Re: Covid-19 Unexpected Time Off / You / A Vanagon Reply with quote

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Just wondering if when we should start converting our Vanagon's & Westy's into maternity wards? What do you think is going to happen in 9 months with everybody staying at home! :lol: :lol: :lol:


Well if the food stores close, there might end up being a lot fewer children.


Im in conflict - PoisonWood Bible teaches us we spare the youngest to last, but cuisine guidance is the opposite.


Never read it, but as a former chef, I can tell you that just like potatoes, they're never as tender as when they're small.

And to think this guy had his plate yanked for expressing that sentiment.
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