Dark Covid clouds are gathering again over the Netherlands. We were doing ok, and we even got to travel but now after a summer with nearly no deaths and empty intensive care units all over all hospitals in the Netherlands, we are all suddenly in the middle of a corona crisis again.
What are the similarities and differences between the first and second wave? We all wonder and the work stations are just build again and the staying at home, homes schooling and home office situations were gone.
Not exaggerated, the new normal was just getting adjusted too. But now especially at the beginning of the second pandemic wave I am preparing for another wave.
I still vividly remember all the ICs filled with patients gasping for breath. Just as the virus is gaining ground again, the flu callers seem to be on the rise again, at work but also at school for example.
The number of fatalities and ICU patients fighting for their lives is still far behind the first wave. The number of Dutch people infected with the virus, an estimated 100,000, is already at a third of the peak in March. But the 85 corona patients in the ICU are currently not yet comparable to that low point, when 100 new patients a day needed intensive hospital care. Perhaps the gap between Covid-19 and the flu is now less deep than it was.
But I am afraid we will be in lock down in no time again. Like our neighbours the English and the Belgian in semi lockdown. And even in Germany there are places that have new rules.
Nevertheless, it is important to realize that we are only at the beginning of a second wave. The number of infections and hospital admissions is increasing and so is the reproduction rate, which indicates how many others an infected person infects on average, is also increasing. “And then at a certain point it goes fast. If no action is taken, Holland will soon be at 10,000 infections per week, and then?
I read there are medicines for the early stages of the disease and also for more severe cases. Patients no longer need to use a grueling form of ventilation as quickly in the prone position. It is good news that fewer patients need to go to the ICU and that they can leave it faster. 12 days is approximately the stay in ICU. The overcrowded ICs were actually the biggest problem during the first wave. And in the Netherlands we have so many state of the art ICU’s for pandemics and prepared for what is coming.
As a result, we decided to make a new school-work and Covid stay at home place. So we bought two drawers and I decided to remove all the stuff we all accumulated last time when the lockdown came as a surprise and we just sat there and moved things around. Well not anymore. I (we) cleaned all out and remove all we don’t need anymore and did a clean up for the new workplace. We can both work there aswell. It’s maybe the new normal but we will be more prepared than last time.
The dogs agree and love to help !
This is the first end result, really office-cy like.
And we have to do the other drawer tomorrow and I have to clean. But I love the result.
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Blog Date : 22 September 2020