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One of my sons is incarcerated in Texas. Prisoners are treated "differently" when it comes to getting medical care. For example, when you get sick, you send a form to medical, and can usually be seen within two to three weeks. Most everyone is better before they are seen.
So, son and the whole group of prisoners in the pod (25 people) were moved to a different area of the jail. All were issued masks. Everyone's temperatures were taken.
The new area was filthy- son said it appeared to have not been cleaned since the facility was built. (They finally got cleaning supplies 9 days later).
Meanwhile, people in his pod start coming down with bad coughs.
Son runs a fever for a couple of days, it broke the second night. He is congested, feels like he's been hit by a truck. He started to feel so much better... except recurring headaches, and the darndest thing- he has NO sense of smell or taste. 
He said he opened a pouch of mackerel to add protein to his ramen- and even putting the open packet to his nose, he doesn't smell it... or anything else.
 
He was standing nearby when the 'pill cart' came by to issue medications for those with chronic conditions, and the Pill Lady was talking to the guard... their pod is in quarantine due to coronavirus exposure.
NONE of the people in his pod have been tested. 
 
I was worried, and called that Texas county's Corona Virus Hotline.
I learned that the sheriff's department reports their number of cases to the Health Department.
The health Department has no authority to force testing on any facility.
The health department doesn't have enough tests available to test everyone who suspects they MIGHT have CV19, even those who they know were exposed to it.
ONLY the very sickest people are being tested.
The Hotline worker gave me the number to the sheriffs department, who referred me to the county hospital person in charge of jail patients.

I figure that nothing can/ will be done unless a person is on deaths door.
 
All of the cases of CV19 are NOT being reported, not even being tested. This means that it's way more widespread than the 'numbers' indicate in the news, and far less deadly over all. They are only testing the VERY sick... and still, MOST of those people recover.
The state I am in (for all intents and purposes) has tents set up in parking lots and poor neighborhoods, for ANYONE to go get tested who believes they may have The Virus.
Yet the person at the Hotline (in the Texas county I called) says there are not enough tests going on. 

Reliable sources in another Texas county says the National Guard is coming through to do tests on anyone with symptoms...

There is a lot of misinformation out there. Studies are finding that thousands have already had, or do have The Virus with NO symptoms. Others, such as my undiagnosed son, have symptoms and feel bad for a few days. Oh, I didn't mention, this son has asthma- hence my concern when he mentioned the symptoms and lack of diagnosing opportunity or available care.

My opinion is that the world needs to open back up. Let the virus run its course. The ones most vulnerable certainly should continue to use every precaution. Folks in large, closed environments should have added precautions.

We ALL want our loved ones to live their days in health, to the best of their abilities. No one wants people to die before their time. My dad always said, "You are dying from the moment you are born. It's part of life." That isn't any comfort when you have lost a loved one.
When Bill Joe died, someone pointed me to Psalm 139:16
"Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be."
And Job14:5  Since his days are determined, The number of his months is with You; You have appointed his limits, so that he cannot pass.
God knows the number of our days.
God knows the number of our days.
Our minds could not bear this life we have here, if WE were given to know the number of days we have with any given person. We would live in fear and dread, rather than in love and hope.