My condolences, @Singersmom07 .
I’ve seen the face shields for sale on the internet. Could you send her one? Mask + face shield would seem to be pretty good protection.
I’m so sorry, @Singersmom07 .
@Singersmom07 , my BIL/SIL/MIL/FIL are in GA, too. Your story scares the heck out of me.
I’m sorry to be dumb here, but what else would a pharmacist need, other than a paper mask? Is a paper mask something different from those surgical masks? Does your SIL only get one, instead of one per day?
SIL doesn’t get a N-95. She’s dealing with sick people and has to do patient counseling, immunizations, etc. It’s not all back-end work. She works in an area where mask compliance is infrequent and not mandated.
@jym626 my family lives in northern Atlanta suburbs.
@CountingDown she should just provide her own. DD is a retail store manager. They give them boxes of paper masks but they all have their own wardrobe of masks to go with their outfits so rarely use them. The store added the shields at checkout, restrict fitting room access, they stay six feet from customers and clean fanatically. Fortunately it’s a state requirement to wear masks inside and they provide the paper ones to customers who don’t have one. She has had very little problem with compliance. Mall security usually catches people before they get to the stores.
I am so, so sorry, @Singersmom07 for your loss.
And so in despair at those people not taking this seriously, and adding to the losses.
@Singersmom07 , I am so sorry. My condolences to your family.
@Singersmom07, SIL said she’s ordered at least a dozen masks, but they are all too big. She’s a former gymnast and is tiny (she’s 59 and gets carded all the time). The paper masks are too big! She staples the sides and ties knots in the elastic. I’m making her a couple samples in kid sizes with different elastic and nose options and will adjust from there.
I finally know someone personally who has gotten COVID. A friend of ours took his D to college (U of Alabama, which I believe now has over 1000 cases). A few days after arriving back home, he began experiencing symptoms. He’s had a pretty mild case and is hopeful of testing negative tomorrow. His wife continued to share the same bed, but has not contracted it, nor has their high school aged child.
@CountingDown target has disposable kids masks with back to school stuff with cute patterns. They were in small or large kids sizes. Not as inexpensive as adult ones but could try for size and maybe find cheaper source if weren’t patterned
Thanks for that, @jym626. I’ve got a small face and have a back-up mask that gaps on the side. I’ll have to try that hack.
I just found out my college roommate and his wife have Covid. They are the first people that I know that have caught the virus. They live in SC in an area where Covid was widespread and said they wore masks, etc but were not surprised to catch it as they had many friends that caught it too. He said between them they probably knew 100 people that had it. (Only one of the people they knew that had Covid had any real problems and went to the hospital)
They both lost smell/taste but quickly regained it. He said he could definitely taste/smell as well as before. He said he felt quite tired and sore for about a week and had headaches, but never any breathing issues for either of them. He walked five miles today and said he felt 100%. His wife experienced symptoms about three days after him and still has headaches but she said she was 90% better. He said that overall it was not bad as long as there are no surprises or long-term effects but it definitely does not seem that way.
Both are active and not overweight. He is 52 and I think she is 10-12 years younger.
I’m ticked off this morning. In the news the local college has more cases than the whole county usually gets in a week. This one notification has over 5% of the county’s cases for the whole duration. A nearby school district has to close due to cases, but isn’t saying how many or demographics of who. And in my church prayer request there’s a family affected via kids and the grandfather is super high risk. The dad may end up losing his job if he can’t go to work due to previous health issues. They are unsure how his boss is going to deal with the dad having to isolate (kid has Covid).
Sure, kids and college students - even most younger adults - aren’t going to have issues. They just don’t give a hoot about those who do have issues.
It sounds like the tidal wave is arriving here. We used to be a relatively nice island with few cases around - sometimes even no new cases in the county on a given day. But schools and colleges HAD to resume. The paper said the college cases can be traced to gatherings and many cases are asymptomatic (surprise, surprise).
I feel for those who will be drawing the short straws while those who caused their issues party.
Oh, and the President of the college says they’ve done a great job handling the pandemic. He’s “impressed.”
Kids and college students are definitely being selfish but so are we, the old ones…we had our fun and great memories and those amongst us that have conditions like diabetes, asthma, obesity are expecting them to behave so we can be safe…also a bit selfish.
I don’t consider death/lifetime impairment and missing a year of “fun” to be equivalent things to give up. There are plenty of ways to have fun if one broadens their view.
Sure, but the odds are incredibly low for death/lifetime impairment…
I’ll remember to let my son (late 20s) know that as he deals with after effects since March. I’ll make sure the family in the prayer request knows that too if they lose their grandfather.
But it’s important that kids get to party NOW, so tough luck to those who draw the short straws.
We’ll ignore the German study showing more than half of their random sample have abnormal heart issues afterward - even if they were asymptomatic. Parties are very important, after all - as is bringing oodles of cases into an area that had very few previously. The zip code the college is in went up 50% in the past week over what it was from the beginning. Don’t worry though. The kids won’t die. It will be the older residents who thought they’d have a nice retirement in the area. The kids can party and give the old folks a toast.
@yearstogo Like @Creekland my 24 year old daughter is in daily pain in her lungs and it has been over 5 months now. Her work is affected. Fingers crossed she doesn’t have to change careers.