@scmom12, Thanks for the suggestion – SIL has already tried their masks. She’s bought 15 masks from various places. She told me how she has sized down a regular paper hospital mask, so I’m working from that. She has a very long, narrow face, so I’m keeping the height but reducing the width. Mask will be almost a square. Sending her two prototypes tomorrow! ?
@Singersmom07 , my belated condolences. I’m sorry for your loss and having to cope with understandable anger as well as grief.
My brother (we live together) got an tracing email saying he’d been exposed to corona on Sunday, Aug 23, so 8 days ago. Nothing he can do but wait it out now. He doesn’t have any symptoms except he had burning eyes and trouble breathing last week because of the forest fires. My eyes were itching too.
We can’t blame every sniffle or cough on the virus.
We shouldn’t blame every sniffle or cough on the virus but I think that’s human nature. 
Post Covid specialty clinics are being formed. Unfortunately there does not yet seem to be a comprehensive listing of all the locations and what kind of clinical studies they are running. Some are interested in the recovery of severely ill people and some for people who were less ill but have lingering health issues from it.
https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/post-covid-19-clinics-help-survivors-recover
In the Huff Post there is a first person account by a young healthy man about what it is like for him as a Long Haul covid survivor. His name is Ed Hornick. I am not putting in a link because I think it may be classified as an opinion piece and therefore not linkable for CC.
In the piece he mentions Survivor Corp which is a new non profit serving covid survivors and the medical/research community.
https://www.survivorcorps.com/
Oh noooooo. Tom Seaver, my favorite Mets player from my youth, has died of Covid 19 and Lewy Body Dementia. 
I’ve been a Mets fan since the year before Seaver’s rookie year. Jerry Koosman was my favorite Met, but Seaver was a close 2nd. I was devastated when he was traded to the Reds.
For the second day in a week our county has more daily new cases than ever before. Now the college is responsible for at least 10% of the cases since Covid began to be tracked and roughly 1/3rd of those in the zip code. At least they’ve gone to quarantine. Let’s hope the students can/will actually do that. Those who tested positive have ignored other rules as per contact tracing, so I don’t know that I have high hopes.
I feel for the students who tried to do things right. Too bad they won’t expel the others.
Trying to finish an extensive re-model. I met with my decorator 2 days ago to discuss a number of things I need to decide for finish out. She wore a mask, I was double masked. If we ever broke social distancing, I don’t remember doing so.
She called me today and said her husband began showing symptoms of COVID yesterday, and tested positive. She also was tested-negative. But is now quarantined for 14 days.
Her husband currently only has a bad headache and body aches.
@Nrdsb4, I’m so sorry. You definitely have had bad luck. I’m hoping that by being masked and socially distanced, things will be fine. But still unnerving nonetheless. 2x now. This remodel can’t be done soon enough
@deb22, thanks. Yes, this remodel has been a nightmare in more ways than one.
I don’t do much of anything but go to the grocery store and wherever is necessary to do this re-model. I’ve done much of my stuff online, but of course you still have to go see stuff in person for certain things. I’m always double masked, and I stay away from people who aren’t, etc.
But yeah, twice now. I’m hoping my decorator didn’t get it just for her own sake, but I would be lying if there wasn’t also some self interest in my sentiments.
And now our high school has Covid within it. Glad I’m not there. Waiting to hear from my friends to see if any of them were potentially exposed.
As you predicted.
How stupid does this sound?
My city has had significant reduction in cases, so they downgraded our restrictions from “red” to “orange.” Then immediately they say they are concerned about people letting down their guard over the Labor Day holiday weekend.
WHY DID THEY RELAX RESTRICTIONS right before a 3 day holiday weekend???
More (my high school) school related cases. It’s also getting close to some who might have a hard time of it based upon stats (staff, not kids). I’d rather our school not make national headlines if things go wrong.
However, basic statistics usually has algebra 2 (or a pre-statistics subset of algebra 2) as a prerequisite.
Has anyone posted this NYT site keeping track of numbers at colleges yet?
I’m not sure how accurate it is, because it has the local college a bit lower than it really is if local news has been correct. It’s a start though I suppose.
I asked my probable Covid lad how things were going. He told me he’s trying to do more, but for a comparison he used to have no trouble walking 5 miles. Now he is tired before completing one.
He was infected with a “lower respiratory infection” - “probably Covid” - as per x-ray back in March. At that time they wouldn’t give him a test because he wasn’t high risk, so they did the x-ray, etc. It’s September now, 6 months later. He’s 28.
I’m frustrated for him. One would think any “health typical” 28 year old could walk a mile without complications.
I’m sorry to hear that, Creekland. Sadly, he has company in being a covid long-hauler. I wish we had a better handle on how many people who are infected with covid who end up being long-haulers. It seems like a lot of people.