I was called for jury duty on Oct 22. We call in the night before to see if we need to show up at 10 am, but it was clear that if you had any covid symptoms or worries NOT to show up. I went and they only sat one jury that day. Not me.
The next week they cancelled all jury trials until further notice.
One judge in another jurisdiction held an attorney in contempt because he refused to come to the courtroom when the judge said it was safe.
Sister-in-law, a pharmacist, had a coworker test positive. SIL had to wait four days for testing. Was negative on the rapid test, but is waiting on the PCR results. In the meantime, she still has to work. She’s a floater, which means she rotates from one store to another over the course of the week. Happily, the custom-fit masks I made for here arrived the day after her exposure. She’s double-masking, using her own dispensing tray and cash registers, and sterilizes everything every 15 minutes. She’s frantic that she might have it and expose someone else.
There’s something incredibly wrong about someone who might be positive having to work at a pharmacy where people come to get their meds.
If I knew what pharmacy it was, I’d never, ever go there again. If they aren’t willing to be safer for their customers/employees with this, what else are they willing to cut corners on?
Can’t help but wonder if it’s the same mindset Tyson had when the bigwigs were supposedly taking bets on how many would get sick.
Sometimes it’s not all about the money. Or at least it shouldn’t be.
@Nrdsb4 , sorry you’re going through such a rotten time.
It was inevitable, but my son got Covid. He lives off campus, about three hours away. He comes out of quarantine today. He is fine. He got tested because a friend called to say he had it. My son had a mild sore throat and didn’t feel 100%. That’s it. Since the diagnosis, he has been sleeping a lot. He couldn’t smell for a day or two.
Unsurprisingly, his girlfriend got it, as well as at least one of his roommates. The other is waiting for the results. All of them have had mild symptoms.
I’m glad he won’t be bringing home active Covid to us on Sunday, or at least we hope that’s the case. Back in March, we were sure he had it because he was negative for flu. Couldn’t get a test back then. So maybe he had mono, but it sure didn’t seem typical for mono.
There seems to have been no contact tracing in the case of my son’s friend. We are all in NY and I thought contact tracing was the norm, but apparently not.
Was on a Zoom call with a woman who is COO of a client. In her late 30s I’d guess. During the call, she got a text from her husband saying he thought he had COVID (was showing symptoms) and was isolating in the ground floor of the house. They have a two-year old.
I had a telemedicine visit with my PCP, routine. Turns out that she (late 30s/early 40s probably) had Covid, still home, only doing telemedicine for now.
@Creekland that’s exactly how I feel. A friend sent me the CDC links for HCPs, however, and apparently with appropriate PPEs and no symptoms, they’re allowed to work. Not that she had a choice; the district manager told her they were shorthanded and needed her.
It’s a national retailer with pharmacies in-store. H went into one of their stores about two months ago and said Never Again – too many droopy masks. I won’t be back, either.
This USA Today article comparing 1918’s Spanish Flu and Thanksgiving to today is eerie. We think everything now is so novel. Hardly. It’s just that we don’t have anyone around from that generation to tell us BTDT.
I’m glad medical advances have happened since 1918 or the death toll from Covid would be so much worse than it is.
It was disturbing for me to read the small town newspaper account of my grandmother’s near death in 1918 and her very slow recovery. She’d been a healthy young woman in her early 20s before contracting that awful flu. I recalled how quickly she’d become winded and tired whenever we walked the mall back in the 1960s, and wondered if that was partly due to the after effects of that experience.
We found out yesterday during Zoomsgiving that my son’s housemate flew home through 2 major airports, for the weekend. Roommate returns Monday. I would prefer my son come live with us for 10-14 days (the roommate is required by our state to quarantine, but of course it can’t be enforced) while the roommate could be contagious. There’s no easy way to be tested here, so waiting is the only be sure way.
Son thinks I am overly cautious, but if we assume he could catch something Day 13, we can’t be sure son is clear until the end of December. I never can tell if I’m too careful or appropriately worried. My son, btw, is an adult working from home. Not a college student. Lives in the same town we do.
If he does get sick, he’ll have to self-care, our hospital is full. Laid awake a lot last night!
Literally, every day, for 2 weeks, I’ve heard about people I know testing positive. When you look at a map of the U.S., it is spreading from the midwest. Those of you that are living on the coasts, get ready.
People I know are mentioning people they know getting COVID-19 with increasing frequency these days.
I see lots of social media posts showing indoor extended family gatherings for Thanksgiving. I hope none of them “wins” the COVID-19 lottery, but someone probably will – the odds that everyone in every gathering was being extra-careful/paranoid in the last week or two is very low. One person I know recently posted testing positive (and isolating/quarantining) on social media, but I am not that surprised, given previous posts showing many activities that collect lottery tickets (e.g. dining in indoor restaurants).
The post-Thanksgiving period is likely to be riskier in terms of encountering other people exhaling virus.
My ‘too close to home’ is a 1st world problem, and I know it could be much worse. My car broke down a week ago and I had it towed to my mechanic. He told me it would be a few days before they could look at it, so on MOnday I called the shop to check on it. The receptionist was just going to call me as 2 shop workers tested positive for covid and they were shutting the shop for the week. Now they won’t even look at my car until Monday or Tues, and they have all the cars with appointments from this week and next week backlogged. They asked if I wanted it towed somewhere else, but where? Luckily, my mother doesn’t use her car much so I can borrow it (and I don’t go far anyway).
Every closing has a domino effect.
My D has Covid. Got sick and diagnosed last Sunday. Believes she got it at work (afterschool program). Roommate kicked her out and is refusing to Q based on a negative test Tuesday, still working her job. D is with her BF at a 2nd home their family owns and he is Q with her waiting his results, but no symptoms. Roommate has not even checked to see how my D is feeling. I am very disappointed in this so called friend/roommate. Only cares about her job. Meanwhile D had a fever and extreme fatigue for 3 days ,currently has joint pain, and loss of taste/smell.
If your daughter infected the roommate on Sunday, then a test on Tuesday may have produced a negative result because the roommate’s viral load was not high enough to be detected by the test. While she probably was not contagious Tuesday, she could have become more contagious a few days later (by the time she probably got the test result), whether or not she became symptomatic.
That is why testing that is convenient and inexpensive enough to do daily and get a quick enough response for people to know to keep away from others that day is necessary to slow the spread of the virus.
Many people cannot afford to take two weeks off of their jobs.
We need some sort of “hug” or “thinking of you” emotion now that we no longer have the helpful link.
Our area is seeing a huge rise in numbers right now. One could even say it’s exponential. Fancy that.
Time will tell who drew the bad straws (long haulers) and who drew the awful straws. I expect those who drew the regular straws will go around telling everyone how it’s way overblown. It’s their version of “sucks to be you,” I guess.
I totally agree with you @Creekland. Without response flags, there will be a lot of space wasted on replies that could have been communicated in a click. Scrolling to find an emoji doesn’t cut it.
But I can just click on your emoji if I agree with it. So that’s something!
@twoinanddone, I am also experiencing a similar problem. We were supposed to get new carpet installed Tuesday, but I got a call yesterday from the store owner. She had just been notified that her install crew was exposed to someone who tested positive. Now install is on hold until … not sure yet. I am happy they are not just installing, anyway. I live in a COVID-denial area, but fortunately, our state has stiff penalties for ignoring public health guidance.
And why is the last post showing on this thread from 10 days ago, even though more recent posts are above it?!