Coronavirus, Covid 19 Discussion and How It Has Affected Your Daily Life Chat Thread

[Beer can]

Not really, nothing makes sense. Our school is in but so far this month alone there's been 12 cases. This school has only 4 grades in it small by most standards.Alot of the parents are doing the don't ask don't tell. I guess work or carelessness they send them anyway.I know the school wants the kids in they need the money.Parents need to work. We all need to survive. Nothing makes sense beer can.we just gotta go with it as best we can. And pet a chicken along the way.

No joke

(I'm not worrying about it, personally don't think they should shut down but pretty messed up if you go by #s and mandated rules for shut down in our state. ...)

Even though our kids are 'virtually learning' right now we get updates from the school. About every day we get a automated call on a new, some days a few positive tests , kids/teachers the last couple weeks, every day... They always end the call (every day last couple weeks..) with because of proper protocols the threat has been isolated and limited...and then we get the same message with another positive next day and then the next. ..

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Beer can, that sounds like what happens at Ds work. Every day at 6PM the email rolls out and the phones buzz and they're like "We're notifying anyone who might have been exposed to get tested! You're not one of them!" which is supposed to be anyone sharing a shift and workspace with the infected for more than 15 minutes... But nobody ever gets THAT notification. And then two days later another case rolls out, but of course nobody's been exposed to THAT person either through some miraculous coincidence... Until you gat 10 cases in 2 weeks and yet somehow "nobody has been exposed". Ugh.

For profit systems be for profit after all. >:t

 

[Byrd gal]

Ya don't that make you feel sooo much better? I know if or when they bring it home we are in trouble lots of risk factors here. Nothing you can do really. Live everyday like it is your last.

 

[Beer can]

We had to start wearing a face shield at work. Reason why? They said the state or CDC considers it a physical barrier so if someone does test positive it was anyone you worked with had to quarantine. With the face shield when they ask if you had been in close contact with anyone the answer is no because you had a physical barrier between you and the people next to you. I don't think that's reality but whatever.
We've been lucky here wear I work out of 150 or so people only three have tested positive so far.

 

[IamRainey]

We got e-mail notifications this morning that it's time to schedule our second shots. So now we're set up. We'll have to drive half an hour this time but that's better than my NoCal friend who had to partner with a friend and set their computers to some gaming mode (don't ask me!) to tag team registrations for their first shots and then had to drive an hour.

Whatever. Now there are more and more stories -- snowstorms not withstanding -- of people getting vaccinated! Fewer people providing hosts for viruses to proliferate and mutate are what's going to get everyone back to some sort of normal life. And more oldsters done will get more next tier people positioned to get vaccinated too. We're making progress at last!

Oh! Of my NoCal friend and her teammate, one had an arm sore at the injections site. One is in bed feeling flu-ish. Both got the Moderna version.

 

[RebeccaRN]

Happened right after the election...
I don't understand the not opening schools in some areas, states, teachers unions fighting it? Schools have been open in upstate NY since September with no probs. They gave us a choice real school or virtual we haven't sent our kids yet, didn't like their rules figured it would turn into a crap show which it has for many here. Kid gets the sniffles have to pick them up and quarantine and wait for covid test. DW asked them, we have four kids in school so if one gets sent home we have to keep them all home right? No, only the one that has symptoms.... We all live in the same house, does that make any sense to any of you all?

None what so ever!

 

[RebeccaRN]

Do all you know and are able to do to protect yourself and your family and trust God to do what you can't do.

 

[IamRainey]

Just saw a woman from my book club who's under 65. She got appointments for her whole family through Kaiser. They're taking her and her husband and her 3 kids in their 30s.

Does it sound like it's beginning to happen fast now? Does to me!

 

[Sapphire Sebright]

I'm guessing there's been a lot of pressure by restaurants, who invested a lot in outdoor seating (?).

With outdoor seating in addition to indoor seating, they can serve more people. These restrictions have been going on for a long, long time, and businesses are suffering -- they probably opened up outdoor areas so that they could serve more people, get more money, and therefore reduce some financial stress.
Hundreds of small businesses have shut down, many of them permanently, due to lockdown and restrictions -- the still-functioning ones need to get people in, or else they'll die off, too.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

It would be much better if our govt did its job and gave money to small businesses instead of bailing out companies that made record profits in 2019 like American Airlines (who turned around and fired everyone anyhow) so that the small business owners didn't have to put people at risk just to not lose their homes...
None of the people I know with small businesses got ANY money from any of the bailout bills.