The Covid-19 Thread: News, Preparation Tips, Etc

naturalgyrl5199

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We just found out my daughter's 40 YO very muscular and seemingly healthy PE teacher has a hole in his lungs and was intubated last night. She had been saying one of the PE coaches was out and she can't wait for him to return, and this one happened to be her favorite. I don't think he was vaccinated. While the death (of the 3rd grader) has hit the local news, the school has been announcing more COVID positive kids, the last one got tested over the weekend and parents smartly kept them home while the test was pending. Asymptomatic though. Sigh.
I'm bracing for school closures. I think teacher illness will be the impetus. This is unsustainable.
Plus our Gov threatened the superintendent despite knowing about the death.
That was August 24th. He died early this morning. It will likely be all over the news. That's 2 deaths at MY child's Elementary school. One of the schools where majority of the teachers are vaccinated and where the school and the teachers were pretty compliant with masking. He got infected right before school started and never started class at all. She had simply been told he was sick. He was intubated 12 days after school started. Anyway, I hate COVID.

ETA: He was unvaccinated. Apparently his wife is local to the community and her classmates were saying she needed to take down her post where she said they decided not to get vaccinated. So that's going viral as well :(
 
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Leeda.the.Paladin

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"You're paranoid!" A relative shouted at me over the phone when I told her three months ago that I wear a mask in public even though I'm vaccinated."

"You don't need to wear that anymore," a friend stated confidently last month, pointing at my mask during a visit at his house. He has had his Covid-19 vaccine but mixes, unmasked, with both the vaccinated and the unvaccinated.

"Why are you still wearing a mask?" another friend inquired of me irritably at a picnic last month where both vaccinated and unvaccinated were in attendance. We were sitting less than 3 feet apart. She was unmasked, and I did not know her vaccination status."

"We shouldn't be shamed for wanting to maximize our own protection and wanting to avoid carrying the virus into our communities -- especially to those, like children, who are yet unprotected by a vaccine through no fault of their own. Moreover, some people have underlying medical issues or allergies that prevent them from getting the shot, leaving them vulnerable even to vaccinated people."

I wish someone would say something to me about my mask.
 

Peppermynt

Defying Gravity
Just heard back from a good friend - she has Covid. :confused:

I texted her end of July and didn't hear back. Texted her again today and she said she's on day 13 of symptoms. She has the Delta variant version. Thankfully she is vaccinated (and had been double masking) but she caught it anyway. So far her 3 kids and hubby are all testing negative. She said Sunday was the first day she felt okay enough to get out of bed. And then was totally exhausted on Monday because of that. Stay alert y'all.

Texted my friend on Saturday and just heard back from her this morning. She's not feeling well. :( She's headed for a chest ct shortly and has an echo scheduled this afternoon. :confused:
 

Crackers Phinn

Either A Blessing Or A Lesson.
I wish someone would say something to me about my mask.
No ma'am, If you happen upon any of these death breathers in public, do not engaged. For your own safety get as far away from unmasked people as quickly as you can.

These :censored: are unhinged. (That's that Covid wanting to spread making them act crazy)
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Black Ambrosia

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Peep how she not only refused to wear a mask, she mocked it with her Zorro mask. The hospital has received bomb threats because she didn't get ivermectin. Regardless of what you think about alternative treatments, it takes a new kind of fool to demand them in a hospital when you know their stance. You're not bending the world to your will. You're courting death.

I predict salaries for medical professionals will skyrocket in the coming years to keep up with the shortage caused by burnout. There won't be enough recruits from other countries to keep up with demand.
 

dancinstallion

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My 26 year old pregnant patient had it, symptoms were sore throat, voice changed, cough, chills, body aches, tired, diarrhea and 5 days after giving birth couldnt breathe and had to be hospitalized and intubated. A month later now is recovering. We believe the husband gave it to the wife cuz he was positive first while she was negative.

Her husband only had a sore throat, headache, fever, then a mild cough. he only took aspirin and he felt better after a week and tested negative.
So the more symptoms one has the severity increases and more likely to be hospitalized.







Peep how she not only refused to wear a mask, she mocked it with her Zorro mask. The hospital has received bomb threats because she didn't get ivermectin. Regardless of what you think about alternative treatments, it takes a new kind of fool to demand them in a hospital when you know their stance. You're not bending the world to your will. You're courting death.

I predict salaries for medical professionals will skyrocket in the coming years to keep up with the shortage caused by burnout. There won't be enough recruits from other countries to keep up with demand.

But why didn't she take ivermectin BEFORE she went to the hospital. You can't demand a hospital give you anything.


How it started. .How it ended
 
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Peppermynt

Defying Gravity
I wish someone would say something to me about my mask.
Crackers is right. People are crazy and we shouldn’t say a thing to them. The latest insanity:

VIDEO: Man kicks woman down Brooklyn subway station escalator​



A monstrous subway commuter kicked a woman down a Brooklyn escalator after she called him out for shoving past her, chilling video shows.

The 32-year-old victim was riding up an escalator at the Atlantic Ave-Barclays Center station about 7:15 p.m. Thursday when the attacker, who wore a backpack and a mask, jostled past her, cops said.

She quipped to the man, “Say, excuse me,” and he responded, “I did” — and kicked her square in the chest, cops said.
Police released a picture of a man who kicked a woman down the escalator at Atlantic Ave-Barclays Center station in Brooklyn on Thursday.

Police released a picture of a man who kicked a woman down the escalator at Atlantic Ave-Barclays Center station in Brooklyn on Thursday. (DCPI)

The woman tumbled backwards to the bottom of the escalator, while the man turned around, walked up the moving steps and left the station.

The victim suffered cuts and bruises on her back, arms, legs, right knee and right thigh, and trauma to her left ankle, cops said. She refused medical attention at the scene.

Police released video of the attack Sunday night, and a photo of the suspect, and asked that anyone with information call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS.
 

Black Ambrosia

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Crackers is right. People are crazy and we shouldn’t say a thing to them. The latest insanity:

VIDEO: Man kicks woman down Brooklyn subway station escalator​



A monstrous subway commuter kicked a woman down a Brooklyn escalator after she called him out for shoving past her, chilling video shows.

The 32-year-old victim was riding up an escalator at the Atlantic Ave-Barclays Center station about 7:15 p.m. Thursday when the attacker, who wore a backpack and a mask, jostled past her, cops said.

She quipped to the man, “Say, excuse me,” and he responded, “I did” — and kicked her square in the chest, cops said.
Police released a picture of a man who kicked a woman down the escalator at Atlantic Ave-Barclays Center station in Brooklyn on Thursday.

Police released a picture of a man who kicked a woman down the escalator at Atlantic Ave-Barclays Center station in Brooklyn on Thursday. (DCPI)

The woman tumbled backwards to the bottom of the escalator, while the man turned around, walked up the moving steps and left the station.

The victim suffered cuts and bruises on her back, arms, legs, right knee and right thigh, and trauma to her left ankle, cops said. She refused medical attention at the scene.

Police released video of the attack Sunday night, and a photo of the suspect, and asked that anyone with information call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS.
Kicking somebody in the chest so hard they fall down an escalator is some diabolical ish. I have a slick mouth when I've had enough so I get why she said what she said. This is like how people cut you off in traffic and then give you the finger like you wronged them but a million times worse. My hope is that he'll be easy to find. People tend to follow the same routes. He's probably taken that train around the same time for awhile.
 

Crackers Phinn

Either A Blessing Or A Lesson.
An unvaxxed employee planned a trip to a foreign country and asked me if they needed to do anything before coming back to work. I checked the CDC website and told them the unvaxxed requirement is to quarantine for 7 (PTO/unpaid) days before returning to work and sent them the link. I also sent them a link to the country's travel advisory that required 10 day isolation upon arrival. This genius bought the ticket not factoring into the 17 extra days required to go and come back. Not to mention that this country is Level 3 and has a recommendation that says "Please don't come here unvaccinated".
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The thing that really gets me is the conspiracy theorists who think a virus that is touching almost every nook and cranny of the globe is some kind of hoax. The whole world cannot have been in on a conspiracy this long without some kind of leak. Even if you think U.S. hospitals are in on some billing scam to get paid off the vaccines, how do you account for random country on the other side of the world having the same thing happening.

I don't know why I keep tryna understand crazy.
 

january noir

Sunny On a Cloudy Day
An unvaxxed employee planned a trip to a foreign country and asked me if they needed to do anything before coming back to work. I checked the CDC website and told them the unvaxxed requirement is to quarantine for 7 (PTO/unpaid) days before returning to work and sent them the link. I also sent them a link to the country's travel advisory that required 10 day isolation upon arrival. This genius bought the ticket not factoring into the 17 extra days required to go and come back. Not to mention that this country is Level 3 and has a recommendation that says "Please don't come here unvaccinated".
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The thing that really gets me is the conspiracy theorists who think a virus that is touching almost every nook and cranny of the globe is some kind of hoax. The whole world cannot have been in on a conspiracy this long without some kind of leak. Even if you think U.S. hospitals are in on some billing scam to get paid off the vaccines, how do you account for random country on the other side of the world having the same thing happening.

I don't know why I keep tryna understand crazy.
You and me both.
I actually said I was going to stop reading and commenting in this thread because the news posted is too tragic and I swear I ain't got time to be depressed, but depressed I am, nonetheless. It kind of breaks my heart that we are going through all of this at a time where we must stick together and do what we need to do for everyone, just not ourselves.
 

naturalgyrl5199

Well-Known Member
An unvaxxed employee planned a trip to a foreign country and asked me if they needed to do anything before coming back to work. I checked the CDC website and told them the unvaxxed requirement is to quarantine for 7 (PTO/unpaid) days before returning to work and sent them the link. I also sent them a link to the country's travel advisory that required 10 day isolation upon arrival. This genius bought the ticket not factoring into the 17 extra days required to go and come back. Not to mention that this country is Level 3 and has a recommendation that says "Please don't come here unvaccinated".
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The thing that really gets me is the conspiracy theorists who think a virus that is touching almost every nook and cranny of the globe is some kind of hoax. The whole world cannot have been in on a conspiracy this long without some kind of leak. Even if you think U.S. hospitals are in on some billing scam to get paid off the vaccines, how do you account for random country on the other side of the world having the same thing happening.

I don't know why I keep tryna understand crazy.
wow. Just WOW.
 

naturalgyrl5199

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Yep. That is exactly why I got my vaccine in July while pregnant. I had been hesitant about getting it only because I was pregnant (DH had gotten his since April) but at a certain point I just could not take the risk. We are very careful but I could not bear the thought of catching COVID and giving birth prematurely, losing the baby, or losing my life and not being here for my children. Reading about so many pregnant women who had gotten the vaccine and gave birth to healthy babies helped a lot. I just couldn’t take a risk on something that “might” happen from a vaccine when I could see numerous example of things that have actually happened to pregnant women with COVID.

I have more peace of mind now and we are still as careful as we were before getting the vaccine. The vaccines went fine, baby is fine, and I am now 28 weeks along.

And I am so glad that I will be able to pass antibodies on to baby when I breastfeed. (I want to try to give some pumped breastmilk to my 3 year old though I stopped breastfeeding her at 17 months- I want her to get some antibodies too!)
So glad you were okay. I had a Board meeting this afternoon for a State breastfeeding coalition that I chair and one of the nurses is in L&D and is a lactation consultant. She said she'd never think she'd see the day she is friends with the ICU Director. She says women are delivering babies IN the ICU now. My poor board member is BURNED out.
 

Black Ambrosia

Well-Known Member
You and me both.
I actually said I was going to stop reading and commenting in this thread because the news posted is too tragic and I swear I ain't got time to be depressed, but depressed I am, nonetheless. It kind of breaks my heart that we are going through all of this at a time where we must stick together and do what we need to do for everyone, just not ourselves.
I get it. Sometimes I feel that way about the stuff here and the stuff I post. I think we're a well informed group so I try to capture things that may be missed in casual observation of the news. My motivation is for us to continue being vigilant. I wish it wasn't so depressing.
 

Kanky

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My 26 year old pregnant patient had it, symptoms were sore throat, voice changed, cough, chills, body aches, diarrhea and 5 days after giving birth couldnt breathe and had to be hospitalized and intubated. A month later now is recovering. We believe the husband gave it to the wife cuz he was positive first while she was negative.

Her husband only had a sore throat, headache, fever, then a mild cough. he only took aspirin and he felt better after a week and tested negative.
So the more symptoms one has the severity increases and more likely to be hospitalized.





But why didn't she take ivermectin BEFORE she went to the hospital. You can't demand a hospital give you anything.


How it started. .How it ended
She probably did take ivermectin before she went to the hospital. These nutty people went and bought ivermectin from the livestock supply stores if they couldn’t get a doctor to prescribe it.
 
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