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janschutz

janschutz

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Normally going 0 for 5 is bad. Had to take now my fifth covid test (since June) because co-worker came to the office and got a call while there that he was positive.

Those swab test are just awful. I would do the blood test any day.
 
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Glad to hear they are coming back negative. I have yet to take one.

I have half my staff in quarantine right now. It's getting really difficult to keep my store open at this point. I'm working 7 days a week.

Stay safe.

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I am out in grocery stores everyday. California is mandatory face covering inside. About a month ago I was in a store in a nice area, San Clemente, South Orange county on the coast. It was after 5 and I needed to get access to the manager's office to program a camera. Upper management had already left and the Service Manager was on duty on the phone outside the office. The union rep text messaged everyone that the store had a positive employee. But at the time it was not known who sent the message. So the SM is doing his best to calm everyone down saying it is probably a scam. After getting access to the office so I could finish my job and go home, he is still on the phone, different call. Young girl knocks on the door and is let in. Almost scarred panic she is like "I have a small child at home and I do not feel comfortable being here". SM "do you want to go home?" "Yes I do". SM "then do what you got to do".
Turns out they did in fact have an employee test positive, but he had not been to the store in over a week.
It was a memorable moment in my life seeing people panic.
I know there are those that feel there rights are being infringed upon, government conspiracy, yada yada yada. It is not brain surgery. Wear a mask when inside a public place, that 6 foot distance thing and wash your hands. Also refrain from licking toilet seats and door knobs, because that will really help.
The next phase will be when a vaccine is developed, how many will get it? I am hoping for some awesome side effects. Zombies would be fun. Mutants would be even funner. But there will be the anti-vaxxers who will be worried the vaccine will harm them. I guess a deadly virus that may not hurt you, but kill others is justification enough. One last warning if you are still reading, I may have used a little sarcasm.

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Yeah I had to take one because of Jenn's co-worker tested positive for covid-19. Her co-worker had decided to go to big gatherings and a concert where everyone was sharing all the food and alcohol. (Hippie)

Anyways I had to get tested before going back to work at the plant. There's only 5 of us at the plant. It's stressful and nerve racking. I'm just glad the test came back negative

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Stay safe folks. wear that mask.

I have known 2 people who have died this past few months from it.

It's real.
 
We are in this together and the virus is real !!
Listen to the scientist. They know and understand the virus. We just have to follow the instruction ( mask ,distance , wash hands , even miminilize your contact) so our doctors and nurses don't have to choose who gets a ventilator . We have to sit this out till a vaccin is available. Hopefully next year in march / april .

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KBMWRS said:
Stay safe folks. wear that mask.

I have known 2 people who have died this past few months from it.

It's real.
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Sorry to hear that Mike.

It is getting really bad in wisconsin right now.

Being in retail we have so many ant- maskers and they are clueless. They all try to argue with me about how useless masks are and their "rights" etc. I'm really tired of it.

The only way I can explain it to them is this.

I ask them if I took them into Walmart and pulled 100 random strangers and had each one stand 2 feet away without masks and talk to them would they be ok with it.

No one says yes, but they don't get that's my life every day.

For the sake of everyone else, just wear the damn mask in public.

Sorry I'm done now.

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Part of the problem is the (somewhat) false sens of secutiy that a mask gives. Sure, it's definitely a piece of the puzzle, but when people keep touching the front of the mask and other surfaces, it reduces or even eliminates its effectiveness. Think about it all those virus particles that your mask stopped are right there on the front of it.

Sure, wear a mask. But just as importantly, keep your hands away from yor face and wash them frequently. And disinfect surfaces.
 
All true about wearing masks and respecting others concerns. BUT, we aren't going to "stop" this virus or the next. It will be here and make its presence known time and again. Just like the flu, etc. A vaccine may or may not come and may or may not be ultra affective for everyone. People get flu shots every year and still get the flu. Aside from small island nations that can literally shut themselves off from the world, its gonna do its thing as we see happening around the world. And it's doing it in countries many were claiming "did it right". All we or anyone else can do is be intelligent about how we conduct our activities.

Shutting things down not only doesn't work, it causes additional harm/damage. I'm willing to bet Pat will put up with the ignorant anti-maskers everyday as opposed to sitting at home with no income for months on end as his store is forced closed and facing the very real threat of never reopening. There are millions of people right now who likely will have no job to go back to when the lids finally get lifted in some areas. How many local restaurants in your area will remain shuttered forever?

Now we are likely to be looking at a whole new governance agenda/policy rolling out next year that might very well suppress small business, etc. I know I am not expecting to see much business investment for a while. Folks are going to sit tight and see how the landscape gets laid out meaning jobs will be scarce. You might call it a very long dark winter ;).
 
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Shutting things down not only doesn't work, it causes additional harm/damage. I'm willing to bet Pat will put up with the ignorant anti-maskers everyday as opposed to sitting at home with no income for months on end as his store is forced closed and facing the very real threat of never reopening. There are millions of people right now who likely will have no job to go back to when the lids finally get lifted in some areas. How many local restaurants in your area will remain shuttered forever?
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From the Aussie perspective, we did the lockdown, because our health/ hospital systems couldn't cope. Even though we locked the place down, our health system still struggled. We lost the wife's mother because of covid. Funnily enough she contracted it while at the hospital for something else. Agree until a "magic silver bullet" is found we can't do much more than hope we don't get it.

There's no doubt it has not been good for business/ economy, but one would hope that the effort has saved lives.
 
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From the Aussie perspective, we did the lockdown, because our health/ hospital systems couldn't cope. Even though we locked the place down, our health system still struggled. We lost the wife's mother because of covid. Funnily enough she contracted it while at the hospital for something else. Agree until a "magic silver bullet" is found we can't do much more than hope we don't get it.

There's no doubt it has not been good for business/ economy, but one would hope that the effort has saved lives.
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I truly am sorry for your loss. Everyone's losses, honestly. It's been horrible.

I'm not a doctor (but play one on this site) but my wife does work in a major hospital in the Chicagoland area. The general opinion amongst the medical staff there is that initially the medical community didn't have a clear or universal approach to treatment with the first "wave" of patients but as things went along and better therapeutics became available things got better. The data displays as much. Point being, we have reached the point that this thing is really just a really bad flu in terms of patient outlook. Barring having some significant underlying per-existing condition(s) prognosis for the vast majority is really quite good. And that is a really great thing as Covid 19 is not going away. Let's pray the vaccines in trial now (my brother is a test subject in one I found out last night!) hit the street soon.

Full disclosure. I am locked down in my basement right now having come down with symptoms that suggest I might myself have contracted it. Will be going to get tested today. Not looking forward to the brain swabbing!
 
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From the Aussie perspective, we did the lockdown, because our health/ hospital systems couldn't cope. Even though we locked the place down, our health system still struggled. We lost the wife's mother because of covid. Funnily enough she contracted it while at the hospital for something else. Agree until a "magic silver bullet" is found we can't do much more than hope we don't get it.

There's no doubt it has not been good for business/ economy, but one would hope that the effort has saved lives.
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I work in healthcare in the US, but admittedly don't know much about the Australian healthcare system. Australia had 27,000 cases out of a population of 25 million. Florida had over 800,000 in a population of 21 million. How did your healthcare system get overwhelmed?

P.S. I know this is the internet and things can come across the wrong way. I don't want you to think I'm being snarky. I'm generally curious about how that can be and if it worries you.
 
All good, takes a lot to offend an Aussie.

The reported cases were on top the other "normal" cases such as heart attack, cancer paitients etc. All covid cases went into intensive care so most wards weren't big enough to cope. IC meant dedicated doctors/ nursing staff 24/7. The lock down is the reason the numbers are so low.

Sorry forgot go add, we do empathise with you guys with what's happening over there. Not good on any level.
 
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All good, takes a lot to offend an Aussie.

The reported cases were on top the other "normal" cases such as heart attack, cancer paitients etc. All covid cases went into intensive care so most wards weren't big enough to cope. IC meant dedicated doctors/ nursing staff 24/7. The lock down is the reason the numbers are so low.

Sorry forgot go add, we do empathise with you guys with what's happening over there. Not good on any level.
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Ah, so it was because of an abundance of caution. We set up a special covid ward with isolation rooms. There were a few in ICU, but only the very worst off.
 
Guess you could say that. As we come out of lock down we are just hoping that we don't get a second wave like Europe is going through
 
During our first peak hospitals across the country were having issues as well with ICU wards begin over capacity with Covid cases. Again, it was mainly because we were still learning best treatment practices and short of therapeutics, etc. In retrospect ICU placements were way over done. Evidenced by the data of all the current hospitalizations and the much lower percentage of ICU placements.

It should also not be missed that the mortality rate remains low and the actual patients lost remain the very elderly or those with underlying conditions, etc. by a very wide margin.

This thing will eventually get to all of us. Same as the flu. This is why our best course forward is to wear masks, etc. but just go on with our lives. The only really necessary variation from the standard "day to day" should be efforts to better isolate and protect our most vulnerable people, the elderly.
 
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During our first peak hospitals across the country were having issues as well with ICU wards begin over capacity with Covid cases. Again, it was mainly because we were still learning best treatment practices and short of therapeutics, etc. In retrospect ICU placements were way over done. Evidenced by the data of all the current hospitalizations and the much lower percentage of ICU placements.

It should also not be missed that the mortality rate remains low and the actual patients lost remain the very elderly or those with underlying conditions, etc. by a very wide margin.

This thing will eventually get to all of us. Same as the flu. This is why our best course forward is to wear masks, etc. but just go on with our lives. The only really necessary variation from the standard "day to day" should be efforts to better isolate and protect our most vulnerable people, the elderly.
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If the theory that the 1889 Russian flu was actually our current OC43 coronavirus (common cold), then in a matter of a few years this should weaken into nothing.

But there's nothing we will ever do to make it functionally extinct like smallpox.
 
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