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Good luck AB.

Hope you get the results soon.
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Well. He got the quick test and is positive.

Was headed to Indiana for a socially distanced conference but assume I’ll need to turn around. Waiting on word from my boss.
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But if your boss says keep going weren't you were still in a car with a known positive?
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I was going to strongly say not to go but he agreed immediately. So I’m headed home. Bonus: the SIL works for my wife so they’ve been in office all week together.
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BSF21 wrote: Thu Dec 03, 2020 8:48 am
rass wrote: Thu Dec 03, 2020 8:17 am The wife's workplace will be receiving and distributing the Pfizer vaccine. In addition to having to make arrangements to store it, (I think they're buying new freezers in addition to learning all about dry ice), it needs to be mixed on-site by the people distributing it.


We've also decided to try to quarantine for the 2 weeks prior to Christmas, and my parents are going to do the same, so they can come up here and spend Christmas Eve/Day with us (and the girls). I never leave the basement except to go grocery shopping, so not much effort for me. My wife will be skipping a couple of testing events at work, the oldest will be giving up two weeks of unofficial winter track practice, and the youngest, who decided she wants to train with her soccer team this winter (outside) after skipping the fall season, will get one training session in this weekend and then will skip the next 2 or 3.
Also on this train. Played my last pickup hockey last night and bowing out of league nights and pickups for the next 2 weeks. Wife is giving up shelter volunteering with the pups. It's gonna suckkkkkkk.
Ditto. Didn't bother sending kiddos back to school after Thanksgiving and last soccer and track practices this weekend and Monday. Mostly worried about how to handle everything xmas related (headed to a rental in VA for a couple weeks) that requires trips to stores, etc before the 8th. Not likely to be able to rely on delivery.
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Off topic but any suggestions for youth winter workout gifting?
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HaulCitgo wrote: Thu Dec 03, 2020 1:21 pm Off topic but any suggestions for youth winter workout gifting?
Handss, feet, ears are problem areas so far. Feet seems to be the biggest challenge. Tried hand warmers in socks but got rebellion and limited results.
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This story...

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A_B wrote: Thu Dec 03, 2020 12:56 pm I was going to strongly say not to go but he agreed immediately. So I’m headed home. Bonus: the SIL works for my wife so they’ve been in office all week together.
BIL lost taste today. We get tested tomorrow (My work's doctor asked for a test this week then one early next week) but I'm home at least thorugh next week, although I was planning on that anyway.
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A_B wrote: Thu Dec 03, 2020 4:25 pm
A_B wrote: Thu Dec 03, 2020 12:56 pm I was going to strongly say not to go but he agreed immediately. So I’m headed home. Bonus: the SIL works for my wife so they’ve been in office all week together.
BIL lost taste today. We get tested tomorrow (My work's doctor asked for a test this week then one early next week) but I'm home at least thorugh next week, although I was planning on that anyway.
Fuck. Good luck, AB.
And his one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death.
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DaveInSeattle wrote: Thu Dec 03, 2020 4:14 pm This story...

The inside the hospital stories, both the crippling volume and the last hours of the class dad, are all what happened here in April when the first people who got infected were starting to crash. Just absolutely fucking inexcusable that every other region in the country had to learn first hand versus leadership taking lessons and protecting their constituents. There should be ramifications for the intentional inaction, but I'm sure there never will be.
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A_B wrote: Thu Dec 03, 2020 4:25 pm
A_B wrote: Thu Dec 03, 2020 12:56 pm I was going to strongly say not to go but he agreed immediately. So I’m headed home. Bonus: the SIL works for my wife so they’ve been in office all week together.
BIL lost taste today. We get tested tomorrow (My work's doctor asked for a test this week then one early next week) but I'm home at least thorugh next week, although I was planning on that anyway.
Yeah, good luck! Even if it comes back negative, you might want to get tested again in a week or so.
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mister d wrote: Thu Dec 03, 2020 5:23 pm
The inside the hospital stories, both the crippling volume and the last hours of the class dad, are all what happened here in April when the first people who got infected were starting to crash. Just absolutely fucking inexcusable that every other region in the country had to learn first hand versus leadership taking lessons and protecting their constituents. There should be ramifications for the intentional inaction, but I'm sure there never will be.
I think the media, or government agencies (obviously Trump Admin wouldn't do it) should have shown what dying of COVID looks like, or shown scenes in overcrowded hospitals to scare people. More coverage of the rows of refrigeration trucks filled with corpses. I know it sounds gruesome, and back in March or April, there was a feeling of not wanting to create terror, but maybe during the summer when people started to feel safe coming out, or felt the danger was diminishing, so how bad it is, so people wouldn't be so cavalier in thinking it is just the flu, or any old or sick people get bad symptoms. Show interviews with the families of dying patients who aren't able to visit. Show makeshift units turned into COVID units filled with people struggling to take their last breaths alone. I think people needed to see the horrors to take the appropriate precautions.
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Absolutely. Some people would never learn or care and we were already cautious going in, but knowing the first-hand story of exactly how it can play out has definitely kept us on restrictions through whenever this ends. Going from seeing him at the park to 2 weeks later he's sick to 2 weeks later he was dead was a massive jolt.
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I'm in agreement with the above. Showing the graphic consequences in my eyes can only help hammer it home.


...I just deleted what I wrote after the above statement. That was just a little too upsetting.
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Hey DSafe, how is your mom doing?
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Johnny Carwash wrote: Fri Dec 04, 2020 1:06 pm Hey DSafe, how is your mom doing?
As far as I know, well. She was in very good spirits when I talked to her on Thanksgiving morning, but I plan on calling her tomorrow (haven't heard anything since and the home she is at is good at contacting my sister who lives nearby, if needed).

Thanks for asking.
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Isn't showing the gruesome reality of war what finally turned the American populace against the one in Vietnam?

If only we could do that with the current ones we're fighting.
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Johnnie wrote: Sun Dec 06, 2020 4:15 am Isn't showing the gruesome reality of war what finally turned the American populace against the one in Vietnam?

If only we could do that with the current ones we're fighting.
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My GF's brother is an 'on-call' illustrator for the NY Times. This one was with an op-ed yesterday about 'Covid Shaming'.

Yes, People Are Traveling for the Holidays. Stop Shaming Them.

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Just found out that the GF's Ex has tested positive. Don't think she's been exposed (last time they were together was the day after Thanksgiving...in a car to go see their daughter. GF was wearing an N95 mask the whole time).
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DSafetyGuy wrote: Fri Dec 04, 2020 4:29 pm
Johnny Carwash wrote: Fri Dec 04, 2020 1:06 pm Hey DSafe, how is your mom doing?
As far as I know, well. She was in very good spirits when I talked to her on Thanksgiving morning, but I plan on calling her tomorrow (haven't heard anything since and the home she is at is good at contacting my sister who lives nearby, if needed).

Thanks for asking.
It appears she had an asymptomatic case. Or at least that seems like a better outcome than having had a false positive test result.
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DSafetyGuy wrote: Mon Dec 07, 2020 12:38 pm
DSafetyGuy wrote: Fri Dec 04, 2020 4:29 pm
Johnny Carwash wrote: Fri Dec 04, 2020 1:06 pm Hey DSafe, how is your mom doing?
As far as I know, well. She was in very good spirits when I talked to her on Thanksgiving morning, but I plan on calling her tomorrow (haven't heard anything since and the home she is at is good at contacting my sister who lives nearby, if needed).

Thanks for asking.
It appears she had an asymptomatic case. Or at least that seems like a better outcome than having had a false positive test result.
That's good to hear either way.
And his one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death.
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This seems like a major mis-calculation...

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“If I had a second chance at this pandemic, I would have prioritized health. At the very least, my personal health.”

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This blurb from the NYT morning briefing email sucks:
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• At the current level of infection in the U.S. (about 200,000 confirmed new infections per day), a vaccine that is 95 percent effective — distributed at the expected pace — would still leave a terrible toll in the six months after it was introduced. Almost 10 million or so Americans would contract the virus, and more than 160,000 would die.

• This is far worse than the toll in an alternate universe in which the vaccine was only 50 percent effective but the U.S. had reduced the infection rate to its level in early September (about 35,000 new daily cases). In that scenario, the death toll in the next six months would be kept to about 60,000.
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Jeebus florida...just (follow and read the eight tweets that follow):

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mister d wrote: Mon Dec 07, 2020 10:28 pm “If I had a second chance at this pandemic, I would have prioritized health. At the very least, my personal health.”

This guy dying is helpful, but I don't think some random state senator is going to do much. We need a US Senator to die - because Giuliani is probably too much to hope for.
And his one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death.
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tennbengal wrote: Tue Dec 08, 2020 9:20 am Jeebus florida...just (follow and read the eight tweets that follow):

So very, very wrong. So very, very third world.
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Pruitt wrote: Tue Dec 08, 2020 1:00 pm
tennbengal wrote: Tue Dec 08, 2020 9:20 am Jeebus florida...just (follow and read the eight tweets that follow):

So very, very wrong. So very, very third world.
In other words, Florida.

The GOP is just fucking disgusting. They have been heading this way since Gingrich, but Trump has accelerated the decline.
And his one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death.
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That video of police storming into that woman's home was incredible. Because she maybe sent an email she shouldn't have? And frankly, if she did so because the state set up a single user account/password for all employees to use ... well, then fuck 'em. They got exactly what they were asking for.
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Hey, he's not known as Governor Ron DeathSentence for nothing.
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A_B wrote: Tue Dec 08, 2020 9:57 am Just got my brain swabbed. It gets easier every time!
Still negative? Everyone alright in the house that coal built?
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govmentchedda wrote: Tue Dec 08, 2020 10:57 pm
A_B wrote: Tue Dec 08, 2020 9:57 am Just got my brain swabbed. It gets easier every time!
Still negative? Everyone alright in the house that coal built?
Ah. Yes. Negatory. All clear here. Cleared to go back to office Monday which I think I need. I’m going nuts. Not built for work from home.
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A_B wrote: Tue Dec 08, 2020 11:14 pm
Those numbers are a little odd to me. The average death rate in the US the past couple years has been about 7800 per day. So even without Covid a normal day would be twice as deadly as Antietam.
And his one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death.
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Steve of phpBB wrote: Tue Dec 08, 2020 11:28 pm
A_B wrote: Tue Dec 08, 2020 11:14 pm
Those numbers are a little odd to me. The average death rate in the US the past couple years has been about 7800 per day. So even without Covid a normal day would be twice as deadly as Antietam.
Put another way, I guess, last Thursday may have been the deadliest day in US history.
And his one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death.
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Steve of phpBB wrote: Tue Dec 08, 2020 11:28 pm
A_B wrote: Tue Dec 08, 2020 11:14 pm
Those numbers are a little odd to me. The average death rate in the US the past couple years has been about 7800 per day. So even without Covid a normal day would be twice as deadly as Antietam.
Well I do think it was limited to COVID deaths because these were externality events and not just every day mortality.
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A_B wrote: Tue Dec 08, 2020 9:57 am Just got my brain swabbed. It gets easier every time!
Had my first test today. Wasn't too bad. Certainly uncomfortable, but over quickly.
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