The Swamp

Steve of phpBB wrote: ↑Thu Jan 21, 2021 11:25 am

Johnnie wrote: ↑Thu Jan 21, 2021 12:09 am

sancarlos wrote: ↑Wed Jan 20, 2021 11:54 pm Glad to hear about your wife’s family, Johnnie. Good luck with your quarantine!

Thank you, buddy!

There are worse ways to spend two weeks.

Johnnie wrote: ↑Wed Jan 20, 2021 11:28 pm Good news! My wife's family got through it and came out ok. No one died.

Bad news! Someone I was in a meeting with 13 days ago popped positive within the last day or so (we all wore masks and I didn't come within 6 feet of her in that meeting). I was placed on a "close contact" list because of said meeting. After the rules changing 6 times between yesterday afternoon and today as to whether I isolate or not, I was swabbed and am now in quarantine for 14 days. Hopefully common sense prevails, but I doubt it.

This shit is fucking frustrating.

BSF21 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 21, 2021 1:29 pmThe time zone is a bitch, but if you ever wanna knock around a little chess or can find some e-tabletop stuff to do while you're stuck indoors, hit me up.

L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 22, 2021 6:07 am This thread started one year ago today.

sancarlos wrote: ↑Fri Jan 22, 2021 4:02 pm Soo, back last year in November, I convinced my aged mother and father that we shouldn't go out to New Mexico to spend Christmas with them, due to Covid. I told my Mum we'd come out...
(my recollection) ...sometime later.
(her recollection) ...in January.

So, as soon as the calendar turned to 2021, she started agitating for us to visit. She was bitterly disappointed when my daughter went back to college without visiting her first. She wasn't buying my excuse that we can't come now because A) Covid is still bad, and B) we have four geriatric pets in various needs of regular doctoring. She wants a visit, dammit.

I finally caved in and agreed that I would come (alone) for a week, allowing my wife (who is extremely Covid-safe and basically refused to go) to stay home to care for the animals. So, I'm flying out tomorrow for a week. I've got my N-95 mask and I'll pack my own sandwich and try to avoid people to the degree possible. Couldn't get a direct flight, though (which didn't used to be the case.)

At least they are getting the vaccination next week. And, with Trump out and my father on the wagon, our conversations should be a lot easier (hopefully).

brian wrote: ↑Sat Jan 23, 2021 10:38 pm UMichigan suspending all sports and athletics for two weeks after B.1.1.7 outbreak.

sancarlos wrote: ↑Wed Jan 27, 2021 9:51 pm China Begins Using Anal Swabs To Test For COVID-19 In Beijing

rass wrote: ↑Thu Jan 28, 2021 3:30 pm Oldest kid's HS has reported 5 cases so far this week and 4 last week. All of the emails say there is no evidence via contact tracing of connections between the cases. She's personally opted for fully remote learning so far this winter.


Same kid will be a year older as of Monday, and we ended up renting out a movie theater tomorrow evening so she can have some semblance of a celebration. Will only be 10 or so people total, I think, including my wife and me (if I end up going). Mostly track teammates who she sees every day anyway. Spread out and don't share popcorn, kids!

The only thing our leaders are doing well is blaming others. The premiers, who utterly failed to impose effective lockdown measures when there was still a chance to stop the pandemic in its tracks, and who are currently failing to distribute the few vaccines they do have, are blaming the federal government. The federal government is blaming the manufacturers.

The Sybian wrote: ↑Thu Jan 28, 2021 3:40 pm

rass wrote: ↑Thu Jan 28, 2021 3:30 pm Oldest kid's HS has reported 5 cases so far this week and 4 last week. All of the emails say there is no evidence via contact tracing of connections between the cases. She's personally opted for fully remote learning so far this winter.


Same kid will be a year older as of Monday, and we ended up renting out a movie theater tomorrow evening so she can have some semblance of a celebration. Will only be 10 or so people total, I think, including my wife and me (if I end up going). Mostly track teammates who she sees every day anyway. Spread out and don't share popcorn, kids!

Don't go to AMC, they don't need customers to stay in business.

rass wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 9:13 pm The weekly Wednesday vaccination clinic run by the local health department my wife works for got pushed to Thursday because of the relatively obscene amount of snow that fell around here on Monday. A lot of their Wednesday volunteers couldn’t work today, so I took the day off from my job and worked at hers instead, with the promise of a dose at the end of the day (all volunteers are lucky enough to get vaccinated).

She was up a little after 5AM and had to be onsite by 6:30. I didn’t have to be there until 8:15, so took my own car up so I could at least say good morning to the kids and make breakfast for the youngest.

The clinic took place at the HS (enrollment over 2900, currently all remote), located right next to the city hall complex. It snaked its way through the parking lot and around the school, starting with pre-registration where they made sure the people who showed up had an appointment, to registration and then the nursing stations where shots went in arms. Plus a ton of support staff, DPW, cops, golf carts, and so many cones. My wife is head of Logistics, making sure people and equipment (from heaters and printers to pens) got where the needed to be.

I was assigned to the registration team. We had to collect and quickly analyze the paperwork from the vehicle-bound patients, flagging potential issues for followup with nurses at our station. We also collected medical insurance info to allow the HD to potentially get reimbursed someday. Real bottle-neck there when we had to make copies (front and back!) of the cards. One copier/printer jammed (I was using it at the time, fully outside, and I really think the wind caused the top-loaded paper to go a bit sideways) and couldn’t be fixed. It got quickly replaced but the replacement ran out of ink. They brought two more up as replacements.

This was the first clinic where people were getting their second dose, and the procedures were slightly different for first and second doses. We had to mark up the windshields to indicate second dose, or if they needed to exit the car to get the shot, or if the patient was on anti-coagulants. The nurses had a red marker to indicate patients who had to wait 30 minutes post shot instead of the standard 15 due to some medical issue or another. Once they were done with us, they drove around the building to the giant semi-permanent structure, three lanes wide, to get their shots.

The clinic was open to anyone (who got an appointment), only real restriction was that you could only get your second dose there if you also got your first dose there. My sister in law (over 50 cancer survivor) had an appointment today (no help from my wife) and drove about an hour from home to get her shot. I didn’t know that until I saw her in the line of cars. She didn’t expect to see me, and with the masks I think we almost missed each other. Good thing I recognized her car.

We started at 9 and worked until 3. Some place in town provided a pretty good bag lunch, so I took a quick 15 minute break to piss out my morning coffee and to scarf down a chicken cutlet sandwich, potato salad and pickles. Threw away the Lays and stashed the craisins for later (much later as it turns out, as I never ate them so they came home with me).

I got the shot a little after 3, made it home by a little after 4. Walked the dog, picked up the oldest from track practice. Made pizza dough somewhere in there, too, and fed the kids. Arm is a little sore, but so far nothing worse than the flu shot. I’m tired and my back is sore, but I think that’s from getting up a little earlier than normal and standing for 6 hours straight.

The actual HD employees, or at lest the ones in charge of this, had to clean up both the site and the paperwork, making sure the doses given could be matched to the number of people recorded as receiving them. 571 total doses today. They think they can do more now that they have the hang of doing the second doses.

She didn’t get home until after 8. She, along with most of her coworkers, got her second dose today and is expecting to knocked on her ass a bit tomorrow. Seems to be the consensus that the second dose makes itself known. Her arm is really sore.

I’ll most likely be spending Thursday four weeks from now doing the same exact thing as today, and then get my second dose.

rass wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 9:13 pm She didn’t get home until after 8. She, along with most of her coworkers, got her second dose today and is expecting to knocked on her ass a bit tomorrow. Seems to be the consensus that the second dose makes itself known. Her arm is really sore.

rass wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 9:13 pm Real bottle-neck there when we had to make copies (front and back!) One copier/printer jammed (I was using it at the time, fully outside, and I really think the wind caused the top-loaded paper to go a bit sideways) and couldn’t be fixed. It got quickly replaced but the replacement ran out of ink. They brought two more up as replacements.

Johnnie wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 11:43 pm Now that I'm done with that random ass quarantine I was able to get vaccinated. Thank goodness.

brian wrote: ↑Mon Feb 24, 2020 4:51 pm Yeah, I have a trip to China scheduled for November which is very obviously up in the air at this point, though it's a long way until then.

You'd think Trump would be all over this since a pandemic that kills 5 percent of people over 70 years old would definitely put a dent in his support come November.