Coronavirus Thread
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figmentPez
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figmentPez
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The Houston area is set to have a surge like we had in July, when hospitals were near full and 1,200 people died.
Incidentally, speaking of that number, the United States has passed 250,000 deaths due to COVID as of today.
figmentPez
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Which means the real number is likely somewhere well above 300,000.
figmentPez
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That thread...
figmentPez
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Well, looks like my wife tested positive. We’re not sure where she would have gotten it, but my best guess would be from the doctors office, but we don’t know. She had to go to urgent care for stomach issues last week, which had been going on for a month, so we didn’t think much of it when she started feeling other symptoms this week too. She got a COVID test to rule it out just in case.
It sucks. Hopefully we didn’t expose my parents, but they’re going to get tested just in case. I’ll be getting tested today too. I guess it goes to show that even if you wear a mask and try to limit exposure, it can still happen.
It sucks. Hopefully we didn’t expose my parents, but they’re going to get tested just in case. I’ll be getting tested today too. I guess it goes to show that even if you wear a mask and try to limit exposure, it can still happen.
GasBandit
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2 of the 3 people who work in our inventory department just got put on 2 week quarantine for direct exposure to a family member who has tested positive.
Without our inventory department working, we may as well shut the doors and turn off the lights.
We've moved some other guys in there to help out in the meantime, but I am, of course, wondering if this isn't the event that finally leads to the 'rona rolling through here like a tsunami.
Without our inventory department working, we may as well shut the doors and turn off the lights.
We've moved some other guys in there to help out in the meantime, but I am, of course, wondering if this isn't the event that finally leads to the 'rona rolling through here like a tsunami.
I saw this on the news the other night, and it's further proof this woman is a treasure.
GasBandit
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I actually have very little contact with the guys in inventory, so I'm probably safe - however, there's always a chain of dominoes. But even if I don't catch it, Inventory interacts MUCH more with our installers... and if installers start testing positive, we're done for the season here.
Of course, in 2 weeks, it'd be elementary from it to spread from inventory through install, to the Project Managers, and from there to Programming (where I am). That's what I mean by the tsunami - as far as I know, the family members who tested positive didn't get tested until symptoms arose, and that's probably how things will go for employees here, too.
I had a "pretty bad cold" last week that now I wonder if it wasn't something more. Maybe I should just go get tested for the heck of it. Who knows who all else I might have infected (or WILL over thanksgiving)... though I kept my mask on pretty much every waking moment I was not in the house while I was symptomatic. But then again, contagiousness starts 2 weeks before symptoms...
TBH that's the first though I had last week.
DUDE.
I knew mine was essentially allergies, but I still got tested.
GasBandit
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If I'd run a fever, I would have. But literally the only symptoms I had were cough, congestion, and not feeling energetic enough to play multiplayer VR.
So maybe "bad cold" was even overselling it.
figmentPez
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Dude. Test. Waiting until things get worse is always a bad idea.
"If you ignore all my other symptoms, I really didn't have any symptoms"
