A friend of my sons wife died from covid - she was 42 years old and a EMT in Colorado had lots of contact with sick people
2019-nCoV (Coronavirus)
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Sorry too hear that, Dan.... My condolences too the family.
Why wife received a email from the health department and it sounds like shut down with 100% virtual learning is coming very fast. Some school already have without being told.
triple_duece
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I just got confirmation that I have it. Started feeling crappy Saturday running a fever bodyaches and a bad headache. Went Sunday and got a test done and just heard back this morning. Four out of five of us in the office have it as well and all started on Saturday too. The owner is the only one that didn’t seem to come down with the same symptoms but he was sick over a month ago and it has lingered on since then. Now since he has finally gone to get checked out it’s possible that he was the carrier all along.
Started getting a little cough Sunday night/Monday morning. Body aches a bit. Woke up today feeling fine, but I could still feel it in my chest. Feels like normal seasonal shit. Taste and smell still work fine.
Sorry to hear this - hope you are feeling well soon - prayers
Schu72
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Our superintendent is keeping the doors open come hell or high water. That is, unless DeWine or the health department tells him different. I've worked for a few superintendents... this dude is the best.
lung buster
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Addy's school is shut down until 12/1. Not enough teachers/subs and bus drivers is the reason that was given.
Our governor put another close up the state order in that goes into effect tonight at midnight. No indoor service at restaurants, schools only virtual, etc. supposedly the next 3 weeks but we know how she operates. Kids out w Covid related reason in our district was getting close to 200 within 2 weeks. Was next to none before that.
That could be another deciding factor. Our staff is constantly juggling coverage for teachers that have been quarantined.
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This thing is concerning. Going back to the early stages of this thing, we were hearing horror stories that never developed. I knew no one seriously effected aside from my family. Today, I know a lot of positive people. A girl I’ve been friends with since second grade has been on a vent for more than a week. Otherwise healthy non-smoker, 48 years old. We are entering very difficult times and our “President-elect” is actually a lying, cheating, do-nothing moron, owned by special interest globalists—— he is exactly what the media tried to label Trump to be.
I don’t know about you fellas, but I am going into full protect the family mode. And the one neighbor I have that proudly supports Biden is now the last person alive I’d lend a helping hand to... also the first place I’d go to liberate anything my family may need if I don’t already have it. These globalist want to tear this country apart and from my personal feelings at this moment, I’d say they have done a fine job.
I don’t know about you fellas, but I am going into full protect the family mode. And the one neighbor I have that proudly supports Biden is now the last person alive I’d lend a helping hand to... also the first place I’d go to liberate anything my family may need if I don’t already have it. These globalist want to tear this country apart and from my personal feelings at this moment, I’d say they have done a fine job.
We bought a Chromebook for K in anticipation of lockdowns. Trying to ready my organization for it as it couldn't have come at a worse time. The hospital my wife works at is getting pounded right now, but yet, no one prepared us for this. Where was DeWine this summer talking about Vitamin D and C, lowering sugar and alcohol intake, and other known preventative measures? Silence. We were setup for failure.
They don't give a shit about you. They only see end goal and are willing to do whatever it takes to achieve that. Protecting you or preparing you doesn't fit those goals.
tracker 6
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Once again "the light at the end of the tunnel" is another f ing train
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That's because the hard truth is there's not much that can be done. Everything like masks, closures, etc only delays the inevitable and doesn't eliminate the issue. In my world, I deal with Risk management, to me everything is a calculated combination of impact and likelihood. Risks can never be eliminated and can only be mitigated, transferred, or accepted. It's the last one that our government seems to ignore the most. Masks, closures, all of that mitigates impact by lowering likelihood. The trick is understanding risk appetite. The point where a risk becomes accepted. If I went to my board and said "here is a risk that if realized will cost us 200k, but I have a mitigation strategy that will cost us 500k to implement, I wouldn't be in the room very long. The trouble is the government has no skin in the game. People's businesses, livelihoods, wealth, careers, etc are of zero concern to them, therefore it doesn't matter if their mitigation strategy exceeds what we see as an unacceptable cost. While people's safety and lives are always the first concern there is an acceptable loss limit there also. We understood this when planning D day, when we bombed Japan twice, when the Russians had to contain Chernobyl. Sometimes there is an acceptable loss of life limit to assessing the cost of mitigating risk. This sucks, people will die, how much of our country are we willing to destroy to mitigate some of that is the question.