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Man GM, you know I wish you and your wife the best. You will be in my thoughts and prayers. I certainly hope with all of the health issues you have been through and are going through you do not contract the virus. Please tell her that I send her my best.

I remembered about 7 tonight,

Somebody I knew died in such a tragic sad story 12-13 years ago, The Saturday, 10 days before voting day, which became Obama's first term.

About 7 pm that night, in a car wreck, totally avoidable because of drag racing drunks, who never admitted which one was driving the car.
x 100

One of the best people I ever met, only the best people I ever met died before they turned 20, and I know or knew far too many who fall in that category.
Nothing to do with covid.

Just found out that my 7 year old grandson has tested positive. He seems to be ok at this point and the rest of my boy's family will now be tested. They have been self quarantined for a week now.

GM,
Best wishes to you and your wife to get thru this

hope you all stay safe

I don't know anyone personally who has died from covid nor even caught it. However, we do have about two dozen people where I work at (Amazon/Euclid) who have tested positive, but no deaths there from it, thank God.

OK my wife is done with her lock down lol and back to work today. I am still on lockdown till Wednesday. It's freaking nuts that nobody wants to test me. All I got from every agency was just wait and see..... WTF they won't even test me now to see if I have antibodies. This world we live in is so funked up.

Go to Kroger. They have a 15 minute antibody test.

Well that's only a 4 to 5 hour drive lol

j/c

My wife just lost her uncle last night. His doctor had been monitoring him via Zoom on a daily basis. His symptoms weren't severe enough for his doctor to admit him to the hospital. He was diagnosed with Covid on December 12th.

On Christmas morning his wife looked in to check on him and he had fallen out of bed. He was non responsive. She called 911 and he was immediately rushed to the ER.

When it hit him, it hit fast. His vital organs shut down and there was really nothing they could do. He was elderly but in relative good health. I had never met the man but I know that he and his wife were good to my wife while she was growing up. She's very close to her cousins and they're having a really rough time right now.

Damn, sorry to hear that. Unfortunately, due to experience I know how sad dealing with the death of a loved one on Christmas is. My prayers go out to the family.

j/c...

Tragic. Stupid. Selfish. Negligent.

What the hell

That's at the point you make it mandatory for your employment. I know that will rub some people the wrong way but I don't care.

Using tobacco products is legal yet many hospitals refuse to allow smokers to work there. If you can make the use of tobacco a reason not to employ people, you can make this vaccine mandatory as a condition of employment.

I have a feeling in time this will change. It may have to, and I’m fine with it. I know at some point nursing facilities will likely not allow me in unless I can show verification of vaccination.
I couldn’t get my nursing license without proof of my MMR vaccine and a yearly TB test. The COVID vaccine will likely be similar.

Do I need a vaccine if I have covid? Because I will have antibodies.

The general consensus is yes. Basically vaccine immunity typically lasts longer than naturally getting antibodies through infection.

Is still talk with your doc, but that’s what I read in an article the other day.

Ask 10 doctors, get 10 different answers. There is no right or wrong.

I know of several that have gotten covid a second time, some just months after having had it. There was an article in a local paper about it.

I've heard the antibodies stay for a few months, or for longer.

Our county health department has told people that had it they are possibly only immune for 3 months.

Nobody knows at this point.

Same with the vaccine.........how do we know how long it will help?

I know I heard recently that it was determined to be legal for employers to require the vaccine as a condition of employment. What I don't remember is if that was Ohio, Indiana, or nationwide.

But, I've also been told that for a peon like me, it could be June or July before I can get the vaccine. Shoot, my doctor just got it last week.

Son is in health care in Columbus and he has no idea when he will be eligible for it.

I don't think we do know how long it will last as of now.

j/c

With dozens of cases reported in Antarctica, COVID-19 has now infected every continent

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/heal...rus/4014371001/

Most reports say you should be safe for about six months. It's all basically guesswork at this point.

Not much info out there about reinfection. I've been checking fairly regularly since I was infected. CDC still merely says it is "rare". You would think there would be data, apparently we're not privy to that yet.

BTW... Took me about ten days to get any sense of taste, then it returned to about 100% over the next week. Smell took longer, is till pretty week after five weeks.

Sorry to hear that Pit. My condolences to your wife and family.

Condolences to you and the family, Pit. Give the wife a huge from all of your friends here on the island.

Thoughts and prayers for your loss, Pit.

To date, there is no official word about how long CoVid antibodies might remain in your system. Early word suggests that antibodies may hang around for only a handful of months, post exposure.

Prevailing (common sense/ProMed) advice: inoculate yourself, and continue to practice shelter-in-place/social distancing protocols. Religiously. Wear a Mask. Sanitize/wash your hands every time you return to your car/the house. Give Your Fellow Man his 6'. Shelter at home as much as you can. Self-sequester for 14 days if you are Rona +.


Stay TF out of bars for the next 4-6 months.
They are running neck & neck with churches as the most regular local sources of masspread.


Even if you have an acquired (temporarily-earned) immunity, you can still carry the virus and transmit it to others who have not run your virus gauntlet.

I hope you beat this thing back, Eve.

Please inform yourself beyond my meager advice, and measure your steps accordingly.
There is much better advice out there than I can give, but I hope you take my post as a jumping-off place.
Please find your info at reputable places, and do what they say.

So I have to ask, because maybe some of you more scientific folks might be able to give some insight.

If this thing is here, and spreads this easily. Antibodies only last a couple/few months, the vaccine may only be good for 6ish months, then essentially this thing is here forever.

Like the seasonal flu, it's just going to keep going around and around. So what's the hope for the future?

Oh man Please tell your wife we are so sorry for her loss Pit. Keeping you guys in our prayers as well that you guys remain safe and virus free.

Well, depending on how you look at it, it took between 300 and 16,000 years to eradicate smallpox, so...

If this virus maintains it's contagion and ferocity it could be at least a few years, with multiple vaccinations, and everybody buying in and doing their part... That is to say, if it's obvious this isn't going away, and a segment of the population refuses to get inoculated, we cold be in trouble.

I guess the big question is, when do we have enough reliable data to determine that this not going away? I think a lot will depend on reinfection rates.

Normally I'd be against regulating safe behavior and common sense, but it's hard to form the words when there's such an obvious impact to the safety of 3rd parties.

My condolences to you and your family, Pit. I pray for God's comfort and peace for you all.

Well Covid!

New covid Topic? I'm ready for a new covid topic, gee, this Covid topic is depressing! Now, just seeing this, my glance caught Mary Ann from Giligan died? Covid!


Covid. What did the covid covid when it walked into the covid.
Covid? Covid! No covid?! haha, who woulda thunk, ha, covid.
Covid! another Covid! and another covid for, Covid's covid, covid? covid
Covid! of covid! what else would ya covid? Sars? naa.

This message brought to you by covid. The covids' covid.
for all you covid, the king of covid is covid covid,

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j/c...

Take this PSA for what it's worth.

Had Covid five weeks ago, mild symptoms, seemed like a full recovery once I could taste and smell again.

Wanted to go see the grandkids while back in OH over the holidays. My son said the kids were getting over a cold but it was up to me. Well, of course I'm going to go -- haven't seen them in nine months. Why would I worry about a common cold when I survived Covid, right?

Wrong, very wrong.

Symptoms started Saturday, seemed I was getting over it by Monday. Tuesday the coughing started, got worse and worse throughout the day. By 2pm I was having a hard time breathing.

Went to urgent care facility... Nurse listened to my chest and sent me straight to ER. By then I basically couldn't breath right with a mask on... it was scary as hell. Told them I had Covid at Thanksgiving. Had to follow protocol with another Covid test before they treated me, results took over two hours, thought I was going to die. Towards the end of the wait they gave me a steroid and that helped a bit.

Respiratory therapist came in for breathing treatments, listened to my chest and was befuddled.

"Are you a heavy smoker?"
No - quit ten years ago, smoke a cigarette once in a while when I'm drinking, probably about a pack per year.
"I didn't think so, your lungs look pretty clean. Do you have asthma, nothing was noted?"
No.
"Ever had any breathing treatments, copd, or breathing problems?"
No, not at all.
"How many times have you been test for Covid?"
Twice, once today and my positive test at Thanksgiving.

Her shoulders dropped and she said "wow, thank God, this made absolutely no sense."

Apparently she was waiting for my negative test so she could treat me and had no idea I had it previously.

She continued with a story of her own. She had it 12 weeks ago, exact mild symptoms as mine. She got a "little something" a few weeks ago and was having a hard time breathing. It took two rounds of steroids and breathing treatments to get to where she is just now feeling up to par.

This has been the story, at least in this neck of the woods, over the past few weeks. Covid survivors getting a common cold or flu and having extreme breathing problems. She said she and her colleagues have been pushing for more patient education following a positive Covid test. My doctor didn't want to see me and gave me the standard "rest and take care of yourself".

Covid survivors need to understand that the demon may not be done after the symptoms pass. Don't think you're Superman, stay away from others, wear a mask, etc, etc... you may not get Covid again, but you may not need Covid to have severe sickness and breathing problems.

I'm starting steroids and and inhaler, hoping this gets better, mildly better today but hard to do stairs or even take the pooch for a walk. Time table til things return to normal? WHO the hell knows.

Stay safe out there.


#scaredstraight

Sounds a lot like COPD. Hope you recover fully at some point and this no longer happens. I live with this type of issue every day. If I miss my medication by a few hours I start getting short of breath and I wouldn't wish that on anybody.

I'm not shocked. they never wear a mask.

Just got what I expect to be the beginning of a long chain of bad news. One of the music festivals I work every summer just notified me that they won’t be holding the event in 2021. My expectation is I’ll be getting similar emails from the other event producers I work with in the coming weeks.

Looks like 2021 is going to be another concert free summer.

To everyone that ‘just wants to get back to normal’ but refuses to act in a way that could get us there... screw you. You’re the reason why we won’t get back to normal for at least another year. If not longer. Well done.

I am sorry bro. I got bad news also. Our All school reunion )held every five years was postponed last year until 2021. Last week it was canceled until the next one in 2015. Usually that's no big deal for most folks but for me I have no clue if I will be around for that one. It breaks mt heart that I my have missed my last chance to spend time with my friends from High School.