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Coronavirus on a Personal Basis

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Covid is getting closer to me...

One person in our section has tested positive (she has been working remotely for the last 3 months), and another's sons have tested positive as well (she too has been working remotely).

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I had to go out shopping yesterday. My husband shut himself up in the bedroom and I brought the groceries in. I was inside about 15 minutes, and sanitized my hands after I left, so hopefully I’m good.

It’s been a little over a week since he first started feeling crappy, he tested positive last Tuesday. He says he feels much better this morning; still coughing up crap from his lungs. O2 is 98. I think he’s turned a corner.

What I don’t know is when it will be safe for me to go home. The CDC guidance is nebulous, to say the least.
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Maybenaut wrote: Mon Jan 10, 2022 9:42 am I had to go out shopping yesterday. My husband shut himself up in the bedroom and I brought the groceries in. I was inside about 15 minutes, and sanitized my hands after I left, so hopefully I’m good.

It’s been a little over a week since he first started feeling crappy, he tested positive last Tuesday. He says he feels much better this morning; still coughing up crap from his lungs. O2 is 98. I think he’s turned a corner.

What I don’t know is when it will be safe for me to go home. The CDC guidance is nebulous, to say the least.
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CDC points out the need to differentiate between "symptom onset" and "testing date".

What I heard them say was that "testing date" was usually a couple of days after "symptom onset," meaning that quarantining for five days after testing date was actually seven days after "symptom onset."
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Just got back from a controls upgrade in Fort Worth. To enter facility we all had to have vaccination proof. One of the guys was sick a week ago, then tested positive last Wed. After finding a rapid test facility, ( apparently they’re in short supply) my partner, I traveled with, tested positive.

Since we were sharing rental I had to have someone else take me to Love field to get another rental. The other guy drove rental home. Hotel gave me a whole package of Bactive wipes. I wiped down his laptop since I had to use it the remainder of trip.

Strange thing was at facility they issued the common pleated blue masks, we were required to wear. I wear usually 3m 8210 N95. They told me I had to wear the cheap mask regardless. I ended up double masking

I ended up putting in a couple 14 hour days because of the loss, and the day lost during testing put the project way behind.
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Out from under. :thumbsup:
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p0rtia wrote: Mon Jan 10, 2022 1:26 pm CDC points out the need to differentiate between "symptom onset" and "testing date".

What I heard them say was that "testing date" was usually a couple of days after "symptom onset," meaning that quarantining for five days after testing date was actually seven days after "symptom onset."
My understanding is that the testing date is only relevant if you're asymptomatic, and otherwise you go by symptom onset.

I know that the CDC changed the guidelines, but we're sticking with the original guidelines because the CDC (according to this MIT website)) "failed to successfully culture viral particles obtained from individuals more than nine days after their symptoms began." That's where the 10 days came from, and it seems like the safer alternative.

In our case, symptom onset was Sunday, 1/2/2022. You don't count "Day zero," so Sunday doesn't count. And since you have to wait 10 full days, the last day doesn't count, either. So I'm going home on Thursday, 1/13/2022.

I like the MIT site - it explains things in ways that are easy to understand.

My husband is feeling 1000 times better today. He's still tired and still coughing a little bit, but he texted me this morning and asked me to take him out for a car ride because he's dying to get out of the house. I noped that nonsense because what's the point of isolating if we're going to be confined in a car for an hour? I felt bad for him because I know he's going stir-crazy, particularly now that he's starting to feel better.
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Holy crapburger.
The first cruise ship in nearly two years arrived in the Honolulu Harbor Sunday. But with the recent surge of the Omicron variant, critics say it’s too soon to reopen Hawaii’s ports to the cruise business.

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“They want to come over here ... I don’t understand that mentality. I really don’t,” said Kawaikapuokalani Hewett, a former member of the Hawaii Tourism Authority’s board and spokesman for the quarantine watchdog group the Kapu Breakers.The state is requiring visitors to be fully vaccinated or tested but the CDC has placed the ship under a yellow status, meaning that several passengers or one or more crew members may be infected.

Currently, the CDC advises everyone to avoid traveling on cruises -- regardless of vaccination status -- because the chance of contracting COVID-19 on a ship is “high.”

Over the next two months, six different cruise ships -- with a capacity to hold more than 26,000 passengers -- will dock in Honolulu Harbor.

They include the 949-passenger Ruby Princess which docked in San Francisco last week with a dozen passengers infected with COVID-19.
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2022/01/1 ... assengers/

That's how coronavirus came to Hawaii. A cruise ship docked, and some people were taken from the boat to isolation. There was no testing, no waiting period before the remaining tourists disembarked.
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"They include the 949-passenger Ruby Princess which docked in San Francisco last week with a dozen passengers infected with COVID-19."

The Ruby BLOODY Princes BLOODY AGAIN!!!!!

She should be renamed - The Plague ship COVID!!!!!!

https://7news.com.au/news/world/ruby-pr ... -c-5220950

The situation is a troubling reminder of the ship’s deadly saga in New South Wales, when thousands of passengers potentially exposed to COVID were allowed to freely disembark in Sydney in March 2020.

About 900 people from the ill-fated ship then tested positive and 28 died.

An official inquiry held into the handling of the coronavirus outbreak found NSW Health made “serious” and “inexcusable” mistakes.
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:mad: I didn't know about that.
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Lani wrote: Tue Jan 11, 2022 12:37 am Holy crapburger.
The first cruise ship in nearly two years arrived in the Honolulu Harbor Sunday. But with the recent surge of the Omicron variant, critics say it’s too soon to reopen Hawaii’s ports to the cruise business.

:snippity:
“They want to come over here ... I don’t understand that mentality. I really don’t,” said Kawaikapuokalani Hewett, a former member of the Hawaii Tourism Authority’s board and spokesman for the quarantine watchdog group the Kapu Breakers.The state is requiring visitors to be fully vaccinated or tested but the CDC has placed the ship under a yellow status, meaning that several passengers or one or more crew members may be infected.

Currently, the CDC advises everyone to avoid traveling on cruises -- regardless of vaccination status -- because the chance of contracting COVID-19 on a ship is “high.”

Over the next two months, six different cruise ships -- with a capacity to hold more than 26,000 passengers -- will dock in Honolulu Harbor.

They include the 949-passenger Ruby Princess which docked in San Francisco last week with a dozen passengers infected with COVID-19.
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2022/01/1 ... assengers/

That's how coronavirus came to Hawaii. A cruise ship docked, and some people were taken from the boat to isolation. There was no testing, no waiting period before the remaining tourists disembarked.
I know an entertainer who is working on that ship. Yesterday, Tiki Dave posted a picture on his facebook page as the ship was entering the harbor. He and his wife moved to Las Vegas last year from Hilo. He joined several of our ukulele jamms right after they got into town. His wife also works as a hula instructor for the same cruise line. When the cruise lines shut down, his equipment stayed on the ship and he couldn't get it until last month.
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I've seen more ads on tv for cruises in the last month than I ever remember seeing before, including at least a dozen today, many for cruise lines I've never even heard of.

Got an email from a friend today that her brother's whole family has it and had to isolate at some island because they took a cruise "for a break" before he had to start treatment for multiple myeloma. He now has to wait weeks to start his treatment and be isolated for 4 weeks in the hospital while they replace his entire blood volume. Once he's done that, he has to get EVERY VACCINE HE'S EVER HAD again, because the treatment wipes it all out.

What idiot asswipe goes on a cruise because he's starting treatment for a fucking blood cancer? None of them are vaxxed.
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Co-worker I sit a few feet from and husband both positive. Yikes. On plus side: I’ve been on vacation or working from home for almost a month so no exposure. Which is why lockdowns, WFH, etc., are needed.
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Fluid is now building up on my husband's other lung and he's having breathing problems again. Called his quack this morning to get another X-ray. Nope. Half their staff and the entire radiology dept is out with covid or isolating. He offered no options, just that they'd notify him when they could get him in for the X-ray. Assuming he doesn't suffocate first. I wake up multiple times a night to see him sitting on the side of the bed trying to catch his breath and there is absolutely nothing I can do to help him.

Fuck the unvaccinated. I have no words for the depth of my contempt for them.
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OMG Sugar! Horrifying for both of you! :bighug: :bighug:

One thing that stuck with me from the very beginning of this mess was advice from a nurse - rotate yourself. Lie on your back, both sides, and stomach.

Also, too, a breathing tip from a nurse friend: take as deep a breath as you can, hold it for 5 or as long as you can, let it out. Do that twice, then on the third time instead of holding, cough. It helps clear the lungs, she said.
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Phoenix520 wrote: Tue Jan 11, 2022 1:23 pm OMG Sugar! Horrifying for both of you! :bighug: :bighug:

One thing that stuck with me from the very beginning of this mess was advice from a nurse - rotate yourself. Lie on your back, both sides, and stomach.

Also, too, a breathing tip from a nurse friend: take as deep a breath as you can, hold it for 5 or as long as you can, let it out. Do that twice, then on the third time instead of holding, cough. It helps clear the lungs, she said.
He moves around a good bit trying to get a breath, and coughing isn't a problem. He physically can't take a deep breath because of the fluid pushing on his lung, and he coughs until he throws up. If the last time is any indication, they're going to have to drain the fluid again before he gets any relief. We're just hoping the other lung doesn't develop the fluid again before they get this one drained, and that whatever is causing it gets corrected.
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sugar magnolia wrote: Tue Jan 11, 2022 12:32 pm Fluid is now building up on my husband's other lung and he's having breathing problems again. Called his quack this morning to get another X-ray. Nope. Half their staff and the entire radiology dept is out with covid or isolating. He offered no options, just that they'd notify him when they could get him in for the X-ray. Assuming he doesn't suffocate first. I wake up multiple times a night to see him sitting on the side of the bed trying to catch his breath and there is absolutely nothing I can do to help him.

Fuck the unvaccinated. I have no words for the depth of my contempt for them.
I fully agree!
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I'm so sorry. Many hugs for both of you, but what you really need is to get him help. :crying:

I know you know that. :bighug:
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What a horrible situation to be in. :mad:

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:bighug: :bighug: :bighug:
Best of luck; I hope hubby gets the diagnostics and care he needs sooner rather than later. And it's horrible yearning to help but not being able to do anything, so sympathy for that.
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This is awful. I have a friend in the hospital with serious shit, who has to have draining/paracentesis a couple of times a week. Same problem with breathing/talking as the fluid increases.

I loathe it when people give advice that has not been asked for, and I loath it even more when that advice states the obvious. And anyway, I'm guessing if you had a specialist to call you would have done so....

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sugar magnolia wrote: Tue Jan 11, 2022 12:32 pm

Fuck the unvaccinated. I have no words for the depth of my contempt for them.
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sugar magnolia wrote: Tue Jan 11, 2022 12:32 pm Fuck the unvaccinated. I have no words for the depth of my contempt for them.
I certainly can't blame you for that.

Your situation really sucks, and I truly hope things get better for you quickly!
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My BFF’s brother died a few hours ago. 53 years old’ leaves a wife , a 18 year old daughter and two sons , 15 and 13. Another preventable tragedy.
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