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Posted: October 21 2020 at 05:11
Thanks for everyone's well wishes. Things are looking good for all three. I had a zoom meeting yesterday with one infected friend. Although I have known and known about quite a few with the disease, this was my first chance to actually see someone with Covid. He looked like someone with a very bad case of the flu, very sweaty and swollen, a bit out of it mentally and moving very slugishly (sp). In many ways he is a lucky, some cases I am familiar with have been much worse.
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Posted: October 20 2020 at 10:32
progaardvark wrote:
^I hope your friends recover quickly.
Thank you much, things are looking good so far for them. Less fortunate was a friend of mine's mother-in-law who survived but with permanent damage to her organs.
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Posted: October 20 2020 at 10:22
^I hope your friends recover quickly.
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Posted: October 20 2020 at 08:03
Two people I know caught the Covid last week. One had visited my home recently, I consider it a close call for me. I'm so glad we are about to have a president who listens to doctors and scientists instead of politically motivated talk show hosts.
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Location: Essex, UK
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Posted: October 20 2020 at 08:00
essexboyinwales wrote:
I turn 50 in 6 days' time and obviously can't celebrate in the usual way, but it's really not that important and we'll do our best to have some fun!
Bummer, hope you have a good birthday anyway. I'm 60 next year and was going to plan a joint do with my sister-in-law but you can't really plan anything at the moment, we don't even know what we'll be able to do for Christmas.
I might do what someone else I know did - postpone my 60th till 2022.
Joined: May 22 2007
Location: Michigan, U.S.
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Posted: October 20 2020 at 07:29
I'm going in to the hospital for outpatient surgery on Wednesday, so I had to get a COVID test yesterday in preparation. Came back negative, so yeah to that. Worried about being in the hospital though with cases rising in our area. We had 2,900 new cases reported yesterday, which I think is even higher than we had before our lockdown in the spring. I turned 50 four months ago. Instead of a big party, I had a nice day with my sister's family at the Detroit Zoo. It is one of the few times that I've ventured out into public in the last 7 months.
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Posted: October 20 2020 at 07:17
So here I sit in Wales as we prepare to go into our firebreak lockdown for 17 days on Friday. The English/British government seems set against doing the same, so it will be very interesting to see what happens when results of this mini lockdown are seen over the next few weeks (hopefully). Is this how it will be for us? 2 weeks off, 6/8/10 weeks on, 2 weeks off.... No-one knows what the answer is, and it feels like we're guinea pigs here in Wales. Businesses are not happy, particularly in rural areas with low levels of the virus, who were hoping that half term holiday would provide some much-needed income...
On a personal level, my family feels very lucky. My wife and I have still been able to work (while spending less), our eldest daughter got her place to study medicine and has started her course (and is loving it, despite being stuck in her room in halls most of the time) and our youngest daughter is working hard for her GCSEs. She's off school right now, awaiting a covid test result but feeling well (she had a slight cough which has gone).
I turn 50 in 6 days' time and obviously can't celebrate in the usual way, but it's really not that important and we'll do our best to have some fun!
Keep safe everyone, science WILL come to the rescue in some way, but don't be thinking it's anytime yet...
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Posted: October 06 2020 at 08:14
^I hope your colleagues have smooth recoveries.
So far my office has been COVID free, but I work at major state university and we seem to be having a mini-outbreak since the students have returned. My county had just over 380 total cases from March to late August. That number has now just passed 3000. I believe they have suspended about a dozen students so far. Like other higher education institutions, although mine hasn't come right out and said it, they opened due to the financial situation to a mostly hybrid in-person/online system. Enrollment is down 2%, which is better than we expected.
I've been lucky that I have a job that can be performed at home, but I worry about some of my colleagues that had to return.
Let us hope a safe vaccine arrives next year even though it might take many months after that announcement before we can get access to it.
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Joined: May 22 2007
Location: Michigan, U.S.
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Posted: September 30 2020 at 17:40
Our office had managed to stay COVID free until 10 days ago. We just got our 2nd positive today. I have been almost exclusively working from home since March but most of our office has been back in the office since May, and a few never stopped working at the office, so it seems fairly amazing to me that we made it this long without a case. Fortunately, both cases appear to be of the minor variety.
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Posted: July 01 2020 at 12:38
^ And Rand Paul is stupid enough to tell him that we need to hear something more optimistic. What an idiot. There are some other bizarre quotes from Paul in that session in which he comes across as irrational.
Help the victims of the russian invasion: http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28523&PID=130446&title=various-ways-you-can-help-ukraine#130446
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Posted: July 01 2020 at 12:05
Fauci has been quoted as saying the U.S. could reach 100,000 cases per day. Holy crap. And July 4 is just around the corner. The perfect storm.
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