How long was he sick, @ChickenLittle? (Edit, five days, never mind.) It sounds like classic young-people covid to me - Tom and Rita Hanks reported the same (I realize they aren’t young, but they’re healthy and certainly would have received gold-standard care). Pink and her 3-year-old had it (confirmed) and while she did have breathing difficulties, they came in waves that alternated with things like headache, sore throat, and GI upset.
My son’s girlfriend (mid-twenties) has it (confirmed) and is dealing with chills, achiness (“my bones feel like glass, like they could just shatter”) and headache. No cough.
I would hold tight for the two weeks. Better safe than sorry. I would imagine that where you are is similar to here: until very recently the numbers reflected cases admitted to the hospital and tested, according to my senior-respiratory-therapist-at-the-local-hospital friend. Not even people showing up at the ER with symptoms, just the ones serious enough for an admit.
I agree, both about @Jewbacca’s accuracy in terms of the macro impact, and yours for the micro. “I’m sorry you still have to do your disgusting and heartbreaking job as a home health aid and go into assisted living facilities while meanwhile your spouse will probably die if you bring this home to him - through lifestyle choices he’s made that have resulted in out-of-control type II diabetes, COPD, and heart stuff, but still, it’s very sad and worrying! Have you tried deep breathing exercises and visualization? That can really help with anxiety.”
Some of the heartbreak speaks to @Californiagrown’s point above about the ants and the grasshoppers (whether in terms of financial or physical health), but regardless of where fault originates, it’s tough to be on the ground with it.
I will say that I am very grateful that we’ve been of the rainy-day-fund mindset here at my house. I would go confess smug self-satisfaction in the Confessions thread, because I certainly feel it, but I’m afraid I’d set in motion a Karmic smack-down.
No. You have to go to another county with a doctor’s referral. Which he won’t give unless you have serious symptoms. They had mobile testing for one day but it filled up so quick I couldn’t get an appointment.
Thankfully, My family has remained largely unaffected. My company allowed me to take two weeks paid off because i fall into the high risk category (diabetes) so I didn’t miss any paychecks.
This has made me rethink my savings plan and start trying hard to save more on the daily and put away rainy-day fund money.
My are of Florida is going to start reopening as of tomorrow. Retail locations and restaurants are being allowed to open at 25% capacity + outdoor seating if social distancing between tables is maintained. My local Ace Hardware (which was an excellent store) didn’t survive the shutdown though - sign now reads “Thanks for 25 years. Mic Drop”
I must say Covid-19 is just what the doctor ordered. I already exercise at home, and I can ride public transit for free. People mostly stay away from me, and I have income support up here in Canada to ride it out. Great!
South African author called Deon Meyer wrote a book with this plot, “Fever”, about 4 years ago. There’s an English translation available on Amazon, I highly recommend it - it was thought-provoking even before all this stuff.
I believe Dean Koontz (?) wrote a similar one many years ago which even had the virus originating in Wuhan.
Well, Gov Lujan just put Gallup, NM under martial law. No one out and no one in that is not a local. Allegedly large infection rate.
It’s the Zuni reservation, and apparently the 'Rona is ripping through it pretty hard. Given that Pueblo dwellers are universally fat, chronically drunk, and diabetic, I’m not terribly surprised. Making a living selling silver and pottery (which is actually really high quality) on I-40 at truck stops probably the reason.
This is ~100 miles from me as the raven flies. We’ve only had 2 cases in my county, probably older Texans from Lubbock who have a second house.
On a personal level, the Rona and our friends the Saudis have done a number on the price of oil, so I am getting paid to have my rigs sit in a field, which is OK, I suppose. Worried that when the price comes back my hands will have left, so I have them busy doing stuff that hasn’t been done for a decade – cleaning the shop, getting scrap iron loaded for sale, etc.
Homeschooling sucks. Wish I still drank and smoked.
South Dakota’s decided that they’re not really concerned about things anymore, despite having a pretty bad hotspot. My town’s mayor officially reopened things last night and said do whatever you want, just wear masks, stay 6ft apart, and no more then 10 people in a place, and hey, go get a haircut or a massage to celebrate!..cause there’s no close contanct with haircuts and massages haha.
Then, turns out, we only have to do that until next Thursday. After that, when the governor has said “Yeah, cases will rise” we are no longer required to practice any type of safety precaution. The bar I work at that regularly sees customers in the hundreds at night is reopening and has no precautions set up.
I don’t know…I get it, I guess, but I don’t like it. Not excited to go back to work around several hundred people who aren’t concerned about anything, while our cases rise.
Got sick Sunday. Fever, aches, sore throat. Got tested Monday, results not back. The test is awful. They stuck the swab so far up my nose they touched my thoughts. The aches and sore throat subsided, but the fever has remained. The last few days I’ve had trouble with breathing. When inactive, every so often I take a weird, deep, almost gasping breath. I definitely can’t breathe as deeply as before. Get very winded with nay activity. Other than that, I’m feeling fine. My wife and 20-year-old son have also become sick over the last week. They still have the aches.
Thanks. Things are about the same around here today. My wife’s breathing is probably a little worse and one of my 9-year-old twins is running a low grade fever. He has no physical complaints but is very emotional this morning.
Aiming at the thread topic…
I just had my 5th flight cancelled. I was supposed to take the wife to Europe in April (Booked tickets in December). Fly into Paris, after a few days drive down along the Eastern side into Southern France, take a train across the border, the drive through Spain and finally leave from Madrid.
So far, I can’t even get out of Nicaragua. Every ticket I buy gets cancelled. Had a flight for the 7th, called yesterday and American said everything is a go. This morning they called me and informed me it too was cancelled. My brother-in-law is in the hospital dying of cancer, and even if I could get into Ontario I would likely not make it out of quarantine before he dies. And my visa expires in a few weeks so I’ll likely have to go to a government office surrounded by people that are doing zero about Covid 19 and get a renewal on the visa, as the land crossings are all closed so I can’t just do a border run to Costa Rica.
My company has a habit of taking from the workers when things get tough. We haven’t slowed down very much, and are essential to the point that we definitely won’t close, but they took our 401K matches, our HSA matches, and on the wednesday that everyone got their stimulus checks, they took 10% of our pay for the next 3 months, which is pretty insulting, considering they could have just cut some of our hours, but they’re making us work just as much for less pay. It’s also pretty funny that they got money from the stimulus bill, and then took the money that WE got from the stimulus bill on the day that we got it. The CEO is sending out emails congratulating us on becoming the sole supplier for Altria, meaning we’re making fuckloads of money from them, but despite us never closing, laying off workers at every plant we have around the world, and taking all the money they could from us, it’s just not enough.
Corporate life!
Still happy to have a job, just wary of saying it too much while they take everything from us.
It’s funny how tone deaf management can be at times huh? My company is doing a decent job as far as finances go during this IMO. The senior leadership group have all taken pretty substantial pay cuts, while leaving the salaries of the grunts untouched which is cool. They’ve also committed to paying the sales reps 80% of their OTE if they were meeting quota, since the market for our product is in the dumper right now, in hopes that we’ll see it come back on the other side. Definitely a ‘tip of the cap’ moment for them.