wtnhunt Posted July 26, 2020 Report Share Posted July 26, 2020 Wife had another positive contract employee, a physical therapy assistant. When she called the health department to report it the person who she talked with said they were over 700 positive cases behind. That is for the rural areas between Nashville and Memphis and those numbers are not yet reflected on the states website. In other words this is way worse here at this point than the numbers we can see are showing. Guess we are in what is now designated as a hot spot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fly Posted July 27, 2020 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2020 There is a lot of talk about more strict regulations being put in place. I've heard some states are fining people that do do not follow the mandates such as mask wearing. Lowe's has a sign requiring masks be worn in the store. They even have FREE masks at the entry. Still... many people walking around without a mask on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted July 27, 2020 Report Share Posted July 27, 2020 4 hours ago, fly said: Lowe's has a sign requiring masks be worn in the store. They even have FREE masks at the entry. Still... many people walking around without a mask on. People pull them off or pull them under their noses after they get in the stores. Pretty sure Lowe's and tractor supply are among the stores nationwide requiring a mask. I did a curbside pickup order at tractor supply the other day and saw several people walk back to their vehicle to get their masks. Governor said he would not mandate masks, also has said he will absolutely not close our economy again. No mandate in our county, but there is in the closest neighboring county, which is also the county with the hospital serving our area. Ironically that mayor, according to public data, pushed opening before his county should have opened. Read an article that said Walmart is still serving customers without masks. They cannot get people to follow the arrows marking direction on the floors or get people to stay 6 ft apart either. Numbers here are not looking so good here. More data than the state gives on their website is is posted daily for the county our news channel is located in. There have been 117 kids there under 20 out of a total of 800 some odd people that have tested positive. With schools out, would not think kids would be as likely to be exposed. Tennessee had ranked very poorly early on with regards to social distancing, really don't understand why it is so difficult for some people to understand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted August 27, 2020 Report Share Posted August 27, 2020 Hospital gave covid to one of the wife's residents when they were sent out after a fall, and now she has an outbreak in her building. That resident was a wanderer in the Alzheimer's unit. Sad situation. Now she is dealing with multiple residents positive and short staffed with several staff positive. She is convinced now the efficacy of masks is overrated. She tested ALL of those who have come back positive, so she is really concerned about her ppe procedures and the possibility of any potential point of failure. Catrina has been working 16+ hour days since Sunday, of course she is salary too so she does not even get any compensation for her extra time. Yeah, the stress impact factor of this is beyond overwhelming. Seeing my wife come in exhausted and crying her eyes out over losing a resident to this after watching how hard she has worked to keep those people safe is beyond words. To have that resident be exposed outside her building where they should have been safe is out of her control, and all I can do is keep reminding her it is not her fault. Our 14 year old daughter was sitting at a table with another kid that left Monday mid school day for "not feeling good" and has not been back since. Not a peep from the school about that kid. Allison said at one point there were over 140 kids out for quarantine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elkoholic Posted August 27, 2020 Report Share Posted August 27, 2020 My thoughts on this "pandemic" have not changed and I find it sad that there is blame placed on anyone or that someone should feel it is their fault. It is not the fault of anyone that it is continuing to spread and thinking that it can be stopped or controlled is mere conjecture at this point. Mask mandates, social distancing, and closure of businesses has caused more economic, and mental, anguish than the virus itself. We really need to let the fear and stress go. Death will get us all in the end and in the course of our lives we get sick or are injured, but letting thoughts of "what if" dominate our very being, will surely ruin our time here on earth. Yes, it is in our nursing homes and treatment centers here, and I'm sure it will pop up in the schools as they open this week. The University of Montana had a professor with a positive test and I'm sure more to follow within the university system. I say, carry on. Treat those with symptoms and carry on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted August 30, 2020 Report Share Posted August 30, 2020 My wife swabbed all the positives that have come back in her nursing home going back to the first employee that tested positive in May, using all the right precautions and ppe. She had a fever at the door yesterday, had to turn around and come back home. She developed flu symptoms as the day went on. Hopefully her test comes back negative and she is just overly exhausted, but guessing that is probably not likely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravin R10 man Posted August 30, 2020 Report Share Posted August 30, 2020 (edited) Hope you are not affected there William! Wife still ok even though contact at Kwik trip with public as a cashier is unavoidable. Like Dave said, gotta live life as normal as posible...it's way tooo short not to! Edited August 30, 2020 by Mathews XT Man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted August 30, 2020 Report Share Posted August 30, 2020 31 minutes ago, Mathews XT Man said: Hope you are not affected there William! Honestly it is probably already too late. Have had sinus symptoms that started mid week and a bad headache several days this week, assumed I was getting another sinus infection. This time of year that is not uncommon, but having a bit of respiratory symptoms and cough now. Don't really see a point in getting myself tested at this point, might if hers is positive. We have to quarantine at least until she gets her results, hopefully we can keep the kids healthy. Dread the thought of our son getting this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted September 7, 2020 Report Share Posted September 7, 2020 Catrina had 2 negative tests, but both were within the first 72 hours of her symptom onset. Within just hours of her initial fever, she was hit pretty hard, but she was also probably pretty rundown due to lack of sleep and all the 12-16+ hour work days. According to Johns Hopkins it is not uncommon for false negatives with early tests, really that is not helping with fighting the virus and isolating infected people. She was over the symptoms for the most part this weekend, but her blood pressure is still elevated, she had never had blood pressure issues prior to her symptoms onset. Health dept told her she was a positive despite the negative tests. Will be interesting to see if her next test at work comes back positive or negative. I had symptoms myself, felt pretty crummy flu type aches and sinus symptoms(sore throat, headache, and cough). Tried to stay busy doing work around here outside. Honestly felt better each day after working a few hours and sweating. Still have a nagging itch in upper respiratory, headache, and cough. If in fact this was the covid, it was not so bad, but then I have not just layed around, have stayed pretty active. If Catrina tests positive this next time around, I may need to move up my next cardio check up. No doubt I got whatever she had. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravin R10 man Posted September 7, 2020 Report Share Posted September 7, 2020 53 minutes ago, wtnhunt said: Health dept told her she was a positive despite the negative tests. SERIOUSLY?? no wonder the numbers have spiked.... HEY...I "SNEEZED" yesterday, I bet I'm positive too!! Hope you guys come out of whatever you had ok.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted September 7, 2020 Report Share Posted September 7, 2020 35 minutes ago, Mathews XT Man said: SERIOUSLY?? no wonder the numbers have spiked.... HEY...I "SNEEZED" yesterday, I bet I'm positive too!! Hope you guys come out of whatever you had ok.... Yes, seriously. Catrina showed up at work on Saturday, 29th of August, she had a fever at the door and that was the first symptom she had. She has since had 2 different residents that tested negative despite having symptoms. Those residents both 2 days later tested positive. They are now testing staff and employees twice a week. According to Johns Hopkins, the viral load at onset of the covid 19 is not high enough for the test to detect it. It may be day 7 before the test is able to detect that a person has it! Catrina is feeling much better now, still her diastolic bp is too high, in the upper 90's to 100. I feel like I just have a mild case of the flu. And yea, the spread of this is crazy due to the lags. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravin R10 man Posted September 7, 2020 Report Share Posted September 7, 2020 2 hours ago, wtnhunt said: the spread of this is crazy due to the lags. I guess so!....I never heard about that part, OR it takes up to 7 days to test POS. I have pretty much quit listening to most of the news anyways. NOV 3rd cant come fast enough! 4 MORE YEARS! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted September 7, 2020 Report Share Posted September 7, 2020 The memory care units at homes and assisted living centers are really being hit hard. Wandering elderly on units cannot be locked down in rooms and many don't understand keeping masks on, unfortunately that is where it started to spread in the wife's home. The hospital had an outbreak. They sent a resident to the hospital, resident came back from hospital with covid, and they gave it to pretty well everyone working that unit and to all the other residents there. Catrina tested all those that came back positive. She had proper ppe. Think masks are over rated as protection when people don't follow social distancing. Gives false sense of security to many. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prepense Posted September 8, 2020 Report Share Posted September 8, 2020 It hasn't impacted me that much really since I work from home in the first place and I rarely go out even before the pandemic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoanneUnderwood Posted September 9, 2020 Report Share Posted September 9, 2020 the only thing that changed and which annoys me so much is that I was all alone during the pandemic, no friends, no parents and in general family( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fly Posted September 10, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2020 (edited) Well my oldest daughter is now in an isolation dorm at the University of Illinois. She has COVID but her only symptom is a minor cough. Have also had some neighbors test positive all with minor symptoms. Here is a pic of her on a hunt with dad many years ago. Edited September 10, 2020 by fly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted November 6, 2020 Report Share Posted November 6, 2020 Seems to be a very bad week here. Gotten several notifications from the schools over students and staff testing positive. Highest single day death rate earlier this week, and new positive numbers are higher again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravin R10 man Posted November 27, 2021 Report Share Posted November 27, 2021 On 3/18/2020 at 12:20 AM, Dawg said: ...but one day, at an animal market, in Wuhan China, in December 2019, it mutated and made the jump from animal to people. well that has been provenFALSE.. IT CAME OUT OF THE LAB FUACCI WAS FUNDING. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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