ajax18 wrote:This is getting really ugly. I'm hearing stories of young and otherwise healthy people who have all the symptoms in the Salt Lake area. They're being refused care at the ER. No corona virus test available, just sent home to supposedly be quarantined. Yet the boss tells her that if she misses work or lets on that she's sick and causes a panic, she's fired.
My family is in this boat. We cannot get a corona test even though the symptoms are stereotypical corona and flu has been ruled out. The advise is to stay home and chill. There's no enforcement mechanism for that. It's just advise. My partner got some heat about missing work. She's a nurse at a hospital. One of the people she works closely with is almost certainly also infected.
I'm recovering from a serious respiratory infection 3 weeks ago and spend the time mentally running the numbers on the odds of my hospitalization and/or death.
ajax18 wrote:This is getting really ugly. I'm hearing stories of young and otherwise healthy people who have all the symptoms in the Salt Lake area. They're being refused care at the ER. No corona virus test available, just sent home to supposedly be quarantined. Yet the boss tells her that if she misses work or lets on that she's sick and causes a panic, she's fired.
Nonsense. Folks who suspect that they are infected are directed to receive a free screening at any one of the new testing centers set up by the Soylent Corporation.
Nonsense. Folks who suspect that they are infected are directed to receive a free screening at any one of the new testing centers set up by the Soylent Corporation.
Are you being sarcastic? I'm sorry I don't quite get it.
And when the confederates saw Jackson standing fearless as a stone wall the army of Northern Virginia took courage and drove the federal army off their land.
My family is in this boat. We cannot get a corona test even though the symptoms are stereotypical corona and flu has been ruled out. The advise is to stay home and chill. There's no enforcement mechanism for that. It's just advise. My partner got some heat about missing work. She's a nurse at a hospital. One of the people she works closely with is almost certainly also infected. ]I'm recovering from a serious respiratory infection 3 weeks ago and spend the time mentally running the numbers on the odds of my hospitalization and/or death.
It's cold and flu season. I had a cough 3 weeks ago as well and I'm pretty sure it wasn't corona virus. In the past I've always just worked through it and the patients preferred it that way, not now. So far nobody has showed up for their exam with obvious respiratory symptoms. But the owner has mandated we ask the patients if they've travelled. I'm just wondering what is going to happen when someone does show up coughing. I have an ethical obligation to send them home but what happens when they start to fight and make a scene about it? And if tell them to reschedule and come back in two weeks is that going to be any better? Business is still booming since the kids are all out of school and using the opportunity to get their eyes examined. I do have masks to pass out. But how many coughs is someone allowed before they get sent home?
You're not going to die EAllusion. And I hope you realize that while we all will die some day, what matters is how we lived. But what kind of life we'll have left after this kind of economic devastation has me worried. As bad as this is, I still say the worst effects are the economic catastrophe that's going on.
And when the confederates saw Jackson standing fearless as a stone wall the army of Northern Virginia took courage and drove the federal army off their land.
My family is in this boat. We cannot get a corona test even though the symptoms are stereotypical corona and flu has been ruled out. The advise is to stay home and chill. There's no enforcement mechanism for that. It's just advise. My partner got some heat about missing work. She's a nurse at a hospital. One of the people she works closely with is almost certainly also infected. ]I'm recovering from a serious respiratory infection 3 weeks ago and spend the time mentally running the numbers on the odds of my hospitalization and/or death.
It's cold and flu season. I had a cough 3 weeks ago as well and I'm pretty sure it wasn't corona virus. In the past I've always just worked through it and the patients preferred it that way, not now. So far nobody has showed up for their exam with obvious respiratory symptoms. But the owner has mandated we ask the patients if they've travelled. I'm just wondering what is going to happen when someone does show up coughing. I have an ethical obligation to send them home but what happens when they start to fight and make a scene about it? And if tell them to reschedule and come back in two weeks is that going to be any better? Business is still booming since the kids are all out of school and using the opportunity to get their eyes examined. I do have masks to pass out. But how many coughs is someone allowed before they get sent home?
You're not going to die EAllusion. And I hope you realize that while we all will die some day, what matters is how we lived. But what kind of life we'll have left after this kind of economic devastation has me worried. As bad as this is, I still say the worst effects are the economic catastrophe that's going on.
Ajax. She developed a cough, then a high fever, then body aches, then mild difficulty breathing. She got a swab for seasonal illness that came back negative. It's probably corona. My partner had a nurse call in to her and report the same symptoms. She has been working in a hospital. She may have been spreading it there or a cluster could've spread it to her. It's personally scary to have a loved-one with low-grade plague and also to be right next to it while already feeling under-the-weather breathing wise. And it is crazy to me that testing is so sparse that this doesn't justify a test. It doesn't because they're currently being held back for the more seriously ill, but it's very unpleasant to experience.
I'm surprised they don't want to test a nurse. That's an odd choice since it seems like someone critical to the system so it'd be good to know for more reasons than her own knowledge.
The world is always full of the sound of waves..but who knows the heart of the sea, a hundred feet down? Who knows it's depth? ~ Eiji Yoshikawa
honorentheos wrote:I'm surprised they don't want to test a nurse. That's an odd choice since it seems like someone critical to the system so it'd be good to know for more reasons than her own knowledge.
You'd think. Tomorrow will be another day of pressing for testing. It sounds like our testing capacity is gradually coming on line with each passing day, so each day provides more hope that a test is possible.
DoubtingThomas wrote:Sir have to meet you in person. I really hope to move to Seattle Washington in the future (like in 2 to 5 years from now). It is probably the best city to make a living in the US.
I love it here. I was born in Seattle and raised in Western Washington. Went to school in Utah, Northern California, and Boston. Never considered living anywhere else in the country.
The cost of living is very high here, especially housing. But if you work in tech, there are lots of jobs around.
Let me know when you’re out this way, and I’ll buy you lunch.
ajax18 wrote:This is getting really ugly. I'm hearing stories of young and otherwise healthy people who have all the symptoms in the Salt Lake area. They're being refused care at the ER. No corona virus test available, just sent home to supposedly be quarantined. Yet the boss tells her that if she misses work or lets on that she's sick and causes a panic, she's fired.
Nonsense. Folks who suspect that they are infected are directed to receive a free screening at any one of the new testing centers set up by the Soylent Corporation.
Omg this is the second time today that someone posted something that had come to mind just recently. Wow, I'm legit sending signals to people here. So. I was thinking about if the hospitals become overloaded and you know, they have to triage people. Then all of a sudden everyone thinks grandma and grandpa are self isolating in their homes until summer when they discover the house is empty and the grocery store shelves are stocked to overflowing.
I'm not joking. I thought of this last week.
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Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
Chinese Proverb
So. I was thinking about if the hospitals become overloaded and you know, they have to triage people. Then all of a sudden everyone thinks grandma and grandpa are self isolating in their homes until summer when they discover the house is empty and the grocery store shelves are stocked to overflowing. 