I admit this wasn't my most dispassionate take, but yes, these are the folks I'm mostly reacting to. Those who respond to any discussion of necessary mitigation measures with "but have you thought about how it affects me?" I'm basically white knuckling a mental illness with no medication because in-person doctor visits are suspended right now, and I recognize that it's because this is a crisis we all need to pitch in on, so I really don't give a fuck if someone is missing Friday drinks with the boys and have to have an actual conversation with their wife instead.
The other thing you guys are skipping over is millions of people aren’t just on paid vacation they lost their fucking jobs and job prospects are nonexistent. As far as stressful life events it’s death of a spouse>divorce >losing your job. Add on top of that Rent, bills, family to feed? You take into account not many have the skills needed to handle stressful situations like this simply because it may be the first time dealing with it and you get a recipe for disaster. The flippant “suck it up the mandalorian has a new season out” is incredibly short sighted. A funny meme but millions of people are more than just a little inconvenienced by this whole situation.
I also wfh in IT and we have optional webex(or whatever) happy hours. Its a decent outlet for the meantime. It’s the best we can do since we are all spooked at the current covid numbers in our hospitals. Several of our facilities are at capacity right now. We aren’t even permitted a socially distanced meeting or anything.
We have twice daily “coffee time” where people can just drop in and chat for 15 mins. We also have evening happy hours and a scotch tasting hour every week on Zoom.
Well, guess I cursed myself. Business partner called and said his wife tested positive. I haven't seen him in weeks.... other than yesterday were we had a meeting and were in the same car for 40 minutes. How long am I supposed to wait to get tested?
Apparently, in some cases, as little as 6 hours for full viral loading, 3 days for when it starts turning your lungs in to shriveled grapes, 10 days for symptoms. I reckon you've gotta quaratine for 2 weeks starting now and get tested around that 10 day mark.
Wait 48-72 hours and get tested. The incubation period is roughly 48 hours, but depending on "viral load", could be faster/slower. Per CDC, most people present symptoms within 5 days, if they're going to. 97.5% present symptoms within 11 days, so if you go two weeks with no symptoms, get another test and you're probably clear. I'd suggest a drive-through CVS/Walgreens kind of test, because you don't want to be exposing a waiting room full of people, or overworked staff. We are running out of healthcare workers, and from what I saw today, GA's hospital capacity is at 97%, with other states receiving massive influxes of patients. We think this is the early part of the "Thanksgiving spike", we'll have a lull, then a Christmas spike, and by February, we're looking at up to 30m cases (cumulative). The federal medical reserves are tapped out, meaning we can't really help augment hospitals that are overwhelmed. I am telling you from the belly of this beast: make people take it seriously.
you might be the only one... Everyone experiences "crisis" differently. I think I'm coping the best out of anyone I know, because having suffered from PTSD, I have the tools and perspective to deal with it appropriately. What the pandemic did for most people though is threw them into the raging Indian Ocean in the middle of a storm without a life vest and said "tread water" for an indeterminate length of time.
That's just because they are hoping that more people will actually comply with a 7-10 day quarantine. With 14 days, a lot of people just said fuck it, that's too long, not doing it. Because, you know, people are terrible. In other news, some assholes were replacing the carpet in the hallway in the building where I work (not inside of our clinic, but just outside the door). I had to tell them SO MANY TIMES to cover their faces. They were all super shitty and dismissive despite me explaining repeatedly that we have infants, elderly, and immunocompromised patients coming in and out. At one point, an unmasked dude got in my face and said "What am I doing to you?" and I said "potentially exposing me, my fetus, and any number of our patients to covid" and then he laughed at me. So then I yelled and threatened to report them then they begrudgingly wore masks the rest of the day. Assholes.
My brother just posted a cryptic Facebook post requesting prayers. Don't know what that means yet. He's not really a Jesus-take-wheel type of person, so that worries me. I think they both got fatigued with masks and other precautions because when this first started they were as careful as almost anyone. My SIL pleaded in another post that people need to wear their masks, that she had not been wearing one as much as they used to. They also work in the same building, so I'd bet that is where they picked it up.
Biden asked Fauci to be his Chief Medical Advisor... Fauci apparently accepted on the spot. https://www.axios.com/fauci-biden-chief-medical-officer-851a63e4-5956-4919-add7-c75754e0f26c.html
Ive had to have more than one conversation with someone repairing something at my house or whatever about wearing a mask. People are stupid.
Is anybody really surprised? Well, I guess I am in a way. Once Trump started publicly criticizing him during the summer, I expected Biden to announce him as his choice for Surgeon General.
I would think he chose him because he’s the vest man for the job. He always fucking was, only a stupid piece of shit would think he’s unqualified. Luckily for America, stupid pieces of shit won’t be clogging up the plumbing so much soon.