News from my local paper on Covid

MarciKS said:
We are going to be in trouble here very soon.
The total for the county is now 2,921, with 962 cases that are actively being monitored by the Health Department. 34 dead.

We have the dumbest damn co-workers on the planet here at our hospital. Three...yes I said 3 employees came to work sick all last week and never told anyone they were sick and they had no fevers and now all three are out. 1 had a heart attack but she texted another gal saying she didn't know she had heart trouble. She thought it was just covid symptoms yet she came to work anyway and put us all at risk and didn't wear her mask. One is waiting test results and one has been at work with Covid for a WEEK.

And all they did was tell her she shouldn't be there. Nobody made her mask up, nobody made her go home. Nobody made her get tested. So we've all been placed in jeopardy by 3 effing people who couldn't stay home. I told them today I think I have a sinus infection but I'm not 100% sure because I have no symptoms of Covid that I don't have every day. So they won't let me get tested unless I have symptoms. By then it will be too late. I'm so pissed tonight I just wanna scream but voice is getting rough from all the throat irritation.
We have 34 Covid patients right now.
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*smacking my forehead* That is baffling.
All you can do is take care of yourself the best that you can. Seriously, I don't know what else to say (that won't get me censored).
 

I took matters into my own hands this morning and contacted our employee health nurse and we had a conversation about my sinus infection symptoms. We decided it was in my best interest to get tested since one of the workers I have more contact with tested positive. I don't want to make anyone else sick if I can avoid it. Plus I'd rather know now while they can still do something about it before it's too late.

I'm hoping since I stayed masked up all the time and distanced as best I could and tried to follow all the protocols that if I do get it, it will only be mild God willing.
 
MarciKS said:
I took matters into my own hands this morning and contacted our employee health nurse and we had a conversation about my sinus infection symptoms. We decided it was in my best interest to get tested since one of the workers I have more contact with tested positive. I don't want to make anyone else sick if I can avoid it. Plus I'd rather know now while they can still do something about it before it's too late.

I'm hoping since I stayed masked up all the time and distanced as best I could and tried to follow all the protocols that if I do get it, it will only be mild God willing.
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My daughter(in-law) caught it fairly early on and was able to remain home until it passed. She had symptoms; fever, coughing, body aches and she said the headaches were the worst of it. After 2 weeks she was able to go back to work (tested neg), and felt just great after 3. I know three others who've had it and got over it. They say it was like a really bad flu. None of them have any lasting effects such as weakened lungs or anything like that. Again, that was early on and I've read from some experts that the virus is weakening. Let's hope so. (it does make sense)

Anyway, good move on your part, Marci. (y)
 

Murrmurr said:
My daughter(in-law) caught it fairly early on and was able to remain home until it passed. She had symptoms; fever, coughing, body aches and she said the headaches were the worst of it. After 2 weeks she was able to go back to work (tested neg), and felt just great after 3. I know three others who've had it and got over it. They say it was like a really bad flu. None of them have any lasting effects such as weakened lungs or anything like that. Again, that was early on and I've read from some experts that the virus is weakening. Let's hope so. (it does make sense)

Anyway, good move on your part, Marci. (y)
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We're getting told the virus is worse now than it was in March so I don't know what to believe. I just hope if I have it, it won't be bad enough to go to the hospital because if they vent me I don't think I'll be coming back out alive. :(
 
Sunny said:
What if the entire country was threatened by an enemy power? The president is allowed, and in fact expected, to declare war, right? So why can't we just consider this disease an "enemy," which it is?

In the case of human enemies, we wouldn't expect each individual governor to decide what to do about it, would we?
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My reply might be consider political concerning a president so I can not answer in the way I want to, but no the governors would not have to individual response. But, as with the individual groups of protestors, how they were treated was up to each governor.
 
MarciKS said:
We're getting told the virus is worse now than it was in March so I don't know what to believe. I just hope if I have it, it won't be bad enough to go to the hospital because if they vent me I don't think I'll be coming back out alive. :(
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Yes, I've read conflicting articles about it but when I google the authors or contributors the ones who say it's weakening are more credible. But "weakening" doesn't mean less contagious, and they do still say the infirm elderly, diabetics, and people with compromised immune systems are still the most vulnerable and display the worst symptoms, but most everyone else is "getting a flu" in regards to symptoms and recovery.
 
Murrmurr said:
Yes, I've read conflicting articles about it but when I google the authors or contributors the ones who say it's weakening are more credible. But "weakening" doesn't mean less contagious, and they do still say the infirm elderly, diabetics, and people with compromised immune systems are still the most vulnerable and display the worst symptoms, but most everyone else is "getting a flu" in regards to symptoms and recovery.
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Like I said...if I have it hopefully my own precautions will make it less volatile for me.
 
Sunny said:
What if the entire country was threatened by an enemy power? The president is allowed, and in fact expected, to declare war, right? So why can't we just consider this disease an "enemy," which it is?

In the case of human enemies, we wouldn't expect each individual governor to decide what to do about it, would we?
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In the case of this virus the president can declare a National Emergency, and I believe he did, however that president also stood behind each state's right to govern individually/independently.
 
MarciKS said:
We are going to be in trouble here very soon.
The total for the county is now 2,921, with 962 cases that are actively being monitored by the Health Department. 34 dead.

We have the dumbest damn co-workers on the planet here at our hospital. Three...yes I said 3 employees came to work sick all last week and never told anyone they were sick and they had no fevers and now all three are out. 1 had a heart attack but she texted another gal saying she didn't know she had heart trouble. She thought it was just covid symptoms yet she came to work anyway and put us all at risk and didn't wear her mask. One is waiting test results and one has been at work with Covid for a WEEK.

And all they did was tell her she shouldn't be there. Nobody made her mask up, nobody made her go home. Nobody made her get tested. So we've all been placed in jeopardy by 3 effing people who couldn't stay home. I told them today I think I have a sinus infection but I'm not 100% sure because I have no symptoms of Covid that I don't have every day. So they won't let me get tested unless I have symptoms. By then it will be too late. I'm so pissed tonight I just wanna scream but voice is getting rough from all the throat irritation.
We have 34 Covid patients right now.
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Marci, besides the fact that your co-workers are dumb, I don't think your hospital management is very bright, either. By not regulating people who come to work sick, they are running the risk of ending up with their whole hospital shut down because of covid spread, not to mention the risk of people dying.

My heart goes out to you.
 
@MarciKS is the vaccine gonna be available to you soon along with the medical staff? I really hope so...
and are you feeling any better from the sore throat and sinus issues you were having, if I recall correctly?
 
PopsnTuff said:
@MarciKS is the vaccine gonna be available to you soon along with the medical staff? I really hope so...
and are you feeling any better from the sore throat and sinus issues you were having, if I recall correctly?
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I don't think we're gonna have one any time soon. There will only be 12,000 double doses coming in the first batch. I think with the warnings from Pfizer about not taking the vaccine if you have med allergies and the possibility of Bell's Palsy I'm gonna hafta pass.

I am feeling somewhat better this evening. Just exhausted from all that's going on at work. We have a body in the morgue daily now.
 
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