This Thread Blows - C19 and beyond

rick81721 said:
This is interesting, a drive thru covid testing site started collecting samples on tuesday at the Villages in central FL. Drive thru in cars or golf carts. There are two parts in partnership with U of Fl - standard testing of people with symptoms, and a second leg of testing those with no symptoms to try to get a gauge on asymptomatic population amongst the geezers. Will take 5 days to get the samples and a few days for results

https://www.wesh.com/article/the-villages-coronavirus-testing/31900848
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Between all the geezers and people in Mustangs the drive thru itself will get everyone killed.
 
There's only 4 houses past my house. Not a day goes by I don't see a UPS or amazon truck go by.

I'm WFH'ing in the dining room and I hear a BLEEEEP behind me. Delivery just dropped off a package. I immediately checked my amzn account and that's how instantaneous it registered the package as delivered.

I found this article interesting. 'United states is X years behind on home deliveries'. PS. Long JD
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/amid-coronavirus-jd.com-has-an-advantage-over-rivals-2020-03-23
 
I just received a formal communication from top management, we're all required to WFH and take all April Fridays off, shame they can't be FF! Looks like I will have to tackle those house projects finally.
 
Back at the end of January, our infant (6 mo) daughter caught a case of Flu-B, likely from daycare, as kids were passing it around at that time. Being an infant, this led us to a brief but intense stay at the hospital to get it under control. Covid-19 contraction wasn't really on peoples minds here in the US at the time, but the ER and hospital in general, was absolutely swamped with people with all manner of of virii. Dr's, nurses, patients and even facilities staff all wore masks at all times, it was a eerie forecast of things to come.

A few days later, with things finally under control, she was discharged and feeling a ton better being rehydrated and all. My wife and i both were in the hospital with her the entire time and were both initially fine. But in the days of being there, my wife caught strep (tested positive for it, but neg for flu) and suddenly begins to develop a weird cough not usually associated with strep. 2 days after being home, i start to feel ill and develop the same lingering cough and then head over to the walk in clinic to get checked out. I tell them the timeline and they run a few swabs but come back saying no flu and no strep, likely some "other" virus is what they say. Great, at least i didnt catch flu from baby or strep from wife, but wtf is it?. But now both wife and i are feeling very much meh, achy for a spell, but then its just that non-stop dry cough. A couple days later its been a week since baby came back, baby is feeling shitty again. Pediatrician runs tests and says its RSV--likely caught from stay in the pediatrics ward. So now were all home, feeling like crap and coughing up a storm. Slowly, over the following week or 3 we all start to get better but now its deep into Feb and this whole coronavirus thing is going mainstream here in the US.

The short of it is that there's a possibility we may have had this back in early Feb, the symptoms and timeline seem to jibe. Though it wasn't rampant here yet, this whole NY metro area being declared the epicenter would support there being positive cases down here in NJ with all the daily traffic back and forth. Especially with an extended stay in a hospital just rife with bugs. Now we're both healthy individuals so it never compromised us badly, but it sure took a long time to run its course and left me with some downed lung and cardio capacity. Finally jumping back on the bike after all this, i was really struggling on rides and the heavy breathing was rather painful at the time of respiration and later during recovery. I've finally gotten mostly back to normal but after seeing how this is tearing through the general public, it does make me curious what we had. I'm definitely thankful our kid never caught this or needed another trip back to the ER.
 
JonF said:
Back at the end of January, our infant (6 mo) daughter caught a case of Flu-B, likely from daycare, as kids were passing it around at that time. Being an infant, this led us to a brief but intense stay at the hospital to get it under control. Covid-19 contraction wasn't really on peoples minds here in the US at the time, but the ER and hospital in general, was absolutely swamped with people with all manner of of virii. Dr's, nurses, patients and even facilities staff all wore masks at all times, it was a eerie forecast of things to come.

A few days later, with things finally under control, she was discharged and feeling a ton better being rehydrated and all. My wife and i both were in the hospital with her the entire time and were both initially fine. But in the days of being there, my wife caught strep (tested positive for it, but neg for flu) and suddenly begins to develop a weird cough not usually associated with strep. 2 days after being home, i start to feel ill and develop the same lingering cough and then head over to the walk in clinic to get checked out. I tell them the timeline and they run a few swabs but come back saying no flu and no strep, likely some "other" virus is what they say. Great, at least i didnt catch flu from baby or strep from wife, but wtf is it?. But now both wife and i are feeling very much meh, achy for a spell, but then its just that non-stop dry cough. A couple days later its been a week since baby came back, baby is feeling shitty again. Pediatrician runs tests and says its RSV--likely caught from stay in the pediatrics ward. So now were all home, feeling like crap and coughing up a storm. Slowly, over the following week or 3 we all start to get better but now its deep into Feb and this whole coronavirus thing is going mainstream here in the US.

The short of it is that there's a possibility we may have had this back in early Feb, the symptoms and timeline seem to jibe. Though it wasn't rampant here yet, this whole NY metro area being declared the epicenter would support there being positive cases down here in NJ with all the daily traffic back and forth. Especially with an extended stay in a hospital just rife with bugs. Now we're both healthy individuals so it never compromised us badly, but it sure took a long time to run its course and left me with some downed lung and cardio capacity. Finally jumping back on the bike after all this, i was really struggling on rides and the heavy breathing was rather painful at the time of respiration and later during recovery. I've finally gotten mostly back to normal but after seeing how this is tearing through the general public, it does make me curious what we had. I'm definitely thankful our kid never caught this or needed another trip back to the ER.
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glad you are all ok, and recovered.
Seems you will be candidates for that test I mentioned above to see if you have the antibodies.

Stay safe - really glad the kiddo is good to go.
 
Patrick said:
glad you are all ok, and recovered.
Seems you will be candidates for that test I mentioned above to see if you have the antibodies.

Stay safe - really glad the kiddo is good to go.
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Man, that was horrible seeing her sick like that. And thats our biggest concern now and impetus for staying the hell away from everything. I couldn't bear to see here in the er again like that. And who knows what we'd come out of there with this time. Cheese and rice, you come out of there worse than you go in sometimes!

I'd be willing to be tested, though i dont know if there's any general value there other than my own curiosity. Knowing if a physician had it, recovered and was now immune would be a huge advantage. You'd strut around feeling like superman down in the sick bay!
 
JonF said:
Back at the end of January, our infant (6 mo) daughter caught a case of Flu-B, likely from daycare, as kids were passing it around at that time. Being an infant, this led us to a brief but intense stay at the hospital to get it under control. Covid-19 contraction wasn't really on peoples minds here in the US at the time, but the ER and hospital in general, was absolutely swamped with people with all manner of of virii. Dr's, nurses, patients and even facilities staff all wore masks at all times, it was a eerie forecast of things to come.

A few days later, with things finally under control, she was discharged and feeling a ton better being rehydrated and all. My wife and i both were in the hospital with her the entire time and were both initially fine. But in the days of being there, my wife caught strep (tested positive for it, but neg for flu) and suddenly begins to develop a weird cough not usually associated with strep. 2 days after being home, i start to feel ill and develop the same lingering cough and then head over to the walk in clinic to get checked out. I tell them the timeline and they run a few swabs but come back saying no flu and no strep, likely some "other" virus is what they say. Great, at least i didnt catch flu from baby or strep from wife, but wtf is it?. But now both wife and i are feeling very much meh, achy for a spell, but then its just that non-stop dry cough. A couple days later its been a week since baby came back, baby is feeling shitty again. Pediatrician runs tests and says its RSV--likely caught from stay in the pediatrics ward. So now were all home, feeling like crap and coughing up a storm. Slowly, over the following week or 3 we all start to get better but now its deep into Feb and this whole coronavirus thing is going mainstream here in the US.

The short of it is that there's a possibility we may have had this back in early Feb, the symptoms and timeline seem to jibe. Though it wasn't rampant here yet, this whole NY metro area being declared the epicenter would support there being positive cases down here in NJ with all the daily traffic back and forth. Especially with an extended stay in a hospital just rife with bugs. Now we're both healthy individuals so it never compromised us badly, but it sure took a long time to run its course and left me with some downed lung and cardio capacity. Finally jumping back on the bike after all this, i was really struggling on rides and the heavy breathing was rather painful at the time of respiration and later during recovery. I've finally gotten mostly back to normal but after seeing how this is tearing through the general public, it does make me curious what we had. I'm definitely thankful our kid never caught this or needed another trip back to the ER.
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Glad everyone is healthy now, I can only imagine the mental toll of that situation.
 

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