I'll ask my wife to check in with co worker who got it and now tested positive. Should be interesting to see where this goes as he is an extremely aggressive co worker who's been on thin ice.
This Thread Blows - C19 and beyond
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mtn
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Thank goodness. Place was a disaster.
Funny as I'm getting the opposite. My wife worked fri sat sun today tomorrow thur and sunday. Respiratory is at a skeleton crew with 2 down with covid. Much OT at the expense of short staff. Per diems not available because they normally have full time else where. Wife cries at least once a day of being overwhelmed but recovers normally. Shes had to pull at least 1 tube per shift in last few days. Numbers increasing in recoverys which is good news. But still taken in new vents daily. They say it's high time let's hope so and get past this.
why would she file for a workman comp claim? How could you ever even prove that you got sick at a hospital vs (wherever else the rest of the world is catching it from).....Ya im fairly sure thats where she would get it....but she always gets virus' at work...15 years now, she gets the flu every year...I mean I think its bullshit the way they make her get doctors notes for calling out sick...vs my job where people get annoyed and want me to go home if i so much as cough....but a workmans comp claim seems like a giant waste of time.
Dave Taylor
Rex kwan Do
So why do they wait til now to close the parks? FML
Red Mosquito
Formerly RLB the Scrapple Boy
Disability and WC both start after 5 days. Protect s much as possible. Be careful..
My friend was discharged with an O2 concentrator. He was told he is two weeks from getting off comfortably.
I saw some guy went hypoxic because he wouldn't go back to the hospital, so it became a death. What do we do about that? PS, hypoxic is a good way to go
My friend was discharged with an O2 concentrator. He was told he is two weeks from getting off comfortably.
I saw some guy went hypoxic because he wouldn't go back to the hospital, so it became a death. What do we do about that? PS, hypoxic is a good way to go
Dave Taylor
Rex kwan Do
Red Mosquito
Formerly RLB the Scrapple Boy
Glad your friend is on the road to recovery.
a.s.
Mr. Chainring
My friend’s dad died this morning. He was old and frail but Coronavirus did him in. The worst part is that my buddy contracted the virus and had to go into quarantine. He wasn’t able to say goodbye to his father, whom he loved dearly. It fucking tears me apart. I also lost one of my koi fish today. Flash was my biggest and also my son’s favorite. Poor kid cried for an hour. I know it’s insignificant compared to what’s happening around the world but to my kids our home is their world. Now I’m reading all NJ parks are closed. Guess I’m not riding trails tomorrow to help clear my head. This whole thing sucks. Was going to take a few days off from the booze but...
Mahnken
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Essential Workers Would Get up to $25,000 Under Senate Democrats' Stimulus
The hazard pay would go to employees deemed essential during the pandemic, including those who work in drug and grocery stores, and in health care, sanitation and transportation.
www.newsweek.com
The Kalmyk
Well-Known Member
Saw some “feel good” recovery stories on GMA. Let the healing by media begin
I manage our payroll at work. There are a lot of changes to WC, disability and time off due to the CARES Act. The guidelines have changed daily. I’ve been reading each night. A simple google will not have all the answers as an article that’s three days old is out of date already. If you have specific questions about time off, etc you can DM me and I’ll try to answer with the most recent information, but it’s still really fluid. When the bill passed, it wasn’t completed.
This is disturbing.
i guess if Europe was combined it might be closer to US -
looking at cases per million population, we are better off than southern europe.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
but does that indicate our direction?
we are at 0.12% of the population confirmed positive.
Spain is at 0.31% of population
Looking at total cases in the states+DC - the NY/NJ area is below 48% of the cases, we were 54% last week.
This is found at the bottom of the daily tabs.
NJ has the 20th fastest growth rate in day-over-day percentage (averaging the last three days)
using yesterday - we'd be 30th, with a nice trend downward.
Didn't look at the absolute numbers, which will become more important when we have recovery data
(then it becomes New vs Resolved to relieve the healthcare system)
i guess if Europe was combined it might be closer to US -
looking at cases per million population, we are better off than southern europe.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
but does that indicate our direction?
we are at 0.12% of the population confirmed positive.
Spain is at 0.31% of population
Looking at total cases in the states+DC - the NY/NJ area is below 48% of the cases, we were 54% last week.
This is found at the bottom of the daily tabs.
NJ has the 20th fastest growth rate in day-over-day percentage (averaging the last three days)
using yesterday - we'd be 30th, with a nice trend downward.
Didn't look at the absolute numbers, which will become more important when we have recovery data
(then it becomes New vs Resolved to relieve the healthcare system)
serviceguy
Well-Known Member
Sorry I'm so late.... I've been making shit.
So funny story. When all hell broke loose we started getting calls that went something like this:
"Hi this is the global purchasing manager from XYZ CO, do you have any Meltblown manufacturing equipment in stock."
"Hold on, let me check our inventory (holds phone up to ceiling) .... nope, sorry I don't happen to have a $6-$10 million dollar machine sitting on the floor."
"Oh can I get one by the end of the month?"
"uh, have you ever seen one of these machines?"
"no not really, but the board says we need one right away"
"ok, well they are about 20 feet high with 2-3 levels and 120 feet long, they need about 3200 AMPs at 460VAC and typically take 12-24 months depending on how many beams you require, we need about 1600 engineering hours to get it going"
"oh, so you can't make that in a month?"
"only we if move at the speed of light"
@Patrick @Norm
I'd like your serious thoughts on the later portion of how this virus is controlled. Nobody has really been talking about how we ease out of our current quarantine or when that should be. To me there should be a balancing act of savings lives, keeping hospitals from being overrun, but also not destroying the economy, which could also mean lives lost.
-If we're trying to flatten the curve, don't we want to hit a point where we flatten the top and ALLOW infections so that the healthcare system can keep up, but we get to herd immunity? Or are we expecting the inevitable infections due to hospital staff transmitting it, along with whoever is still working/moving around in essential jobs?
-If we get over the peak of the curve and as it's going down, remove the quarantine, everyone is expecting a 2nd or multiple waves after. Has anyone seen any discussion on how we would reverse quarantine? We could go in reverse of what happened (State parks, non-essential construction, maybe do restaurants with 1/3 capacity, etc in stages) so that the infection rate is maintained at a steady, manageable rate.
-Quarantine itself can't work to stop the disease, because we can't have the entire world stay indoors. And even if we did, one person just needs to catch it off a surface to start this all over again.
I'd like your serious thoughts on the later portion of how this virus is controlled. Nobody has really been talking about how we ease out of our current quarantine or when that should be. To me there should be a balancing act of savings lives, keeping hospitals from being overrun, but also not destroying the economy, which could also mean lives lost.
-If we're trying to flatten the curve, don't we want to hit a point where we flatten the top and ALLOW infections so that the healthcare system can keep up, but we get to herd immunity? Or are we expecting the inevitable infections due to hospital staff transmitting it, along with whoever is still working/moving around in essential jobs?
-If we get over the peak of the curve and as it's going down, remove the quarantine, everyone is expecting a 2nd or multiple waves after. Has anyone seen any discussion on how we would reverse quarantine? We could go in reverse of what happened (State parks, non-essential construction, maybe do restaurants with 1/3 capacity, etc in stages) so that the infection rate is maintained at a steady, manageable rate.
-Quarantine itself can't work to stop the disease, because we can't have the entire world stay indoors. And even if we did, one person just needs to catch it off a surface to start this all over again.
