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OT: Coronavirus Resources - and other things to not worry about

Oh maybe Halifax is Dingalinging it up. I don't know enough to comment on that. But people do tend to get really angry at honesty throughout this pandemic simply because the truth is not convenient for them and their hopes and dreams.
 
Yeah people need to take out the frustration on someone. Big fuckup was pretending like it was racist to blame China, everyone could have been on the same page.
 
To be honest, if you were on the cusp of losing your business (aka, your hope and dream), you might not like the approaches being taken either. Anger might be a valid option. It's a shit situation compounded by one poor decision after another. Anger is really the only option for many.
 
Absolutely. Same holds true if you were immunocompromised or had an immunocompromised child, for example, and your policies are based on letting the virus rip to reach "herd immunity." Or if the result of letting the virus rip resulted in you getting long covid and living a very difficult, painful life despite being happy and healthy before this all began. Hard to not be angry and I get that it's difficult to balance everything optimally.
 
Vaccines work real well but they're not the silver bullet we all hoped for. Even 100% uptake would make this a very difficult situation. And that's what sucks the most.

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Problem is that Omicron destroyed all protection against getting infected. A big part of that protection was baked into protection vs severe disease; without that protection, you may have 40-60% protection on hospitalization/ICU vs unvaxxed and if you're old or frail as fuck that ain't enough.

Need updated vaccines to get back to the Delta era when it was the unvaxxed that got fucked up the most. But who knows what the next dominant variant will even look like and who knows how much manufacturing capacity that Pfizer will even put into Omicron boosters.. Maybe very minimal. Tough decision!
 
anyhow, for those following with bated breath, covid update:
- boss remains in isolation after testing positive yesterday morning. he worked yesterday but described himself as 'being winded'. when I called him he was in bed
- my paralegal, who first reported symptoms on Tuesday (and tested positive then), has basically deteriorated everyday. she had a fever of 104 this morning. she had worked part days all week but is taking today off
- two other admin who share an office space with my paralegal (who was in office on Monday) are both symptomatic but have not tested positive and have been working from home since Weds
- I feel good! rapid test this morning was negative. will take another one on Sunday and if, touch wood, I remain asymptomatic at that point I am able to return to society
 
Leafyblue said:
My aunt's Care Home has had 30 cases since before Christmas with 15 recoveries, and no deaths. (from covid). My uncle hasn't been allowed in the building since then, which sucks, but that is still decent news.
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So fucking sad that these folks can't spend time with loved ones....right near the end of their lives.
 
Wayward DP said:
anyhow, for those following with bated breath, covid update:
- boss remains in isolation after testing positive yesterday morning. he worked yesterday but described himself as 'being winded'. when I called him he was in bed
- my paralegal, who first reported symptoms on Tuesday (and tested positive then), has basically deteriorated everyday. she had a fever of 104 this morning. she had worked part days all week but is taking today off
- two other admin who share an office space with my paralegal (who was in office on Monday) are both symptomatic but have not tested positive and have been working from home since Weds
- I feel good! rapid test this morning was negative. will take another one on Sunday and if, touch wood, I remain asymptomatic at that point I am able to return to society
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I'm hearing too many anecdotes of reinfections being horrific experiences for my liking. Sample size is growing and I DON'T LIKE IT!!!
 
SundinsTooth said:
So fucking sad that these folks can't spend time with loved ones....right near the end of their lives.
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I've not been able to visit my soon to be 85 year old father and soon to be 83 year old mother since 2019. I'm supposed to be there this July (after cancelling last summer's trip) but at the moment my dad has jaundice so bad that he looks like a character from the Simpson's. It might be something fixable or it might be liver cancer. My mom has Parkinson's which will eventually lead to dementia so I'm a bit anxious for this Covid shit to get under some measure of control so I don't have to once again postpone my trip. They aren't going to live forever and I've just burned away over 2 years because of the pandemic.

Unfortunately they live in Ontario so they are at the mercy of DoFo's incompetence.
 
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
I've not been able to visit my soon to be 85 year old father and soon to be 83 year old mother since 2019. I'm supposed to be there this July (after cancelling last summer's trip) but at the moment my dad has jaundice so bad that he looks like a character from the Simpson's. It might be something fixable or it might be liver cancer. My mom has Parkinson's which will eventually lead to dementia so I'm a bit anxious for this Covid shit to get under some measure of control so I don't have to once again postpone my trip. They aren't going to live forever and I've just burned away over 2 years because of the pandemic.

Unfortunately they live in Ontario so they are at the mercy of DoFo's incompetence.
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Just terrible. Really just awful to hear this.
 
Yeah, I really feel for people who have been kept apart from elderly family members during Covid. And for those elderly family members themselves. Must be hard and awfully lonely.

I almost count it a blessing that the last of my grandparents died before Covid hit, because neither of them would have done well at all with extreme isolation from their family & friends.
 
Preston said:
I'm hearing too many anecdotes of reinfections being horrific experiences for my liking. Sample size is growing and I DON'T LIKE IT!!!
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yeah apparently she thinks this is her second omicron infection too as she had covid in December too... this fucking virus man...
 
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
I've not been able to visit my soon to be 85 year old father and soon to be 83 year old mother since 2019. I'm supposed to be there this July (after cancelling last summer's trip) but at the moment my dad has jaundice so bad that he looks like a character from the Simpson's. It might be something fixable or it might be liver cancer. My mom has Parkinson's which will eventually lead to dementia so I'm a bit anxious for this Covid shit to get under some measure of control so I don't have to once again postpone my trip. They aren't going to live forever and I've just burned away over 2 years because of the pandemic.

Unfortunately they live in Ontario so they are at the mercy of DoFo's incompetence.
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yeah this is definitely one of the worst parts of all this. really sucks
 
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