Whoa, you are right and I didn’t even think of that angle, I was too busy being pissed at the lack of understanding re covid transmission from THE DEPT OF PUBLIC HEALTH FFS
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Yeah, the handling of schools has been so bad. My friend works as a kindergarten teacher at a private school in NYC, and they have made it clear they are not shutting down for any period of time unless required to by the government because they don’t want parents to complain and pull their tuition money. They will shut down particular classes if there is direct contact with a student who tests positive, but her school has had at least 4 cases since they came back from the holidays, and the bulk of it is still open. There’s no ventilation so she has to open the windows and wear her winter coat all day. So many parents keep switching their kids from remote to in person that she’s had to rip cabinets off the wall to fit all the desks with enough spacing.
BUT they finally opened up vaccination to pre-12 teachers here and she’s due to get hers on Saturday. I’m so relieved.
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My younger son was in school all of one day and now he is home because I have symptoms. As soon as my test comes back negative (assuming it does) he can go back to school.
Schools are so tough. Having them closed is a national health crisis in its own right but there’s so much we don’t know about having them open. Our area is at about 500 cases per 100K and a positivity rate of 5.5%, so… not awful, not great.
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Make that 3. One from IL too now.
I do not wish covid on anyone… but why is it only the Dems who are coming up positive when they are the ones wearing masks and not being stupid?
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Because a lot of the Republicans have already had it?
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Are all the members of Congress actually getting tested regularly? My guess is that the Dems might be a little more on top of that.
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I read somewhere that everyone who sheltered in place (so, that’s all of Congress, I guess?) is being tested. Or maybe just being told to be tested, I don’t know. You could be right.
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Reading about how Ireland’s really bad off right now, highest infection rate in the world.
I have a bunch of co-workers in Ireland. Hope they weather this OK… no one has mentioned a word of this in meetings, which often start with “how’s lockdown going for you” and “ugh, how’s about that insurrection” and “ugh, how’s about that covid?”
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Okay. Friday morning. Covid vaccine. Here I go!
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Hmph. The rest of the state is going to start to move on to elderly not in nursing homes and essential workers - except Chicago proper. Hmph.
Essential workers likely cannot get it until February or March.
Boyfriend and I are in line behind all of them.
I know we don’t need it as badly. This is just frustratingly slow.
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The prediction my mom got from the phlebotomist today was June for me. Oregon’s a mess.
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Florida is, no surprise, a mess. Every county is doing it differently.
My mom got her sisters and their husbands on a lottery wait list thing in one county because there’s no requirement that they actually need to live in that county, just that they need to be over 65 and not leave the state. Some friends of hers in Jacksonville thought they had an appointment for Saturday but when they arrived they were told the office had run out of vaccines and were rescheduled for Monday. (Caveat: this information is third hand at best at this point.) My mom got an appointment of her own last week because she had been on the website so much she didn’t actually need to read any of the pages because she had read them on prior days, so when her county’s health department allowed bookings again she was able to click-click-click-click-click through as fast as humanly possible and get an appointment for herself then a few days later was able to get one for her husband. Some counties don’t have an online portal at all, it’s just by phone (let’s take a moment to think good thoughts for whatever employees are on the receiving ends of those phone lines) so making an outgoing call from those offices is basically impossible.
It feels very Lord Of The Flies.
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ETA she had no side effects at all .
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Florida is really just like “every state doing it differently has been an inefficient mess? Hmmm better have every COUNTY do their own thing then!”
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Virginia is county-by-county, too. And the state health dept has only allowed about 1/2 the counties to move to the next phase (1b - over 75 and non healthcare essential workers). So of course those counties are flooded with people from the ones that aren’t open yet.
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I have wondered how many people are going to go outside the city limits to get it.
My gyno is in the suburbs just over the border, hmmmm.
What you describe sounds like trying to get concert tickets!
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This was a serious concern from the time we learned of COVID. Gorillas (and other non-human primates) are very susceptible to a lot of respiratory illnesses & often have a harder time than even humans do.
One silverback lining (get it?) is that many African countries have done a fantastic job in stopping the spread, which is good for gorillas (whom are already endangered).
I hope the ones in San Diego heal quickly!
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I have literally no idea what tier I’m in. The CDC’s new changes just make me more confused.
I’m a food delivery driver, which puts me in about 100 restaurants a week, but I don’t touch the food, so I don’t think I’m a food worker. I’m also technically an Uber driver in good standing, but haven’t taken a passenger since last spring, so I’m not really a transportation worker either (and the list I saw said public transportation, which I definitely am not).
I have a history of blood clots including stroke, PE, and DVT, as well as fatty liver disease, but they all happened in 2017 and the disease that caused them is in remission.
I dunno.
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A history of stroke should qualify you under that risk category.
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Thank you!
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