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Post by sagebrush on Mar 14, 2020 21:20:49 GMT -8
Mrs. Sage's best friend daughter is a teacher at Hillsboro Hi. She, along with two other teachers are now quarantined because one of their students is positive. Yet none of those teachers can get tested. None available. WTF is going on. They are essentially locked up because they had contact with a positive person. All they did was show up for work and now being punished. This is just f*cking wrong.
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Post by mbabeav on Mar 14, 2020 21:43:48 GMT -8
Have an acquaintance who's company has told them if they get sick they can't come back to work until they get a doctor's note and a test result that shows them negative for CV. No tests available now, and as tests ramp up, limited lab capacity will slow down results. They are screwed and just might as well stay home for 14 days without pay, even if it just turns out to be spring allergies.
On another note, how would you like to be working for the Emploment Department, on the precipice of having thousands of new claims to process within the next few weeks?
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Post by baseba1111 on Mar 14, 2020 21:55:15 GMT -8
Mrs. Sage's best friend daughter is a teacher at Hillsboro Hi. She, along with two other teachers are now quarantined because one of their students is positive. Yet none of those teachers can get tested. None available. WTF is going on. They are essentially locked up because they had contact with a positive person. All they did was show up for work and now being punished. This is just f*cking wrong. What is the "wrong" part? Having to quarantine? Why? Those without symptoms can spread the disease. If symptoms appear it can take 3-14 days. No tests? Why? Straight from the CDC, "...testing positive means that you have the virus, but it does not mean that you will develop symptoms. Some people who have the virus don't have any symptoms at all. At the same time, testing negative does not necessarily mean that you don't have the virus." Tricky, but it's why testing/lack of tests isn't the absolute answer. Unwanted, unfortunate, inconvenient, but not a huge deal considering the alternative of spreading it to a more vulnerable friend or family member. |
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Post by sagebrush on Mar 15, 2020 4:53:44 GMT -8
Using that logic that means we should all quarantine ourselves from everybody because we could all be carriers and threaten anyone we come in contact with. In other words, stock up and lock yourself up. I call bulls%#t. Oh, and guess what. I will still walk up to you and shake your hand.
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Post by baseba1111 on Mar 15, 2020 9:32:03 GMT -8
Using that logic that means we should all quarantine ourselves from everybody because we could all be carriers and threaten anyone we come in contact with. In other words, stock up and lock yourself up. I call bulls%#t. Oh, and guess what. I will still walk up to you and shake your hand. Hmmmm... I didn't realize infectious diseases followed some sort of acceptable logic? Call BS all you want, guess what? It doesn't change the situation. "All" will never happen. Some will. And, that's how the curve will be flattened. Calling BS in all its forms is why it'll get worse before it gets better. Then again there is always some that have to "see" to believe. Good luck with those hand shakes. |
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Post by spudbeaver on Mar 15, 2020 9:40:00 GMT -8
Using that logic that means we should all quarantine ourselves from everybody because we could all be carriers and threaten anyone we come in contact with. In other words, stock up and lock yourself up. I call bulls%#t. Oh, and guess what. I will still walk up to you and shake your hand. “I will still walk up to you and shake your hand.” You might, but don’t feel slighted if I don’t reciprocate. |
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Post by sagebrush on Mar 15, 2020 16:01:54 GMT -8
Not at all. Your choice.
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Post by Tigardbeav on Mar 17, 2020 18:14:15 GMT -8
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Post by mbabeav on Mar 17, 2020 18:49:37 GMT -8
Schools now closed until April 28th for my grandkids and all others, two of my siblings were in contact with ill people, a cousin my age and his wife tested positive, and the streets are carrying half the traffic. Its getting real in your face personal, and as a country, it's going to be a real challenge to keep people out of circulation for that long. I specialize in chaos theory related hobbies and as a part of my job, and this is breaking any model I am familiar with.
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Post by ornggnawer on Mar 17, 2020 19:12:15 GMT -8
Schools now closed until April 28th for my grandkids and all others, two of my siblings were in contact with ill people, a cousin my age and his wife tested positive, and the streets are carrying half the traffic. Its getting real in your face personal, and as a country, it's going to be a real challenge to keep people out of circulation for that long. I specialize in chaos theory related hobbies and as a part of my job, and this is breaking any model I am familiar with. Tell us more. |
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Post by Werebeaver on Mar 17, 2020 20:15:07 GMT -8
I live down the hill from Portland VA hospital. COVID-19 patient died up there a couple days ago, probably 1/2 mile from me.
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Post by mbabeav on Mar 18, 2020 13:53:29 GMT -8
Schools now closed until April 28th for my grandkids and all others, two of my siblings were in contact with ill people, a cousin my age and his wife tested positive, and the streets are carrying half the traffic. Its getting real in your face personal, and as a country, it's going to be a real challenge to keep people out of circulation for that long. I specialize in chaos theory related hobbies and as a part of my job, and this is breaking any model I am familiar with. Tell us more. I am a huge weather weenie and storm chaser - nothing is more challenging than being 500 miles away from two different areas of potential severe weather - you have 8 hours to get to one of them, and a high probability that one of the two areas is going to be a bust. There have been many a shouting match over which place to go, based on very very fine differences in conditions. |
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Post by ornggnawer on Mar 18, 2020 17:17:38 GMT -8
I am a huge weather weenie and storm chaser - nothing is more challenging than being 500 miles away from two different areas of potential severe weather - you have 8 hours to get to one of them, and a high probability that one of the two areas is going to be a bust. There have been many a shouting match over which place to go, based on very very fine differences in conditions. How do you choose? Coin toss? And if wrong, you're having a beer on a patio in sunny weather while the other guys chose correctly and are in the eye of the storm. It sounds fun. Would you have chosen Italy to be covid tornado? |
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Post by sagebrush on Mar 18, 2020 17:41:02 GMT -8
mba has some great stories to tell you about being a storm chaser. But, he has never really answered one question I asked him. "So Richard, you are a storm chaser. What the hell are you going to do if you really catch one?" He has to be a little insane to go chasing freaking tornados. And has big fuzzy balls. mrs sage and I were driving across Nebraska once and you started hearing on the radio about tornados in the area. Now you know on the freeway you can see at least 50 miles in any direction. Sure enough, looking way out on the horizon you could see a couple. mrs sage asked what do we do now. My response was that we found out our car could hit triple digits as we got out of the area as fast as we could. Even blew by a parked state cop who seemed to have no problem with it.
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