COVID-19 Outbreak Information Updates (Reboot) [over 150.000,000 US cases (est.), 6,422,520 US hospitilizations, 1,148,691 US deaths.] (2 Viewers)

Meanwhile in China, the arrival of Omicron has prompted some drastic measures, including mandatory testing for anyone who receives international mail . . . on the belief that one could get infected through the mail.



Omicron is the new anthrax
 
Speaking of wild selfishness
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........Then a message popped up on a Facebook page for the school community last week. It was written by a staff member and came at the end of a particularly trying week at the school, one that saw students in seven classes forced into quarantine because at least one child in each had tested positive for the coronavirus. One of those classes belonged to my 9-year-old son.

“Many of you were inconvenienced by the quarantine protocols enacted in your child’s classroom this past week,” the message read. “Several of those class quarantines would have been avoided if people had given their actions careful consideration before doing them. … The actions of a few this week have upset many families and caused distress, as well as left our staff stunned and, frankly, a little hurt at the disregard for our community’s health and well-being.”

It went on to list three actions that had caused some of the disruptions. Two of them: children sent to school before their quarantine time was up, and children sent to school while their families awaited their coronavirus test results.

Those were concerning, but they weren’t as surprising as the third reason given. That paragraph read: “Do not withhold positive test results. All positive Covid-19 test results are reported to the Virginia Department of Health (VDH). All APS schools have Public Health Nurses (PHN) in their clinics, and they are given notification of these results by the VDH. There may be a delay in notification due to the backlog of paperwork, but the results will eventually make it to the school. Sending your child to school knowing they have a positive test is purposely putting the community at risk and will also spur the quarantining of an entire classroom.”

I read it again before I accepted what it was saying: Parents had lied. Parents had put their individual needs before the safety of their community. They knew their children, showing symptoms or not, were carrying a potentially deadly virus, and they sent them anyway into a building where they would spend nearly seven hours around staff members and dozens of other children...............

 
That passenger should have to reimburse everyone else on that plane for tickets, change fees, hotels and anything else delayed or missed because of this

And banned from future air travel on any airline domestic or foreign.
 
Speaking of wild selfishness
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........Then a message popped up on a Facebook page for the school community last week. It was written by a staff member and came at the end of a particularly trying week at the school, one that saw students in seven classes forced into quarantine because at least one child in each had tested positive for the coronavirus. One of those classes belonged to my 9-year-old son.

“Many of you were inconvenienced by the quarantine protocols enacted in your child’s classroom this past week,” the message read. “Several of those class quarantines would have been avoided if people had given their actions careful consideration before doing them. … The actions of a few this week have upset many families and caused distress, as well as left our staff stunned and, frankly, a little hurt at the disregard for our community’s health and well-being.”

It went on to list three actions that had caused some of the disruptions. Two of them: children sent to school before their quarantine time was up, and children sent to school while their families awaited their coronavirus test results.

Those were concerning, but they weren’t as surprising as the third reason given. That paragraph read: “Do not withhold positive test results. All positive Covid-19 test results are reported to the Virginia Department of Health (VDH). All APS schools have Public Health Nurses (PHN) in their clinics, and they are given notification of these results by the VDH. There may be a delay in notification due to the backlog of paperwork, but the results will eventually make it to the school. Sending your child to school knowing they have a positive test is purposely putting the community at risk and will also spur the quarantining of an entire classroom.”

I read it again before I accepted what it was saying: Parents had lied. Parents had put their individual needs before the safety of their community. They knew their children, showing symptoms or not, were carrying a potentially deadly virus, and they sent them anyway into a building where they would spend nearly seven hours around staff members and dozens of other children...............

No teacher will be shocked by this. It is sad that it's done, but it was done before Covid and will continue well after.
 
No teacher will be shocked by this. It is sad that it's done, but it was done before Covid and will continue well after.
Yep. My wife's 1st year teaching, a kid walks into class looking exhausted and sick. She asks what's wrong. Kid says he threw up several times over night. She asked when was the last time he threw up and he said before he got on the bus. Then he threw up, just missing her. He went to the nurse and had a 102 degree fever. I get that some parents can't call in sick because they live paycheck-to-paycheck, but stuff like this shouldn't ever happen. In this case, it was a single mom, and she had already left for work before he got on the bus. I think an aunt picked him up. This was BC, before covid.
 
Man. Did you get headaches from rolling your eyes so much?
No, I got tired of being put in the parental role of a grown arse man who happened to be my father while watching him almost die and take my stepmom with him. I lost so much respect for him and will never be able to view him the same way.
 
I have a friend that shaved his beard for the first time ever (he’s Muslim) because he couldn’t create a good seal on fit testing with the N95 mask. Letting people know that their beard may interfere with mask fitting is not the worst thing in the world. My friend was happy to comply if it meant not getting COVID whole working in the ER and bringing it home with him
 
I have a friend that shaved his beard for the first time ever (he’s Muslim) because he couldn’t create a good seal on fit testing with the N95 mask. Letting people know that their beard may interfere with mask fitting is not the worst thing in the world. My friend was happy to comply if it meant not getting COVID whole working in the ER and bringing it home with him
When we would have our respirator training and fitting at my previous employer, they told us to show up clean shaven. If someone forgot, they always had a few new disposable razors and shaving cream in the room.
 
Mine blew up like that too. I was in the time of delta, though.
It’s been 3 months since I had it. I had lost smell/taste a few days into it but that seemed to get better after a month or so. Now, all of a sudden, my sense of taste has gone haywire in the last two weeks. Peanut butter and rice smell and taste weird - two of my favorites. And now I smell a burning odor at different times.
Try olfactory retraining. PT for your nose/brain. Originally saw something on this a year ago or so.

 
I have a friend that shaved his beard for the first time ever (he’s Muslim) because he couldn’t create a good seal on fit testing with the N95 mask. Letting people know that their beard may interfere with mask fitting is not the worst thing in the world. My friend was happy to comply if it meant not getting COVID whole working in the ER and bringing it home with him

I agree it's good information - Optimus said he hadn't heard of it and I noted that CDC posted that infographic in February 2020, which was really early on. It's also fun. I'm surprised they didn't keep circulating it (maybe they did, I dunno).
 
Try olfactory retraining. PT for your nose/brain. Originally saw something on this a year ago or so.

I'm kinda a broken record on this in the fasting thread along with Dago and MadMarsha, but people should try fasting. Autophagy has some amazing results in helping heal sense of smell.
 
I'm kinda a broken record on this in the fasting thread along with Dago and MadMarsha, but people should try fasting. Autophagy has some amazing results in helping heal sense of smell.
It's the main reason that I got back on the fasting train. Willing to try anything. I want my peanut butter back! Also, realized last night that my tooth paste and chap stick now smell weird. I no longer smell minty things correctly, either.
 

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