That's telling, they were saying that the symptoms are freaking him out and that seems believable. What's unbelievable is that he ignored literally every common sense measure to avoid it and in fact made fun of those who did.
I can't blame you in the least, the state of politics right now is an absolute disaster and sometimes the only way to handle it is to tune out. Try to enjoy your time away and we'll be here (likely just as frustrated) when you come back.
Good luck. I understand. We’ll all be anxiously awaiting your return.
I’m doing nothing of value today because I’ve been instructed to quarantine while awaiting a COVID-19 test result.
I’m doing nothing of value today because I’ve been instructed to quarantine while awaiting a COVID-19 test result.
Thank you. Thankfully, if I do have COVID-19, I’m young and healthy, so by all accounts I have good odds of making it through this alright. It’s just a shame that (again, if I do have it) I’ve been doing everything I can correctly and still wound up here.
I did have a couple low-risk exposures a little over a couple weeks ago, but nothing that warranted me being considered a close contact for contact tracing purposes (physical contact, closer than 6 feet for at least 15 minutes, etc.), and I’ve had no known exposures otherwise. I first had symptoms this weekend that I thought were consistent with a sinus infection at the tail end of my seasonal allergies, but last night I added on a dry cough, nausea, and tightness in my chest. I was already quarantining just in case, but the addition of those symptoms was when I decided I should get tested. Should hear back tomorrow or Thursday.
Yah, that would indeed be the maddening part. Feels like such a dice roll sometimes. So many people don't seem to get the whole potential sequence of events given that one can infect others while still (or always) being essentially asymptomatic. I fault the US at the very top (Trump himself) for consistently muddying the messages of public health from not only the federal government but public health officials from states down to county level. It's almost like our redoubtable Don is not on our side...
The concern over spread while asymptomatic has been worrying me. I was at work as usual Friday night, and I did have an awful coughing fit that I at the time thought was just the result of a tickle in my throat given that I had no other signs or symptoms of anything wrong. Now, of course, I do wonder. Thankfully, my job keeps me distant from others basically the entire time anyway, so even if I did have it at the time it’s unlikely I got anyone at work sick from it. It’s an essential workplace, so it’s been a major concern of mine to keep myself and my coworkers healthy.
Geez, that's scary stuff! It's hard to understand why mandating masks is so hard for politicians, it's such a simple preventative measure that we know works. Rural areas are the worst by far, I feel safer in the city of San Francisco (which had less than 900 cases for the entire city last I looked) than I do out in the rural areas where you have a bunch of angry Trump supporters refusing to wear them.
