HIC, Ask your employer and the healthcare people how often you can be tested. Read my earlier post - really scary
I'm asymptomatic. Only reason for my test is the loss of smell and taste I experienced. I think our guidance is any time we develop symptoms, we need to be tested.
Thank you! Joking about the 2 week vacation. Well, I would get that but I don't want it. Our neighbors all think we are contaminated, and the kids on the street are treating my 9 year old daughter like the town leper. Would love to be able to shove a negative test result in their faces as I throat punch them. The dads, that is.
Forget the throat punch, they may spew virus at you for one thing. But I get the sentiment, it’s a dad thing, or Granddad in my case now.
Yeah I hear ya. Just venting. Funny, you get a black belt at age 18 and then you can no longer just readjust people whenever you feel like. Pesky laws.
HIC, Memorial in Houston, everyone is exercising by walking and walking their dogs. Memorial Park jogging Trail is shoulder to shoulder with walkers, runners, and dogs. I think you're more likely to get the virus in Memorial Park than HEB. Condos where I live has multiple SW flight attendants. One got a requested furlough for three months, but the others are flying, but no passengers. The last two weeks the high count for all of them is either 11 or 14; low is 2. They aren't concerned because they say the plane is empty and customers don't want anything they've touched.
Yep, my wife is a pilot at SW. I am guessing it was a Company Offered Leave Of Absence you are referring to. We are offering them too. 50 hours pay versus our normal 75 guarantee.
I have two Lajes loggings. Both from Europe back to the States. I never crossed the pond in Uncle Sam's Aero Club going East. Only West. Enjoyed my brief time spent there.
In the last few days ... the COVID has motivated our Texas Governor to restrict access to Texas from a growing list of locations. Saturday, it was New Orleans ... The DPS met my flight at the DFW gate and detained my lone passenger who was remaining in Texas as the other 4 (yes, total of 5 on a 160 pax jet) connected to fly outside the State. Yesterday, I was on a "impromptu-constructed" 3 day trip ... Sunday left DFW for Palm Springs, spent all day Monday at the hotel ... (pretty much to myself, only crews were lodging there.) Today (Tuesday) returned to DFW from PSP ... after Abbott declared all of Kaly as "mokused" and therefore applied the same restrictions. or so it seemed. it occurred to me this morning as I proceeded to the lobby for the hotel pickup ... this thing will become unmanageable REALLY quickly. Even with the near empty airplanes ... we are getting dozens/day added to the 2-week mandatory quarantine. How many "special agents" can execute the task to verify the person is, indeed, complying with the "stay put" order? Ah ... they're not receiving the paperwork from EVERY passenger remaining in Texas. There was no DPS Trooper welcoming my passengers to DFW this morning. The are only meeting/detaining "select" flights. So ... that begs the question ... why declare all of Kaly to be mokusville if you're not going to enforce your own order? Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, here, folks.
I landed there once to refuel and was able to get out on the town to eat. That was the beauty of flying in C-130s, we had to land somewhere to refuel which gives you a better chance of breaking down and getting a day or two vacation at the location you were at. By far the two best places I experienced was St. John's in Newfoundland and Ramstein in Germany. But, I was able to see every continent except for Antarctica.
I'm a little surprised. I would rather live in Germany than Lajes, but if I was going to visit one for 2 days, I would definitely prefer Lajes. Ramstein isn't beautiful. It's pretty plain and a bit trashy. It's the Killeen of Germany - dominated by the military, mediocre restaurants (with a few exceptions), dirty in some areas, lots of fast food, and some ghetto-looking titty bars. The beer is fine, be but it's not great, because we aren't in Bavaria. Lajes is on an island that is absolutely stunning - intensely green landscape, spectacular views from hills, large cliffs overlooking the ocean, clear waters, lush forests. Furthermore, you can go inside an active volcano. There are two cities (Praia and Angra) that are pretty urban and have great nightlife - cool bars, excellent food (especially seafood but much more), and friendly people. Throughout the island are very small, quaint villages with their own charm and character, and they usually also have a good restaurant and bar. There's also great wine, and since dairy farming is big on the island, all dairy items are spectacular - cheese, butter, ice cream, etc. Germany is great, but the Ramstein area doesn't compare.
I copied this from Linked In. It proves nothing, but it is encouraging. Ann Vandersteel • 2nd Broadcaster | Investigative Journalist at yourNEWS Media Group Inc. LLC 1w • 1 week ago This just in from a reliable source. Important #coronavirus news! One of my agents has a 59 year old uncle, with covid-19, in ICU, in NY. They gave him the “malaria cocktail” and it is working. From being on a ventilator, on 80% oxygen, to breathing on his own in 24 hours!
Hey boys... hope everyone is feeling good. I'm well. Working from my house and doing the shelter in place thing. Haven't posted in a bit but thinking about the team on Hornfans! Stay well and vaya con dios!
Feeling good. Maybe back to 70% on my smell and taste. Got tested an hour ago. Should have results by Friday. This was my drive up testing center. No mass chaos of people clamoring to be tested. SW Chicago burbs. Entire process from this pic to driving away was less than 2 minutes. 3 seconds of pure agony. Just beyond the tent is where I picked up my burger, fries, and shake.
I'm in a small ski town in Colorado that is in the 4th highest case rates per capita in the US. The county is shut down. Everyone that has a home or a place to go to somewhere else has been asked to leave the county. There are 25 hospital beds in the county and no ICU. ICU patients are shipped out. I work for a property management company of around 12 people. Our two owners (husband and wife, mid 40s) are both sick. He went to the ER this last weekend with respiratory issues. We have 1 of our maintenance techs out sick. 1 moved back to Texas to be with his family. 2 packed up their camping gear and headed to the desert. The 2 accounting types are switching days in the office. Everyone else is working from home, or their trucks. We've all been exposed to people who have tested positive. We've all felt some effects. My wife was sick for a couple of days (she's 60), I've had headaches, fatigue and possible low grade fever off and on for over a week. Can't wait for the valley to get back to normal......
He's been around under a different name, but switched to this one for a thread on addiction a couple of years back.
My son was a recovering heroin addict. He passed away last year after a short bout with cancer. My wife and I have since become active in the addiction and recovery community, as was he before his passing. Most of you would know who he is. We don't believe in the whole anonymous thing, at least for us. The fact that addiction has been so buried socially is one of the reasons it now such a problem. I don't mind telling our story if anyone would like to hear it. But this probably isn't the appropriate thread.
FA What you are doing is a truly wonderful thing . I can't even imagine the pain. I met your son once. He was so polite and able to carry on a real conversation with adults. I think he was only 19. I was so impressed and became a big fan. Now you have this to deal with. Have you been tested?
I think this is VERY IMPORTANT for our Liberal friends to digest in the following context: Open border policy of the Left. It's indisputable what is happening: Sanctuary cities, calls to abolish ICE, benefits for illegals, calls for amnesty, opposition to the wall and political cover provided by Sotomayor on the court and people like AOC who savage anyone and everyone, with cries of racism, who wish to enforce our immigration laws. Trump has discussed proper vetting at the border for many things including communicable diseases. We see nothing on the Left except hatred over this. There is not even a shred of reasonable acknowledgment of the realities.. Hatred over the use of the word, "****-hole" countries. Well, here it is... Gunfire, blockades reported in Nuevo Laredo days after death of cartel leader The link above speaks for itself. Just across the border the cartels are operating as usual without any restraint. It's a war zone and NOTHING IN THE US COMPARES TO THIS. Laredo residents who enter a building that is not their home must cover their nose, mouth In this link discussing the new requirement that all Laredoan's wear masks when entering public building there is a quote: "He also noted that Laredo is next door to a country that is not taking this pandemic seriously, so the city is compelled to take extra precaution." This is the reality. It is compounding previous comments I've made concerning trespassing on ranch land, vandalizing and theft along with threats made to ranchers and their families. This story on the ground is not being covered by the Left-wing media as CLEARLY they don't care. The ranchers problems are collateral damage to the campaign to lock-in the Latino vote.
That might be true in 2 months, but it's not true currently. Quest, Labcorp and CPL are currently running a massive waitlist for the COVID 19 swabs. My clinic ordered 200 of them and we only got 10 and told that we "might" get the rest of them in a month or two.
It won't kill you but it has fallen out of favor over the decades as better options with fewer side effects have become available.
If USA falls the pattern of other countries (including Italy) then the number of new cases should start to level out and decrease after 30-40 days from the initial spike, which would put us somewhere in mid April. However, I'm not at all confident of that because the USA's response is state-based instead of nation-based and in that scenario each state will have their own mini-peak, which is distinct from the nation-wide peak and could stretch this thing out over 6 or 8 months maybe. If this thing doesn't peak and start to decline in a couple of months, we're going to need another trillion dollar stimulus package because the first one won't be enough.
But AustinHorn24, do those "better options" work for Corona? If yes, then let's try them. If not, then the point is tangential at best.
Even if we pass the peak, why would that mean we can go back to normal? Wouldn't the cycle just start again once we stop the extreme social distancing measures? It seems that this will not be behind us until a vaccine is released or a large enough percentage of the population has immunity (i.e. catches and recovers). The only practical way forward that I can see is to shore up our medical system and hope to have some treatments for the serious/critical cases like chloroquine. But I see no reason why this cycle will not start again as soon as we stop these lockdowns.
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