Covid Support Thread
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If I had to go into the office and was all by myself, I’d totally be using the biggest, nicest office I could.
And knowing me, I’d also be either buying or making cutouts of people to keep me company. In college my roommate never showed so I just drew a gigantic stick figure with huge hair and platform shoes and hung it over her empty bed.
My desk had become the “Diet Pepsi Shrine” of my deskmate. Boxes and boxes and boxes, full of empty diet Pepsi cans, pilled from the floor up to 5 feet high, right where my office chair should be. There’s also a wall of more empty cans separating his desk from mine. He was always the diet Pepsi drinker of the office, but this might be a year’s worth of the “Holy Metal Container.”
Since I needed to sit down at my desk, I had to tell him to move it. It’s now in the middle of the room instead.
I think I would have preferred an overgrown plant.
@copa, in February 2021 I went back to the office to get my ergonomic office chair (which was mine personally). My calendar was still set to March 2020 and I had a notepad on my desk with notes dated March 10.
@LisforLeslie, I think about the hospital bills for COVID, too. Apparently, pre-vaccine (or maybe just in 2020, idk), COVID treatment was no cost to patients. Now, though, the charges are coming, and you’re right, lots of those who aren’t vaccinated will likely be uninsured or have garbage policies that Trump and some GOP governors allowed insurance companies to start selling again to stick it to the Libs or whatever. So, yeah, many of them face financial ruin. COVID hospital stays aren’t cheap. For those that are insured, I think that insurers will (and should!!!) increase premiums accordingly for those who are not vaccinated against COVID just like they do for people who smoke.
@Kate, it let me vote! Cute pup!@MissMJ – that’s my understanding too. I was in the ER recently – 1/2 day, not admitted. I don’t have platinum insurance, maybe gold. My few hours stay and a couple of tests were over $5K. I’ll end up paying about 10%.
I can’t even begin to imagine the cost of a 20 day stay in the ICU.
The EUA for 5-11 has dropped!!
E!U!A! E!U!A!It is maddening that we have to wait another 4-5 days for the CDC. I am all over my pediatrician’s and the local health department webpages and social feeds for when we can start scheduling appointments. If all else fails, there’s a pop-up vaccination event for 5-11 about 20 minutes away from us in DC next Sunday…we are in the home stretch and my anxiety is AMPED UP!!
I got the Pfizer booster 6 1/2 months after the single-dose Johnson and Johnson vaccine. LOL it wasn’t as easy as I expected! The first day was just pain that spread from my left arm to my left shoulder then left side of neck, chest, back. The second day was nausea and random joint pains all over. The 3rd day was just (okay– waiting for this to end soon, since I know I am not sick!) indescribable pain nearly everywhere– every step was painful, and I felt like I had aged 20 years in two days. Next day–fine!
My first booster is scheduled for Monday. It’s only been just over two months since I got the second dose but ya girl is immune compromised and it just got approved. I got a text message from my GP in the morning yesterday, spoke to a doctor at lunch and it was scheduled by 2pm. I wish our actual vaccine roll-out had been handled so well.
Oh my word. Yesterday was a doozie. My boss finally got us all to go to lunch, and it was all this back and forth with voting and way too much discussion, and extreme guilt-tripping of the one person who couldn’t make it. It was fine, but damn, it’s not easy to just wrap things up and leave the house for a long lunch. Even on a Friday. Then she last-minute asked me to go to a wake with her for the father of one of her peers. Which, okay, that’s a nice idea, but how about some notice? I had to rush home on the T, walk the dog, take a call, try to find something decent to wear… I haven’t bought any business attire since 2019 and those things don’t quite fit. And I was all hot and sweaty.
Then run back out the door to the T again to get picked up by my boss who was all keyed up. She was offended that a few of us went out the other night for dinner (one of them told her, she’s new, she didn’t know) and didn’t include her. I get it, i guess, but the three of us were friends before, we go back 20 years.
The wake made her all upset about her own parents who have some health issues. Her mom is guilting her and making her feel terrible.
Then my boss asked me AGAIN if I’m over 50. She’s obsessed with knowing everyone’s ages. She’s like, “Mary is 48 I found out.” Like… okay. Then she’s like, “they’re all so old to have such young kids.” Which, dude, some of them had fertility issues! And not everyone gets married at 20. It’s pretty normal to be in your 40s with school kids.
And at the wake no one had masks on, so my boss is like, guess we don’t have to wear them! And takes hers off. And shakes people’s hands. And then in the car she got all distraught again. I think her mom has some kind of personality disorder and has fucked with her head her whole life, and then she’s had to navigate corporate America as a woman of color, and honestly I think she needs to talk to someone.
Then on the way in the house my elderly neighbor was like, are you ok? Your eyes look really… tired. Um yeah, Frank, I’m old. Thanks.
Yes, big time. She’s the most extrovert you can be. Not being a psychologist, I don’t understand the extent of what’s going on with her, but she needs to be popular and loved and have a million people around her. It sucks the life right out of me. In 2019 it was really just the two of us and I could handle it. We’d even commute on the same train a lot of the time and be together at work. Since then she’s grown the team, and it’s been the pandemic, and she’s too much.
Everyone on the team has their own unique dynamic with her and it’s really really interesting to observe.
She’s truly a good person, just, like A LOT going on.
PS you don’t have to be over 50 to feel crazy and be sweaty all the time. And get your period every 3 weeks.
