Covid Support Thread
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All students and employees must be vaccinated where I work. And right now Colorado itself is seeing a surge. We are supposed to go see a show Thursday night – Alton Brown! We really like him 🙂 Anyway, the venu isn’t requiring masks for all – just going by the CDC guidelines that if your vaxed you don’t have to wear a mask. But our cases here are surging so I find it really, really stupid. We will still go, but wear masks anyway. At least food isn’t allowed so no chomping on popcorn like a movie theater!
@DearWendy – that’s awful and I’m sure it’s happening across the city and pretty much everywhere. I hope you and the fam are managing.
I’ve read that some school districts aren’t even telling parents that a kid tested positive. The parents find out from the other parents when the kid tells them about a friend or other student getting sick.
Next week is Thanksgiving. I predict a really un-merry Christmas for a lot of folks this year and a really crappy start to 2022.
So I decided to get tested for COVID tomorrow. I have been moving into my place the last couple days and just started my new job yesterday. I was feeling a bit meh yesterday but chalked it up to doing so much on the weekend and not having proper down time. Then today things didn’t get worse per-say, but I was not feeling super awesome, so went home early and booked a test for tomorrow AM.
I am so frustrated for a few reasons, 1) first week and I may be sick either with cold/flu or COVID. 2) My apartment complex as signs every where advising people to wear masks in common areas, and aside from the building manager NO ONE has been wearing them. 3) I signed up for a two week trial at a local gym nearby and the guy didn’t ask for my vaccine passport, which you are supposed to for fitness centers here. So I went in this morning and was like ‘you forgot to ask for my vaccine passport, here it is.’
I have been SO good the last 6 months + about keeping well. Then as soon as I move there is this. Really hoping it is just a cold/flu. Even still need to stay home the rest of the week to recover.
@cleopatra_30 I hope that your test has the positive result of you not having coronavirus and you feel better soon.
FWIW, I know that this is no help now, but we’ve stocked up on some of the home tests for these kinds of situations. They’re back in stock online.
@Cleopatra, my husband went on a work trip and came back with a cold and gave it to me. It sucks. It’s been over a week now of congestion, coughing, fatigue. After 20 months of excellent health, it feels like a really big deal. I hate it. I can’t believe we used to just go about our lives like this, go to work, spread it to everyone.
We keep a couple boxes of the home tests around, so he tested as soon as he got home, and then I tested, and tested again because I had a dentist appointment and they were like, can you just show a pic of your negative test. The tests are really nice to have. If they sell them at pharmacies near you, you should get a box.
Also, unrelated, but I ordered PANTS from Ann Taylor and they came yesterday. We really are starting to go back to the office. Some of my team went in yesterday, though I chose not to because I’m visibly hacking and sniffling, and no one needs a cold.
The word is, being back in the office is kind of nice, free lunch, whatever, but it’s NOT conducive to hybrid working. So much of our day is meetings, and you go in just to find somewhere to do a zoom call and everyone else is on zoom. Before, you’d book a room, and a bunch of people would be in the meeting room with you, and you’d maybe dial someone in.
The office, even before, didn’t have assigned seating. It had desks, huddle rooms, and conference rooms that had to be booked. So if it’s just you and you need quiet for a zoom call, you have to find a place to do it, so you’re running around. And also, before, everyone had to commute, so that was kind of factored in. Now they use that time for meetings, so if you’re the only one commuting, it’s stressful to find the time to actually get to the office and get settled. It doesn’t really make sense. I’m sure it will get figured out eventually, but it’s really weird.
But my friend who got hired during the pandemic tried a salad and was like, holy shit, better than SweetGreen and half the price! (She forgot to use the app to get $10 free lunch). I miss the salad bar so much, and the fruit-infused free water. The breakfast. All the food. So good.
I had to go into the office two days in a row this week. Both for in-person collaboration/strategy meetings. I’ve been going in when necessary for these types of meetings since vaccinations started. It’s SO MUCH BETTER. We get shit done we wouldn’t have on Teams.
Anyway, I like the two days in a row. I left my laptop there last night and walked the three miles home. And I’ll prob walk in this morning too. It’s nicer to walk without a backpack.
We have some at home tests now. We took them to Ireland so we could test and get home. But our driver told us the airport had an approved site for the US. It was like $50 euro and super fast. So now we have all the tests we took.
I’ll check ours. The husband ordered from some place that sent us the tests. In Ireland, we were going to have to do a video call with someone in the U.S. to approve our negative tests before coming back. Like, they would have watched us put the swab in our nose and waited with us for the 15 minutes or whatever to see the results then inputted it into a computer so we could come home.
