Covid Support Thread
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My brother tested positive last Monday, and my SIL came down with a fever this weekend. He’s the first person i know whose been infected and it was a shock because here in the Pacific NW it felt like everything was winding down. It’s come out that his work has 65 confirmed cases (and 87 negative), enough to stop our county from moving into phase 2 (which we were previously on track to do).
Not sure what to do, but i’m checking in daily and they know they can reach out and we’ll grab groceries, pick up normal prescriptions, etc. My SIL is already immune compromised so i think she’ll have a hard road.
So we did end up going to my boyfriend’s mom’s yesterday and it felt okay. We were outside the entire time, only went inside to use the bathroom. His mom took some steps to try to make sure everyone was comfortable (e.g., sanitizer readily available). My bday is in a couple weeks and I have the same bday as my boyfriend’s niece, and his mom baked us a cake and made sure we were both still able to blow out candles in a socially distant manner. It was nice to socialize. Still sad I can’t see my own parents, though.
CurlyQue, I hope your brother and SIL recover quickly and with minimal symptoms. Keep us posted.
Ugh scary times, CurlyQue. PRaying for your family. A girl friend of mine just posted on FB that she lost a longtime friend to Covid last week.
meanwhile, i have other people who are posting the conspiracy video, posting the Floyd Mayweather article saying ‘we need more of this’ (the articles about him being at a crowded nightclub in town partying, with no masks. Oui.
Thank you everyone for your well wishes! Their oxygen numbers are good, and when i called yesterday i only got one word answers ’cause he was working. Such a workaholic to be working while positive for covid. Ugh.
His work is a processing warehouse/plant for frozen fruit. He works in the office and he claims there were safety guidelines in place but i don’t know how that’s possible when so many of them got sick.
All the pictures from Memorial weekend of the crowds is just depressing.
For all those that thought they had the virus, took the antibody test and tested negative:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/26/health/antibody-tests-cdc-coronavirus-wrong/index.html
Yeah, it seems like the antibody tests are pretty useless right now. That said, in Massachusetts, which was pretty hard hit, modeling suggests only about 10% of people have been exposed and would have antibodies. So even if the tests were accurate, 90% of us would test negative. The thing is, no one even knows if you’d have immunity or for how long, so I’m not out here seeking info on how to get an antibody test to find out if that cough I had in February was Covid. It doesn’t matter. I could still carry the virus and potentially infect other people.
I mean, it would be somewhat interesting to actually know, but at this point I don’t think I’d do anything differently as a result.
I read that article about the antibody tests yesterday and showed Drew, who is still convinced we both had covid in April. I guess it really doesn’t matter beyond just knowing to know, except if there are any long-lasting health issues, it would be helpful to have an accurate previous diagnosis to share with medical staff in the future. My symptoms were pretty mild and I feel no lingering anything now, but Drew’s symptoms lingered for many weeks. We have friends – couples where both partners had symptoms around the same time we did and one partner tested positive for antibodies and the other tested negative. How can that be? So much uncertainty about everything – and in the big scheme of things, uncertainty about the presence of antibodies or whether or not someone was once infected is, I guess, a pretty small issue.
It would really be nice if someone could figure out the immunity question. Then people could feel safe going back to work or visiting older people. They are a ways away from asking us to come back to the office, but I would not want to take the T. The office itself I would feel pretty okay about, but not the train.
