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    May 26, 2020 at 8:15 am #886740

    CurlyQue, I hope your brother and SIL recover quickly and with minimal symptoms. Keep us posted.

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    May 23, 2020 at 11:40 am #886477

    That happened in Springfield, Missouri, where my high-risk parents live (and where, I’m sure, people have been resistant to wearing masks and socially distancing. It’s trump country, buckle of the Bible Belt there).

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    May 22, 2020 at 7:55 am #886390

    Copa, just like all decisions about socializing/interacting with others through this pandemic, you have to weigh the risks against the benefits. It really could be as simple as making two lists – one that list the benefits and one that weights the risks. You can even rank them with a numerical value. Like, the likelihood of your boyfriend’s nieces touching you or your boyfriend on a scale of 1-4 or the likelihood of sharing a bathroom. How would you get there? I think your boyfriend has a car? Your risk of contracting anything increases exponentially with increased time/exposure and decreased distance and being inside. Two hours of exposure is far is far riskier than 30 minutes. How does your boyfriend feel about going? If he’s really into it and you’re not, can you just… not go? Or can you do a drop-by visit for 20-30 minutes?

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    May 21, 2020 at 3:32 pm #886362

    I haven’t gotten a cut in over ten weeks and I’m sure it’ll be many weeks before I get one. ?

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    May 21, 2020 at 10:40 am #886341

    Congratulations, Miel! That sounds like a very sweet, special day. And now you get to look forward to a celebration with friends and family eventually, to boot.

    I am feeling the same as others about not being able to see parents. Visiting mine would require a cross-country trip either by plane or by car (staying in motels along the way), neither of which I will feel comfortable doing for a while. Then, bc my parents are in a high-risk category (even beyond their age), we would have to I guess quarantine in their basement or something for two weeks before interacting with them? And that seems so impractical and unpleasant. I was really hoping we’d have antibodies and that we’d soon learn that antibodies offer immunity, but Drew and I took antibody tests last week and they were both negative. I was really thought we had covid in April, but whatever we did have – which causes chest pains for drew still, to this day, something he’s never experienced before – did not register a positive antibody test so that’s that. Who knows when we’ll be able to see long distance family.

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    May 14, 2020 at 1:48 pm #885998

    Congrats, Miel! You’ll always have a special and unique story about your wedding day, and now you’ll have just have to have a big party later and potentially have two wedding anniversaries to celebrate every year!

    Vathena, thank you – that’s sweet of you to say and I appreciate it.

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    May 13, 2020 at 4:55 pm #885898

    Fyodor, I would be surprised if the trajectory in nyc could be close to replicated anywhere else. We had such a huge peak to come down from, for one thing, and the kind of behavior we changed – like a 90% reduction in subway ridership – isn’t something that could be done on a similar scale anywhere else. New Yorkers are just so communal that staying home makes a bigger difference here than it possibly could anywhere else. It also means we are likely to have much faster outbreaks than anywhere else when we start re-opening. I have a hard time imagining what a re-open even looks like here if we want to avoid a repeat of April.

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    May 13, 2020 at 3:16 pm #885875

    I’ve done a couple stoop visits where friends sit on their top step (of a Brooklyn brownstone stoop) and I sit or stand near the bottom step and we chat for a few minutes. I’ve had a few friends ask if we can have a socially distant hang soon (not sure what that would entail – maybe sitting six+ feet apart in the park or something) and if it were just adults I’d probably consider it but we all have kids and I just don’t feel comfortable including kids – I don’t trust that they can play without getting close – and I feel bad excluding them when they really need the social interaction even more. We’re on a pretty steep decline from our peak, but still too many cases for me to take more risks than our current behavior. Maybe in a couple more weeks I’ll feel different.

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    May 11, 2020 at 7:38 am #885726

    @LadyE – there have been a lot of issues with the forums the last couple weeks. I’ve hired a developer to address the issues and hopefully by the end of the week they’ll be fixed. Until then, there will likely be some continued frustration. Thanks, everyone, for being patient!

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    May 7, 2020 at 8:43 am #885487

    I forgot to update: my covid test was negative, so whatever I was sick with over the weekend was not covid, but it may have been a secondary infection, which the nurse said she has seen a lot of a few weeks following positive covid tests (I wasn’t able to get a covid test last month when I was sick for two weeks). So, no real clarity yet but I finished my round of antibiotics and I’m feeling a lot better. I plan to wait maybe another week or so and get an antibody test.

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    May 3, 2020 at 5:14 am #885183

    LadyE, sorry about your kidney infection! I used to get them all the time during my pregnancies (even with a preventive antibiotic I took during my pregnancy with Joanie, I still got one). I was hospitalized three times with kidney infection. I think that’s the sickest I’ve ever been (though the shingles I got a couple years ago was the most painful ailment I’ve had). I’ve wondered if what I’m feeling now could be a kidney infection but I wasn’t tested for it. I did get antibiotics – a z-pack – which I started yesterday and felt a little better within a few hours. I hope the antibiotics work quickly for you too! I’m sorry you haven’t been able to have a physical connection with your boyfriend for so long. That really sucks.

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    May 2, 2020 at 5:25 pm #885164

    @materialsgirl – yes, anyone can get an antibody test here now is my understanding. I’m not sure how reliable they are though and you’re supposed to wait 2-4 weeks after your last day of symptoms (if you ever had symptoms) before you get one. I definitely plan to get one eventually.

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