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Thanks, guys.
@ktfran, we don’t have a car but there’s an urgent care clinic in our neighborhood, just three blocks away and I walked there (I don’t think I could have walked farther than that but three blocks was doable and I kept as much distance from everyone as I could). The clinic closed for a month but re-opened a few days ago and they now have covid tests and antibody tests. They’re still only doing covid tests per the doctor’s discretion (you have to have symptoms, I guess).
I just got home from getting a covid test. My symptoms returned yesterday morning after two weeks of feeling better. Last night I had chills so bad I was shivering under a duvet, a weighted blanket, and a heating pad. Then I got really hot and sweaty. Had a pounding headache for about 30 hours (it finally subsided) and lots of body aches and fatigue and low-grade fever (even w taking Tylenol all day). The dr at the clinic said they’re seeing a lot of secondary infections where people are sick for a couple weeks, feel better for around 10 days, and then get hit again, usually feeling even worse the second time. My symptoms aren’t exactly typical – I don’t have a cough or shortness of breath or high fever – so it may be something else entirely. I should have test results in a couple days.
Mark, I just sent you an email so go look for it. I want to set you up on a virtual blind date with a good friend of mine. If nothing else, you both are quarantined alone and could enjoy talking with each other. You hav a lot in common. Email me and let’s make this happen.
I’m still upset that we are debating which woman would be the best VP choice for a man who isn’t half the presidential candidate any of them would be.
I like Stacy Abrams a lot but she doesn’t have the experience to step into the role of presidents at a moment’s notice. My hope is that Biden chooses Warren. I don’t like them anywhere near as well, but Klobuchar or Harris would be smart choices too (Klobuchar probably a smarter choice since she would help in the rust belt and since Harris would appeal most to a demographic Biden already has a strong hold on).
And to be clear, I’m not not talking anyone this site; I’m talking about the camo-wearing, gun-toting assholes waving signs that literally say “I want a haircut.”
Except for the morons who are demanding to open everything up because they want a haircut or don’t believe in vaccines. I don’t respect where they are at all.
Stay strong, everyone. MG is right that we are entering a stage where we have to keep the psychological stuff in check. It’s going to get harder. We have to get stronger. Life is going to be different for longer than any of us want, and we will have to do without things that feel really important to us (I am expecting I won’t be able to see my parents for a year or two, for example. I am bracing myself to lose people I love). I think accepting this is going to happen in waves for us, just as grieving will happen in waves, and anger will happen in waves, and we have to do our best to respect where people are in this journey.
People sure do want their haircuts though.
What were you hoping would open by May 1 in Chicago? You guys know that you you haven’t hit your apex yet, right? Models show it still weeks away. You’re up to a thousand new confirmed cases a day and over 100+ covid deaths a day and that is WITH really tight restrictions, and that is where we were – per capita – a few weeks before our apex too.
My friend is a nurse in Chicago and she’s scared and exhausted. My other friend is a funeral director and business is FOUR times higher right now than average. You guys are so so lucky your mayor and governor was more aggressive with restrictions than ours were here. Maybe you won’t have to go to any zoom memorials like almost everyone I know here has. But that’s not going to happen if you ease restrictions before you hit your apex.
That’s so sad, Bethany, and it is consistent with what I’m seeing, too. I’m hearing a LOT of “I hate New York city, I wish we didn’t live here, I want to leave an never come back.”
The good news here though is that we are on a descent from out apex/plataeu of hospitalizations and deaths. For the past few days, the rates have been dropping around 6% a day. This is actually really good news. I just hope the nice weather we’re having today and the combination of that good news doesn’t tempt people to defy social distance or else hospitalizations will be back up within a week…
I called our school guidance counselor on Friday to ask about something and she told me that two students at our school, from different families, lost parents to covid this week. I asked how old the students were and she said one was in kindergarten and one in second grade. This was confirmed on a zoom call with some friends last night by my friend whose neighbor is knew one of the parents who died. So, our school community has now lost at least one teacher and two parents that I know of and maybe more. This is hard to process. It was bad enough knowing how hard it’s been for the third-graders who lost their beloved teacher. But to lose a mother, a father at 5, 6 years old?
And then you have dipshit don and who stupid cult of personality followers protesting restrictions meant to mitigate these kinds of losses and it’s mind-boggling.
