Coronavirus **personal experiences** thread

Hi everyone, posting vaccine related news here is fine, but please try to reserve your personal opinions. Prior conversations about the pro/anti-vaccine controversy have not ended up well here. Thanks a lot.

Surely the whole concept of “herd immunity” went out the window when it was found that any so called “immunity” is very short lived! I personally know 2 people (health care workers) that have had covid Twice! the second time around is actually quite bad too, Much worse than the first :frowning:

I apologize for not answering some of your questions about my experience. Please be patient. I am still struggling trying to adjust being home….BUT, I am getting better and will try to update ASAP. Seems I have been taking my previous independence for granted. Thanks for your well wishes. :+1: :beer: :beer:

@ Katherine Alicia

Im SURE I could not survive it again even if it was the same……… it took all I had the first round!! Please wear your mask!! :beer:

This is something called ensemble forecast from CDC, which combines each of the independently developed forecasts into one aggregate forecast to improve prediction over the next 4 weeks.

The data used was taken from September 12 through November 14. I you click on the image, on the CDC page you can see a few dozen of teams working on these predictions., B pagano seems to be the most pessimistic with 14000, on the other hand Iowa state University 8000. Even Wal-mart has a team on that list

Interesting paper from Spain found out that statistically speaking, if you get your stuff delivered (online), your chances of getting infected are almost twice as much as for people who buy their stuff on-site. Wiping stuff down you get from a market reduced chances by 94%. Not sure how reputable this paper is but very interesting.

On the other hand, that study from Spain didn’t control for how often the respondents were exposed to the public overall, and how many people they were exposed to at once, which could skew the outcomes quite a bit. It’s difficult for me to understand why food delivery would be more likely to infect me than going to the store to buy food, with all those people sneezing, coughing, and refusing to distance. Not to mention handling the register/payment machine.

Experts in the US are no longer recommending that groceries be wiped down.

Washington Post Article

Chicago Tribune Article

I’d guess because the delivery storeroom and loading dock and delivery trucks get visited by many employees, all huffing and puffing from carrying products and assembling shipping boxes.
Or working in a kitchen around open containers, for home delivery of cooked food.

There are a lot of reports of grocery store employees being likely to catch and spread the virus. More contact, more virus load spread around.

I’d rather pick out my own purchases, and wipe down the handle of the shopping cart with sanitizer I bring myself.

Just speculating mind you.

Yeah, that’s a reasonable speculation. I would rather buy my food at the store, too, but hauling it home for the last several months is doing serious damage to my arthritic knees, and I can’t do that anymore if I can help it. I will still go to the store every weekend to buy certain things, but I need to lighten my load. Now, I can be exposed to the virus through both in-store shopping and home delivery. Yipee!

On a more positive note, there’s a story posted on the CNN website today about a helicopter crew that discovered a large, rectangular monolith sticking out of the desert in Utah. See it here: Monolith Article

This explains why I woke up today with a taste for tapir. Now, I have to sign off, before my computer tries to kill me.

All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landings there.

“I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.”

“I enjoy working with people.”

- HAL9000

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Are More Lockdowns Inevitable Or Can Other Measures Stop The Surge?
November 24, 2020

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Hat tip to Soylent News:

Says it all. Thank you.
I hope other Joe’s read this.

I wish Joe a speedy recovery so he can get back to his job at the factory…

Can i get my 1:51 back…NO!

And yet, the Centers for Disease Control in the USA will probably shorten their quarantine recommendation to just seven to ten days, for people who test negative after seven to ten days in quarantine.

Article

Yeah, there were initial fears that the intersection of COVID-19 and the flu season would be absolutely overwhelming to the medical system.
Thankfully, the measures we’re taking for the coronavirus are just as effective for stymying the seasonal flu.

@hank, your last two posts look like this in Firefox. (latest version)
You might want check out an image host like imgbb.com. I started using imgbb because some people were telling me they couldn’t see my images.

Looks like hank is posting Facebook images, which I can see fine, but clearly not everyone can.