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[Jopax]

So after my last brush with the plague (that never really went anywhere, no symptoms for me or any of my immediate family) a month or so back, another encounter appears. Friend and his wife tested positive after a fever yesterday, and we kinda hung out multiple times over the past week so highly likely that if they were infectious I would've caught it. Then again, it's just as possible I've been asymptomatic last time and am worrying about nothing again :V

Tho I have half a mind to just go and get tested if possible and put the whole thing to rest, even if it'd be temporary.

[MrRoboto75]

You Almost Wouldn't Know It's Food.

My favorite off-brand not-butter spread.

[JoshuaFH]

You Almost Wouldn't Know It's Food.

My favorite off-brand not-butter spread.

As far as dairy products go, I'd say its about as good as It's-Definitely-Not-Cheese processed noncheese cheese slices.

[delphonso]

China is reporting more frequent cases - 5 in the Beijing area which were homegrown. Just in time for Spring Festival in 6 weeks. B)

[LordBaal]

I keep dreaming that I got that fucking virus last nigth, without smeel or taste. I woke up too many times to smell a piece of soap in the bathroom like an idiot....

[Akura]

My store is instituting a policy of temperature checks at the door for employees coming in to start their shifts. If you read a 100.4°F or higher, you're sent home for a 10-day quarantine unless you can produce a negative test in that time. Other stores in other regions have done it, and this seems to just be an expansion of that policy. According to my manager, those stores only sent home about one or two employees since October.

[Caz]

UK's cases per day is getting crazy. also I found this tracker that has useful visualisations of all the info. as wales calms down, it's NI's turn to skyrocket >_>

https://www.travellingtabby.com/uk-coronavirus-tracker/

[LordBaal]

My store is instituting a policy of temperature checks at the door for employees coming in to start their shifts. If you read a 100.4°F or higher, you're sent home for a 10-day quarantine unless you can produce a negative test in that time. Other stores in other regions have done it, and this seems to just be an expansion of that policy. According to my manager, those stores only sent home about one or two employees since October.

Here almost every respectable place is doing that, have people at the door with some infrared thermometer and hand sanitizer. If you have fever they refuse you entry, at least for costumers.

[JoshuaFH]

My store is instituting a policy of temperature checks at the door for employees coming in to start their shifts. If you read a 100.4°F or higher, you're sent home for a 10-day quarantine unless you can produce a negative test in that time. Other stores in other regions have done it, and this seems to just be an expansion of that policy. According to my manager, those stores only sent home about one or two employees since October.

Here almost every respectable place is doing that, have people at the door with some infrared thermometer and hand sanitizer. If you have fever they refuse you entry, at least for costumers.

I'd refuse costumers too, what do they even think they're doing, getting all dressed up? Do they think I won't recognize them?

[LordBaal]

My store is instituting a policy of temperature checks at the door for employees coming in to start their shifts. If you read a 100.4°F or higher, you're sent home for a 10-day quarantine unless you can produce a negative test in that time. Other stores in other regions have done it, and this seems to just be an expansion of that policy. According to my manager, those stores only sent home about one or two employees since October.

Here almost every respectable place is doing that, have people at the door with some infrared thermometer and hand sanitizer. If you have fever they refuse you entry, at least for costumers.

I'd refuse costumers too, what do they even think they're doing, getting all dressed up? Do they think I won't recognize them?

Customers I meant... hahahaha....

[Frumple]

Oh hey, news reporting a second fellow infected with the UK varient has been found! In SoCal. With no travel history of note. On top of a second case in Colorado (I think?), also without travel.

So, y'know. Community transfer, shit's loose across state borders, healthcare system already on the verge of functional collapse in places, about to get even worse. Fuck.

[Starver]

I really want to say that a travelling person isn't a different species to a non-travelling one...

If the former can catch it in the place they were, then its trivial that the latter can recatch it in the place they go.  It's just as bad if you only happen to discover a courier case as when you only happen to discover someone plainly couriered to[1], either way, there's going to be a good chance there's a whole undiscovered dendritic chain of cases around the one (or two) you find.


I think the take-home is that these two (or however many are now in the process of being identified, consequently or coincidentally) are just the tip of an inevitable iceberg that you couldn't have avoided without doing all kinds of things that it looks like were never going to happen under the various leaderships you have had, across various tiers of government. (Not that I can claim our arrangement smells of disinfected roses.)


[1] With the obvious exception of a visitor/returnee going straight into isolation and testing (sweeping or symptom-driven) later identifies them as courier/carrier before they get a chance to infect new contacts (and didn't do so to fellow passengers).

[Iduno]

https://twitter.com/ZackDavisson/status/1344811166984413185

That's...certainly a story.

[bloop_bleep]

"Vaccines are totally not effective! So to show it I'll completely mess them up so that they don't work!"

[Vector]

OK, this is just a meme, but it's pretty good...