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[Spaniel with a Short Tail]

First outbreak at my Grandma's senior apartment living facility in the Milwaukee area. Three employees and a handful of residents are sick so far. Here's hoping.

Shout out to the WI legislature for doing everything in their power to get my grandma sick.

Hope your grandmother escapes unscathed. My 99 year old aunt tested positive several times but only had mild symptoms.

Wisconsin voters need to recall this image on election day.

[Hards Alumni]

Turns out both of my parents are convalescent plasma donors...

[GooooMarquette]

Daughter's best friend lives in MPLS and is experiencing sore throat, dry cough and fatigue, so she's getting tested. Twenty four years old and in great health, so hopefully if she has it, it isn't bad.

[Warriors4ever]

Hope she comes up negative.
Hards, kudos  for your folks to do that.

[Hards Alumni]

Hope she comes up negative.
Hards, kudos  for your folks to do that.

Yeah, they regularly donate blood and found out that way.

Which means they were likely infected back when they were on the zombie cruise in March/April

[Warriors4ever]

Gosh I remember that!

[GooooMarquette]

Yeah, they regularly donate blood and found out that way.

Which means they were likely infected back when they were on the zombie cruise in March/April

Normally, summer in the midwest seems to fly by...but March/April feels like five years ago.

[Lennys Tap]

One of my daughters tested positive for COVID today. She works as a social worker at St David's Hospital on the University of Texas campus. Virtually asymtomatic (runny nose that she thought was allergies, loss of sense of smell) and pretty much unfazed (told me that by the time this thing runs its course that they estimate 75% of health care workers will have had it). One wildcard - she's pregnant with baby #3 and due in November.

[GooooMarquette]

One of my daughters tested positive for COVID today. She works as a social worker at St David's Hospital on the University of Texas campus. Virtually asymtomatic (runny nose that she thought was allergies, loss of sense of smell) and pretty much unfazed (told me that by the time this thing runs its course that they estimate 75% of health care workers will have had it). One wildcard - she's pregnant with baby #3 and due in November.

Glad she is mostly asymptomatic. Best wishes to her...on a quick recovery and her baby!

[mu_hilltopper]

Here's a tangential report .. an in-law relative was in treatment for mental illness.  Treatment came to a halt in March due to COVID shut-downs.

Fast forward 5 months (and many details) and he's taken his life.   Might have happened anyhow, but COVID didn't help, that's for sure.

[GooooMarquette]

Here's a tangential report .. an in-law relative was in treatment for mental illness.  Treatment came to a halt in March due to COVID shut-downs.

Fast forward 5 months (and many details) and he's taken his life.   Might have happened anyhow, but COVID didn't help, that's for sure.

Wow - so sorry to hear that.

If anything, the stress and uncertainty of COVID probably affects people with mental illness as much as or more than people who are better able to deal with 'normal' stressors. It's a shame they couldn't somehow arrange teletherapy visits.

[mu_hilltopper]

It's a shame they couldn't somehow arrange teletherapy visits.

They might have, I dunno.  Didn't pry. 

[jsglow]

Here's a tangential report .. an in-law relative was in treatment for mental illness.  Treatment came to a halt in March due to COVID shut-downs.

Fast forward 5 months (and many details) and he's taken his life.   Might have happened anyhow, but COVID didn't help, that's for sure.

I am heartbroken for your family topper.  Make sure you hug everyone today.  Twice.

[Frenns Liquor Depot]

Heartbreaking story topper. 

Lenny here is hoping it stays mild with quick recovery and no lingering impacts. 

[Uncle Rico]

One of my daughters tested positive for COVID today. She works as a social worker at St David's Hospital on the University of Texas campus. Virtually asymtomatic (runny nose that she thought was allergies, loss of sense of smell) and pretty much unfazed (told me that by the time this thing runs its course that they estimate 75% of health care workers will have had it). One wildcard - she's pregnant with baby #3 and due in November.

Hoping for the best. 

[GooooMarquette]

Daughter's BFF wasn't able to get a test in Minneapolis (backlog in supplies, reagents, etc), so she drove down to Rochester, got tested at Mayo, and fortunately came back negative.

Happy about the result...but wtf is going on when a symptomatic person still can't get a test in a major city without waiting several days? If we were this disorganized in WWII, the war would have been over before we figured out how to build the first fighter jet and we would all be speaking German or Japanese.

[tower912]

The answer to your question is the same as the answer to every question like it for the last 5 months.   Still no plan.


BTW, 10 co-workers have now tested positive.   9 are only mildly symptomatic.  One, the youngest, (27) is still at home but may go to the hospital shortly.

[Jockey]

Daughter's BFF wasn't able to get a test in Minneapolis (backlog in supplies, reagents, etc), so she drove down to Rochester, got tested at Mayo, and fortunately came back negative.

Happy about the result...but wtf is going on when a symptomatic person still can't get a test in a major city without waiting several days? If we were this disorganized in WWII, the war would have been over before we figured out how to build the first fighter jet and we would all be speaking German or Japanese.

I know I'm beating a dead horse, but we have NO national leader. If trump was prez on December 7, he would have called Hirohito to ask if he did it or not.

If our country still exists on Jan. 20, we go back to square one and start over (after we finish crying about the deaths in the wasted year).

[Lennys Tap]

Here's a tangential report .. an in-law relative was in treatment for mental illness.  Treatment came to a halt in March due to COVID shut-downs.

Fast forward 5 months (and many details) and he's taken his life.   Might have happened anyhow, but COVID didn't help, that's for sure.

Heartbreaking, Topper. I can't help but wonder how many stories like yours are out there.

On a happier note, my daughter's doctor thinks she is nearly past this and all will be well. Thanks Gooooo, Frenns and Rico for your good wishes.

[mu_hilltopper]

I am heartbroken for your family topper.  Make sure you hug everyone today.  Twice.

Yeah .. making it worse .. his car was discovered abandoned which sparked a sizable missing person hunt.   Took a week before a fisherman found him downstream.

[Lennys Tap]

If trump was prez on December 7, he would have called Hirohito to ask if he did it or not.

NM

[Frenns Liquor Depot]

Nm

[forgetful]

Heartbreaking, Topper. I can't help but wonder how many stories like yours are out there.

On a happier note, my daughter's doctor thinks she is nearly past this and all will be well. Thanks Gooooo, Frenns and Rico for your good wishes.

Lenny, just seeing this. Glad your daughter is on the mend.

[Lennys Tap]

Lenny, just seeing this. Glad your daughter is on the mend.

Thanks - much appreciated.

[Jockey]

Thanks - much appreciated.

Best wishes for your daughter, Lenny. She is in our prayers.

(I hadn't see your post, either.)