lurkyloo
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Post by lurkyloo on Aug 12, 2020 17:45:59 GMT -5
Virtual town hall meeting on our public school plan. It’s slated to be all virtual till Feb 1 but they’ve also said they might reevaluate earlier. Can’t bring myself to look.
It’s funny, our infections rate (trending down again thankfully) had two peaks of almost equal height, but the second hospitalization and deaths peaks are much lower. Wondering how much of it is infection demographics (first wave wreaked havoc on our nursing homes) and how much of it is finally getting adequate testing in place. Not quite enough of a nerd to try to crunch the numbers though.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2020 18:09:58 GMT -5
Virtual town hall meeting on our public school plan. It’s slated to be all virtual till Feb 1 but they’ve also said they might reevaluate earlier. Can’t bring myself to look. It’s funny, our infections rate (trending down again thankfully) had two peaks of almost equal height, but the second hospitalization and deaths peaks are much lower. Wondering how much of it is infection demographics (first wave wreaked havoc on our nursing homes) and how much of it is finally getting adequate testing in place. Not quite enough of a nerd to try to crunch the numbers though. We pretty much just had one main peak back in April/May and that's when most of the deaths were too. June/July numbers have been lower, but steady, but hospitalizations and deaths are way down. There were about 1600 deaths in MN and 1200 of them were in LTC facilities and skewed towards the first few months. Now it's the age 20-39 demographic that has the most cases (by a long shot), and deaths are way down. My theory is they finally figured out how to best protect the vulnerable populations.
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Post by teen persuasion on Aug 12, 2020 20:32:39 GMT -5
Local news is reporting at least 2 school districts are changing to online only to start. One is the district my nephews and a niece are in.
When school districts first started releasing plans, just about every one had hybrid plans, no one planned fully open. Then the big city superintendent pushed for delaying opening extra weeks to plan/train better. Now a few more shifting to online only as phase one.
I'm thinking we are all slowly getting dragged into the realization that even here, we can't put kids back together in schools without driving cases back up. Local deaths and hospitalizations are dwindling, but new cases are either remaining low but steady, or slightly nudging upward.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2020 21:12:27 GMT -5
Our county got an exemption to open schools although we don't meet the state standards.
If the kids go to school here, DS and I have a pact to not leave home for at least 3 weeks.
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Post by thyme4change on Aug 13, 2020 8:07:19 GMT -5
Our county got an exemption to open schools although we don't meet the state standards. If the kids go to school here, DS and I have a pact to not leave home for at least 3 weeks. Three weeks into school, the spread will just be getting really bad, and you will want to stay in for another 3 weeks - at least.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2020 14:55:07 GMT -5
Our county got an exemption to open schools although we don't meet the state standards. If the kids go to school here, DS and I have a pact to not leave home for at least 3 weeks. Three weeks into school, the spread will just be getting really bad, and you will want to stay in for another 3 weeks - at least. Yeah, sadly, I think that's the case. While I'd love for the schools to open and everything be just fine, I really don't have any faith that will happen here where people are so anti-mask. Even at the hospital yesterday, I saw 2 people try to go to the ER and argue with the screener about wearing a mask...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2020 15:07:55 GMT -5
It will just disappear It will just magically disappear.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Aug 13, 2020 15:22:29 GMT -5
Correct. I forgot "magically"
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2020 15:24:46 GMT -5
Catholic middle school opened today in our community, elementary students start next Tuesday.
And so it begins.
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Post by bobosensei on Aug 13, 2020 18:38:01 GMT -5
Two high schools in my county are shut down. One is shutting until Aug 31 and I'm not sure about the other. Face to face started last week and 7 days in the high schools have a majority of the 59 positive cases at schools. 45 out of 59 cases are either teachers/staff or at the high school. But hundreds at each school are quarantined, and there were news reports from the parents of two of the positive high schoolers last week saying they were at school without masks and not socially distanced. There are over 800 people quarantined. One high school has 15 positive cases and waiting on the results of 15 more tests to see how much more they may need to quarantine. These are larger schools with 2400 and 2700 kids. I also saw that Georgia now has the highest new daily cases for the last 7 days. We had 100k cases in early July, 200k cases early August, and now we have 222k cases. My county is up to 99 cases in schools now.
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Post by formerroomate99 on Aug 13, 2020 18:49:12 GMT -5
My oldest just started half on half off. They’re getting the kids used to virtual every other day, so they can go fully virtual if they need to.. They’ve said at orientation that they’re going to make the entire class go virtual if there’s a case. I predict my son’s class will be fully virtual by October at the earliest.
The rest of them are starting in a couple weeks. Though if there’s an outbreak at the early opening schools, I predict my school district will switch to fully virtual.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2020 19:48:04 GMT -5
In the local newspaper the county school superintendent says - Children under 10 don't get COVID like older kids and adults.
Trying to relax and not let my head explode.
That's just blatantly false to anyone who doesn't spend the day watching Faux News.
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Post by bobosensei on Aug 14, 2020 8:52:54 GMT -5
Our count is 107 in schools as of this morning. Only 14 elementary school students and 11 middle school students. But the only kids getting tested are those with symptoms. The anecdotal stories I am seeing online is that the parents aren't testing the young kids if they have been exposed as long as they don't appear to be sick because they think the nasal swab test is too traumatic, they are too hard to find, and the results are taking so long anyway. I get it. I don't plan to get tested for covid even if I start to feel sick. They can test me if I have to go to the hospital and that is it. I couldn't bear to watch when they showed people getting tested on tv.
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Post by formerroomate99 on Aug 14, 2020 9:44:50 GMT -5
Our count is 107 in schools as of this morning. Only 14 elementary school students and 11 middle school students. But the only kids getting tested are those with symptoms. The anecdotal stories I am seeing online is that the parents aren't testing the young kids if they have been exposed as long as they don't appear to be sick because they think the nasal swab test is too traumatic, they are too hard to find, and the results are taking so long anyway. I get it. I don't plan to get tested for covid even if I start to feel sick. They can test me if I have to go to the hospital and that is it. I couldn't bear to watch when they showed people getting tested on tv. It’s really not that bad. My daughter and I got tested when she had a fever a couple weeks ago. The nasal swab feels weird but it doesn’t hurt. And even my daughter, who screams bloody murder at the slightest injury, didn’t cry much.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Aug 14, 2020 10:08:51 GMT -5
I found the nose swab much easier than the throat swab.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2020 10:20:21 GMT -5
I was pretty adamant I didn't want the up-the-nose brain swab because it looked horrid to me.
It 100% wasn't bad - at all.
I've had throat swabs that were miserable, this wasn't. You can feel the swab at the back of your sinuses, but I didn't sneeze, cough, or anything else. It really wasn't bad.
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Post by thyme4change on Aug 14, 2020 11:13:34 GMT -5
My husband has something seriously wrong with his nose/sinuses. He said the nose swab was miserable. He laid in bed for hours afterwards. He said (and my son confirmed) the person administering the test was surprised at how difficult it was to get the swab in place for him.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Aug 14, 2020 11:19:39 GMT -5
The woman who did my nose swab said it's all about understanding anatomy.
I will do the nose swab if I need to be tested again--until there is a better test available.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Aug 14, 2020 11:26:45 GMT -5
My husband has something seriously wrong with his nose/sinuses. He said the nose swab was miserable. He laid in bed for hours afterwards. He said (and my son confirmed) the person administering the test was surprised at how difficult it was to get the swab in place for him. Does he have problems with allergies?
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Post by thyme4change on Aug 14, 2020 12:25:37 GMT -5
My husband has something seriously wrong with his nose/sinuses. He said the nose swab was miserable. He laid in bed for hours afterwards. He said (and my son confirmed) the person administering the test was surprised at how difficult it was to get the swab in place for him. Does he have problems with allergies? He has it all. He had the deviated septum surgery 15 years ago. He has allergies. He get sinus infections. He snores. He hocks up a gross slimy thing most mornings. He has tried Zyrtec and Claritin and Flonase. He has to get a referral to go to an ENT, but his doctor really wants him to do a sleep study. I've given up trying to help him because he finds the doctors frustrating, and ultimately not very effective.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Aug 14, 2020 12:32:32 GMT -5
Does he have problems with allergies? He has it all. He had the deviated septum surgery 15 years ago. He has allergies. He get sinus infections. He snores. He hocks up a gross slimy thing most mornings. He has tried Zyrtec and Claritin and Flonase. He has to get a referral to go to an ENT, but his doctor really wants him to do a sleep study. I've given up trying to help him because he finds the doctors frustrating, and ultimately not very effective. I had sinus surgery that was just a balloon that opened them up, and it made a world of difference. I also had a deviated septum that they fixed by doing that surgery. Before my surgery, I would hack up all kinds of stuff, and had constant drainage in the back of my throat, and chronic sinus infections. So, I would highly recommend it if the ENT suggests it. Actually, I was surprised it worked to help all my issues, but I did have bad headaches for a few months after the surgery.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Aug 14, 2020 12:36:52 GMT -5
He has it all. He had the deviated septum surgery 15 years ago. He has allergies. He get sinus infections. He snores. He hocks up a gross slimy thing most mornings. He has tried Zyrtec and Claritin and Flonase. He has to get a referral to go to an ENT, but his doctor really wants him to do a sleep study. I've given up trying to help him because he finds the doctors frustrating, and ultimately not very effective. I had sinus surgery that was just a balloon that opened them up, and it made a world of difference. I also had a deviated septum that they fixed by doing that surgery. Before my surgery, I would hack up all kinds of stuff, and had constant drainage in the back of my throat, and chronic sinus infections. So, I would highly recommend it if the ENT suggests it. Actually, I was surprised it worked to help all my issues, but I did have bad headaches for a few months after the surgery. I had a turbidectomy in my nose. I was absolutely amazed as to how better I breathed after this, and how much better I was able to tolerate congestion.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2020 13:43:47 GMT -5
The numbers in Johnson County, KS are getting worse and the schools aren't even open yet. The 7-day rolling average of % testing positive just went over 11%.
Here in SC they're crowing about how new case counts are decreasing. My sister dug into the numbers and says that the number if tests is way down. Well, that's one way to get the numbers low enough to justify opening the schools.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Aug 14, 2020 13:53:08 GMT -5
The numbers in Johnson County, KS are getting worse and the schools aren't even open yet. The 7-day rolling average of % testing positive just went over 11%. Here in SC they're crowing about how new case counts are decreasing. My sister dug into the numbers and says that the number if tests is way down. Well, that's one way to get the numbers low enough to justify opening the schools. I was watching the news last week and it sounded like the backlog at the labs is due to the fact that the biological suppliers are behind in supplying the disposables they need to run the tests. Most lab work requires an incredible about of disposables, and it's one of the things that we normally restock a couple times/year, as they are cheaper if you order by the 10 case unit. It's a balancing act to want to get the cheapest price vs having the place to store it.
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Post by lurkyloo on Aug 14, 2020 14:05:28 GMT -5
The numbers in Johnson County, KS are getting worse and the schools aren't even open yet. The 7-day rolling average of % testing positive just went over 11%. Here in SC they're crowing about how new case counts are decreasing. My sister dug into the numbers and says that the number if tests is way down. Well, that's one way to get the numbers low enough to justify opening the schools. I was watching the news last week and it sounded like the backlog at the labs is due to the fact that the biological suppliers are behind in supplying the disposables they need to run the tests. Most lab work requires an incredible about of disposables, and it's one of the things that we normally restock a couple times/year, as they are cheaper if you order by the 10 case unit. It's a balancing act to want to get the cheapest price vs having the place to store it. I don’t think they’re even that worried about price these days, I think manufacturing is just not able to keep up with demand. I’d actually be surprised if manpower/equipment availability at the running-the-tests level is able to keep up with this level of sustained demand either. I’ve noticed that our weekend lull (noticeably lower numbers for two days) is coming on Tuesday-Wednesday this week, Wednesday-Thursday last week. Makes me wonder if that’s a 3-4 or 10-11 day delay I was shocked to see AZ numbers down around 10 per 100,000 so I looked at their state website. Looks like lower testing is a significant contributor (although both testing and case numbers are trending back up again). MD has a steadily declining positivity rate, under 4%, with 20,000-40,000 tests per day. I suspect our case numbers are quite a bit more accurate than many states, primarily those who are testing less.
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Post by wvugurl26 on Aug 14, 2020 14:30:06 GMT -5
My nephew was tested Tuesday and had results on Thursday. I think it's all in where you go to be tested. I've seen reports of 10-11 day lags from one of the local free testing sites.
I had the balloon thing done. The crunching of all the tiny bones in my face and seeing stars sucked. It cut my sinus infections way down. Now though they tend to be super sticky ones. I went from like seven a year to two. My passages were basically sealed off so nothing ever drained.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2020 14:37:35 GMT -5
Local media says our positivity rate is down to 17%. Local idiots say it's all fake. I'm adding to my mask collection and hiding a lot.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2020 14:43:11 GMT -5
Our positive count goes up daily, and the governor absolutely will not mandate wearing masks or close the schools to in-person learning. Meanwhile, the number of infected students goes up daily, but students still aren't required to wear masks and can keep on infecting others. Teachers and staff? They're required to wear masks so they don't infect students.
The White House task force sent a letter to the governor saying masks need to be mandated. WTH?
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Post by Lizard Queen on Aug 14, 2020 15:30:41 GMT -5
My nephew was tested Tuesday and had results on Thursday. I think it's all in where you go to be tested. I've seen reports of 10-11 day lags from one of the local free testing sites. I had the balloon thing done. The crunching of all the tiny bones in my face and seeing stars sucked. It cut my sinus infections way down. Now though they tend to be super sticky ones. I went from like seven a year to two. My passages were basically sealed off so nothing ever drained. Sounds like they should have scraped them instead. Sorry, that's a bummer. The recovery from just the balloon was worse than I expected.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Aug 14, 2020 15:40:20 GMT -5
Local media says our positivity rate is down to 17%. Local idiots say it's all fake. I'm adding to my mask collection and hiding a lot. OMG! Down to that? My county is at 2.6%.
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