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Supermarket Store Worker Tested Positive

beach-mom — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 20:05:07 GMT

Just found this out this morning. I don't shop there, but it's a major chain in this area. They immediately closed the store.

DD's close friend is a nurse about 1-1/2 hours from here in a small hospital. Two days ago there were 4 positive cases admitted - all were doing well. This morning she FaceTimed with DD for an hour. Her shift is later on today. They now have 68 admitted, some in critical condition.

I haven't heard what it's like at our local hospital. I don't think DD knows a nurse there, but one of her friends knows two of the ER nurses.

I was toying with the idea of going to the family-run market I go to. Not today.

Re: Supermarket Store Worker Tested Positive

Drythe — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 20:09:55 GMT

@beach-mom wrote:
Just found this out this morning. I don't shop there, but it's a major chain in this area. They immediately closed the store.

DD's close friend is a nurse about 1-1/2 hours from here in a small hospital. Two days ago there were 4 positive cases admitted - all were doing well. This morning she FaceTimed with DD for an hour. Her shift is later on today. They now have 68 admitted, some in critical condition.

I haven't heard what it's like at our local hospital. I don't think DD knows a nurse there, but one of her friends knows two of the ER nurses.

I was toying with the idea of going to the family-run market I go to. Not today.

@beach-mom

Hello, if you on line to your county web page, you will likely see a COVID19 update link. At least my county has one. I don't know what size town / county you live in, but just a thought.

Re: Supermarket Store Worker Tested Positive

beach-mom — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 20:27:46 GMT

@Drythe wrote:
@beach-mom

Hello, if you on line to your county web page, you will likely see a COVID19 update link. At least my county has one. I don't know what size town / county you live in, but just a thought.

Thanks @Drythe -- We do have that, and I get e-mail updates. But from what I'm learning, the hospitals are telling a major part of this story. I know a lot of people who either have mild symptoms, or who are quarantining at their own homes, probably aren't counted.

When DD talked to her friend this morning and asked the ages of the people on the ventilators, assuming they would all be older, her friend said, "All ages."

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noodleann — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 20:34:33 GMT

It had to happen. I thank the clerks every time I'm in a store now, but didn't realize the store could close down if one of them tested positive. If anything argues for stocking up, this does, especially if you're in a one-store town or can't get to other places.

I feel bad for everyone who's helping us get through this and risking their health in the process. I got an email today from the CEO of Big Lots, which said, among other things, that they're paying their associates an extra $2 per hour temporarily, presumably until the governor's orders are listed. Their stores sell a lot of food and sanitizing products, so they're open.

Wish all the stores were bonusing their front-line employees.

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Lipstickdiva — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 20:38:55 GMT

A friend of mine works at a grocery store as a cashier and became ill Monday. They first tested her for the flu and when that came back negative, they sent her out to a drive thru testing test. She found out yesterday she was negative. Not sure what she has but she is sick.

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QueenDanceALot — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 20:44:33 GMT

A friend just told me that at his supermarket one of the cashiers and one of the pharmacy techs both just tested positive.

We were just talking about how the grocery store is just about the worst place to go now if you want to avoid this virus.

Re: Supermarket Store Worker Tested Positive

Drythe — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 20:54:44 GMT

@beach-mom wrote:
@Drythe wrote:
@beach-mom

Hello, if you on line to your county web page, you will likely see a COVID19 update link. At least my county has one. I don't know what size town / county you live in, but just a thought.
Thanks @Drythe -- We do have that, and I get e-mail updates. But from what I'm learning, the hospitals are telling a major part of this story. I know a lot of people who either have mild symptoms, or who are quarantining at their own homes, probably aren't counted.

When DD talked to her friend this morning and asked the ages of the people on the ventilators, assuming they would all be older, her friend said, "All ages."

@beach-mom

You might check your State or County Health Department (HDP). Ours are updating every 12 hours.

Re: Supermarket Store Worker Tested Positive

Snoopp — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 21:50:15 GMT

We have had two grocery employees come down with the virus. Both stores were disinfected and remain open. A third employee is presumptive positive. I shudder to think how many people were infected from those incidents and don't know it.

I wish the grocery stores would put up the plexiglass shields at a minimum.

Re: Supermarket Store Worker Tested Positive

Moonlady — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 22:03:08 GMT

Ridiculous overreaction.

This virus will more than likely infect the majority of people, and not just Americans, who will recover, just as they do from other infections. Are they going to close every store? Every pharmacy? Every bank?

This isn't the apocalypse. The cooped-up and the masked have been duped into thinking that these measures are necessary and reasonable.

They're neither.

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Porcelain — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 22:29:47 GMT

@Moonlady wrote:
Ridiculous overreaction.

This virus will more than likely infect the majority of people, and not just Americans, who will recover, just as they do from other infections. Are they going to close every store? Every pharmacy? Every bank?

This isn't the apocalypse. The cooped-up and the masked have been duped into thinking that these measures are necessary and reasonable.

They're neither.

20% hospitalization rate. How many ICU beds does your local hospital have available? Since you are sure it will affect everyone including you, might as well get prepared.

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Snoopp — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 22:34:20 GMT

.,@Moonlady wrote:
Ridiculous overreaction.

This virus will more than likely infect the majority of people, and not just Americans, who will recover, just as they do from other infections. Are they going to close every store? Every pharmacy? Every bank?

This isn't the apocalypse. The cooped-up and the masked have been duped into thinking that these measures are necessary and reasonable.

They're neither.

Tell that to the nurse nearby who has 23 patients with the virus, 22 who are on respirators. You are sadly mistaken.

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DiAnne — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 22:36:56 GMT

I would venture to guess many people are walking around or working with this because the testing is so far behind.

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bikerbabe — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 22:42:10 GMT

Projections for my county are 50,000 cases and 1,000 deaths by May 1. No more hospital beds by mid April.

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SandySparkles — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 22:45:55 GMT

@DiAnne

Sadly, your guess is correct! It's all so heartbreaking.😞

~~~All we need is LOVE💖

Re: Supermarket Store Worker Tested Positive

Snoopp — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 23:02:28 GMT

@bikerbabe wrote:
Projections for my county are 50,000 cases and 1,000 deaths by May 1. No more hospital beds by mid April.

Our state health commissioner said everyone will get the virus. That would most likely wipe out at least half of the elderly population. She may be right but I cannot believe she actually said that.

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DottieBlue — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 23:50:06 GMT

@Moonlady wrote:
Ridiculous overreaction.

This virus will more than likely infect the majority of people, and not just Americans, who will recover, just as they do from other infections. Are they going to close every store? Every pharmacy? Every bank?

This isn't the apocalypse. The cooped-up and the masked have been duped into thinking that these measures are necessary and reasonable.

They're neither.

moonlady:

With all due respect, I very strongly disagree with your viewpoint.

These precautions ARE necessary to spread out the timing of people getting the virus so that the hospitals aren't overcrowded past capacity to treat patients.

So the whole world has been "duped"? By whom? and Why?

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Greeneyedlady21 — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 23:54:43 GMT

@Moonlady wrote:
Ridiculous overreaction.

This virus will more than likely infect the majority of people, and not just Americans, who will recover, just as they do from other infections. Are they going to close every store? Every pharmacy? Every bank?

This isn't the apocalypse. The cooped-up and the masked have been duped into thinking that these measures are necessary and reasonable.

They're neither.

I defer to infectious disease specialists regarding that. So I guess you're out just as you were before, exposing yourself to Covid 19 and potentially exposing everyone you come into close contact with?

Who is duping people? Dr. Fauci, Dr. Birx, every infectious disease specialist? The CDC?

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DottieBlue — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 00:02:07 GMT

For those who believe this virus isn't any more dangerous and won't effect any more numbers of people than the "usual" flu, and are ridiculing the precautions the experts want people to take, will you stay home when you get sick so that someone else can have that hospital bed even when your lungs are so filled up you can't breathe?

I doubt it.

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DottieBlue — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 00:03:57 GMT

WOW!!! Big Lots is paying their employees an extra $2.00 per hour?? A whopping $16.00 more for an 8-hour shift!! (Minus taxes, of course.) Those lucky employees are gonna be rich when this is all over!!

And how much tax-payer money are these corporations going to get from the $2T ?

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DottieBlue — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 01:30:03 GMT

@Moonlady wrote:
Ridiculous overreaction.

This virus will more than likely infect the majority of people, and not just Americans, who will recover, just as they do from other infections. Are they going to close every store? Every pharmacy? Every bank?

This isn't the apocalypse. The cooped-up and the masked have been duped into thinking that these measures are necessary and reasonable.

They're neither.

Do you still believe the world is being "duped" and that the stay-at-home order is a "ridiculous overreaction"?