Re: Covid On The Job

1Snickers · ‎03-19-2016

@cuddlesmama My son owns a store & DIL works retai.
He is getting their packages Christmas Eve and I'm staying home.
With lung disease I wouldn't consider it.

busymom22 · ‎07-26-2017

Don't take the chance. My husband, daughter and I have covid right now and are still stumped with where we got it.

We've been fairly isolated, not having people over, just going to stores for food, etc. We always wear masks and wash our hands. I have to admit until we got Covid I didn't think we were at that great of a risk of catching it but I was wrong!

We got follow up calls from our county where we tested. They told us some pretty specific facts about Covid. Usually people catch it 3 days before they show symptoms, and that now you are considered contagious-free day 10 after first getting sick.

With the vaccine being so close to helping us get out of this pandemic I would not risk catching it!

January121 · ‎03-21-2010

I would tell him to stay away .... talk to him on the phone or do a video chat but, DO NOT let him anywhere near you & your husband 🤒

Ibby114 · ‎03-10-2010

@CAcableGirl2 wrote:
@cuddlesmama Does he have any symptoms? Depending on the size of the company, the ones who have it could never had any interaction with his department.

I have friends whose family members that they lived with tested positive but they never got it (and tested negative).

I think at this point, all companies who have people working in a building (not from home) during these times, have employees who have tested positive.

@CAcableGirl2 He could be asymptomatic. That's what we all need to be -- super cautious with covid.

Zoom holidays in 2020 are the best compromise!

Ibby114 · ‎03-10-2010

@Mindy D wrote:
@Nonametoday wrote:
A younger guy (not young, but anyone under 50 is young to me nowadays) in our community died last night. He always wore his mask, good about enforcing the same with his children. Healthy (former triathelon) runner. Perhaps his children brought it home from school, unbeknownst to the family. Even so, they are his minor children. It might have been a time when his immune system was down. We never know but it has shocked everyone in our area.
@Nonametoday @If the guy was around any people he went to, mask on or not, he could have caught the virus at the time. This viral transmission is about contact with others. Social distancing is a big help but it's not nearly as good as zero contact. Masks are just one tool to help reduce the spread but they are not 100% effective at preventing COVID. Same goes for hand hygiene, surface cleaning, great personal immunity and general health. None of these things is 100% effective at preventing transmission and illness except zero contact with other people and the objects they touch and the air they share with you.

@Mindy D @Nonametoday For this reason exactly, the medical community recommends doing a combination of the cdc guidelines.

Nonametoday · ‎03-09-2010

@cuddlesmama @Ibby114

Did you know him? Then why are you judging him for raising his children?

Nonametoday · ‎03-09-2010

@Mindy D wrote:
@Nonametoday wrote:
A younger guy (not young, but anyone under 50 is young to me nowadays) in our community died last night. He always wore his mask, good about enforcing the same with his children. Healthy (former triathelon) runner. Perhaps his children brought it home from school, unbeknownst to the family. Even so, they are his minor children. It might have been a time when his immune system was down. We never know but it has shocked everyone in our area.
@Nonametoday @If the guy was around any people he went to, mask on or not, he could have caught the virus at the time. This viral transmission is about contact with others. Social distancing is a big help but it's not nearly as good as zero contact. Masks are just one tool to help reduce the spread but they are not 100% effective at preventing COVID. Same goes for hand hygiene, surface cleaning, great personal immunity and general health. None of these things is 100% effective at preventing transmission and illness except zero contact with other people and the objects they touch and the air they share with you.

@Mindy D

Please. I have a medical background. Do not lecture. You don't know the man. You do not know his circumstances. You do not know this wonderful family and you do not know my background and I beg of you, please quit complaining, criticizing and condemining people you do not know. That's why I quit coming here for a long period of time. Good-bye. I am gone again.

minimalistWF · ‎02-02-2018

@cuddlesmama

Where on earth does your son work where so many people contacted Covid? I would be concerned working in such an environment. Seems like there were either not safety protocols in place or nobody folllowed them. Either way, please keep your husband and yourself safe, this is not a risk worth taking.

If you are still considering having him over, just think about how you would feel if your husband or you contract it and get seriously ill. It will be too late then.