My Recent Experience with THE COVID...

[SyonaraStanz]

At work, we had an intern (college aged male), who shadowed all departments throughout the company to learn about the business. He sat with many people within the company in close proximity to all he shadowed. As far as I know, no one wore masks; things were business as usual. Nearly two weeks ago, the intern is sent home, ill and with a fever. Last Friday he tested positive for THE COVID. All other employees he spent the most time with were tested. He had a "host" who he sat with the most, and who walked him around the company giving him the tour. No one has shown any symptoms or tested positive, including the girl he spent the most time with. So within 2 - 3 feet of people for extended periods of time, without wearing a mask, and no one appears to be sick. Tomorrow will be two weeks, since he was sent home, so we should be in the clear tomorrow.

I also talked to a physicians assistant the other day, and he said everyone he's treated that has tested positive had nothing more than a head cold. I don't know the demographic of his patients, but it's a small Delta town, so I'll assume an older demographic, and probably mostly black.

I find that interesting, and it makes me wonder if we have a milder strain in this area. This doesn't align with all of the fear mongering I'm reading left and right. I know or know of several people that have contracted it, all mostly older, and none were badly ill. The worst cases say it felt like the flu.

Anyway, I thought this place could use another COVID thread. This topic hasn't been discussed enough....****

 

[BogeyGolfer.sixpack]

At work, we had an intern (college aged male), who shadowed all departments throughout the company to learn about the business. He sat with many people within the company in close proximity to all he shadowed. As far as I know, no one wore masks; things were business as usual. Nearly two weeks ago, the intern is sent home, ill and with a fever. Last Friday he tested positive for THE COVID. All other employees he spent the most time with were tested. He had a "host" who he sat with the most, and who walked him around the company giving him the tour. No one has shown any symptoms or tested positive, including the girl he spent the most time with. So within 2 - 3 feet of people for extended periods of time, without wearing a mask, and no one appears to be sick. Tomorrow will be two weeks, since he was sent home, so we should be in the clear tomorrow.

I also talked to a physicians assistant the other day, and he said everyone he's treated that has tested positive had nothing more than a head cold. I don't know the demographic of his patients, but it's a small Delta town, so I'll assume an older demographic, and probably mostly black.

I find that interesting, and it makes me wonder if we have a milder strain in this area. This doesn't align with all of the fear mongering I'm reading left and right. I know or know of several people that have contracted it, all mostly older, and none were badly ill. The worst cases say it felt like the flu.

Anyway, I thought this place could use another COVID thread. This topic hasn't been discussed enough....****

Thanks for posting... I know of a multitude of situations just as you are describing...

 

[Shmuley]

THE COVIDS.

 

[dawglawz]

This whole thing highlights why a well-rounded education should include a course on statistics.

 

[dog12]

Thanks for posting... I know of a multitude of situations just as you are describing...

In my opinion, that's not at all surprising.

I acknowledge this virus has killed some people.

However, the overwhelming majority of people that have contracted this virus have no problem making a complete recovery. In many instances, the person that had the virus doesn't even know he/she had it, because he/she experienced no symptoms whatsoever.

None of these people will have a news story about them, because such stories are boring and do not help generate advertising revenue for the MSM.

 

[FISHDAWG]

my 31 yr old son has it and he says it sucks and is very difficult but not unbearable ... and he's quite healthy ... seems to be a personal thing on how severe this thing is

 

[Len2003]

Hospitalizations have greatly increased in Mississippi, so I don't think that lends itself to a milder strain.

 

[Walter White.sixpack]

Hospitalizations have greatly increased in Mississippi, so I don't think that lends itself to a milder strain.

Define "Greatly increased". Here are today's numbers. Average the last 7 days of hospitalizations = 543. Average June 11-17 = 470.
That's an increase in 15% of hospitalizations seven-day-average.

 

[travis.sixpack]

Hospitalizations in Louisiana have gone up for the past week after trending downward for almost two months.

 

[EagleDawg97]

Same experience here. We have about 20 in our company (over 3000 employees) that have tested positive, but luckily no severe symptoms. Our worst two cases said they felt like they had a bad cold. Over 80% have been completely asymptomatic. That’s hard for me to wrap my head around to tell you the truth. I have never heard of anyone that test positive for the flu that didn’t feel utterly horrible. However, with Covid the extremely deadly virus can be present and you never have a single symptom???

 

[tbaydog]

My 21 year old son and my wife tested positive and had severe flu like symptoms. After 7 days son completely rebounded and wife going on 12 days, beginning to slowly improve. So far my 12 year old and I have escaped it.

 

[J-Dawg]

THE COVIDS.

Probably caught at THE WALLMARKS or the KROGERS'S**

 

[Leeshouldveflanked]

My boss and his wife and their sister and bro in law all positive for Covid.... no symptoms so far... the Bro in law was first as they tested him during a physical...

 

[o_Native Son]

In my opinion, that's not at all surprising.

I acknowledge this virus has killed some people.

You are correct in this statement, but it's like saying "I know there are some misspellings in the thesis" or "I admit there are some spiders in the baby's room." In the US alone 130,000 killed, if you hadn't seen the actual number. "But a lot of people have had it and are fine, and the fake news MSM won't report on them," just shows how crazy things have gotten. Holy shlt...

 

[CreekFishin]

Obvious question, is this in Alabama?

My boss and his wife and their sister

 

[kired]

Probably doesn't change your percentage --- but think you have to add the red & green. Red is hospitalizations with confirmed infection - green is hospitalization with suspected infection, I assume waiting on test results to confirm.

So there's approximately 860 people hospitalized vs. about 660 two weeks ago. Maybe that drops a lot tomorrow, but the trend is definitely up.

 

[RocketDawg]

Arkansas.

 

[Leeshouldveflanked]

Texas actually... boss’ wife sister and his Bro in law....

 

[Mr. Chen]

Great logic buddy.

At work, we had an intern (college aged male), who shadowed all departments throughout the company to learn about the business. He sat with many people within the company in close proximity to all he shadowed. As far as I know, no one wore masks; things were business as usual. Nearly two weeks ago, the intern is sent home, ill and with a fever. Last Friday he tested positive for THE COVID. All other employees he spent the most time with were tested. He had a "host" who he sat with the most, and who walked him around the company giving him the tour. No one has shown any symptoms or tested positive, including the girl he spent the most time with. So within 2 - 3 feet of people for extended periods of time, without wearing a mask, and no one appears to be sick. Tomorrow will be two weeks, since he was sent home, so we should be in the clear tomorrow.

I also talked to a physicians assistant the other day, and he said everyone he's treated that has tested positive had nothing more than a head cold. I don't know the demographic of his patients, but it's a small Delta town, so I'll assume an older demographic, and probably mostly black.

I find that interesting, and it makes me wonder if we have a milder strain in this area. This doesn't align with all of the fear mongering I'm reading left and right. I know or know of several people that have contracted it, all mostly older, and none were badly ill. The worst cases say it felt like the flu.

Anyway, I thought this place could use another COVID thread. This topic hasn't been discussed enough....****

Don’t expect to hear anything other than confirmations in this thread. They are the survivors. All the posters who have already died obviously won’t be responding...

 

[msu86]

Define "Greatly increased". Here are today's numbers. Average the last 7 days of hospitalizations = 543. Average June 11-17 = 470.
That's an increase in 15% of hospitalizations seven-day-average.

My wife works at a Jackson Hospital and they have just shutdown ANOTHER entire floor just for Covid patients. They are expecting to have to soon shutdown elective surgeries again bc of the high numbers of COVID

 

[Dawgzilla]

COVID 19 can make it very hard for some peopl:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0735675720305143

 

[Jeffreauxdawg]

I guess I will just keep dropping this in threads.

How we know Covid19 is serious.

It's a respiratory virus. Of the 200+ respiratory viruses (colds and flus) almost every one of them fall off the map in late spring and summer, with the exception of enteroviruses that are the cause of the summer cold you hear about. Human coronavirus strains represent about 20% of the common colds we get and actually thrive in winter. Rhinovirus tends to be most rampant in fall and spring months. Without the benefit of research on this yet, I feel it would be safe to assume this coronavirus will act like the other Coronavirus strains and thrive in the winter. If this thing is causing problems in the summer, its going to be a nightmare in the winter.

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Seasonal changes in relative humidity affect the prevalence of colds. The most common cold-causing viruses survive better when humidity is low—the colder months of the year. Cold weather also makes the nasal passages' lining drier and more vulnerable to viral infection. Air conditioning creates cold dry air and might explain why cases in the summer are breaking out in the cities across the country where the most people congregate indoors in air conditioning.

So the fact that people are getting sick in the summer is due to the novel aspect of this coronavirus. The fact that many are asymptomatic is due the fact that in the summer it's much harder for the virus to survive so if you do get it, it's a lower infectious dose. (The infectious dose is the amount of a virus that enters your body. I heard someone use the jalapeno analogy. If you slice up a dozen jalapenos and eat one slice, it has a little kick for a minute and then you can have another. If you eat all of the slices at once, you are going to be on fire.) In conjunction with the lower viral dose you have a stronger immune system in the summer.


Vitamin D strengthens your immune system and we get it in the summer from sunlight. Not so much in winter.

Masks do not block 100% of the virus. N95 blocks +95%, hence the name. Surgical and homemade masks block +60-70%. So it obviously decreases your chances of getting it at all to some degree, but even more critcally if someone sprays you with Rona infested droplets, it will block most of them. This means if you do get it, it's going to likely be a much lower dose or viral burden. Back to the pepper analogy. No mask equals 100 pepper slices. N95 equals 5 pepper slices. Surgical or homemade equals 25 pepper slices.

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Indoor areas like bars and restaurants circulate cold dry air with air conditioning. This gives coronaviruses droplets and aerosols better atmosphere to hang around in than outdoor humid spaces.

All of this stuff is incremental, but it adds up. Take care of yourselves and while I am not discounting how dangerous this can be in the summer.... Just know that if it's still hanging around come colder weather, it will be whole lot more dangerous than it is today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/health/coronavirus-transmission-dose.html

 

[JML105]

Hawaii

Specifically Oahu. The extremely dense and social population of almost 1,000,000 with a total case number of 659 (<0.01% of population) with less than 20 total deaths (0.2% died that had virus).

I get they are surrounded by water and that gives them the advantage of keeping unknown people out, but they also had a ton of visitors (especially from Asia) in and out before we new this virus was a problem. Either way, the data is interesting.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/county-map.html

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/06/19/hawaii-covid-success-story-322919


I encourage everyone to play around with the first link to gain a real perspective of the cases vs deaths in counties all over the country. The msm throws out numbers everyday with no real context to sensationalize, but it's important to dig into CDC's data ourselves to get a true sense of what's going on. Also look at previous years deaths caused by Influenza and Respiratory illnesses. I find it difficult to believe that deaths traditionally labeled in these two categories are not now being labeled Covid deaths. Just my opinion though.

To me this thread brings up what I question most. The accuracy of testing. The CDC admits that testing may just give positive results of the virus that may cause Covid which is the same Coronavirus found in the common cold. I also work at a facility that numerous people have tested positive over the past month with no symptoms other than a few with some mild cold symptoms. Many people have been in very close contact with the people who tested positive and never tested positive themselves, including me.

With all of that said, I will continue to social distance as much as possible, practice good hygiene, limit the amount of things I touch in public, and wear a mask if that's what gives us a football season.

 

[dog12]

You are correct in this statement, but it's like saying "I know there are some misspellings in the thesis" or "I admit there are some spiders in the baby's room."

In my opinion, neither of your analogies reasonably apply to the topic of the number of deaths caused by the virus.

A thesis must have zero misspellings, and the baby's room must have zero spiders.

However, no reasonable person would expect zero deaths caused by the virus.

All of us knew from the beginning that the virus would cause some deaths. Additionally, we all know that the virus will cause some more deaths in the coming months/years.

Stated simply, there's no way to have zero deaths caused by the virus. To expect that is unreasonable.

 

[Drebin]

Hospitalizations have greatly increased in Mississippi, so I don't think that lends itself to a milder strain.

Are all of those hospitalizations covid related? Didn't think so.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

All good points. Thank you.