COVID isn't gone by a long shot...
Oct. 20th, 2022 09:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkat1. COVID and Family
I think most of my immediate family may have come down with COVID. Mother tested positive on Wednesday. Niece tested positive today, and her mother is testing herself tonight, and if they have it, bro may get it too.
Bro and Auntie N (mother's younger sister) talked Momma into getting the anti-viral agent - Pavloxid (sp?). Apparently Auntie N took it - and it helped her, and bro's friends swear by it. Momma says it's helping so far, lessened the cough, and took care of the shortness of breath.
Momma also told me that she didn't get any side-effects to any of the COVID vaccines, including the Biavalent, nor did she have any to the Flu shot.
On another note - apparently, I was wise to cancel dinner with niece tonight, since she tested positive today and headed home with her mother by train tonight - as opposed to staying in the city another night and leaving on Friday. She thinks she got it on Saturday from a customer who came in sick to the place where she works.
Mother is convinced she got it from her choir members - both tested positive on Tuesday, and she sits between them in choir.
I'd not have been able to see niece this Thursday anyhow, and if I'd met up with her on Wed, I'd have been exposed to COVID - which I so don't need right now.
2. COVID and Crazy Workplace
One of my co-workers told me that she and her husband contracted COVID shortly after they got the last vaccine.
ME: Makes me wonder about getting it -
Co-worker: No, no, do. Mine was rather mild. It makes you less likely to get really sick.
Me: Were you exposed at work?
Co-worker: No, we think we got exposed at church - it was a super-spreader event. Fifty people tested positive.
Meanwhile..in yet another Teams Meeting..
Estimator: We should have everyone turn their videos on.
ME: No. Teams has a tendency to crash when too many videos are on.
Estimator: Call IT
Me: It's not something that they can fix - it's Teams.
Estimator: At least during negotiations we should have everyone visible
Me: Only those negotiating need to be -
BYT: I agree, I think everyone should be -
Me: No -
BYT: Also, we need to get back to face-to-face negotiations, I know it's difficult to arrange on short-notice, but I'm going to push for that , there's no reason we can't be in a room -
Me: Look- no matter how much you all want to pretend that COVID has gone away and isn't an issue any longer - it is still very much an issue. It's not gone away.
Director: You're right. COVID is still very much an issue. A member of our team test positive for COVID today and was sent home.
I have to host six meetings, three cost discussion meetings, and three post-discussion meetings tomorrow with these folks. I've decided to say as little as possible, and attempt to take notes.
Sigh, I wish I could go one week without wishing BYT would get hit by a bus. One. Just one week.
3. Covid and Neighborhood
Tomorrow, around 5:50 or thereabouts, I have to go to the pharmacy to check in for my vaccination appointment and get the vaccines.
Today they had a little van out front of the pharmacy that was providing COVID Testing, Boosters, and Anti-Virals to folks. I'd never heard of the firm. We also have an Urgent Care next door to the Wallgreens Pharmacy now that offers Free Testing (with insurance, apparently as does Wallgreens), and vaccines. No appointment required. (I wonder if they know how to fill out SL8 forms.)
I think most of my immediate family may have come down with COVID. Mother tested positive on Wednesday. Niece tested positive today, and her mother is testing herself tonight, and if they have it, bro may get it too.
Bro and Auntie N (mother's younger sister) talked Momma into getting the anti-viral agent - Pavloxid (sp?). Apparently Auntie N took it - and it helped her, and bro's friends swear by it. Momma says it's helping so far, lessened the cough, and took care of the shortness of breath.
Momma also told me that she didn't get any side-effects to any of the COVID vaccines, including the Biavalent, nor did she have any to the Flu shot.
On another note - apparently, I was wise to cancel dinner with niece tonight, since she tested positive today and headed home with her mother by train tonight - as opposed to staying in the city another night and leaving on Friday. She thinks she got it on Saturday from a customer who came in sick to the place where she works.
Mother is convinced she got it from her choir members - both tested positive on Tuesday, and she sits between them in choir.
I'd not have been able to see niece this Thursday anyhow, and if I'd met up with her on Wed, I'd have been exposed to COVID - which I so don't need right now.
2. COVID and Crazy Workplace
One of my co-workers told me that she and her husband contracted COVID shortly after they got the last vaccine.
ME: Makes me wonder about getting it -
Co-worker: No, no, do. Mine was rather mild. It makes you less likely to get really sick.
Me: Were you exposed at work?
Co-worker: No, we think we got exposed at church - it was a super-spreader event. Fifty people tested positive.
Meanwhile..in yet another Teams Meeting..
Estimator: We should have everyone turn their videos on.
ME: No. Teams has a tendency to crash when too many videos are on.
Estimator: Call IT
Me: It's not something that they can fix - it's Teams.
Estimator: At least during negotiations we should have everyone visible
Me: Only those negotiating need to be -
BYT: I agree, I think everyone should be -
Me: No -
BYT: Also, we need to get back to face-to-face negotiations, I know it's difficult to arrange on short-notice, but I'm going to push for that , there's no reason we can't be in a room -
Me: Look- no matter how much you all want to pretend that COVID has gone away and isn't an issue any longer - it is still very much an issue. It's not gone away.
Director: You're right. COVID is still very much an issue. A member of our team test positive for COVID today and was sent home.
I have to host six meetings, three cost discussion meetings, and three post-discussion meetings tomorrow with these folks. I've decided to say as little as possible, and attempt to take notes.
Sigh, I wish I could go one week without wishing BYT would get hit by a bus. One. Just one week.
3. Covid and Neighborhood
Tomorrow, around 5:50 or thereabouts, I have to go to the pharmacy to check in for my vaccination appointment and get the vaccines.
Today they had a little van out front of the pharmacy that was providing COVID Testing, Boosters, and Anti-Virals to folks. I'd never heard of the firm. We also have an Urgent Care next door to the Wallgreens Pharmacy now that offers Free Testing (with insurance, apparently as does Wallgreens), and vaccines. No appointment required. (I wonder if they know how to fill out SL8 forms.)