My mom and I visited my dad every day while he was in a nursing home
with a rare neurological disorder that also cause a degree of dementia.
He wouldn't have understood why his family abandoned him in a nursing home.
Steve Jones wrote:
with her first exposure being tuesday and second wednesday we are
waiting til sunday to make a family trip. testing too early there wont
be enough RNA for a valid test. That facility does 5-7 days so next
friday to sunday. the hospital doesnt do staff testing, which is odd.
he sister works in a nursing home and one of her close quarters
coworkers tested asymptomatic positive monday, they took the facility
back to total lockdown and are testing every staff and resident weekly
until they have 2 weeks free of positive tests. the discrepancy in
testing among healthcare is simply astounding to me. a side note on
the rolling shitshow is my uncle lives at that facility and got put on
hospice yesterday. they wont let anyone into the facility to visit him
with the exception of his final hours, one single person get one
single visit. my aunt and cousins and mom are pretty tore up
On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 3:20 PM <ch...@wbmfg.com
<mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com>> wrote:
Ditto.
How long before her test results come back?
*From:* Jaime Solorza
*Sent:* Thursday, August 6, 2020 2:16 PM
*To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] COVID Exposure and the real world
Prayers for your wife and family.
On Thu, Aug 6, 2020, 2:06 PM Steve Jones
<thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> wrote:
So, the wife has a good probability of infection. She works at
a hospital as PCT (used to be CNA before PC). Patient came in
with high likelihood of COVID, Isolation protocols were put in
place, initial test came back negative, they pulled
precautions. Still using basic surgical masks and gloves (says
right on box that it doesnt stop COVID-19). Patient is on
assistive ventilation, aerosolized secretions.
Doctor snaps and orders new test, of course it comes back
positive.
So now multiple staff are exposed, the bad kind with
aerosolized secretions, thats the healthcare exposure they
warn about.
Of course today the hospital changes policy to mandatory eye
protection (bit late knuckleheads)
inept
I could co on about how pissed I am about this, and the fact
that theyre not offering testing to exposed employees, and
that the WHO recommendation is healthcare staff continue
coming into work until they show symptoms, and the fact that
staff wear the same mask for 12 hours and are scolded if they
want to change them even though mask production is sufficient
to support anything that comes at healthcare now. but thats a
whole other rant.
Moving forward we are treating the household as probably
infected. Sons baptism sunday is postponed. But trying to
figure timelines and how to handle exposure risks at my job.
Trying to read up on all the current politically motivated
data is a joke. Best I can tell is transmissibility minimum is
3 days, based on the newest harvard study. So assuming wife
did get it, we have 3 days from initial exposure for her to
infect me and 3 days after that that in transmissible, so
working on a minimum 6 day window until I have to shut down
contact.
I already notified everybody that If I come in for anything
(primarily working remote anyway) that ill be masked and
gloved (lol, cloth masks from her insurance provider) and wont
be within 6 feet of anybody.
After the 6 days until she is cleared, I wont be making in
person contact with anyone. If I enter the office, masked and
gloved, sanitize everything as i come out. We already have
staff separation, with different entrances for everyone. No
one inside at the same time as me, ill try to limit in office
to after hours. Any equipment I touch will be masked and
gloved, will be placed in out non air conditioned garage (gets
hot) for 24 hours before any other staff touches it and will
be sanitized.
My site work (assuming no positive tests or symptoms in my
house) will be limited to me only and exterior work only,
unmanned locations only, If any at risk climbing is required
of me, a second ground 911 man present, in vehicle only. I I
have to supervise any work, It will be from an isolated
location. Any site area I am in is not to be entered for 24 hours.
Any symptoms or positive tests in my house and we go on full
quarantine.
Ive made it abundantly clear that I think this whole thing is
blown out of proportion, the masks are nothing more than
something to make people feel like theyre doing something,
even though theyre really not effective and come fall theyll
be massive bacterial breeding grounds. But there is due
diligence, and I think this plan of attack is pretty
reasonable. It mitigates any risk while allowing us to
maintain productivity (assuming no symptoms or positive
tests). It feels like its something with minimal major company
impact and id easy to replicate given that my spouse works in
healthcare and this likely wont be the last high risk
exposure. But I still am not matt hoppes level.
At this time, I havent had any "exposure" but there is a
probable looming exposure. I'm personally relieved that its
probably in my house now, and we have time to prepare for the
inevitable. Im high risk because of COPD, so theres that, but
Ive already made right with that. Id rather just get it over
with, I had planned to get exposed a while back to get past it
but got that plan taken out from under me.
We may "luck out" and this exposure was a near miss, but if
transmissibility is anywhere near what the politics say it is,
this ones all but certain.
I think the 6 day window is a logical one to increase
precautions until we are past it. I think the non contact
addresses any risk to coworkers. I think the timeframe between
shared surface/inventory contact is reasonable and "science
based". and after 14 days from the last exposure (she was
exposed over two consecutive 12 hour shifts) is a good window
for increased precautions to be in play, with a review and
swap test at the drive through site nearby.
anybody but matt have any thoughts on this plan. I really
think its more than what is actually needed, but meets the
abundance of caution threshold
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