PITY BONER posted:

The schools near me were getting Fridays off because there were 1. too many students out sick, 2. too many teachers out sick, or 3. too many students and teachers out sick. They thought if they could at least get kids to come for four days that more would be willing to show up or something. No virtual lesson option, as far as I know. I have a feeling they'll be back to four-day weeks this year, too.

Tagra posted:

So my husband says there is not a chance in hell that any schools in the US or Canada will close due to COVID mandates this fall, and I said if he is wrong I will purchase a strap-on and peg him and he was like "it's not going to happen so whatever"

I'm pretty sure it already happened but all I can find are 'teacher shortages' (due to everyone being loving sick from COVID) so I might not have won yet.

Regardless, what size/colour should I start shopping for?

Also any sources of schools closing due to actual COVID mandates would be very helpful right now thanks in advance

Platystemon posted:

Medical professionals see so many colds in August.

Oracle posted:

Welp, spoke too soon. Oldest popped positive this morning. I actually had to argue for the NP to give her the drat test after the strep rapid came back negative. First she said it was probably a cold, then she warned me that she’d be out five days from start of symptoms if she tested positive, then she told me it could be 24-48 hours til we got results back.
Her symptoms started Tuesday with a sore throat, she ran 99.5 fever, and had a slight cough and a little post nasal drip. Sore throat got worse so two rapid binax tests later both negative, we figured it was strep.
She masks at school but it had to have happened there. Given when her symptoms started probably Friday or Monday. Which was 2nd and 3rd day of school.
Welcome to the plague pits. (We got the test results about five-six hours later). Took the youngest in this afternoon to get him swabbed as well since you can’t trust the otc tests for poo poo. I was still negative on PCR; tested right after she did.

A Strange Aeon posted:

The NP warned you if your kid tested positive, they'd be out 5 days and therefore are you sure you want her tested? Like, the NP implied maybe don't test?

jetz0r posted:

They will very explicitly close due to teacher shortages that are absolutely not connected in any way to covid, everyone will simply be out sick because they no longer want to work.

1-600-DOCTORB posted:

I have a covid story that is a little weird. I caught it in the spring of last year, just a few weeks before I was eligible for the vaccine. I had breakfast with my mom while I was in town, then the next day she called and told me she tested positive. I tested positive a couple of days later. (She got through it fine). The cough and cold symptoms were pretty mild, but I completely lost my senses of smell and taste, and that sucked. When they started to come back, they were all screwed up. Everything tasted like metallic garlic for weeks, and I could constantly smell phantom cigarette smoke or something similar, which also lasted for weeks.

Even today, 18 months later, my senses of taste and smell are diminished, and screwed up in very peculiar ways. For instance, diesel exhaust smells exactly like cooked onions to me. Also, I'm fairly certain I can no longer smell skunk. I've passed at least a dozen roadkill skunks while driving, and haven't been able to smell a single one.

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Gerald sat down. His appearance fulfilled the promise of his voice over the telephone. A sort of nervous dullness wrapped him about like a garment.

“It's just my luck,” he said gloomily. “It's the kind of thing that couldn't happen to anyone but me. Damned fools! Where's the sense in shutting the theatres, even if there is influenza about? They let people jam against one another all day in the stores. If that doesn't hurt them why should it hurt them to go to theatres? Besides, it's all infernal nonsense about this thing. I don't believe there is such a thing as Spanish influenza. People get colds in their heads and think they're dying. It's all a fake scare.”

1-600-DOCTORB posted:

Even today, 18 months later, my senses of taste and smell are diminished, and screwed up in very peculiar ways. For instance, diesel exhaust smells exactly like cooked onions to me. Also, I'm fairly certain I can no longer smell skunk. I've passed at least a dozen roadkill skunks while driving, and haven't been able to smell a single one.

https://www.bmj.com/content/378/bmj-2021-069503 posted:

Parametric cure models project that 5.6% and 4.4% of patients might develop long lasting self-reported smell and taste dysfunction post-covid-19, respectively—about 15 million and 12 million patients worldwide as of July 2022

Meta-analyses of reconstructed time-to-event individual patient data (IPD) showed that at 30, 60, 90, and 180 days, respectively, about 74%, 86%, 90%, and 96% of patients self-reported smell recovery and 79%, 88%, 90%, and 98% of patients self-reported taste recovery, among patients who remained alive at the given time

Women were less likely to recover their sense of smell and taste, and patients with greater initial severity of dysfunction and those with nasal congestion were less likely to recover their sense of smell

Spinz posted:

It IS weird

A Strange Aeon posted:

The NP warned you if your kid tested positive, they'd be out 5 days and therefore are you sure you want her tested? Like, the NP implied maybe don't test?

A Strange Aeon posted:

The NP warned you if your kid tested positive, they'd be out 5 days and therefore are you sure you want her tested? Like, the NP implied maybe don't test?

gohuskies posted:

One of my friends was told by their pharmacy that the pharmacy has placed an order for "Bivalent COVID-19 (omicron BA.5 + original strain) Booster Shots" and they expect them to arrive in stock shortly after Labor Day, but they won't be able to start actually dosing them until FDA says to go for it. But at least the fact that stuff is being actively ordered sounds like good news to me.

A Strange Aeon posted:

The NP warned you if your kid tested positive, they'd be out 5 days and therefore are you sure you want her tested? Like, the NP implied maybe don't test?

McCracAttack posted:

You would not believe how many parents are deliberately avoiding testing their kids because they don't want them to miss another 5 days of school.

Blitter posted:

This chance of olfactory related brain damage every covid infection seems bad to me, but if it means people go out to restaurants then it must be good?

Beartaco posted:

It's not brain damage, it's damage to the sensory receptors. It's hosed up, but I think that's an important distinction to make.

Beartaco posted:

It's not brain damage, it's damage to the sensory receptors. It's hosed up, but I think that's an important distinction to make.

Pookah posted:

100 years ago, and the attitude and arguments are identical to the ones we all saw the whole way through the course of the Covid pandemic.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Most of the time it's damage to the sensory receptors but covid can gently caress up your headmeat via multiple mechanisms, some of which are legit brain damage: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01693-6

Zugzwang posted:

Powered Descent posted:

We're now about two-thirds of the way through the Greek alphabet. For what names to use after it runs out, I'm dusting off a suggestion for hurricanes: use Pokemon names. Just go in order, starting with the Bulbasaur variant.

Pookah posted:

The really bizarre thing is that Spanish flu only comes up as a plot point a couple of times throughout the book written and set in 1920/21 and yet Wodehouse nails 90% of the denialist attitude in about 6 sentences.
-Why are 2 profoundly different things treated differently?
-Everyone is imagining that they are sick.
-Fake News.

Charliegrs posted:

The only thing this really shows is that America literally learned nothing from the Spanish Flu and that modern day Americans deal with a deadly virus the exact same way they did a century ago.

Raskolnikov2089 posted:

"Maybe we're just not surrendering hard enough to the virus?"

Free tests through USPS being cancelled after 9/2. Order asap. I'm waiting on them to cancel the emergency act so my insurance no longer has to pay for them either.

Raskolnikov2089 posted:

"Maybe we're just not surrendering hard enough to the virus?"

Free tests through USPS being cancelled after 9/2. Order asap. I'm waiting on them to cancel the emergency act so my insurance no longer has to pay for them either.

boar guy posted:

400/3k kids at my daughters' school out with influenza-a

explosivo posted:

Lol just about everybody that went to the big work conference last week predictably came back with Covid and we're days out from a massive deadline with people calling out because they are sick with Covid. Had a (virtual) meeting earlier with my boss who went and is definitely sick with covid but pretending it's just a cough/allergies where he admonished the people taking off today for not "stepping up and working through it" because we're so close to a deadline and could really use the help. poo poo like this is exactly why I am still taking precautions and avoiding putting myself in situations where I'll almost certainly get Covid. They probably won't fire you for getting covid at the work function you volunteered to help at and subsequently callilng out sick but they will definitely be talking poo poo about you behind your back for doing so.

Oracle posted:

They all expired back in December anyway if the ones I received are any indication.

A Strange Aeon posted:

I thought the home tests weren't great to begin with? Is it just a better than nothing kinda thing?