COVID-19

[obhave]

Yup... do not get tested. Assume you've got it, stay home, quarantine, and then go about your life.

This makes contact tracing difficult in the end though, because they wouldn't know if a secondary individual would need to be tested, and ends up hurting people who depend on hourly work (if they are in fact not sick).

The resources are there now for testing and states should really have robust contact tracing by now.

[count2infinity]

Oh, I'm not saying it's correct. It's just that it's not unheard of...

Fast and repeated testing makes the most sense for this thing, but that costs money.

[CBear3]

Plant Manager's wife tested positive this weekend.
Plant Manager is quarantined at home this week.
I had a conversation with the plant manager last week. Should I quarantine?
Then should everybody I've been in contact with quarantine?

[faftorial]

Plant Manager's wife tested positive this weekend.
Plant Manager is quarantined at home this week.
I had a conversation with the plant manager last week. Should I quarantine?
Then should everybody I've been in contact with quarantine?

Do your own contact tracing pal.

[eddy]

Work colleague wife and child tested positive. He tested negative and came to work. Is that the right thing to do? She is a teacher and went to work a week later because her symptoms went away. I'm not so sure that's the right thing either, shouldn't it be 2 weeks?

[nocera]

That is the wrong thing to do.

[eddy]

I'm glad I seem to be the only sane person in the office.

[King Colby]

Thats definitely the wrong thing to do.

If i were in Cbear's situation I would probably do everything in my power to self quarantine for 5-7 days but probably not contact anyone unless the plant manager himself gets sick. I feel like being exposed to someone who was exposed is a good threshold. Being exposed to someone who was exposed to someone who was exposed is a lot of degrees.

[tifosi77]

IIRC the rules are to quarantine for 2 weeks after exposure to a COVID+ person regardless of your own test results.

[shoeshine boy]

in my office, the guy who tested positive was allowed to return to work 10 days later. all of the others who were exposed to him had to quarantine for 14 days. made no sense to me.

[tifosi77]

That makes sense to me. They are just accounting for the incubation period for the people who were exposed, so naturally they will be expected to be out a few days longer.

[shoeshine boy]

my biggest issue is they just said, "come back after 10 days", not come back 10 days after your symptoms go away or 10 days after your last fever (if he had one) and he is absolutely the kind of guy who would come in if they hadn't made him stay home. not because he's a denier but because he's the kind of guy that even though he's worked for the government for 20+ years, he always thinks he's about to get fired.
I guess what I'm wondering is, at what point is he no longer contagious?

[CBear3]

It was really more a comment on assume you've got it and don't bother getting tested. If the plant manager got tested and came back negative everybody he was in contact with would not have to self quarantine. The ramifications/ripple of not getting tested grows into some pretty large waves.

[King Colby]

Except his negative test would mean very little since the incubation period can be long

[CBear3]

Except his negative test would mean very little since the incubation period can be long

But can he test negative because of the long incubation period and have passed it on three days prior to the test?
His negative test doesn't get him back to work, but it would free up those that contacted him days prior .

[King Colby]

Except his negative test would mean very little since the incubation period can be long

But can he test negative because of the long incubation period and have passed it on three days prior to the test?
His negative test doesn't get him back to work, but it would free up those that contacted him days prior .

Good question. I think probably not. Or at least unlikely

[obhave]

Except his negative test would mean very little since the incubation period can be long

The strategy you mentioned above is the best one, you isolate for 5-7 days, then get a test. Most tests are pretty reliable 5-7 days after potential exposure.

[DigitalGypsy66]

It's such a ****.

So, like I mentioned, my kids are eLearning for the first two weeks beginning September 8. My middle school son goes for one day that week - to pick up his textbooks, iPad, **** standardized (baseline) testing, and so on. They are spreading out this orientation day across the whole week to keep class sizes small.

My high school aged son starts online right on the 8th.

I've been back to work for three weeks, my wife for this week. She's a teacher/administrator and probably will have to go teach on occasion, as they've lost 6 teachers to the district virtual academy.

She worked from home in the spring, and trying to work and keep them from a) killing each other and b) actually completing their work was a full time job. It was very stressful for everyone - trying to work and help them get through schoolwork. I'm not "good" enough to do it - she is a perfectionist; I am aware that my kids attend mediocre public schools in SC and probably learn more by reading and exploring.

So I'd like to take those two weeks and work from home, to make sure they finish their work adequately so my wife doesn't work 10 hours and have to come home and have to do it (although she probably will anyway, as she doesn't trust me lol).

The problem is we are understaffed, as we have been for the last three years, and one staff member is going out for two weeks for surgery (that has been put off because of COVID) on...September 9th.

Do I take that time off and help my kids and keep my wife's mental health intact, but completely screw over my already understaffed department?

[MrKennethTKangaroo]

imo the scenario playing out on page 554 of this here thread explains our current situation better than anything else

[NTP66]

Do I take that time off and help my kids and keep my wife's mental health intact, but completely screw over my already understaffed department?

Family first, always.

[shafnutz05]

Do I take that time off and help my kids and keep my wife's mental health intact, but completely screw over my already understaffed department?

Family first, always.

[Morkle]

Vontae Mack. No Matter What.

[blackjack68]

Do I take that time off and help my kids and keep my wife's mental health intact, but completely screw over my already understaffed department?

Family first, always.

Definitely

[DigitalGypsy66]

Yeah, that's what I'm doing.

[DigitalGypsy66]

Also, our university is sending staff (including our new president!!!) to off-campus housing to make sure students are not congregating in groups without masks.

I'm glad, but also horrified at the lack of privacy and trust.