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Mine too. Right up until you get on the phone. Then she's craving your undivided attention. I was just talking to my neighbor the other day who also has a four year old daughter (their birthdays are only a couple of weeks apart) and he's dealing with the same thing, so maybe it's just a this age thing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/us/new-york-city-coronavirus-outbreak.html Over all, Dr. Grubaugh estimated, infections spreading from New York account for 60 to 65 percent of the sequenced viruses across the country. “New York acted as the Grand Central Station for this virus, with the opportunity to move from there in so many directions, to so many places,” said David Engelthaler, head of the infectious disease branch of the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Arizona. It's time to stop this charade of propping Governor Cuomo up as some type of national hero in this pandemic. New York did a terrible job of handling their outbreak and their terrible job largely led to the national outbreak. If you want a national hero, I'd look toward the west coast where those states and major cities did MUCH better jobs containing their own outbreaks.

420k Coloradans have filed initial unemployment claims over the past 7 weeks. That's almost 15% of our total workforce that has lost their jobs in under two months.

I thought it was a fair question. I mean, we are basically trying to strike a balance between managing loss of life and managing economic devastation. I'm not sure there is a clear cut right or wrong answer.

There's no black and white answers there. We constantly have infectious diseases circulating in our population that WILL result in deaths.

Yeah, it's stupid but again... as long as the job is getting done, who cares?

Bingo. The majority of the people working from home are likely salaried anyway. As long as the job is getting done, who cares? It's not like there isn't a ton of time wasted in a typical office setting with small talk and interruptions from coworkers anyway.

Yeah, we don't have any immunity to a novel virus. The only potential immunity is following an infection or a vaccination. I do doubt that it would kill "millions" though. I just don't think this virus is going to prove lethal enough to do it even if it achieved 70%+ infection rate. The more data we get, the lower the mortality rate gets.

If you understood the process of how those scary sounding things were actually used then you'd understand why they're of no concern in the end product.

Where are we getting this vaccinations are bad "information" from? Memes posted on social media by Karens?

If she actually had something, she should've been smart enough to pass the info along to someone who's credibility isn't already thoroughly shot to hell. Everything she has is hearsay with no evidence to back it up, but we're supposed to believe any and all evidence against her was a complete fabrication? C'mon...

Maybe, just maaaaayyyyyybe, it's because a lot of really terrible diseases have been virtually eliminated by widespread use of vaccines.

Yeah, what do you expect someone to say when caught for falsifying data and fired for it? Her reputation and credibility were ruined. At that point, she pretty much has to double down and scream conspiracy.

Yeah, I watched it yesterday. I'm not saying she's wrong on everything, but I'm not buying some grand conspiracy theory from someone confirmed to have falsified research data.

This is the anti-vaxxer who has spent time in jail and basically threw away her career and credibility creating blatantly fraudulent clinical trial data.

If I had this poo, I was probably a super spreader. I traveled a poo ton in Q1 and I had COVID-like symptoms during much of the travel. All over the Seattle area in mid-January (where I think I picked it up), Spokane, all over Arizona (Phoenix area, Sedona, Flagstaff, Prescott), all over Colorado, North Carolina, Florida, Dallas area, Costa Rica. I didn't suspect COVID until well after I was fully recovered. While I had symptoms, the protocols were that you weren't suspected of having COVID unless you had traveled to an area with confirmed outbreak. At the time, when I had traveled to Seattle that was prior to their confirmed outbreak.

I paid out of pocket at National Jewish Hospital down in Denver. They developed their own test. They're one of the top respiratory hospitals in the nation.

Yeah, there's a chance it could be due to similar antibodies from some other flu/cold bug. That's why I'm curious to see how my wife's results come back. If hers come back definitive one way or the other then I'll assume I'm in the same both since we had the same bug back in mid-late January. If hers come back borderline as well then I'll follow up to see exactly what the results were. Were we just shy of the threshold and basically deemed not a positive result by technicality or were we off by a mile?

Yeah, for lots of viruses infection doesn't necessarily equal immunity. You have antibodies that provide resistance for a period of time, but they don't last forever. Here's the explanation of my test results per my test results: BORDERLINE. Borderline results show that the test detected some IgM antibodies. The level of antibodies found are below the level used to indicate positive results. These results may indicate a very early infection or cross reactivity. So, basically I either had it long enough ago for my antibodies to drop below the threshold (I think I had it in mid-late January) or it's a false positive. My wife took the test the same day but her results haven't come in yet. Curious to see hers. If hers are borderline as well, I'll follow up to try to get more details.

Basically, I interpret my results as I likely had it and now my antibodies are fading to the point that I'm likely now able to be reinfected or that I'll soon be to that point. In all likelihood, all the lockdown did for me personally was cost me my job and kept me isolating long enough to have my resistance to the virus dissipate. Fuging awesome.

Well, that was useless. My test came back as borderline. Some antibodies detected, but in a quantity insufficient to confirm a positive test. So... I don't know?

The reality is that those are financial decisions. If it's wrong, they've wasted a bunch of time, money, and other resources. In this situation, they're probably getting enough financial backing to make it worth their while regardless.

If they pull this off it would be beyond unprecedented. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-vaccine-oxford-university-scientists-september/?fbclid=IwAR3eZ3iItiOFa2VRfPh21pde-Iuco230GOvbWYvRQjslwSQNGxVGuqhFmII#app

I'm not advocating a complete return to normal, but we can start opening up a lot of businesses while wearing masks and implementing basic social distancing standards. I don't expect a return to full normalcy before next summer, but we have to start evolving in that direction and making the best of the "new normal" in the meantime. The trickiest part to me is handling things like the restaurant industry, bars, theaters, etc. I've seen a lot of suggestions about allowing those businesses to open up at reduced capacity but I'm honestly not sure if that's economically sustainable for them. Restaurant margins are already razor thin. I just can't foresee a scenario where the service industry doesn't just get absolutely crushed by this thing. There are a LOT of bars and restaurants out there whose doors will never reopen (under current ownership, that is).

Yeah, I had to run some errands yesterday and I'd say it was 50/50 on people wearing masks vs. not and it seemed to me that the the older someone was the lower their odds of wearing a mask and quite frankly that straight up pisses me off. These stay at home mandates are primarily to protect at-risk populations. I've been furloughed from my day job and had a promising start up business basically put on hold because of these mandates. So when I see members of at-risk populations out and about pretty much going on with life as usual, well... it makes me want to punch them right in the fuging throat.