Americans 'dramatically misunderstand' risk of dying from COVID-19, researchers say

I'm in the high risk group and don't want to test positive for the virus but I'm not shutting down life to avoid it. I don't want to be hit by a train so I don't stand on the tracks while one is rolling through, but I do accept the inherent risk each time I cross over a set. Eventually we will all pass the same finish line of life, what is life without living.
 
I am in my 60s and have lung scarring from a horrible case of pneumonia years ago, so I guess I am technically at risk too. But I am not going to live in fear or shut my life down.

I try to take reasonable precautions and that's as far as I'm going to go. I'm blood type O, so that should help a little. I know for fact that I've been blatantly exposed at least twice and have not gotten it yet that I know of (unless that horrible stuff I had last December was it). I realize none of this means I'm safe, but so far so good.

It is what it is. Life goes on.
 
I do not fear dying of Covid I do not fear being sick... instead I fear the length of time you are sick - I hear two weeks at least of being ill, then waiting to test free of shedding the virus and being contagious is at least 2 weeks, but for many the whole thing is at least two months!!!!!

My mom's neighbor was 2 months... now it turns out one of my employees has had it!!!!!!! It has taken two months.

One of our employees, due to becoming pregnant, chose not to come back to work once we started to have more hours in April. She is in her 40's, and had first trimester nausea and fatigue, her supervisor asked her to keep her up to date about her availability.

Jump forward to this week. The pregnant employee's husband called me. The employee speaks mostly Spanish, so the husband called to say she was ready to return to work that now she was Covid free... WHAT!!!!?????? :dunno: :facepalm::dunno: Rewind the tape!

When she spoke to her supervisor, in Spanish, there was a lack of understanding. The supervisor is from the Philippines with basic Spanish -what could go wrong? Initially in April/May, the pregnant employee was nauseous and did not want the few days that were available. Then in June she called the supervisor to tell her the husband was sick with Covid, so they were isolating and she could not work... that detail was not understood.

Boy, did we dodge a bullet on this one. If she had been working, I am sure other staff would have gotten sick.

The husband got Covid first... started with a fever. He isolated, but it was too late. He had given it to his wife and kids, his mother, his sister, and the sister's kids. The mother and sister were hospitalized, my employee had a bad case, but was not hospitalized, The rest of the family had moderate cases... but it has taken until now , 4 tests later, for my employee to test Covid Free. In the meantime, my employee, her husband and their 20 year old son, and her sister-in-law sister have not been able to work for over two months. Once they were feeling better, they had to wait for their covid test to come back negative.

No one died.
 
J-man said:
I'm in the high risk group and don't want to test positive for the virus but I'm not shutting down life to avoid it. I don't want to be hit by a train so I don't stand on the tracks while one is rolling through, but I do accept the inherent risk each time I cross over a set. Eventually we will all pass the same finish line of life, what is life without living.
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Same here. Both the Mrs. and I have several comorbidities, two Biggie's each and a couple of lesser ones. We take every reasonable precaution. We haven't eaten out since February. We shop one at a time instead of going together. We limit shopping trips to what we need, and buy more online. We wear a mask when we are around others and mind our distance from others.

But we haven't stopped living. We go to Dr. appointments, grocery stores, Wally World, takeout restaurants, and go outdoors and to the cabin. We see a limited number of friends who we know are also being careful. It's what we can maintain until there is a vaccine.

As for that vaccine, sign me up. Two weeks after I take it my life returns to as near normal as possible. I plan on eating the biggest steak I can find in a sit down restaurant with an actual waitress. I will go to the farmers market in Ellijay and attend the next Apple Festival and tree lighting. I will hike to.popular waterfalls and tube down the Cartecay. I may even get on a plane or drive and go to the beach for a week and eat all the seafood on the coast.
 
With us being older (in our 50s and overweight) we would normally be careful, but with four parents over 75 we're still trying to be very careful. Masks wherever we go, and very rarely eat in a restaurant, and when we do, we aim for off peak times when we'll have more space. But we have to keep going, so we have shopped in places as we need to and keep going elsewhere as needed as well.
 
Granted I haven't done the math, but seems like calling COVID the 3rd leading cause of death is fudging the numbers some.

"She who adores me and her three sisters have been tag teaming to take care of her parents, and three of us sons in law have had to be over there to repair stuff, etc. The in-laws are both in their 80s and in poor health, so one of us giving them COVID is a big concern. The girls have no choice though, the old folks are to the point where they need constant assistance now. Not a good situation.
 
Guard Dad said:
Granted I haven't done the math, but seems like calling COVID the 3rd leading cause of death is fudging the numbers some.

"She who adores me and her three sisters have been tag teaming to take care of her parents, and three of us sons in law have had to be over there to repair stuff, etc. The in-laws are both in their 80s and in poor health, so one of us giving them COVID is a big concern. The girls have no choice though, the old folks are to the point where they need constant assistance now. Not a good situation.
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Yep. Dad and Mom are very close to that. He has long term care insurance that would pay for people to come in, but do we really want that?

Crap, this virus is making things complicated. :(
 
Somebody at work tested positive a couple weeks ago but it wasn't announced who it was. Fortunately, we've been mostly all working fully remote so only a few people were in the office while the infected person was there. I assume whomever it was fully recovered or was asymptomatic as everyone on the staff Zoom call the other day looked normal.

Regarding a vaccine, I'll probably hold off at least a month or so just to make sure people taking it don't start growing extra limbs or worse first.
 
cptlo306 said:
Somebody at work tested positive a couple weeks ago but it wasn't announced who it was. Fortunately, we've been mostly all working fully remote so only a few people were in the office while the infected person was there. I assume whomever it was fully recovered or was asymptomatic as everyone on the staff Zoom call the other day looked normal.

Regarding a vaccine, I'll probably hold off at least a month or so just to make sure people taking it don't start growing extra limbs or worse first.
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That's my big concern with something that was fast tracked through the FDA. It may prevent the rona, but what will it cause?
 
I read a SiFi book one time that part of the plot was that there was a vaccine that was rushed to production, but one plant got part of the production cycle backwards.... Instead of a vaccine, they injected live virus. It was "only" 800 people, but it scared the world so bad, that no one would take the vaccine and the actual disease spread like crazy (and was very deadly).

Health stuff done in a hurry scares me. (along with Aircraft maintenance done in a hurry.)
 
My sister and her entire family just got over having Covid. My sister had it the worse and said it was absolutely horrible. The rest of her family had a mild case of it. She and her husband are the same age and all he had was a low grade fever with vomiting and diarrhea. I don't want to get it, but I'm not going to hole up in my house either. I wear a mask all day at work as it is required. I wear it when out shopping. I don't wear it when I'm painting because that's my world.
 
Boss 302 said:
My sister and her entire family just got over having Covid. My sister had it the worse and said it was absolutely horrible. The rest of her family had a mild case of it. She and her husband are the same age and all he had was a low grade fever with vomiting and diarrhea. I don't want to get it, but I'm not going to hole up in my house either. I wear a mask all day at work as it is required. I wear it when out shopping. I don't wear it when I'm painting because that's my world.
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My roommate's mom and step dad had the mild form that included the fever and cough, but the worst was the nausea, vomiting and diarrhea that really took a toll... dehydration of the step dad that led to the step dad being delusional. The mom ( who is a nurse) had to deal with him as she was sick and nauseous. Halfway through she ended up not being able to sleep for over 36 hours due to her husband's delusions.

The step dad has been circling the drain for a few years health wise and now spends his night and day in a reclining chair in the living room because he is so bad off. The thought was if the mom got sick, he would get it and die. Shockingly he did not die. He may not live much longer due to all his other medical problems, but he did not die.
 
Boss 302 said:
My sister and her entire family just got over having Covid. My sister had it the worse and said it was absolutely horrible. The rest of her family had a mild case of it. She and her husband are the same age and all he had was a low grade fever with vomiting and diarrhea. I don't want to get it, but I'm not going to hole up in my house either. I wear a mask all day at work as it is required. I wear it when out shopping. I don't wear it when I'm painting because that's my world.
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Aren't you afraid of sucking any of that over spray into your lungs,,, that's the one time I really appreciate a mask is when I'm blasting something with a rattle can!!!
 
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