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!!!!??????
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.