2019 Novel Coronavirus

[Dleg]

1 in every 1000 residents in North Dakota has been killed by COVID-19, currently the highest death rate in the world... this is going to be a rough stretch. 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2020/11/18/1-in-every-1000-north-dakota-residents-has-been-killed-by-covid/

 

[Dothracki PE]

 

[blybrook PE]

 

[Road Guy]

^ Pull over sir, we know you have a Turkey and a Honey Baked Ham! Cant no family of 4 eat all that in one sitting..

You know whats a little funny is that this was going to be the year we crashed my wife's family's big thanksgiving dinner they do every year (in the grand old town of Fort Valley, GA).

For the (going on) 8 years here being 1600 miles away from home and getting invited and lots and lots of grief over never coming - but we were gonna leave our kids here and make a suprise trip - oh well maybe next year..

 

[Dleg]

 

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[Violator]

 

[kevo_55]

 

[kevo_55]

 

[Road Guy]

Lol

 

[Violator]

 

[Platypus Engineer]

Saw an ad for the Clapper this morning. Add in all the way over the top perfume/cologne ads, it is officially Christmas season.

Just need to hear "Father Christmas"  by the Kinks and I'm good

 

[jeb6294]

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJCxJBFP/

 

[Violator]

Monday’s

 

[kevo_55]

 

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[JayKay PE]

Ugh.  So.  Plans for Christmas.  Originally was going to fly, but when I saw the airports for Thanksgiving...yeah, no, I'd much rather drive.  I mentioned it to my parents, and they were actually going to suggest that as well, so I'm now driving from Indiana to Long Island, NY.  I expressed my concerns with both my parents and grandparents about covid, and transmission, but they all said it was a risk they were willing to take.

Due to NY testing requirements, I'm going to test three days before I leave (hopefully I can schedule both a rapid test and a 3-day test, just in case the rapid is a false positive).  I'll leave Thursday after work, have a hotel around 6 hours away.  Sleep for 8 hours and then travel the rest of the way Friday.  Once I arrive, I need to get tested again three days later, so Monday.  Testing is much easier to schedule in NY than Indiana.  I told my parents I'm going to wear my mask while I'm indoors/eat when they aren't, until I get the test results.  Also, even if both my tests come back negative, I'm going to wear my mask with my grandparents/not take it off.  If I need to eat/drink, I'll do so outside.  They all seem fine with believing my test results, if they come back negative, but I don't want to take chances.

Tbh.  The only reason I am still going, instead of just driving down to Arkansas for Christmas, is because my grandparents were continuously asking for me to come on the FaceTime chat we had on Sunday and the 'guilt' card I got from grandma about me not coming for Thanksgiving.

 

[mudpuppy]

Understand your predicament @JayKay PE.  We drove to Georgia (about 12 hour drive) for Thanksgiving.  After a lot of discussion between us and my family and my wife's family, we've decided to skip Christmas altogether.  Pretty much everyone in both families is high-risk (age, diabetes, immune deficiencies, etc.) and we don't want to go around visiting all of them and risk spreading the virus around.  It was bad enough going for Thanksgiving (we wore masks inside and ate outside) but it only seems like things are getting worse.  And if we don't go see one part of the family we can't really in good conscience go see another part.

Fortunately pretty much everyone understood and was on board (both of our families are divorced, so there's four families in total) except my mother-in-law.  But she came around in time.

There really are no good answers these days.

 

[Road Guy]

hopefully you can get some decent weather and have some good time together outside with your grandparents - 

I wont tell you any ICU stories but my wifes cousin skipped her wedding and eloped a few months ago to keep from having the guilt of someone becoming infected at the wedding or due to the wedding ( you wont keep old people away from a wedding) - then she got covid overseas (she is a flight attendant) her new hubs got it, then her mom got it who had come over to help paint a room in their house, then her dad got it ( he just got over colon cancer last year) now they have spread it to another cousin and hs wife and son in south georgia who stopped by to borrow something from her dad, who then have spread it to another family member...

Luckily that happened before thanksgiving because I think it helped keep the rest of the family from getting together at turkey day - also lucky the neice who got it first is now over it because she is now pregnant, and covid + pregnant is a bad mix.

I guess the road to hell is paved with good intentions because her main concern for not having the wedding was her dad, who ended up getting it anyways he still has it but appears to be getting better - about 10 days in currently.

But none of them got it at a restaurant