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Dik
The difference between a rectal thermometer and an oral thermometer…
the taste
Dik
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Catch the latest:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/05/05/trump-george-conway-coronavirus/
I think the Americans are totally Friar Tucked…
Dik
Hey dik
Remember this Canadian history?
Brian Mulroney Former Prime Minister of Canada
1984 Led the Progressive Conservatives to a landslide, winning 211 of the 282 seats, the largest seat total in Canadian history.
1988 In his second general election as leader, Mulroney was returned to office, but with a reduced majority.
Going forward, things did not go well;
1991 The Progressive Conservative Party’s popularity reached a low of just over 15% in 1991
1993 With polls showing him facing almost certain defeat in the next election, Mulroney announced his retirement from politics in February 1993
Kim Campbell becomes the Prime minister, and is personally quite popular, but can’t shake the general antagonism of the voters towards the party that was generated by Mulroney.
1993 Election Going in, a healthy majority.
The next day, only two seats in Parliament.
Kim Campbell, the prime Minister and Party Leader loses her seat.
The Conservatives lose official party standing.
They lost all but two of the 156 seats they held when Parliament was dissolved .
If Trump just keeps doing what Trump does, it may work out for the best.
(Depending on your definition of best of course.) grin
It has been a while since this topic has been mentioned. I figured I’d spill the beans on my recent adventures.
I’ll go chronologically as I think it makes more sense that way.
- Coworker in the plant starts feeling sick on Tuesday, 6/30 (I was not aware of this at the time.)
- On Wednesday, I take off work and we have a small get together at our house for my youngest’s 3rd birthday, out in the backyard. So not enclosed together, but we didn’t take particular care to distance. This included our parents, siblings, and my grandmother (a total of 15 people)
- I am back at work on Thursday and the rest of our plant continues to work, but this employee does not return on Wednesday or Thursday (Friday is the observed day for Independence Day, so the facility is closed)
- On Friday, we see a small group of friends in the evening. No overt closeness, but we are all in the same room together.
- On Saturday, we go to a birthday party for a cousin that is again, outside. No particular effort at distancing, but little or no hugs or kisses being exchanged.
- Saturday night, I awake at about 2 AM sick to my stomach and vomit for about 2 hours. I assume it is dehydration, or maybe food related.
- Sunday during the day, totally fine aside from lingering discomfort from having nausea (I have some difficult to explain medical complications that make nausea in particular a bit worse for me than most people and make the recovery longer). But otherwise, feel totally fine confirming to me it was just a quick stomach thing that I am now past.
- Sunday night, I get a call from our Plant Manager. That person who was sick on Tuesday got tested on Friday. Results are positive for COVID. Oh no!
- Spend the rest of Sunday calling and texting every person I’ve been in contact with since last week that I may have been infected and I’ll be getting tested. (I was so stressed making these calls and texts and felt like a real a-hole for having put my friends and family in this situation)
- Monday morning, go into work just to grab my laptop in anticipation of prolonged shutdown and working from home. End up staying for 2 hours because I need to organize a deep cleaning of the facility with a third party cleaning company. End up scheduling it for later that day, where I will be the only employee on site.
- Go home and return on-site at 4 oclock for the deep clean. Keep distance from the cleaners and isolate as much as I can while they are there.
- While the cleaning is going on I schedule tests for myself and my wife for the following morning.
- Tuesday morning; get tested and begin hunkering down at home for they say, 3 but maybe up to 7 days for results due to backlog.
- Wednesday, the owner decides to reopen with anyone who is asymptomatic and willing to come in despite no one having test results back yet.
- I refuse to return until I know I am not infected.
- The next week is spent constantly being asked by friends and family if my results are in yet with nothing to report.
- Yesterday, Thursday, a full 8 days after testing, we get our results. They are negative.
So it would seem my vomiting was just a coincidence and not related.
That was highly un-enjoyable, though I am happy for the negative results since positive ones would have made it even worse having to make all those calls to friends and family again.
No more positive results from coworkers have come up, so it would seem our protocols for preventing infection are working 
So far, so good for me too.
I traveled a bit, so I needed to be careful and rely on testing for feedback about how I’m doing. Before traveling to visit family (who live in a city 4-hour flight and 2-hour drive away from my home) I had myself tested and confirmed all clear before getting on the plane. The process at the airport was the expected mask-on all the time and hand-sanitizer after each “gateway” I passed through (security, embark, sit-down, disembark, baggage).
Instead of being picked up by my family, I rented a car to drive to their house. On arrival, I showered and changed. I didn’t go anywhere else, except to visit my sister in the rental car (which had baked in the sun for 4 days). When the visit was over I reversed all these steps to get home although my wife was willing to pick me up at the airport. We had agreed in advance that I would wear an outer layer of clothes on the plane to be removed just before getting in the car (and one last hand-sani).
Now that I’m home, I’m not traveling around, and I will have another covid test on Monday. Results will take a few days, and if I’m negative I will return to work.
Extra steps, for sure, but not difficult. Everything requires more patience and I for one believe that a bit more patience will be good for everyone.