Witchita, thanks for posting this. I’m glad to see it’s not just me that is struggling with emails or writing words or thoughts correctly. My work has also suffered, and I’m currently doing about the minimum to appear that I’m doing anything. A few hours of work a day, really. But it’s nice to see some others mentioning the decline in mental aptitude(?) or whatever it is that is causing me to not be able to type words correctly or convey thoughts clearly…
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Oklahoma stays decently warm all winter right? I just looked at the OKC 10 day weather forecast and would kill to be playing in that, my last two rounds have been in sub 35F temp
They’ll just say “yeah but population was lower back then so whatever”
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Good luck with this. We’ve had 5 funerals since March, but luckily most were in the lull this summer.
So the new CDC quarantine guidelines are already being put to use.
Local schools now have 3 options for exposure to someone with covid:
- Get a pcr test on day 5 and if negative then come back day 8
- If positive test then wait 14 days
- If you don’t get tested, come back after 10 days if asymptomatic
So the net of this:
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Day 5 is like 40% false negatives so that’s a lot of people spreading disease on day 8 now
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Lot of people will purposefully not get a test so they can come back after 10 rather than risk having to wait 14 days
Of course, this was the purpose of the updated guidelines…to get people back to work/school faster than 14 days because god forbid we quarantine for too long and harm the economy.
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I just got done with what has become the new normal. Handing some legal documents through a clients car window to sign. My client today was a 60 something black woman. Super super nice and down on her luck. She sincerely asked me how I was doing. So I gave her the arble garble about how 2020 sucks blah blah. What she said back to me when I asked how she was doing really sums up why I think so many of us are struggling with this whole thing. She said it was completely insane how no one cares. I mean it really is that simple isn’t it? It isn’t just with Covid it is with everything. We would rather have a night out at Chili’s than our community to be healthy. We would rather have a 3rd TV than our neighbor to have health care. We would rather have the new IPhone than for the people around us to have food and shelter.
I assume we are all struggling with realizing that so many people around us, even our family and friends not only don’t care about strangers they really don’t care about us either when push comes to shove. I know I am. It’s scary realizing we really are in an every man for himself society at every level. I’m not sure I will ever look at society the same and that scares me too.
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Update: 3 Deaths. 71 active cases. 
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Is there any type of work they are not cutting?
I’ve really been wondering if these feelings of anger I’ve had towards my peers since March will ever go away. Hopefully time really does heal wounds, because I don’t see myself forgiving these 70 million Trump voters (family included) or the 200 million covid deniers that can’t do the bare minimum of wearing a mask and not go to Olive Garden. I’m pretty sure the cats out of the bag and this is my new normal headspace.
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yeah depends on specialty. most people are getting cut. ER cut is estimated at 5-6%.
WTF i mean you can’t even…
Might finally have a guy who died with covid instead of covid lol. 90+ year man who is at an assisted living facility that has a covid outbreak has a bad UTI, tested covid positive but not really having much symptoms. Family chose to send him back home instead of admitting him.
Was damn touching to listen to them reason out why they wanted him discharged. First they realized it was time for their father. Second, they actually considered how they didn’t want to expose me or my co-workers for this. It was really sweet in a weird way.
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Keep caring anyway. The world obviously needs more people who do.
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They’re an excellent example of the type of upper middle class jobs being lost to automation at least. Replaced by robots like millions of factory workers before them.
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LOL Ohio
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I thought Oklahoma was an icy hellscape the majority of winter
And a non-icy hellscape at all other times.
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Is there a sport more insane than wrestling to be allowing right now?
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At the grocery store the other day the manager asked me how I was doing. It actually took me by surprise. I don’t talk to people in stores anymore.
I made sure to pause and listen to her answer when I asked her back.
I don’t buy that we don’t care about strangers. I think we are all just thrown into this new reality and no one knows how to cope with it.
I’m an introvert and the lack of human interaction takes it toll on me. I can’t imagine what it’s like for people better adjusted than I.
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