Coronavirus outbreak

[High and Inside]

1 hour ago, -DLC- said:

My experience with COVID is...pace yourself.

 

April 22 it hit me (hard)...had a horrible night. Saturday tested positive, but rested and after 2 days thought I was on the rebound and getting through fairly unscathed.

 

The last two days have been brutal...I have a very deep cough and having coughing fits. I'm super congested (and think allergies are coming in to play). Today I saw Dad for the first time, we both wore N95's. I pushed him in his wheelchair up to the corner for his booster...didn't let on, but it damn near killed me. I haven't worn a mask in 2 weeks and it was really difficult to breathe. I'm feeling like I spoke too soon re "I'm better" and really have to just allow myself to get better. 

 

I feel like the fact that I was super depleted/exhausted when it hit likely factored in. But it's not fun today. At all. I'm struggling, big time. Just glad I have the option to work from home, which I have been.

 

Take care to all those testing positive...it's a bit of a roller coaster ride. I did everything we're told we're supposed to...even had special immune booster tea, vitamins, made super smoothies, etc. Knocked on my butt today.

Thanks for this. I'm in the initial first 2-3 day and it's nothing I ever want to experience again. I feel like I'm on the mend but I'm going to take your advice about pacing yourself. I'm far from recovered. 

[-DLC-]

11 minutes ago, High and Inside said:

Thanks for this. I'm in the initial first 2-3 day and it's nothing I ever want to experience again. I feel like I'm on the mend but I'm going to take your advice about pacing yourself. I'm far from recovered. 

You're welcome. It's a little deceiving...felt pretty good after the first day or two but have hit a wall (completely). A total setback.

 

This thing's for real.

 

I was SOOOOOO looking forward to opening day at the track on Saturday (Kentuck Derby day) and I don't think I can do it. I'm deciding tomorrow, but it's not looking good. 

[Tre Mac]

My throat is definitely buggy and I have been sneezing a ton but I took my first ever rapid test and it's negative.  Throat isn't sore like having a cold but I have a runny nose as if I had one.  Last Thursday Friday my gut got rocked but I figured that mightve been food poisoning.  

[-DLC-]

 

[-DLC-]

I'm thankful I have a great boss....I'm still working from home as he knows it's tough for me to wear a mask for extended periods.

 

My old boss would've been sulking and arguing. So glad I moved on....my dream job fell into my lap. It's great to be supported.

[RUPERTKBD]

It finally caught up to me as well. Started feeling sick on Friday, tested positive on Sunday. Other than that, I feel very lucky. Although I don't feel good, I don't feel horrible either. In fact, I had a flu bug a month ago (tested negative) that was much worse than this.

 

This current version actually feels like a milder version of what I had back then.

[Gurn]

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/ontario-ice-cream-maker-tarred-by-lies-from-anti-vaxxers-this-time-after-doctor-s-nice-tweet/ar-AAX8XlG?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=8bf968c16752422286cef9b268c9a3f2

ne of Canada's most iconic brands of ice cream has found itself in the eye of a social media firestorm after an Ontario doctor's tweet became the target of anti-vaxxers.

Chapman's Ice Cream is one of Canada's best-known brands in dessert products, manufactured at its family-owned Markdale, Ont., plant, about a two-hour drive northwest of Toronto. 

The company has long positioned itself as a good corporate citizen, offering to buy a neighbourhood school to keep children of employees close to home, offering freezer space for the government's COVID-19 vaccination efforts, and keeping unvaccinated employees on staff at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic so long as they took two rapid tests a week. 

Now, the company is embroiled in a controversy over a tweet from Dr. Sohail Gandhi, who was out getting ice cream for his wife on Mother's Day. 

Doctor's ice cream tweet garners 'insults'

"I would not have expected the response I got," said Gandhi, a family physician based in Stayner and a past president of the Ontario Medical Association. 

"I baked a strawberry pie for my wife for Mother's Day and I needed some ice cream. So I went to the store, I happened to see Chapman's and I said, 'Hey, this is a good corporate citizen. I should support them,' so I tweeted about them." 

The tweet racked up thousands of likes and hundreds of comments, and while many of them were supportive, a number were critical and even downright hateful. 

"Some of the comments were basically insults," Dr. Ghandi said. "What I was surprised about was there were some people making allegations about the way Chapman's ran their business without having the facts to prove them." 

Those tweets — from allegations of firing employees who refused to get vaccinated, to misinformation about what the company puts in its ice cream — are lies, according to Ashley Chapman, the company's chief operating officer. 

"A nice doctor tweets something really nice about our product and suddenly all these really nasty people come back onto the scene," he said, referring to the fact his company has seen online backlash before, when it decided to keep workers who refused to get vaccinated on the payroll during the height of the Delta wave. 

"We were very concerned because we live in a small rural area, and a lot of these people who didn't get the vaccine, I know them, I know their families, I know they're good people.

"Being accused of segregation, medical fascism and some other insane things that people have been calling us, it just seems sad to be honest with you."

Chapman said he didn't want to let good people go, so he came up with a compromise: they could still report to work unvaccinated, but had to submit to a rapid test twice a week to keep others from getting sick. 

Vaccinated workers, on the other hand, would receive a raise of a dollar an hour because the company didn't have to pay for any tests.

'We're not bad guys in this situation'

Once pandemic health restrictions ended, Chapman said, he raised the unvaccinated workers' wages so they were on par with their vaccinated counterparts, and bought a PCR test machine so all workers could self-diagnose if they had any unusual symptoms. 

Chapman said he doesn't understand why a company that makes ice cream has become a political lightning rod, especially when it has put so much back into the community. 

"We're just decent people. We're just trying to make a good product for a fair price. We always treat our community and our employees well, and we're not the bad guys in this situation. How suddenly ice cream gets to be a political thing is just silly."

Companies going public about vaccination policies

However, "a political thing" is exactly what vaccines have become, regardless if it's coming from a manufacturer of something as apolitical as ice cream, according to Alison Meek, an associate professor of history at King's University College in London, Ont., who studies cults and conspiracy theories, including the anti-vaccine movement. 

"I think these days there is no way to engage in this conversation about vaccines without it becoming politicized."

Meek said if companies want to be public in any way about their vaccination policies, they have to expect the conversation to become politicized, especially when it involves a company as well known as Chapman's Ice Cream. 

That's because those who refuse to get vaccinated, Meek said, now on portray themselves on social media as victims on a scale akin to some of the most persecuted groups in modern history. 

"They are the new African Americans of the civil rights movement or Jews in the Holocaust because they refuse to submit," Meek said.

"Of course, it's ludicrous. Your choice not to be vaccinated is completely different from what we saw with Jews in the Holocaust or African Americans because of the colour of their skin, but that's just the age we live in."

[stawns]

21 hours ago, RUPERTKBD said:

It finally caught up to me as well. Started feeling sick on Friday, tested positive on Sunday. Other than that, I feel very lucky. Although I don't feel good, I don't feel horrible either. In fact, I had a flu bug a month ago (tested negative) that was much worse than this.

 

This current version actually feels like a milder version of what I had back then.

there is so much virus in my school right now, lots of people getting very very sick

[HKSR]

On 5/5/2022 at 9:11 PM, -DLC- said:

You're welcome. It's a little deceiving...felt pretty good after the first day or two but have hit a wall (completely). A total setback.

 

This thing's for real.

 

I was SOOOOOO looking forward to opening day at the track on Saturday (Kentuck Derby day) and I don't think I can do it. I'm deciding tomorrow, but it's not looking good. 

oh wow, you're still battling this thing?? 

 

My entire family is sick right now.  I've just got a raw and scratchy throat, and a bit fatigued... my daughters have coughs and runny noses with low grade fevers.  My wife has congestion, cough, and the same raw and scratchy throat.  Been about a week now for my youngest.  All negative tests so far (6 tests in total so far), so I'm hoping it's just a cold.

[HKSR]

2 hours ago, stawns said:

there is so much virus in my school right now, lots of people getting very very sick

Are you seeing lots of covid?  Or common cold?  Seems to be a bit of everything going on right now.

[stawns]

9 minutes ago, HKSR said:

Are you seeing lots of covid?  Or common cold?  Seems to be a bit of everything going on right now.

Both........worst cold I've had in a decade, at least

[HKSR]

3 minutes ago, stawns said:

Both........worst cold I've had in a decade, at least

Ugh, and to think DBH said there might be another spike in the fall....

[stawns]

13 minutes ago, HKSR said:

Ugh, and to think DBH said there might be another spike in the fall....

we might be done with covid, but covid is a long way from being done with us.  As soon as masks came off, covid took off and so did this cold, which is brutal.  I can't recall missing more than two days of work with a cold and I was out all last week and monday of this week

[WeneedLumme]

15 minutes ago, HKSR said:

Ugh, and to think DBH said there might be another spike in the fall....

On the positive side, we are pretty much past cold/flu/Covid season, so the next few months at least should be relatively pleasant.

[HKSR]

7 minutes ago, stawns said:

we might be done with covid, but covid is a long way from being done with us.  As soon as masks came off, covid took off and so did this cold, which is brutal.  I can't recall missing more than two days of work with a cold and I was out all last week and monday of this week

Man, that's brutal.  Good to hear you're on the mend, I need someone to keep me busy on here

[HKSR]

5 minutes ago, WeneedLumme said:

On the positive side, we are pretty much past cold/flu/Covid season, so the next few months at least should be relatively pleasant.

Sure hope so... just wish they'd get that vaccine out for kids under 5.  Both of my girls are still unvaxxed because of that.

[stawns]

12 minutes ago, WeneedLumme said:

On the positive side, we are pretty much past cold/flu/Covid season, so the next few months at least should be relatively pleasant.

My school says differently.  We're being decimated

[King Heffy]

1 hour ago, stawns said:

My school says differently.  We're being decimated

I couldn't even find someone to get the cat medicine refill less than a month ago.  Everyone we knew was positive.

[stawns]

3 hours ago, King Heffy said:

I couldn't even find someone to get the cat medicine refill less than a month ago.  Everyone we knew was positive.

We have quite a bit of virus right now, but it's this sinus cold that's wiping most of us out

[Russ]

Looks like my parents finally got it.  Mom felt iffy on Thursday and by Saturday she said she was feeling back to normal, Dad caught it in that time span to but didn't know outside of getting tested with the rapids they had from the pharmacy.  

 

Moms been praying not to get it as they go on a cruise in June.  I told her if theres ever a virus fest it'll be there lol.