Covid-19 Poll

[e.j.]

:hug: this is my worst fear right now...


Stay healthy and safe! I am keeping you and your family in my prayers lovethis

Thanks; we can use them!
How's your dd doing? Unless I'm mistaken, I thought you had said she's a nurse working in a COVID unit - or is my memory off?

[e.j.]

Whether or not people are taking this seriously enough, there are others to think about protecting and being respectful of that. We're all here as a society, a population, not individuals. We're sharing this planet. We have to remember it's not just about us.

lovethis
I wish more people thought the same.

[Annalee]

lovethis
I wish more people thought the same.

I agree! My cousins 'think' I'm worried about dying but I'm not; I am, however, 'concerned' about my livelihood/child care business and my sons' educations.

Real or not real, covid has affected many people/families/businesses/lives, in general.

There is no respect here for covid nor what it has caused and I find that sad. I told a cousin who posted a derogatory remark about covid and how people are scared on social media today that 'what he is saying is true but the cold-heartedness from this post makes me worry about his feeling for people'.

Maybe I'm a fuddy-duddy but this is how I feel!

[e.j.]

I agree! My cousins 'think' I'm worried about dying but I'm not; I am, however, 'concerned' about my livelihood/child care business and my sons' educations.

Real or not real, covid has affected many people/families/businesses/lives, in general.

There is no respect here for covid nor what it has caused and I find that sad. I told a cousin who posted a derogatory remark about covid and how people are scared on social media today that 'what he is saying is true but the cold-heartedness from this post makes me worry about his feeling for people'.

Maybe I'm a fuddy-duddy but this is how I feel!

I guess maybe I'm a fuddy-duddy, too, then.
When I reopened my day care, one of my dcds told me, "A few years from now, we're going to be looking back and shaking our heads saying, "We could have avoided so much of this. All we had to do was wear a mask and distance ourselves for a little while until the virus died down. It was such a little thing to have to do and it's so sad we didn't do it when it would have made the most impact."

[Annalee]

I guess maybe I'm a fuddy-duddy, too, then.
When I reopened my day care, one of my dcds told me, "A few years from now, we're going to be looking back and shaking our heads saying, "We could have avoided so much of this. All we had to do was wear a mask and distance ourselves for a little while until the virus died down. It was such a little thing to have to do and it's so sad we didn't do it when it would have made the most impact."

I tell my cousins "I can only deal in the present" and I have to make wise choices as my choices affects my own family first and then my business which really affects my family, too.

Maybe down the road, I will think how SILLY my own choices were, BUT I could also look back and think how SMART my choices were.

Their main argument is "everyone is gonna die someday somehow so". Well I am not gonna stand on a railroad track thinking "well I gotta die somehow" or drive down the road doing 120 thinking "well I gotta die somehow".

That argument doesn't make sense. I believe in prayer, too, but I also believe I am expected to make WISE choices so???

Just gotta quit debating the issue with them I guess. :confused::confused:

[e.j.]

Maybe down the road, I will think how SILLY my own choices were, BUT I could also look back and think how SMART my choices were.

Err on the side of caution. It doesn't kill me to wear a mask or socially distance. Not doing it could kill me or someone I love. It's an easy choice for me.

Their main argument is "everyone is gonna die someday somehow so". Well I am not gonna stand on a railroad track thinking "well I gotta die somehow" or drive down the road doing 120 thinking "well I gotta die somehow".

I'm with you! They're right; everyone is going to die but my feeling is why rush it?!

That argument doesn't make sense. I believe in prayer, too, but I also believe I am expected to make WISE choices so???

Same. I was taught, "God helps those who help themselves."

Just gotta quit debating the issue with them I guess. :confused::confused:

Yeah...they seem to have their minds made up. I doubt there's anything you can say that will change their minds.

[Annalee]

Err on the side of caution. It doesn't kill me to wear a mask or socially distance. Not doing it could kill me or someone I love. It's an easy choice for me.


I'm with you! They're right; everyone is going to die but my feeling is why rush it?!


Same. I was taught, "God helps those who help themselves."


Yeah...they seem to have their minds made up. I doubt there's anything you can say that will change their minds.

Absolutely; plus if someone within my circle gets it, regardless of how sick they are, my business has to shut down.....already happened twice this year in April and May and four other days waiting on dh test which was negative. That's reason enough for me to wear a mask and make wise choices!

Until the government changes protocol for covid, this is how I have to operate!

[Blackcat31]

Thanks; we can use them!
How's your dd doing? Unless I'm mistaken, I thought you had said she's a nurse working in a COVID unit - or is my memory off?

Thank you for asking! She is doing well.
She's been tested 4 times and had to quarantine twice.
Thankfully all tests have come back negative and the quarantine time has just been annoying but doable.

She adopted a couple of rescue cats that have had a rough start to life so having to quarantine has given her the time to really bond with them. It's been a blessing in disguise for all of them.

Hoping your family doesn't get it... your situation is exactly what I am sure we all fear most. All it takes is one person (child or adult) to get it and spread it to others and then everyone has to stress/hope and pray. .... It's a perfect example of how one person can impact too many others!

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[e.j.]

Thank you for asking! She is doing well.
She's been tested 4 times and had to quarantine twice.
Thankfully all tests have come back negative and the quarantine time has just been annoying but doable.

She adopted a couple of rescue cats that have had a rough start to life so having to quarantine has given her the time to really bond with them. It's been a blessing in disguise for all of them.

Hoping your family doesn't get it... your situation is exactly what I am sure we all fear most. All it takes is one person (child or adult) to get it and spread it to others and then everyone has to stress/hope and pray. .... It's a perfect example of how one person can impact to many others!

:hug:

Exactly!

I'm relieved to hear your dd has tested negative each time - and that she's getting some bonding time with her rescue cats. (My dd has 2 rescue cats as well. One is a tuxedo cat who is an absolute love! I was upset when she announced she had adopted him without checking with my husband and me first but now I can't imagine not having him around. The other isn't quite so lovable! My dd has been working to earn her trust and she's made a lot of progress with her but the rest of us get hisses and growls if we so much as look her way. She's kept well away from the day care areas of the house. I can't say I'll miss that one when my dd gets her own place and brings the cat with her! )

I was thinking of your son as well. Hopefully he and the rest of your own family are doing ok, too. So far, we're all doing well. Despite a few close calls at work over the summer and now this current situation in my day care, we've been fine. Crossing my fingers it will stay that way!

[nannyde]

My Aunt caught it in a nursing home. Was in the ICU Covid unit for 10 days then a regular floor. She tested negative, returned to the Nursing Home and passed two days later. She was not counted as a Covid death in Arizona. She was elderly but was doing well for her age until it ransacked her nursing home.

The nursing home deal is a bad one. My Dad and his sister are the only living siblings now and neither of them could travel to her or be there because neither the hospital or nursing home allowed visitors. They did not get to say goodbye.

[Annalee]

My Aunt caught it in a nursing home. Was in the ICU Covid unit for 10 days then a regular floor. She tested negative, returned to the Nursing Home and passed two days later. She was not counted as a Covid death in Arizona. She was elderly but was doing well for her age until it ransacked her nursing home.

The nursing home deal is a bad one. My Dad and his sister are the only living siblings now and neither of them could travel to her or be there because neither the hospital or nursing home allowed visitors. They did not get to say goodbye.

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[e.j.]

My Aunt caught it in a nursing home. Was in the ICU Covid unit for 10 days then a regular floor. She tested negative, returned to the Nursing Home and passed two days later. She was not counted as a Covid death in Arizona. She was elderly but was doing well for her age until it ransacked her nursing home.

The nursing home deal is a bad one. My Dad and his sister are the only living siblings now and neither of them could travel to her or be there because neither the hospital or nursing home allowed visitors. They did not get to say goodbye.

I'm so sorry. I think one of the worst things about this virus is the number of people having to die alone because it's unsafe for family or friends to say their goodbyes.