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Post by rikita on Jan 19, 2022 21:48:02 GMT
but my son -- who alerted his work after testing positive, according to their protocol -- was told to come on in to work. they told him to come to work??? is that even legal?
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Post by rikita on Jan 19, 2022 21:54:57 GMT
Bixa all I would like to add is that the times when "normality" is broken and stressful feelings come into play when you're young - it only makes one stronger and builds character. Bad times are there to makes us even stronger in later life. As adult parents we know the hardships we have suffered and we also know it made us tough! i can't fully agree with that. hardship can make us stronger, if we have the proper support to get through it well. so there are many kids that will be fine, because their families or friends or teachers help them make sense of things, help them cope with difficulties etc. but there are children less lucky, for who the interruption in schooling and a disruption of their normal social life will have long-lasting negative effects. not only in this situation now, but also in many other hardships in the past ... i think what makes us stronger is how we see our parents cope, how we can get through things, that we are not alone - not the hardship itself.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 19, 2022 22:05:49 GMT
they told him to come to work??? is that even legal? Right? My sentiments exactly. Infuriatingly, this happened the same day that the Supreme Court struck down the emergency temporary standard requiring businesses with at least 100 employees to ensure workers are vaccinated against the coronavirus or wear masks and undergo weekly COVID-19 testing.Here is what his employer says: Our employees have been given clear instructions on how to respond swiftly to all presumed cases of COVID-19 on property. We will be ready to provide support to our guests. Employees are instructed to stay home if they do not feel well and are instructed to contact a manager if they notice a coworker or guest displaying or complaining of a cough, fever, shortness of breath, chills, a new loss of taste or smell, repeated shaking with chills, muscle pain, headache, sore throat or other known symptoms of COVID-19. Employees and guests who are exhibiting any of the symptoms of COVID-19 while at the property are instructed to immediately notify their manager (employees) or hotel security at +1 (702) 770-2820 (guests or employees). Employees who are well but have a household member with COVID-19 are instructed to self-quarantine for 14 days. A certified emergency medical technician (EMT) will be on site 24 hours per day during the initial reopening period (source here: www.wynnlasvegas.com/health-and-safety, under "Employee & Guest Health Concerns") So first my grandson wasn't feeling well & then tested positive. My son then exhibited symptoms, especially with the above sited shaking with chills. He then also tested positive & notified work. You know the rest. pee ess ~ I have to say I agree with your take on how the pandemic is affecting children & on "hardship building strength" in general.
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Post by tod2 on Jan 20, 2022 9:14:38 GMT
I,m sure you are right Rikita. I think perhaps I was leaning towards children who have it all on a plate with parents who continually pick up the pieces. Molly-Coddled we call it. From a limited experience within the family these children never have a backbone of their own. Someone always bailing them out. A little taste of having to be brave or toughen up once in a while gives them that ability to stand on their own two feet when adults. Well I hope so.
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Post by whatagain on Jan 20, 2022 11:53:15 GMT
Bixa all I would like to add is that the times when "normality" is broken and stressful feelings come into play when you're young - it only makes one stronger and builds character. Bad times are there to makes us even stronger in later life. As adult parents we know the hardships we have suffered and we also know it made us tough! i can't fully agree with that. hardship can make us stronger, if we have the proper support to get through it well. so there are many kids that will be fine, because their families or friends or teachers help them make sense of things, help them cope with difficulties etc. but there are children less lucky, for who the interruption in schooling and a disruption of their normal social life will have long-lasting negative effects. not only in this situation now, but also in many other hardships in the past ... i think what makes us stronger is how we see our parents cope, how we can get through things, that we are not alone - not the hardship itself. I concurr. I think once more smart kids with smart parents with miney will cope better. Parents will pay for extra lessons or help themsel es and children with brains will catch up. It is people in mid range that need some extra help. Those with parents who can't or won't help, who struggle at school. These can fall apart when they could have gotten the upper hand. The strong will get stronger, no problem with that. As for hardships, not everything we survive makes us stronger or the cost of getting stronger is crazy. I'd rather not divorce for example, albeit some friends say it made them stronger.
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Post by bjd on Jan 20, 2022 12:24:44 GMT
I talked with my son a short while ago. His wife is back at work and the children back at nursery school and the nanny's. He worked a few hours this morning but is still tired so won't work again until Monday. That's when his quarantine is supposed to end too. He usually works from home anyway but had to go to the office in Bordeaux last Wednesday. None of his colleagues caught covid from him (he had tested negative in the morning) from what he has heard.
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Post by questa on Jan 20, 2022 20:57:15 GMT
That is one aspect of this plague that we haven't really discussed...The dynamics in a family when one person brings death into the home.I remember an example we were warned about during the first lockdown, "Don't sneak off to your girl friend's house. What if you gave her mother the COMID-19 and she died?" Now transmission of the bug is almost certain even if it is the weaker variant. This must happen a lot...any stories?
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Post by tod2 on Jan 21, 2022 8:10:07 GMT
Just a comment on an AirBnB cancellation from a guest in Perth Australia. He said the powers-that-be have warned him that should he decide to fly out to South Africa he may not in all probability be allowed back into Oz.
What is your info on this situation Questa?
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Post by bjd on Jan 21, 2022 8:34:07 GMT
Not Questa, but I can tell you that the state of Western Australia has closed its borders because of covid.
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Post by questa on Jan 21, 2022 11:27:11 GMT
I have no idea what the rules are this week.They are changing them all again and WA has locked its borders,once again no-one knows when they will be open again. Not a good time to visit this lovely country.
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Post by tod2 on Jan 21, 2022 11:55:24 GMT
Could it be..... just maybe....that the Western Australians are the biggest Anti-Vacciners ? I look on FB and see people posting articles from WA about the right to not be vaccinated blah blah blah...the usual repetitive stuff. One is a very old friend from high school days and is what I term "An old hippie". Into everything earthy, herbal, and lots of 'lurv' for all mankind. I don't care if she wants or does not want the jab, but then stick to your side of the fence and leave the ones who want the epidemic to end and save their own lives! Some of you may have seen the posts also asking you to sign a petition supporting anti-vaxxers.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 21, 2022 16:36:23 GMT
Were it up to me, all anti-vaxxers &/or anti-maskers would be incarcerated in their homes with 2x4s nailed over the doors & windows. Drones could drop food (bread & water) down their chimneys until they came to their senses. Then hazmat units could go in to test & vaccinate their stupid asses.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 21, 2022 18:44:43 GMT
Perhaps more news anchors should talk to their viewers like this.
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Post by fumobici on Jan 22, 2022 1:13:35 GMT
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Post by lugg on Jan 23, 2022 15:48:50 GMT
So I have just returned home from looking after Enzo and my son has messaged me this am to say both he and Enzo are positive. Enzo is fine and just a little tired but my son is not well with flu like symptoms and high temp. He had an experimental vaccine and remains on a trial ...so has not had a booster. It will be interesting to see if I get it or not. I have had booster but it was some weeks ago now. Otherwise my MIL has had it again , there was another outbreak in her home. She was fine , just had a cough and is better again. I have a slightly sore throat but I think its psychological !
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Post by lugg on Jan 23, 2022 15:53:54 GMT
I hope that Mich, bjd, Bixa , Tod and everyone else / anyone whose posts I have missed who have had family members affected is now getting better / recovered.
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Post by whatagain on Jan 23, 2022 15:55:24 GMT
Hope everything is ok Lugg.
We finally all got it at home. First my wife then Marie then myself and our other daughter.
All with nearly no symptoms. A blessing to have it like that.
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Post by tod2 on Jan 23, 2022 16:51:24 GMT
The strangest thing happened to my son last week. He was very much better and recovering well but woke up one morning unable to walk. His feet were that painful. He thought it a dose of gout but has had no alcohol for months or anything else that would bring on gout - even like certain meat foods. The pharmacy delivered a packet full of tablets and two days later I saw him and asked how the feet were as he was walking normally. He said he had had "Covid Feet". I still haven't found out exactly what caused it. Has anyone heard of the condition?
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 23, 2022 17:05:22 GMT
So I have just returned home from looking after Enzo and my son has messaged me this am to say both he and Enzo are positive. Enzo is fine and just a little tired but my son is not well with flu like symptoms and high temp. He had an experimental vaccine and remains on a trial ...so has not had a booster. It will be interesting to see if I get it or not. I have had booster but it was some weeks ago now. Otherwise my MIL has had it again , there was another outbreak in her home. She was fine , just had a cough and is better again. I have a slightly sore throat but I think its psychological ! Oh drat, Lugg! Hoping fervently that your son recovers quickly. Flu symptoms are miserable. Very glad to hear that your MIL wasn't badly affected. Also hoping that your throat is just because of winter weather &/or psychosomatic. " style="max-width:100%;" title="::kiss:: "] Thanks for the kind thoughts to all of us with family members who have been hit. Found out yesterday that one of my nieces is quite sick with it. I feel doubly bad for her because she has a little baby, who luckily didn't get it. My other nieces are great about helping out their sister, at least. We finally all got it at home. First my wife then Marie then myself and our other daughter. All with nearly no symptoms. A blessing to have it like that. Whatagain, I didn't realize both you & your other daughter had been hit, too. Glad to know you didn't have any of the bad symptoms. He said he had had "Covid Feet". I still haven't found out exactly what caused it. Has anyone heard of the condition? Tod, I remember reading about that early on in the pandemic. Google it, as there is a bunch of information on the web.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 23, 2022 17:06:33 GMT
Covid-19 is a mysterious bitch and omicron is starting to seem inevitable.
I am becoming one of those rare people who has never even been tested.
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Post by bjd on Jan 23, 2022 19:28:18 GMT
My son and his family are all well and recovered but this afternoon he called to say the baby's nanny phoned this afternoon to say she had covid so we are going tomorrow to take care of Aurore this week while her parents work and her brother is at nursery school. They figure they caught it from one of the children because both of them had some fever about 10 days ago.
Our granddaughters in Bayonne were both contact cases on Friday when we went to see them but both tested negative on Saturday morning.
Meanwhile, although there are still thousands of new cases daily, numbers are steadily dropping in France.
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Post by casimira on Jan 23, 2022 19:35:12 GMT
Yes, like Bixa said, early on I remember one of the symptoms being related to the feet. More specifically "covid toes". No one that I know who has had covid ever complained about their feet or toes being affected.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 23, 2022 20:43:13 GMT
Thank goodness your little granddaughters are okay in Bayone, Bjd.
A week with darling Aurore seems rather lovely!
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Post by whatagain on Jan 24, 2022 18:17:17 GMT
50 000 demonstrators in Brussels against Covid yesterday. This made the news of CNN with video of our water police cars dispersing some manifestants.
According to organisers there were 500 000 people. Waw, didn't know we could put so many people there...
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 24, 2022 18:34:39 GMT
Saw that -- the demonstrators vandalized the front of that EU diplomatic building. The count by the police & news agencies was 50,000.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 24, 2022 18:37:11 GMT
That's half the population of the country! (just kidding) In France (pop. 67 million) they only counted 38,000 anti pass/vax demonstrators in the entire country -- 5200 in Paris.
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Post by lagatta on Jan 27, 2022 1:03:08 GMT
I got jab no 3 in a nearby community centre this morning. Indeed the anti-vaxxers make a lot of noise but are a small minority.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 27, 2022 1:20:29 GMT
That's great, LaGatta! I was extremely happy to get my booster back in November & would line up to get a 4th if that's what it takes to get all this over with.
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Post by biddy on Jan 27, 2022 2:43:47 GMT
I have been monitoring all the posts and am very sorry to read that many Anyporters and their loved ones have been stricken with Covid. My daughter, double vaxxed and boosted came down with it last week. She had a couple of rough days but now is on the mend. Mercifully no one else in the family got it. I fear it will be a very long winter with more variants rearing their ugly heads.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 27, 2022 3:46:00 GMT
Your poor daughter, Biddy. Hope she is continuing to get better.
It now seems like almost everyone is getting breakthrough cases. Heard from a friend -- he, his wife, & their toddler all got it even though both adults are vaccinated.
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