One of my employers was out on vacation all last week and is choosing not to self isolate. Says he rarely left his hotel room and when he did it was for essential purposes.
Coronavirus Coronavirus: In-Iowa General Discussion (Not Limited)
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Here in socal there are places in the mountains to do this and sadly other places where thousands are doing it as a crowd.
If you drive somewhere and there are 100s or 1000s of people just leave.
My wife's workplace had an employee take his wife on vacation to New Orleans, when they got home on Monday, my wife had the job of calling him and telling him that he was being placed on 2 weeks home quarantine , he would be paid for the time not at work, but he was to be at home and not running around the community.
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This sounds happier than quarantine. I’m using this
I'm one of the idiots, lol.
But context, we'd never taken a trip near break and left the week before most (when the COVID 19 situation was in a different place). We went to a place that we were actually mostly alone (AirBNB on a beach that wasn't populated heavily) and essentially were isolated and had meals at the air bnb and one meal out a day....and by then we were very careful with sanitation).
As we were there, we chose to end our vacation early and come home, seeing the escalation.
Of course, in hindsight, now we could be called idiots, but when we left there were none of the current restrictions (closures of restaurants, travel, no shelter in place orders, etc).
Saw that we have 15 more positive cases in Iowa since Governor Reynolds held her press conference yesterday, bringing the total up to 105. She will be speaking again sometime today.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/s...es-map-cancellations-number-cases/2894061001/
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/s...es-map-cancellations-number-cases/2894061001/
I am guessing you will see the number get to 200 in a few days. maybe by Thursday.
Agree and at the same time we shouldn’t panic when it does. These cases are from last week before we really shut stuff down.
I'd guess the deaths start to happen then or just prior as well.
I would agree.. I would also think we're soon to record our first death sometime soon. Wondering if as the cases start to increase her hand will be forced to shut down more businesses.
I bet a lot of the testing has been contact tracing with known infected and people coming back from infected areas. Going to get a lot of negatives that way. I seriously doubt it's because hypochondriacs are showing up with a runny nose at the dr's office and getting tested as some would have you believe.
Well they shut bars and restaurants down last week but I know people still haven't taken it very seriously and I would guess they have spread the virus to a lot of people. My mom works in a store and someone came in and said she wanted to return some shoes but she didn't want to get close to anyone because she had a fever and was coughing.... so if we people that have symptoms going out around town, there are definitely a lot of people without symptoms still spreading it around. Maybe not at quite the rate it would have been but still spreading it. I have some neighbors that are younger and although they couldn't go to a bar on St. Patrick;s day, they held a house party...
That is another interesting point. Granted I haven't paid as close attention as I should but have they released what the number of people self quarantining vs hospitalization and what level of care they are requiring?
I haven't seen hospitalization numbers from Iowa.
I’m just not seeing this blatant disregard for the restrictions. I’m working still but trying to get as much set up to work from home as I can. The decrease in people pit is dramatic. I haven’t left the house except to go to work or my parents since last Saturday so that’s probably some of it.
I did that Saturday for a drive in an old car I have collector licensed. Never got out of the car. Trying to burn up some of the old fuel in it, last filled in November 2018 so old stuff. Was a little worried I'd run out of gas. Don't trust the gauge that much and was doing the math on the tank size vs normal mileage.
Any predictions on when they shut down the grocery stores? I work for a credit union and we're still working, but behind locked doors. Drive up, phone, or online services only.
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