I might have COVID-19

I thought I'd update everybody that I almost certainly do not have it. No symptoms so far, and my exposure was almost a week ago.

That doesn't mean you don't have it...that's kind of the problem with this thing.

Weird you couldn't get tested.
 
^^^^This.

25 or 50% occupancy is a real tough number for places to even come close to covering costs. Now, those that can also do a decent to-go order, like Pizza and Burger places, probably will do just fine.

In Nebraska starting next Monday, places can open to 50%, however, no bar seating, and anyone wanting booze has to also eat...no coming in just to drink.

Yeah when you put in operating costs like even lighting and such you have to wonder if you'd come out better doing take out.
 
I had the flu in February, fever, chills, muscle ache, lots of coughing, etc. Took me three weeks until I was 100% healthy. I'm beginning to wonder if it was COVID. I don't think the antibody test is available here, or I'd find out.
 
That's probably the maximum typical family size (2 parents, up to 4 kids). Prevents you from having step-aunt (twice removed) Karen's May Day party with the entire extended family at the local Olive Garden.

Texas is allowing restauratns to open up at 25% capacity next week. Be interesting to see how many actually open.
Seems like Texas and other southern states could setup seating outside to help with volume.
 
Americans have been revolting against these types of things for years and years and any suggestion to do something like walk for 60 minutes a day and eat lean meals (that can be cheaper than most anything else that isn't healthy) would be impeding their liberties....so they can rely on others to pay their medical bills in the future when it catches up to them.

I have never heard anyone claim that suggestions to eat better or exercise are an assault on their liberties. Now, if you are referring to government banning 32oz sodas, half-pound burgers, etc, then yes there is a liberties argument about that. I think you are conflating the two things. One is education and the other is mandatory.

What's the quote? Something like "happiness is the freedom to do whatever you want, and the good sense not to do it." We have a lot of people that lack ANY good sense at all, but want someone else to fix their own self-created problems.

I am with you though, I hope people take this as an opportunity to change their lives for the better. Health, finances, family, friends. Some will, some won't.
 
I had the flu in February, fever, chills, muscle ache, lots of coughing, etc. Took me three weeks until I was 100% healthy. I'm beginning to wonder if it was COVID. I don't think the antibody test is available here, or I'd find out.
Similar situation here, I had pretty bad "flu" (or bronchitis or pneumonia, never got tested) symptoms for a bout a week which turned more into pneumonia and lingered for another or so in February. I know a family who had about half of the members have the "flu" and tested negative for the flu as well...
 
I have never heard anyone claim that suggestions to eat better or exercise are an assault on their liberties. Now, if you are referring to government banning 32oz sodas, half-pound burgers, etc, then yes there is a liberties argument about that. I think you are conflating the two things. One is education and the other is mandatory.

What's the quote? Something like "happiness is the freedom to do whatever you want, and the good sense not to do it." We have a lot of people that lack ANY good sense at all, but want someone else to fix their own self-created problems.

I am with you though, I hope people take this as an opportunity to change their lives for the better. Health, finances, family, friends. Some will, some won't.

Yeah...wording it as 'against liberties' is a stretch for sure. It's not like a revolt in the protesting form, just more of a 'if you do this (eat healthy, exercise, etc.) this is your likely result (prolonged health, saving money for later later and for others) and people really don't GAF about the consequences of not following those basic principles.
 
I thought I'd update everybody that I almost certainly do not have it. No symptoms so far, and my exposure was almost a week ago.

Good to hear you don’t have symptoms yet, but don’t just assume you don’t have it. Honestly you should probably just assume you have it and give yourself at least a two week window
 
That sounds interesting. I assume that the system that has been developed is for analyzing the actual test samples, processing the results and reporting the results back. If the system has the capacity to test the population of the whole country in a few days that is nothing short of incredible. The only entities in Central Iowa that I can think of with that type of potential capability would be Facebook, Microsoft or Amazon in conjunction with the National Animal Disease Center (NADC) in Ames. Just free-form thinking there.

Just ran across this: "More recently, NADC's archive of historic swine influenza viruses combined with an established critical mass of influenza research expertise enabled NADC researchers to lead an effective national research response to the pandemic associated with the novel 2009 H1N1 influenza virus." **

**Ref:

Vet Microbiol. 2013 Aug 30;165(3-4):224-33. doi: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2013.04.010. Epub 2013 Apr 12.
High-impact animal health research conducted at the USDA's National Animal Disease Center.
Good guesses, but no. I see this was just released a few hours ago. https://www.corteva.com/resources/m...rces-to-increase-covid-19-sample-testing.html
 
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Best bud is getting tested tomorrow. He’s got asthma so he can get tested because of that and him being symptomatic. I think it may just be anxiety or something tbh. He had still been going to the PT for a ski injury so he could have gotten it there, but it’s probably more likely he got it at the liquor store haha.
 
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Best bud is getting tested tomorrow. He’s got asthma so he can get tested because of that and him being symptomatic. I think it may just be anxiety or something tbh. He had still been going to the PT for a ski injury so he could have gotten it there, but it’s probably more likely he got it at the liquor store haha.

BIG piece of info I left out. He hasn’t had a fever. He’s had shortness of breath, cough, and bad headaches, but no fever. He qualities for testing, because of the asthma, otherwise he wouldn’t qualify at this point.
 
I know someone that tested positive. They had a low-grade fever, headache, and lost their sense of smell and taste; they have since recovered.

Earlier today I felt kind of out of it, a little stuffed up in the head, and noticed a small metallic taste when I ate a cookie so naturally I freaked out. Other than being a little stuffed up in the head, feeling fine now. That's one of the many crappy things about this whole thing; anytime you don't feel quite right, your first thought is to thinking you have this.
 
I wonder if Corteva wouldn't be a good stock buy. Interesting company on the up and coming. Sounds like they might be the old Pioneer company.

https://investors.corteva.com/home/default.aspx

Corteva is the Ag spinoff out of the Dow/Dupont merger and subsequent split. So you have Dow Agrosciences, Dupont Crop Protection, and Pioneer rolled into a new name => Corteva.

A lot of the Dupont Crop Protection unit was divested to Valent.

The other two companies formed after the merger and subsequent split:
The new Dow = commodity chemicals
The new Dupont = specialty chemicals
 

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