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Coronavirus (COVID-19) is too exciting for adults to discuss (CLOSED)

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Buckeyeskickbuttocks said:
Common sense doesn't seem so common anymore, does it?
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Fact. He was even showing symptoms! What the fuck, bro!

Regarding sick time, I have to use PTO. Which is why I assume my coworker came to work the last two day. He just burned his PTO getting COVID the days preceding his two work days he came in sick.
 
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BuckBackHome said:
How are employers treating sick time/PTO when someone comes down with either Covid or they have been exposed and need to quarantine? I work for myself from a home office and really have no clue how it works in the "real" world.
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In my dept, we can work from home as long as your feeling able to do so… so that is nice.
 
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BuckBackHome said:
How are employers treating sick time/PTO when someone comes down with either Covid or they have been exposed and need to quarantine? I work for myself from a home office and really have no clue how it works in the "real" world.
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Depends on the company. This time last year there was the federal mandate of 2 paid weeks off. Or maybe it state mandate? Either way they did away with that so those of us who get it are pretty much fucked. I know several people who were forced to use PTO and/or sick leave.

My company doesnt offer paid sick leave, which is hilarious given that it's a union company. (Union here is traaaaaash) So if I miss two weeks I'd likely be entitled to short term disability if I applied for it. Fortunately I always pay my bills a month out just in case some bullshit happens. So I'm comfortable, but so many others aren't as lucky.
 
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Buckeneye said:
Depends on the company. This time last year there was the federal mandate of 2 paid weeks off. Or maybe it state mandate? Either way they did away with that so those of us who get it are pretty much fucked. I know several people who were forced to use PTO and/or sick leave.

My company doesnt offer paid sick leave, which is hilarious given that it's a union company. (Union here is traaaaaash) So if I miss two weeks I'd likely be entitled to short term disability if I applied for it. Fortunately I always pay my bills a month out just in case some bullshit happens. So I'm comfortable, but so many others aren't as lucky.
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Except the disability policy probably has a 14 (or even 30) day exclusion period so you wouldn't get shit from them either. :lol:
 
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Well, I hope everyone getting this feels better soon. We have so little going on between it being the holiday week and the outbreak, we basically got told to bug out this afternoon and tomorrow because they don't want to bill our clients when no progress is being made. Keep in mind that we were open and working on 12/24... I don't know that there are any new covid cases in our team, but we didn't do a roll call this morning either on that and we're going to stay remote next week, which is good because we're on the dog days of this POS project and its super hard to pretend to give a fuck right now covid or not.
 
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Thump said:
Not normal in Quahog.

All 25 beds were taken.
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Wapo chimes in, including in both areas near Quahog:
“Frankly, between postponing elective surgeries, delaying surgeries, transferring patients, EMS bypass, and now the National Guard coming in … it’s going to be approaching a breaking point if we don’t turn the tide on these hospitalizations very soon,” said John Palmer, a spokesperson for the Ohio Hospital Association.
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“Our level one trauma hospital — the state’s only one — will be performing ONLY emergency surgical procedures, starting today, to try to preserve our ability to provide high-quality care to acutely ill patients,” Megan Ranney, an emergency physician at Brown University in Rhode Island, wrote in a text message on Wednesday.
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Which suggests: not normal (retroactively anyway, let's hope it's not the new normal)
Omicron appears to cause relatively mild symptoms in many vaccinated people, and while the fast-spreading variant is driving record infections, hospitalizations have lagged behind. But the variant is already exacting a toll on hospitals and their exhausted staff, some of whom are suffering breakthrough infections themselves — and being told they may need to rush back to the front lines.
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“Having been among the health-care workforce … this was something in prior surges that has been really important,” Walensky said in an interview. “While in prior waves, we’d seen ventilators being scarce, supply of dialysis machines, ICU beds, so much of what’s happening with omicron is actually the scarcity of … the health-care workforce itself.”
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“Having people come back sick, I don’t agree with that at all,” said Joannie Yeh, a pediatrician who practices outside Philadelphia.

Yeh said she’s particularly worried if providers aren’t given a choice about working alongside infected colleagues. “Would I rather have help from a willing, asymptomatic, covid-positive co-worker who’s going to see covid-positive patients for me, so I can take care of the other patients … than cover everything myself?” Yeh asked. “I don’t think there’s a one-size-fits-all [approach] — I think it has to be a [decision] on the floor level.”
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This is causing a lot of consternation, and things were already starting to trend in this direction.
[Minnesota's] hospitals issued a full-page plea in local newspapers on Dec. 12, warning residents that “overwhelmed” facilities couldn’t promise patients timely care.
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“All the medical-surgical units, beds and spaces are full. Many patients are lined up in the hallways there as well,” said Rahul Koranne, president of the Minnesota Hospital Association. “There’s no more words. I’ve called it a crisis, I’ve called it a catastrophe … calling it a perfect storm is an understatement, but that’s what it is.”
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“It’s not March 2020 — we have the testing and treatments and extensive experience treating this disease,” said Craig Spencer, director of global health in emergency medicine at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center. “But if we don’t have the space to treat you, or if we don’t have the providers to give that high quality of care, it might not make a difference if it takes us three times as long to see you in the emergency room.”
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And now for the most bleak of all of the quotes:
“It’s difficult trying to remain optimistic,” said Ashley Stantz, a second-year family medicine resident at Mayo. “But I think it’s critical to maintain that optimism because as soon as we lose hope … I don’t know how to recover from that.”
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jwinslow said:
Wapo chimes in, including in both areas near Quahog:
Which suggests: not normal (retroactively anyway, let's hope it's not the new normal)
This is causing a lot of consternation, and things were already starting to trend in this direction.
And now for the most bleak of all of the quotes:
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Also, sitting 7 hours to get a bed is NOT normal.

I have never come close to waiting even half that time for a bed the few times I have been to an ER.
 
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