How many people do you think may have gotten, or did get, the virus from you at the wedding?
I apologize for the tone of my post above, and hope everyone in your family is recovered and healthy.
I put this gem in another thread:
@thdudescar a few posts above is a cautionary tale for all of us. Feeling “slightly off”? Don’t soldier through whatever. And definitely don’t attend a group event.
The problem is everybody feels a little “off” a couple days every month, especially in the colder areas.
My sister’s husband’s family had a similar thing happen. I don’t know (and cannot comfortably ask) the details, but the entire family was hit hard. Two near deaths, eight people hospitalized.
After over a month in hospital, my BIL is at home on oxygen. He can stand for short periods of time, but cannot do stairs. His hearing is totally gone, and he is now diabetic.
I called all my family members that I came anywhere close to and no got sick or anyone else at the wedding… I honestly had no idea that I might have had Covid,
BTW, it was my first Lesbian wedding. Very glad we went because most of my narrow minded family stayed away.
Were you masked?
Yes I was.
Excellent. If you all kept your masks on the whole time, it will probably what saved the other wedding attendants. (If none turn out to get sick from the wedding.)
One nearby superspreader wedding is now linked to 24 deaths:
Moral of the story: Do not go to weddings during a pandemic.
Also, not sure why that lists it as a July article. This is very recent.
The covidiocy is alive and well in Alberta:
We lived in a shared-wall house. Our dumbfuck neighbors have hosted many gatherings in the past few months, and from what we can see as the guests spill into the front and back yards, no one is wearing masks. It’s a small house, and we’re pretty sure they rent out bedrooms to tenants, so there are a lot of unrelated people commingling in that small space and then going out to their various jobs.
A couple of men who live there are prime candidates for dying if they catch the virus.
We keep our windows closed unless the wind is blowing from our side of the property towards theirs.
I’m lying about work so I have an excuse nobody will question to avoid spending Christmas Eve with my extended family.
Court case in Alberta yesterday denied request for injunction. No idea if it’s a related church or not.
I think I posted on here about a pharmacy tech who wore her mask beneath her nose and told me masks don’t do much good anyway. I complained to corporate and also to the appropriate state agency. I was there today, and the same tech had the mask beneath her nose again.I said loudly but tactfully, “Oops, your mask slipped.” She ignored the comment.
I’m going to call tomorrow and tell the manager he’s lost a customer by not enforcing state regulations among his employees. It’s one thing to avoid confronting customers. It’s something else to refuse to enforce compliance among your pharmacy staff. You won’t find me at the intersection of Unhappy and Unhealthy after this.
In an attempt to bring cheer to our lonely xmas dinner, I decided to deep fry a turkey. The bird will be slaughtered tomorrow at the turkey farm. I need lots of peanut oil, and Walmart is where I know it can be purchased.
This was my first pandemic stop at Walmart and it will also be my last. It was scary how accurate the “People of Walmart” pictures matched what I saw. Plus there were many people unmasked. The worst compliance I’ve seen to date, and no attempt by the store to enforce the law. Even many store employees were masking their chin or had noses exposed. I got my oil and got the hell out. Will not return.
My plan precisely and for the same reasons. It is as if they have a national corporate plan to be dimwits and obstreperous and every store has signed on.
You can’t necessarily assume all Walmarts will be the same though. I’ve been in 2 recently (3 total visits post-covid) and they were wildly different. One had an employee posted at the door to hand out masks, and they actually had a gate to prevent unmasked people from entering. The other didn’t.
Instead of the typical holiday office party, my work did an online party using gather.town. It combined the worst aspects of a zoom meeting and a cocktail party. Anyway, that’s not the point of this.
“Walking” around I talked to several people who were joining the party after traveling out of town for the holidays. They claimed it was OK though, because they really, really wanted to go.
There are two Walmarts in our town. Both of them refuse to allow maskless people to come in. Both of them have counters at the door to see how many people are in the store at a given time and if it’s too many they don’t let you in until someone leaves. I have seen an employee go up to some nimrod wearing a mask below the nose and explain to that person how to fix it or leave. So far, Walmart seems to be the safest store I have visited, actually. I went to Trader Joe’s a few weeks ago, expecting they would be obeying all the rules, and there were two employees stocking shelves unmasked. No one was tracking the number of customers in the store. No one was wiping down carts. I have not been back to TJs, which really makes me sad, but I’m going to support the stores that support safety.