Well, the first thing to do is to ask for their source/data on those 48,000.

I'm so sorry. We had a bizzare week of what could go wrong did, but nothing compared to yours.

That seems reasonable.

I would like to see test prices come down even more, like dollar store pricing. I think that would help. Even if not totally accurate, if they were mostly accurate, they'd cut spread. And if cheap enough, people could test often. Saliva based even better.

If they are positive, staying home a day or two isn't really enough to prevent spreading it to others.

Lord, have mercy. Cause nothing short of a miracle is going to help that kind of ridiculousness.

Ugh, sorry about the muscle relaxers! You can try a half dose, I've known people that do that, who are sensitive to them. I'm not..they don't make me wobbly at all although they do give me a bit of groggy feeling in the morning. BUT they give me the munchies, and I think I sleep so hard that I end up sore from not moving all night, just in different places than I was sore when I went to bed! (like, I'll take it for my back/hip but wake up with a sore arm because I tucked it under me without moving all night) My doctor asks if I need a refill each time I see him...and a one month bottle lasts me at least 6 months. I only take it when I am desperate and can't sleep without it.

I'll let you know! I ordered some of the KF94 ones mentioned above, and I will order an XL Happy Mask when those are in stock. Poor guy, we joke that he needs a "big and tall" version of sunglasses, hats, etc. And my younger son inherited it. Kid was born with a 15 inch head and at 8 wears an adult hat.

Yeah....maybe that's the Covid brain fog? Sigh. The utter inability to use logic may kill me way before any virus. But I'm still stuck on the "masks can't keep out the virus...but they will suffocate you because air can't get through" thing. I mean, I sometimes say dumb stuff, but as I say it out loud I realize how dumb it is, and apologize and laugh.

Ugh. Is everyone in the house vaccinated? Can you create a negative pressure area in her room at least? Crack a window and blow a fan out of it?

this article was so upsetting....https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/30/us/coronavirus-florida-hospitals.html But these days inside the Covid I.C.U., almost everything is worse. The week before, Ms. Zacharski’s team had lost a 24-year-old mother whose entire family had contracted the coronavirus. The woman, like every other patient in the Covid I.C.U., had been unvaccinated. and Jackson has also admitted some vaccinated people, but almost all have been transplant patients with compromised immune systems. During last week’s visit by a reporter and photographer from The New York Times, none were in the I.C.U.

Not sure if this is the right place, may put it in the vaccine one too...but Florida hit our highest numbers since the start of the pandemic. And this article was so upsetting....https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/30/us/coronavirus-florida-hospitals.html But these days inside the Covid I.C.U., almost everything is worse. The week before, Ms. Zacharski’s team had lost a 24-year-old mother whose entire family had contracted the coronavirus. The woman, like every other patient in the Covid I.C.U., had been unvaccinated. and Jackson has also admitted some vaccinated people, but almost all have been transplant patients with compromised immune systems. During last week’s visit by a reporter and photographer from The New York Times, none were in the I.C.U.

Holy Cow! I haven't done anything with it in a while, but was thinking an hour ago I should do an unboxing video for our Bookshark stuff that came. I guess I should 🙂 Thank you for letting me know!

And this is why "masks optional" is not a safe strategy for schools, sunday school, etc!!! Masks like protect OTHERS mostly. I'm so sorry this happened to them. We are now wearing KF94 masks, which fit all of us well except DH whose head is too big. He can wear them, but not if he's going to be speaking much. We have happy masks too, but they are getting old, and the fit isn't as good at the bottom as with the KF94 ones. I'm looking to order him an XL happy mask, or find a KF94 or N95 that fits him. Or he's going places in a full on respirator.