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What if you reframe: The probability is very high* that you meet the criteria for a mandated quarantine. Breaking mandated quarantine is breaking the law. You could get into trouble for that. Presumably he could too if he insists that you come in to work.
*More than very high. Near certainty.
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7 minutes ago, Quill said:
I think that is old info, though. I asked at the facility with the telehealth doctor. Telehealth doctor said I should not go to work for a week at minimum. There is a work note in my portal, although this portal is really frustrating me at the moment.
Can you contact your health unit for up to date information? Their website might have up to date isolation and quarantine information. In a perfect world, you would get a call from a contact tracer who would give you up to date information and a quarantine order. The CDC still endorses a 14 day quarantine for close contacts. I think you should stay home until you get formal direction from your health unit.
I know things are different in the USA than in Canada, but not that different, I don't think. There must exist a public health order to require quarantine for household contacts that's boss-proof, yes? I just can't imagine a boss requiring (or being allowed to require) a known household contact of a positive case to come to work. But I don't live in the US, so there's that.
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1 hour ago, Quill said:
Yeah I know that but my boss is the one who has to accept or reject that. He has several risk factors. IOW, if I had no job, I would stay at home for two weeks, just to be completely sure I’m not transmitting. But my boss is *not* going to accept that unless I am positive and/or symptomatic.
Im sitting at the testing site and just had both tests. Dh is finished and he is positive. So this is all epic suckage.
I'm sorry Quill. I know you've been fastidiously careful.
Doesn't your state/ public health unit have mandatory quarantine for household contacts? Here, household contacts have mandatory quarantine orders. No boss can over-ride those.
(There is also a mandatory self-isolation order for those with symptoms -they either have to stay home for 10 days, or test; can return to work before 10 days if the test is negative plus 24 hours and symptoms are improving. Bosses can't over-ride that either.)
Here's a Maryland document from October that states contacts of cases should quarantine for `14 days.
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Call your local sexual assault support centre, tell them what you've posted here, and ask them what's available and what they would recommend. Then you can provide your young friend with choices and support.
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7 minutes ago, Arcadia said:
Kaiser Permanente’s recommendation for Adult well-care visits, screenings, and immunizations
https://wa.kaiserpermanente.org/html/public/health-wellness/tests/recommendedTests/adultTests
That's a nicely organized tool.
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Canada has an evidence-based task force to advise on preventive care. Here is a list of guidelines by topic.
The US might have something similar?
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We've gone very unschooly for science. I don't require anything - no curriculum, no topic list, no book list, no required science reading time, no formal output. We have created a very science-rich environment in our home, and fostered sciency family culture. Lots and lots of books, podcasts, sciency toys (lego, snap circuits etc) and tools for tinkering (real tools, and lots and lots of "loose parts" a.k.a. junk and scraps), and lots of free time to play with it all. We garden and we spend a lot of time in nature camping. Vacations are sciency - we make use of naturalist programs and interpretive centres when camping in provincial parks, visit science museums etc. We talk about science topics and follow science current events as part of family life. We have steeped them in science without them really noticing any intentionality on our part. Kids are now 11 and 13. So far, so good. They have taken to science like ducks to water. They are absolutely science literate. It helps that the eldest is very mechanically inclined and likes to tinker.
I've had to be more formal about teaching history, because, since it's not an area of strength for me, I don't feel that I can create the same quality organic type of free learning experience.
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5 minutes ago, Innisfree said:
This was a big hit here, too.
We went with a light style designed for camping. The kids liked how easy it was to carry them along on trips to the beach or whatnot and hook them up to a couple of trees (river beach, with cypress trees 😉). Anyway, they've been versatile and fun. The double style was good when friends hung out too.
We do the same.
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What will the hammock be used for? Lounging? Sleeping? Indoors? Hammock camping?
This website/blog has lots of info on hammocks for both lounging and camping.
My kids love hammocks - for lounging, sleeping, and camping. We use the Brazilian style - it's much more versatile. Also more stable, and more comfortable once you figure out that you should orient your body either across the hammock or on a diagonal.
They have 2 hammocks in their room: one hangs from hardware drilled into the studs, and the other is suspended from their bunk bed frame under the top bunk. They also have one that we take places (park etc). They are no-name cheapie brand similar, like this, in style to an ENO hammock. They suit the purpose perfectly. We use Hennessy hammocks for camping. Our area has lots of trees, so finding a place to hang isn't usually difficult. We like tree straps with a daisy chain, similar to this, and hammocks with carabiners that clip to the straps. This make set-up super and take-down fast.
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4 minutes ago, Laura Corin said:
This is interesting on the precautionary principle
BBC News - Is Europe's AstraZeneca jab decision-making flawed?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56360646Yes, opportunity-cost. Halting the vaccine because a very tiny number of people might have a complication which might not actually have anything to do with the vaccine needs to be balanced with the risk of not vaccinating. And that risk is knowable and countable and predictable: deaths from covid. Deaths that are preventable with vaccination.
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4 hours ago, Quill said:
If someone is in hospice, why would they be vaccinated at all?
Im not challenging your statement, I just don’t understand why that would be.
Another reason in addition to what pp's have already said: Covid spreads like wildfire in congregate living facilities. Vaccinating everyone in all congregate living facilities - including those with short life expectancies - protects the entire community.
We had a horrific nursing home outbreak here in January with the B117 variant: 100 percent of residents infected, >50% died of covid. It was the nidus of community spread of the variant; 80+ known staff cases, 80+ known secondary cases (families of staff) and now the B117 variant is the dominant strain in my community (greater than 66% of new cases) and we are the B117 hotspot for the province. This happened after staff were offered vaccination (they all should have had their first dose weeks prior; most would not have yet had their second but some might have) but residents were not offered vaccination (because of transport issues with the pfizer vaccine which was all we had at the time). The "iron ring" strategy of vaccination only workers was a spectacular failure.
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I take my kids camping by myself in provincial parks multiple times a year. Taken them hiking by myself. I've done this since they were toddlers. It's fine, really.
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4 minutes ago, wathe said:
I've done this. Camping in provincial park campgrounds, and hiking day-hikes on trails within the parks. I was by myself, but I was never really truly alone. There were other hikers on the trails - not crowded or busy, but would cross paths from time to time. Trails were well marked and well-traveled.
Quoting myself to add: There wasn't reliable cell service in the parks at the time (there still isn't really, but it's less patchy than it used to be). I called DH from the payphone at the campground once a day to check in.
I saw lots more wildlife that when with groups. Because solo hiking is quiet! The most stressful experience I had was when I startled a deer a close range (it was around a bend in the trail and we didn't see each other until I was much too close), which then bolted and startled me.
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I've done this. Camping in provincial park campgrounds, and hiking day-hikes on trails within the parks. I was by myself, but I was never really truly alone. There were other hikers on the trails - not crowded or busy, but would cross paths from time to time. Trails were well marked and well-traveled.
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4 hours ago, Not_a_Number said:
Interesting. I’ve taken antivirals for cold sores... is that a bad idea?
In general, it depends on severity and how early you catch it. Antivirals can reduce recurrent HSV duration of symptoms by about a day, if taken early enough (during the prodromal phase). Recurrent HSV has a recognizable prodrome, so starting early enough for the drugs to actually be effective for symptom management is possible. This isn't usually so for chickenpox - once it's identifed as CP, the horse is out of the barn, so to speak. So for symptom management, AV often makes sense for HSV, but not usually for CP.
The role of AV for CP is risk reduction for complications. Hence the R/B calculus.
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3 hours ago, daijobu said:
I hear this a lot, but it wasn't my personal experience. If you don't already know the difference between superior and inferior, proximal and distal, renal and pulmonary just from every day experience and reading, then med school probably isn't a good choice.
I found vocabulary and nomenclature to be such a small part of medical school, I don't think Latin is worth your time. OTOH, we have many patients in the US who do not speak English, so having fluency, especially in a language in your local area (Spanish, Cantonese?) will be very helpful.
Although maybe I should ask, how did Latin give you an advantage that other med students lacked?
If you want to get a head start on something, learn how a kidney works. Yikes.
Mine either, and me too.
(Though, I did have a little pleasurable a-ha! moment with certain drug names (epinephrine and adrenaline) while studying word roots with my kids as a homeschool mom. Epi-nephron and ad-renal = on the kidney. Epinephrine/adrenaline = a hormone made by the adrenal gland, which sits, wait for it, on the kidney. Ah! I knew this, of course, but hadn't previously consciously connected epinephrine and adrenaline with their root words for some reason. Didn't hurt me any in med school or in practice)
OP, medical schools want high-performing, well-rounded candidates. Specific "pre-med" academic tracks aren't necessary. It doesn't really matter what you major in for university, as long as you are a very competitive student, and have extra-curriculars/life-experience/leadership.community engagement that will help you stand out. Pre-requisites vary by school. Some schools have traditional pre-req requirements (biology, chemistry, physics), and some have no specific pre-recs at all. The trend has been to move away from traditional pre-recs, and I don't have any reason to believe that that trend won't continue (ETA true both in Canada and USA).
For middle school and high school, I'd suggest that you put your energy into fostering rigorous academics and meaningful community engagement/leadership experiences. The details of which subjects or what specific extra-curriculars don't really matter much, I don't think. In fact, an unusual path might help her to stand out.
ETA - I'm not a surgeon; the lifestyle didn't appeal to me. My post is focused on med school. Also, I'm Canadian. The medical training systems and admission processes are much the same here as in USA.
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9 hours ago, BakersDozen said:
I have no clue. Maybe because she had the vaccination rather than natural exposure at her age? Her case was so incredibly mild, thank goodness!
Because the drugs aren't risk free. Antivirals reduce the risk of complications, but don't reduce the symptoms or duration of disease by very much. For children for whom the risk of complications from CP is low, the risk/benefit analysis favours not taking antivirals. For those with risk factors for complications, the risk/benefit balance shifts if favour of taking anitvirals.
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16 minutes ago, Thatboyofmine said:
Has Australia always had a lot of anti-Asian racism? I know it’s happening in the US here but I think that’s because of certain groups continually calling covid the ‘China virus.’ I don’t remember hearing a lot about it before the pandemic. IMO, we’ll always have some racism because we’ll always have idiots in society.
I think so. It definitely pre-dates covid. (MIL lived there for high-school in the 60's, and it was definitely a problem then - but that's practically ancient history.)
As @Sneezyone said, it fluctuates over time, and correlates with global geopolitics. Just as anti-Asian racism does in North America
ETA I think physical proximity to Asia plays role - similar to physical proximity of Mexico to USA influences anti-Latinx racism
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24 minutes ago, Not_a_Number said:
I don’t think any country has eliminated racism, however. I don’t think it’s possible, because outgroup prejudice is very natural to us as a species.
Racism is everywhere, I agree. Anti-Asian racism in Australia is particularly problematic. Worse than in Canada (as per DH's parents's country-of-origin diaspora connections). An example of how colourblind policy isn't working (if, indeed, Australian policy actually is colourblind, which I am uncertain of).
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9 minutes ago, Sneezyone said:
The question was whether colorblind approaches were working and leading to a colorblind society. Do they offer more hope for equality than racially/ethnically aware approaches?
I think colourblind approaches permit the dominant group to ignore racism and pretend it doesn't exist. The head-in-the-sand approach.
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9 minutes ago, Spy Car said:
Thank you. It is on my radar to discuss this with my physician once I'm fully vaccinated for Covid.
Shingles is not a joke. I understand that it can strike people more than once.
Bill
Yes. CDC recommends shingles vax even if you've already had shingles, in order to prevent more attacks.
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46 minutes ago, Sneezyone said:
Is it working?
Obviously a single news article doesn't really answer the question. And I'm not Australian. But DH is well connected with his parents's country-of-origin diaspora, which includes Asian-Australians. Anti-Asian racism is a big problem.
Edited to fix - parents plural
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30 minutes ago, Condessa said:
Australia
I thought Australia had official multiculturalism policy?
Maybe Australian boardies can chime in on this?
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Cultural appropriation is a tricky subject to navigate. Partly because the ground is shifting under our feet - this is a concept that is still evolving.
My 0.02:
Using a sacred object for profit or fashion? Appropriation, no question.
Invited to participate by the cultural group (ie wearing cultural clothing to a wedding because you've been invited to do so)? Not appropriation.
Wearing cultural clothing to dress up as a generic *insert culture* person? Offensive
Wearing very same clothing to dress up as a particular historical figure? Might be OK, so long as not a caricature, but still a risky thing to do. Depends on the history (was this person oppressed by someone from your own cultural/racial group? - then probably not OK).
Everything else is a judgement call.
Some things do get assimilated, evolve into their own thing, and become mainstream. Usually things that are utilitarian. Moccasin-style slippers, for example.
Re bulletin board: If the reason for depicting children in their cultural clothes is to emphasize their foreign-ness/otherness, then problematic. If the reason is to depict children the way they actually look (clothes that they would actually wear in the context that's depicted), then you're good, I think.
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Quick COVID question: would getting the vax ping a positive test result?
in The Chat Board
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Here, public health orders (including isolation and quarantine class orders) are legally enforceable under the Health Protection and Promotion Act. Failure to comply may result in a $5000 fine per day.
I expect that the US (or individual states) has something similar.