My next door neighbor just caught COVID. Not good :(
 

He is a pilot instructor and apparently one of his students had it. :Oh crap
We just had beers on Friday :(
How long does it take for symptoms to show up?

up to a week.
my partner was in contact with someone who had it..about 4-5 days later we started to feel sick..but for us it was very mild, just a bit of sore throat.... however..still feeling tired, one month after the fact. you guys can still do beers there? maybe locking things down would have been a good idea

You can still dine in restaurants in socal.

Here's something directly from the CDC:
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019...uarantine.html

Yep, in my driveway. I haven't been to a bar since July, and even that was in Seattle.

I wouldn't worry about it. Might lose your sense of taste and smell for a week or so. Maybe get a bit more tired than usual. Possibly odd aching limbs.
That's about it.

No need to panic actually. I got friends who got close contacts with Covid person and as if nothing happened.

Best you can do is to self isolate, symptoms can show after 7+ days.
If you don't feel anything after 7 days, continue isolation for 7 more days.
If symptoms persist, seek medical help.

For the foreseeable future just presume everyone you interact with has Covid.

Pfff.. If you are not sitting home 24/7, you probably meet dozens of COVID-19+ persons.

Yeah, up to 7 days, but in most cases the symptoms appear earlier.

It took my friend about a week from the moment of infection (he always stays at home) to the onset of symptoms. He just went out to drink a beer to the bar

If you are in close proximity of less than 2 meters with the person who is infected and talk to him for at least 20 minutes, then the chances are higher to be infected as well.

Yeah, it's some scary shit. You have to stay away from everyone.

This past Saturday (the 7th), I'm out cutting the lawn (last time before Winter) and my old drinking buddy pulls up in his car. As normal, I go walking on up and we're talking (he's still sitting in his car).

He's telling me about his recent heart issues and out of nowhere he tells me his wife and his adult kids all contracted Covid.
(They all have Covid but not him)

^^ I started backing the F away. Now I'm like 5 or 6 feet away from his car.
We're done talking, he pulls away and I'm thinking "WTF is this shit and why didn't he warn me as I was walking on up" !!

So every god damn day since that Saturday mid afternoon (6 days ago) I've been checking my temp and it's been normal. My temp is usually around 97.4 up to 98.1
(Maybe I should shut up before I jinx myself)

I just took this pic like 3 minutes ago.

https://i.imgur.com/0JLfvQw.jpg

What county allows dine-in?

I check mine every morning.

My ex got it, his wife and children never did. He only lost his sense of smell and taste.

My brother in law was around 2 people tested positive. He got sick within 3 days of being around the second positive person, said he could not miss work so he wasn't going to get tested (yes these are the FUCKTARDS I have issues with). THEN my mother-in-law got sick because his dumb ass went to stay at his house instead of just staying at his girlfriend where he was already sick.

However, BOTH tested negative for corona. Who REALLY knows what the heck is going on here? I'm afraid no one.

You can dine in here in my town, you know until 10 PM when covid comes out. :helpme

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Do you use a smartwatch or someting. Is it like built in - like checking the time or something?
I'm not being facetious, I just can't see why anyone would check their temp everyday.

I am now 40+ and I can count on 1 hand the number of times I have had to check my temperature in my life.

FFs, you know if you have a fever. You don't need a thermometer.

If I feel a bit hot I usually just get my wife to kiss my forehead. She normally tells me I am being a pussy.

It was the same here until earlier this month when they banned everything. Everything that is except the big stores that are still allowed to pack shoppers in and sell their Christmas tat. Makes my blood boil.

I come in very close contact with multiple people on a daily basis. It's for everyone's protection. Pretty much built in at this point.

And I can't even remember the last time I had a fever, so I don't even know what it would feel like.

Isn't it crazy! .. folks don't give covid a seconds thought.

I disinfect everything with a clean towel and 70% alcohol.. even the groceries I bring in the house. They get sanitized out in the garage prior to them coming in the house. I don't know who coughed or sneezed on the groceries prior to me purchasing them.

But then you have folks that have family and friends who they were just around that tested positive for Covid and they tell you about it like it's no big deal. Well to me, being in the intensive care unit on a ventilator is a big deal. Infecting the people who live in my house over some careless stupid ass is a super big deal.

I learned my lesson there.. Nobody comes near me nor will I go close to anyone else without wearing a mask.

I can't believe we have to live like this but welcome to reality.

That's not entirely true ... two summers ago it was hot as hell that entire week. We were outside doing bigtime landscaping all day long in the sun.
Had a few cold ones with the guys after work..

Once I got home, I was BSn around doing my laundry / I was up and down the steps doing this and that.. feeling a litte rough around the edges I took my temp with a digital thermometer and it read 105. I figured the battery in the thermometer was bad so I thought whatever. I wasn't sweating, didn't have the chills or anything. I felt fine considering working my ass off.

She said try taking your temp with this thermometer (it was one of those old glass ones), that one read 105 too.

Went to the hospital and they said I had heat stoke with severe dehydration. I felt fine minus the 105 degree temp.

They pumped me with 2 IVs in the emerg as I laid there for five hours.. my temp dropped and they sent me home.

So no.. you can have a serious fever and not even know it.

Do-not-fear.

We have outside dining until 10

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you don't know if you have/suspect to have fever?

you have to check if you have it or not?

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maybe you will also require PCR test to know if you are ill or not....

Sure, when you are involved with people in a close medical situation and care about other human beings, you click a button to protect them. I know it's hard to spend 3 seconds to click that button but some of us are willing to bare that cross.

yeah, if I want to feel something, I click a button, without clicking buttons I dont feel anything and I have no idea if I am sick or not :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:winkwink:

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I haven't dined in since like January. I only do drive-thru or pick up a pizza and even that changed to noon on Saturday because it's less busy than Friday nights.

I'm an introvert anyway so this hasn't been that hard on me. Lol gives me a reason not to go to family gatherings. I went to one back this summer and found out my cousin was in lockdown cause someone at his work caught it. Since then I've said sorry I can't make it.

I just wear a mask and I wash my hands a ton all day long. Also, mouth wash has been my new best friend since I've heard it will kill it in your mouth and kills a cold/flu really fast.

I wipe down my desk and countertops but refuse to clean my groceries. I just wash my hands before prepping dinner and before I eat.

That's how I take mine every morning!

It can take up to 14 days for symptoms, hence the 14 day quarantine.

Now you know your friend has COVID, you could also have the virus, you need to stay away from people, quarantine yourself, this is the only thing you can do and take a test.

If you do not, you could infect someone else, the bubble will continue, you could be responsible for someones death.

Best wishes and hope you´ve not contracted the virus, it develops different in everyone :2 cents:

time to burn down the neighborhood

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