The Official CoronaZoneVirus Thread

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#5,676
GordonC said:
Just got word that my cousin in Nashville died of COVID early this morning. My mom was the baby of her siblings, and all but one of my first cousins were older than I am. Mom said he was 72 and had some health issues in the past. We had not seen him in several years.

I despise this disease a lot.

Please say prayers for the family.
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Sorry to hear man, praying for the family.
 
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GordonC said:
Just got word that my cousin in Nashville died of COVID early this morning. My mom was the baby of her siblings, and all but one of my first cousins were older than I am. Mom said he was 72 and had some health issues in the past. We had not seen him in several years.

I despise this disease a lot.

Please say prayers for the family.
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I’m very sorry to hear, Gordon. Prayers for all the family.
 
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tl;dr

My cousin's obit appeared in the Gallatin obits and did not mention the covid at all. My mother talked to someone and said it took him down quickly and he suffered quite a bit. I seriously hate this disease, and I do not use the word "hate" lightly.

Today, three of our sports teams went into quarantine yet again. We had three student cases come back positive (not the rapid test, which had already come back positive) today (because of the LD weekend) and resumed contact tracing and sent students home all day.

A very sweet young lady in my English 09 class who tested positive contacted me over the weekend via email and was suffering badly and asked me to pray for her. She connected from home today remotely and told me she was doing much better. I am glad. The doctors had her on steroids and decongestants, she said.

Personally, I want the students to be on-site. The students want to be on-site. I think the students at school wearing masks are protecting themselves as well as, if not better than, many of them do when we are fully remote. (Some of them are out going to town all day, parents don't make them wear masks and stay home, etc.) Of course, we can be diligent in following every precaution at school, and it often does little good because of what happens after the students leave the premises.

I know this is tl;dr, but I really don't know where this is going with the uptick in cases. I fear it will get worse before it gets better. It breaks my heart to think these students will lose more instructional time, yet I understand the need to try to act in the interest of public safety. I don't even pretend to know what that "balance" is, and honestly I'm about tired of others acting like they have "the answer" to all this. All the people politicizing it need to just go away.

I hope and pray that all my VN brothers and sisters, their families, and our nation make it through this crisis soon.
 
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BigOrangeMojo said:
Had a cousin pass away over the weekend and half brother who passed away a couple weeks back (celebration of life ceremony is this week).

And have lost 3 aunts/uncles on Dad's side this year to COVID.

This is a horrible virus and I'm almost numb to it all.
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Sorry to hear that
 
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GordonC said:
Just got word that my cousin in Nashville died of COVID early this morning. My mom was the baby of her siblings, and all but one of my first cousins were older than I am. Mom said he was 72 and had some health issues in the past. We had not seen him in several years.

I despise this disease a lot.

Please say prayers for the family.
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prayers on way
really hate having to look at covid threads, pArticulary the other threads
 
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rumor is that tusk#$#@(@ morgue is filled up
not sure if there'll be any room left in br@##!-d^&*)( stadium
do know opponent is mercer,f and that should cut the cardiac cases
 
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rocytop2624 said:
Wut?
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Basically that COVID deaths in Tuskaloosa are very high and that the morgue reportedly was full yesterday. Hospital is having hard time handling emergency patients and is
unable to admit people who need care. Near-capacity crowd possible at Bryant Denny and the heat and humidity are as as unbearable as usual. Fortunately, for many fans at game in this area the foe is Mercer. And that might stave off a few cardiac cases and ensuing health crisiis
 
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ArdentVol said:
Basically that COVID deaths in Tuskaloosa are very high and that the morgue reportedly was full yesterday. Hospital is having hard time handling emergency patients and is
unable to admit people who need care. Near-capacity crowd possible at Bryant Denny and the heat and humidity are as as unbearable as usual. Fortunately, for many fans at game in this area the foe is Mercer. And that might stave off a few cardiac cases and ensuing health crisiis
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Prayers for poor Mercer…
 
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GordonC said:
tl;dr

My cousin's obit appeared in the Gallatin obits and did not mention the covid at all. My mother talked to someone and said it took him down quickly and he suffered quite a bit. I seriously hate this disease, and I do not use the word "hate" lightly.

Today, three of our sports teams went into quarantine yet again. We had three student cases come back positive (not the rapid test, which had already come back positive) today (because of the LD weekend) and resumed contact tracing and sent students home all day.

A very sweet young lady in my English 09 class who tested positive contacted me over the weekend via email and was suffering badly and asked me to pray for her. She connected from home today remotely and told me she was doing much better. I am glad. The doctors had her on steroids and decongestants, she said.

Personally, I want the students to be on-site. The students want to be on-site. I think the students at school wearing masks are protecting themselves as well as, if not better than, many of them do when we are fully remote. (Some of them are out going to town all day, parents don't make them wear masks and stay home, etc.) Of course, we can be diligent in following every precaution at school, and it often does little good because of what happens after the students leave the premises.

I know this is tl;dr, but I really don't know where this is going with the uptick in cases. I fear it will get worse before it gets better. It breaks my heart to think these students will lose more instructional time, yet I understand the need to try to act in the interest of public safety. I don't even pretend to know what that "balance" is, and honestly I'm about tired of others acting like they have "the answer" to all this. All the people politicizing it need to just go away.

I hope and pray that all my VN brothers and sisters, their families, and our nation make it through this crisis soon.
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Appreciate your viewpoint and excellent points. Sometimes we forget that our educators are also front line responders in this crisis.
 
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A guy I work with passed away to covid at 39 and nine months ago his brother and father passed from covid. He had 3 kids and a wife. Awful.
 
#5,698
#5,698
By the news reports, Tennessee is number 1 in infection right now, but yet no mask mandates for schools or anyone. Where the older population was mostly affected in the first wave, now it’s the younger ones. I think they want this as a means to herd immunity. IDK, obviously.
 
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Orangeredblooded said:
By the news reports, Tennessee is number 1 in infection right now, but yet no mask mandates for schools or anyone. Where the older population was mostly affected in the first wave, now it’s the younger ones. I think they want this as a means to herd immunity. IDK, obviously.
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They over reacted last year in Tennessee and know are under reacting this year. It's spread to small towns now and there are variants. I don't think there will ever be heard immunity this will be like a more deadly flu I do believe.
 
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