greentrees
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Totally agree that Subway subs can't compete with Northeastern corner non-chain deli hoagie/grinders.
But need to relate personal story on the original topic.... DH works at the big puzzle palace (PP), whose policy up until a few days ago was no masks required if you were vaccinated, and did away with limiting numbers of people in conference rooms. It was honor system on the non-masked being vaccinated. DH got Pfizer in Jan/Feb. DH regularly attends a Thursday meeting with some big wigs and 30-40 of their people - very few wearing masks, and he chose not to wear a mask either. (before the no mask thing the meeting was in 2-3 rooms with 12 people in each room)
Low and behold, on 7/20 he calls me to say he is being sent home early by his office cause he is hoarse and feeling "off". I quickly get clothes and stuff out of our bedroom and bathroom and prep to move to one of the empty bedrooms in our house. He gets home, I wear a mask and take his temp - it's 101 and he's normally in the 97's. He then gets the chills and a cough is starting. I buy a home test that evening and he registers positive. He goes to urgent care the next morning (masked) and is officially positive -- which starts the county process of contact tracing, plus PP tracing (county did a good job, PP people not good).
I felt fine - I had no symptoms -- but glad I moved into a different bedroom! Continued to feel fine; did home test 7/24 and was negative.
DH is very active, healthy, fit 61 y/o with no underlying conditions. He has completed triathlons for a number of years, runs, bikes, plays soccer weekly. Covid hit him HARD. No difficulty breathing, but had nasty cough, headache, body aches, fever, exhaustion and brain fog. Fever finally left this past Tue (so 7/27). County continues to do follow up on him -- and did some on me (asked when and where I was vaccinated) -- they sent me a clearance letter last Sat; sent him his clearance letter effective tomorrow (7/31). He's still exhausted -- sleeps A LOT, very little appetite but will eat the food I put at the door that he then opens after I move away to get. He's lost 10 lbs. While he's "cleared" to resume normal activity, there is no way he will be back at the PP on Monday. He will telecommute some, but not a full day. Still has the cough -- they say it could take weeks for it to go away.
Where did he get it? We will probably never know. But he's pretty sure if was from that unmasked meeting with 40+ people from someone who was asymptomatic. We will wear masks
But need to relate personal story on the original topic.... DH works at the big puzzle palace (PP), whose policy up until a few days ago was no masks required if you were vaccinated, and did away with limiting numbers of people in conference rooms. It was honor system on the non-masked being vaccinated. DH got Pfizer in Jan/Feb. DH regularly attends a Thursday meeting with some big wigs and 30-40 of their people - very few wearing masks, and he chose not to wear a mask either. (before the no mask thing the meeting was in 2-3 rooms with 12 people in each room)
Low and behold, on 7/20 he calls me to say he is being sent home early by his office cause he is hoarse and feeling "off". I quickly get clothes and stuff out of our bedroom and bathroom and prep to move to one of the empty bedrooms in our house. He gets home, I wear a mask and take his temp - it's 101 and he's normally in the 97's. He then gets the chills and a cough is starting. I buy a home test that evening and he registers positive. He goes to urgent care the next morning (masked) and is officially positive -- which starts the county process of contact tracing, plus PP tracing (county did a good job, PP people not good).
I felt fine - I had no symptoms -- but glad I moved into a different bedroom! Continued to feel fine; did home test 7/24 and was negative.
DH is very active, healthy, fit 61 y/o with no underlying conditions. He has completed triathlons for a number of years, runs, bikes, plays soccer weekly. Covid hit him HARD. No difficulty breathing, but had nasty cough, headache, body aches, fever, exhaustion and brain fog. Fever finally left this past Tue (so 7/27). County continues to do follow up on him -- and did some on me (asked when and where I was vaccinated) -- they sent me a clearance letter last Sat; sent him his clearance letter effective tomorrow (7/31). He's still exhausted -- sleeps A LOT, very little appetite but will eat the food I put at the door that he then opens after I move away to get. He's lost 10 lbs. While he's "cleared" to resume normal activity, there is no way he will be back at the PP on Monday. He will telecommute some, but not a full day. Still has the cough -- they say it could take weeks for it to go away.
Where did he get it? We will probably never know. But he's pretty sure if was from that unmasked meeting with 40+ people from someone who was asymptomatic. We will wear masks
