Coronavirus

jeeper

I live my life 1 dumpster at a time
Location
So Jo, Ut
Not that it matters now.. but to clarify...
I am self employed. I spend about 12 hours of the day working by myself, about 30 minutes of the day in the same buildings as other people, but rarely even in the same room, and another few hours working at home with my family around. I am working about 16 hours a day, 6 or 7 days a week right now trying to catch up... If I were to test positive, and my family had to isolate, it would be a welcomed break for me. However, the ripples it would create for my family, and the people depending on my work would be HUGE. Kids are leads in the school play and have practice every day. If I quit working, it could cost other people thousands and thousand (maybe even hundreds of thousands) if deadlines are missed or delayed.
My risk to pass it to others is pretty low.. but knowing that I had it would have prevented me from being able to keep working.
So the loss of income is big, but not the major issue. Causing issues for others was my concern.




But I also search KSL and RME every time I drive. Usually without my seatbelt on. While speeding. Also while drinking a dew and eating a burger.
 

Spork

Tin Foil Hat Equipped
I hate to bring facts in but...
Symptoms may appear 2-14 days after exposure to the virus. People with these symptoms may have COVID-19:
Fever or chills
Cough
Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
Fatigue
Muscle or body aches
Headache
New loss of taste or smell
Sore throat
Congestion or runny nose
Nausea or vomiting
Diarrhea

So you did a race, in a dusty environment, possibly have allergies, maybe even got some sunburn standing around before/after, there's cough, fatigue, muscle or body aches, sore throat, maybe even a headache. You might not have the Rona, you might just be getting old. :handlebars:
 

Cody

Random Quote Generator
Supporting Member
Location
Gastown
My contingency plan was always to become the puppet master and just pull strings from home as best as possible. My entire business, like Jeeper's, is contingent upon me being here. But, it's also not my decision to make for other people whether the financial loss of me stopping working is greater than the potential risk of spreading it. Thankfully it hasn't come to that, and I'm fully sheepled by pfizer, so it feels like we've made it through the heart of it without major issues. We had a couple cooks go down, an couple bartenders, but mostly all negative tests. We quarantined people as best as possible, tested people where we thought necessary etc. I don't feel like we took any major risks and played it pretty conservatively overall.
 

Noahfecks

El Destructo!
I still stand by my statement from way back at the beginning of this. It is not my responsibility to protect you, it's your responsibility to protect yourself and make the decisions for you personal well being.

If you feel like you need to wear a mask, wear a mask. If you feel like you need to get vaccinated, get vaccinated. If you feel like you need to stay home, stay home. I'm not your ****ing daddy.
 

DAA

Well-Known Member
Supporting Member
I got some questions. I’m not sure if I should go get tested or not. Truth is, I don’t want to have to deal with knowing if I have Covid. That would totally wreck my income for a while, and Cause me other serious problems. But if I think I have a chance of having it… Seems pretty reckless of me to go about life as normal.
I started coughing pretty bad immediately after our desert race a few weeks ago. However that is completely normal, and it usually goes away after a couple of days. I call it race lung. It did not go away this time. Some days are worse than others, but I am coughing every single day.
For the last week now, I feel like I have worked out extra hard, and all of my muscles are super sore. Walking up the stairs hurts, getting off the toilet hurts, and even just putting on my seatbelt strains my arm muscles. I kind of chalk this up to doing a bit more outdoor work this week… But I don’t typically get sore from that kind of stuff. So now that I have sore muscles and coughing it’s making me think I may want to get tested. But I feel fine, and I’m not really concerned.
What you think??


That's not how everyone feels every day?

- DAA
 

Herzog

somewhat damaged
Admin
Location
Wydaho
There's a crazy thing going around on the nets about magnets sticking to the injection site. Anybody here want to try and report back? Pretty odd.
 

Herzog

somewhat damaged
Admin
Location
Wydaho
Just checked mine..... not magnetic in my left shoulder. J&J vaccine
Might only be the austrailian flavors. Most of the videos they all had aussie accents :rofl:
I'm just curious if there's any truth to it, but there's quite a few out there. Pretty wild.
 

mbryson

.......a few dollars more
Supporting Member
Might only be the austrailian flavors. Most of the videos they all had aussie accents :rofl:
I'm just curious if there's any truth to it, but there's quite a few out there. Pretty wild.


That's the thing that's difficult to determine these days. What's true and what's bullshit. I think there's a lot of both out there. You have to fall back to your knowledge/truth (different for everyone) bank and weigh what you are reading/seeing/listening to vs what you already know. There's SO MUCH out there, it's easy to be misled for anyone whatever their political/religious/social leanings are.

Ultimately you have to decide if you believe some somewhat "new" science and subscribe to the Phizer/Moderna or J&J/Janzzen theory if you are looking at being vaccinated. From what I ascertained from all the bullshit out there, the J&J is not quite as effective but a more "traditional" vaccine vs the "new" technology Phizer/Moderna vaccines. Maybe I'm wrong but I felt like the J&J was BEST FOR ME and I went that route. We have STRONGLY differing opinions in my own household, let alone between myself and my spouse. I think my wife will wait a LONG time (if ever) to be vaccinated against COVID. Not sure about my kids. I'm cool with them choosing their own path. I just ask that they make an educated judgement. Get data from varied sources, bounce it against your knowledge and the knowledge of people you trust and make a decision that works for you. YOU are the one that gets to live or die with the decision. It should be yours.

Just for the record, I have had almost NO side effects from the J&J vaccine. It's a one dose vaccine. We'll see how it goes. If my wife/kids are on here trying to find buyers for all my Jeep junk and tools, you'll know what happened to me.
 

ID Bronco

Registered User
Location
Idaho Falls, ID
Our school district is the only one in a very large area still requiring masks. It's garbage, not upheld by science. There were some major fireworks at the school board meeting last night. Fun stuff to watch go down. #freethekids. haha
 

Stephen

Who Dares Wins
Moderator
My guess from the video I saw, which was the vaccinated lady still wearing a mask, is that she had a shoulder surgery, and the magnet is actually sticking to hardware inside.
Its all hooey. I have a 6" piece of steel holding my fibula together and I can't get a magnet to stick to it. Even HDD magnets, which are the strongest ones I've had hanging around.
 

Stephen

Who Dares Wins
Moderator
Our school district is the only one in a very large area still requiring masks. It's garbage, not upheld by science. There were some major fireworks at the school board meeting last night. Fun stuff to watch go down. #freethekids. haha
Not sure how it is up in Utah's silly hat, but here in the Beehive State the K-12 mask mandate is a state mandate, not a school district one. So all the anger thats been directed at districts is misplaced. Granite School Districts board meeting last month had to adjourn early because a bunch of idiot children... errr... parents started screaming at the board about masks when the board can't really do anything about it. But hey, knowing how laws and regulations work (or basic parliamentary procedures) is so lame, amiright?
Sure, a district can choose how they want to enforce it; but with how sue happy society is, if I was the district I'd just follow the letter of the law. For example, there is currently litigation happening at a GSD high school right now regarding the outcome of the Student Body Officer elections. Yeah, really, its a thing. So just imagine the parental outrage from some quarters if GSD or Canyons said, "Yeah, F the state mask mandate! #freedakidz! YOLO!!!"
There's less than a month of school left and next year the mask mandate is gone. I think kids can handle that.
 

mbryson

.......a few dollars more
Supporting Member
Not sure how it is up in Utah's silly hat, but here in the Beehive State the K-12 mask mandate is a state mandate, not a school district one. So all the anger thats been directed at districts is misplaced. Granite School Districts board meeting last month had to adjourn early because a bunch of idiot children... errr... parents started screaming at the board about masks when the board can't really do anything about it. But hey, knowing how laws and regulations work (or basic parliamentary procedures) is so lame, amiright?
Sure, a district can choose how they want to enforce it; but with how sue happy society is, if I was the district I'd just follow the letter of the law. For example, there is currently litigation happening at a GSD high school right now regarding the outcome of the Student Body Officer elections. Yeah, really, its a thing. So just imagine the parental outrage from some quarters if GSD or Canyons said, "Yeah, F the state mask mandate! #freedakidz! YOLO!!!"
There's less than a month of school left and next year the mask mandate is gone. I think kids can handle that.



....and then.....







Utah mask mandate lifting for last week of school as state sees 418 new COVID-19 cases, 6 deaths Thursday​

By Jacob Klopfenstein, KSL.com | UPDATED - May 13, 2021 at 12:24 p.m. | Posted - May 13, 2021 at 10:47 a.m.​


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SALT LAKE CITY — The state of Utah won't require masks in K-12 schools for the last week of the school year, Gov. Spencer Cox announced Thursday.

Individual school districts will have the option to continue mask mandates in their schools, but the state will lift its blanket mask requirement for all districts in the state, the governor said. Masks won't be required for whenever districts have their last weeks of school, he said.

The motivation for lifting the mandate in the last week of school is to give students a chance to see their teachers and friends at schools that last week, the governor said.

"Masks are still encouraged," Cox added.

The governor said there has been a request from several districts for the state to lift the school mask mandate. Families and kids can still make the decision to continue wearing masks, and Cox pleaded with people to respect the choices of individual parents and students.






Utah Gov. Spencer Cox provided a COVID-19 pandemic update at a news conference Thursday morning. Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson and Utah Department of Health Deputy Director Dr. Michelle Hofmann also spoke at the event. Watch the replay below.










New COVID-19 cases​



Utah's number of COVID-19 cases increased by 418 on Thursday, with six more deaths and 14,578 vaccinations reported, according to the Utah Department of Health.

There are an estimated 7,630 active cases of COVID-19 in Utah, according to the health department. The rolling seven-day average number of positive cases per day is now at 328, according to the health department. The positive test rate per day for that time period calculated with the "people over people" method is now 6.7%. The positive test rate per day for that time period calculated with the "test over test" method is now 3.6%.

There are 152 COVID-19 patients currently hospitalized in Utah, including 53 in intensive care, state data shows. About 73% of intensive care unit beds in Utah hospitals are now occupied, including 74% of ICU beds in the state's 16 referral hospitals. About 56% of non-ICU hospital beds are now occupied in Utah, according to the health department.

A total of 2,355,333 vaccine doses have been administered in the state, up from 2,340,755 Wednesday. There are now 1,370,701 Utahns who have received at least a first dose of the vaccine, and 1,084,381 are fully vaccinated, according to the health department. A total of 2,851,143 vaccine doses have been shipped to the state so far.

State data now shows that 42.8% of Utah's total population has received at least a first dose of the vaccine, and 33.8% are fully vaccinated. Among Utahns age 16 and older, 57.6% have received at least one dose and 45.6% are fully vaccinated, according to the health department.

The new numbers indicate a 0.1% increase in positive cases since Wednesday. Of the 2,623,583 people tested for COVID-19 in Utah so far, 15.3% have tested positive for the disease. The number of total tests conducted in Utah since the pandemic began is now 4,781,911, up 14,677 since Wednesday.

The six deaths reported Thursday were:



  • Two Iron County men who were between the ages of 65 and 84 and were hospitalized when they died
  • A Salt Lake County woman who was over the age of 85 and was a resident of a long-term care facility
  • A Salt Lake County man who was between the ages of 45 and 64 and was hospitalized when he died
  • A Tooele County woman who was over the age of 85 and was a resident of a long-term care facility
  • A Utah County man who was over the age of 85 and was a resident of a long-term care facility


Three of the deaths occurred before April 13 but were still being investigated by state medical examiners, the health department said.

Thursday's totals give Utah 401,669 total confirmed cases, with 16,467 total hospitalizations and 2,255 total deaths from the disease. An estimated 391,784 Utah COVID-19 cases are now considered recovered, according to the health department.
 

Herzog

somewhat damaged
Admin
Location
Wydaho
Its all hooey. I have a 6" piece of steel holding my fibula together and I can't get a magnet to stick to it. Even HDD magnets, which are the strongest ones I've had hanging around.
I mean, it might be. This compilation was sent to me this morning. Some of these people are... :rofl:

 
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