kokopelli wrote:
kokopelli wrote:
I'm a bit confused.
It seems that people here are using "quarantine" to refer to the "shelter in place".
There's a difference. Shelter in place is/was for most everyone. Even if out for essential work, when you weren't working, you were supposed to go home. Also, you could leave to buy groceries.
A quarantine is for people who are or may be infected. When quarantined, about the only places you can go are to the doctor or the hospital. You don't go out for a walk or to the grocery or the post office or anything. You stay isolated from everyone else to every degree possible. The last thing anyone wants you to do is to infect others.
For what it's worth, I'm now in quarantine. Fortunately, it isn't for the full 14 days. I was exposed to someone who might have the coronavirus the Thursday before last. That makes it 9 days. So my quarantine, unless something changes, is for the next 5 days. I assume that if they are found to not be infected with the coronavirus, I can leave quarantine at that point in time without waiting the full 5 days.
By the way, I found out this evening that my old Assistant Scoutmaster from when I was a Boy Scout just passed away. He had been confirmed to have coronavirus a couple of days ago. His wife just passed away, too.
One day down, four to go.
On the next to last day, I had a strong disruption in my sense of smell. I didn't lose my sense of smell, but I was smelling all kinds of things and nothing matched what should have been there. The disruption only lasted about 4 or 5 hours.
So I went to the hospital the next morning to get tested. This past Monday, the test results came in positive.
I didn't have any more symptoms until this past Wednesday. I woke up with a little pressure in the lungs. On Thursday, it was more pressure, but not a huge amount.
This morning, I woke up about 4:30 am with just a twinge. After going to the bathroom, coming back in, and going back to sleep, I woke up about 8:30 am without even a twinge. I'm feeling just fine.
So if this keeps up, I'm recovered. But not officially.The state says three days after symptoms cease. The local hospital says that I have to test negative first. That's not real thrilling because you can be shedding dead virus and fragments of the virus for a month or maybe two afterwards -- testing positive the whole time.
That may explain why there are officially no recoveries in my county.
03 May 2020, 3:27 pm
