How does she qualify for unemployment? Are the rules different now?

It's not obsession, it's research!

I like Suzzer's reporting.

More posters and less lurkers make it more fun.

Reduced hours. If you read the second page of this it explains a lot:

Eligibility Checker
https://esdorchardstorage.blob.core....ityChecker.pdf

More info from https://esd.wa.gov/unemployment/cares-act:

She gets partial unemployment and is eligible to collect 60% of the amount she would normally make for the 16 hours that were cut. According to their calculations that amount is $80. The cares act says as long as you are collecting $1 in unemployment you get $600 on top of that. She went from getting 350 in her 40 hour a week to getting 890 working 24 hours. She didn’t have them take taxes out so she will owe something for that come tax time. They did the same thing to 10 other people she knows that are all on her pay level. They also went to work from home for those 3 days. None of them are gonna want to go back to 40 hours until this extra 600 ends.

You wouldn't understand. Curiosity about the world is not a right-wing trait.

Also it's more than curiosity. I want to know if there are early warning signs or if people are truly asymptomatic for that 2-3 day window right before symptoms - when they're shedding the most out of their throats.

My friend thought she just had allergies, then they went away for a day or two, then the real symptoms hit. Because of that pause, which apparently is common, she never connected the allergy-like symptoms as possibly covid. I asked her if those could have been covid. She thought about it and said yeah maybe.

Furthermore I have a theory that the way you get it could make a huge difference in symptoms. She got it from either a day of shopping, or some other random encounter where she wasn't heavily exposed. Most likely her roommate got it from her, which means he was probably blasted with her breath droplets.

She said his symptoms almost went in reverse of hers. So maybe it all depends on where the virus takes root first, then moves to. Or maybe not. But we know for sure that symptoms are all over the map, and the virus replicates in at least two places - the throat and lungs.

Fascinating stuff that maybe some day they'll actually scientifically understand.

My mom is a nurse. Her hospital really kinda goofed with ppe. They were really strict at the start of Covid with ppe and actually made the regulations looser (nurses in Covid unit didn’t need to wear n95 masks etc). Probably like 15 nurses got Covid in my moms unit which is really a joke. There was a story in the local news regarding this where a management employee stated it wasn’t a given that the employees got it at work but could have gotten it in public (which i find comical bc most people where I live wear masks in public/ people aren’t really doing high risk activities). I honestly feel there should be a lawsuit against the hospital for making such a negligent error but probably not realistic.

I got tested Thursday and started having symptoms Thursday night. Wanna say maybe I was exposed Tuesday-Wednesday as my sister visited my mom Sunday/Monday and didn’t test positive. I’ve lost taste/ smell and really not too motivated to eat as I don’t really have an appetite. Just want to sleep honestly. I’ve been working through this however have slept if I’m exhausted.

Testing has been a joke. First off I got tested at a public site which was well run and quick. I may have waited 45 minutes but it was a smooth process. I just find it irritating it took 5 days to find out I was positive. My mom got tested at her hospital and found out later that day she was positive. I knew I had it before my results came back due to how I felt. Also I find it irritating my own doctor couldn’t test me. I had a 2 minute video call with my doctor who made it sound like Covid was no big deal and not to worry. Testing in the US really needs to be improved imo.

well if you’re not old and dont have any comorbidities its pretty known now that covid is not a big deal, i’d take covid anyday over my crohn’s disease

You only get to choose crohns disease and covid.

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im well ****in aware im at risk mate, thanks for pointing it out genius

Thanks a lot. What state are you in btw?

I had a couple of friends who got tested in California and they got a 2-day turnaround with the results.

Here in Germany it's 48 hours but if you're positive it's actually 99% that you get the call on the next day.
Whole staff got tested at the nursing home I work for - it was voluntary, so like 90% - one positive out of like 150. She had been cleaning the apartments of 12 residents, none infected nor any co-workers.
As you might know, carnival is insanity where I live (Cologne) so it was damn lucky no spread happened back then. It did however happen elsewhere and **** hit the fan for that district (Heinsberg).

I've been reading an article on how many false positives (as well as false negatives) there are supected to be ATM.
The accuracy is apparently thought to be about 99,5% with no way of controlling it; since Covid-19 is so new it'll take a while to find a proper B-test.
Thus a rough estimate of a million tests with one per cent of the population infected results in 5,000 erroneous tests and 10,000 positives. Not too great.
I don't recall that being covered ITT, apologies if it was.

Well, it's been a few hours and nobody has contested this, so I guess it's true and you goofs all spent 373 pages on nothing?

Also, I personally know of people who have either been hospitalized or died due either directly to COVID or suspected involvement, who were in their 40s and otherwise presumed fairly healthy.

Might also want to look into the inflammatory disease affecting children post COVID infection.

If your friend got it randomly while out and about and her roommate got it from her, in close contact indoors, then the roommate was in considerably more danger. That is called the 'viral load' -- proximity and frequency of contact with the infected person can make it much worse.

Upstate ny. There aren’t huge #s of cases here in comparison to nyc / bigger cities around the US.

article that shows the graph of every state and gives them a grade based just on trajectory

https://fair.org/home/grading-the-st...virus-control/

california and texas both got Fs

new york and new jersey got Bs

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml...-whistleblower

Today was the biggest global daily increase.

you could also get cancer and die, or a stroke, or you could get hit by a bus, do we need to keep listing more stuff that are not impossible but unlikely?

Yeah he got hit a lot harder. I don't think either one of them were being super careful.

These grade reveal that there are only two successful strategies in the US:
1.) Be a sparsely population, very rural state
2.) Have such a huge outbreak of cases before you implement a lockdown that you develop partial herd immunity

That might be the dumbest thing I’ve read today and I’ve spent a good hour on twitter.

If we had the same number of deaths from stroke in the same time period, I think there would be quite the concern. And somehow I doubt the risk of being hit by a bus or facing detrimental effects due to COVID are anywhere near similar. You can take some pretty proven precautions against being hit by a bus, namely looking for one before stepping onto the road.

In fact, there's been an increase in strokes in young, seemingly healthy people possibly connected to COVID.

https://www.tctmd.com/news/stroke-su...9s-culpability

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/from-our...-misconception

There is no herd immunity for a while .

Herd immunity is not exactly the right term for what I am describing.
What New York and Italy have right now is probably not herd immunity, but a smaller percentage of the population sufficient to get the R down below 1 when combined with social distancing. E.g. if 20% are immune, and this reduces the R from 1 to 0.8, this would have dramatic effect on reducing new cases as the effect multiplies over time.

we don't really know why ny's numbers went down so much. could be that so many people were dying that the population took it seriously and adjusted their behavior. or it could have nothing to do with that. we don't know.