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Apr 4, 2020
9:04:22am
bruincoug Truly Addicted User
Family member may be infected
A close relative may be infected. Not in my household.

He is late 60s but has an advanced disease — not diabetes or cardiopulmonary but still probably severely hurts his chances of survival.

He has a health care worker that comes to give him treatments etc a few times per week. She called and said her spouse tested positive but is asymptomatic. She’s now quarantined.

So, I think odds are very good she has it and/or may have spread to him.

He has been on lockdown with basically only this visitor but also his wife who has not been totally on lockdown — grocery shopping etc.

Quarantine is not impervious.

I expect we may not be getting the whole truth from the health care worker but she’s now quarantined. She may we’ll have also tested positive but be reluctant to say that way.

And I expect her employer will not be willing to send a replacement or give more info, which threatens his health a different way.

So, we start a two week clock to see if he develops symptoms, and if he does, he’s probably fragile enough that that may be it for him.

No perfect solution here.

I have other vulnerable relatives (my own child, two nephew with lung problems). In each of those cases a flattened curve is helpful — I’d rather my child get it when he’s closer to 2 or older — bigger and stronger. But it will still suck when he gets it.

Flattening the curve may work, but there’s no running or hiding. I think most people will eventually be exposed to this.
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