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posted ago by nufosmatic ago by nufosmatic +37 / -0

Up to now he's been in quarantine because he traveled outside the country and the company has been enforcing a quarantine for such employees. So now he's out for 14 days past his symptoms going away.

He just came off of the post-travel quarantine a week ago. So where did he catch it?

The company has been on a "less-than-50%" policy in the office, where people are encouraged to work from home if they can, and be in the office/lab/factory only 50% of the time if they can't. I work from home all of the time, so my impact is minimal.

The upside of this is my colleagues etiquette on teleconferences has improved markedly. And our IT department has been phenomenal at keeping out VPN resources functioning with 300% of load.

Back to my boss - he was working to set up some equipment so that I could work through a software task - I now have to wait 21 days to get that resource. It's OK, I've got lots to occupy my time. But when is this gonna stop?

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BrickSuit 4 points ago +4 / -0

Get him on Hydroxychloroquine - zithromax - zinc before his symptoms worsen

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Mother_of_gains 3 points ago +3 / -0

Have him tell the doctor that he's planning on going to Africa next week so he can get some Trump pills

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Verrerogo 3 points ago +3 / -0

Our task is to have enough Trump pills, the Hydroxychloroquine.

Your boss's incubation time may have been longer than "usual." He may have got it overseas and only overseas.

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Butthurt 3 points ago +3 / -0

When I thought I had it I had fever, fatigue, cough (the first day I hacked up a huge glob of brown shit) difficulties breathing and yes, absolutely no sense of taste or smell. Lasted about 3 weeks. The first week just felt like the flu with a cough, last 2 were just getting over it after the fever broke. I got it after a bunch of Mexicans from the city brought Mexican food to work, the virus wasn’t a huge deal then.

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nufosmatic [S] 1 point ago +2 / -1

Nothing about COVID-19’S clinical presentation is typical, including the fact that one of the first signs of infection seems to be losing your senses of smell and taste without any other symptoms, something no other virus on earth is known to do to otherwise asymptomatic patients. Additionally, an unnaturally juiced-up ability to use ADE++ would also explain what our front-line medical workers are observing in their patients: “I’m seeing people who look relatively healthy with a minimal health history, and they are completely wiped out, like they’ve been hit by a truck. This is knocking out what should be perfectly fit, healthy people. Patients will be on minimal support, on a little bit of oxygen, and then all of a sudden, they go into complete respiratory arrest, shut down and can’t breathe at all… That seems to be what happens to a lot of these patients: They suddenly become unresponsive or go into respiratory failure.” This sort of sudden precipitous decline is exactly what would be expected if COVID-19’s ability to use ADE had been accentuated in the lab, and would also explain the clinical observations that “this severity of [acute respiratory distress] is usually more typical of someone who has a near drowning experience — they have a bunch of dirty water in their lungs — or people who inhale caustic gas. Especially for it to have such an acute onset like that. I’ve never seen a microorganism or an infectious process cause such acute damage to the lungs so rapidly. That was what really shocked me.” And also the following horrific account: “Holy shit, this is not the flu. Watching this relatively young guy, gasping for air, pink frothy secretions coming out of his tube and out of his mouth. The ventilator should have been doing the work of breathing but he was still gasping for air, moving his mouth, moving his body, struggling. We had to restrain him. With all the coronavirus patients, we’ve had to restrain them. They really hyperventilate, really struggle to breathe. When you’re in that mindstate of struggling to breathe and delirious with fever, you don’t know when someone is trying to help you, so you’ll try to rip the breathing tube out because you feel it is choking you, but you are drowning.”

https://harvardtothebighouse.com/2020/01/31/logistical-and-technical-analysis-of-the-origins-of-the-wuhan-coronavirus-2019-ncov/


++Antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE) is a mechanism by which viruses, such as dengue, HIV and Ebola, gain entry into some target cells through the use of host antiviral humoral immune responses [1]. Here, we studied the ability of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) [2] to use ADE mechanisms to enhance its infectivity towards cells of the hematopoietic lineage. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3019510/

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nufosmatic [S] 1 point ago +2 / -1

He mentioned "pressure in his chest", which has since passed (I'm thinking I will be calling him...)

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Belleoffreedom 1 point ago +1 / -0

This guy needs treatment now. He could crash in another day or two. Other comments say what the treatment is.

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