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Post by AmyG on Aug 4, 2020 11:31:16 GMT -6
I just read that Clorox said they won’t be back up and full stock running until some time in 2021 so I’m not even looking anymore. I used to a few times a day check amazon and stuff, I’m releasing that! For clorox bleach? Or clorox wipes? I read that getting the cylindrical containers for the wipes is the hold up, and they were trying to get approval and transition machines to do the little plastic packaging like baby wipes refills comes in.
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Post by canteverremember on Aug 4, 2020 11:35:16 GMT -6
I just read that Clorox said they won’t be back up and full stock running until some time in 2021 so I’m not even looking anymore. I used to a few times a day check amazon and stuff, I’m releasing that! For clorox bleach? Or clorox wipes? I read that getting the cylindrical containers for the wipes is the hold up, and they were trying to get approval and transition machines to do the little plastic packaging like baby wipes refills comes in. There were wipes on the table with the guy talking so I’m guessing wipes but I’d need to go double check before saying for certain. redbears it’s crazy. Let’s hope schools don’t need wipes!
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Post by cnf on Aug 4, 2020 11:44:00 GMT -6
For clorox bleach? Or clorox wipes? I read that getting the cylindrical containers for the wipes is the hold up, and they were trying to get approval and transition machines to do the little plastic packaging like baby wipes refills comes in. There were wipes on the table with the guy talking so I’m guessing wipes but I’d need to go double check before saying for certain. redbears it’s crazy. Let’s hope schools don’t need wipes! It's got to be for wipes and sprays. We can find more than enough Clorox brand regular bleach in any store where I am. Wipes and spray are elusive at this point.
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Post by AmyG on Aug 4, 2020 11:44:27 GMT -6
I can get bleach not usually clorox brand. Ive taken baby wipes and pour some bleach in the pkg, squish it about and use to clean bathrooms. But dont use cheapest baby wipes, they leave fuzzies behind.
People make their own to pop up in a tub, but idk what paper towels they use cause the ones ive tried the paper towels fall apart too easily.
I want regular lysol/clorox/store brand wipes to go up to univ with my son on sunday. and microban (for the 24 hr virus killing) For his shared bathroom and kitchen.
But my order today was cancelled, and evert time ive ordered.
I found some small sized wipes at big lots but ingredient may not work on covid according to us, but canada says it should.
Big lots also has box of 50 paper face masks for $19, and im always getting a $5 off $15 coupon. So son has 1 box of those and a dozen cloth masks I made him
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Post by AmyG on Aug 4, 2020 11:46:55 GMT -6
There were wipes on the table with the guy talking so I’m guessing wipes but I’d need to go double check before saying for certain. redbears it’s crazy. Let’s hope schools don’t need wipes! It's got to be for wipes and sprays. We can find more than enough Clorox brand regular bleach in any store where I am. Wipes and spray are elusive at this point. Dollar tree and dollar general (same company) have been advertising wipes and sprays -they are off brand of course. My dollar tree has had awesome kitchen cleaner with bleach the last month or so. And paper towels, kleenex, napkins and toilet paper too.
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Post by lemons on Aug 4, 2020 11:54:34 GMT -6
Windex now makes a multi surface disinfectant spray. There has been intermittent stock of Clorox, Lysol, and off brand cleaning supplies at my local Target.
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Post by milkyway on Aug 4, 2020 11:54:40 GMT -6
Our neighbor’s son had a fever yesterday and a cough. They called every doctor both them and us know, and confirmed that there is no rapid test available to people who aren’t front line workers in our area. Most tests take an average of 6 days for a result. Which ok fine, but how are we supposed to start school in 4 weeks? As much as I want in person school for my kids, their plans seem impossible if we don’t have rapid tests available. Also I think it’s ridiculous that we don’t have testing figured out 5 months into this. We are in Michigan and my DD got tested at Rite Aid. She only had a couple symptoms but also has anxiety so she wanted to get tested. She got the test on Thursday and had the results on Saturday.
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Post by AmyG on Aug 4, 2020 12:07:49 GMT -6
Thought someone might like/use/need this idea. Son in his apartment will need a place to keep his masks readily available. So experiment on his bedroom door right now is a over door 6 hook thing like this www.dollartree.com/essentials-6-hook-white-over-the-door-metal-racks/186703Labeled with sharpie m-f and 6th hook extra for weekend. Where it fits on door To the right and the left is a command strip hook. On the hooks is smallest lingerie bag. So the one on the right has clean masks and the one on left is dirty masks. I know him and hes not going to handwash a mask every night or even every few nights. So if he can throw a bag of them in his laundry once a week he might actually wash them. Key to wash them in washer without nose metal piece getting destroyed is find or make smallest bag that will hold a stack of 5-7 masks barely so they stay pretty flat and hold each other on place. If bag is too big theyll roll up and bend all over the place. He washes his clothes on delicate and lower heat so it seems to be working ok so far. His box of 50 paper masks are his back up plan for forgetting to wash masks not drying them or ruining them in washing.
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Post by gussie on Aug 4, 2020 12:08:28 GMT -6
Our neighbor’s son had a fever yesterday and a cough. They called every doctor both them and us know, and confirmed that there is no rapid test available to people who aren’t front line workers in our area. Most tests take an average of 6 days for a result. Which ok fine, but how are we supposed to start school in 4 weeks? As much as I want in person school for my kids, their plans seem impossible if we don’t have rapid tests available. Also I think it’s ridiculous that we don’t have testing figured out 5 months into this. We are in Michigan and my DD got tested at Rite Aid. She only had a couple symptoms but also has anxiety so she wanted to get tested. She got the test on Thursday and had the results on Saturday. That’s good to know, thanks! Your DD sounds like my DS, he gets nervous anytime anyone has a sore throat. MH got bad allergies last weekend and DS had to sleep next to him at night.
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Post by AmyG on Aug 4, 2020 12:12:26 GMT -6
You can try going to www.doineedacovid19test.com/Scroll down and click on your state. People I know have had slow results from the walmart ones, but 3-4 days results if using a small independent pharmacy. It says tests are free, Of course they may still bill your insurance
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Post by milkyway on Aug 4, 2020 12:16:35 GMT -6
We are in Michigan and my DD got tested at Rite Aid. She only had a couple symptoms but also has anxiety so she wanted to get tested. She got the test on Thursday and had the results on Saturday. That’s good to know, thanks! Your DD sounds like my DS, he gets nervous anytime anyone has a sore throat. MH got bad allergies last weekend and DS had to sleep next to him at night. We were out of town when she wasn't feeling well. She's 19 so old enough to decide for herself if she wants to get tested. I figured she probably did not have Covid, but she also works in a restaurant and I didn't want to be responsible for causing an outbreak so I told her to go get a test if it would make her feel better. The tests are free to anyone over 18 at Rite Aid locations in certain states.
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Post by McBenny on Aug 4, 2020 12:37:43 GMT -6
Our neighbor’s son had a fever yesterday and a cough. They called every doctor both them and us know, and confirmed that there is no rapid test available to people who aren’t front line workers in our area. Most tests take an average of 6 days for a result. Which ok fine, but how are we supposed to start school in 4 weeks? As much as I want in person school for my kids, their plans seem impossible if we don’t have rapid tests available. Also I think it’s ridiculous that we don’t have testing figured out 5 months into this. I thought you assume you have it and quarantine as such until you get your test results back regardless of how many days it took?
I mean that is how we are functioning in my area.
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Post by McBenny on Aug 4, 2020 12:41:52 GMT -6
Last night was the due date to commit the kids to virtual/face to face school. Our answer has to be face to face since otherwise they would have to do all learning from 5-7 each night. I still cried when I submitted the form. It is shit or shittier for options. School is still set to start 8/24. We did school in the spring on weekends and nights.
Now it's not an option cause they will have synchronous and asynchronous instruction time.
I told the kids they better make sure it works or I will pull them and homeschool so we can get the flexibility we need.
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Post by goldenbird on Aug 4, 2020 13:01:25 GMT -6
I'm so ready for this year to be over. Maybe next year too. Wake me up in 2022.
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Post by gimmeaQ on Aug 4, 2020 13:09:37 GMT -6
Our neighbor’s son had a fever yesterday and a cough. They called every doctor both them and us know, and confirmed that there is no rapid test available to people who aren’t front line workers in our area. Most tests take an average of 6 days for a result. Which ok fine, but how are we supposed to start school in 4 weeks? As much as I want in person school for my kids, their plans seem impossible if we don’t have rapid tests available. Also I think it’s ridiculous that we don’t have testing figured out 5 months into this. I thought you assume you have it and quarantine as such until you get your test results back regardless of how many days it took?
I mean that is how we are functioning in my area.
sure, but contact tracing and such gets really difficult and to have a whole classroom of "potentially exposed" kids having to quarantine for a week because Sarah Jane has the sniffles and couldn't get her negative test result for 10 days becomes exceptionally hard.
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Post by peppapig on Aug 4, 2020 13:11:31 GMT -6
drr but you (the general you) should no longer be contagious/infectious 10 days after isolation, correct? As per the CDC? I ask b/c after my 10 day isolation I got tested again, and it came back negative, but some symptoms have returned (some mild shortness of breath/chest heaviness, tickle in throat) - all of which could be attributed to anxiety and allergies.
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Post by gussie on Aug 4, 2020 13:22:44 GMT -6
Our neighbor’s son had a fever yesterday and a cough. They called every doctor both them and us know, and confirmed that there is no rapid test available to people who aren’t front line workers in our area. Most tests take an average of 6 days for a result. Which ok fine, but how are we supposed to start school in 4 weeks? As much as I want in person school for my kids, their plans seem impossible if we don’t have rapid tests available. Also I think it’s ridiculous that we don’t have testing figured out 5 months into this. I thought you assume you have it and quarantine as such until you get your test results back regardless of how many days it took?
I mean that is how we are functioning in my area.
I would assume. I’m just wondering about school. So a teacher’s husbands coworker is positive, does the teacher test/quarantine for a week waiting for results? Let’s say a kid in my kid’s class tests positive, does the whole class go get a test and not meet again until everyone has results back? My kid wakes up with a cough or a fever, do I test him/her every time and pull them from school while we wait for results even if they feel better in a day or two? It just seems like a lot of time off school if we can’t get a quick turnaround.
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Post by gussie on Aug 4, 2020 13:28:32 GMT -6
An example is one of our cooks is feeling sick and got a test. He’s quarantining at home waiting for the results, it’s been a few days. I’d like to know if he had COVID in our restaurant. If it comes back positive, someone else at the bar could’ve already been infected and spreading it around. If we had the results in a day, we could’ve shut down to deep clean and gotten everyone a test.
It just seems impossible to try to function as a normal society if we have to wait so long to get test results.
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Post by ldubhawksfan on Aug 4, 2020 13:29:21 GMT -6
I thought you assume you have it and quarantine as such until you get your test results back regardless of how many days it took?
I mean that is how we are functioning in my area.
I would assume. I’m just wondering about school. So a teacher’s husbands coworker is positive, does the teacher test/quarantine for a week waiting for results? Let’s say a kid in my kid’s class tests positive, does the whole class go get a test and not meet again until everyone has results back? My kid wakes up with a cough or a fever, do I test him/her every time and pull them from school while we wait for results even if they feel better in a day or two? It just seems like a lot of time off school if we can’t get a quick turnaround. Unfortunately there a lot of confusion about where the cutoff of “exposure” really is. Per CDC, exposure is more than 15 mins within 6’ of positive case, so even at my DH’s work, no one was considered “exposed” from their first case due to no close proximity without a mask. So they weren’t required to quarantine or test. And my company said an extra degree of separation to me would definitely not warrant quarantine. It’s like Kevin Bacon degrees Of separation and seems like most places are considering 1st degree as the only real threshold.
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Post by gussie on Aug 4, 2020 13:32:20 GMT -6
I would assume. I’m just wondering about school. So a teacher’s husbands coworker is positive, does the teacher test/quarantine for a week waiting for results? Let’s say a kid in my kid’s class tests positive, does the whole class go get a test and not meet again until everyone has results back? My kid wakes up with a cough or a fever, do I test him/her every time and pull them from school while we wait for results even if they feel better in a day or two? It just seems like a lot of time off school if we can’t get a quick turnaround. Unfortunately there a sons confusion about where the cutoff of “exposure” really is. Per CDC, exposure is more than 15 mins within 6’ of positive case, so even at my DH’s work, no one was considered “exposed” from their first case due to no close proximity without a mask. So they weren’t required to quarantine or test. And my company said an extra degree of separation to me would definitely not warrant quarantine. It’s like Kevin Bacon degrees Of separation and seems like most places are considering 1st degree as the only real threshold. Yeah I’ve heard that too. I wonder though if I tested positive for example, if it would affect my children’s classes? These are the things I wish our school would address. What triggers a shut down, a test, what symptoms are ok to have (typical winter cough for example) and which trigger a test?
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Post by cnf on Aug 4, 2020 13:38:14 GMT -6
An example is one of our cooks is feeling sick and got a test. He’s quarantining at home waiting for the results, it’s been a few days. I’d like to know if he had COVID in our restaurant. If it comes back positive, someone else at the bar could’ve already been infected and spreading it around. If we had the results in a day, we could’ve shut down to deep clean and gotten everyone a test. It just seems impossible to try to function as a normal society if we have to wait so long to get test results. Because it is impossible. It's exactly what you described. If he had 24 hour turn around on results at worst you could manage it. If it takes days or more than it's moot and too late to contain if he comes back positive. Testing needed to be figured out by now. It's fucking ridiculous that some places have such an insane delay. H got tested once so far and DD2 has been tested three times this summer during all of her medical debacles and the longest wait we had for results was like 48 hours, the shortest was like 10 hours. The idea of waiting a week or longer is god damn absurd at this point in the pandemic.
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Post by flippinchica on Aug 4, 2020 13:42:54 GMT -6
Another positive in our office. Ugh. And one of my co-workers MIL passed yesterday from covid. This shit is scary.
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Post by McBenny on Aug 4, 2020 14:22:41 GMT -6
I thought you assume you have it and quarantine as such until you get your test results back regardless of how many days it took?
I mean that is how we are functioning in my area.
sure, but contact tracing and such gets really difficult and to have a whole classroom of "potentially exposed" kids having to quarantine for a week because Sarah Jane has the sniffles and couldn't get her negative test result for 10 days becomes exceptionally hard. ok well I don't know anyone getting tested just with sniffles so there's that 🤷🏻♀️
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Post by AmyG on Aug 4, 2020 14:23:03 GMT -6
yeah the degree of separation thing, like 6ft and 2 masks from a positive person, you "should" be ok.
Son's girlfriend's brother is positive. They weren't in same household, but had a few interactions. She's been over here and son over there, but not with brother around. So she gets tested and is negative. They say she would have had to spread it to son or to my family, and since she was negative, it ends there. Son got tested too just in case and he's negative (but it's the spit test, which is about the only test you can get an answer in 48 hours for free, and who knows how accurate) with both of them negative, mostly definite it ends there.
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Post by McBenny on Aug 4, 2020 14:27:49 GMT -6
I thought you assume you have it and quarantine as such until you get your test results back regardless of how many days it took?
I mean that is how we are functioning in my area.
I would assume. I’m just wondering about school. So a teacher’s husbands coworker is positive, does the teacher test/quarantine for a week waiting for results? Let’s say a kid in my kid’s class tests positive, does the whole class go get a test and not meet again until everyone has results back? My kid wakes up with a cough or a fever, do I test him/her every time and pull them from school while we wait for results even if they feel better in a day or two? It just seems like a lot of time off school if we can’t get a quick turnaround. I don't have all the answers obvi but it comes down to more than a positive test. It comes down to exposure and how much. If his coworker is positive but wasn't around him and especially all were masked then no. As to the rest, my kid never just woke with fever and a cough without being too sick for school. Fever alone would prevent me from sending them anyway. 🤷🏻♀️
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Post by McBenny on Aug 4, 2020 14:28:55 GMT -6
We have rapid testing here but no one is seeking it with sniffles. 🤷🏻♀️
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Post by McBenny on Aug 4, 2020 14:31:24 GMT -6
One of my acquaintences was a "I have to live and get on with my life" person.
Now her whole family is COVID-19 positive.
I didn't see any mention of being home and she now has posted her son getting a new belt at TaeKwondo
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Post by gussie on Aug 4, 2020 14:33:22 GMT -6
I would assume. I’m just wondering about school. So a teacher’s husbands coworker is positive, does the teacher test/quarantine for a week waiting for results? Let’s say a kid in my kid’s class tests positive, does the whole class go get a test and not meet again until everyone has results back? My kid wakes up with a cough or a fever, do I test him/her every time and pull them from school while we wait for results even if they feel better in a day or two? It just seems like a lot of time off school if we can’t get a quick turnaround. I don't have all the answers obvi but it comes down to more than a positive test. It comes down to exposure and how much. If his coworker is positive but wasn't around him and especially all were masked then no. As to the rest, my kid never just woke with fever and a cough without being too sick for school. Fever alone would prevent me from sending them anyway. 🤷🏻♀️ I agree about the fever. It’s more about a cough which my kids have for 99% of the winter. I’m just curious as to what the official policy for the school will end up being.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2020 14:41:27 GMT -6
I think our district guidelines remain relatively unchanged from a normal year - stay home for a fever, temperatures are supposed to be taken at home. It is very difficult to get a test here unless you have both symptoms AND a known exposure and unfortunately availability of tests seems to be worsening. Plus, our governor mandated the majority of learning in our state take place in person. What could possibly go wrong?
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Post by gimmeaQ on Aug 4, 2020 15:05:01 GMT -6
sure, but contact tracing and such gets really difficult and to have a whole classroom of "potentially exposed" kids having to quarantine for a week because Sarah Jane has the sniffles and couldn't get her negative test result for 10 days becomes exceptionally hard. ok well I don't know anyone getting tested just with sniffles so there's that 🤷🏻♀️ It’s very regional. Here we can test just bc we feel like getting tested. Testing like this is a key part of school reopening plans here.
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