Coronavirus

I'm in a unique boat. I am a 48 years old divorced parent of a 7 year old, whom I have 50/50 custody with her mom. So my daughter is with me half time. She attends her 2nd grade onsite at school. She hates the masks and plexiglass dividers but gets thru it. Math was a challenge this fall for her after being locked down in the spring and forgetting the basics, but we have gotten that subject grades up this semester through making sure she studies with me at night. She got all 3's and 4's on her report card this week...math a little lower average 2.5'ish. So proud (3 is meets expectation and 4 is exceeds)

I was working in NYC for the past 10+ years at various management and technology consultancies. When the divorce was finalized and I retained custody of my daughter, it was brutal to commute 3 hours each day back and forth to NYC and still take care of my daughter. So I made a decision to leave that city work behind and start my own consulting business from the house, so I can take care of my daughter and try to make a living. Albeit, less than the full time NYC job, but I was ok with that because raising my daughter is more important.

For me, I have been one to fall thru the cracks completely: Covid hits and my income has nose dived faster than a giant squid getting hunted by a whale. I'm pretty much a sole proprietor, no employees, so no PPP funds...cant claim unemployment either.....so i grind it out every day and do the best i can trying to find additional clients and work. Still have the house and food on the table.

In terms of Covid Impact on people:
My older sister is a middle school teacher in South Carolina, she also teaches ESL. She told me the kids in her school have been going through mass anxiety and depression over lockdowns and there is a surge in kids needing special counseling.

On a personal note: and I am somewhat reluctant to share, but here it goes:
My brother little past away in May 2020. He was 33. He had a history of drug addiction, but was sober for the last 2 years, got a good job working construction on LI, was engaged and just moved in with his girl right before Covid hit in March 2020. He was always a nervous guy when it came to viruses and stuff. In fact, if he saw a pimple on his ass he used to think it might be cancer or something. LOL. Nervous Nellie for sure.

Anyway, he got laid of from his job in March, went thru depression, picked up the shit again (after 2 years sober) and died of an OD on May 25th. 2 months start to finish. Not covids fault, and his destiny for sure, but a catalyst.

My brothers fate is only one of many who have or are going through these terrible times.

So when we all talk about science and lockdowns and other shit, keep in mind everyone has a story and a perspective.

I will keep up "the good fight" for my daughter and my mom.

Don

thank you for sharing......

I'm in a unique boat. I am a 48 years old divorced parent of a 7 year old, whom I have 50/50 custody with her mom. So my daughter is with me half time. She attends her 2nd grade onsite at school. She hates the masks and plexiglass dividers but gets thru it. Math was a challenge this fall for her after being locked down in the spring and forgetting the basics, but we have gotten that subject grades up this semester through making sure she studies with me at night. She got all 3's and 4's on her report card this week...math a little lower average 2.5'ish. So proud (3 is meets expectation and 4 is exceeds)

I was working in NYC for the past 10+ years at various management and technology consultancies. When the divorce was finalized and I retained custody of my daughter, it was brutal to commute 3 hours each day back and forth to NYC and still take care of my daughter. So I made a decision to leave that city work behind and start my own consulting business from the house, so I can take care of my daughter and try to make a living. Albeit, less than the full time NYC job, but I was ok with that because raising my daughter is more important.

For me, I have been one to fall thru the cracks completely: Covid hits and my income has nose dived faster than a giant squid getting hunted by a whale. I'm pretty much a sole proprietor, no employees, so no PPP funds...cant claim unemployment either.....so i grind it out every day and do the best i can trying to find additional clients and work. Still have the house and food on the table.

In terms of Covid Impact on people:
My older sister is a middle school teacher in South Carolina, she also teaches ESL. She told me the kids in her school have been going through mass anxiety and depression over lockdowns and there is a surge in kids needing special counseling.

On a personal note: and I am somewhat reluctant to share, but here it goes:
My brother little past away in May 2020. He was 33. He had a history of drug addiction, but was sober for the last 2 years, got a good job working construction on LI, was engaged and just moved in with his girl right before Covid hit in March 2020. He was always a nervous guy when it came to viruses and stuff. In fact, if he saw a pimple on his ass he used to think it might be cancer or something. LOL. Nervous Nellie for sure.

Anyway, he got laid of from his job in March, went thru depression, picked up the shit again (after 2 years sober) and died of an OD on May 25th. 2 months start to finish. Not covids fault, and his destiny for sure, but a catalyst.

My brothers fate is only one of many who have or are going through these terrible times.

So when we all talk about science and lockdowns and other shit, keep in mind everyone has a story and a perspective.

I will keep up "the good fight" for my daughter and my mom.

Don

Don,

I did not know that about you. Thank you for sharing. I will keep you and your family in my thoughts and prayers. If you would like, please PM me what you do, and maybe I can assist.

The municipalities are calling the shots on school open or closed not the Unions. though the unions are demanding safety pre-cautions naturally.

Grade schools are OPEN in NYC and my kid goes in every day to teach...where as middle schools and high schools are closed......so that is all about allowing people with small children to go to work and send the little ones to school (baby sitting) It's screwed up but sort of necessary

A little different as I speak with folks, but whatever you would like to believe.

A little different as I speak with folks, but whatever you would like to believe.

nothing to do with what I believe...it's what's happening!! It is the mostly union people that have been working daily including me...and cops (my son in law caught covid at his precinct) firemen..... transit workers....grocery workers and so on. To question unions looking out for the safety of their workers while everyone else if home on zoom is ridiculous.

The head of the teachers union in nyc did not want (and it is documented) a total shutdown...he wanted a case by case school by school assessment. It was the genius diblasio who shut it down.....of course everyone here is not in the nyc system so this may not relate.

If the union was really doing the shutdown do you think they would allow the current grade schools OPEN and middle and high schools CLOSED decision? This is all about allowing parents to drop their young kids off so they can go to work and the kids get a meal or two......so they are stepping up in a time of need as have all the union workers cited above. Where I work we still have private businesses and offices where they have not shown up to this day and probably won't for another 6 months. I have shown up daily since this started and my union knows this IS needed and no bitching allowed.....and I agree.

It's ok. Thank you for your thoughts!

[U.K. regulators said Wednesday that people who have a “significant history’' of allergic reactions shouldn’t receive the new Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine while they investigate two adverse reactions that occurred on the]('https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-nw-pfizer-coronavirus-vaccine-allergic-reactions-20201209-ww7r2rofxrfmzaxa6uhic4lssm-story.html') [first day of the country’s mass vaccination program]('https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-nw-britain-coronavirus-vaccines-20201208-chyyobtenrdundkdttgzdnyzt4-story.html').

I’m haven’t da flu shot in 25 years and as a GBS survivor, I’m gonna pass on this CV shot too, I’m gonna pass on Shingles shot too... hope I won’t regret it... cellfish...

I’m haven’t da flu shot in 25 years and as a GBS survivor, I’m gonna pass on this CV shot too, I’m gonna pass on Shingles shot too... hope I won’t regret it... cellfish...

and since I retired from da subway system, I can’t recall gettin da “common cold” too... C22...

well the fight's not going well here - we seem to be losing..................

After weeks/months of maybe 0 to 2 cases a day - we are now spiking:

Hospitalizations & Deaths still at 0 daily.

[URL unfurl="true"]https://news.yahoo.com/coronavirus-updates-15m-cases-nearly-090020351.html[/URL]

Might be a game changer here if we follow the same recommendation :unsure:

[URL unfurl="true"]https://nypost.com/2020/12/09/no-drinking-for-two-months-after-covid-19-vaccine-russia-says/[/URL]

Might be a game changer here if we follow the same recommendation :unsure:

[URL unfurl="true"]https://nypost.com/2020/12/09/no-drinking-for-two-months-after-covid-19-vaccine-russia-says/[/URL]

Sounds like a bit of a shaky vaccine:
*Russian health officials say the Sputnik V vaccine is [over 90 percent effective]('https://nypost.com/2020/11/09/russias-covid-19-vaccine-also-over-90-effective-health-ministry/'), but reports say medical workers who have taken the shot [have come down]('https://nypost.com/2020/11/11/medical-workers-who-took-russian-vaccine-infected-with-covid-19-report/') with COVID-19. Russian President Vladimir Putin has reportedly [refused to take it]('https://nypost.com/2020/11/24/vladimir-putin-wont-take-russias-covid-19-vaccine/').

Western experts have expressed skepticism at the speed at which the purported vaccine was developed and Russia hasn’t provided any data to back up its claims for the shot.*

It doesn't say , but I'm making the assumption that it is different from the one Pfizer came up with(?).

Might be a game changer here if we follow the same recommendation :unsure:

[URL unfurl="true"]https://nypost.com/2020/12/09/no-drinking-for-two-months-after-covid-19-vaccine-russia-says/[/URL]

Yeah, Im out......
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I’m interested to see the results of the vaccine. I must say I fine it a bit comforting that it’s being used across the pond. Their food and drug equivalent seems to be pretty rigorous and rigid in their approval process.

What are y’all going to do if the vaccine flops
And don’t say I’m hoping for it to flop

I truly hope it works and works well for those that chose to take it

But , what if

While the bride has an occasional nightly nip to help her sleep, I have maybe one half a glass of wine every couple of months so no impact on me with what the Russkies put out. I have gotten weekly allergy shots for the last 30 years and since the early 80s have not had the sinus infections I used to deal with regularly. (allergic to molds, dust, grass like so many others.) I have gotten the flu shot every year since 1995 after having gotten the flu then and not since. I can't find my Army shot record card but know I have gotten the smallpox, polio, zostamax, shinglex, pnuemonia, DPaT vaccines and even some shot in the ass after working at Jones Beach in 1976 when medical wastes floated in. Fully intend to get this one too.

Tony- I suppose even after I get vaccinated I will still wear a mask when in stores and not hug and shake hands. for how long ? Who knows ?

I’m sure many will
And think that’s fine if it’s your choice

Jeezze , why not... you shot up every thing offered.

maybe you did not need half of that stuff.

Jeezze , why not... you shot up every thing offered.

maybe you did not need half of that stuff.

You want to get polio or shingles or smallpox or lockjaw or hepatitus or pnuemonia ? I don't.

Yeah, Im out......
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Me too no doubt