12-08-2021, 04:00 AM
(12-06-2021, 09:46 PM)Ninurta Wrote: Personal story: We've got the coof. Grace tested positive Wednesday, and since I've not been avoiding her like she's got the bubonic plague or something, I must have it, too, although I've not been tested - it will take more than any 3 of them I've seen so far to pin me long enough to poke my brains through my nose with an overgrown Q-tip.
Funny thing is, neither of us is showing any signs of the coof, and neither of us has been vaxxed. We are super-humans, I suppose.
Anyhow, the Health Department sent us a text Saturday telling us we are "in quarantine". I laughed at that - how does that change anything at all? We never go anywhere any way, and if we take a notion to go, there aren't enough deputies in this county to surround the lands sufficiently to prevent it. we go where we want, when we want. It's just that we never want to go, as we've already seen everything out there that we want to.
So today, a nice lady from the Health Department called to inquire as to our well being... and of course to gather data on this dreadful malady.
Grace: We're not sick.
Health Department: Oh, you're sick alright. No one has ever tested positive without being sick. Ever.
Grace: But there is no debility. This sickness just isn't making us sick.
Health Department: But you're still sick. No one has ever tested positive without being sick. Ever. You're just asymptomatic.
Grace: So we are BOTH "asymptomatic"?
Health Department: Obviously. No one has ever tested positive without being sick, ever, and you tested positive. Therefore, you are sick, but asymptomatic.
I wanted her to press, and find out just how one can be sick without being sick, but she wouldn't. There just ain't no arguing with bureaucrats. So, we are "sick", but dancing is not out of the question.
As an aside, the quarantine length has shrunk over time. it used to be 14 days from a positive test, but has been reduced now to 10 days. We are in day 6, and still no sign of the coof other than on that test swab.
I got this cute little email today.
Quote:The deadline is approaching for the one-time, $500 incentive for all full-time employees who become fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
Current unvaccinated employees are strongly encouraged to become fully vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus by December 31, 2021 in order to be eligible for the $500 incentive. The $500 incentive will be processed once you are fully vaccinated and submit proof. The incentive is subject to federal tax.
When I asked again if it was required. I was told again that it "is not" a requirement for my job. They said that they are providing an incentive, but is is not a demand or requirement.
Waiting for what they come up with next.
For every one person that read this post. About 7.99 billion have not.
Yet I still post.
