COVID Hits the OB Rag

COVID-19 has hit the staff of the OB Rag.

Patty is recovering from falling ill last week, and editordude spent most of Monday in bed.

Rag readers need to prepare themselves for slim-downed issues the entire week.

Comments will be open, as usual, but the moderation process may take longer.

19 thoughts on “COVID Hits the OB Rag”

Feel better soon!

Be careful…the side effects can be lasting. Feel better soon!

Judy Collier says:

July 19, 2022 at 12:35 pm

Bummer! Get well soon and stay well, both of you!

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Get well!

Hydrate! Get well soon!

Hope you feel better soon!

Prayers with you. Get well soon.

Take it easy, and let us know if you need anything.

This COVID is no joke! I have 2 friends that recently recovered; I hope your recovery is in progress: good vibes on the way!

Frank & Patty – feel better soon

Larry

Hope you both feel better soon!

Thanks everyone for your well wishes!

Sending well wishes to both of you :-)

Oh, wow – sorry to hear! Wish you both a speedy recovery, and hope neither of you have any long-term complications.

You need beach therapy! When you can, wander on down and catch some of those healing rays.

SDU-T:
San Diego’s latest wastewater numbers show that the region is experiencing a massive increase in coronavirus transmission driven by BA.5, the subvariant now causing concern worldwide.

Updated Thursday by the SEARCH Coalition, a group of local research labs led by UC San Diego and Scripps Research, wastewater testing detected 15.5 million coronavirus copies per liter of wastewater sampled in Point Loma Wednesday. It’s a score that is 91 percent greater than the 8 million copies per liter detected in the same sampling location one week earlier.

The trend visible in wastewater is starkly different than the one depicted by the latest testing data released by the county health department Thursday. Comparing the same Wednesday-to-Wednesday period, positive test results reported to the health department fell 8.3 percent, dropping from 2,191 to 2,007.

Just an update about Long Covid. The Feds are starting to fire them for ‘not being productive.’ With NO safety net left at all for most working people much less federal workers? Think this is good news? I’ve got friends that aren’t doing too well as they are having the same problems that this woman is having…

Millions of Americans have long COVID. Many of them are no longer working.

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/31/1114375163/long-covid-longhaulers-disability-labor-ada
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So this is another crisis we surely don’t need on top of so many others it seems (like Mat said on another thread).

But, like homeless, let’s make them invisible, too! Terminally unemployable due to disease and 1 out of 5 reporting symptoms? That may end up numbering in the millions? That’s rather, ummmm, unnerving.

And covid is NOT done with us yet. Obviously since the RAG folks just went sick. In the months to come I’m hoping that this isn’t going to nail any of you as it’s taking months to show up for many people.

Good news is that there are scientists working on a vaccine for bat coronavirus’ in general not these ‘less sick’ flu shots we’ve been getting. I really hope they find something along the lines of the Polio vaccine!

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