msbelle, if the staff protocol is anything like the one we have, staff have to be masked up for all resident interaction. The few infections we've had have been through private aides who do the bathing, dressing, feeding et cetera for the people who need the highest level of 'assisted living', except for one person, a staff accountant who spends about an hour and a half on public transport and rarely deals with a resident.

We all get temp checked upon coming into work.

On an oral course of steroids, and I was happy I fell asleep last night without trouble.

So then I woke up at 5:30.

DH tested Tuesday and he is negative. He is in medical offices almost every day, but is very careful, always masked and takes care with his hands. Our practices are super diligent too, but suffering from staffing shortages. One practice has several people out in self-quarantine because they have family members infected. The staff test often, and all are negative, but they have to isolate when the people in their lives test positive.

This is daily life.

Theo - I think most if not all of the staff that are testing positive are actual staff. They are all masked (medical) masks and once tested positive cannot return until cleared by county government.

Staff are getting tested every week. Residents I think have all been tested twice now. Some of the positive tests are not even coming from these tests, but from outside tests the employees seek out because they found out about possible exposure or had some light symptoms, I guess.

I know they are being very careful as an organization. My parents' thought overly careful, but I think now they understand how quickly it can escalate. The staff has exposure to much more of the outside world and there are a lot of careless jackholes.

Oh and my brother-in-law is on quarantine awaiting test results. I have not got the full story, if he had a fever or what, but he is a Psych with a hospital and has to go in and for a while I am not sure still was having to do emergency psych rotation every so often that put him in contact with a lot more of the public.

My brother has felt not great this last week, but no fever, so he does not think it is COVID, but I think he should also get tested.

Just over here serial posting like the ball of anxiety, I am.

Whether positive or negative in testing, the toll this is taking on everyone with the stress load is significant.

My current issue is I see no way out of my anxiety.

I am trying to mantra myself with - I can only control how I react and what I do - .

The only way out is through. That's a giant pain in the ass, and it doesn't help those who are sick and dying., but it's also kind of comforting. Because there will be a "through" and there will be progress, and hopefully we'll be a better country after this. We better fucking learn something.

My work has had a second staff member test positive (not at my location) and the HAVOC just one positive test wreaks on staffing is immense. They closed the location for a day, and are trying to continue staffing with people who did not work with the positive. (People who did work with the positive are to get a test and quarantine 14 days even if it's negative.) We are very quickly going to run out of staff and have to close locations.

Now imagine if we were a public high school with 3000 students and hundreds of teachers and staff. The mind boggles.