Good no virus ~ma to your folks, msbelle. Yikes. And good for your B-i-L.

Smash up the bottles and send them to Allyson for her mosaics! Or... maybe sending broken glass through the mail is not advisable? Hmmmm.

Smash up the bottles and send them to Allyson for her mosaics! Or... maybe sending broken glass through the mail is not advisable? Hmmmm.

Hee.

Thanks Matt-I don’t have Kroger’s, but I was able to get something at Aldi. I was actually thinking about the good deli Turkey and cooking it like a ham steak, though

Msbelle, are your parents at a retirement community? Much ma for them.

Also for Steph’s friends.

And bat-cat and Javier

And anyone else I missed.

Our frontline nurses have started getting the vaccine, and I am on back-up duty to set up the online registrations. They seem to be doing a good job of getting all the ED and ICU personnel first, including the cleaners, the transporters, the respiratory therapists, as well as nurses and doctors. They are definitely finding there are extra doses and one of the duties is accommodating adding some extra people when they find there are more doses in a vial than people who signed up, because we want to make sure we use every bit and not waste it.

My mom's oldest sister, who is in her 80s , might have been exposed. She has breathing problems already. She lives with my cousin (her son) and his son, who is 11. The 11 year old has been doing some kind of martial arts that has been safe for the most part. BUT someone at the dojo tested positive. My cousin and his son went to get tested and my cousin tested negative but he wants to get retested again. They wouldn't test his son because of his age, but told them to go to some place where it would cost $150 for the test. And since my cousin hasn't been working as much because of the pandemic they decided not to do that. Instead they are going to isolate and watch his son for symptoms and try to keep him and his son as far away from my aunt as possible.

Sophia, yes they are in a retirement community in CA.

A good friend of TCG’s dad and stepmom is in the hospital with it right now.

I'm sorry to hear that, msbelle. I hope they'll be okay. If it's any comfort, the wives of two of my cousins contracted Covid, but neither of my cousins did. It's unpredictable. Hopefully, their exposure was minimal. It's so difficult to live in fear like this and so frustrating that our risk isn't only dependent upon how much risk we take.

Did I mention that my FiL was exposed to someone with Covid at his assisted living facility, a second time? His test came back negative, so that's a relief.

Man, I just want to put everyone in bubbles

According to the VA my dad should be in the next eligible group for the vaccine. That’s after people in homes and, I hope and assume, healthcare workers. So not imminent necessarily but at least in view.