47 thoughts on “C-19 Chat Post – December 31 2021”

  1. Charlie Ostrich Baker was adamant yesterday that there would be NO remote learning!! What an ass.
    How many of these children will we have to lose before action is taken???????????

    How this whole pandemic is being handled boggles my mind.

    Mrs. OS conspiracy theory:
    All of the governors have been briefed by the Biden admin that this virus is unstoppable and that EVERYONE is going to get it, therefore carry on business as usual and pretend to care about it.

    When the surge is over we’ll be done with it and those who survive will carry on.

    Great policy while it destroys our healthcare system and kills countless children and elderly and who knows how many in between.

    Gotta love this country ×/_=÷_$%^#$@#%%%÷=/<_#$%%

  2. Thanks TK.

    Happy New Year’s (Eve) everyone!

    I am back and ok. Just wanted to get away from both sides of the blog for awhile. Too much “Covid-19 “ on this side and not nearly enough “winter” on the WHW side. Too bad things couldn’t be reversed. Oh well.

    A number of officers “called out” this week. Don’t know if health related or just personal. Hopefully the latter. I came in yesterday on one of my days off to help out. I am back at my normal shift right now through the weekend. Fingers crossed no more “call outs” next week.

    I got tested here at work yesterday afternoon. I am so lucky I don’t have to wait in long lines like most. I pass by one site on my commutes home on the bus every day now.

    Tom, hope you and your family get better soon.
    Joshua, I hope your daughter gets better as well.

    Thanks everyone for your concern about me. I just take it one day at a time. We usually get our test results within 24 hours but with the holiday, it may be “next year”, hopefully Monday.

    I will let everyone know my test result as soon as I get it. I will start posting over here again, but probably not so much at WHW for now until we get a serious snow threat. 🙂

    1. Philip, it is great to know all is well. I sure understand needing to step away. I had to do the same last week.

      Fingers crossed for your test results.

  3. I just had luck with ordering BinaxNow test kits from Walmart. They seemed to be intermittently available yesterday, and I kept refreshing my cart until the order went through this morning. They are $14 per 2 pack, much better than the usual $23.99 seen at CVS/Walgreens.

        1. I have a theory that earlier in the morning might be better for successfully ordering these test kits for us on the east coat as much of the rest of the country is still asleep…

    1. This week is the only week where the tallest bar is not Monday, where some overflow from the weekend usually lands…

  5. Rapid test kits for 200,000 teachers and staff. Shortage of test kits nationwide. Plan for all to test announced on top of New Years Eve. Asking already overworked teachers and staff to take time from their vacation to pick up their test kit.

    What could possibly go wrong?

    https://twitter.com/marywcvb/status/1476760604576731137?s=21

    Of course they are hard to get…..who didn’t see that coming.

    The only well planned part of this is the schools scrambling to start the first day back two hours late so teachers can test then…..the same schools who should have been making the decisions all along. Testing a day or so ahead as we have been told is useless. Not to mention these 200,000 tests might have helped the general public since no one can find any anywhere. Oh wait,..I did mention it.

        1. Omicron aside, rapid antigen tests have been known to be less effective absent of symptoms for some time now. There’s a reason doctors offices and urgent care sites won’t give rapid tests if you don’t report symptoms.

          1. I agree. I said that on here a while ago since I felt the test and stay program was a fools errand. And it turned out to be just that. I knew we took a bit of a chance at Christmas but all had also had PCR tests since my son has just had covid.

  7. Nice to see you back, Philip.

    I’ll have to step away today as I’ve got the worst bout of GERD/IBS in a long time. The nausea is unbearable, though I can eat a little. Did not sleep much last night, so I’m going to try to now.

    2. Sorry to hear.

      I suffer from that as well and have tried virtually every medication there is. Not only that, I have Barrett’s esophagus from repeated bouts. My doc has finally settled on
      prescription Famotidine, 40 mg once daily at bed time. It works for the most part, but I still have occasional break throughs and must dip into my bottle of tums.

      Last night just drinking water set it off. (I think yesterday’s covid nunbers may have had something to do with it.)

      Hope this bout passes quickly and you feel better.

      1. I know what you mean about water setting it off. I can’t drink cold water any more . But I am sure covid has a lot to do with mine too.

  9. Thanks, everyone, for the well wishes. Nausea is subsiding. Yay! But, the bout lingers in terms of stomach churning and some heartburn. I’ve had these flares for >6 years. The worst year was 2017. As I told my ex-wife once, “its like when you were pregnant.” She laughed, but also winced, remembering the good ole days.

    Famotidine does help a little. I’ve always done a low dose. Perhaps I should try the 40mg. Strangely, PPIs like Nexium have never helped me. They eliminate heartburn, but that is not the issue that bothers me most. They do little or nothing for nausea and water brash. And, they mess up my intestines.

    The one calming agent that works miracles, and I haven’t used yet during this bout, is Benadryl. I only use if it’s really bad. It’s an allergy medicine, as you all know. The anti-histamine contained in Benadryl calms my stomach better than anything I’ve ever taken. Problem is Benadryl makes me very sleepy.

    I leave you with this New Republic article.
    https://newrepublic.com/article/164909/america-omicron-surge-quit-covid-fight?

    1. Thanks Joshua. The last 7 words in the article are very telling…and sadly, very likely. I can easily picture you writing that same sentence in one of your articles.

      Again, get well soon.

  11. A couple of schools are listening to the MTA and closing Monday. Lexington….an exceptional school system…..and Burlington closed. Others have delayed opening by two hours. Last I heard from two admin friends no schools have heard whether DESE has the tests. It somehow found the time to message all that it would not close schools Monday despite the request from the MTA

  14. Our school district (Sharon) just called school for Monday. Smart move (I guess) but I fear the reliance on the rapid at home tests will give a false sense of security. We shouldn’t be using these to test for COVID in asymptomatic people. As a side note, we just notified today my sons speech therapist has COVID and he was a close contact this Wednesday so he wouldn’t have been able to go to school Monday anyways as that would be his testing day.

    1. Another side note, I’m deeply disappointed in the lack of preparation and foresight to the testing issues prior to the return to school. Failure on a national level. We have learned nothing since March 2020.

      1. Failure on a state level. As much as I do not believe Biden has handled covid well, schools are single handedly DESE

    2. Oh boy. Your little guy is in my prayers. As far as the so called testing. It is a fools plan. Good for Sharon. More schools need to stand up to Riley.

  15. Ace. If you have not heard it all. Sit down.

    Testing for school teachers and staff is VOLUNTARY

    You truly cannot fix stupid

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