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Poll: Rep Retirement Lodge 204: Covid 19

Poll: Rep Retirement Lodge 204: Covid 19

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Scarlet said:
OK good to know.
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I think what you were asking is if a person who is asymptomatic becomes a silent carrier* with virus that just persists in being infectious but they are fine. I haven't seen anything saying that happens. It looks as if it is uncommon to become symptomatic if past about 11.5 days after exposure. Most of the time symptoms occur in the first week or so. Peak infectiousness is within the first 48 hours when the person has presymptoms and lasting about 2 days after first symptoms. After that the level of being infectious us diminished but that is a relative term- they are still infectious but not shedding as much virus as the peak.

*silent carriers are people like Typhoid Mary or someone who has Hepatitis B and sheds virus without knowing ad infinitum.

Good Afternoon Lodge!
 
That is not what I’m asking. I want to know if some gets the virus but is asymptomatic, do they have the virus for the same amount of time as some who does show symptoms, gets sick, then gets better and tests negative.

Person A and B exposed at same time. Person A starts to develop symptoms after x-amount of days, gets tested and finds out is positive, gets sick for y-amount of days, gets better, tests negative two times, is virus free after, let’s say 35 days. Person B also gets the virus, never develops symptoms so never gets tested. After, say, the 35 days, is Person B free of the virus?

I totally get that Person B, being asymptomatic, could easily infect many people because he/she doesn’t know they have it.
 
Scarlet said:
That is not what I’m asking. I want to know if some gets the virus but is asymptomatic, do they have the virus for the same amount of time as some who does show symptoms, gets sick, then gets better and tests negative.

Person A and B exposed at same time. Person A starts to develop symptoms after x-amount of days, gets tested and finds out is positive, gets sick for y-amount of days, gets better, tests negative two times, is virus free after, let’s say 35 days. Person B also gets the virus, never develops symptoms so never gets tested. After, say, the 35 days, is Person B free of the virus?

I totally get that Person B, being asymptomatic, could easily infect many people because he/she doesn’t know they have it.
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Short answer- I believe the answer is yes the length of infectiousness would be about the same. I don't think they have as much data for asx people but from what I am seeing the course of the disease as far as immune response and infectiousness is no different. So whether the person has symptoms or not they would follow the same course time wise.

As far as testing negative that is proving problematic. Just saw something (well, a few somethings that sort of maybe agree or not) that said people may continue to test positive for longer than they are actually infectious but they aren't sure. They have killed the test neg protocol because they weren't getting people back to negative fast enough for their purposes.
 
Good Morning Lodge!

Back at the lake. And we seem to have brought the rain. Last time they had drought until we showed up. We went home for a couple of weeks. They had infrequent rain (and a tornado but who's counting that?) but HHH with mostlyt sun in the day. Here less than 24 hours and the forecast is... rain.
 
Morning, Lodge! Great start to the vacation already (minus the drizzly, dreary weather). Today looks awesome, though. It'll be nice not to have to drive today, though. Including the short stops yesterday at eateries/breweries, I was on the road for about 12 hours.

As for the Rona, it IS a different feel up here, due to all the social distancing. So far, our group has been allowed to bend the rules a little (the whole 4/table, 6 if from same household is ignored). However, masks are indeed everywhere, even outside, which did surprise me, given where we are (UP of MI). Yes there is a state mandate, but...well...some people are taking it not so nicely (some have worded signs such as "Due to the orders of our GREAT governor..." etc).
 
The Rube said:
Morning, Lodge! Great start to the vacation already (minus the drizzly, dreary weather). Today looks awesome, though. It'll be nice not to have to drive today, though. Including the short stops yesterday at eateries/breweries, I was on the road for about 12 hours.

As for the Rona, it IS a different feel up here, due to all the social distancing. So far, our group has been allowed to bend the rules a little (the whole 4/table, 6 if from same household is ignored). However, masks are indeed everywhere, even outside, which did surprise me, given where we are (UP of MI). Yes there is a state mandate, but...well...some people are taking it not so nicely (some have worded signs such as "Due to the orders of our GREAT governor..." etc).
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Tough life when people are trying to keep you on the right side of the grass.

They haven't started coming back to campus and already reports of people being dumb, testing positive and getting others sick. If only people would stop feeling they are so special so they should be able to do what they want just this once. Just this once is not going so well for a lot of the people I know. Lost another 2 people this week. Not that old.

But- for now- up on the lake trying to not listen to mr les talk about this all day on zoom. Walking every day. Before I was seeing a lot of wild flowers. Now a lot of very, very weird mushrooms.
 
In Duluth, they were very strict about it (we had 5 people, so had to get 2 tables). In Houghton, both places we went to last night didn't care, however, it being a Wed night, there were maybe 1-2 other people inside besides us (and obviously the 2 bartenders/beertenders per place). That may change tonight, depending on how busy those places are. We had about 7-8 at one place, and 9-10 at the other (although the latter was outside; no inside seating allowed at all).

EVERYone, except a gas station in Bruce Crossing MI (which is barely a township; they have a bar, a feed supply store, and the gas station), HAS enforced masks inside, though.
 
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