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Rep Retirement Lodge: Choose A Number

Rep Retirement Lodge: Choose A Number

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dxmnkd316 said:
Temp testing is such a waste and brings people into contact. It’s so susceptible to fluctuations. Did you drink or eat anything in the last half hour? Did you get enough sleep? Did you smoke? Are you female and ovulating? Etc.

Plus there’s the whole thing that 98.6 isn’t the standard anymore nor is it consistent person to person.
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Well, I was going to type last night but I get sick of typing the same thing. It is totally useless to take a temp even without all the variables you list. Before you exhibit symptoms, if you ever do, you have a prodrome where you shed the biggest of viral load. So in telling people to self select out if they ave a temp, you are exposing people to higher risk patients than if they were to be febrile. Its nonsense so people have an excuse to say its OK to expose folks and tell people they are OK doing it.

Hammer said:
Mine's been consistently been in the high 96's to mid 97's. Either that's my normal, or I'm part crocodile.
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Average normals are anywhere between 96 and 99.99. And it makes no difference what normal is for you to decide what a fever is (my pet peeve- people being told if they run lower then fever for them starts at a lower temp).

Afternoon Lodge!

Happy Birthday wT!

Spent the morning emptying out old papers from my files, dug into some piles that have been sitting for more than a year. Feeling accomplished even if I sat on my but all day. Yesterday I listed all my CEUs in my professional cert site. P IA. Been avoiding that since last December.

We were supposed to have sun and 50 by end of day. No sun, still mizzling, and it is 40. I am done with the fake Spring. I would like real Spring to start now. My viburnum is flowering 5 weeks early but bowed under a few inches of snow. GAH!
 
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Hello, is it me you’re looking for? I can see in your eyes, I can see it in your smile...
 
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leswp1 said:
Well, I was going to type last night but I get sick of typing the same thing. It is totally useless to take a temp even without all the variables you list. Before you exhibit symptoms, if you ever do, you have a prodrome where you shed the biggest of viral load. So in telling people to self select out if they ave a temp, you are exposing people to higher risk patients than if they were to be febrile. Its nonsense so people have an excuse to say its OK to expose folks and tell people they are OK doing it.
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What does the bolded stuff mean?
 
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Scarlet said:
What does the bolded stuff mean?
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Before you exhibit symptoms, if you ever do, you have a prodrome where you shed the biggest of viral load. So in telling people to self select out if they ave a temp, you are exposing people to higher risk patients than if they were to be febrile.

Prodrome is the period before the actual symptoms come- You can have no symptoms or you can have symptoms that not necessarily the symptoms that you identify as the disease symptoms.
An example of a prodrome for migraine might be flashing lights before you get the head ache.

In many illnesses you can shed virus (transmit it) before you ever have any symptoms at all. So you can be walking around, shedding virus, transmitting the germ, but feel great. In some diseases the time you spread the most virus is right before you get symptoms or right at the beginning of symptoms. So people are staying out of circulation when they have a fever and feeling really bad but those who are not terribly symptomatic are happily ignorant of being infectious and spreading it like mad

Good Evening Lodge!

Another productive day, another very sore les. The whole bottom of the veggie garden enclosure is in. one of the beds is redone. ALl the 'volunteer' seedlings of various perennials are in pots so we can turn the beds. The ground is still so wet water comes up when you walk in the lawn and more rain tomorrow....
 
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Good Morning Lodge!

The sun that was supposed to last most of the day disappeared and rain came instead. SIgh
 
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It's already raining up there? It's just cloudy down here. And windy. Expecting the rain to come shortly.

Back to work today. I feel like it's been a while. Thursday I was at a virtual conference most of the day. Friday I did my food shopping. Didn't get home till 11am. By the time I brought everything up here and showered, etc. I lost half the day. And it was quiet. Yesterday was Patriots Day. Our office gets that day as a holiday as we are located a block from the Boston Marathon finish line and it's chaotic and crowded. Even though the Marathon was cancelled and we're all working from home, they gave us the day.
 
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lilnsl is in mourning for the Marathon that wasn't . It would have been perfect weather. Today- blowing crazy winds and on and off rain squalls
 
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