I'm so disappointed in my city

[vercetti2021]

I'm driving around after going to a small family gathering. 7 of us had dinner. But after I was driving around and behold! During an extremely bad spike here. Not only are the bars packed, the haunted houses here are so packed without masks because the owners are not encouraging it. They are infact making fun of the situation by saying our black lights will cure you.

We are at maximum capacity at our hospitals. We are flying people out of here because we can't take anymore.

And here we are. Having between 100 to 300 new cases a day and morons are out pretending it doesn't exist.

I don't know about ya'll. But I'm ready to freeze myself and hope to unthaw in an advanced future

[Laura PourMeADrink]

1. What? Seven of you had dinner?

[vercetti2021]

2. Yeah

We kept it under ten and we all wear masks. We are a safe family.

[MissB]

3. That stood out to me too

Maybe there are seven people living in the same house.

If not, please, OP, consider that you can catch Covid from a relative just as easily as a stranger if you put yourself in contact without a mask for an unknown period of time.

Plenty folks do that, but it’s spiking across the US. That means more chances that one of the seven of you had an encounter with someone with covid recently.

[vercetti2021]

4. We all considered it

We all wore masks. We keep distance at dinner.

[MissB]

6. Glad to hear it!

I don’t mean to lecture! All my cautions/lectures didn’t work with my youngest, who was diagnosed with covid today.

His bubble got too big.

I had a nasty norovirus a few years back, right before my birthday. I spent the eve of my birthday in the ER, emptying my body from more than one orifice.

I know where I got it- Dh was sick a few days before me- but I don’t know how it got into my house. I have always imagined some random surface that was touched that resulted in Dh getting sick and then me following suit.

I just assume that covid is as easy to catch.

So many don’t wear masks it seems.

[vercetti2021]

7. It is easy

I've been exposed but luckily I had my mask on and test negative twice.

But yeah we aren't stupid. We are all germaphobes. We agreed to bring our favorite dishes and eat 8 feet apart in the living room and just chat afterwards with masks on.

That's how I see getting the flu. I pass by someone or touch a self checkout touch screen and it infects me. It lives on the surface for a bit.

[Maru Kitteh]

13. Was that like 2013/14 ish? That was a BAD BAD noro year.

I for sure belonged in the ER. Temp 103.something, hallucinating on my couch that there were wolves in my trees.

Got mine from a patient who couldn't make it to the bathroom, but she was confused and naked and half-way there when I burst into her room after hearing the bed alarm. That level 1 isolation gown was no match for what hit me.


*shudder*

[TreasonousBastard]

5. There's a small part of me that's thinking "Covid? We don't treat that here. This hospital is for.."

broken limbs, gunshots, heart attacks, cancer and other things that don't depend on your stupidity."

[634-5789]

8. Me, the wife and the dogs.

That's who is here, and that's all that will be here.

[AlexSFCA]

9. it's called pandemic fatigue

stay home only works for a short period of time, it was never intended to be a long term strategy. thanks to trump’s response, we wasted our economy and valuable time. Only thing left is to wait for vaccine. I think any kind of lockdowns like UK is planning to do is completely out of question here. Where are all those tent hospitals that were rapidly built? Did they all get dismantled before the worst of pandemic?
People are returning to travel, businesses have mostly opened up to various capacities and we are learning to live with this for another year or so.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

10. Where are you?

I am beyond horrified and disgusted at those who don't follow reasonable guidelines.

I live in Santa Fe, NM. People here are extremely good about masking.

I live in a neighborhood where I normally have so many trick-or-treaters that I often run out of candy, which distresses me a great deal. I had already decided about two weeks ago that I would not be handing out candy. I knew I could not turn on the lights that would otherwise welcome trick-or-treaters, and retreat to the back of my house. As it turned out, that was not necessary. I did not see a single trick-or-treater on my street, even though I periodically looked out of my front windows. By 7pm, maybe even earlier, all of the outside lights had been turned off, including the very nice Halloween display across the street from me.

I feel a bit sad, but I am hopeful that parents did good alternative Halloween things for their kids.

When I was a little girl in Utica, NY, at the elementary school across the street from the low income housing development we lived in, there was always a Halloween night thing there. It included some kind of costume parade and things like dunking for apples. I can't remember very many details, as we are talking more than 60 years ago. Yes, I'm old. I also have fond memories of trick-or-treating in that very same housing development and getting what to me, back then, was lots and lots of candy. Hooray for childhood memories!

Oh, and many years later, when I had children of my own, I honestly loved taking them out trick-or-treating.

[brush]

11. What city and state?

[vercetti2021]

12. Amarillo

Texas. Its bad here