COVID-19 and MAC: What are you doing differently to protect yourself?

@ginak.. We are all in the same boat. I always say there's no expiration date for being a parents. Your boys are in jobs that are doing great service to many. I see Amazon deliver persons all the time, they are carrying quite a load now everyone is buying things online. Your other son is helping businesses sanitized. I hope they get all the necessary protective gears. My friend's daughter right now works in the ICU in one of the busiest hospitals in NYC. It's not easy for parents these days. We have to pray that they will be healthy. Take care.

@mayofeb2020 Your friend must be worried constantly over her daughter. Big thanks to all the medical staff working tirelessly right now. All we can do is pray it's over soon.

I keep pressing everyone I know to take this very seriously. My daughter, an ER nurse, has been in quarantine for Covid-19 for 3 weeks as of today. Late last week she was improving, but this weekend fever and cough returned. She will be talking to her docs today. My other daughter, a school nurse with 2 toddlers, is now quarantined with her family with all 4 showing symptoms after she spent 2 days in late March exposed to hundreds of kids and parents as they came to retrieve belongings, computers and meds when the schools closed. Docs will decide in the next few days which of her family to test. My best friend has a daughter professionally caring for fragile handicapped children in New York - she, other staff and a number of the children are ill and have tested positive - 2 are hospitalized and critical. We are all in South Texas, trying to stay safe and worrying about them so far away.
So it is our job to stay home & stay safe here, so they don't have to have one more worry...us!

@ginak..yes, he's very worried, not only is his daughter working directly with covid 19 patients, she has to take the subway to work, an hour each way, and social distancing is impossible in the train. Health care workers need our prayers now more than ever.

That is wonderful news❤️ I don’t know where you live but here in the USA, we cannot seem to, as a nation, do what we need to flatten the curve.....we need to do what your country has been doing in a sincere manner.

I keep pressing everyone I know to take this very seriously. My daughter, an ER nurse, has been in quarantine for Covid-19 for 3 weeks as of today. Late last week she was improving, but this weekend fever and cough returned. She will be talking to her docs today. My other daughter, a school nurse with 2 toddlers, is now quarantined with her family with all 4 showing symptoms after she spent 2 days in late March exposed to hundreds of kids and parents as they came to retrieve belongings, computers and meds when the schools closed. Docs will decide in the next few days which of her family to test. My best friend has a daughter professionally caring for fragile handicapped children in New York - she, other staff and a number of the children are ill and have tested positive - 2 are hospitalized and critical. We are all in South Texas, trying to stay safe and worrying about them so far away.
So it is our job to stay home & stay safe here, so they don't have to have one more worry...us!

@migizii We seem to have a lot of hardheaded people here in the U.S. I don't think the people in my town will understand this fully until people start dropping like flies here.

I keep pressing everyone I know to take this very seriously. My daughter, an ER nurse, has been in quarantine for Covid-19 for 3 weeks as of today. Late last week she was improving, but this weekend fever and cough returned. She will be talking to her docs today. My other daughter, a school nurse with 2 toddlers, is now quarantined with her family with all 4 showing symptoms after she spent 2 days in late March exposed to hundreds of kids and parents as they came to retrieve belongings, computers and meds when the schools closed. Docs will decide in the next few days which of her family to test. My best friend has a daughter professionally caring for fragile handicapped children in New York - she, other staff and a number of the children are ill and have tested positive - 2 are hospitalized and critical. We are all in South Texas, trying to stay safe and worrying about them so far away.
So it is our job to stay home & stay safe here, so they don't have to have one more worry...us!

I keep pressing everyone I know to take this very seriously. My daughter, an ER nurse, has been in quarantine for Covid-19 for 3 weeks as of today. Late last week she was improving, but this weekend fever and cough returned. She will be talking to her docs today. My other daughter, a school nurse with 2 toddlers, is now quarantined with her family with all 4 showing symptoms after she spent 2 days in late March exposed to hundreds of kids and parents as they came to retrieve belongings, computers and meds when the schools closed. Docs will decide in the next few days which of her family to test. My best friend has a daughter professionally caring for fragile handicapped children in New York - she, other staff and a number of the children are ill and have tested positive - 2 are hospitalized and critical. We are all in South Texas, trying to stay safe and worrying about them so far away.
So it is our job to stay home & stay safe here, so they don't have to have one more worry...us!

@sueinmn I too keep pressing everyone I know to stay home. My husband and I are living separately because he won't stay home. I have a roommate who is 32 yrs old. She is still not taking this as seriously as she should. She still goes to work and goes to the store. She went and spent 8 hrs at a friend's house this past Sunday. She does not watch the news and is pretty clueless. I tell her what I hear from the news on a daily basis. It is hard for her to grasp as our Governor only today April 7, has declared a 'Stay at home order". So, her seeing folks going about life as usual in this area; makes it hard to fathom. Our Town is now a rapidly growing hotspot as posted on the CDC website. I see my neighbors throwing mini parties in their yards. I guess we have the advantage of being keenly aware of unseen microbes that can make us very sick. We know that there are unseen enemies out there.