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Ok here goes - long post alert. I have had it. My family attended a wedding on June 6th. About 100 people were in attendance. We did not wear masks even though we brought them. On June 8th we started exhibiting mild allergy type symptoms - running nose, cough, sneezing, scratchy throat. No one had a fever. The first confirmed Covid-19 case from the wedding attendees was diagnosed on June 11th, two more June 12th and two more June 13th. My family tested June 15th and all were positive except my son who tested negative. To date 25+ people who attended the wedding have tested positive with many more choosing not to get tested or were asymptotic. My experience has been mild. I would describe it as cold/allergy or light flu-like symptoms never leaving my head. No fever and never felt like I needed to go to a Dr. I did lose my sense of taste and smell around June 13th and they didn’t start returning until around June 24th. That was weird. My wife’s experience has been much different. It got into her lungs after a week and she can not shake it. She had severe headaches and body pains and also lost her taste and smell. She has no energy and the smallest task will drain her and she has to lay down. She spent the night in the hospital June 23rd because she could not catch her breath. They diagnosed her with pneumonia in both lungs but Covid-19 test came back negative. Since discharge on June 24th she has been on breathing treatments every four hours, hydroxachloroquine, steroids, antibiotics, 10 different vitamins and an all vegan diet. My largest concern with the medical field as a whole is there is not a plan to deal with those patients who can’t get well in 14 days on meds and rest. “Come back to the ER if you don’t feel well” is not a plan. And we don’t feel she needs to be hospitalized at this time as there are others who are far worse off. Also there is not a mandatory retest to ensure you are not still positive after the 14 days. Why? My wife has not made much progress in the last week and we are referring her to a Pulmonary Specialist to continue treatment and get better. My son has been tested three times since June 15th and all have come back negative. He was in the wedding, was at the same table as us for the reception, rode in the car with us home and did not leave the home from June 8-15th when we should have been contagious. He has not had any symptoms the entire time. Maybe eating dirt as a child finally paid off! As for Covid-19, I respect it much more now than I did before. It is HIGHLY contagious in tight spaces with an active case. It is real and can certainly lead to severe complications or death if not treated in a timely manner. It is not the flu. I tend to think the risk is less with surface contact than reported in the media. I believe the value of masks in public places is to protect others by limiting your droplets from talking, coughing or sneezing (which is where I believe the largest threat of spread is). The mask is not meant as a barrier to keep you from getting infected. Recognize the early symptoms and don’t discount them as allergy related if you have them. Don’t assume you will have a fever because that is not the primary symptom IMO. If you think you might have Covid-19 go get tested. If you test positive stay home and don’t risk getting others sick. If you test positive go get retested with a negative result after 14 days before you return to normal activities. It’s the right thing to do. As for the fall, I support the kids going back to school and resuming extra curricular activities with necessary adjustments. No need to flip the fall/spring. It adds no value IMO. This thing is here to stay and I think we are going to have to deal with it eventually vs hiding from it in fear. Is it going to put stress on our hospital network - yes. Will more people die from it - yes. But total shutdown until it’s gone is not a realistic alternative either. The mental damage in that scenario is likely more harmful than the physical.

We are just waiting on those offers from Texas to boost them from 2* to 5* lol

Leo Terrell, a life- long Democrat, a civil- rights attorney, is BEGGING fellow Democrats to leave the party and vote for Trump.

You spelled it two different ways, bless your heart

Umm, hate to break it to you, but you are the one that seems to be on a high horse. And you are still missing the part about people referring to experts. It reads like you are trying to convince people that there are experts on this virus. Lastly, people can still live their lives? The same people that have lost their jobs and can’t find work? Those people? Can they still live their lives?

Healthcare is anything but affordable, that was the most ridiculously name for any bill in history. The dims have done nothing for quality schools and services ... try expanding the food stamp roles tremendously, high unemployment and the lowest labor participation rate in history , and the worst economic recovery since WWII ... President Trump has turned all that around and has done more for minorities than any President in history, lowest unemployment numbers for blacks and Hispanics in history, prison reform, expanded opportunity zones in inner cities, expanded funding for historically black colleges ... President Trump did all that, not Obama, not the dimocrats .... you are living in an ulterior universe Larry where everything is the opposite of what you say ... so sad ....

Lol. I could care less either way. My golf courses will stay open and gas prices continue to rise so I’ll be good.

If there were guarantees that sitting out the fall fix everything, I would say do it. But there are no guarantees for that

No Larry, facts you don't hear wherever you get your daily fill of anti-Trump .... Try coming on my private property protesting and acting a fool and find out ...

Of course you’ll try to play it off AFTER it’s brought to your attention. I’d play it off too if I looked that stupid (or is it stoopid?)

It simply amazes me that stupid people say stupid things just to hear how stupid they sound to themselves...

When people are talking about this virus and keep using the word “experts”, it implies they are experts on the virus. There are people that don’t let fear dictate their lives. If you’re scared, stay at home in the fetal position and the rest of us will live our lives.

There you go again Larry ... nobody ever said all protestors are thugs, just the ones who riot and destroy property and innocent life ... THEY ARE THUGS! ... conservatives embrace ALL peaceful, honest, patriotic Americans regardless of race, just as we denounce the THUGS of all races ... get your twisted story straight before you come on here spewing your liberal anti-American garbage ...

YES!!! They did an excellent job of handling that situation. As a former LEO, I know firsthand how difficult those types of situations are. GOOD JOB, LPD!!

@BarryLaverty Berry would attempt to call the defunded police. When they didn't show up....SAFE SPACE!!

Good for them. Way to fend of the criminals.

"If you just knew how to read, you could read PRIVATE PROPERTY" LMAO

The original post was about TAPPS which is what I was referring too. I’m well aware that the UIL has said it’s a rumor. I guess in your head if it’s not UIL it doesn’t matter and is impossible to happen. That’s cool. You do you.

I like how the big dude (who happened to be black) patted his comrade on the shoulder and apparently told him "keep walking, this hill's not worth dying on." Hahaha.

Yahoo ...

Hey! Barry knows an AK-46 when he sees one....

Ever hear of smoking them out? You can’t be that stupid can you? You sound just like all the women on a Lifetime movie, run upstairs when the mean man gets after you. Going upstairs would be making the joke on the liberals.

https://www.focuspress.org/2018/01/11/no-dont-want-empowered-daughter/

Hopefully the one that had the terroristic threat gets locked up. https://www.facebook.com/100001488771224/posts/3308340129225580/?

A gate does not Have to be locked for the posted sign to be effective. These people had no business there. But you already knew that.

I think a lot of blacks and Hispanics see through all this TDS outrage and are a lot more conservative than their political hack outspoken leaders. I see increased minority support for President Trump in 2020 ....

I bet he tunes to CNN too.....lol

I think the whole virus thing is overblown ... let it run it's course in the younger healthy population ... protect the elderly and vulnerable ...

Well those that don’t believe in miracles have witnessed first hand it is possible for a dem to have a brain.

https://www.focuspress.org/2014/09/03/q-god-wouldnt-want-me-to-be-unhappy/

This is the left. This is what we're up against. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXLZyyWcQ8Q

They did threaten them and tore down the private gate entrance to get on their property.

#WalkAway #20%2020

Well that wasn't what I thought the joke was. He or she basically compared a failed revolution to a successful one. Apples and oranges with that example .if the British had won, then it would have applied.

Barry’s got the eye roll of a 14 year old girl....

Couple TAPPS coaches are talking about possibly proposing it. So it’s not a rumor.

When you breach a gate clearly marked PRIVATE you are not "supposedly" trespassing....you ARE trespassing.....i know you communist sympathizers don't understand the concept......

Berry, Peepee, Auntie, Stopmyhate(Jett)...which one is you in this pic?

I'm speaking of the organization itself when I refer to BLM. Personally, I think all lives matter. We are all human beings. I've supported equality for all since I was born. I don't care what color anyone is. I'm not going to put any race down, because of a cause. We're all in this together. I don't think one color of skin is any better than the other. I look for the content of someone's soul, and how they treat others. We may have different backgrounds, but I'm no different than you, and you're no different than me. We may have had different obstacles in our way in our lifetime, and our goal should be to overcome them together.

So about a year lol. That seems to be how long he seems to sticking around lately.

Looks like they entered private property to me. At least they entered through the gate marked private.

The large crowd (300 people) of "peaceful" protesters. Like you didnt know that answer. We've seen multiple times already how these "peaceful" protests are just subterfuge for rioting & looting. Also, they breached the front gate of this gated community to get where they were at. I think these patriots did a fine job protecting their home & property. They accomplished their mission. Did anybody get shot or die? (Nope!) I can promise you one thing, I would've been ALOT more aggressive if that "peaceful" crowd had been in my neighborhood. They definitely wouldn't come back.

He who wins the war gets to write the story.

Ok Jett ...