Have any of you caught COVID while mystery shopping?

I suspect it helped that Japan already had a culture of mask-wearing.

@shoptastic wrote:

Japan is an interesting case. They have a heavy elderly population, did not have to fully shut down business, and have few deaths and few infections. It's possible they had a less infectious strain of COVID vs. Europe/NYC. But, we do know that their citizens cooperated with mask wearing. Many other nations wore masks, tested, traced, and isolated and have few deaths and infections.

We got the worst of it economically and medically. Most nations only took one hit and some, like South Korea, were doing quite well in both areas (until Dec. for them). The SK economy has been ramped up and their cases were flat for many months.

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@sparklesthekitty wrote:

It's very naive to think that wearing cotton masks is bullet proof. Research shows the virus particles DO pass through cotton masks fairly easily.
Even healthcare professionals are warned against using cotton masks because there have been documented higher transmission rates.....

I'm exhausted from your posting blitz, sparkles. I'll have to get back to this later, as it's too much to re: in one sitting.

@prince wrote:

@sparklesthekitty
I have not met anyone who thought masks are "bullet proof" A help to contain my large respiratory droplets is all it is. I am in favour of all the little things that help.

Yeah, that's the main point. It's not fail safe, but helps a lot.

Even blunting the force of air/wind from your mouth/nose when speaking/breathing helps prevent particles from escaping or spreading as far.

Good reminder from sparkles about the differences between masks. Experts have determined that all masks are not created equal. We should focus on the differences between masks instead of being snide to the posters who dare to remind us that we can make a variety of mask choices.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. - Lao-Tzu

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note to self: wash the hands, wear the gloves, bring a spare mask or three. But Do Not Use The Hand Sanitizer. I repeat: do not use the hand sanitizer!

I finally tried the provided hand sanitizer at work. Big mistake. I coughed, teared, and got a little red in the face. This is just wrong on so many levels when we are talking about health issues...
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. - Lao-Tzu

In My little universe (CO, NM,AZ,UT) I have been shopping trying to stay away from bigger towns. I have shopped one of the largest hot spots in the country, The Navajo Nation (AZ NM UT) , I did not get it. It was when I did shops In Moab UT and traveling to Cano City CO in one day with 6 shops that I got it. Big Party in Moab with, it seemed, with 100,000 people gathering in to a Gas station to get coffee and doughnuts. Every stop that day had Lots of people without mask and crowding me and everyone else.
I had mild case that with 6 pills of antibiotics for the pneumonia I had iI am back on the road again. I just finish a route in AZ

Well, after 9 months, COVID finally arrived. I had a mild case. Hard to tell where I got it. It's the new strain, more contagious. Self-quarantine for two weeks. Fortunately, I had limited my contacts in the days prior to symptoms appearing. Overall, my experience with the flu in 2003 was much worse. I walked every day, at least 4 miles. I had Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in 1985-88, so I used the protocols we developed then for recovery. Walking was the best exercise to rehab as it is the least stress on the body. The worst symptoms was loss of smell and partial loss of taste.

Do not read so much, look about you and think of what you see there.
Richard Feynman-- letter to Ashok Arora, 4 January 1967, published in Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track (2005) p. 230

@bmttinman wrote:

I had mild case that with 6 pills of antibiotics for the pneumonia I had iI am back on the road again. I just finish a route in AZ

Are you saying that you cured your coronavirus with 6 pills?

It affects everyone differently. Some have mild symptoms, and are well after a couple of weeks. Some have lingering symptoms for months. Some are very ill, worse than any flu. Some are on ventilators and recover. Some are on ventilators, but die. Nearly 400,000 in the U.S alone. You never know how it will affect one person from another. The virus has been around long enough for me to know different people who have been affected from one extreme to the other. Some were perfectly healthy, and did not make it. Some were elderly, but survived. Apparently, "with 6 pills for antibiotics" might work for some, but for others, the affects are more intense, and the road to recovery might entail 6 weeks in ICU. Hospitals are packed. I took a family member to ER this week, and no one was allowed in the hospital except patients. I had to wait in the car for updates.

@1forum1 wrote:

It affects everyone differently.

Well, yeah, I know that. I am a scientist in real life, not a mystery shopper.

TMI.

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I got sick early in the pandemic (postal job near LAX most likely) before testing was readily available so I'm not sure. Two people I know have died from covid. A third dear friend who had other ailments was not put on life support because of a lack of resources from the pandemic and died. They all passed without being able to hold the hands of their loved ones. It was heartbreaking.

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