I think I aged a little more when I looked on my phone this morning and saw that there were 100 active emergency calls handled by my city's EMTs and fire. There were three lift assist calls, one alarm, five facility transfers, one fire but the rest were listed as medical emergencies. It is a repeat of last March and April when surrounding towns were assisting in calls because there were too many for the local company to handle. Knowing that it will become much worse is very stressful. I understand that people wait until morning to see if they are feeling better before either going to an emergency room or calling and ambulance but if anyone on here does not feel well do not wait. Wasting time may be the difference if you live, die, or are severely impaired.

You're right Elmer, I should have been more specific in my post. Both the phone company and cable companies are regulated. But nothing in the regulations requires them to provide workable internet. Internet, apparently, is not a "utility" so does not fall under regulation as such. Our whole community has tried to get help with the bad internet service here and there is no help. If we don't like what we have, we can cancel it, but the gov't won't force them to provide a workable service, or any service at all. (I am only speaking of the internet portion, not phone service). Our state's Utilities and Transportation Commission has taken our complaints but can't do anything about them.They also will not force them to upgrade to fiber optic. I once was canceled by an old provider (Earthlink) in error and could NOT get reinstated by the phone company because they claimed their facilities were at capacity. Earthlink had a grandfathered in contract with the old phone company, but did not have a contract with the new company, so they couldn't get a hook-up for me either. Even though my own connection should have been available. It was a mess and I had to get satellite internet for 2 years until I was able to get a workaround to get back with the phone company. The phone company 2 years later was still saying they had no capacity to add me back, but I was able, through persistence and avoiding customer service, to sign up online and get hooked up again. It took me TWO years. No one in gov't could do a thing, because it was internet and not phone service that was the problem. The FCC regulates cable tv companies, but the same problem exists. There is no regulation that requires them to extend their service lines and they will only do so if they find it financially beneficial to them. Based on the number of complaints I hear, they must not be required to provide great service either, but I've never been able to get cable, so don't know first hand.

I did "google" and odds of her contracting it again are very small. I'm trying to keep thinking that way. We still don't know which variant my son in law has, it takes 3-5 days for them to find out and then they'll let him know. When he made his appointment for his test, he was asked by the contact tracer how sick he was when my daughter caught it. He said he never got it from her. She said, "well that's not the answer we were expecting...", yet I worked in a drugstore and two employees got it. One from a customer: her husband also works in the store. HE never got it, nor did their children. Only the wife. And the other lady caught it from her step-son. Her husband and her daughter never caught it. I just dropped off their soup. They'll be home at least for 2 weeks. If she tests positive, which I believe she will that's good because she can go back to work sooner. If she tests negative, she has to take an additional 14 days off AFTER he goes back to work. She's working from home right now. But to answer the question: if someone tests positive in your household, you must ALL quarantine. You cannot step outside of your home at all. Even us talking at her door was a no-no. But we wore masks and I stood a good 10 feet away from her, as I did in January every time I dropped something off for her.

Be safe Carolyn! We do go to restaurants, but here almost all servers, etc. are masked. I assume their employers are requiring this since we do not have a mandate. I do appreciate their consideration of their customers and employees and I will certainly wear a mask into restaurants, shops, etc. in consideration of others. We have recently changed over to the good masks since the cases here have gone up so quickly in the last couple of weeks. Yes, the vaccines seem to be helping with severity of cases but the O is so contagious. What really irks me is those who are not vaccinated and will not wear a mask. Of course you don't know who those are. On the rare occasions I am in a store, I hate it when someone without a mask gets right up in my space. Seriously? It's your right not to mask (or vaccinate for that matter), but stay the h#!! away from me. How hard is it to mask up and keep your distance? If only people would care just a little about others. SIGH!