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They gave out information pamphlets too . Looked was so many couldn’t even find my streets parties. Was so many pages it’s unreal even a Truck Rally!
Some were repeat calls due to the parties restarting when they left2 -
See no tickets 🎫
Some had left before cops got there0 -
Crazy, our premier told police to go easy at first but now... tickets, tickets, tickets5
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KrissCanDoThis wrote: »Wow... I just read that a woman here just died at age 111!! That's sad and incredible at the same time
I'm about to turn 69. If I live to be 115, I would want those who shared my life to be joyful and amazed that I made it to that rare age!!7 -
I wonder how 38 calls/9 violations observed compares to normal in San Antonio. That seems low for one evening in a larger city. I'm sure we had way more overall, and yet the only thing I observed/heard was some fireworks.
We are issuing tickets (and I am in favor), but one wonders how much that helps as (at least in some areas) people likely just won't pay the tickets, and it's not like putting more people in jail is going to happen (especially as there are outbreaks in jail).4 -
Total Was 264 calls /82 violations observed many of the calls read they got to scene didn’t see anything. SAPD stands for SanAntonio Police Department. DSD the one you read is the San Antonio Developmemt Services Department.
I was surprised they didn’t ticket. The normal for no pandemic on a holiday is packed parks with no reason on to breath,packed restaurants, packed tourist areas,bbq every yard,etc etc with trash left behind to scare even a hoarder. For a pandemic with rules saying no gatherings larger than 10 y social distancing was a higher call of volumes than needed to be. Doubt every street was called in. Just My street has over 6 houses at my end of the street full of friends visitors in large numbers. By the time cops arrived a few had left only 1 home was visited by the cops. Our zip code cases went up since last night. I’m more interested in 1-2week from nows Numbers will they double? Triple? Or same pace as it has been?2 -
I wonder how 38 calls/9 violations observed compares to normal in San Antonio. That seems low for one evening in a larger city. I'm sure we had way more overall, and yet the only thing I observed/heard was some fireworks.
We are issuing tickets (and I am in favor), but one wonders how much that helps as (at least in some areas) people likely just won't pay the tickets, and it's not like putting more people in jail is going to happen (especially as there are outbreaks in jail).
I feel for the LEO's today. They have to risk the virus breaking up groups. Local officials have to get reelected or they lose their jobs and in some places that can cost LEO's their job if their boss gets fired at the next election. The KY governor came out an said there will be no one charged if they are caught at church yesterday. If tickets are written it could cost states millions in legal fees to prove a governor/mayor had the legal power to restrict the rights of law abiding citizens. In KY marshal law has not been declared.
Common sense is not that common. In my case I do not want to die or to cause others to die so I do not get hung up when someone tells me to not bunch up with other people because I stopped doing that before I was told. Before the governor started shutting down a lot of activities I told the people at church they would see me when they next saw me. The storms caused them to call off the Easter service yesterday.
Yes there are still some saying this is just like the flu but does not kill as many as the flu does each year. Yes many can get this bat flu and never even know it. Others that get hospitalized and still live can have a body with major organ damage until their final death.
A few will stop smoking, stop being obese and other high risk life styles but most that live through these times will go right back to their old ways. I have given up on trying to get others to act right and work on getting my self to act right.
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(1) You mean "martial law" (we need a marshall plan, but that's something different); and (2) writing tickets for violating local or state orders does not = martial law. The claim that many states in the US have declared martial law is both false and pretty offensive. My church cancelled in person Easter services (the most important Christian religious events of the year in my denomination) before the state required it, because they care about parishioners. There is no "martial law" in my state, even if they (for good reason) take this more seriously than your state.
I also feel for police officers in this time, among others. Tough job.21 -
KrissCanDoThis wrote: »cwolfman13 wrote: »KrissCanDoThis wrote: »Mmmm... I guess that's what I meant by "cant you miss easter" I think I just didnt say it right lol... those scenarios you described were who I was directing that comment too, the people who blatantly put everyone at risk just because it's a holiday, if today is about your faith, worship, but for the love of your family and friends, the bbqs, the beer, the close quarters and no protection, cant you just miss that this one time?
We did, but it's hard. Easter in my family is another family feast day much like Thanksgiving or Christmas. A big component of the holiday is getting together as a family and doing a ham or leg of lamb, etc and sharing as a family. My mom desperately wanted to come over to enjoy the holiday and to see my boys who she hasn't seen in a month now except for face time, but I had to say no. It's hard telling your mother she can't come over.
I agree, my birthday back in march was much the same, she couldnt understand why I wouldnt just sneak into her building and celebrate with her and my grandmother (at that time their apartment building had banned visitors) but it had to be done, and yeah it sucks spending anything alone lol.. but I feel better knowing I didnt go.
Every time I go to the grocery store I wonder if that's the trip where I touched that can of soup or pack of chicken that someone else infected touched and it will be my turn.
I don't worry so much about what I touch in the grocery store. I have control over not touching my face and over washing my hands as soon as possible and over slathering my hands with sanitizer in the meantime. What I can't control is the people who decide to walk (or come stand) right by me, while they continue talking on their phones or with whomever they went shopping with -- or sneeze, or clear their throats, or cough. That's what makes me anxious.
My brother suggested we get together for pizza on Easter (not traditional, just what he likes). We each live alone and we're both telecommuting, and haven't being socializing with other people for a full month, but I told him no. I said if we did, we'd have to be at least six feet apart while we ate, and we'd have to wear face coverings when we weren't eating. I didn't think that would be much fun. I met him to give him a container of "Easter" disinfectant wipes.
If it's any consolation to you re: your grandmother not being able to see your uncle while he is dying from cancer, any of the folks who spread COVID among their families with their large gatherings could soon be in the same situation: not able to visit dying family members, because no visitors are allowed in the covid wards. Not to anthropomorphize a virus, but this truly is a cruel disease in so many ways -- the lengthy incubation so people are spreading it without knowing it, the respiratory distress, the lengthy recovery with continued disease shedding, the dying alone ...9 -
JRsLateInLifeMom wrote: »
https://youtu.be/_T7MGWWVVC8
Just saw this Don’t see how she lost, theirs Lots of Essential Workers especially in the medical field that’s a Single parent. Makes no sense that she lost to me. A Single Dad Doctor would he get the same verdict? A Single Mom/Dad Nurse could they have this happen to them in the same state or city? What about other essential workers like a grocery store cashier?
They're not talking about removing children from the custody of all single parents. This was a shared custody case. I think while everybody is supposed to be sheltering at home, it doesn't make sense to be shuttling a child between two households, which is what they were doing. And that would be my opinion regardless of what kind of work either parent were doing. People, including children, need to be staying in one household right now. It's sad, but that's the reality.
At the end of the clip, it sounds very much like she doesn't have anyone to watch the child while she's working. When she had shifts, her ex has custody. It is a terrible situation for her to be in, and you'd hope that in addition to daily online visits they might be able to arrange some in-person visits where mom and child could talk at a distance (although that might be hard for a four-year-old to understand). If you watch the whole thing, you see that both the ex and the judge have agreed that she should get extra time at the end of this to make up for time lost now. I realize that time at different stages of a child's life isn't fungible, and I know we don't know the real emotional situation between the two parents -- of course any decent lawyer is going to try to come across as reasonable and empathetic to the doctor's situation in a statement they give the press.
I can see that she's worried about there being no end date for the judge's order. I don't think it would be justifiable to continue the order past the time that people in her area are no longer being asked to shelter at home and avoid going anywhere unnecessary.11 -
Of coronavirus? Or other causes?KrissCanDoThis wrote: »Wow... I just read that a woman here just died at age 111!! That's sad and incredible at the same time
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She died on her own of just age.5
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KrissCanDoThis wrote: »Crazy, our premier told police to go easy at first but now... tickets, tickets, tickets
That's how it should be everywhere. If it's not hitting people where it hurts, they're not really going to care or take it seriously. What is a slap on the wrist to most people who care little enough as it is, to not listen to the safeguards in place?? People need to be serious and stay serious about all of this until this virus turns a serious corner and backs off. For the good of everybody.
Kriss, I've truly enjoyed reading your posts! I wish every 'home' equaled the care that is given at your place of employment.
And I completely agree with employees being changed around a little bit, in some way, to avoid burn-out, which is so high in care-giving fields. If employees are burned out they don't give as good of care as what's needed in such a high-demand field. Care giving is so draining, mentally and exhausting. I watch my sister take care of his dh who has Alzheimer's and I, honest to God, have no idea how she does it. And he's still mobile, able to do some things, and it's only 1 person to take care of.
Both of our parents spent some time in 2 different nursing homes, and neither were that great.
My sister's dh spent 3 months in a facility last summer and it was such a difference to see. The staff was so personable, likeable, approachable, they seemed to truly care about what they did.
If you have a loved one in a facility like that, you really need to be present a LOT to catch a glimpse of their treatment and interactions with the patients. I cannot image how many of them are operating during the 'no visitors allowed' times, not to mention what their families must be feeling.
You, and others who work in the field of care-giving, have my utmost respect, gratitude, and appreciation.
During this crisis, I've come to appreciate and respect, much much more, many different kinds of workers that seem to go undervalued and way under compensated for the jobs they do. We need to all show those workers how much they mean to us. Where would we(or our families) be without people in our world, like this?? 5 -
Alzheimers/dementia is a hard disease.
I am fortunate that the place I work in now has residents that arent violent in nature due to it, at least not to a threatening degree, but in the previous place I worked, they had dedicated locked units for this, and working those units was hard both mentally and physically, I have had mugs and plates thrown at me, I've been slapped in the face, kicked, I've had wet floor signs thrown at me, I once had someone grab me and claw me down my face leaving me bleeding and swollen, my manager had to pry me free. There were times I watched my coworkers being chased down a hallway and had to lock themselves in a room to escape from a resident.
Things like that can definitely wear a person down, and for me, I made the decision to change jobs because while ccas are trained to handle combative residents, support service workers are not. There was often times i would be left alone because all 3 ccas would be in rooms trying to provide night care to residents who were probably fighting them the whole way, leaving me to watch and make sure that they didnt attack each other either.
It scared me because since i was not trained, what do I do if one of those 60 year old men, built like a brick house just decided to attack a little 80 year old lady? It caused me a lot of anxiety. It's a hard part to accept of the nature of the disease, for those who go into work to work in that situation every day, they definitely deserve a huge thank you for sure10 -
Another update from the Emerald Isle, Thursday afternoon we had an update from Taoiseach (Prime Minister) as our lockdown was previously meant to be until Easter Sunday, they've now extended the measures for a further 3 weeks and deferred school leaving exams until Jul/Aug.
We are still permitted to take exercise within a 2km radius of our homes and essential services remain open including public transport to a very limited degree.
I expect the measures may be extended again for a least a few weeks, as they are still struggling to get adequate testing/results in place to cope with the numbers. At present we've just over 10500 cases and 365 dead, doesn't seem much when you compare it to the likes of the USA/China/Italy/Spain but we have a population of less than 5 million in the Republic, so it's quite the impact.
PS I'd like to say thanks to @snowflake954 for the updates out of Italy, I took your advice and ordered a mask, with some filters (not surgical level, I'd prefer to leave them available for the professionals but better than nothing and I'd rather be safe than sorry) just in case we do follow suit, as expected, they'll take some time to get here but hopefully should have them in a couple of weeks.
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tinkerbellang83 wrote: »Another update from the Emerald Isle, Thursday afternoon we had an update from Taoiseach (Prime Minister) as our lockdown was previously meant to be until Easter Sunday, they've now extended the measures for a further 3 weeks and deferred school leaving exams until Jul/Aug.
We are still permitted to take exercise within a 2km radius of our homes and essential services remain open including public transport to a very limited degree.
I expect the measures may be extended again for a least a few weeks, as they are still struggling to get adequate testing/results in place to cope with the numbers. At present we've just over 10500 cases and 365 dead, doesn't seem much when you compare it to the likes of the USA/China/Italy/Spain but we have a population of less than 5 million in the Republic, so it's quite the impact.
PS I'd like to say thanks to @snowflake954 for the updates out of Italy, I took your advice and ordered a mask, with some filters (not surgical level, I'd prefer to leave them available for the professionals but better than nothing and I'd rather be safe than sorry) just in case we do follow suit, as expected, they'll take some time to get here but hopefully should have them in a couple of weeks.
Thanks!! I love Ireland and am hoping to visit one day. The farm neighboring ours when I was growing up had Irish Americans, and loved their sense of humor. We played and rode horses with their kids.
In Italy, lots of dithering. We need to move into Phase 2, but there's argument on what to open and when. Masks are a big deal. Without them for everyone we can't go forward. The government has announced that there will be no vacations outside the country this summer. Schools won't open until September. Today, bookstores and children's shops were allowed to open.10 -
@rheddmobile, I'm sorry that that has been your local experience. It is inconsistent with mine.
My father lived for several years in a privately-owned private-pay assisted living facility (that was not dramatically more expensive, compared to local facilities that accepted Medicare - IIRC, perhaps 10-15% higher). Prior to that, after an accident that instantly blinded him (among other injuries) and required physical rehab, for several months he was in a nursing home that accepted Medicare (and Medicare was covering his care, at that time). There was nothing wrong with him cognitively (at least after a short period when he was recovering from the immediate trauma and shock); he was able to make quite canny observations about what went on with himself, roommates in the nursing home, and other residents at the assisted living facility.
The general demeanor of staff at both was kind, and caring, by my observation, and his reports. The nursing home staff were stretched thin, but I didn't observe what I would call negligence, if negligence can be seen as a matter of failure to diligently do what is within one's control. One roommate was a young man who was permanently immobilized, maybe 30-something years old, unable to communicate, but with some degree of sentience. They were conscientious about keeping that man fed (by hand), clean, properly dressed daily, moving him throughout the day, turning on the TV and putting it in his sightlines during daytime, and even paying attention to which kinds of programs appeared most to entertain him (based on his facial expressions and wordless sounds).
During my dad's several-year residence in the assisted living facility, we went through several cardiac crises that required hospitalization. The staff were prompt and attentive. Since this was a few years back, there was nothing like Covid to deal with, but there were certainly opportunities for them to be inattentive and negligent. They weren't.
I don't disbelieve your experience. Perhaps we had unusually good experiences. I have no way of knowing. But my experience led me to believe that here, at least, the staff are (mostly) doing the best they are able for the patients. The main differences I saw between the two facilities were that the private-pay assisted living was more personalized/home-y, the staff seemed a little less time-stressed, and there appeared to be lower turnover, compared to the Medicare nursing home.
My mom was a charge nurse in geriatrics. She quit one nursing home because it was private and the owner (a nursing school friend of hers, ironically) didn't want to have enough staff and resources. My mom was one of the good ones. She would regularly work extra hours and even spoon feed those that couldn't eat or give those that couldn't baths. As kids, we would get drug in, against our wishes most of the time, so that those that never got visitors could see kids and have a "visit". I remember one time she brought in an organ and had Christmas in July at one facility -- all on her spare time.
My mom retired from the county home in Ohio. It's because she could no longer stand how bad private nursing homes had gotten and how much they stretched their staffs. When she retired, they placed an ad that myself and my five siblings all kept. They advertised for a Charge Nurse and said "the one we had, you can't replace, so was that special...". The ad was a loving tribute to her. When she passed, people came out of the woodwork that we didn't know telling us stories about how she took care of their parent until they passed. It was amazing.
The lady who was her friend that she left that started a nursing home? Ended up being one of the largest nursing home owners in Southern Ohio -- huge. Private and pretty on the face, beautiful facilities. I wouldn't put a dog under her care.7 -
That's awesome!
We have a lot of people like that too, they come in on their own time and play music and sing for the residents, we have a young girl who comes in and plays piano, recreation books a lot of musical performances, in the summer time they book a petting zoo that sets up outside in the parking lot and a couple times a year they throw neighborhood block parties where they invite food trucks to set up and residents and people from the neighborhood and go outside and interact.
We also have a program where we have dog co-residency projects where dogs are brought in to visit with the residents, they're allowed to go wherever they wish and visit however they wish. Other places also bring in therapy dogs to visit, during halloween they allow children to come in, dressed up to go trick or treating where the residents are supplied with candy that they can give out. Every resident receives a christmas stocking with essentials on christmas, people can also purchase things on the donation tree, like stamps, bus tickets, etc for them if they wish to contribute, they also hold fancy dinners where residents and family can sit down to a full course meal, made for the event and spend time with them. We have a live in cat who is very friendly, she lives upstairs. There is volunteers brought in regularly, they sit with residents and do puzzles, color, use an iPad to watch sports with them if they have a favorite team, or play music that they would enjoy, the day care is also sometimes brought in to visit with people.
There is resident bbqs held every summer where hamburgers and hotdogs are done, they have soda, chips, potato salad and macaroni salad and all the fixings, I know that one unit, I'm not sure how they do.it, but they somehow collect money, perhaps from saving cans and bottles from the unit? But when there is enough they ask the residents what they would like to order in, be it chinese, KFC, etc and they do that and have a big dinner.
They take the residents out to restaurants, shopping and events.
I'm sure there is lots more that goes on that I probably miss lol6 -
tinkerbellang83 wrote: »Another update from the Emerald Isle, Thursday afternoon we had an update from Taoiseach (Prime Minister) as our lockdown was previously meant to be until Easter Sunday, they've now extended the measures for a further 3 weeks and deferred school leaving exams until Jul/Aug.
We are still permitted to take exercise within a 2km radius of our homes and essential services remain open including public transport to a very limited degree.
I expect the measures may be extended again for a least a few weeks, as they are still struggling to get adequate testing/results in place to cope with the numbers. At present we've just over 10500 cases and 365 dead, doesn't seem much when you compare it to the likes of the USA/China/Italy/Spain but we have a population of less than 5 million in the Republic, so it's quite the impact.
PS I'd like to say thanks to @snowflake954 for the updates out of Italy, I took your advice and ordered a mask, with some filters (not surgical level, I'd prefer to leave them available for the professionals but better than nothing and I'd rather be safe than sorry) just in case we do follow suit, as expected, they'll take some time to get here but hopefully should have them in a couple of weeks.
That is quite the impact. My US state, Wisconsin, has a similar population although we are twice the size in area. As of yesterday, 3428 cases and 154 deaths. Our governor is taking it seriously (although you may have heard the legislators are not, refusing to allow our election day to be moved).
Is the virus taking a similar path? Our two largest metropolitan areas have the highest numbers (as a percentage of population) and the rural areas have low numbers, some counties not having any confirmed cases.3 -
My post saying I'm struggling with realizing I plan to move across the country to live with my mother when she is unable to live alone was not intended to be a criticism of assisted living and nursing home employees. From followup posts on the topic by others I feel like my post was misunderstood. Those facilities have been very hard hit by this virus and as there's one especially hard hit one a block from me that I walk past every day, it's on my mind a lot. There are some good and some bad employees working there. Many of them have gotten the virus. I think it is for good reason they can't have visitors there right now. I just don't want my mother to be in one, and she doesn't want to be in one. And I'm struggling with the realization that I need to move my career and my life across the country so she doesn't have to be. The post was about me, not a criticism of any employees of those facilities.10
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