The first thing I noticed while reading this is it looks like so many cases happened because all of these people WENT TO WORK afterwards while feeling SICK!!! If people had just stayed home as soon as they started getting sick, this would have been much less of a story.

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A worker at the Maplecrest Rehabilitation and Living Center, a long-term-care facility 100 miles from Millinocket in Madison, Maine, came down with a "fever, chills, cough, myalgia, runny nose, and headache" all symptoms consistent with COVID-19. This worker's child had attended the wedding reception, and the two had been in close contact in the days right afterward.

Despite having obvious signs of illness, the Maplecrest employee went to work that day, and the next.

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The York County Jail employee showed up for an eight-hour shift despite having COVID-19 symptoms. It was the first of five consecutive days of work for the employee, who spent time at two separate "correctional facility housing units."

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A LTC facility and a correctional facility? Basically the places where we have already seen many of the problems emanating. Seems like some companies have crap policies about who/when a symptomatic person returns to work.

here's what's ****ed up about the story and hows it's being told

if you go back far enough, there's an initial superspread event that relates to millions of eventual deaths

that's the nature of pandemic

every communicable disease death is preventable in an extreme respect

clearly, you can argue that the people here weren't being careful and or that weddings are frivolous affairs. I'll grant that. but to say humans engage in a social activity and people died as a result is basically the human experience.

and I'm pretty scared of this virus. but I'm an anxious person.

Headline reads as if everyone at the wedding got it and 7 folks died.

You read the story and finally at the end it is more like, someone went to the wedding and a few more folks got. Two for those folks knowingly went to work sick in the middle of a pandemic exposing two population at risk for infection:

Old folks in a care facility and inmates who are by design locked in a building with each other.

They conveniently fail to mention that the 7 who died are more than likely in that LTC facility.


It should be an article about if you get a fever, don't go into work until you get tested so as to limit spread so we can move on with our normal lives a little sooner. Instead its, fear gets me the clicks.

Fear porn

You could write the same article about a rhinovirus outbreak. But nobody tracks rhinovirus like that because.....reasons.

6/7 that died were in a nursing home. Being on death's doorstep is why they were there.

Another ludicrous click bait headline. Shouldn't expect any less from the media at this point.

And, OP has been posting fear porn until his heart is content.

HowdyTexasAggies said:

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And, OP has been posting fear porn until his heart is content.

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If 1 person that reads it doesn't go to work with a runny nose maybe it's worth it?

Dunno.

PJYoung said:

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HowdyTexasAggies said:

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And, OP has been posting fear porn until his heart is content.

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If 1 person that reads it doesn't go to work with a runny nose maybe it's worth it?

Dunno.

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One kid with mental health issues caused by your fear mongering worth it? Dunno.

HowdyTexasAggies said:

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And, OP has been posting fear porn until his heart is content.

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I'd say he's been one of the more level headed posters during a pandemic and that's saying something.

PJYoung said:

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HowdyTexasAggies said:

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And, OP has been posting fear porn until his heart is content.

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If 1 person that reads it doesn't go to work with a runny nose maybe it's worth it?

Dunno.

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People that work at nursing homes definitely shouldn't go to work sick. You would think they would have a robust screening process for employees.