Mayor goes into preventive quarantine
Mayor Plante has put herself in preventive quarantine after a meeting last week with transport minister Chantal Rouleau, who had in turn just met with Longueuil mayor Sylvie Parent, who recently tested positive for Covid. The mayor of Laval and several other ministers are also quarantined after various meetings among them.
walkerp 14:06 on 2020-09-08 Permalink
Why can’t she just get tested?
Kate 14:28 on 2020-09-08 Permalink
She says here that she’s going to isolate till Chantal Rouleau is tested. She hasn’t specified yet about getting tested, but I should imagine that would be automatic.
Blork 14:38 on 2020-09-08 Permalink
Also, testing results aren’t immediate. AFAIK it takes at least 24 hours to get test results back.
j2 17:07 on 2020-09-08 Permalink
A child in my family had a result in 12 hours, last week from the MUHC, but their parent was informed results take 24-48 hours.
steph 18:07 on 2020-09-08 Permalink
I had lunch with someone last Wednesday. He found out wednesday evening his girlfriend (whom he doesn’t live with but they spent all weekend together) tested positive for covid. He let me know on thursday around noon and he got tested thursday afternoon. I booked an appointment ASAP and got tested friday morning 8am. He found out he was negative friday evening. I found out I was negative saturday 11am. We all live on the south shore. Yes, from thursday to saturday I quarantined myself.
SMD 20:46 on 2020-09-08 Permalink
There is also the danger of testing too soon after exposure and getting a false negative. Best to self-isolate for 3-5 days and then test, your results will be much more reliable then.
Tim F 22:20 on 2020-09-08 Permalink
Remember freeze tag? That’s what this feels like sometimes…
We’ve had to “freeze” ourselves three times while waiting for Covid results. Twice my son had a cough, but at the CPE they don’t mess around. Once I was sick with muscle pain and vomiting. Negative every time, but you don’t know until you know.
Can’t wait till the kids get the sniffles at school. (shrugs) What else can you do?
Dhomas 06:37 on 2020-09-09 Permalink
Sniffles are not a symptom on their own. Thank goodness, or my son would never be able to go to school, as he has them pretty much year round.
EMSB asks us to “assess” our children every day. Here are the criteria:
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Is your child experiencing one (1) of the following symptoms:
-Fever (oral temperature 38.1°C/100.6°F or higher)
-Loss of taste or sense of smell
-Cough (new or worse), shortness of breath, trouble breathing
Is your child experiencing two (2) of the following symptoms:
-Sore throat
-Nasal congestion or runny nose
-Extreme fatigue
-Significant loss of appetite
-Generalized muscle pain
-Abdominal pain
-Vomiting
-Diarrhea
Was your child outside Canada (including the United States) within the last 14 days?
Was your child in close contact with someone who has COVID-19?
*A close contact is defined as a person who:
Lives with or has close prolonged contact (within 2 metres for more than 15 minutes (can be cumulative)) with an infected person.
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Joey 08:16 on 2020-09-09 Permalink
@Dhomas, FYI those are provincial guidelines (i.e., the same for all school boards). In our experience, if we are breing brutally honest, “sniffles” tend to come with a bit of a cough – not the ‘shortness of breath’ kind of cough, but still… a cough. One that is likely to be considered both ‘new’ and ‘worse.’ Which usually means a bit of a sore throat (post-nasal drip + all that coughing irritates the throat – maybe not a throat that’s sore all the time, but still). So you wind up with a kid who has what until last March we all would consider a very minor common cold that shouldn’t require multiple days of idling at home, and yet if we follow the letter of the checklist dispassionately, what choice do we have but to keep that kid home.
Kate 10:13 on 2020-09-09 Permalink
It doesn’t help that this is also a season when some folks will be sneezing from allergies. I have just a touch of late summer hayfever myself – it’s a much bigger deal to sneeze in public now than it used to be.
Daniel 10:29 on 2020-09-09 Permalink
So true, Kate! I’ve been taking allergy pills more often than I usually do. Usually I would just suck it up and occasionally sniffle or sneeze. But now the thought of doing that in public makes me uneasy. :/
jeather 18:29 on 2020-09-09 Permalink
I have a persistent COUGH ask me about being in public since March. (I have seen doctors. I have had chest x-rays. I have had this for years.) Luckily I am not interacting with people so I am not getting colds because then my horrible sounding cough turns into death cough.
ant6n 11:52 on 2020-09-10 Permalink
Dhomas, how do you combine the criteria into some sort of decision to stay at home and or get tested?
Joey 13:52 on 2020-09-10 Permalink
@ant6n that’s sort of the point – the criteria are so broad as to lead you to conclude that no matter how minor the symptoms, the child should stay home.
MarcG 15:35 on 2020-09-10 Permalink
I think he was asking how it works (do you need 1 from the first section and 2 from the second, or is 1 from the first enough?). I went to the EMSB site and they have a blog post bragging about their online assessment form that does the magical calculations for you but there’s no link to it.
Joey 16:16 on 2020-09-10 Permalink
Ah, OK. I think if you have at least one of the first list or at least two of the second list, you are to stay home. It’s a ministry tool – kudos to the EMSB for recreating it/taking credit for it. Six of 23 kids in my son’s class were absent today.
ant6n 18:07 on 2020-09-10 Permalink
@Dhomas
What I mean is, there appear to be four logiacal blocks: the (1) of the following, the (2) of the following, the outside Canada, the Covid-contact. Each of them may evaluate to true based on the criteria within.
The question is, how do you combine the blocks to get the result.The criteria are vague already, but I have no idea, after having evaluated the criteria,how to get an overall result (for example, do all four blocks need to be true? In that case, as long as you don’t leave Canada, you can always go to school. Does just one need to be true? etc.)
Joey 07:34 on 2020-09-11 Permalink
If you satisfy the conditions of any one of the blocks, you keep your kid home. Imagine giant ORs between each set.