It’s not the first time I have heard of the elderly wishing to enjoy the rest of the life they have left, rather than merely existing in a state of fear. Sorry to hear about your wife's grandmother, and hope she does very well!The nursing home situations are horrible. My wife's grandmother is in one and was just tested positive, now she is isolated to her room and telling us that she would rather just die. The facility is being investigated because about 40% of the place has it and they are forcing the workers to come in even when positive, but this is happening all over.
Regarding the vaccine, I'll wait to see the fall out before deciding what to do.
Yes, I keep hearing about hospitals having positive employees still go in to work. This has not occurred at my hospital yet, or others throughout my state that I am aware of. As long as their symptoms don’t prevent them from doing their job, they are just assigned to units or patients that are positive themselves. Everywhere needs all the help they can get, so it is what it is. It’s not like people are bangin down the doors looking to care for China virus patients.
I’m afraid your positive antibody test won’t exempt you from wearing masks or following the protocols of everyone else. Similar to how it seems that people who do receive the vaccine, will still be expected to adhere to social distancing and mask wearing. It’s not known if you could still be subject to reinfection, and/or a vector to infect others when you get recurrent exposure to the virus yourself. We are stuck with these friggin masks for the long haul!I would call up the blood bank and see if they have antibody testing, I submitted my application to donate my plasma since I have to donate blood every month because of my TRT.
But That rona test is the devil. I left the damn lab with blurry eyes and my sinuses were screwed up the whole day. Wonder if my positive antibody test is a waiver for the stupid mask.