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doc03

(35,336 posts)
Fri Oct 23, 2020, 04:22 PM Oct 2020

Two friends of mine got COVID-19. Last week 11 of us retirees went on a bike ride in the

Pennsylvania mountains. Two of the women that car pooled together got it. One of them was notified through
contact tracing that her hair dresser had COVID-19. She took the test and and tested positive and the women that rode
with her tested negative. Then a couple days later she got sick and tested positive. The one that first tested
positive had no symptoms but is apparently was just a carrier.
We split up in two groups the slower group of five that they were in rode 20 miles. I was with the other 6
that did 45 miles so we had little contact with them. So far they are only two that have it.

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doc03

(35,336 posts)
3. The one that has it says she just feels exhausted day after day
Fri Oct 23, 2020, 04:39 PM
Oct 2020

she 82 years old. She is home with her husband that is elderly and in poor health too I hope he doesn't get it.
They are also Trump supporters that thought it was a hoax.

doc03

(35,336 posts)
5. She is amassing she started this biking group 10 or so years ago
Fri Oct 23, 2020, 05:04 PM
Oct 2020

she has slowed down some the last couple years though. One guy in our group 77 has done 4100 miles this year. Myself 72
2040 miles.

doc03

(35,336 posts)
9. I really don't know. I assume an employee or customer at the salon tested positive so they notified
Fri Oct 23, 2020, 06:12 PM
Oct 2020

the other customers to get tested.

moonscape

(4,673 posts)
7. Am curious if they
Fri Oct 23, 2020, 05:11 PM
Oct 2020

wore masks during the car pooling? Asking because I’m pretty isolated, but on the occasion I’m in the car with someone nearly as isolated as I am we nearly always wear a mask. A couple of times we didn’t, in order to drink our coffee, but it’s rather daunting trying to decide what is safe sometimes.

Kudos to you all on you ride! Hope your friends will be okay.

Ms. Toad

(34,070 posts)
10. Let me guess:
Fri Oct 23, 2020, 06:19 PM
Oct 2020
Two of the women that car pooled together got it.


No masks in the car on the drive, right?

Drives me nuts - my spouse drives her sister around all the time. No masks. She hangs out with her office-mate. No masks.

Knowing someone well enough to share space with them does not mean they will not infect you!!!
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