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Handlogten's Heros said:
I'd say assume she has it, but when our household got it I had my wife isolated with one of my daughters and was mega-diligent about keeping her in her room... we all ended up getting it a day or so after she tested positive. There isn't a lot you can do other than stay home. If you had someone that is a big risk I'd take them out of the home.

Luckily for us it was not that bad. It is the weirdest thing though... obviously people are dying of it and there are some outside the key demographics that are affected more than others. For us I'd say the regular flu is definitely worse and a bad head cold was worse. Good luck.
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Yeah we are treating her as such, but like you said the exposure risk for the test of us is obviously very high. My biggest issue is I need to let my work know if she is positive because of my possible contact with people at work and my position. Could be big for my work. But I need to have that positive test result.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Yeah we are treating her as such, but like you said the exposure risk for the test of us is obviously very high. My biggest issue is I need to let my work know if she is positive because of my possible contact with people at work and my position. Could be big for my work. But I need to have that positive test result.
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Oh ****... that sucks.
 
How do you say "important"? Recently I've been hearing "impordunt", and it's getting on my nerves.
 
colton said:
The pronunciation of that word that bugs me is the classic Utahn version, "impor'ihnt". I.e. no "t" in the middle but a glottal stop instead.
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The classic Utah pronunciation of lots of words is irritating. You get that same effect with the word "Lay'uhn" for Layton. "Rill" for real is another one, generally pronouncing any long "e" and a short "i". "Melk" for milk. The list goes on and on.
 
LogGrad98 said:
The classic Utah pronunciation of lots of words is irritating. You get that same effect with the word "Lay'uhn" for Layton. "Rill" for real is another one, generally pronouncing any long "e" and a short "i". "Melk" for milk. The list goes on and on.
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Yep, yep, and yep.
 
Darkwing Duck said:
Pet peeve of mine is treating the American glottal stop as some sort of Utah original or specialty and not a feature of American English as a whole.
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I've lived in six different states in eight different time periods ranging over 50 years--Missouri, Connecticut, Maryland, Utah, California, Maryland again, Wisconsin, and Utah again--and it's BY FAR the most pronounced in Utah. Like, not even close. (Disclaimer: I don't actually recall Missouri as I was too young.)
 
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