My wife works at an old folks home. I asked her yesterday if anyone has been talking about covid19. Nope. How about on facebook?(she has 200 fb friends) Nope. Do they have masks at work? I think we have a few cheapo paper ones. Geez We’re 80 miles from St Louis so you just know some of those old people have kids in St Louis that will come to visit.
We live in rural Missouri and no p95/n95 masks is about the only sign I see. No one’s stocking up or at least there’s no empty shelves. We’re stocking up a little every time we go to a store. Buying 2-3 when we would normally buy one. I plan on doing one big shopping day this week be need to clean out the pantry(mics shelves and cabinets all over the house). Need to do some Spring cleaning in general to make room too. TP takes up a lot of space.
Assisted living and Skilled Nursing are two very different animals. My mom was in both. In assisted living she picked up c-diff and it almost killed her.
She never caught anything like that in the skilled nursing facility. Of course, those places run very “hot and cold” and depends on the quality of the management.
The masks are already gone and unless you plan on going into a crowd, they are not really necessary. My crowd days are pretty much over.
I bet your wife can cite flu and c-diff protocols. That’s all COVID is in that environment. If it gets to TYVEK suits your wife will have some decisions to make.
I thank God every morning I do not have to walk into that hospital every day. I was regularly in the ER, the lab, and all sorts of places with things that wanted to kill me (people and bugs.)
Good luck to her. She should be OK. Tell her, wash-in and wash-out from me.