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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2022 10:45:57 GMT -5
I still mask indoors. I'm vaccinated and boosted. I'm not ready to drop it yet. I don't trust people. Same here. Do you think you will ever feel safe without a mask?
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Post by andi9899 on Mar 1, 2022 10:50:22 GMT -5
I'm hopeful that this last surge will be the very last one. I'm just waiting a little while longer. Cases are way down, so that is promising.
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Post by stillmovingforward on Mar 1, 2022 11:14:12 GMT -5
Do you think you will ever feel safe without a mask? Nope! I have NO autoimmune system and people walk around sick all the time. I'm masked for life.
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Post by Tennesseer on Mar 1, 2022 11:19:51 GMT -5
I still mask indoors. I'm vaccinated and boosted. I'm not ready to drop it yet. I don't trust people. If I were half my age I might drop wearing a mask indoors. But I'm seventy and don't want to take a chance of even getting moderately sick. So I will continue to wear masks while in an indoor public space. ETA: I'm fully vaccinated and boostered up. Also got my flu shot the same day I received my booster shot. I am a moaner and groaner when I get sick. Even I cannot stand myself hearing me complain when sick.
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Post by wvugurl26 on Mar 1, 2022 12:50:19 GMT -5
I don't see local medical facilities dropping the mask rule anytime soon. Our state mandate ended awhile ago. The state education board just sent the school mask issue back to the counties. Several dropped the mask requirement. My county and several I checked are currently in low status.
I think federal buildings are actually the last hold outs. My agency is debating requiring KN95 level masks when we return. It seems a lot too late for that two years in.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Mar 1, 2022 15:51:09 GMT -5
I still mask indoors. I'm vaccinated and boosted. I'm not ready to drop it yet. I don't trust people. If I were half my age I might drop wearing a mask indoors. But I'm seventy and don't want to take a chance of even getting moderately sick. So I will continue to wear masks while in an indoor public space. ETA: I'm fully vaccinated and boostered up. Also got my flu shot the same day I received my booster shot. I am a moaner and groaner when I get sick. Even I cannot stand myself hearing me complain when sick. Right with you and I also have a mask mandate for anyone entering my house. You are not welcome if you are not masked. Period.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2022 17:35:11 GMT -5
I just found out something interesting. The Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting is in Omaha, the last Saturday in April. I was on the site looking for how to get credentials to enter the meeting (they have an exhibit hall with good deals on stuff from their companies, including Justin Boots but you have to be a shareholder). In addition to the usual, they have a link to a site where you upload a selfie and a picture of your vaccine card and get a smartphone app that will be scanned at the door. No political statements, no editorializing, apparently no option for the unvaccinated. Just do it.
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Post by nidena on Mar 17, 2022 11:15:22 GMT -5
My vaccinated and boosted stepmom got covid in January. Since then, she's taken something like seven tests. The first 3-4 were positive, the next one was inconclusive, then one was lost, the next one after that was inconclusive, and FINALLY the one she took on Monday came back negative.
What a pain!!
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Post by minnesotapaintlady on Mar 17, 2022 12:13:39 GMT -5
My vaccinated and boosted stepmom got covid in January. Since then, she's taken something like seven tests. The first 3-4 were positive, the next one was inconclusive, then one was lost, the next one after that was inconclusive, and FINALLY the one she took on Monday came back negative. What a pain!! Did she need to test negative for something? They haven't gone by test results here for ending quarantine for a long time because of the testing positive for months afterwards thing.
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Post by nidena on Mar 17, 2022 13:53:13 GMT -5
My vaccinated and boosted stepmom got covid in January. Since then, she's taken something like seven tests. The first 3-4 were positive, the next one was inconclusive, then one was lost, the next one after that was inconclusive, and FINALLY the one she took on Monday came back negative. What a pain!! Did she need to test negative for something? They haven't gone by test results here for ending quarantine for a long time because of the testing positive for months afterwards thing. She has a friend with cancer and that friend's doc wants them to avoid contact with anyone until they test negative.
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Post by pulmonarymd on Mar 17, 2022 14:12:26 GMT -5
Did she need to test negative for something? They haven't gone by test results here for ending quarantine for a long time because of the testing positive for months afterwards thing. She has a friend with cancer and that friend's doc wants them to avoid contact with anyone until they test negative. That is not a correct answer. If someone has recovered they are no longer contagious, regardless of the rest results
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Post by nidena on Mar 17, 2022 16:20:14 GMT -5
She has a friend with cancer and that friend's doc wants them to avoid contact with anyone until they test negative. That is not a correct answer. If someone has recovered they are no longer contagious, regardless of the rest results Whether it's correct or not, it's the doc's stipulation. Definitely a PitA for my stepmom who had to swab her nose more than a half dozen times. lol.
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Post by Opti on Mar 17, 2022 16:22:31 GMT -5
My vaccinated and boosted stepmom got covid in January. Since then, she's taken something like seven tests. The first 3-4 were positive, the next one was inconclusive, then one was lost, the next one after that was inconclusive, and FINALLY the one she took on Monday came back negative. What a pain!! Did she need to test negative for something? They haven't gone by test results here for ending quarantine for a long time because of the testing positive for months afterwards thing. This happened to various healthcare workers who had mild cases.
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Post by pulmonarymd on Mar 17, 2022 16:22:58 GMT -5
That is not a correct answer. If someone has recovered they are no longer contagious, regardless of the rest results Whether it's correct or not, it's the doc's stipulation. Definitely a PitA for my stepmom who had to swab her nose more than a half dozen times. lol. Doctor was being stupid. Wasted everyone’s time and money. I understand why people follow the advice, but that doctor needs to brush up on this. We haven’t be doing this for over a year
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Post by Spellbound454 on Mar 17, 2022 17:35:50 GMT -5
Our Covid cases are doubling again ... (seems to be a slight alteration on Omicron variant) Its fairly mild, as Omicron was.... and vaccines seem to be holding up re: deaths. but it may be that restrictions were finished too early, or people have become complacent. They are just trying to figure out what is going on.
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Post by anciana on Mar 23, 2022 10:55:50 GMT -5
Some good news for the little ones. I hope the approval goes quickly through the FDA. Moderna to seek emergency authorization for Covid vaccine for young kids
In other news, I've been reading that the Delta variant went mostly to the lungs and the original Omicron to the upper respiratory system (nose and throat). I am reading that the new Omicron, I think it's the BA.2 variant, is presenting a lot with GI issues. Does anyone know any more about it as I'm not seeing that in the official news, mostly on Twitter?
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Post by NastyWoman on Mar 23, 2022 15:16:45 GMT -5
pulmonarymd as there is now talk about a follow up booster shot for the older generation (I have finally accepted that 70yo is NOT middle aged) what are your professional thoughts on this given that fully vaxxed/boosted does not seem to have prevented Omicron infections that well?
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pulmonarymd as there is now talk about a follow up booster shot for the older generation (I have finally accepted that 70yo is NOT middle aged) what are your professional thoughts on this given that fully vaxxed/boosted does not seem to have prevented Omicron infections that well? I think that that is an incorrect statement. The vaccines have been overwhelmingly successful. They are over 90% effective at preventing severe disease, mechanical ventilation, and death. When you think back 18 months, that is a remarkable achievement. They are also quite successful at preventing moderate infection. Most vaccinated patients who get breakthrough infections get mild disease. In a study of vaccinated individuals who died, all oth them had 1 of the following conditions: age >65, diabetes, cardiac disease, pulmonary disease, kidney disease, liver disease, obesity or some form of immunosuppression(cancer, transplant, lupus, etc). The above statement is reflective of all or nothing thinking and the success of right wing and antivaxxer disinformation. Vaccination plus booster decreased the chance of symptomatic infection. It also decreased the duration of illness. Both will decrease spread of the infection. Finally, until COVID, we had no idea how much of an issue asymptomatic spreading of the virus can be. We have never tested asymptomatic individuals to this degree. We have no idea how much of a problem asymptomatic spreading of influenza is, for example. If it occurs to the same degree, it would change the narrative. The vaccines did what they were supposed to do, they saved lives, and changed an infection into a mild disease. No vaccine is 100% effective, and to prevent any infection, would need herd immunity, something, in our current political environment we will not attain. This is our reality, and we will live with the virus as is. ETA: A good number of us are going to need to accept the need for getting booster doses at certain intervals until we understand the risk of infection over time better.
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Post by busymom on Mar 23, 2022 15:31:20 GMT -5
WorldOMeter says as of today the US has lost 1,000,000 Americans to Covid.
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Post by Opti on Mar 23, 2022 15:34:04 GMT -5
WorldOMeter says as of today the US has lost 1,000,000 Americans to Covid. It was coming. Not a happy milestone, but expected.
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Post by azucena on Mar 23, 2022 16:10:06 GMT -5
It's a milestone that passed months ago.
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Post by busymom on Mar 23, 2022 16:24:43 GMT -5
It's a milestone that passed months ago. I don't doubt that. There are a number of states who have been "doctoring" the numbers for quite awhile. Even with the underreporting by some states, we've still hit the one million mark.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2022 16:59:07 GMT -5
pulmonarymd as there is now talk about a follow up booster shot for the older generation (I have finally accepted that 70yo is NOT middle aged) what are your professional thoughts on this given that fully vaxxed/boosted does not seem to have prevented Omicron infections that well? I think that that is an incorrect statement. The vaccines have been overwhelmingly successful. They are over 90% effective at preventing severe disease, mechanical ventilation, and death. When you think back 18 months, that is a remarkable achievement. They are also quite successful at preventing moderate infection. Most vaccinated patients who get breakthrough infections get mild disease. In a study of vaccinated individuals who died, all oth them had 1 of the following conditions: age >65, diabetes, cardiac disease, pulmonary disease, kidney disease, liver disease, obesity or some form of immunosuppression(cancer, transplant, lupus, etc). The above statement is reflective of all or nothing thinking and the success of right wing and antivaxxer disinformation. Vaccination plus booster decreased the chance of symptomatic infection. It also decreased the duration of illness. Both will decrease spread of the infection. Finally, until COVID, we had no idea how much of an issue asymptomatic spreading of the virus can be. We have never tested asymptomatic individuals to this degree. We have no idea how much of a problem asymptomatic spreading of influenza is, for example. If it occurs to the same degree, it would change the narrative. The vaccines did what they were supposed to do, they saved lives, and changed an infection into a mild disease. No vaccine is 100% effective, and to prevent any infection, would need herd immunity, something, in our current political environment we will not attain. This is our reality, and we will live with the virus as is. ETA: A good number of us are going to need to accept the need for getting booster doses at certain intervals until we understand the risk of infection over time better. Thank you! For decades I've taken a seasonal flu shot, and I've had multiple pneumonia shots because they create better, broader spectrum ones and my clinic loses my records with every software update. And with every skin-puncturing injury I get a new tetanus booster because electronic records don't really work that well and they refuse to take chances. I have no problem getting an annual so-called booster for Covid because it sure beats the alternatives. My friend says she will not have a 4th shot, despite being immunocompromised, because she doesn't want to put stuff in her body. Yet she calls her doctor up every month or so for a self-diagnosed sinus infection and gets antibiotics which triggers diarrhea and a demand that someone bring her Activia.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Mar 23, 2022 18:14:04 GMT -5
WorldOMeter says as of today the US has lost 1,000,000 Americans to Covid. Heartbreaking
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Post by TheOtherMe on Mar 23, 2022 18:15:56 GMT -5
I will be getting the 4th vaccine on Friday. The previous three have been Pfizer. This will be Moderna. We shall see if the side effects are less than with Pfizer.
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Post by Opti on Mar 24, 2022 10:10:48 GMT -5
I will be getting the 4th vaccine on Friday. The previous three have been Pfizer. This will be Moderna. We shall see if the side effects are less than with Pfizer. Is there official clearance to get a fourth shot? I'd like to get Moderna as a fourth shot as well.
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Post by pulmonarymd on Mar 24, 2022 10:12:09 GMT -5
Only for the elderly
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Post by Opti on Mar 24, 2022 10:18:27 GMT -5
65+?
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Post by pulmonarymd on Mar 24, 2022 10:25:03 GMT -5
Can't remember if it is 65 0r 70. Sorry
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