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Post by chiver78 on May 12, 2021 13:26:32 GMT -5
nope, I'm still home. when my pup is more stable in a few weeks post-surgery, I'm sure I'll get out more than I am now. I'm in the 2w waiting period now, having gotten #2 last Thursday.
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Post by daisylu on May 12, 2021 13:32:46 GMT -5
I work outside of the home, but still not going anywhere I don't have to go. Well, I did go to the ballpark over the weekend but they did have strict guidelines and social distanced seating. We felt safe.
Still not going into stores or restaurants.
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Post by haapai on May 12, 2021 13:47:39 GMT -5
We haven't really changed any level of going out into public pre vs. post vaccine. We are going back to the gym sometime soon, though, and will travel a bit more. We haven't changed much at all since our kids can't get vaxed yet. Okay, I feel less alone now, but I'm still wondering what is going on in my head and whether it is logical or healthy. Is our similar experience mitten-state specific? (Damn, we've had a crazy ride!) Or is our reluctance to re-engage something that everyone in a red state or reddish county is also experiencing?
I can't figure out whether this has something to do with my partner (56 and overweight) being about three and a half weeks from being fully vaccinated or if I am just angry and afraid of the world outside of my own house.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2021 13:47:55 GMT -5
Am I the only fully-vaccinated person here who is still pretty much staying home? I just don't want to be around the un-vaccinated idiots out there, or mistaken for one of them. Maybe I am trying to be some sort of role model. Maybe I am staying home because I don't want to get used to freedom this summer because I expect cases to climb this fall when we move back indoors.
I sure wish that I knew what was going on, because I'm pretty sure that I'm being a fool and spiting myself. I took a middle ground this whole time, other than not seeing my DS and DDIL and grandchildren from February to June of last year (3 hour drive), not venturing into planes (last was in March, 2020) and staying out of crowds in indoor spaces. OK, maybe I DID change a lot- also started going to Costco every 2 weeks instead of every week, restricted fill-in trips to the local grocery and of course did as much as possible on Zoom and masked when indoors in stores and other public places. BF and I use two restaurants we trust as far as hygiene and spacing and won't go to any where we see a full parking lot. Planet Fitness terminated my membership after I tactfully expressed my concerns that they weren't enforcing local masking requirements so now I work out at home or outdoors. I bring my own food on road trips because convenience stores seem to ignore masking rules even when they're posted on the door. I just get gas and use the rest rooms and get the heck out. I can't see myself changing that much over the next 6 months to a year except that I have some air travel planned starting in October. I'm still a bit edgy about that. I'll wear a mask in closed indoor spaces whether it's required or not. The small-ship cruise line I'm taking in October off Belize and Guatemala ventured out of Juneau on Saturday with crew and passengers fully vaccinated. That was their first trip since they sailed out of Juneau last October, found out 2 days later that a passenger who had tested at the Juneau airport had COVID, went back to port and quarantined. No one else on the ship got sick. This time- So far, so good. We're all trying to find balance.
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Post by azucena on May 12, 2021 13:49:40 GMT -5
We haven't really changed any level of going out into public pre vs. post vaccine. We are going back to the gym sometime soon, though, and will travel a bit more. We haven't changed much at all since our kids can't get vaxed yet. Okay, I feel less alone now, but I'm still wondering what is going on in my head and whether it is logical or healthy. Is our similar experience mitten-state specific? (Damn, we've had a crazy ride!) Or is our reluctance to re-engage something that everyone in a red state or reddish county is also experiencing?
I can't figure out whether this has something to do with my partner (56 and overweight) being about three and a half weeks from being fully vaccinated or if I am just angry and afraid of the world outside of my own house.
Likely both of the above. And it's sort of a trauma response too, at least in my case. Thinking everyone is germy can really mess up the psyche.
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Post by wvugurl26 on May 12, 2021 13:55:33 GMT -5
I am in the two week waiting period from number 2. We got it last Tuesday. We will not go back to the gym until after the two weeks. And then I will evaluate the situation there before I decide if I'm comfortable.
I go shopping as needed. I went last Saturday and got a dress. We are going to a wedding Saturday. It's outdoors and masks required when leaving your seat.
We go to baseball games but that's distanced and outside. They have pods. No one else sits in our row.
We have gone out to eat a bit at one local place. We go Sunday when they open. They are maintaining distance between tables.
Everything is based on my comfort level. Indoors I only go for what I need, get in and get out and try to avoid people. If possible I try to go at low peak times. Outdoors I feel better about.
I have a feeling masks will go away indoors soon. I may keep wearing them in stores. I have my doubts that many in this county get vaccinated. It's very red and from the ugly comments I've been seeing for the past year, I doubt that crowd gets vaccinated.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2021 13:56:57 GMT -5
Likely both of the above. And it's sort of a trauma response too, at least in my case. Thinking everyone is germy can really mess up the psyche. I agree. Before my second vaccination, a nurse came over and sat in the chair next to me to go over some papers. She was masked. I was masked. She was undoubtedly fully vaccinated. I was still VERY uneasy. I also walked out of a store without buying what I'd planned to (put it all back on the shelves) because it looked like a 20- or 30-minute wait in line. Everyone masked and distanced but I was still edgy. That will take a LONG time to go away.
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Post by wvugurl26 on May 12, 2021 13:58:40 GMT -5
I'm trying to force myself to do a few things. I don't want to feel unsafe but staying in the house forever isn't great either.
I never liked strangers up in my space in public anyway so not looking forward to the end of distancing. I would be happy to keep six feet forever. I'm also introverted and skipping small talk with strangers is also just fine with me.
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Post by Lizard Queen on May 12, 2021 14:05:24 GMT -5
We haven't really changed any level of going out into public pre vs. post vaccine. We are going back to the gym sometime soon, though, and will travel a bit more. We haven't changed much at all since our kids can't get vaxed yet. Okay, I feel less alone now, but I'm still wondering what is going on in my head and whether it is logical or healthy. Is our similar experience mitten-state specific? (Damn, we've had a crazy ride!) Or is our reluctance to re-engage something that everyone in a red state or reddish county is also experiencing?
I can't figure out whether this has something to do with my partner (56 and overweight) being about three and a half weeks from being fully vaccinated or if I am just angry and afraid of the world outside of my own house.
I think it does have something to do with the mitten and how our cases have surged so much recently. The daily new cases in my county got as high as they ever did as recently as a week or two ago. I'd feel a lot more confident going out if they were back down at the 0-15/day level vs. 50-100+/day. I'm now 49, which is now the age group mostly in the hospitals. That doesn't inspire confidence, either. (I'm also 3.5 weeks from being vaccinated.)
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Post by haapai on May 12, 2021 14:05:25 GMT -5
I think that you are onto something regarding convenience stores, especially those attached to gas stations, being the absolute worst regarding masking compliance. What you encounter inside one can really play with your head and keep you from going into other businesses where masks are actually worn, correctly, by everyone, especially staff.
I've been quite pleasantly surprised by how much better masking compliance is when I go into a business that's located in an area slightly more urban or educated than my own town. I'm almost reluctant to go to such places because when I am there, I'm the covidiot rube that doesn't understand how to act in public during an epidemic.
I did a bit of a road trip last week and I was shocked by how everyone masked up when entering rest stops on the interstate (which are largely unstaffed) and how g---awful the masking compliance was at gas station convenience stores right off of the same interstate.
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Post by resolution on May 12, 2021 14:47:01 GMT -5
I am fully vaccinated and my husband will be fully vaccinated in three weeks. He caught covid a bit over a month ago so he should have some natural immunity, but we are sitting tight until he is fully vaccinated. Right now we are still staying in isolation at our house, but have started getting takeout once a week.
In three weeks, we are going to make a push to resume our normal activities like going to mass and out to eat with friends once a week. My parents will either drive or fly out for an extended visit beginning in July. Yes there will be some risk, but once we are vaccinated it is going to be about as good as it will get. We did our part by hunkering down for more than a year, but the vaccine is here and we need to get back to whatever normal is out there.
I need to start an emergency diet, so I can fit back into my dressy, pre-covid clothes that I haven't worn because I haven't gone anywhere.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2021 15:07:03 GMT -5
I did a bit of a road trip last week and I was shocked by how everyone masked up when entering rest stops on the interstate (which are largely unstaffed) and how g---awful the masking compliance was at gas station convenience stores right off of the same interstate. That's exactly what I've found! I've started using the rest stops more when I don't need to buy gas. I'm glad things have improved since the 1960s when the ones in Ohio had enclosures with pit toilets. They're generally faster on and off, too, since there are no traffic lights or local business traffic.
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Post by minnesotapaintlady on May 12, 2021 15:09:44 GMT -5
Like Athena, I've been pretty middle of the road this whole time, so "normal" is not real far off and now that I'm vaccinated I'm comfortable in really any situation. I mean, crowds of 50K will probably stress me out, but they did before anyhow! Last weekend we went to a Mother's Day party at my brother's with probably 20 people and with the exception of my sister that chose to wear a mask when she went indoors at the party, it was all 2019 life. The only people not vaccinated there were Carrot and his cousin (ages 10 and 5) and my mom who is 74, but that's her own damn fault. If she doesn't care about getting it...whatever...not my problem. Except I'm probably the executor for her will.
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Post by movingforward on May 12, 2021 15:21:38 GMT -5
I was always middle of the road too (went to the gym all last summer though I wouldn't get close to anyone, ate out once a week, etc). I have been fully vaccinated since mid-February and have returned to normal life. After vaccination I went to Vegas, attended my aunt's funeral, and have started having in-person meetings/lunches with vendors, etc. Work travel will start back next month and I will be attending my first trade show in over a year. Typically, there are around 10,000 people there. I seriously doubt there will be that many this year. I'm thinking maybe 3K - 5K though I haven't seen any numbers come out as to how many are registered yet. I'm not nervous about it...I feel like this is WHY I got vaccinated. I am starting to look at trips to Costa Rica for December.
ETA: Also, as a low risk person I was always more afraid of passing it to someone than I was contracting it. I feel like by June most adults that want to be vaccinated will be. I can't protect those that are refusing to vaccination.
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Post by haapai on May 12, 2021 15:22:15 GMT -5
Okay, I feel less alone now, but I'm still wondering what is going on in my head and whether it is logical or healthy. Is our similar experience mitten-state specific? (Damn, we've had a crazy ride!) Or is our reluctance to re-engage something that everyone in a red state or reddish county is also experiencing?
I can't figure out whether this has something to do with my partner (56 and overweight) being about three and a half weeks from being fully vaccinated or if I am just angry and afraid of the world outside of my own house.
Likely both of the above. And it's sort of a trauma response too, at least in my case. Thinking everyone is germy can really mess up the psyche. I've tried very hard, all of my life, to avoid the stranger = germs = danger idiocy/caste thinking and I think that I have done pretty well at it. When I was five and navigating very crowded public markets in Dar es Salaam, I worried much more about getting separated from my mom, or slipping in the muck, than I did about disease. The place was crowded with beggars, many of whom had the swollen and deformed hands that are the results of a bout with Hansen's disease (google it, it has another name) and we never shied away from them. My mom taught me to avoid the water and pass on the chickens being slaughtered in such places but that the people there were not a threat unless their hands were too close to our pockets. In the late eighties, I picked up a cigarette that was resting in a common ashtray and upon putting it to my lips, discovered that it was far wetter than normal and had to be the cigarette belonging to the visitor with AIDS (his words, we didn't use the terms PWA or HIV+ yet). I didn't panic, may or may not have taken a puff, and put it back in the ashtray and didn't mention the experience to anyone for years. I didn't get an HIV test for another decade either.
In short, I'm pretty good at handling contagion when I understand how it is transmitted. In both of the previous cases, I knew that the person with the scary disease or the physical damage from a scary disease was almost certainly not going to transmit it to me.
I'm really unprepared for thinking of strangers as dangerous or potential carriers of contagious disease and I have tried all my life to resist that type of thinking because the isolation that comes with making that decision is probably more dangerous than any disease.
So I'm pretty mystified by by what's going on now. I'm pretty sure that some of it has to do with the ease with which a person can pass on this disease without knowing it and to people who are less able to fight it off, but sometimes I wonder if it is all political.
It also doesn't help a bit to be a grocery store worker. Something very dark and ugly happened to us in March 2020 when we were told to continue showing up at work without any temperature checks, testing, hand sanitizer, plexiglass, masks, gloves, staggered scheduling, or limits on how many people could be in the store at the same time. We were utterly disposable workers and we knew it. Giving us a photocopied piece of boilerplate to put on our dashboards in case the police tried to stop us on the way to work, did not make us feel important or valued. It made us feel like chumps, or serfs, depending on how long we could survive without paychecks.
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Post by jerseygirl on May 12, 2021 15:55:43 GMT -5
Haapai, so sad to read how you were treated at work Both Jerseyguy and I are fully vaccinated (2 weeks after last ) Jerseyguy very high risk so stayed home entirely while I went to local grovceryy store once/week during senior day after evidence that Covid wasn’t really transmitted by touch .I was totally freaked out by idea of touch transmission as micro course had made a huge impression on me So once/week at grocery store then a birthday party for older son with family in a large barn with all doors open in August. Then back to only once week at grocery store Well thankfully all of family except the two little grands are vaccinated so we had Mother’s Day at our house, no masks and lots of hugs!!! Also I went (not Jerseyguy) to my aunts funeral and family gathering after, about 20 , THINK most were vaccinated but really didn’t know. But it was my dear 98 year old aunt. Stayed away from Jerseyguy for a week Now going to mass on sundays
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Post by laterbloomer on May 12, 2021 16:19:07 GMT -5
So just to update the "how dare you question science" crowd, I got vaccinated 2 weeks ago with Astrozenica. Now the experts are advising to stop using that vaccine due to the number of people getting blood clots from it. I haven't gotten blood clots thank goodness. But now I get to be an ongoing science experiment as they decide whether to give me a second Astrozenica shot or see what happens if they give me Mederna or Phiser. So you can all just fuck off with ridiculing people that don't totally trust this process.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on May 12, 2021 16:25:10 GMT -5
Likely both of the above. And it's sort of a trauma response too, at least in my case. Thinking everyone is germy can really mess up the psyche. I've tried very hard, all of my life, to avoid the stranger = germs = danger idiocy/caste thinking and I think that I have done pretty well at it. When I was five and navigating very crowded public markets in Dar es Salaam, I worried much more about getting separated from my mom, or slipping in the muck, than I did about disease. The place was crowded with beggars, many of whom had the swollen and deformed hands that are the results of a bout with Hansen's disease (google it, it has another name) and we never shied away from them. My mom taught me to avoid the water and pass on the chickens being slaughtered in such places but that the people there were not a threat unless their hands were too close to our pockets. In the late eighties, I picked up a cigarette that was resting in a common ashtray and upon putting it to my lips, discovered that it was far wetter than normal and had to be the cigarette belonging to the visitor with AIDS (his words, we didn't use the terms PWA or HIV+ yet). I didn't panic, may or may not have taken a puff, and put it back in the ashtray and didn't mention the experience to anyone for years. I didn't get an HIV test for another decade either.
In short, I'm pretty good at handling contagion when I understand how it is transmitted. In both of the previous cases, I knew that the person with the scary disease or the physical damage from a scary disease was almost certainly not going to transmit it to me.
I'm really unprepared for thinking of strangers as dangerous or potential carriers of contagious disease and I have tried all my life to resist that type of thinking because the isolation that comes with making that decision is probably more dangerous than any disease.
So I'm pretty mystified by by what's going on now. I'm pretty sure that some of it has to do with the ease with which a person can pass on this disease without knowing it and to people who are less able to fight it off, but sometimes I wonder if it is all political.
It also doesn't help a bit to be a grocery store worker. Something very dark and ugly happened to us in March 2020 when we were told to continue showing up at work without any temperature checks, testing, hand sanitizer, plexiglass, masks, gloves, staggered scheduling, or limits on how many people could be in the store at the same time. We were utterly disposable workers and we knew it. Giving us a photocopied piece of boilerplate to put on our dashboards in case the police tried to stop us on the way to work, did not make us feel important or valued. It made us feel like chumps, or serfs, depending on how long we could survive without paychecks.
Yeah when I got my letter I joked with my co-workers that we got our official letter notifying us that we were to be sacrificed to appease the Gods. Look up the plot to Cabin in the Woods that pretty much sums up how I felt about the "importance of being an essential worker" through all this. I don't work with the public in my full time job so at least there is that. However absolutely no concessions were made to protect us and when I did end up getting COVID they tried to argue with me that I couldn't possibly have been exposed because I hadn't worked with the positive person on Monday (but I did for 2 hours in VERY close contact on Friday) so get my ass to work. While it was scary as hell it was also VERY satisfying to send my HR person a text saying I was positive then listen to her desperately try to back track. I told DH that if I died I expected him to own this company and if he didn't I was coming back to haunt him.
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Post by swamp on May 12, 2021 16:26:19 GMT -5
I'm trying to force myself to do a few things. I don't want to feel unsafe but staying in the house forever isn't great either. I never liked strangers up in my space in public anyway so not looking forward to the end of distancing. I would be happy to keep six feet forever. I'm also introverted and skipping small talk with strangers is also just fine with me.
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Post by haapai on May 12, 2021 16:39:49 GMT -5
AstraZeneca!
Misspelling the name of the manufacturer has cost you quite a bit of credibility, at least in my eyes.
I'm a snot that way. On the other hand, being a bitch about misspelling or mispronouncing something has kept me away from fools and dittoheads for a long time. I ain't gonna change the habits of a lifetime just because I kinda like you.
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Post by TheOtherMe on May 12, 2021 16:43:17 GMT -5
I was very cautious during the worst of Covid and I'm still very cautious.
I am still doing grocery pick up and avoid stores. I don't know when I will ever go in a restaurant again. Or to a basketball game or anything else.
My therapist said I have to retrain my brain from thinking I have to be so careful to I can do this with minimal risk. It's the minimal risk I don't want.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on May 12, 2021 18:30:06 GMT -5
We have gradually opened up our lives, it hasn’t been all of a sudden. We are about 3 weeks from our second vaccination, so I’m a bit more comfortable.
We have resumed our happy hour meetings with retired engineers, TD and I were the last vaccinated. Earlier this week, I went to lunch with my neighbor and we are starting to resume our Tuesday lunches.
It looks like both the opera and ballet are going to have live performances this fall. Not sure if we are going to partake this year. I’d hate to lose our seats though.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2021 19:55:28 GMT -5
Am I the only fully-vaccinated person here who is still pretty much staying home? I just don't want to be around the un-vaccinated idiots out there, or mistaken for one of them. Maybe I am trying to be some sort of role model. Maybe I am staying home because I don't want to get used to freedom this summer because I expect cases to climb this fall when we move back indoors.
I sure wish that I knew what was going on, because I'm pretty sure that I'm being a fool and spiteing myself.
I've recently wrestled with this a lot. Today I went to a luncheon honoring a friend for her amazing community service over decades. I hugged folks, sat shoulder to shoulder with folks, talked to folks in the flesh for the first time in many months. We were all vaccinated. It was glorious and my brain needed the re-set. Other than that, we're not doing much different than we have for the last year. This weekend I think we might go to a museum which doesn't ever have many folks on a Sunday a.m. Still no theaters, concerts, etc. for us, maybe never. I'm working hard to find the balance between reasonable and not reasonable which sort of changes day-to-day.
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Post by minnesotapaintlady on May 12, 2021 20:12:27 GMT -5
Am I the only fully-vaccinated person here who is still pretty much staying home? I just don't want to be around the un-vaccinated idiots out there, or mistaken for one of them. Maybe I am trying to be some sort of role model. Maybe I am staying home because I don't want to get used to freedom this summer because I expect cases to climb this fall when we move back indoors.
I sure wish that I knew what was going on, because I'm pretty sure that I'm being a fool and spiteing myself.
I've recently wrestled with this a lot. Today I went to a luncheon honoring a friend for her amazing community service over decades. I hugged folks, sat shoulder to shoulder with folks, talked to folks in the flesh for the first time in many months. We were all vaccinated. It was glorious and my brain needed the re-set. Other than that, we're not doing much different than we have for the last year. This weekend I think we might go to a museum which doesn't ever have many folks on a Sunday a.m. Still no theaters, concerts, etc. for us, maybe never. I'm working hard to find the balance between reasonable and not reasonable which sort of changes day-to-day. But why not though? Isn't the whole point of getting vaccinated so that you can do all that stuff safely again?
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I've recently wrestled with this a lot. Today I went to a luncheon honoring a friend for her amazing community service over decades. I hugged folks, sat shoulder to shoulder with folks, talked to folks in the flesh for the first time in many months. We were all vaccinated. It was glorious and my brain needed the re-set. Other than that, we're not doing much different than we have for the last year. This weekend I think we might go to a museum which doesn't ever have many folks on a Sunday a.m. Still no theaters, concerts, etc. for us, maybe never. I'm working hard to find the balance between reasonable and not reasonable which sort of changes day-to-day. But why not though? Isn't the whole point of getting vaccinated so that you can do all that stuff safely again? For us the purpose of the vaccine is to live out the rest of our days in health with a good quality of life. And that's where the intersection of health, safety and quality of life come together. It's going to be different for everyone. We are old farts (73 and 81), with diminished night vision so most concerts and theater performances were already off our radar. Will we go to a local small live theater this fall? Yes, for sure. Are we hoping to book 2 nights at an in-state hotel for a quick getaway next month? Definitely. Are we going to try to book a river cruise in the US or Europe next year? Yep, happening this week. Ironically, Covid and our diminished physical abilities met one another face to face.
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Post by steph08 on May 12, 2021 20:35:01 GMT -5
We have been middle-of-the-road people since the fall of 2020, but even we are opening up more. The kids have been doing gymnastics all school year and now are doing softball/t-ball. My parents, kids, and I are going to Colorado in July so I can finally meet my 1.5yo nephew. I'm taking my mom amd kids to Disney in the fall. I got vaccinated so I can get back to life! But, I am also low risk.
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Post by teen persuasion on May 12, 2021 20:47:39 GMT -5
I've recently wrestled with this a lot. Today I went to a luncheon honoring a friend for her amazing community service over decades. I hugged folks, sat shoulder to shoulder with folks, talked to folks in the flesh for the first time in many months. We were all vaccinated. It was glorious and my brain needed the re-set. Other than that, we're not doing much different than we have for the last year. This weekend I think we might go to a museum which doesn't ever have many folks on a Sunday a.m. Still no theaters, concerts, etc. for us, maybe never. I'm working hard to find the balance between reasonable and not reasonable which sort of changes day-to-day. But why not though? Isn't the whole point of getting vaccinated so that you can do all that stuff safely again? I know you aren't asking me, but, umm, NO - the whole point of getting vaccinated was to not die, not get a bad case of Covid, hopefully not get Covid at all, not pass Covid on to someone/anyone else (because I didn't get Covid), and to do my part to starve the virus out of existence, if we can. Doing all that other stuff is way down my list right now.
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Post by minnesotapaintlady on May 12, 2021 21:19:39 GMT -5
But why not though? Isn't the whole point of getting vaccinated so that you can do all that stuff safely again? I know you aren't asking me, but, umm, NO - the whole point of getting vaccinated was to not die, not get a bad case of Covid, hopefully not get Covid at all, not pass Covid on to someone/anyone else (because I didn't get Covid), and to do my part to starve the virus out of existence, if we can. Doing all that other stuff is way down my list right now. She said "maybe never" which is what I was asking about, but it makes more sense now that she clarified why.
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Post by NastyWoman on May 12, 2021 23:43:00 GMT -5
So it turns out that S'pore is farther along in its vaccination program than DS1 estimated. He received a text that he could set up an appointment today. He called and had a choice of vaccines except for the one he really wanted - the one dose J&J. So on Friday he will get his first dose of Pfizer.
Meanwhile on the side of the globe I am going to have lunch with a good friend on Friday. That will be my first, in person/not zoom, shared meal in 14 months!
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Post by Opti on May 13, 2021 1:24:55 GMT -5
But why not though? Isn't the whole point of getting vaccinated so that you can do all that stuff safely again? I know you aren't asking me, but, umm, NO - the whole point of getting vaccinated was to not die, not get a bad case of Covid, hopefully not get Covid at all, not pass Covid on to someone/anyone else (because I didn't get Covid), and to do my part to starve the virus out of existence, if we can. Doing all that other stuff is way down my list right now. Unfortunately for me one of my big social things was church. It is a physically small church on a small property. I'm not sure when it will open and when I will want to go. I already do one risky thing a day IMO. Not everyone in my facility is vaccinated and my lunch break is at the same time of one or more people I know are not vaccinated. Because of the change in regulations in the state, we are no longer getting weekly PCR tests. We are down to rapid tests once a week which are less accurate. Given NJ is supposed to open up and numbers are dropping, I would not be surprised if in the near future the Assisted Living side gets to go maskless for all vaccinated residents and staff.
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