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Post by kas on Feb 3, 2022 13:18:38 GMT
My Mum got it. She is 76, boosted. She got it 'Mild', she was quite sick over the weekend but every day a bit better now. It is hard living on the other side of the world when this happens. i know she needs to isolate but still.
On this coconut island, there are no at home tests for sale, One got the monopoly and he only works with hospitals at an outrages price apparently . I brought some back but wish i had brought more.
Our 'fantastic' school have their own school masks, which let me blow out a candle through them but daughter is not allowed to change to KN95. They want to hold on to their standard mask although it is spreading like a wild fire .
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Post by notoriousmkg on Feb 4, 2022 18:26:15 GMT
Mask restrictions lifted this week in our county, except for schools and government buildings. We'll still probably wear our masks in the gym and stores for another couple of weeks.
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Post by LBJ on Feb 4, 2022 19:51:53 GMT
I'm 70 years old and in fairly good condition overall. Other than Afib I am in 100% good health. Last year I got triple vaccinated, got a flu shot as well as a pneumonia shot. I now have so many holes in my arm that it looks like a slab of Swiss cheese.
Even so I managed to get Omicron. On Dec.23 I woke up with a sore throat and was sweaty and had no energy at all. I spent the day on my couch as I could hardly move. I was also coughing like crazy. The next day while I didn't feel good, I had improved. By Xmas I was my old self but decided to self isolate and had to alter my Xmas plans, such as they were.
The moral of this story is that if you are triple vaccinated, it isn't that bad. I also now have "T" cells and natural immunity along with my vaccines. Herd immunity anybody? lol
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Post by trixie on Feb 4, 2022 22:07:43 GMT
^ I have all those shots too, so it gives me hope that if I do get Omicron, it will be mild and over quickly.
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Post by sputnik on Feb 5, 2022 13:45:39 GMT
Mask restrictions lifted this week in our county, except for schools and government buildings. We'll still probably wear our masks in the gym and stores for another couple of weeks. Who knows when DC will get rid of them. Probably two weeks before the next wave and a new mask mandate, like they’ve done the last 2 times They have a hard time making decisions based on actual caseloads.
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Post by funky on Feb 7, 2022 22:39:40 GMT
Diddy’s baby mama. Kim Porter I think? Yes! Thank you!
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Post by dolem on Feb 8, 2022 18:28:31 GMT
Mask restrictions lifted this week in our county, except for schools and government buildings. We'll still probably wear our masks in the gym and stores for another couple of weeks. Who knows when DC will get rid of them. Probably two weeks before the next wave and a new mask mandate, like they’ve done the last 2 times They have a hard time making decisions based on actual caseloads. This sounds just like Oregon. They did just announce that our mask mandate will end 3/31.
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Post by sputnik on Feb 9, 2022 20:09:43 GMT
another great, nuanced op-ed by leana wen in the WaPo Opinion: In this next phase of the pandemic, beware of the extremes
A man wears a mask in Los Angeles on Aug. 18. (Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images) By Leana S. Wen Contributing columnist Yesterday at 12:26 p.m. EST Once again, the United States is at a turning point in the covid-19 pandemic. As infections fall, local and state officials are lifting mask mandates, and a bipartisan group of governors is calling on President Biden to “move away” from the pandemic by providing an off-ramp for remaining restrictions. These sensible actions have been met with anger, derision and opposition from both sides. Some claim that these actions are proof that mandates were never needed and question the effectiveness of masking, vaccination and other evidence-based mitigation measures. Others offer no reasonable endpoint for restrictions and make continued masking a symbol of their belief in science. Both extremes are wrong. Public health policy is nuanced and complex, and the sooner we acknowledge this, the quicker we can move from polarizing rhetoric to reasonable compromises that allow us to live with covid-19. To begin, just because restrictions might now be lifted in many areas doesn’t mean that they weren’t needed before — or that we won’t need them in the future. At the start of the pandemic, there were few tools in the public health arsenal to fight a new and deadly virus. At that time, and during subsequent surges, masks and physical distancing were crucial measures that helped “flatten the curve” and save lives. Times have changed. Cases are falling rapidly. Vaccines are widely available for everyone 5 and older, and they work: People vaccinated and boosted are 97 times less likely to die of covid-19 compared with the unvaccinated. Research also shows that respirator masks (N95, KN95 or KF94) are highly effective at protecting wearers, even if others around them are unmasked. All of this explains why mask requirements were the right policy before and why masking can now move from a government-imposed mandate to an individual decision. For example, she advocates ending mask mandates in schools. “To say that masking doesn’t have any harm goes against decades of child development research,” Noble said, pointing to the pre-pandemic consensus that young children need to learn face-reading skills. The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association reports that referrals of children to speech therapy have increased since the pandemic began, and though it’s not known if this is because of masking, some studies show that visible articulations are important to early learning. I think it’s possible to hold two seemingly contradictory things to be true. It can be true that masks reduce respiratory infections and also that they can have unintended harms, especially in the very young and children with learning disabilities. Masks, after all, are a type of medical intervention, and nearly every intervention carries risks and benefits. Sound policies require constant reevaluation of these trade-offs. In the same vein, it can be true both that covid-19 causes illness and harm, and also that its continued prioritization, to the exclusion of other issues, does, too. Another Urgency of Normal co-founder, internal medicine physician Lucy McBride, told me that many of her vaccinated and boosted patients are still extremely anxious despite their relatively low risk from covid-19. “I tell them that I’m more concerned about their hypertension, diabetes, depression and overall mental health. I’m concerned about them missing mammograms. I worry about their relationship with alcohol and the social isolation they’re experiencing.” The impact of these other issues is harder to measure, because, as McBride said, “there’s no PCR test for despair.” But that doesn’t make other issues any less consequential to people’s overall well-being. On the societal level, a narrow-minded focus on infection control comes with the trade-off that opioid overdoses, childhood obesity and other public health crises will continue taking a back seat. Throughout much of the pandemic, there were two camps: One that opposed restrictions and one that supported them. As both sides became more entrenched, a third has emerged. This group advocated restrictions from the start but now believes circumstances have changed enough that mandates can go. These people acknowledge the tragic toll of the pandemic but also understand that good health cannot simply be the absence of covid-19. Policymakers would do well to heed this group as we enter the next phase of the pandemic, when we as a country strive to replace vitriol and divisiveness with nuance and compromise.www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/08/this-next-phase-pandemic-beware-extremes/?utm_source=instagram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=wp_opinions&crl8_id=b36c0afc-fb8f-4ebd-9788-61721e1ef8f0
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Post by MsDark on Feb 19, 2022 17:19:00 GMT
Looks like the USPS is finally delivering my free Covid tests today!
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Post by sputnik on Feb 19, 2022 18:08:12 GMT
Looks like the USPS is finally delivering my free Covid tests today! i got mine yesterday! i never did get the shipping notification and tracking number, they just showed up lol
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Post by lindsaywhit on Feb 19, 2022 19:41:49 GMT
Looks like the USPS is finally delivering my free Covid tests today! i got mine yesterday! i never did get the shipping notification and tracking number, they just showed up lol Same
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Post by lindsaywhit on Mar 7, 2022 18:29:42 GMT
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Post by greysfang on Mar 7, 2022 20:24:01 GMT
DeSatan is still trying to kill everyone in Florida.
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Post by MsDark on Mar 8, 2022 0:40:25 GMT
In Miami they hate this motherfucker.
Well, at least everyone I know in Miami hates this motherfucker.
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Post by greysfang on Mar 14, 2022 16:40:42 GMT
Okay, so a fourth booster is now recommended. Pfizer is 5 months after the 3rd shot, so I'm due now. I'll have to find a good time to schedule mine because we started a trial today and I have another trial as soon as this one ends and I lose a day after every shot to sleeping. Ugh.
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