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Post by htmb on Feb 10, 2022 0:27:09 GMT
Glad it wasn’t worse, Rikita.
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Post by fumobici on Feb 10, 2022 2:07:27 GMT
Glad to hear you're doing OK.
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Post by rikita on Feb 10, 2022 14:12:59 GMT
thanks ... i called the doctor and got sick leave for today and tomorrow - i feel a bit guilty, as i am feeling alright and could continue working from home, as i did the previous days, but at the same time, getting some rest and having some time to read to agnes (and to encourage her to do some school work) is good ...
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 11, 2022 16:49:45 GMT
Good for you, Rikita! Ego te absolvo.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 11, 2022 17:04:01 GMT
Concerning working at home, I read that after the confinement periods ended, a lot of pets were sulking because they had loved having their people at home all the time and did not appreciate their re-disappearance for most of the day.
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Post by whatagain on Feb 11, 2022 17:40:09 GMT
I got my invitation to get my 4th shot.
I will wait for 2 reasons. 1. I just got Covid, so i am checkinc my level of antibodies 2. If i wait, i may get an improved version ox the vaccine yhat may cover more variants.
So i filed my invitation securely.
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Post by htmb on Feb 11, 2022 21:04:30 GMT
Your 4th? So Belgium is doing a 4th? I hadn’t heard other countries, except for Israel, we’re offering a 4th, with the exception of those whose immune systems were compromised. Interesting.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 11, 2022 21:08:49 GMT
A number of European countries are offering a forth injection to sickly people like whatagain.
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Post by questa on Feb 11, 2022 22:36:32 GMT
Hati-hati 'Pak kodok
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Post by tod2 on Feb 12, 2022 8:57:37 GMT
Ha Ha ... "Be Careful Mr.Frog"...?
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 12, 2022 9:52:04 GMT
Our son has been told he needs a 4th full dose. He's 'maximally immunocompromised' according to the letter that he got from the NHS. People like him have been thrown under the bus by our government really...masks no longer mandatory (altho most older folk still wear them), evidence of vaccination or negative LFT not needed for trips to nightclubs, bars, cinemas etc..no longer necessary. No need to self isolate for 5 days if you test positive for covid...
So basically, nowhere is safe for the clinically extremely vulnerable.
Our pharmacy, all hospitals and GP surgeries...as well as many stores are still asking people to wear masks.
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Post by whatagain on Feb 12, 2022 11:24:03 GMT
My immune system is indeed comorimised.
Which makes me sickly from some bastards point if view.
😁😁😁
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Post by rikita on Feb 12, 2022 11:33:15 GMT
i think here the fourth one is also only for people in risk groups, so far ...
yesterday, i got emails telling us we have to quarantine - four days after we did our pcr test and a day and a half after the pcr result was there. so, let's say someone really clueless who didn't know or doesn't realize the exact rules of a quarantine, they'd have still been walking around until now ... the email itself is some long text and some brochures. and a list where you can fill in your contacts to inform them, but since the people with who we were on the trip know we have it, and most of them have it, too (and i don't know and thus can't inform the people who were on the same train home just before a. and i tested positive), i suppose i don't need to fill those in ...
the plan is to get another test on monday, to see if we are fine again. i still have a bit of a throat ache that comes and goes, and feel a bit tired, but the latter could also just be from being at home all day. agnes also says that she isn't feeling good, sometimes, but i think it might be from being a bit restless and bored ... today, at last, she decided to give reading books another try, so that is an occupation that neither involves a screen nor making a huge mess - wish me luck that it keeps her interest for a while ...
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 12, 2022 13:07:37 GMT
I doubt that very many people follow the quarantine rules totally strictly, but I would hope that they are at least a bit more careful than usual. Every little bit helps.
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Post by rikita on Feb 12, 2022 13:22:27 GMT
hm, don't know how strict all of them follow the rules, but i'd just have assumed most of them do follow them more or less (except maybe little things like going to the mailbox when you are sure there is no one else on the stairs, or when someone brings you groceries, saying thanks to them when they are one flight of stairs away from you) ... but well, i guess you can't know, they can't really check on it.
a colleague texted me the other day saying to please only come back to the office when i am negative, so i won't infect anyone there - i must admit i felt a bit insulted because that implied i might do otherwise ...
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Post by tod2 on Feb 12, 2022 17:54:42 GMT
Our pharmacy, all hospitals and GP surgeries...as well as many stores are still asking people to wear masks. Our President was on the TV a couple of nights ago but we have heard it all before so I switched channels. I was expecting him to announce the end of mask wearing but that did not happen. If I heard him right not quite 50% of the population has been vaccinated which still leaves a huge number very vulnerable and also dangerous to others even those vaccinated. I hope we still have to wear masks indoors but outside I am happy to walk around and keep my distance from others. Today my son and partner tried to go for their second jab. They had the J&J so were supposedly only having one jab but it seems everybody we know that is vaccinated is going for another shot. Unfortunately they only had the one dose and when they come back they must have 5 people ready to be jabbed. The nurse explained the J&J comes in sets of 5 doses and they must all be given together if possible. So Monday he will take three staff member he knows also had J&J and they will all trot off to the clinic.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 12, 2022 19:04:03 GMT
We don't have to wear masks outside anymore in France, but masks are still required everywhere indoors (except for the students of elementary schools) and on all public transportation. If I am not mistaken, clubs and dance places reopen this weekend with no masks required after showing one's vaccine pass. Lifting of the next restrictions will probably happen on February 28.
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Post by casimira on Feb 12, 2022 19:19:28 GMT
We don't have to wear masks outside anymore in France, but masks are still required everywhere indoors (except for the students of elementary schools) and on all public transportation. If I am not mistaken, clubs and dance places reopen this weekend with no masks required after showing one's vaccine pass. Lifting of the next restrictions will probably happen on February 28. Kerouac, do you have to wear a mask at the cinema throughout a whole movie?
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 12, 2022 19:47:07 GMT
Yes, since last July.
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Post by htmb on Feb 12, 2022 20:18:23 GMT
If I’m not mistaken, as of today, fully vaccinated visitors to France do not need to take a Covid test before entering the country.
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Post by rikita on Feb 12, 2022 21:18:09 GMT
here, we can take off the mask at the movies, as soon as we sit down ... but children in elementary schools wear masks at school (except when eating or doing sport or outdoors) ... a's school is going back to more group mixed activities, though, end of the month things like the school choir and extracurricular groups will start again, i think ...
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 12, 2022 21:22:58 GMT
In France, they even closed the concession stands at the cinema. It is a bit weird to see them standing empty.
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Post by mich64 on Feb 12, 2022 23:02:36 GMT
We still have restrictions, mask wearing and vaccine passports. Although now we can have 10 people in our homes, restaurants and gyms are open again with 50% capacity. Masks are still mandatory inside everywhere except when sitting to eat. Concessions were closed at theatres and arenas but opened up a few weeks ago however the capacity allowed inside is very limited.
Glad to hear Rikita that you and A. are doing okay. I agree it is boring while in isolation. My husband received an email as he reached the car after discharge from the hospital, five days insolation and then he could return to work if he was symptom free. He spent the 5 days in our basement isolating away from me.
The truck blockades in Ottawa and at 3 border points have yet to be resolved.
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Post by bjd on Feb 13, 2022 7:25:01 GMT
The truck blockades in Ottawa and at 3 border points have yet to be resolved. The truck blockades don't have much to do with covid, if they ever did. Canada has high vaccination rates and the requirement was only for truckers crossing the US border anyway. The right-wind rhetoric, insults of the Canadian government, a lot of the funding from the US and abroad, and the general far right-wing attitudes make this a political problem. I read that one guy dispersed at the Windsor bridge carried a "Trump 2024" flag. Not much to do with covid restrictions. And the more right-wing provincial governments of Alberta, Saskatchewand and Manitoba have lifted covid restrictions much faster than elsewhere.
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Post by rikita on Feb 13, 2022 11:51:19 GMT
the one we go to most often, the concession stand also sells the tickets, but at the others they are open, too - though they also now have the option to order and pay popcorn and other things at this machine, and then just collect it, so i guess less contact that way, and less of a line (but at the times i go, with agnes, it's usually quite empty anyway - except for when we went to see encanto for the first time, and didn't know the new spiderman movie had just come out and there was a huge line of people for that one ... felt odd to stand in the middle of a crowd ...)
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 13, 2022 15:12:51 GMT
I read that one guy dispersed at the Windsor bridge carried a "Trump 2024" flag. And I read that Confederate flags were also seen. felt odd to stand in the middle of a crowd ... I know what you mean, Rikita! I had brunch yesterday with a group of women. It was in an outdoor space, but I still felt weirdly guilty sitting unmasked in a group.
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Post by casimira on Feb 13, 2022 19:28:10 GMT
I don't think I could sit through a full-length movie with a mask on the whole time.
It would be better to space people far apart from one another.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 13, 2022 19:38:28 GMT
Sitting through a movie with a mask on is nothing compared to office workers or people in stores who have to wear their masks all day.
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Post by htmb on Feb 13, 2022 19:58:18 GMT
It’s surprising the things you can get used to doing. I had been exercising at the gym wearing a cloth mask. Thirty minutes of cardio and about thirty of weights. Then, when all the news about omicron became clearer, I switched to wearing good quality KN95 masks. The first time I wore one on the elliptical machine, I felt like I was going to suffocate and cut my exercise short. However, by the third or fourth time, I had gotten used to wearing the damn things and now I hardly notice.
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Post by casimira on Feb 13, 2022 20:25:35 GMT
I agree. But, given the choice I would avoid having to do anything with extended mask wearing. I feel faint after about an hour and have felt like I was going to pass out on more than one occasion.
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