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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 18, 2022 23:48:25 GMT
I’m guessing, if I showed up with proof of vaccines from another country, they would give me the shot and issue a CDC card for that vaccine. Not sure though. I did get a booster in the US even though my first two vaccines were in Mexico. I went to a Walmart & the woman asked another employee what to put on the driver's license line. She was told to just pick any old number off my vaccine proofs & use that. Nice to see that they realized the important thing was to get people vaccinated.As for flying, my doctor, who is overly conservative in a medical sense, is convinced the air inside planes is much cleaner once they’ve closed the doors because air filtering has become so advanced. I’ve flown a few times with no mask requirements. I’ve kept my mask on in the terminals, but usually remove it once the flight is in progress. Maybe I’ve just been lucky. So far, since the beginning, I have yet to test positive for Covid. THANK YOU for this! Really, it's most reassuring. If it seems safe to a medically overly conservative doctor, that's plenty good enough for me.Bixa - you should have no problem getting a booster. Thanks, Biddy! I'll be in Oklahoma again, where the boosters are probably going begging.
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Post by rikita on Sept 23, 2022 20:22:46 GMT
my dad and his wife have covid right now, fortunately in both cases mild and already getting better. a colleague also has it, and he has asthma, so in his case apparently not so mild, but i hope he is getting better now, too (in his case, of course, i only knew what little is mentioned at work). all are vaccinated and boostered. and yeah, very few people i know haven't had it yet.
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 23, 2022 20:54:13 GMT
I’m due a booster shot next week and a flu shot the following week.
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Post by Kimby on Sept 24, 2022 2:41:29 GMT
I attended a luncheon Wednesday for 44 members of our art appreciation group, and hope that it doesn’t become a super-spreader event. (We did ask that anyone who tests positive in the week following the luncheon contact one of the board members so we can spread the word so everyone can be careful and alert for symptoms.)
My nibling (niece) is getting married in November and is being exceedingly cautious about COVID. We all have to be vaccinated and boosted and bring our COVID vaccination cards and wear masks except when eating or drinking or having our photo taken. Not only that, everyone will be COVID tested before the wedding, and there will be a live-stream option for those who fail their test.
Rather onerous, but a family member of the couple is immune compromised.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 24, 2022 10:25:54 GMT
I am flying to the US this morning for a planned trip to see my mother, although that may not be possible now. The original plan was to have my sister C. pick me up in San Antonio & then drive us to Oklahoma. However, recently my mother had a rod in her hip break so she needed an operation. After the operation she transferred to a PT facility to get strong enough to go home. My sister M. had gone to be with our mother the day before the operation and was shortly joined by sister C. Sister C. only returned to her own house (near San Antonio) a couple of days ago in order to complete the plan of picking me up. Yesterday it was discovered -- I say "discovered" because sister M. had to ferret out the information -- that over eight of the seventeen residents and a couple of the staff at the PT place all have covid. We don't yet now how strict the lockdown will be, so I don't know if I'll get to see my mother or not. Wish me well that I might get to visit with her and that I survive going to a deep-red, vaccine rejecting state. A final note ~ I don't need to take a covid test to get on my United Airlines flight out of Oaxaca because I am a US citizen, as apparently that citizenship protects one against covid. I'll only have the phone with me, so you all may not hear from me for a week. Hope your family and work colleagues are well soon, Rikita. Encouraging to hear that Kimby's niece et al are mindful of the continuing risks.
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 24, 2022 11:49:03 GMT
And I thought covid had gone away.
Hope it all works out for you bixa,
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Post by htmb on Sept 24, 2022 13:11:29 GMT
All of that sounds very trying. I hope it all works out for you, Bixa, and for your mother.
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Post by Kimby on Sept 24, 2022 13:13:01 GMT
Bixa, I hope you and your sisters are able to figure out a way to see your mom face to face. Perhaps an outside visit in the garden or courtyard of the rehab center?
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 24, 2022 14:53:14 GMT
During the worst of it in France, a lot of nursing homes brought the residents to a window where they and the family could wave at each other and cry.
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Post by mich64 on Sept 24, 2022 21:30:25 GMT
Bixa I so hope that you get to visit with your mother, especially after the long journey you have planned to see her.
My mother-in-law fell yesterday and broke her pelvis and was taken to hospital by ambulance. Having just returned home from Ireland on Monday, my husband had to answer "Yes" to the "have you recently been out of the country" question by the COVID security team at the hospital entrance this morning. Thankfully they let him pass after he told them that I had been randomly selected upon on our arrival to present to the COVID off airport site for a PCR swab test within 24 hours of my return and Wednesday we got the email stating I was negative. After a phone call to what power makes the decisions, they let him in with his father to visit with his mother.
I hope that your father and stepmother are doing better each day Rikita.
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Post by htmb on Sept 25, 2022 18:59:26 GMT
Really sorry to hear about your mother in-law’s fall, Mich.
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Post by mich64 on Sept 25, 2022 21:29:11 GMT
Thank you htmb. She is a strong and determined woman, the physiotherapist is already surprised at her improvement. We hope she continues improving and can be brought home soon. We are all concerned the longer she is there, the more chance she could get COVID in there.
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Post by whatagain on Sept 27, 2022 17:25:01 GMT
Hope she recovers soon Mich.
I was at a big fair, 3 days, 30 000 visitors. I met a colleague who said he met a guy (l'homme qui a vu l'homme qui a vu l'ours but still) who came with a ffp2 because he had Covid... bastard, why didn't he stay home ?
I shook no hands, save for a turkish guy who likes me a lot and was glad to see me in the flesh.
Since the fair, i got 2 mails from colleagues who got recently Covid... wondering how many people will catch it.
My english boss got Covid but had the sense and decency to cancel his trip.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 30, 2022 22:02:37 GMT
Mich, I am so sorry to hear about your mother-in-law, but glad to hear that the PT is going well. I echo your hope that she gets back home soon.
Whatagain, continue staying well!
I got my booster -- the latest, the greatest, the tailored to the latest iteration of covid -- shot on Wednesday. It was Moderna, & I had no reaction.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Oct 2, 2022 20:25:46 GMT
I don't want to be a scaremonger and you know that I'm 100% in support of vaccination..just thought that I'd share some information sent to me by an ex-colleague. He is a believer in trusting one's immune system, and was against the blanket vaccination of the population. In his view only those most at risk and those likely to come into contact with them needed the vaccine...anyway. This chum is a retired scientist and still subscribes to some medical journals...
The sudden death following an MI of our friend and colleague recently really shook us all up and my mate found an article in the Journal of Insulin Resistance by Aseem Malhotra. Obviously I can't quote the article directly but basically it suggests that risks of side effects, epecially in insulin resistant individuals (types 1 and 2 diabetics) needs to be reassessed. He cites cases of relatively healthy individuals (diabetics) having cardiac problems after receiving doses of the mRNA vaccine (pfizer in his study). Our friend was a relatively fit, young individual (62) altho she did have type 2 diabetes.
It's one study. I mentioned to my mate that our friend was on statins for a high blood pressure, had until recently worked in a highly stressful job and (probably most significantly) had a family history of heart disease, her Dad died at a similar age also of a massive heart atack. My friend is just trying to explain Gill's death, they were quite close, both senior members of staff.
In the midst of the pandemic I never doubted that vaccines were our only way out, one or two of my friends think that the vaccines were released too soon, and that recipient's medical backgrounds should have been invstigated further prior to administration. I think that it's easy to say that with hindsight...at the time vaccines were essential and saved many lives.
I'll see my ex collegues and friends tomorrow at Gill's funeral..hopefully we will celebrate Gill's life rather than 'argue' about the cause of her death.
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Post by questa on Oct 3, 2022 1:44:26 GMT
My condolences to you and your friends, cheery. Gill was probably correct in her thinking that the vaccines were not sufficiently tested at the time, but time and the 2 years of usual complete testing were a luxury that the world could not afford. People were dying in their thousands and the price to stop this was paid by Gill, those who loved her and maybe hundreds more similar incidents. Further tests will make the vaccines safer and Gill's death will not be in vain.
Over the years I have been vaccinated for the usual child/adult series plus smallpox, typhoid, Japanese encephalitis, rabies, pneumonia, TB, meningitis and others. Each time I have worried about the side effects, then decided the risk was better than the illness. Only the typhoid (the old infamous TAB formula) gave me any trouble.
Doctors and nurses got most of the public's praise and gratitude at the height of the pandemic, however up there with the champions are the scientists and laboratory technicians who saved millions of lives...Just like Gill and you.
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Post by bjd on Oct 3, 2022 8:12:07 GMT
As said by Cheery and Questa, it indeed seemed as though mRNA vaccines were new, although it did turn out that they had been in development for 15 years already. But there was such political pressure on political and health systems that it had to appear that something was being done to slow the pandemic. Mass vaccination looked like the answer. As indeed, mass vaccination of children for measles, chickenpox and other diseases that used to kill children have changed health. Just look at the number of kids who have recently died in Zimbabwe from a preventable disease, and the polio that recurs in countries where influential religious figures claim that polio vaccines are poisoning the population.
In the rush to vaccinate as many people as possible, people like Cheery's friend with her health issues would have slipped under the radar, and individual cases were not considered. But as Questa said, from the perspective of public health, mass vaccination appears to be the best option whose risks are better than the illness. Perhaps in the future, more specific testing of new medicines or vaccines will be carried out but when there is huge public desire for governments to do "something", hospitals are overwhelmed, then there are always choices to be made.
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Post by bjd on Oct 28, 2022 8:44:47 GMT
Well, I finally got covid. I had been feeling lousy this week -- tired and coughing and headaches -- but it took me until yesterday evening to look up "covid symptoms" on the internet. Since our son and his children were supposed to come for the weekend, I thought I should take a test and indeed I am positive, although I already feel much better today. I had no fever, didn't lose my sense of taste or smell.
So I have no idea when or where I got it, how long I have been contagious... My husband is fine so far.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 28, 2022 9:38:58 GMT
Glad you're feeling better. Now that covid is everywhere, there's no point in trying to figure out the origin of a new case. Even with my quadruple vaccinations, I still wear a mask most of the time on the metro and the bus, not to protect myself, mostly just to try to be a good example to the more vulnerable.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 28, 2022 14:40:00 GMT
What a pain, Bjd, but I'm glad you're feeling better. Hope it doesn't hit your husband, too.
I got my fifth shot when I went to the States at the end of September. Flying out of Oaxaca everyone was masked (plus they all make the sign of the cross when the plane takes off, so double protection). What a change on the second leg out of Houston, when everyone crowded into the plane with their face holes exuding potential danger. I stayed masked.
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Post by bjd on Oct 28, 2022 15:52:05 GMT
Actually, I think I did figure out where I got it, or at least suspect so. October being breast cancer prevention month, last Sunday there was a walk/run to raise money for research. At the start, there were 450 of us grouped together in a limited area waiting to start. That's the only time I can think of where I was in any crowded situation recently.
My husband said his throat is getting sore, but it didn't prevent him going to the beach for a swim. I supposed he will get it too since we are in close proximity in the house.
My third shot was last December, so I guess this infection will be sort of an immune boost.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Oct 28, 2022 16:14:10 GMT
Sorry to hear that you've been sick bj...hope you get back to normal swiftly and hope that your OH doesnt feel too poorly with it.
In town today I didn't see anybody else wearing a face mask...apart from visitors and staff at the drop in vaccination centre in the shopping mall.
We had our flu jab and covid booster (Pfizer) a few days ago at our general practitioner's surgery. I felt a bit rough the following day but only for 24 hours or so.
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 30, 2022 18:34:36 GMT
It looks like masks might be back by Christmas in France as we begin our 9th wave. I doubt that masks will become mandatory, but we will see many more of them on public transportation and in shopping malls. This didn't need to happen, but people have become complacent and stopped getting their boosters.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 30, 2022 22:46:20 GMT
Their complacency robs so much from themselves, but also from everyone else.
How motivated do you all here feel about getting this year's flu shot?
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Post by htmb on Nov 30, 2022 23:38:10 GMT
I got the latest flu shot when it was first available in August. I’ve had two garden variety respiratory illnesses this year that set me back for at least two weeks each, so I will take any kind of vaccine I can get. This week I had the most recent Covid vaccine and, other than my arm being sore for a couple of days, it didn’t slow me down a bit.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 1, 2022 3:47:46 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 1, 2022 4:14:18 GMT
They read it on Twitter.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 1, 2022 4:18:59 GMT
While sitting on the toilet.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Dec 2, 2022 21:09:51 GMT
My niece thought that she had a bit of a cold, but still came to stay with her Auntie in Leicester last weekend. We all met up for coffee and a natter. (she tested negative for covid before visiting with my sister...she'snot a complete moron).
My niece came to our house over the weekend too and spent time with us. Got a phone this morning...she tested positive for covid this morning. We've all tested negative, I had to ring the blood transfusion service to tell them that I'd been in contact with somebody with covid as I donated blood on Wednesday. Luckily my blood hasn't been transfused to a patient yet. Phew!
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Post by lugg on Dec 4, 2022 18:33:03 GMT
Luckily my blood hasn't been transfused to a patient yet. Phew! Is it a problem Cheery ? I had thought it was not transmitted by BT but maybe that was the thought in the early days ?
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