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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 10, 2023 4:32:12 GMT
Our next campaign starts in about a week along with the flu shots.
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Post by fumobici on Oct 10, 2023 6:36:04 GMT
I seem to have managed to avoid getting it on my long plane travels across nine time zones a few days back. Almost nobody, either in the US or Europe, were wearing masks on the flights. I have to confess I didn't either as the trip is miserable enough without wearing one. I think I've settled on wearing one only where I see the flight attendants wearing them, as they are obviously under a lot more risk of contagion than us normal travelers. My risk of getting Covid outside of plane travel is minimal as I never ordinarily go anywhere that involves being around people in confined spaces anymore. Covid seems to have killed my hanging out with friends down the pub, which I rather miss.
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Post by bjd on Oct 10, 2023 9:37:05 GMT
On our flight back from Canada last month, the head cabin attendant was wearing a mask, as were very few passengers. None of the other cabin crew had one, and none had one on the way to Montreal. I hate wearing masks so did so as little as possible even during the pandemic. Right now, even though I hear/read that covid is back, I have no plans to get a booster shot.
I believe I caught covid last year when I was in a large group preparing to do a walk/run for breast cancer research at the end of October. I plan to participate again this year, but will try to arrive just as everyone sets off rather than standing in a crowd listening to speeches or doing the warmups.
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Post by whatagain on Oct 10, 2023 12:26:58 GMT
I was wearing a mask today. In case I got Covid from my colleague. Not a welcome reminder.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 10, 2023 15:45:35 GMT
will try to arrive just as everyone sets off rather than standing in a crowd listening to speeches or doing the warmups. Like many others, I tend to forget about the pandemic, stupidly and passively buying into the belief that it's over. But a little over a week ago I was caught in the crush of a crowd at a local festival. Carried along in that sea of people, all I could think was "covid covid covid".
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Oct 11, 2023 19:00:03 GMT
I've been wearing a mask again in shops, on the bus etc. I don't usually see anyone else wearing one so it's probably a futile exercise. I can only hope that the sight of a mask wearing person will remind folk of the problem. I sound really condescending don't I?
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 12, 2023 5:43:43 GMT
No, you sound like a person with a firm grasp of science, not to mention reality.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Oct 12, 2023 7:27:58 GMT
I've managed to get some HP3 masks for our son. OH and I make do with standard ones. We've got a joint appointment to receive our covid boosters soon.
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Post by mossie on Oct 16, 2023 18:21:57 GMT
Relieved to get my annual flu jab and the latest Covid jab today.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 16, 2023 18:48:19 GMT
I still have to wait for a week or two because I have not received my flu coupon yet. No need for one for covid.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Oct 31, 2023 18:01:43 GMT
As I'm still not well I'm allowed to slob out on the sofa and watch daytime tv. So of course I chose to watch live coverage of the Covid Inquiry. Aside from frantic journalists apologising for the bad language it's been uninterupted. They were civilised enough to allow short breaks.
Today Lee Cain (communications) and Dominic Cummings (Johnson's chief adviser) were grilled. It was gripping and awful at the same time....
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 31, 2023 18:35:48 GMT
Yes, I saw a bit of it on Sky News. Those people have fucking foul mouths sometimes.
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Post by mich64 on Oct 31, 2023 22:28:54 GMT
Glad to read that some of you are receiving your boosters! Wishing you all the best of health during the flu/COVID season.
My husband had COVID a couple of weeks ago. He spent 5 days downstairs, slept down there for 3 nights and then 5 nights in one of the spare bedrooms. I tested negative but his parents, brother and sister-in-law had it. We were not eligible for our boosters until this week, I have an appointment for Thursday but now my husband will wait 3 months. My parents will have their boosters and flu shots as well on Thursday, fortunately I was able to get our appointments together.
Thankfully everyone had mild cases with only one day each where they were really all that unwell. I think them all having had 5 shots previously might have helped.
My doctor says the area has a lot of COVID circulating so I have been keeping close to home and not socializing very much so I can get my booster and not get sick.
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Post by htmb on Nov 1, 2023 2:27:14 GMT
Sounds like a good plan, Mich. How great that everyone basically had mild cases, and that you managed to avoid it. I’m also hoping those earlier boosters have helped us all.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 1, 2023 4:03:32 GMT
Yes, what Htmb said and I am so happy you all are getting your boosters. I want mine!
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Post by Kimby on Nov 1, 2023 14:47:29 GMT
I’m curious to hear from those who have gotten COVID and were given PAXLOVID for it.
At my last annual exam, my doc said IF I got COVID to call her and she will prescribe Paxlovid right away. Yet my sister and her hubby who both got Paxlovid after both getting COVID, both had rebound infections of COVID. Is this typical?
Did folks feel their symptoms resolved at all after treatment?
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Nov 1, 2023 15:51:32 GMT
Yes, I saw a bit of it on Sky News. Those people have fucking foul mouths sometimes. The difference between the BoJo clique and the high up civil servants is quite marked. So far the prime minister, his primary adviser and his close cabinet colleagues seem to be ignorant, confused and very 'laddish'. Boris thought that GB would sail through covid with little fuss. A popular minister at the time was Matt Hancock, the health minister..he came across very well in the daily briefings..but boy has he fallen off his pedestal! What a twit. He as been called useless and incompetent by Cummings and 'failed to impress' the staff. The foul language used in watsapp messages and emails between them really does show a lack of discipline and disrespect for the job and the country imo. One of Boris' nicknames was 'trolley because he was constantly changing direction...he was also of the opinion that covid was...' nature's way of dealing with old people and that they should accept their fate'... In contrast today we've had Helen MacNamara, the deputy cabinet secretary. Whilst admitting to attending a gathering* she came across as intelligent, on the ball and trying to do her job to the best of her ability. The inquiry has access to documents including droughts, departmental and personal emails (work related), letters, meeting minutes, diaries and WhatsApp messages between ministers, between civil servants and teams. It's fascinating and it's pretty clear that more responsible, professional leadership could have saved thousands of lives. * (she received a fine...funny how students and Joe Public were fined thousands for meeting a friend in a car park etc whilst most of the political offenders received quite paltry fines)
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Post by mich64 on Nov 1, 2023 22:44:10 GMT
I’m curious to hear from those who have gotten COVID and were given PAXLOVID for it. When my husband and brother-in-law got COVID, at the same time (probably at the gym), my BIL opted to contact the pharmacy right away and was prescribed PAXLOVID. In recent years he has developed asthma and being over 65 his pharmacist agreed he should take the pills. I would say the brothers had the same symptoms and the same recovery time, one taking PAXLOVID and one not but of course we have no way of knowing if his asthma would have acted up without the PAXLOVID. I will keep this question in mind Kimby to see if he has a rebound case. Once we realized my 93 year old FIL was positive, late in the evening, we contacted his pharmacy right away (Wal-Mart) and they do not even offer it here to their customers. When we called his son's pharmacist they said they would if Wal-Mart would fax over his medication list so they could ascertain whether he was taking anything that would cause an issue. The next morning when talking with him he said he was feeling so much better that he did not feel he needed it. He ended up with the worst 24 hour symptoms but recovered quicker than his sons. My MIL only had a fever for about 1/2 a day.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 9, 2023 4:25:28 GMT
Most interesting overview of the varied responses of your family members to getting covid, Mich. Very glad your in-laws are okay.
I got jabbed today with the Cuban vaccine. Anything that sounds like "abracadabra" must work, right? A friend called me to go with her to take advantage of the municipality giving the covid, the flu, and the pneumonia shots, so I did. She had tried yesterday, but they'd run out of everything. So today we went early. We weren't the only ones with that idea, so wound up standing in line quite a while. When we got to the front & both said we wanted all three shots, it turned out that there was only one pneumonia shot left, so I told my friend to take it. I got the covid shot in my left arm & the flu shot in my right & have had zero reaction to either of them.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 16, 2023 13:29:21 GMT
One of the local supermarkets has put the plastic panels back in place and most of the cashiers are masked again. Meanwhile a number of hospitals have reinstated the masking obligation for anybody entering a patient's room.
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 16, 2023 16:37:52 GMT
My local supermarket never took them away and one regular cashier has never unmasked.
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Post by whatagain on Dec 16, 2023 17:05:13 GMT
My mother in law has Covid. My wife thinks she has it. Apparently I didn’t catch it.
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Post by bjd on Dec 16, 2023 18:53:27 GMT
I have noticed a few masks at the supermarket but not many. All our kids and several of our grandchildren had covid a second time at the end of the summer.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 17, 2023 2:44:59 GMT
A couple of days ago my mother told me that there were fourteen cases of covid in her assisted living center. The residents are back having food served in their rooms instead of going to the dining room & apparently the staff are masking up. After she told me, I came across this: www.health.com/jn1-covid-variant-december-2023-8414906
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Dec 18, 2023 19:02:21 GMT
I hope that everybody in the centre stays well Bixa x
It is scary that the virus is still changng all the time. Eventually another variant will probably come along that's so altered that the vaccine at the time will be ineffective I suppose..but the clever clogs in pharmacology should continue to produce new vaccines to counter coronavirus, just like they do with the flu vaccine.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 28, 2023 17:06:03 GMT
MAGA truth about covid....
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 28, 2023 17:25:15 GMT
These people should be banned from voting.
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Post by lugg on Dec 30, 2023 20:34:11 GMT
I have had Covid again despite being fully vaccinated . It has taken me about 3 weeks to start to feel ok again.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 30, 2023 21:09:42 GMT
Covid sounds awful. I hope I never get to find out how it feels. 5 vaccinations so far.
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Post by htmb on Dec 30, 2023 22:18:17 GMT
Glad you’re feeling better, Lugg. Three weeks is a very long time!
I spent the last two weeks with eight other family members and every one of them had some version of a respiratory infection except for me. Today my son’s “cold” has magically evolved into what I assume to be covid because his taste buds no longer seem to work. So, it turns out he didn’t have a cold after all. I’m pretty annoyed, for many reasons, but mainly because he and my DIL no longer test for covid. Like WTH! I was slightly exposed to it because my son was away for several days and, so far, I have no symptoms. My daughter (currently pregnant) and I have agreed to keep reminding each other to ask if anyone in my son’s family is sick before visiting. They’ve become so used to their kids catching every disease traveling through their community, they don’t seem to remember that other family members might be more vulnerable.
Like Kerouac, I am fully vaccinated and have never, to my knowledge, had covid, despite having traveled a lot (and having spent time with irresponsible family members who should know better).
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