Coronavirus thread

[Karl Henning]

Indeed, several neighbors recently contracted COVID for the second time. There is a lot of it going around, and I would not enter a crowded public space without a mask. I had the latest vaccine back in October, but it's well-known that even someone who is up to date on vaccines can contract the infection, and can even get seriously ill or have Long Covid as a complication.

Indeed, my vaccinations were current both times the bug hit me.

[Karl Henning]

How bad were their symptoms Karl and how are they feeling now?

Mild symptoms in both cases, thankfully, and one had mended sufficiently to participate in the Lessons and Carols.

[DavidW]

CVS texted me that the CDC is recommending covid vaccine boosters once again.  Once I'm completely well from the flu I guess I'll go.

[Karl Henning]

CVS texted me that the CDC is recommending covid vaccine boosters once again.  Once I'm completely well from the flu I guess I'll go.

Interesting! With the "mini outbreak" in my choir, I called the doc to see where I stand, and they say I'm current.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

CVS texted me that the CDC is recommending covid vaccine boosters once again.  Once I'm completely well from the flu I guess I'll go.

Number one:  I'm sorry that you have the flu.    How are you feeling?

Booster again?  Haven't been keeping up as much news-wise.  Is there a new booster?  I had received one, from what I recall, a bit post-Thanksgiving (I'll have to look up the date)?

PD

Interesting! With the "mini outbreak" in my choir, I called the doc to see where I stand, and they say I'm current.

[DavidW]

Number one:  I'm sorry that you have the flu.    How are you feeling?

Just lingering congestion and a cough.  It hit me hard, but faded away quickly leaving me with just the congestion and cough.  I've been fighting it for a couple of weeks or more now.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Just lingering congestion and a cough.  It hit me hard, but faded away quickly leaving me with just the congestion and cough.  I've been fighting it for a couple of weeks or more now.

Sounds nasty.  May I ask, did you also get the current flu shot beforehand?

Feel better,

PD

[DavidW]

Sounds nasty.  May I ask, did you also get the current flu shot beforehand?

Feel better,

PD

No I missed it!  But it didn't matter, all my students that got sick had that shot.  South Carolina made national news for being flu hotspot.

[Karl Henning]

Talk about the wrong way to make the news!

[Pohjolas Daughter]

No I missed it!  But it didn't matter, all my students that got sick had that shot.  South Carolina made national news for being flu hotspot.

Dang! 

I had thought that I was up to date re Covid boosters.  Hope that you can get yours soon...I know that there are no guarantees in life, but hopefully it will help to lesson the effects should you get Covid.

I hadn't heard about South Carolina and the flu...any idea as to how your state became a hotspot?  In my state, I think that getting the flu shot is more emphasized towards older persons.  Was that part of the problem?

Best,

PD

[Spotted Horses]

The whole family came down with an upper respiratory bug that wasn't dangerous, but bad enough to be very unpleasant, and which wouldn't let go. At least two weeks of significant symptoms, terribly congested sinuses and post-nasal drip that caused ceaseless coughing. One of us took our remaining home Covid test and it was negative. We speculate it might have been RSV.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

The whole family came down with an upper respiratory bug that wasn't dangerous, but bad enough to be very unpleasant, and which wouldn't let go. At least two weeks of significant symptoms, terribly congested sinuses and post-nasal drip that caused ceaseless coughing. One of us took our remaining home Covid test and it was negative. We speculate it might have been RSV.

Hope that you are feeling better.

Did you get the vaccine? 

PD

[Spotted Horses]

Hope that you are feeling better.

Did you get the vaccine? 

PD

Kids got it first, then the parents, took at least a month but cleared out, more-or-less.

We got vaccinated and boosted a year later for Covid-19, but haven't kept up after that.

[Karl Henning]

The whole family came down with an upper respiratory bug that wasn't dangerous, but bad enough to be very unpleasant, and which wouldn't let go. At least two weeks of significant symptoms, terribly congested sinuses and post-nasal drip that caused ceaseless coughing. One of us took our remaining home Covid test and it was negative. We speculate it might have been RSV.

Ugh! Hope everyone mends soon!

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Kids got it first, then the parents, took at least a month but cleared out, more-or-less.

We got vaccinated and boosted a year later for Covid-19, but haven't kept up after that.

I was thinking more in terms of a RSV vaccine.  In any event, glad that it's mostly behind you.

PD

[DavidW]

In my state, I think that getting the flu shot is more emphasized towards older persons.  Was that part of the problem?

No South Carolina is one of the best places to retire to and we have a very large population of the elderly here.

[krummholz]

That's probably a smart idea.  Do you regularly wear one when shopping?  Or are you thinking more in terms of things like public transport?

PD

Oh, definitely while shopping! And if I'm going inside a restaurant to get carryout (I no longer eat at indoor sit-down restaurants). Pretty much every public space that's been frequented by more than a handful of people that day, I'll wear a mask. Definitely at work too.

[krummholz]

The whole family came down with an upper respiratory bug that wasn't dangerous, but bad enough to be very unpleasant, and which wouldn't let go. At least two weeks of significant symptoms, terribly congested sinuses and post-nasal drip that caused ceaseless coughing. One of us took our remaining home Covid test and it was negative. We speculate it might have been RSV.

Sorry to hear that! But a single negative antigen test could be a false negative - it could still have been COVID. Or RSV. No way to know now, short of testing for antibodies.

[Todd]

From Reason: Fauci to Congress: 6-Foot Social Distancing Guidance Likely Not Based on Data

In closed-door congressional testimony, former chief White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci said that federal social distancing guidance during the pandemic was likely not based on any data, and conceded that the lab leak hypothesis of COVID-19's origins isn't a conspiracy theory.

Fauci's comments came during the second of two seven-hour rounds of transcribed, but non-public, testimony before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.

[Madiel]

Well that's a nice straw man. I don't know anyone of significance who ever described the lab leak hypothesis as a conspiracy theory in the first place, so "conceded" is hardly the correct word. It's just considerably less likely than a crossover from species in the market, for a host of reasons.

Nor does the remark about the social distancing guideline mean what a lot of people will think it means. Especially readers of a libertarian publication who want to be told that they can do whatever they want without consequence.