Only ~14% Of U.S. Adults Have Gotten Latest Covid-19 Vaccine Update

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Anonymous wrote:I've noticed here on DCUM lots of new Covid Poz people posting. I feel like a surge isn't just possible but may actually be here. Plus, with yesterday's rain people were indoors all day together!

This week is going to be a doozy. 4-5 days after exposure, people who are gonna be symptomatic are. So after the post-holiday "swapping of the cooties" last week, a lot of people are going to be sick right about now. Not just covid, but there's a highly-infectious strain of covid going around.

Why would it be worse now than 4-5 days after the peak of holiday travel?

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Anonymous wrote:I've noticed here on DCUM lots of new Covid Poz people posting. I feel like a surge isn't just possible but may actually be here. Plus, with yesterday's rain people were indoors all day together!

This week is going to be a doozy. 4-5 days after exposure, people who are gonna be symptomatic are. So after the post-holiday "swapping of the cooties" last week, a lot of people are going to be sick right about now. Not just covid, but there's a highly-infectious strain of covid going around.

Why would it be worse now than 4-5 days after the peak of holiday travel?

"So after the post-holiday "swapping of the cooties" last week"

School. People traveled over the holidays, swapped germs, and then went back to work, sending their kids to school. Adults may have a chance of distancing, and hopefully decent hygiene practices. Very few kids practice good hygiene. There's a post-break sickness wave every year (aka "back-to-school crud"). This thread makes it quite clear that a lot of people had no intention of testing, and sent their kids regardless of status, even though many schools sent the kids home for break with tests to try to avoid this (both my MCPS kids came home with covid tests from school). Some people are asymptomatic. Only some people are still masking. Add an incubation window (in my family's recent experience, it was 4-6 days after "patient zero" tested positive for covid), and it's likely to be worse this week than last.

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Anonymous wrote:I've noticed here on DCUM lots of new Covid Poz people posting. I feel like a surge isn't just possible but may actually be here. Plus, with yesterday's rain people were indoors all day together!

This week is going to be a doozy. 4-5 days after exposure, people who are gonna be symptomatic are. So after the post-holiday "swapping of the cooties" last week, a lot of people are going to be sick right about now. Not just covid, but there's a highly-infectious strain of covid going around.

Why would it be worse now than 4-5 days after the peak of holiday travel?

"So after the post-holiday "swapping of the cooties" last week"

School. People traveled over the holidays, swapped germs, and then went back to work, sending their kids to school. Adults may have a chance of distancing, and hopefully decent hygiene practices. Very few kids practice good hygiene. There's a post-break sickness wave every year (aka "back-to-school crud"). This thread makes it quite clear that a lot of people had no intention of testing, and sent their kids regardless of status, even though many schools sent the kids home for break with tests to try to avoid this (both my MCPS kids came home with covid tests from school). Some people are asymptomatic. Only some people are still masking. Add an incubation window (in my family's recent experience, it was 4-6 days after "patient zero" tested positive for covid), and it's likely to be worse this week than last.

Even so, we're nowhere near bad right now, so worse than last week isn't saying much.

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Has the covidapocalypse started yet? If not, will the OP be sure to come back to tell us when it has?

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Anonymous wrote:Has the covidapocalypse started yet? If not, will the OP be sure to come back to tell us when it has?

OP will have to wait a bit longer. Weekly growth in covid hospitalizations slowed notably for the week ending 1/6 and the percent change in covid emergency room visits turned negative. Covid hospitalizations are currently down 20% versus the same time last year. We continue to be in a much better position with regards to covid hospitalizations for early January than at any time since covid emerged.
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_weeklyhospitaladmissions_select_00

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Anonymous wrote:Has the covidapocalypse started yet? If not, will the OP be sure to come back to tell us when it has?

Not OP, but we've already been through it. Half my coworkers called in sick on January 2, and most of those are working remotely and still recovering from Covid. You can tell they are still recovering, brain fog plus continued coughing.
One older coworker caught Covid in mid December, is good enough to be home from the hospital but does not feel good enough to work yet.

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Anonymous wrote:Has the covidapocalypse started yet? If not, will the OP be sure to come back to tell us when it has?

Not OP, but we've already been through it. Half my coworkers called in sick on January 2, and most of those are working remotely and still recovering from Covid. You can tell they are still recovering, brain fog plus continued coughing.
One older coworker caught Covid in mid December, is good enough to be home from the hospital but does not feel good enough to work yet.

So when does the bad part start?

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Anonymous wrote:Has the covidapocalypse started yet? If not, will the OP be sure to come back to tell us when it has?

Not OP, but we've already been through it. Half my coworkers called in sick on January 2, and most of those are working remotely and still recovering from Covid. You can tell they are still recovering, brain fog plus continued coughing.
One older coworker caught Covid in mid December, is good enough to be home from the hospital but does not feel good enough to work yet.

So when does the bad part start?

My guy, this isn't great. This is avoidable suck. It doesn't have to be horrific for you to give a damn, or does it?

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Anonymous wrote:Has the covidapocalypse started yet? If not, will the OP be sure to come back to tell us when it has?

Not OP, but we've already been through it. Half my coworkers called in sick on January 2, and most of those are working remotely and still recovering from Covid. You can tell they are still recovering, brain fog plus continued coughing.
One older coworker caught Covid in mid December, is good enough to be home from the hospital but does not feel good enough to work yet.

So when does the bad part start?

My guy, this isn't great. This is avoidable suck. It doesn't have to be horrific for you to give a damn, or does it?

This seems like a pretty typical winter. What seems so bad about it to you?

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Anonymous wrote:Has the covidapocalypse started yet? If not, will the OP be sure to come back to tell us when it has?

Not OP, but we've already been through it. Half my coworkers called in sick on January 2, and most of those are working remotely and still recovering from Covid. You can tell they are still recovering, brain fog plus continued coughing.
One older coworker caught Covid in mid December, is good enough to be home from the hospital but does not feel good enough to work yet.

So when does the bad part start?

My guy, this isn't great. This is avoidable suck. It doesn't have to be horrific for you to give a damn, or does it?

This seems like a pretty typical winter. What seems so bad about it to you?

Pretty typical? With RSV and hand/foot/mouth making the rounds, not to mention the covid wave that motivated smarter medical facilities to reinstitute mask policies?

Or are you just calling that the new normal now?

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Anonymous wrote:Only ~14% Of U.S. Adults Have Gotten Latest Covid-19 Vaccine Update
What are we in for???

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2023/11/18/only-14-of-us-adults-have-gotten-latest-updated-covid-19-vaccine/

I'll be honest, this is the first one my family hasn't gotten. And the reason is simple. Every one of these vaccinations have made me (and some of the other family members) really sick for about 24-48 hours. I seem to get it the worst. I can't take a day or two off work every time I"m vaccinated. (I don't get that way with flu shot, fwiw. But these COVID vaccinations really cause me grief).

Get it on a Friday. Find a 3-day weekend (there have been a few since the new shot came out, and there's one coming up soon).

I get crappy vax reactions, too. But I still get my shot. If the vax is that rough, how awful is the disease without it gonna be?

DP, but for me, every shot except for the first one has been far worse than my two cases of COVID. It's pretty hard to justify getting it with that track record.

People continue to have this rationalisation that if the shot is this bad, imagine if they had COVID and that just isn't statistically true for most people. Anecdotal sure, but I know people unvaccinated who had no idea they were infected and people vaccinated out the wazoo who were on death's door and lots in-between on both sides of the vaccination status. I guess it's one of those things people tell themselves to convince themselves they should continue to get vaccinated? I don't know. Its impossible to prove or disapprove because every individual is different and you can't prove a what-if scenario in this case but its just a weird argument that isn't really routed in anything other than someone's belief or feelings.

I"m the "I'll be honest poster . . . " i have no problem getting a vaccination, no problems with vaccinations in general, and my family gets all the recommended ones. But we are super busy right now and we just can't be sidelined for 1-2 days.

So if you get sidelined with covid for 5 days of isolation and 5 days of masking you just... won't, right? Because you're so busy? And then you and yours will pass it all around, and everyone else will just go to work/school sick because you're all just so busy? Too busy to test?

👏No👏One👏Is👏Doing👏This👏Any👏More👏

Except maybe you.

You wish, because it would justify your lazy-ass approach to not giving a fsck about anyone/anything but your stupid self, but plenty of people can read and follow simple instructions, and also care about others. You're not alone in your clownass approach to life, but you're far from the majority, dipshit.

Actually, this ignorant type is the majority. Most smarter people are getting the vaccines, much like the yearly flu vaccine, and masking in crowded places or when there is a surge. The people I know who want to pretend everything is "normal"...well, they are getting Covid right about now..

Okay and … ?

Has the world stopped turning? Are they dropping dead left and right?

Have you considered that some of us don’t think it’s some huge deal to catch COVID? And I guarantee the people living life as normal are event testing so they probably don’t even know they have it if they do.

So, if you don't care that you get covid, why bully others into the vaccine?

DP, I don't care if you get the vaccine. That's your choice. But don't expect others to change their behavior for you to make up for that choice.

How would my getting the vaccine help me? It made me sick for months. It is not stopping transmission so regardless of if I take the shot, I’ll still get Covid from you. Stop hiding behind the vaccine.

You got Novavax and got sick for months? Has it even been available for months?

My facility doesn't offer Novavax, and they are recommending I not take it outside their facility which has an ER attached in case I have another reaction. Interesting you know more than they do. How is the Novavax better? How is it healthy to keep injecting this stuff in you?

If you'd simply be more cautious and not spread it, it would put the rest of us at less risk. See how that works.

It doesn't matter how cautious anyone is when about 50% of infections are asymptomatic. If you want to be part of society, you're going to get covid. All you have control over is whether you're going to be vaccinated before you do.

because it's 'just a cold' to some lucky bastards, and they make the rules now. Nobody can force common sense or common decency. This is just how it is.

Again, 50% of infections or more are asymptomatic. These people would have no way to know they're infected and possibly contagious.

They make these things called "tests". If people used them before going into crowded public spaces (concerts, planes, god forbid schools after holiday breaks when they'd traveled), and masked, the numbers would be lower and conditions would be safer. But that would require care. Nobody cares.

The thing about not caring about others is that nobody ends up caring about you either. Why go down that road at all?

The Covid nutters on X insist that the tests aren’t accurate anyway. If you test negative, they don’t believe you. In their minds, everyone has Covid all the time, no matter what, and every death is because of Covid. No other explanation for anything. Even road rage—it’s apparently from Covid-induced brain damage.

Why are you on X at all, and why post about it here? Seems like a bit of a self-own to me.

Literally the only reason I go there is to try to understand the mindset of these people via the account of someone I know in real life. That’s it. I’m completely and utterly fascinated by the way they think, and I guess by how social media divides and brainwashes overall.

Mind virus

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Anonymous wrote:Has the covidapocalypse started yet? If not, will the OP be sure to come back to tell us when it has?

Not OP, but we've already been through it. Half my coworkers called in sick on January 2, and most of those are working remotely and still recovering from Covid. You can tell they are still recovering, brain fog plus continued coughing.
One older coworker caught Covid in mid December, is good enough to be home from the hospital but does not feel good enough to work yet.

So when does the bad part start?

My guy, this isn't great. This is avoidable suck. It doesn't have to be horrific for you to give a damn, or does it?

This seems like a pretty typical winter. What seems so bad about it to you?

Pretty typical? With RSV and hand/foot/mouth making the rounds, not to mention the covid wave that motivated smarter medical facilities to reinstitute mask policies?

Or are you just calling that the new normal now?

NP. Yes, a lot of viruses circulate in winter. Unfortunately Covid is now one of them.

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People get sick, especially during winter? Who knew. Learn something new everyday.

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Anonymous wrote:Only ~14% Of U.S. Adults Have Gotten Latest Covid-19 Vaccine Update
What are we in for???

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2023/11/18/only-14-of-us-adults-have-gotten-latest-updated-covid-19-vaccine/

I'll be honest, this is the first one my family hasn't gotten. And the reason is simple. Every one of these vaccinations have made me (and some of the other family members) really sick for about 24-48 hours. I seem to get it the worst. I can't take a day or two off work every time I"m vaccinated. (I don't get that way with flu shot, fwiw. But these COVID vaccinations really cause me grief).

Get it on a Friday. Find a 3-day weekend (there have been a few since the new shot came out, and there's one coming up soon).

I get crappy vax reactions, too. But I still get my shot. If the vax is that rough, how awful is the disease without it gonna be?

DP, but for me, every shot except for the first one has been far worse than my two cases of COVID. It's pretty hard to justify getting it with that track record.

People continue to have this rationalisation that if the shot is this bad, imagine if they had COVID and that just isn't statistically true for most people. Anecdotal sure, but I know people unvaccinated who had no idea they were infected and people vaccinated out the wazoo who were on death's door and lots in-between on both sides of the vaccination status. I guess it's one of those things people tell themselves to convince themselves they should continue to get vaccinated? I don't know. Its impossible to prove or disapprove because every individual is different and you can't prove a what-if scenario in this case but its just a weird argument that isn't really routed in anything other than someone's belief or feelings.

I"m the "I'll be honest poster . . . " i have no problem getting a vaccination, no problems with vaccinations in general, and my family gets all the recommended ones. But we are super busy right now and we just can't be sidelined for 1-2 days.

So if you get sidelined with covid for 5 days of isolation and 5 days of masking you just... won't, right? Because you're so busy? And then you and yours will pass it all around, and everyone else will just go to work/school sick because you're all just so busy? Too busy to test?

👏No👏One👏Is👏Doing👏This👏Any👏More👏

Except maybe you.

You wish, because it would justify your lazy-ass approach to not giving a fsck about anyone/anything but your stupid self, but plenty of people can read and follow simple instructions, and also care about others. You're not alone in your clownass approach to life, but you're far from the majority, dipshit.

Actually, this ignorant type is the majority. Most smarter people are getting the vaccines, much like the yearly flu vaccine, and masking in crowded places or when there is a surge. The people I know who want to pretend everything is "normal"...well, they are getting Covid right about now..

Okay and … ?

Has the world stopped turning? Are they dropping dead left and right?

Have you considered that some of us don’t think it’s some huge deal to catch COVID? And I guarantee the people living life as normal are event testing so they probably don’t even know they have it if they do.

So, if you don't care that you get covid, why bully others into the vaccine?

DP, I don't care if you get the vaccine. That's your choice. But don't expect others to change their behavior for you to make up for that choice.

How would my getting the vaccine help me? It made me sick for months. It is not stopping transmission so regardless of if I take the shot, I’ll still get Covid from you. Stop hiding behind the vaccine.

You got Novavax and got sick for months? Has it even been available for months?

My facility doesn't offer Novavax, and they are recommending I not take it outside their facility which has an ER attached in case I have another reaction. Interesting you know more than they do. How is the Novavax better? How is it healthy to keep injecting this stuff in you?

If you'd simply be more cautious and not spread it, it would put the rest of us at less risk. See how that works.

It doesn't matter how cautious anyone is when about 50% of infections are asymptomatic. If you want to be part of society, you're going to get covid. All you have control over is whether you're going to be vaccinated before you do.

because it's 'just a cold' to some lucky bastards, and they make the rules now. Nobody can force common sense or common decency. This is just how it is.

Again, 50% of infections or more are asymptomatic. These people would have no way to know they're infected and possibly contagious.

They make these things called "tests". If people used them before going into crowded public spaces (concerts, planes, god forbid schools after holiday breaks when they'd traveled), and masked, the numbers would be lower and conditions would be safer. But that would require care. Nobody cares.

The thing about not caring about others is that nobody ends up caring about you either. Why go down that road at all?

The Covid nutters on X insist that the tests aren’t accurate anyway. If you test negative, they don’t believe you. In their minds, everyone has Covid all the time, no matter what, and every death is because of Covid. No other explanation for anything. Even road rage—it’s apparently from Covid-induced brain damage.

I rarely look at X but I did recently, and somehow the algorithm is showing me all those Covid-obsessed posts.

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Anonymous wrote:Has the covidapocalypse started yet? If not, will the OP be sure to come back to tell us when it has?

Not OP, but we've already been through it. Half my coworkers called in sick on January 2, and most of those are working remotely and still recovering from Covid. You can tell they are still recovering, brain fog plus continued coughing.
One older coworker caught Covid in mid December, is good enough to be home from the hospital but does not feel good enough to work yet.

So when does the bad part start?

My guy, this isn't great. This is avoidable suck. It doesn't have to be horrific for you to give a damn, or does it?

This seems like a pretty typical winter. What seems so bad about it to you?

Pretty typical? With RSV and hand/foot/mouth making the rounds, not to mention the covid wave that motivated smarter medical facilities to reinstitute mask policies?

Or are you just calling that the new normal now?

You don't seem to remember winters before covid.