Did you gather in large groups for the holidays? A virus may be your post-holiday present

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DP. But if you're not staying home when you're ill and masking indoors to protect others from asymptomatic infection, then please shut up about other people who are masking, opening windows, and using HEPA filters lol.

If you're checking into a hotel when sick, you're not staying home either. Do as I say, not as I do.

You guys are something else. Someone isolating in a room by themselves with open windows and a HEPA with minimal other human contact, rather than staying in a two room apartment with their whole family, has a lower chance of infecting more people, family or not. Meanwhile you're not masking or doing the slightest thing to prevent yourselves from getting infected but please do lecture this PP about responsibility that's rich.

+1 These are the same tw@ts who don't mask or test before they fly, either. Like they've never been in a shared space with their own covid infecting others, without giving half the effs OP did.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Another thread full of ignorant and unnecessarily hostile posts by people who don't frickin' read.

This is about avoiding contact with VULNERABLE loved ones right after the kinds of large gatherings you have at the holidays. This was common sense before the pandemic and is common sense now. Covid just adds another virus to the mix of things (Flu, RSV etc) we don't want to give to our vulnerable relatives.

So many posters on here going on about scared people, but -you- are the f'd up ones. All ready to jump up in everyone's face about mah freedom before you actually know what is being discussed. No one is making your precious pre-schoolers wear masks or telling you you can't go to work.

Good Lord. Seek therapy.

And as long as you don't know the people in the hotel, it's fine dumping your COVID positive loved one there.

Good lord, they did not share a hotel room with anyone. They stayed in their room with windows open and hepa filter running on high. They masked when they exited the room to get outside and get fresh air. Everyone in that hotel was 99% more likely actually exposed to someone ill who wasn't masking but was contagious. By time they left hotel, they were not contagious so the air was totally cleaned. Risk to anyone would be minimal at that point as cleaners use gloves.

Yes and you flattened the curve by having minimum wage gig people doing all of your grocery shopping and food deliveries.
Just own that you put yourself above others.

Not sure what the above has to do with this post

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DP. But if you're not staying home when you're ill and masking indoors to protect others from asymptomatic infection, then please shut up about other people who are masking, opening windows, and using HEPA filters lol.

If you're checking into a hotel when sick, you're not staying home either. Do as I say, not as I do.

You guys are something else. Someone isolating in a room by themselves with open windows and a HEPA with minimal other human contact, rather than staying in a two room apartment with their whole family, has a lower chance of infecting more people, family or not. Meanwhile you're not masking or doing the slightest thing to prevent yourselves from getting infected but please do lecture this PP about responsibility that's rich.

You had to check in, ride the elevator, greet people, you were around other people. So selfish.

Are you really that dense? The PP stated they wore a KN95 Mask. They were not the welcoming committee at the hotel---they didn't have to "greet" anyone. They didn't check themselves in---the parent did. They walked into the hotel with a KN95 mask on and didn't remove it until they were in their room. They didn't talk to anyone. And if they were in an elevator with someone else, if the other person is not masking, then they are likely exposing themselves to plenty of others unmasked throughout the day who are contagious with something---so if that other person cared, they would mask in public. But the risk from a 2 min elevator ride is minimal and the Kid did their responsibility by masking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DP. But if you're not staying home when you're ill and masking indoors to protect others from asymptomatic infection, then please shut up about other people who are masking, opening windows, and using HEPA filters lol.

If you're checking into a hotel when sick, you're not staying home either. Do as I say, not as I do.

You guys are something else. Someone isolating in a room by themselves with open windows and a HEPA with minimal other human contact, rather than staying in a two room apartment with their whole family, has a lower chance of infecting more people, family or not. Meanwhile you're not masking or doing the slightest thing to prevent yourselves from getting infected but please do lecture this PP about responsibility that's rich.

+1 These are the same tw@ts who don't mask or test before they fly, either. Like they've never been in a shared space with their own covid infecting others, without giving half the effs OP did.

Oh hello evening Covid troll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DP. But if you're not staying home when you're ill and masking indoors to protect others from asymptomatic infection, then please shut up about other people who are masking, opening windows, and using HEPA filters lol.

If you're checking into a hotel when sick, you're not staying home either. Do as I say, not as I do.

You guys are something else. Someone isolating in a room by themselves with open windows and a HEPA with minimal other human contact, rather than staying in a two room apartment with their whole family, has a lower chance of infecting more people, family or not. Meanwhile you're not masking or doing the slightest thing to prevent yourselves from getting infected but please do lecture this PP about responsibility that's rich.

You had to check in, ride the elevator, greet people, you were around other people. So selfish.

Are you really that dense? The PP stated they wore a KN95 Mask. They were not the welcoming committee at the hotel---they didn't have to "greet" anyone. They didn't check themselves in---the parent did. They walked into the hotel with a KN95 mask on and didn't remove it until they were in their room. They didn't talk to anyone. And if they were in an elevator with someone else, if the other person is not masking, then they are likely exposing themselves to plenty of others unmasked throughout the day who are contagious with something---so if that other person cared, they would mask in public. But the risk from a 2 min elevator ride is minimal and the Kid did their responsibility by masking.

Gross, they walked by all those people? I though sick people were supposed to stay home! Selfish!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DP. But if you're not staying home when you're ill and masking indoors to protect others from asymptomatic infection, then please shut up about other people who are masking, opening windows, and using HEPA filters lol.

If you're checking into a hotel when sick, you're not staying home either. Do as I say, not as I do.

You guys are something else. Someone isolating in a room by themselves with open windows and a HEPA with minimal other human contact, rather than staying in a two room apartment with their whole family, has a lower chance of infecting more people, family or not. Meanwhile you're not masking or doing the slightest thing to prevent yourselves from getting infected but please do lecture this PP about responsibility that's rich.

+1 These are the same tw@ts who don't mask or test before they fly, either. Like they've never been in a shared space with their own covid infecting others, without giving half the effs OP did.

Oh hello evening Covid troll.

I love that you call me a troll, but not the person in the comment above this, who's doing exactly what I described (and is probably you, trolling)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another thread full of ignorant and unnecessarily hostile posts by people who don't frickin' read.

This is about avoiding contact with VULNERABLE loved ones right after the kinds of large gatherings you have at the holidays. This was common sense before the pandemic and is common sense now. Covid just adds another virus to the mix of things (Flu, RSV etc) we don't want to give to our vulnerable relatives.

So many posters on here going on about scared people, but -you- are the f'd up ones. All ready to jump up in everyone's face about mah freedom before you actually know what is being discussed. No one is making your precious pre-schoolers wear masks or telling you you can't go to work.

Good Lord. Seek therapy.

And as long as you don't know the people in the hotel, it's fine dumping your COVID positive loved one there.

Good lord, they did not share a hotel room with anyone. They stayed in their room with windows open and hepa filter running on high. They masked when they exited the room to get outside and get fresh air. Everyone in that hotel was 99% more likely actually exposed to someone ill who wasn't masking but was contagious. By time they left hotel, they were not contagious so the air was totally cleaned. Risk to anyone would be minimal at that point as cleaners use gloves.

You are supposed to notify the hotel if you test positive for covid while you're staying there. They all have protocols to follow for airing out the room and cleaning after you leave. And they also have plans in place to deliver food and care items to you so you don't have to exit the room and expose others.

DP: No protocols anymore for "notifying the hotels". That might have been 2020 and 2021, but certainly not 2023.

2nd: exiting the room with a KN95/N95 mask to go outside is not "exposing others". the PP did not say the kid went to the restaurant to have dinner. If you choose to go into a public place without a mask, you have to assume you will encounter at least one (if not several ) people who have covid currently (or RSV/Flu/other illnesses). That kid wearing a quality mask is the least of your concerns

My mom tested positive at a hotel 6 weeks ago and let the front desk know. They said they really appreciated the heads up and would follow a different process for cleaning after she left. And they also offered to do no contact door delivery for medication and food. You are absolutely supposed to notify them

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The only potentially vulnerable people I interact with are my parents, and they went on a Viking river cruise over the holiday.

Then they are dumb

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You're asking highly selfish people if they're going to party and then self isolate? The answer is no, no they are not.

So your take is it's highly selfish to gather and celebrate for holidays and then carry on with our lives afterward. You mean the behavior that humanity has been engaging in since the dawn of time.

Community and connection are canceled folks. The way to a long and healthy life is to avoid all the people. Bonus points for spending the holidays with as few people as possible and then having a job that allows you to sit at home alone afterward too. This is evidence-based advice.

No one has suggested avoiding socialization. The article doesn't say that, nor have prior posters mentioned isolating or avoiding holiday gatherings. The idea is that we might want to be mindful of others following high-risk activities, especially if we will be around vulnerable people in the week following those high-risk activities.

Why are holiday gatherings considered "high risk" activities, but other things we do every day, that may involve being in contact with even more people, are not? My kids are in class with 20+ kids and see even more in the lunch room, recess, and aftercare. My spouse works in person every day and takes the metro. We attend church and went to see a play last week. None of this makes sense anymore.

Those are considered high risk with the exception of recess. The powers that be don’t want to classify schools, offices, metro as high risk bc then they would actually have to do something about it like clean the air. Those are all essential activities so more needs to be done to make safer for all

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You're asking highly selfish people if they're going to party and then self isolate? The answer is no, no they are not.

So your take is it's highly selfish to gather and celebrate for holidays and then carry on with our lives afterward. You mean the behavior that humanity has been engaging in since the dawn of time.

Community and connection are canceled folks. The way to a long and healthy life is to avoid all the people. Bonus points for spending the holidays with as few people as possible and then having a job that allows you to sit at home alone afterward too. This is evidence-based advice.

No one has suggested avoiding socialization. The article doesn't say that, nor have prior posters mentioned isolating or avoiding holiday gatherings. The idea is that we might want to be mindful of others following high-risk activities, especially if we will be around vulnerable people in the week following those high-risk activities.

Why are holiday gatherings considered "high risk" activities, but other things we do every day, that may involve being in contact with even more people, are not? My kids are in class with 20+ kids and see even more in the lunch room, recess, and aftercare. My spouse works in person every day and takes the metro. We attend church and went to see a play last week. None of this makes sense anymore.

Those are considered high risk with the exception of recess. The powers that be don’t want to classify schools, offices, metro as high risk bc then they would actually have to do something about it like clean the air. Those are all essential activities so more needs to be done to make safer for all

This. Indoor gatherings have been high risk, and still are, especially right now. But we need people to work, and their kids need somewhere to be while they do, so here we are. It makes a kind of sense, but it's not gonna make you feel valued when you think about it.

And can you imagine if they actually put proper air filtration on metro? I mean, they won't but...

Nice dream!

[Anonymous]

Given the rain snow sleet, hail, storms headed to the north east and eastern shore this weekend there’s going to be many more indoor gatherings. 🥲

[Anonymous]

When my entire family got Covid, I put on a mask and went grocery shopping. Also one of us still still had to pick up take out so we could eat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When my entire family got Covid, I put on a mask and went grocery shopping. Also one of us still still had to pick up take out so we could eat.

How selfish. You were supposed to pick the weakest family member and eat them instead.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:When my entire family got Covid, I put on a mask and went grocery shopping. Also one of us still still had to pick up take out so we could eat.

How selfish. You were supposed to pick the weakest family member and eat them instead.

Go to school, kid. You might learn something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DP. But if you're not staying home when you're ill and masking indoors to protect others from asymptomatic infection, then please shut up about other people who are masking, opening windows, and using HEPA filters lol.

If you're checking into a hotel when sick, you're not staying home either. Do as I say, not as I do.

You guys are something else. Someone isolating in a room by themselves with open windows and a HEPA with minimal other human contact, rather than staying in a two room apartment with their whole family, has a lower chance of infecting more people, family or not. Meanwhile you're not masking or doing the slightest thing to prevent yourselves from getting infected but please do lecture this PP about responsibility that's rich.

You had to check in, ride the elevator, greet people, you were around other people. So selfish.

Are you really that dense? The PP stated they wore a KN95 Mask. They were not the welcoming committee at the hotel---they didn't have to "greet" anyone. They didn't check themselves in---the parent did. They walked into the hotel with a KN95 mask on and didn't remove it until they were in their room. They didn't talk to anyone. And if they were in an elevator with someone else, if the other person is not masking, then they are likely exposing themselves to plenty of others unmasked throughout the day who are contagious with something---so if that other person cared, they would mask in public. But the risk from a 2 min elevator ride is minimal and the Kid did their responsibility by masking.

Gross, they walked by all those people? I though sick people were supposed to stay home! Selfish!

GO away troll

They walked by all those people while wearing a high quality mask.

If you are in public spaces you must assume someone is sick (Covid, RSV, Flu, any other various viruses) so if you care about not getting sick, wear a mask. Fact is the person masking is not who you should be concerned about. Those masking are the ones who give a shit and care about protecting others.