Anyone changing behavior due to the latest uptick in Covid?

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Anonymous wrote:N-95 in public places like grocery stores, metro, flights and medical setting.

Flu shot for the entire family, asap (at least 2 weeks before school opens.)

Covid is very smart. It only strikes at doctors offices, grocery stores and on the metro! This virus is so smart! What CAN'T it do?

Most Covid is spread in the home, but you do you. Keep masking, at least us normal people know who to avoid in public!

NP- you’re obviously not very smart if you don’t get it. No one said they can only get it in those places. The difference is that if some of us are going to get a virus that could potentially take us out for weeks or longer, we would rather get it from someone we know and care about as opposed to some @sshat stranger on the metro. Also it’s called risk REDUCTION, not taking out risk altogether. Serious idiots on this forum.

Omg these words came out of your mouth and you’re the one calling people idiots?!?

Oh wait. You’re right. The Covid from the people you know and care about is much less severe that the @asshat stranger variant. My bad.

NP. You might want to take a walk to manage your anger and hostility. What the PP said was entirely reasonable. No one can be "safe" from COVID; we can only try to reduce the risk of contracting the virus. Some people don't care how many times they get it; others would like to avoid it if they can due to health conditions or other factors, including the body of research suggesting that COVID is more likely to cause longer-term problems than the common cold or the flu. Living with COVID can involve minimizing risk in indoor or crowded settings, like the Metro or in stores, while accepting more risk while engaging in activities that are most important and meaningful. There are also people who actually care about others and want to avoid spreading the virus to others who are more vulnerable. If they get COVID, they get it. Some people would rather avoid catching COVID while commuting to work but are willing to risk getting it while on the trip of a lifetime. Why does this bother you so much?

PP said they’d rather get it from someone they care about. That is asinine and makes absolutely no sense. It’s the same damn virus.

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Anonymous wrote:N-95 in public places like grocery store, metro, flights and medical setting.

Flu shot for the entire family, asap (at least 2 weeks before school opens.)

Covid is very smart. It only strikes at doctors offices, grocery stores and on the metro! This virus is so smart! What CAN'T it do?

Most Covid is spread in the home, but you do you. Keep masking, at least us normal people know who to avoid in public!

NP- you’re obviously not very smart if you don’t get it. No one said they can only get it in those places. The difference is that if some of us are going to get a virus that could potentially take us out for weeks or longer, we would rather get it from someone we know and care about as opposed to some @sshat stranger on the metro. Also it’s called risk REDUCTION, not taking out risk altogether. Serious idiots on this forum.

Omg these words came out of your mouth and you’re the one calling people idiots?!?

Oh wait. You’re right. The Covid from the people you know and care about is much less severe that the @asshat stranger variant. My bad.

Risk reduction, moron. Taking precautions in public places and small indoor spaces is just the logical balance of continuing life as usual while reducing the chance of infection. Read that twice if you need to.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s scary out there these days. I thought it was all behind us. We’ve stopped going to the stores if we don’t need to - all Insta art/door dash/Amazon. We aren’t meeting friends unless outside.

Hahahhaa. You sound like a lot of fun. Glad people like you are staying home, don't have to deal with COVID KARENS in public.

People like you is the reason why Covid will always be around. If you would just stay home and mask up in the limited instances where you need to leave the home, it would be better.

I love this argument. All about moral superiority. Lady, even China with their massive lockdowns where they welded people into their homes could not stop the spread. Humans cannot stop nature. Virus is going to virus and no amount of hand sanitzer, masks, and weird covid rituals work.

Please girl. All the preventative measures work - that’s how things got better and will continue to do so. People should stay home and try not to socialize or go out to public places, especially those indoors, and schools should go virtual to minimize the spread. Doing so is best for the community as a whole. It’s not that hard to doordash and instacart everything! Spend more quality time with your immediate family!

You have fun with that, but why would you do this to your kids?

[Anonymous]

Wow, some of you COVID Karens are just nuts. Glad we moved to an area where this kind of neuroticism is side eyed.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, some of you COVID Karens are just nuts. Glad we moved to an area where this kind of neuroticism is side eyed.

and, yet, we just took our first post-covid trip to England and . . . got covid . . .and were really sick.

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Anonymous wrote:People really need to stay home. I’m debating whether the kids should go to school virtual or maybe home schooling them.

Please be kidding.

Umm. Do you recall how many dead there were? How sick people were getting? I’m not taking that chance with my littles or fam.

That was all before vaccines. Not many people dying anymore, and you and your “littles” are probably at low risk to begin with. Are you really going to pull them out if school each time you read about an “uptick?”

Vaccines aren’t stopping transmission. How hard is that to get?

They are reducing the serious illness and death. It is making Covid just another disease. Are there still risks? Sure. Bu please remember the whole “masking is for other people” thing was before there were good masks available to the public. There is no need for most people to stay home or mask. If you feel you need to socially isolate from others - and risk all the negative things that go with that- go ahead. But stop trying to drag the rest of us with you. Schools need to stay in-person, because virtual schooling was a joke. Our kids have been harmed enough by it.

Omicron is a milder variant which is why there is less serious illness and death in both vaccinated and unvaccinated.

No it is only the vaccinated who deal with it better.

In a study of Cleveland Clinic's 50,000 employees, they were unable to assess the effectiveness of the bivalent booster in reducing severe illness because there were not enough cases of serious illness to tell. Twelve percent of participants were unvaccinated. Omicron is milder, for vaccinated and unvaccinated.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.17.22283625v5

[Anonymous]

Just got back from a medical appt at a major DC hospital and most patients heading into the hospital and walking the halls were masked. Wasn’t the case a month ago. It’s nice that most people in DC take smart precautions when cases rise.

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Anonymous wrote:Just got back from a medical appt at a major DC hospital and most patients heading into the hospital and walking the halls were masked. Wasn’t the case a month ago. It’s nice that most people in DC take smart precautions when cases rise.

Assuming that the people roaming the halls of the hospital are a representative sample of the DC population. But science and statistics are for the experts, not us.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s scary out there these days. I thought it was all behind us. We’ve stopped going to the stores if we don’t need to - all Insta art/door dash/Amazon. We aren’t meeting friends unless outside.

Hahahhaa. You sound like a lot of fun. Glad people like you are staying home, don't have to deal with COVID KARENS in public.

People like you is the reason why Covid will always be around. If you would just stay home and mask up in the limited instances where you need to leave the home, it would be better.

I love this argument. All about moral superiority. Lady, even China with their massive lockdowns where they welded people into their homes could not stop the spread. Humans cannot stop nature. Virus is going to virus and no amount of hand sanitzer, masks, and weird covid rituals work.

Please girl. All the preventative measures work - that’s how things got better and will continue to do so. People should stay home and try not to socialize or go out to public places, especially those indoors, and schools should go virtual to minimize the spread. Doing so is best for the community as a whole. It’s not that hard to doordash and instacart everything! Spend more quality time with your immediate family!

You have fun with that, but why would you do this to your kids?

Why would I take care of my kids and do anything to prevent them from getting this horrible disease and dying? Because I love them?!?!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:N-95 in public places like grocery store, metro, flights and medical setting.

Flu shot for the entire family, asap (at least 2 weeks before school opens.)

Covid is very smart. It only strikes at doctors offices, grocery stores and on the metro! This virus is so smart! What CAN'T it do?

Most Covid is spread in the home, but you do you. Keep masking, at least us normal people know who to avoid in public!

NP- you’re obviously not very smart if you don’t get it. No one said they can only get it in those places. The difference is that if some of us are going to get a virus that could potentially take us out for weeks or longer, we would rather get it from someone we know and care about as opposed to some @sshat stranger on the metro. Also it’s called risk REDUCTION, not taking out risk altogether. Serious idiots on this forum.

Omg these words came out of your mouth and you’re the one calling people idiots?!?

Oh wait. You’re right. The Covid from the people you know and care about is much less severe that the @asshat stranger variant. My bad.

Risk reduction, moron. Taking precautions in public places and small indoor spaces is just the logical balance of continuing life as usual while reducing the chance of infection. Read that twice if you need to.

Read it as many times as you want. The bolded is just plain ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s scary out there these days. I thought it was all behind us. We’ve stopped going to the stores if we don’t need to - all Insta art/door dash/Amazon. We aren’t meeting friends unless outside.

Hahahhaa. You sound like a lot of fun. Glad people like you are staying home, don't have to deal with COVID KARENS in public.

People like you is the reason why Covid will always be around. If you would just stay home and mask up in the limited instances where you need to leave the home, it would be better.

I love this argument. All about moral superiority. Lady, even China with their massive lockdowns where they welded people into their homes could not stop the spread. Humans cannot stop nature. Virus is going to virus and no amount of hand sanitzer, masks, and weird covid rituals work.

Please girl. All the preventative measures work - that’s how things got better and will continue to do so. People should stay home and try not to socialize or go out to public places, especially those indoors, and schools should go virtual to minimize the spread. Doing so is best for the community as a whole. It’s not that hard to doordash and instacart everything! Spend more quality time with your immediate family!

The vaccines worked. That’s what got us out of this mess. Not masks. Not virtual school. Not a two week shutdown.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s scary out there these days. I thought it was all behind us. We’ve stopped going to the stores if we don’t need to - all Insta art/door dash/Amazon. We aren’t meeting friends unless outside.

Hahahhaa. You sound like a lot of fun. Glad people like you are staying home, don't have to deal with COVID KARENS in public.

People like you is the reason why Covid will always be around. If you would just stay home and mask up in the limited instances where you need to leave the home, it would be better.

I love this argument. All about moral superiority. Lady, even China with their massive lockdowns where they welded people into their homes could not stop the spread. Humans cannot stop nature. Virus is going to virus and no amount of hand sanitzer, masks, and weird covid rituals work.

Please girl. All the preventative measures work - that’s how things got better and will continue to do so. People should stay home and try not to socialize or go out to public places, especially those indoors, and schools should go virtual to minimize the spread. Doing so is best for the community as a whole. It’s not that hard to doordash and instacart everything! Spend more quality time with your immediate family!

You have fun with that, but why would you do this to your kids?

Why would I take care of my kids and do anything to prevent them from getting this horrible disease and dying? Because I love them?!?!

Children have a better chance of dying from literally a thousand other things than “this horrible disease.” Are you going to never let them leave the house?

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Anonymous wrote:No, COVID’s a nothing burger for our demographic. We’re not making that mistake again.

If you're using dated expressions from Helen Gurley Brown ("nothingburger") you're likely in an elderly demographic and should be more concerned than most of us.

Half of the posters on this site use the word “Nothingburger”

[Anonymous]

My kid is going to an indoor birthday party this weekend. Should I make him wear a mask?

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Anonymous wrote:It’s scary out there these days. I thought it was all behind us. We’ve stopped going to the stores if we don’t need to - all Insta art/door dash/Amazon. We aren’t meeting friends unless outside.

Hahahhaa. You sound like a lot of fun. Glad people like you are staying home, don't have to deal with COVID KARENS in public.

People like you is the reason why Covid will always be around. If you would just stay home and mask up in the limited instances where you need to leave the home, it would be better.

I love this argument. All about moral superiority. Lady, even China with their massive lockdowns where they welded people into their homes could not stop the spread. Humans cannot stop nature. Virus is going to virus and no amount of hand sanitzer, masks, and weird covid rituals work.

Please girl. All the preventative measures work - that’s how things got better and will continue to do so. People should stay home and try not to socialize or go out to public places, especially those indoors, and schools should go virtual to minimize the spread. Doing so is best for the community as a whole. It’s not that hard to doordash and instacart everything! Spend more quality time with your immediate family!

The vaccines worked. That’s what got us out of this mess. Not masks. Not virtual school. Not a two week shutdown.

Milder covid variants changed the picture.
"Omicron appears to show preference for infecting and replicating in the upper respiratory tract, compared to Delta and other strains which prefer the lower respiratory tract. ... Preliminary studies suggest that Omicron appears to have decreased ability to infect lung tissue, which may be a reason why people infected with Omicron have a less severe disease compared to Delta" https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/risk-comms-updates/update72_update-omicron-.pdf?sfvrsn=8d7cd61a_4 (page 8)