Anyone changing behavior due to the latest uptick in Covid?

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Anonymous wrote:My son was scheduled to start his freshman year at Harvard several days from now. However, with this uptick in Covid cases, we have decided to homeschool him. We are on lockdown. We rarely leave the house and masks are mandatory both inside and outside of the house. Family dinners are too risky for us as the spread of Covid usually happens in the house. We are terrified of long Covid.

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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.

These people don’t understand risk reduction - it’s kind of pointless to engage with them but sometimes I get sucked in to the idiocy.

Oh no I understand it. Absolutely. You just keep ignoring the part I have a problem with - it’s better to get it from someone you know. That has nothing to do with risk reduction. It’s an idiotic statement.

[Anonymous]

Just going to stores less and making when I do. We don't eat out anyway, we are homebodies but mask when we are out.

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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.

These people don’t understand risk reduction - it’s kind of pointless to engage with them but sometimes I get sucked in to the idiocy.

The “risk reduction” justification makes little sense for a virus as contagious as covid. It’s not a matter of if, but when, you get covid. And unless you're willing to take rather extreme measures for a large percentage of your interactions with others, you're not even going to significantly change how often you get infected.

Many of us who are practicing risk reduction are masking inside with others, and socializing without masks outside. I will occasionally make an exception if family members are willing to test right before socializing inside at our houses.

Those who don't want to do anything like this, then don't. The rest of us don't care what you do anymore. You get what you get.

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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.

These people don’t understand risk reduction - it’s kind of pointless to engage with them but sometimes I get sucked in to the idiocy.

The “risk reduction” justification makes little sense for a virus as contagious as covid. It’s not a matter of if, but when, you get covid. And unless you're willing to take rather extreme measures for a large percentage of your interactions with others, you're not even going to significantly change how often you get infected.

Many of us who are practicing risk reduction are masking inside with others, and socializing without masks outside. I will occasionally make an exception if family members are willing to test right before socializing inside at our houses.

Those who don't want to do anything like this, then don't. The rest of us don't care what you do anymore. You get what you get.

OK, but if you're truly masking when socializing/working indoors with family/friends/coworkers, then you fall into an incredibly small group. And, as you said, that's fine, as long as you're not ultimately restricting what, say, your kids are able to do.

My point was more that, at least historically, there was a larger group of being that attempted to justify decisions like masking at the grocery store, but not at work or with friends, on the basis of risk reduction. Decisions like that don't make sense, from a relative risk perspective.

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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.

These people don’t understand risk reduction - it’s kind of pointless to engage with them but sometimes I get sucked in to the idiocy.

The “risk reduction” justification makes little sense for a virus as contagious as covid. It’s not a matter of if, but when, you get covid. And unless you're willing to take rather extreme measures for a large percentage of your interactions with others, you're not even going to significantly change how often you get infected.

Unfortunately its not like you only get it once and are just pushing back when. I've had it 3 times now, the first two were minor, the 3rd was 6 weeks of pretty brutal coughing (couldn't sleep at all at night, coughed until i threw up, would get coughing fits while driving my kids that were scary for safety, couldn't run around with kids without triggering a coughing fit etc). I take basically no cautions because i'm lazy and overwhelmed by all the other things i'm juggling in life, but I completely understand and respect people that try to minimize the frequency with which they get it even if they will get it (again) at some point

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Nope. I shall never change my life for Covid again.

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Not at all. The rates are still super low. Just traveled to NYC with my kid and spent a ton of time on the subway and Amtrak unmasked with elderly grandparents. Nobody was masking (except strangely on the uptown 2/3 from Brooklyn where the concentration was higher).

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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.

These people don’t understand risk reduction - it’s kind of pointless to engage with them but sometimes I get sucked in to the idiocy.

The “risk reduction” justification makes little sense for a virus as contagious as covid. It’s not a matter of if, but when, you get covid. And unless you're willing to take rather extreme measures for a large percentage of your interactions with others, you're not even going to significantly change how often you get infected.

Unfortunately its not like you only get it once and are just pushing back when. I've had it 3 times now, the first two were minor, the 3rd was 6 weeks of pretty brutal coughing (couldn't sleep at all at night, coughed until i threw up, would get coughing fits while driving my kids that were scary for safety, couldn't run around with kids without triggering a coughing fit etc). I take basically no cautions because i'm lazy and overwhelmed by all the other things i'm juggling in life, but I completely understand and respect people that try to minimize the frequency with which they get it even if they will get it (again) at some point

That’s the thing- actually changing your personal practices to significantly reduce the frequency at which you’ll get covid would be incredibly difficult for anyone with a job or kids. You mostly just have people doing things for show.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nope. I shall never change my life for Covid again.

And people like you are the reason people are getting sicker and sicker and dying from Covid.

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Anonymous wrote:Nope. I shall never change my life for Covid again.

And people like you are the reason people are getting sicker and sicker and dying from Covid.

Omg get help. Seriously. This isn’t funny anymore.

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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.

Not quite. Vaccines made us comfortable enough to leave our homes en masse and get infected, which provided some real immunity, which is what actually got us out of this mess. The reason cases went down is the reduction in available hosts because people built up infection-induced immunity.

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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.

Not quite. Vaccines made us comfortable enough to leave our homes en masse and get infected, which provided some real immunity, which is what actually got us out of this mess. The reason cases went down is the reduction in available hosts because people built up infection-induced immunity.

Actually, the virus is mutating fast enough that your "immunity" doesn't protect you as much as you think. That's why people are having Covid multiple times, and sometimes getting sicker the more times they have it.

At least the vaccines and some immunity mean a significantly smaller number of people are dying.

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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.

Not quite. Vaccines made us comfortable enough to leave our homes en masse and get infected, which provided some real immunity, which is what actually got us out of this mess. The reason cases went down is the reduction in available hosts because people built up infection-induced immunity.

Actually, the virus is mutating fast enough that your "immunity" doesn't protect you as much as you think. That's why people are having Covid multiple times, and sometimes getting sicker the more times they have it.

At least the vaccines and some immunity mean a significantly smaller number of people are dying.

Omicron being milder is a big factor.

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Anonymous wrote:Nope. I shall never change my life for Covid again.

And people like you are the reason people are getting sicker and sicker and dying from Covid.

Actually, this is NOT what is happening now.