Post thanksgiving covid cases

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Anonymous wrote:We all got covid one week after my kids got their first shots. I feel like every kid I know is getting it..

How was it for you guys? Symptoms? Mild/severe?

Essentially asymptomatic for all 4 of us. Sniffles for 1-2 days and my husband felt tired for 2 days, but otherwise fine. We only caught it at all by pure luck. Biggest symptom was boredom (and sadness about missing Thanksgiving).

Curious, why did you test?

My kid said his head kind of hurt. Every kid I know that got it had a headache. I was just being cautious (used an at home test). His headache resolved on its own shortly after.

Sorry this happened but sounds like symptoms weren’t too bad thankfully. Out of curiosity, were your kids being tested at school? Anecdotally I have not heard of anyone testing positive from the school tests.

They are not being tested at school. But I know of someone at our school that was caught through school testing. I Think the test are similar (I used Binax now).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s just testing from travel. Same thing will happen after Christmas. Frankly, I’m surprised it’s not more.

I anticipate numbers rising. Those exposed on Thanksgiving or over the weekend are still in the window to not have developed symptoms. By Friday we may see a noticeable bump. Hopefully not, but potentially.

To PP, if you are traveling and going to be spending the holidays unmasked with others, you are contributing to a heightened risk. That's fine, we know Covid isn't going away and eventually most of us will assume that risk, but recognize that's how it spreads so please don't blame others if you're going to engage in the same activity. The bump during the holidays is because of gatherings of family and friends when households come together.

My family and I have been living like the majority of Americans for 6+ months, maskless and completely back to normal. There's tons of others in Northern Virginia doing so too. COVID is never going away so you're just wasting your time, hoping for it to go away like the flu (oh yeah, which doesn't go away either).

This morality play nonsense of "you're a bad person for living your life" has got to stop. Did you blame gay people for spreading AIDS too? It's the same type of bigotry with both.

No. It’s not. You don’t pass HIV by breathing. It’s not the same At. All.

But then, you already knew that.

Yes, you actually have to do a much more notable action to pass HIV. The moralizing has got to stop. Every pre-2020 playbook said you don't blame people for diseases.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s just testing from travel. Same thing will happen after Christmas. Frankly, I’m surprised it’s not more.

I anticipate numbers rising. Those exposed on Thanksgiving or over the weekend are still in the window to not have developed symptoms. By Friday we may see a noticeable bump. Hopefully not, but potentially.

To PP, if you are traveling and going to be spending the holidays unmasked with others, you are contributing to a heightened risk. That's fine, we know Covid isn't going away and eventually most of us will assume that risk, but recognize that's how it spreads so please don't blame others if you're going to engage in the same activity. The bump during the holidays is because of gatherings of family and friends when households come together.

My family and I have been living like the majority of Americans for 6+ months, maskless and completely back to normal. There's tons of others in Northern Virginia doing so too. COVID is never going away so you're just wasting your time, hoping for it to go away like the flu (oh yeah, which doesn't go away either).

This morality play nonsense of "you're a bad person for living your life" has got to stop. Did you blame gay people for spreading AIDS too? It's the same type of bigotry with both.

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The two are not even remotely similar. Thanks

The people yelling "stay home" today and saying you're a bad person for not sacrificing your mental health are reminiscent of Jesse Helms in the 1980s with gay people and AIDS (except AIDS was way, way deadlier than COVID pre-vaccine, and now COVID has vaccines available). Branch COVIDians: normal human behavior = bad morals. Jesse Helms: gay sexual activity = bad morals.

Same type of fanatics, different sides of political spectrum.

If you mental health is that fragile that you cannot curb your behavior for a time so we can get through covid, maybe your next "vacation" should be to a mental hospital.

We've been doing this for 2 years. COVID is not going anywhere and will be here in 50 years.

Doing this any longer is a complete waste of time unless you plan on doing it for the rest of your life (and you're free to do so on your own).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s just testing from travel. Same thing will happen after Christmas. Frankly, I’m surprised it’s not more.

I anticipate numbers rising. Those exposed on Thanksgiving or over the weekend are still in the window to not have developed symptoms. By Friday we may see a noticeable bump. Hopefully not, but potentially.

To PP, if you are traveling and going to be spending the holidays unmasked with others, you are contributing to a heightened risk. That's fine, we know Covid isn't going away and eventually most of us will assume that risk, but recognize that's how it spreads so please don't blame others if you're going to engage in the same activity. The bump during the holidays is because of gatherings of family and friends when households come together.

My family and I have been living like the majority of Americans for 6+ months, maskless and completely back to normal. There's tons of others in Northern Virginia doing so too. COVID is never going away so you're just wasting your time, hoping for it to go away like the flu (oh yeah, which doesn't go away either).

This morality play nonsense of "you're a bad person for living your life" has got to stop. Did you blame gay people for spreading AIDS too? It's the same type of bigotry with both.

and this is why we still have 1000 deaths per day in America

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s just testing from travel. Same thing will happen after Christmas. Frankly, I’m surprised it’s not more.

I anticipate numbers rising. Those exposed on Thanksgiving or over the weekend are still in the window to not have developed symptoms. By Friday we may see a noticeable bump. Hopefully not, but potentially.

To PP, if you are traveling and going to be spending the holidays unmasked with others, you are contributing to a heightened risk. That's fine, we know Covid isn't going away and eventually most of us will assume that risk, but recognize that's how it spreads so please don't blame others if you're going to engage in the same activity. The bump during the holidays is because of gatherings of family and friends when households come together.

My family and I have been living like the majority of Americans for 6+ months, maskless and completely back to normal. There's tons of others in Northern Virginia doing so too. COVID is never going away so you're just wasting your time, hoping for it to go away like the flu (oh yeah, which doesn't go away either).

This morality play nonsense of "you're a bad person for living your life" has got to stop. Did you blame gay people for spreading AIDS too? It's the same type of bigotry with both.

and this is why we still have 1000 deaths per day in America

Ugh, that's because some people refuse to get vaccinated. Vaccines have been available now for a year. Those unvaccinated people are assuming the risk at this point.

Even if 100% of people were vaccinated, COVID would still be spreading. The difference is the deaths.

My family is vaccinated. We've done our part. We're done (and have been done for a while). Time for everyone to join us (and the majority of Americans) in enjoying life again. Life is way too short to do this BS for a virus that will be here the rest of our lives.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s just testing from travel. Same thing will happen after Christmas. Frankly, I’m surprised it’s not more.

I anticipate numbers rising. Those exposed on Thanksgiving or over the weekend are still in the window to not have developed symptoms. By Friday we may see a noticeable bump. Hopefully not, but potentially.

To PP, if you are traveling and going to be spending the holidays unmasked with others, you are contributing to a heightened risk. That's fine, we know Covid isn't going away and eventually most of us will assume that risk, but recognize that's how it spreads so please don't blame others if you're going to engage in the same activity. The bump during the holidays is because of gatherings of family and friends when households come together.

My family and I have been living like the majority of Americans for 6+ months, maskless and completely back to normal. There's tons of others in Northern Virginia doing so too. COVID is never going away so you're just wasting your time, hoping for it to go away like the flu (oh yeah, which doesn't go away either).

This morality play nonsense of "you're a bad person for living your life" has got to stop. Did you blame gay people for spreading AIDS too? It's the same type of bigotry with both.

and this is why we still have 1000 deaths per day in America

Ugh, that's because some people refuse to get vaccinated. Vaccines have been available now for a year. Those unvaccinated people are assuming the risk at this point.

Even if 100% of people were vaccinated, COVID would still be spreading. The difference is the deaths.

My family is vaccinated. We've done our part. We're done (and have been done for a while). Time for everyone to join us (and the majority of Americans) in enjoying life again. Life is way too short to do this BS for a virus that will be here the rest of our lives.

You didn't realize that people in Northern Virginia need to do all of these NPIs because people in rural Arkansas aren't getting vaccinated (even though no one there is doing NPIs themselves)? Isn't that really logical?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s just testing from travel. Same thing will happen after Christmas. Frankly, I’m surprised it’s not more.

I anticipate numbers rising. Those exposed on Thanksgiving or over the weekend are still in the window to not have developed symptoms. By Friday we may see a noticeable bump. Hopefully not, but potentially.

To PP, if you are traveling and going to be spending the holidays unmasked with others, you are contributing to a heightened risk. That's fine, we know Covid isn't going away and eventually most of us will assume that risk, but recognize that's how it spreads so please don't blame others if you're going to engage in the same activity. The bump during the holidays is because of gatherings of family and friends when households come together.

My family and I have been living like the majority of Americans for 6+ months, maskless and completely back to normal. There's tons of others in Northern Virginia doing so too. COVID is never going away so you're just wasting your time, hoping for it to go away like the flu (oh yeah, which doesn't go away either).

This morality play nonsense of "you're a bad person for living your life" has got to stop. Did you blame gay people for spreading AIDS too? It's the same type of bigotry with both.

and this is why we still have 1000 deaths per day in America

Ugh, that's because some people refuse to get vaccinated. Vaccines have been available now for a year. Those unvaccinated people are assuming the risk at this point.

Even if 100% of people were vaccinated, COVID would still be spreading. The difference is the deaths.

My family is vaccinated. We've done our part. We're done (and have been done for a while). Time for everyone to join us (and the majority of Americans) in enjoying life again. Life is way too short to do this BS for a virus that will be here the rest of our lives.

We are pretty much the same. The only thing we do differently now compared to pre-pandemic is teach wearing a mask (two-teacher household).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s just testing from travel. Same thing will happen after Christmas. Frankly, I’m surprised it’s not more.

I anticipate numbers rising. Those exposed on Thanksgiving or over the weekend are still in the window to not have developed symptoms. By Friday we may see a noticeable bump. Hopefully not, but potentially.

To PP, if you are traveling and going to be spending the holidays unmasked with others, you are contributing to a heightened risk. That's fine, we know Covid isn't going away and eventually most of us will assume that risk, but recognize that's how it spreads so please don't blame others if you're going to engage in the same activity. The bump during the holidays is because of gatherings of family and friends when households come together.

My family and I have been living like the majority of Americans for 6+ months, maskless and completely back to normal. There's tons of others in Northern Virginia doing so too. COVID is never going away so you're just wasting your time, hoping for it to go away like the flu (oh yeah, which doesn't go away either).

This morality play nonsense of "you're a bad person for living your life" has got to stop. Did you blame gay people for spreading AIDS too? It's the same type of bigotry with both.

and this is why we still have 1000 deaths per day in America

Ugh, that's because some people refuse to get vaccinated. Vaccines have been available now for a year. Those unvaccinated people are assuming the risk at this point.

Even if 100% of people were vaccinated, COVID would still be spreading. The difference is the deaths.

My family is vaccinated. We've done our part. We're done (and have been done for a while). Time for everyone to join us (and the majority of Americans) in enjoying life again. Life is way too short to do this BS for a virus that will be here the rest of our lives.

We are pretty much the same. The only thing we do differently now compared to pre-pandemic is teach wearing a mask (two-teacher household).

Unfortunately the teaching profession lives in another world, thinking masks will protect them from COVID. Can't wait for the mask theater to end on January 15th.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s just testing from travel. Same thing will happen after Christmas. Frankly, I’m surprised it’s not more.

I anticipate numbers rising. Those exposed on Thanksgiving or over the weekend are still in the window to not have developed symptoms. By Friday we may see a noticeable bump. Hopefully not, but potentially.

To PP, if you are traveling and going to be spending the holidays unmasked with others, you are contributing to a heightened risk. That's fine, we know Covid isn't going away and eventually most of us will assume that risk, but recognize that's how it spreads so please don't blame others if you're going to engage in the same activity. The bump during the holidays is because of gatherings of family and friends when households come together.

My family and I have been living like the majority of Americans for 6+ months, maskless and completely back to normal. There's tons of others in Northern Virginia doing so too. COVID is never going away so you're just wasting your time, hoping for it to go away like the flu (oh yeah, which doesn't go away either).

This morality play nonsense of "you're a bad person for living your life" has got to stop. Did you blame gay people for spreading AIDS too? It's the same type of bigotry with both.

and this is why we still have 1000 deaths per day in America

Ugh, that's because some people refuse to get vaccinated. Vaccines have been available now for a year. Those unvaccinated people are assuming the risk at this point.

Even if 100% of people were vaccinated, COVID would still be spreading. The difference is the deaths.

My family is vaccinated. We've done our part. We're done (and have been done for a while). Time for everyone to join us (and the majority of Americans) in enjoying life again. Life is way too short to do this BS for a virus that will be here the rest of our lives.

We are pretty much the same. The only thing we do differently now compared to pre-pandemic is teach wearing a mask (two-teacher household).

Unfortunately the teaching profession lives in another world, thinking masks will protect them from COVID. Can't wait for the mask theater to end on January 15th.

I mean they’ve been working so far. Positive cases have been identified in schools but there hasn’t been spread in schools.

[Anonymous]

Still not seeing a huge uptick, and never saw the large number of Jamestown cases that the person quoted here. I did notice a crapton of ATS close contact cases, is a whole grade out?

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Anonymous wrote:Still not seeing a huge uptick, and never saw the large number of Jamestown cases that the person quoted here. I did notice a crapton of ATS close contact cases, is a whole grade out?

I have a 4th grader at ATS there have been two cases in 4th and I think both had a sibling. Neither were in my kids class as far as I know

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately the teaching profession lives in another world, thinking masks will protect them from COVID. Can't wait for the mask theater to end on January 15th.

Since I’ve contracted neither Covid nor even a cold in the last eighteen months, whereas in my prior 20 years of teaching I was sick once or twice every single month of the school year, I’m going to side with masks over you, bud.

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Unfortunately the teaching profession lives in another world, thinking masks will protect them from COVID. Can't wait for the mask theater to end on January 15th.

Since I’ve contracted neither Covid nor even a cold in the last eighteen months, whereas in my prior 20 years of teaching I was sick once or twice every single month of the school year, I’m going to side with masks over you, bud.

I’ve noticed the same. Also fewer absences in my young students. I don’t really care about the mask mandate getting dropped or not. I’ll still wear mine until spring and I think many kids still will too. This is Arlington where 90% of people are still masking up at grocery stores etc.

[Anonymous]

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Unfortunately the teaching profession lives in another world, thinking masks will protect them from COVID. Can't wait for the mask theater to end on January 15th.

Since I’ve contracted neither Covid nor even a cold in the last eighteen months, whereas in my prior 20 years of teaching I was sick once or twice every single month of the school year, I’m going to side with masks over you, bud.

I’ve noticed the same. Also fewer absences in my young students. I don’t really care about the mask mandate getting dropped or not. I’ll still wear mine until spring and I think many kids still will too. This is Arlington where 90% of people are still masking up at grocery stores etc.

Adding that I’ll take off my mask during whole class instruction/staff meetings as soon as allowed. I’ll wear them for 1:1/small group stuff

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s just testing from travel. Same thing will happen after Christmas. Frankly, I’m surprised it’s not more.

I anticipate numbers rising. Those exposed on Thanksgiving or over the weekend are still in the window to not have developed symptoms. By Friday we may see a noticeable bump. Hopefully not, but potentially.

To PP, if you are traveling and going to be spending the holidays unmasked with others, you are contributing to a heightened risk. That's fine, we know Covid isn't going away and eventually most of us will assume that risk, but recognize that's how it spreads so please don't blame others if you're going to engage in the same activity. The bump during the holidays is because of gatherings of family and friends when households come together.

My family and I have been living like the majority of Americans for 6+ months, maskless and completely back to normal. There's tons of others in Northern Virginia doing so too. COVID is never going away so you're just wasting your time, hoping for it to go away like the flu (oh yeah, which doesn't go away either).

This morality play nonsense of "you're a bad person for living your life" has got to stop. Did you blame gay people for spreading AIDS too? It's the same type of bigotry with both.

and this is why we still have 1000 deaths per day in America

Ugh, that's because some people refuse to get vaccinated. Vaccines have been available now for a year. Those unvaccinated people are assuming the risk at this point.

Even if 100% of people were vaccinated, COVID would still be spreading. The difference is the deaths.

My family is vaccinated. We've done our part. We're done (and have been done for a while). Time for everyone to join us (and the majority of Americans) in enjoying life again. Life is way too short to do this BS for a virus that will be here the rest of our lives.

The majority of folks in this area are vaccinated and still getting and spreading covid. You are putting to much reliance on these vaccines. You are 100% why covid has mutated and still spreading.

If you cannot enjoy your life in a toned down manner to help covid stop mutating and spreading, maybe you should look at your life and reevaluate it as something is off.