Anyone changing behavior due to the latest uptick in Covid?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kentucky school districts cancel classes less than 2 weeks into school year due to Covid-19, viruses and strep outbreaks

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/24/us/kentucky-schools-covid-19-strep-outbreaks/index.html

If Maga country Kentucky is taking this drastic of a step, we all need to be worried.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kentucky school districts cancel classes less than 2 weeks into school year due to Covid-19, viruses and strep outbreaks

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/24/us/kentucky-schools-covid-19-strep-outbreaks/index.html

If Maga country Kentucky is taking this drastic of a step, we all need to be worried.

They shutdown for two days. Two days to stop the spread!

They had to shutdown because they did not have enough teachers and subs. So it will happen here if there are not enough adults to teach. It's not about stopping the spread. It's about having so many ill teachers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kentucky school districts cancel classes less than 2 weeks into school year due to Covid-19, viruses and strep outbreaks

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/24/us/kentucky-schools-covid-19-strep-outbreaks/index.html

If Maga country Kentucky is taking this drastic of a step, we all need to be worried.

they closed temporarily because they didn’t have enough staff. not because they’re doing a preventative “lockdown”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kentucky school districts cancel classes less than 2 weeks into school year due to Covid-19, viruses and strep outbreaks

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/24/us/kentucky-schools-covid-19-strep-outbreaks/index.html

If Maga country Kentucky is taking this drastic of a step, we all need to be worried.

They shutdown for two days. Two days to stop the spread!

They had to shutdown because they did not have enough teachers and subs. So it will happen here if there are not enough adults to teach. It's not about stopping the spread. It's about having so many ill teachers.

It should also be about stopping the spread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. We’ve all had Covid at least twice and it wasn’t a dramatic event. No need to mask or any of that nonsense. Don’t need germs mashed agains my face with a filthy mask. People who mask are filthy germ buckets.

How fortunate for you that covid "wasn't a dramatic event." But you really need to learn that your experience does not equal everyone else's. I had a relatively mild case of covid and have been suffering horribly for almost a year now with long covid. I am losing hope that I will ever be the same. The coughing is awful and the fatigue is debilitating.

I work in healthcare and probably 2/3 of us are wearing masks at work now.

DP and not one of the anti-mask nutters. I'm so sorry about the long covid, PP. That's what concerns me the most. And the "it's mild! It's nothing but a cold!" people simply refuse to believe in the existence of long covid, I think, or they're so arrogant and ignorant they assume it could never happen to them or anyone they know. And if it doesn't happen to them or someone they know, well, it isn't a real threat in their minds.

My DH's office just yesterday canceled a happy hour farewell gathering for one colleague "out of an abundance of caution" because several people had family members who were positive for covid. It was the smart thing to do and it's the kind of thing I think we'll see more and more of as we move into fall. At least I certainly hope so. People need to realize how much is still not known about the virus and the long-term impacts, and how short-sighted it is to court infection.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kentucky school districts cancel classes less than 2 weeks into school year due to Covid-19, viruses and strep outbreaks

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/24/us/kentucky-schools-covid-19-strep-outbreaks/index.html

If Maga country Kentucky is taking this drastic of a step, we all need to be worried.

They shutdown for two days. Two days to stop the spread!

They had to shutdown because they did not have enough teachers and subs. So it will happen here if there are not enough adults to teach. It's not about stopping the spread. It's about having so many ill teachers.

It should also be about stopping the spread.

Two weeks?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. We’ve all had Covid at least twice and it wasn’t a dramatic event. No need to mask or any of that nonsense. Don’t need germs mashed agains my face with a filthy mask. People who mask are filthy germ buckets.

How fortunate for you that covid "wasn't a dramatic event." But you really need to learn that your experience does not equal everyone else's. I had a relatively mild case of covid and have been suffering horribly for almost a year now with long covid. I am losing hope that I will ever be the same. The coughing is awful and the fatigue is debilitating.

I work in healthcare and probably 2/3 of us are wearing masks at work now.

DP and not one of the anti-mask nutters. I'm so sorry about the long covid, PP. That's what concerns me the most. And the "it's mild! It's nothing but a cold!" people simply refuse to believe in the existence of long covid, I think, or they're so arrogant and ignorant they assume it could never happen to them or anyone they know. And if it doesn't happen to them or someone they know, well, it isn't a real threat in their minds.

My DH's office just yesterday canceled a happy hour farewell gathering for one colleague "out of an abundance of caution" because several people had family members who were positive for covid. It was the smart thing to do and it's the kind of thing I think we'll see more and more of as we move into fall. At least I certainly hope so. People need to realize how much is still not known about the virus and the long-term impacts, and how short-sighted it is to court infection.

Long flu is a thing. How many times have we cancelled events to prevent the spread of flu?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. We’ve all had Covid at least twice and it wasn’t a dramatic event. No need to mask or any of that nonsense. Don’t need germs mashed agains my face with a filthy mask. People who mask are filthy germ buckets.

How fortunate for you that covid "wasn't a dramatic event." But you really need to learn that your experience does not equal everyone else's. I had a relatively mild case of covid and have been suffering horribly for almost a year now with long covid. I am losing hope that I will ever be the same. The coughing is awful and the fatigue is debilitating.

I work in healthcare and probably 2/3 of us are wearing masks at work now.

DP and not one of the anti-mask nutters. I'm so sorry about the long covid, PP. That's what concerns me the most. And the "it's mild! It's nothing but a cold!" people simply refuse to believe in the existence of long covid, I think, or they're so arrogant and ignorant they assume it could never happen to them or anyone they know. And if it doesn't happen to them or someone they know, well, it isn't a real threat in their minds.

My DH's office just yesterday canceled a happy hour farewell gathering for one colleague "out of an abundance of caution" because several people had family members who were positive for covid. It was the smart thing to do and it's the kind of thing I think we'll see more and more of as we move into fall. At least I certainly hope so. People need to realize how much is still not known about the virus and the long-term impacts, and how short-sighted it is to court infection.

Long flu is a thing. How many times have we cancelled events to prevent the spread of flu?

Exactly. I’m sure that pp thinks she’s being reasonable, but can you imagine offices cancelling holiday parties whenever some staff have family members with respiratory viruses?

I don't think these people remember life (and accepted risks) pre-covid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kentucky school districts cancel classes less than 2 weeks into school year due to Covid-19, viruses and strep outbreaks

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/24/us/kentucky-schools-covid-19-strep-outbreaks/index.html

If Maga country Kentucky is taking this drastic of a step, we all need to be worried.

+1

This is a small school district with smaller schools... plan to be sick.

[Anonymous]

Nope. Never wearing a mask again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kentucky school districts cancel classes less than 2 weeks into school year due to Covid-19, viruses and strep outbreaks

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/24/us/kentucky-schools-covid-19-strep-outbreaks/index.html

If Maga country Kentucky is taking this drastic of a step, we all need to be worried.

+1

Omg COME ON. St. B’s in Silver Spring closed (pre covid) because of the flu one year. It’s about the amount of kids/staff sick. It’s not a preventative measure.

Please start using your brains, people.

[Anonymous]

I was at two pharmacies and Whole Foods today with full on COVID. I sneezed at least twice in each location.

Should I have worn a mask???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was at two pharmacies and Whole Foods today with full on COVID. I sneezed at least twice in each location.

Should I have worn a mask???

Follow the CDC guidelines. If you had declining symptoms, you are free to rejoin society. Given that you are already a misanthrope outside of COVID, i should have written join, not rejoin.

[Anonymous]

People are starting to look at you funny if you don’t have a mask on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People are starting to look at you funny if you don’t have a mask on.

Not true.
But I have noticed a lot more masking in stores. Generally the elderly.