Are any of these okay right now - Exposure risk?

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Anonymous wrote:We're back to entertaining other couples and families in our house, without masks. We've given this thing more than enough time. Now we're getting on with living our lives.

I'm going to the gym five days a week because I want to be healthy for if/when I get it.

I would do any of the things you mentioned without hesitation.

The goal was two weeks to flatten the curve so that we don't overwhelm the medical system. Mission accomplished, congratulations everyone. Now it's on with life.

Everyone else is free to make their own risk calculations. We have had some older friends turn down invitations to spend time with us on our boat, and that's perfectly fine and we don't fault them one bit.

Not if/when, just when.

Yeah, either way. I know a number of people who had it months ago, even after doing everything right, and it was such a non-issue for healthy 40-somethings. Like a sore throat for a day. The only reason they were tested at all is because they're medical workers.

Then I've encountered a bunch of older people, including many who are obese, who had to get tested for employment, and they were totally shocked that they were positive. They had never had any symptoms. And these people are 50s/60s, and over 300 pounds.

I think there are a lot of people out there who have had it and don't even know it.

This is so incredulous; you know multiple people weighing 300 lbs, and they just happened to have gotten 1 PCR test just when happened to be infected? And they all told you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're back to entertaining other couples and families in our house, without masks. We've given this thing more than enough time. Now we're getting on with living our lives.

I'm going to the gym five days a week because I want to be healthy for if/when I get it.

I would do any of the things you mentioned without hesitation.

The goal was two weeks to flatten the curve so that we don't overwhelm the medical system. Mission accomplished, congratulations everyone. Now it's on with life.

Everyone else is free to make their own risk calculations. We have had some older friends turn down invitations to spend time with us on our boat, and that's perfectly fine and we don't fault them one bit.

Not if/when, just when.

Yeah, either way. I know a number of people who had it months ago, even after doing everything right, and it was such a non-issue for healthy 40-somethings. Like a sore throat for a day. The only reason they were tested at all is because they're medical workers.

Then I've encountered a bunch of older people, including many who are obese, who had to get tested for employment, and they were totally shocked that they were positive. They had never had any symptoms. And these people are 50s/60s, and over 300 pounds.

I think there are a lot of people out there who have had it and don't even know it.

This is so incredulous; you know multiple people weighing 300 lbs, and they just happened to have gotten 1 PCR test just when happened to be infected? And they all told you?

Sometimes I work with people who are consultants and technical industry experts whose work requires that they travel around a lot. They might work at a site for about six weeks, take a month or two off, then go to another site. It's essential work, so it never stopped. And before they go to each new site, they generally get tested for COVID under the current protocols. That's how they found out that they were positive, and this was back in the mid-summer when they were positive. By the time I met them two months later, they were obviously negative.

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Also, you're not using "incredulous" correctly. *You* are/were incredulous. A statement or anecdote can not be incredulous, as it is not sentient.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also, you're not using "incredulous" correctly. *You* are/were incredulous. A statement or anecdote can not be incredulous, as it is not sentient.

Thanks. I remain incredulous.

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Anonymous wrote:Also, you're not using "incredulous" correctly. *You* are/were incredulous. A statement or anecdote can not be incredulous, as it is not sentient.

Thanks. I remain incredulous.

Oh believe me, I was shocked, too. I was meeting with this group, and a few of the people could barely fit in the conference room chairs. And we're just in casual conversation about COVID safety measures, and they start telling us how they already had it.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone personally know of anyone that got Covid from any of these specific activities?

Yes.

I know two people who got Covid from haircuts. One in March and one in June. I also know someone who got it in the course of traveling. And I know someone who got it from eating indoors at a restaurant.

If contact tracing is crappy to non-existent, especially back in March, how do they know this?

Yes, how did these patients trace the exposure?

it makes for a more interesting story to scare their friends with.

Because the hairdressers contacted both of them.

She got a haircut and four or five days later the hairdresser called her and told her that a client whose hair he had cut the day before she came in had tested positive for covid so the hairdresser got tested and he was positive too. That was the case in March.

The second case the hairdresser called as well and the client got tested and was positive too.

I'm calling bullshit on the March scenerio. Who was getting tests in March? The US had so few tests available, you had to be severly ill in the hospital to get a test. But all these people in the hairdresser's realm are just getting running around being tested like that? In March? I don't think so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We're back to entertaining other couples and families in our house, without masks. We've given this thing more than enough time. Now we're getting on with living our lives.

I'm going to the gym five days a week because I want to be healthy for if/when I get it.

I would do any of the things you mentioned without hesitation.

The goal was two weeks to flatten the curve so that we don't overwhelm the medical system. Mission accomplished, congratulations everyone. Now it's on with life.

Everyone else is free to make their own risk calculations. We have had some older friends turn down invitations to spend time with us on our boat, and that's perfectly fine and we don't fault them one bit.

HA! You may be done with Covid but it's not done with you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're back to entertaining other couples and families in our house, without masks. We've given this thing more than enough time. Now we're getting on with living our lives.

I'm going to the gym five days a week because I want to be healthy for if/when I get it.

I would do any of the things you mentioned without hesitation.

The goal was two weeks to flatten the curve so that we don't overwhelm the medical system. Mission accomplished, congratulations everyone. Now it's on with life.

Everyone else is free to make their own risk calculations. We have had some older friends turn down invitations to spend time with us on our boat, and that's perfectly fine and we don't fault them one bit.

HA! You may be done with Covid but it's not done with you.

Bring it on. I'll be happy to set my immune system against it and be done with this. I spit on COVID.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're back to entertaining other couples and families in our house, without masks. We've given this thing more than enough time. Now we're getting on with living our lives.

I'm going to the gym five days a week because I want to be healthy for if/when I get it.

I would do any of the things you mentioned without hesitation.

The goal was two weeks to flatten the curve so that we don't overwhelm the medical system. Mission accomplished, congratulations everyone. Now it's on with life.

Everyone else is free to make their own risk calculations. We have had some older friends turn down invitations to spend time with us on our boat, and that's perfectly fine and we don't fault them one bit.

HA! You may be done with Covid but it's not done with you.

DP. You can make snarky comments like that, but the reality is this is how a lot people feel. And it's not just because they want pedicures and hair cuts, it's that they can't see elderly parents who are languishing in nursing homes. It's that their kids are getting subpar educations, parents don't know who to turn to for a kid who is in 2nd grade and struggling with reading.