My very bad “allergies” was Breakthrough Covid the whole time and I feel horrible about it.

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It's okay, op. You did what you thought was right based on the info you had. Thanks for the warning tho.

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Anonymous wrote:This post reads like someone wanted to start yet another thread to "wear your mask!" and invented a story to get the ball rolling. I've had my family tested numerous times for coughs and sniffles and its never been Covid. There are still other viruses out there. Sorry, just not buying this one.

Yes! Perhaps our resident Isreal pp?

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Anonymous wrote:Why do I have a hard time believing you? If it was true, would you post it so publicly?

Publicly? This forum is anonymous.

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Anonymous wrote:I actually don’t think people like OP need to quarantine/isolate. Let’s all start just carrying on.

+1. At some point it’s the most at risk people that need to protect themselves. They need to stay at home, avoid crowds and indoor places. We can’t hide for ever. If you are at risk, wear your masks, don’t meet up with friends, etc.
I have no pre existing condition and I don’t really know anyone that does (perhaps not aware)…

God this is such a selfish point of view. The immunocomprised should just continue to live like hermits so the rest of us can go back to "normal"? The more the rest of the world does go back to normal, the harder it becomes for the immunocomprosed to stay safe. Eff you.

DP, but I find your attitude profoundly selfish - expecting the rest of the world to accommodate you, and to care more about your health than you. Only you can protect you. You can live a pretty normal life if you wear a kn95 anywhere.

The world isn’t really doing anything to allow immunocompromised people to stay home. My cousin is a nurse in a hospital dialysis unit. She works with very ill people who are waiting for transplants. Many of them can’t even get social security disability so they could stay home and NOT live in poverty. One of her patients was working until the day before she was admitted and is worried that if she survives a kidney transplant, she will return home to an eviction as the moratorium is ending.

That's really strange, because both peritoneal dialysis and hemodialysis are automatic qualifiers for SS disability. I work in this area as well. The dialysis must have or be expected to last for at least 12 months, and you need a provider to sign off that you have CKD and this is the case, but that is all. It's essentially fast-tracked.

Would your cousin find the specific citation in law for overage of this helpful?

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Anonymous wrote:This post reads like someone wanted to start yet another thread to "wear your mask!" and invented a story to get the ball rolling. I've had my family tested numerous times for coughs and sniffles and its never been Covid. There are still other viruses out there. Sorry, just not buying this one.

Yes, just like most "I've had my family tested numerous times" threads are usually filled with "But was it a PCR? You probably have COVID. You need to get a PCR and then retest every other day until it's positive."

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Anonymous wrote:You could by asymptomatic and still have allergies. It's not a one or the other.

That is people need to test, even if they think it is allergies.

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Anonymous wrote:I actually don’t think people like OP need to quarantine/isolate. Let’s all start just carrying on.

+1. At some point it’s the most at risk people that need to protect themselves. They need to stay at home, avoid crowds and indoor places. We can’t hide for ever. If you are at risk, wear your masks, don’t meet up with friends, etc.
I have no pre existing condition and I don’t really know anyone that does (perhaps not aware)…

God this is such a selfish point of view. The immunocomprised should just continue to live like hermits so the rest of us can go back to "normal"? The more the rest of the world does go back to normal, the harder it becomes for the immunocomprosed to stay safe. Eff you.

DP, but I find your attitude profoundly selfish - expecting the rest of the world to accommodate you, and to care more about your health than you. Only you can protect you. You can live a pretty normal life if you wear a kn95 anywhere.

The world isn’t really doing anything to allow immunocompromised people to stay home. My cousin is a nurse in a hospital dialysis unit. She works with very ill people who are waiting for transplants. Many of them can’t even get social security disability so they could stay home and NOT live in poverty. One of her patients was working until the day before she was admitted and is worried that if she survives a kidney transplant, she will return home to an eviction as the moratorium is ending.

That's really strange, because both peritoneal dialysis and hemodialysis are automatic qualifiers for SS disability. I work in this area as well. The dialysis must have or be expected to last for at least 12 months, and you need a provider to sign off that you have CKD and this is the case, but that is all. It's essentially fast-tracked.

Would your cousin find the specific citation in law for overage of this helpful?

The process for applying for and achieving disability is very hard and sometimes long. People are VERY often denied disability benefits initially and have to appeal, spending lots of time documenting, having trouble traveling to get documentation or make their cases, and then waiting even longer for decisions.

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I don't know why anyone who is sick would go around without a mask right now.

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74% of the cases in the Provincetown/Barnstable County/July 4th cluster (now close to a total of 900 known cases) involved vaccinated people.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19vaccine/93830

https://www.capecodtimes.com/story/news/2021/07/29/cape-cod-and-islands-47-new-covid-19-cases-882-cases-associated-with-provincetown-cluster/5418704001/

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Reason No.38569 I am not eating out inside restaurants and won't for a looooong time.

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Hey OP thanks for sharing. You are doing your best!!

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case in point, covid is minor and nothing to worry about

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Anonymous wrote:Perhaps it was allergies AND Covid?

Anyway, the lesson is to test as soon as you have any kind of symptom.

But if you have chronic allergies to something like dust, you'd be testing every week! When my Allegra makes the sneezing stop, I know it is allergies. If it doesn't, or if the symptoms change, I'll go to the doctor.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to my PCP earlier this week and tested positive for Covid. I had been having persistent “allergies” - sneezing and congestion - enough to be irritating but not debilitating, and went to my doctor to ask about a stronger allergy medication.
It turns out it wasn’t allergies, it was extremely mild covid. I’m vaccinated.

No, this is not good news. Yes, vaccinated people are more likely to get very mild cases. But I had it the WHOLE TIME. Two weeks or so. Who knows how many people I’ve spread it to? I work from home, but I’ve gone out to restaurants, gone over friends houses, I haven’t been staying home. At all. Haven’t heard of any symptomatic cases from friends I’ve contacted yet but I could have infected someone who is not vaccinated or can’t be vaccinated, has young children, or is immunocompromised.

Wear your masks folks.

Don't you normally suspect something other than allergies when your allergy medicine doesn't resolve the symptoms at least temporarily? How long did you wait?

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Anonymous wrote:Perhaps it was allergies AND Covid?

Anyway, the lesson is to test as soon as you have any kind of symptom.

But if you have chronic allergies to something like dust, you'd be testing every week! When my Allegra makes the sneezing stop, I know it is allergies. If it doesn't, or if the symptoms change, I'll go to the doctor.

This.