BA.2 surge hitting US in April/May

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For anyone who’s caught this variant, what are your symptoms like?

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Anonymous wrote:There is a surge at our school. Every day another email about multiple positive cases including teachers/staff.

Same.

BA2 is here.

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Anonymous wrote:For anyone who’s caught this variant, what are your symptoms like?

My dh tested positive on a pcr, which was done on day 2 of symptoms. He got a faint positive at home today, day 4. On Monday morning, he was congested and thought his spring allergies started early. Overnight, he awoke with chills and fever. Tuesday am, he was even more congested. Tuesday afternoon, his temperature went up again and fatigue hit. Wednesday, he was still congested, but his fever broke overnight. He got his appetite back. Today, he is tired and he has a sore and raspy throat. My kids woke up in the night last night with chills, fever, body aches and sore throat. I took a pcr today. I've had digestive issues since Monday, including a dry mouth. I don't know if I have covid. My dh said you know when you have it.

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Oh yeah, I knew. Throat felt a bit scratchy Saturday evening, worse Sunday but I thought it was allergies. Monday I was hoarse and felt “off”, and I pretty much knew before I tested (positive on 2 rapids). Had phlegmy mucous in my throat and nose as well. Got more congested throughout the day Monday, lost my sense of taste and smell Tuesday, basically feel “better” today but I am still super winded from doing anything, and I can’t smell/taste at all. But other than that I don’t feel sick anymore. I am slightly congested but not enough to hinder breathing.

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Anonymous wrote:Can we please just stop testing! The less we continue to talk about Covid , new case numbers, etc... the more we will normalize getting it. Your kid is probably going to get sick 5 or 6 times a year. If one of those times it happens to be covid... it statistically and scientifically likely won't matter.

Seriously? Its not the kids in our home I worry about getting sick, its the adults. Lucky you covid is no big deal.

Sorry, I’m not testing my kids’ colds either.

Do you have your kids wear high-quality masks when they have symptoms and are out in public, including at school?

DP. Why would they? They didn’t before covid. People get sick from time to time. It’s normal.

Because that's what the CDC recommends.

Well, I let them eat raw cookie dough, too, so at least I’m consistent with my belief that the CDC guidelines are ridiculously cautious.

Yeah, I mean who cares about other people, am I right? F-them.

That’s what I told my kids. After society sold them out to try and protect people who were on death’s door anyway, I don’t see any reason to care about anyone other than close family and a few friends.

And, you sum up why we have so many issues right now in our country.

I can’t help it if people like you fell into media created hysteria over a virus that is no worse than a cold to the vast majority of people.

Get vaccinated and move on with your life. Stop living in fear.

I guess someone should have told the people I know who died of COVID (including the healthy 40-something) that it’s “no worse than a cold.”

You’re a selfish moron.

Really, you know so many people under the age of like 85 who died of Covid despite being fully vaccinated? So weird.

Agree, very strange. Maybe it’s a group of friends who met at OA or something and have a lot of preexisting conditions. Everyone I know who has had Covid (dozens, including old/obese/cancer patient) are all fine. The virus was worse than a bad flu but they all recovered without long Covid.

I have a family member who taught school in Northern VA in her early 50s who is fully vaccinated and was on a ventilator. She is not teaching due to long covid and carries an oxygen tank. I’m not saying this to be dramatic but there ARE these cases out there. Just because you haven’t met one doesn’t mean they don’t exist.

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Following to say she was told that her booster had worn off since as a teacher she was first to get vaccinated.

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Anonymous wrote:Can we please just stop testing! The less we continue to talk about Covid , new case numbers, etc... the more we will normalize getting it. Your kid is probably going to get sick 5 or 6 times a year. If one of those times it happens to be covid... it statistically and scientifically likely won't matter.

Seriously? Its not the kids in our home I worry about getting sick, its the adults. Lucky you covid is no big deal.

Sorry, I’m not testing my kids’ colds either.

Do you have your kids wear high-quality masks when they have symptoms and are out in public, including at school?

DP. Why would they? They didn’t before covid. People get sick from time to time. It’s normal.

Because that's what the CDC recommends.

Well, I let them eat raw cookie dough, too, so at least I’m consistent with my belief that the CDC guidelines are ridiculously cautious.

Yeah, I mean who cares about other people, am I right? F-them.

That’s what I told my kids. After society sold them out to try and protect people who were on death’s door anyway, I don’t see any reason to care about anyone other than close family and a few friends.

And, you sum up why we have so many issues right now in our country.

I can’t help it if people like you fell into media created hysteria over a virus that is no worse than a cold to the vast majority of people.

Get vaccinated and move on with your life. Stop living in fear.

I guess someone should have told the people I know who died of COVID (including the healthy 40-something) that it’s “no worse than a cold.”

You’re a selfish moron.

Really, you know so many people under the age of like 85 who died of Covid despite being fully vaccinated? So weird.

Agree, very strange. Maybe it’s a group of friends who met at OA or something and have a lot of preexisting conditions. Everyone I know who has had Covid (dozens, including old/obese/cancer patient) are all fine. The virus was worse than a bad flu but they all recovered without long Covid.

I have a family member who taught school in Northern VA in her early 50s who is fully vaccinated and was on a ventilator. She is not teaching due to long covid and carries an oxygen tank. I’m not saying this to be dramatic but there ARE these cases out there. Just because you haven’t met one doesn’t mean they don’t exist.

I don't think you understand statistics. It's highly unlikely for a single individual to know "many" people who have died of covid including under 40s, as PP claimed. Highly unlikely is not the same as "doesn't exist." Maybe the person claiming to know so many dead people works in a nursing home--those employees probably know a lot of people who died of covid. As for long covid, no one's claiming it doesn't exist. But it's not nearly as prevalent as the news stories claim. While symptoms taking a long time to resolve seems to be common with covid, true disabling long covid, which is causing a lot of fear, seems to be a rare phenomenon.

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Question for those who tested positive recently and actually know when exactly the contact with the covid positive was. How long did it take for you to feel the first symptoms.

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Anonymous wrote:Question for those who tested positive recently and actually know when exactly the contact with the covid positive was. How long did it take for you to feel the first symptoms.

2 days

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2 days for my DH. Also 2 days for my friend.

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Anonymous wrote:Question for those who tested positive recently and actually know when exactly the contact with the covid positive was. How long did it take for you to feel the first symptoms.

2 days, almost exactly 48 hours.

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Anonymous/ wrote:My dh said you know when you have it.

LOL- except for all the people that get it and don’t know…

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Anonymous/ wrote:My dh said you know when you have it.

LOL- except for all the people that get it and don’t know…

I should have said, when you're sick from covid (symptoms), you know you're sick with covid. It's not a cold or flu.

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I’m in Los Angeles and was scared and didn’t leave the house for 18 months. Now I don’t give a F and just went or a lakers game, mask free. It’s over 90 degrees here and I’m never wearing a mask again!

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Anonymous wrote:There is a surge at our school. Every day another email about multiple positive cases including teachers/staff.

Same.

I don’t believe this. In Los Angeles we were up to over 40,000 cases a day and even then, we barely had any cases after school. I don’t believe now when cases are low, you’re getting multiple cases a day, unless everyone is maskless. If that’s the case, then you’ve really on my have yourself to blame. If you’re so afraid, make your kids wear masks. The rest of us have moved on.