Anonymous wrote:I read in another strand that the measles are back. What on earth would happen if somebody who was unvaccinated had both the measles and COVID-19 at the same time????
Anonymous wrote:I read in another strand that the measles are back. What on earth would happen if somebody who was unvaccinated had both the measles and COVID-19 at the same time????
Anonymous wrote:I read in another strand that the measles are back. What on earth would happen if somebody who was unvaccinated had both the measles and COVID-19 at the same time????
Anonymous wrote:I read in another strand that the measles are back. What on earth would happen if somebody who was unvaccinated had both the measles and COVID-19 at the same time????
Anonymous wrote:I read in another strand that the measles are back. What on earth would happen if somebody who was unvaccinated had both the measles and COVID-19 at the same time????
Oh no! Not coronameasles!!!
Stop trying to harsh someone's mellow. They have been waiting all year for some good news, let them bathe in the glory of being this close to death.
Anonymous wrote:I read in another strand that the measles are back. What on earth would happen if somebody who was unvaccinated had both the measles and COVID-19 at the same time????
Anonymous wrote:I read in another strand that the measles are back. What on earth would happen if somebody who was unvaccinated had both the measles and COVID-19 at the same time????
Anonymous wrote:I read in another strand that the measles are back. What on earth would happen if somebody who was unvaccinated had both the measles and COVID-19 at the same time????
Anonymous wrote:There is a large increase in wastewater for the entire US including VA a large increase in hospitalizations and an increase in deaths from covid right now. This is the second largest wave since 2020. "You need the updated XBB.1.5 vaccine to be better protected against JN.1. A new study this week from Kaiser Permanente of Southern California and Pfizer shows that prior vaccinations do nothing to protect you against hospitalization with JN.1; only the updated XBB.1.5 vaccine does." This is an updated vaccine and NOT called a booster. It's an entire new shot.
Covid hospitalizations and deaths remain at their lowest winter levels since covid emerged despite minimal uptake of the new booster.
Thank you for pointing this out. There are many who have a vested interest in keeping the covid hysteria going.
Add in Pfizer's interest in pushing testing. While they don't manufacture tests, they do have a stake in increased testing so they can try to offset slumping sales of Paxlovid.
Who? Who are these mythical beings who just love the drama. Oh, wait...
Unless you're implying everyone here asking folx to vax and mask is a pfizer shill, you're the one who seems invested in the drama. If you see covid precautions as "hysteria", log off and go suck air indoors for a bit. Unmasked. For science.
So breathe while indoors? Surely you jest. I never breathe when I am inside.
Do you sleep and eat in a mask in your own home? Because if you ever take your mask off anywhere, include your own home, YOU ARE SUCKING AIR INDOORS.
People invested in drama continue to post drama instead of acknowledging point, while calling others the drama. Typical DCUM.
PP's point was basically "catch something", but you didn't even catch the point.
I mean, the point kind of is the mentally ill minority who seem to believe that BREATHING inside without a mask is akin to raw-dogging a stranger. It’s very hard to believe we gave these types any sort of influence during covid.
That’s honestly what they think. They’re calling it airborne HIV.
"They" again? cite it, PP. Otherwise "they" is just you, and the same 4-5 nutters on this board, acting like masks will kill you.
By “they,” I mean the Covid cautious brigade on X/Twitter. I’m completely fascinated by these people because someone I know in real life has gotten sucked in and has essentially blown up her life and cut off all friends and family in the name of staying “safe.” Nutters for sure. But there are way more than 4-5 of them.
Yes, I know people like this too. It's health anxiety that's morphed into full blown mental illness. I feel terrible for their children that have had a normal childhood and childhood experiences taken from them.
My kids travel, play sports, and have several extracurriculars each. They wear masks indoors. Nothing has been taken from them, unless you zealots make minding my kids' faces your business somehow and start some nonsense drama irl like you try here. They're fine. Leave them alone and you will be too.
DP. Your kids have been wearing masks indoors since march 2020? Like everywhere they go indoors, for almost 4 years? I’m actually curious because I had no idea people were doing that. In my world of working in person and sending kids to school, dcum is the only place Covid still exists.
I run HEPA filter Dyson fans in my house, and we don't usually mask at home. And yes, if we're indoors anywhere else, we mask, unless everyone has tested and the airflow is good. When my kid got covid, probably at public school, we all masked at home, and nobody else got it. We followed CDC protocol and masked everywhere, indoors and out, for the specified time. We only experienced this once (so far). I watch the numbers, and when there are surges/spikes, we mask more carefully, even outdoors. It's not a burden.
Nearly half my family is medically sensitive, and covid/long covid could really hurt me personally. I run more careful than most, but I don't think it's unreasonable (though I'm sure it seems that way to the "shrug, whatever" crowd). People calling caution a mental illness and being sad for people like me and my family... are probably a bit unwell themselves, IMO. Nothing about what we do harms anyone, and it may help protect the people mocking us.
Shrug. Whatever.
Masking outdoors? No, that's not necessary.
When my kid was positive, we considered it a kindness/courtesy that cost us nearly nothing, and could keep others safe. Do you, PP. Leave us alone.
Do you mean that you sent your kid to school????? And felt like it was OK because you sent her/they/him with a mask?
Better than keeping her home.
OUTRAGEOUS!!!!!
I know. It's crazy that some people think you should keep kids locked up at home over a cold.
No, I meant it was outrageous that the previous poster sent her child to school with Covid thinking a mask was enough
What do you mean? It's extremely rare for kids to get seriously ill. For most, it's asymptomatic. For every kid in school that knows they have covid, there are probably 3 or 4 others that unknowingly have it.
This. Nobody's testing anymore, and only a handful of people mask. Hopefully nobody at home is young/old/ill/otherwise susceptible.
This board reminds me how much people suck.
Yeah, so I don't understand why some people freak out over people continuing their activities after testing positive, or venturing out without masks. Those people aren't meaningfully changing your exposure to covid because they are dwarfed by the number of people that don't know they have covid.
Realistically, all you can do is protect yourself according to own level of concern.
Indeed. It’s because people have little rational ability to understand risk. Also a subset of people adopted an identity related to covid as opposed to treating it like any other health risk. Pretty classic cognitive errors.
Yes, but it is unusual for people to continue to be so bad at understanding risk. It's a well- known phenomenon for people to grossly overestimate new risks, but we're going on 4 years now.
DP. I referred to it as a cult earlier in this thread because the rhetoric fits. Whenever there’s a surge, it’s like “finally, the time has come, they’re all going to see that we were right!!” They’re like the Heaven’s Gate folks waiting for the Hale-Bopp comet at this point.
I wish they'd just break out the FlavorAid and get it over with then.
I'll be honest, this is the first one my family hasn't gotten. And the reason is simple. Every one of these vaccinations have made me (and some of the other family members) really sick for about 24-48 hours. I seem to get it the worst. I can't take a day or two off work every time I"m vaccinated. (I don't get that way with flu shot, fwiw. But these COVID vaccinations really cause me grief).
I'll be honest, this is the first one my family hasn't gotten. And the reason is simple. Every one of these vaccinations have made me (and some of the other family members) really sick for about 24-48 hours. I seem to get it the worst. I can't take a day or two off work every time I"m vaccinated. (I don't get that way with flu shot, fwiw. But these COVID vaccinations really cause me grief).
Get it on a Friday. Find a 3-day weekend (there have been a few since the new shot came out, and there's one coming up soon).
I get crappy vax reactions, too. But I still get my shot. If the vax is that rough, how awful is the disease without it gonna be?
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