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Anonymous wrote:Yes. And people are treating it like it’s a cold or a flu. The school is not is freaking out or demanding quarantines if exposed. Living with Covid has commenced and it’s working out just fine.

…unless you need a negative test to travel.

Or you have a child under 5 in daycare. We just finished up a mandatory 10 day quarantine due to a positive caregiver at my toddler’s daycare. It isn’t working out just fine or being treated like a cold or flu or RSV until the mandatory 10 day daycare quarantines end.

We need to transition to a system that treats COVID like any other illness. People that want to mask can. There are many treatments. Stay home if you are sick.

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Anonymous wrote:Went to Final Four tournament in NOLA. Didn’t wear a mask for five days of drinking on Bourbon Street and was in a stadium with 10,000 of my closest unmasked friends. Did I get COVID? Eh, maybe? Who knows. I’m feeling fine and have no plans to test. Only in DC (and maybe Portland?) are people so uptight about COVID now.

I think the people who are most concerned are those of us:

-Caring for an elderly or immunocompromised loved one
-Have an infant or toddler with health issues
-Can’t travel if we test positive

LOL no the most uptight people I know don't fall into those categories at all. They're way too Covid-cautious to travel!

Do they have other health conditions? The most COVID cautious people I know (including me) either have themselves or have family members who have medical conditions like POTS, fibromyalgia, Ehlers-Danlos, or Hashimotos, or any medical condition with which they struggled for years without a diagnosis or effective treatment, and who are afraid that contracting COVID could result in piling more debilitating symptoms on top of what they already live with. If that isn't you, you are lucky.

I honestly see no correlation between the level of Covid caution and actual health risk in the people I know. I have multiple family members who have immune conditions, and aside from getting vaxxed and boosted, they are doing everything normally. Then I've got single friends with no health issues who are wildly anxiety-riddled and don't ever want to leave their apartments. Then there are the group that shames parents for not wearing masks outdoors at pickup and dropoff, but who go to Disney regularly. Everyone is just making up their own rules. I just wish people would recognize that people have different risk tolerances and not constantly covid-shame people.

You are the ultimate shamed.

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Anonymous wrote:Yup. Also why wedidnt make big travel plans for spring break.

Some of us need to travel, and we already lost 2 years.

You have not lost anything. And you don’t need to travel, you want to.

People close to us got covid. Haven't had anyone in my immediate circle of friends or family sick with covid in months. That said, it was mild, at least for now.

Boosters started wearing off. It's been 5-6 months since the most of us got them.

CDC still has Fairfax county at “low.” It will be interesting to see what happens. I have loved being maskless at school and it sucks to think of reversing that so close to the end of the year. I’m not sure if they will just got back to masks or re start the tracing business.

Yes, multiple close contact notifications in last week at DC charter school.

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Anonymous wrote:Went to Final Four tournament in NOLA. Didn’t wear a mask for five days of drinking on Bourbon Street and was in a stadium with 10,000 of my closest unmasked friends. Did I get COVID? Eh, maybe? Who knows. I’m feeling fine and have no plans to test. Only in DC (and maybe Portland?) are people so uptight about COVID now.

I think the people who are most concerned are those of us:

-Caring for an elderly or immunocompromised loved one
-Have an infant or toddler with health issues
-Can’t travel if we test positive

LOL no the most uptight people I know don't fall into those categories at all. They're way too Covid-cautious to travel!

Do they have other health conditions? The most COVID cautious people I know (including me) either have themselves or have family members who have medical conditions like POTS, fibromyalgia, Ehlers-Danlos, or Hashimotos, or any medical condition with which they struggled for years without a diagnosis or effective treatment, and who are afraid that contracting COVID could result in piling more debilitating symptoms on top of what they already live with. If that isn't you, you are lucky.

I honestly see no correlation between the level of Covid caution and actual health risk in the people I know. I have multiple family members who have immune conditions, and aside from getting vaxxed and boosted, they are doing everything normally. Then I've got single friends with no health issues who are wildly anxiety-riddled and don't ever want to leave their apartments. Then there are the group that shames parents for not wearing masks outdoors at pickup and dropoff, but who go to Disney regularly. Everyone is just making up their own rules. I just wish people would recognize that people have different risk tolerances and not constantly covid-shame people.

4/5 of us tested positive with symptoms this week. We think my husband brought it home from a work trip down south. We are on spring break this week, but the kids will miss the first week back.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. And people are treating it like it’s a cold or a flu. The school is not is freaking out or demanding quarantines if exposed. Living with Covid has commenced and it’s working out just fine.

…unless you need a negative test to travel.

Or you have a child under 5 in daycare. We just finished up a mandatory 10 day quarantine due to a positive caregiver at my toddler’s daycare. It isn’t working out just fine or being treated like a cold or flu or RSV until the mandatory 10 day daycare quarantines end.

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Anonymous wrote:Up in Mass.

After 2 years of avoiding it, including when my kids got it in January, I got it in March. I had every symptom. Still not 100%. Headaches every day, but so happy to be able to smell again!

How long did it take for smell/taste to come back? I’m sick now and only on day 4 of anosmia and it sucks.

I was exposed on 3/14, symptoms started 3/16. I could faintly start smelling my coffee bean (my daily test) on 4/4 and it’s gotten better every day this week. For taste, I never fully lost it. I could taste at the very end range of sweet and sour, but nothing in between. For example, if I had dark chocolate I tasted sugar, but no chocolate.

Good luck!

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Anonymous wrote:Went to Final Four tournament in NOLA. Didn’t wear a mask for five days of drinking on Bourbon Street and was in a stadium with 10,000 of my closest unmasked friends. Did I get COVID? Eh, maybe? Who knows. I’m feeling fine and have no plans to test. Only in DC (and maybe Portland?) are people so uptight about COVID now.

I think the people who are most concerned are those of us:

-Caring for an elderly or immunocompromised loved one
-Have an infant or toddler with health issues
-Can’t travel if we test positive

LOL no the most uptight people I know don't fall into those categories at all. They're way too Covid-cautious to travel!

Do they have other health conditions? The most COVID cautious people I know (including me) either have themselves or have family members who have medical conditions like POTS, fibromyalgia, Ehlers-Danlos, or Hashimotos, or any medical condition with which they struggled for years without a diagnosis or effective treatment, and who are afraid that contracting COVID could result in piling more debilitating symptoms on top of what they already live with. If that isn't you, you are lucky.

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Anonymous wrote:We have friends in MoCo who have it now. Don’t know anyone personally with it in Nova right now, but I’m sure it’s around. People just aren’t testing/advertising as much. I refuse to travel w/a testing requirement so staying domestic until they get rid of it.

People are sending their kids to school sick and students aren’t masking anymore. That’s why our school went from 0 to 3 to 9 just this week.

One sick family sent their kids to school and they were quickly sent home (within 2 hours). Damage was already done. Very frustrating as we are trying to travel this weekend for spring break. If anyone tests positive, we must cancel.

Well they probably had it they day before too, just weren't feeling sick yet. If you absolutely need to travel, why not just mask your kids up for a few days ahead of time?

+1 That's what we are doing, and we aren't required to test in order to travel. That's what we have done since vaccines were available and how I view "living with COVID." When cases rise, or before gathering indoors with vulnerable family members, or before important events, we wear the highest quality masks to do as much as possible to prevent getting sick. We test if we have symptoms. We did the same in the late summer, when we canceled a Disney vacation because the possible risk of getting COVID in a high transmission area wasn't worth losing out on the beginning of fall sports. None of us can avoid getting COVID at some point, but I will continue weighing risks and rewards and adjusting our behaviors and mitigation strategies in an effort to keep doing the things that are most important to us without disruption or sickness.

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Anonymous wrote:Went to Final Four tournament in NOLA. Didn’t wear a mask for five days of drinking on Bourbon Street and was in a stadium with 10,000 of my closest unmasked friends. Did I get COVID? Eh, maybe? Who knows. I’m feeling fine and have no plans to test. Only in DC (and maybe Portland?) are people so uptight about COVID now.

I think the people who are most concerned are those of us:

-Caring for an elderly or immunocompromised loved one
-Have an infant or toddler with health issues
-Can’t travel if we test positive

LOL no the most uptight people I know don't fall into those categories at all. They're way too Covid-cautious to travel!

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Anonymous wrote:We have friends in MoCo who have it now. Don’t know anyone personally with it in Nova right now, but I’m sure it’s around. People just aren’t testing/advertising as much. I refuse to travel w/a testing requirement so staying domestic until they get rid of it.

People are sending their kids to school sick and students aren’t masking anymore. That’s why our school went from 0 to 3 to 9 just this week.

One sick family sent their kids to school and they were quickly sent home (within 2 hours). Damage was already done. Very frustrating as we are trying to travel this weekend for spring break. If anyone tests positive, we must cancel.

Well they probably had it they day before too, just weren't feeling sick yet. If you absolutely need to travel, why not just mask your kids up for a few days ahead of time?