Anonymous wrote:If you have symptoms you need to get a covid test, duh.

I have bad allergies all the time. If I got tested every time I had allergy like symptoms, I wouldn't go a day of my life without being at the CVS getting a test. Unfortunately my local CVS doesn't have any available appointments anytime soon - I try periodically to get one, just to be sure, and they are always booked up. What would you do in my shoes? Just stay home for the rest of your life?

I really wish it were easier and cheaper to do at-home tests. Even $20 per pop for the unreliable at home rapid tests adds up, if I am doing them every time I am congested or have the sniffles - because, like I said, I have bad allergies all the time, and am always congested.

I am vaccinated, have started masking in public again, and - I don't know what else to do that is a reasonable balance of me wanting to leave the house occasionally after my hermit year at home, and not wanting to risk getting sick or getting others sick.

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Anonymous wrote: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/

Interesting article, since we're basing our opinions only on unscientific data points, what does this tell us?
Of the 346 fully vaccinated cases, median age was 42, and 87% were men.

It tells us that middle-aged gay men partied in Provincetown on July 4th, assuming that being fully-vaccinated was sufficient to protect them from getting/spreading COVID and, as a result, we now all know that is not (or is no longer) true given the Delta variant. This is one reason why the CDC is advocating a return to indoor masking even among the vaccinated.

They were probably all Trump Supporters!

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Anonymous wrote: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/

Interesting article, since we're basing our opinions only on unscientific data points, what does this tell us?
Of the 346 fully vaccinated cases, median age was 42, and 87% were men.

It tells us that middle-aged gay men partied in Provincetown on July 4th, assuming that being fully-vaccinated was sufficient to protect them from getting/spreading COVID and, as a result, we now all know that is not (or is no longer) true given the Delta variant. This is one reason why the CDC is advocating a return to indoor masking even among the vaccinated.

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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?

+1 I don’t buy it.

+1 Besides if you are sneezing you shouldn't go to a restaurant. Even pre-COVID. Stay home for a week or two.

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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.

If I follow your advice I would have to test weekly.

Yes, so?

DP here. Not gonna happen. Thankfully my kids don’t run fevers and the school symptom checker asks about “new symptoms not attributable to another condition.” So I just click no to that. I’m not testing for super mild symptoms because the symptom checker also asks if you have a Covid test pending and saying yes excludes you from school. Lots of reasons not to test for mild symptoms.

You have chronic weekly sick symptoms?

What bullshit. Who goes to their doctor for “stronger allergy medicine”.

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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.

WTF? If you are symptomatic you need to stay away from other people or you can spread it. Full stop.

I’m the pp and every minor nasal thing anyone in my family has from here on our is going to be “allergies.” I’m not testing a damn thing unless forced, including for school. So put that in your pipe and smoke it. I’m pro vax and pro mask but enough is enough.

Your ridiculous toddler tantrum is duly noted.

Call it what you want. My kids are at school with yours.

Tantrums are completely acceptable at this point.

I was around sick children, one of whom tested negative for covid. When I started feeling very tired, I isolated from everyone. I also tested negative for covid. It was RSV. We give daily care to my disabled MIL. Not only did I not pass it to her, but no one in my house got it from me.

I understand why OP posted, and I appreciate it. Just treat everything as possible covid. The spread from vaccinated people is worse with delta. Let’s all be cautious.

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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.

WTF? If you are symptomatic you need to stay away from other people or you can spread it. Full stop.

I’m the pp and every minor nasal thing anyone in my family has from here on our is going to be “allergies.” I’m not testing a damn thing unless forced, including for school. So put that in your pipe and smoke it. I’m pro vax and pro mask but enough is enough.

Your ridiculous toddler tantrum is duly noted.

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Anonymous wrote:This is what Alberta is doing. No masks, nor isolation for those that test positive. They are saying their hospital can handle the load. I don't know what to think about it, but a year and a half of lockdowns in Canada did not work. It scared the population out of their minds, my friend won't hand out inside, eat on a patio for fear of covid! Vaccinated with Moderna all in her family.
But she gave me a bowl of strawberries she cut! So I guess she is only worried about me infecting her? I am also fully vaccainted.
I suspect elections are looming and people, even timid Canadians had enough. Though, their enough has no limits, tbh!
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-coronavirus-update-alberta-drops-isolation-rules-for-those-who-test/
https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/doctors-express-outrage-over-alberta-s-plan-to-eliminate-covid-19-quarantine-rules-1.5528114

Huh? How is it almost August 2021 and you still don't understand that "the strawberries she cut" are not your risk factor, but the shared air you breathe?

This is the kind of stupidity we are dealing with.

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.

Oh, well, if it hasn't happened to you,then it hasn't happened to anyone.

Anonymous wrote:This is what Alberta is doing. No masks, nor isolation for those that test positive. They are saying their hospital can handle the load. I don't know what to think about it, but a year and a half of lockdowns in Canada did not work. It scared the population out of their minds, my friend won't hand out inside, eat on a patio for fear of covid! Vaccinated with Moderna all in her family.
But she gave me a bowl of strawberries she cut! So I guess she is only worried about me infecting her? I am also fully vaccainted.
I suspect elections are looming and people, even timid Canadians had enough. Though, their enough has no limits, tbh!
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-coronavirus-update-alberta-drops-isolation-rules-for-those-who-test/
https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/doctors-express-outrage-over-alberta-s-plan-to-eliminate-covid-19-quarantine-rules-1.5528114

Huh? How is it almost August 2021 and you still don't understand that "the strawberries she cut" are not your risk factor, but the shared air you breathe?

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Anonymous wrote:You were only contagious for the first few days, if at all.

But this is why people need to stay home if they are sniffling or coughing. Or at least mask up. OP is not the first person that I’ve heard of who learned their “just allergies” were “just mild Covid”. OP, someone like you visited my dad’s nursing home and infected a resident. Now none of us can visit our loved ones.

This is harsh. Even in non-Covid times, I don't think many sniffly people would go to a nursing home for a visit.

Anonymous wrote:OP, why didn’t you get tested right away?

Because if its “allergies” you can get away with coughing and sneezing on others. OP didn’t want to stay home.