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Anonymous wrote:I think this winter will be difficult in colder climates especially. Masks are now required indoors here, plus doing the recommended social distancing & hand-washing now. We expect capacity limits on indoor dinning, church, etc. to come again later this fall. We are going to take a daily multi-vitamin, get a flu shot and our vaccine boosters/kid vaccines when available. We have a little back stock (basics like toothpaste, peanut butter, chicken stock, beans and toilet paper) here at home if needed. I think that is about all we can do. The rest is out of our hands at this point.

why, after all this time, would you hoard food and TP?

Exactly! What do people think is going to happen? Grocery store closures? When did that ever happen? Some people are just obsessed with COVID and they are Type A so they want to feel like they are “doing something.” I’m so glad we moved from the DMV. I can’t imagine living around all of that fear and anxiety anymore.

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Anonymous wrote:There are a number of ways that anxiety distorts your thought patterns, with the effect of increasing anxiety and making it harder for you to make decisions, enjoy things you'd normally enjoy, and just generally function. Here are a few:

Catastrophizing is when someone assumes that the worst will happen. Often, it involves believing that you’re in a worse situation than you really are or exaggerating the difficulties you face.

Jumping to conclusions can involve both believing that you know what others are thinking (mind reading) and predicting the future (fortune-telling or predictive thinking).

Overgeneralization means believing that the results of one situation predict the results of all future situations. If your thoughts often involve the words "all," "never," "always," and "every" you might be overgeneralizing.

Mental filtering means only seeing the negative parts of situations, and filtering out positive or neutral information.

Black and white thinking means seeing everything in extremes; there is no room for the middle ground and you see everything as all or none. Whatever the issue, there are no shades of gray when you are thinking this way. People are right or wrong and situations are good or bad.

If you recognize your thinking in any of this, especially around Covid, I would highly recommend talking to a medical professional about anxiety. I would also recommend maybe getting a workbook on CBT for anxiety, which will help you recognize when your thinking is being distorted by your anxiety and learn how to make adjustments so that instead of feeding anxiety, you can evaluate situations and make productive choices. Here is one: https://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-Behavioral-Workbook-Anxiety-Step/dp/1626250154

Cool. Covid numbers are still going up at an alarming rate. Even if the person saying so doesn’t exhibit any of the foregoing signs of anxiety. That’s the thing about numbers - they aren’t susceptible to right wing crazies on the internet calling them chicken little.

When you resort to calling reasonable people who disagree with you “right wing crazies” the problem might be with you, not everyone else. This isn’t April 2020.

Whoaaa there cowboy…..it’s worse than April 2020. New variants, vaccine loosing its effectiveness, Covid fatigue, schools closing. I’m a huge fan of CBT. The reality is you have to PLAN for the worst and hope for the best. CBT is great….once you have all your ducks in a row. Meditation and mindfulness is where it’s at.

It's nowhere near as bad as April 2020. The majority of deaths occurred pre-vaccine. Even now, the vast majority of deaths are unvaccinated. An infection that you need a box of Kleenex for, or one that knocks you around for a couple of weeks, is not a big deal when you hugely mitigate that death factor. In addition, schools moved to a virtual-first mode in April 2020. Now, they lead with in-person and will temporarily close if/as necessary. Further, reports are starting to come out that Delta is peaking and/or near peaking. There isn't a big new variant on the tail of Delta right now. Plus, all of these current Delta infections will provide additional resistance (i.e., not "immunity" for those that want to jump this) going forward.

And then there’s FL.

Florida has long peaked.

Frankly, people are running around scared because there's a few thousand more people in the hospital. Out of millions and millions and millions.

Which I find interesting but that's the way it is.

Don't spread misinformation. Especially for people still considering traveling to FL for vacation. Every single Florida county has a case spread of 45 or higher per 100K. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.

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Anonymous wrote:I am vaccinated, with Moderna, dear amused pp, for me this pandemic is over, one way or another.

Just plan for fever, cough, 10 days of quarantine, losing taste and smell, body aches and fatigue.

That's it? BFD.

That’s more or less the worst case scenario for vaccinated people. The most likely scenario is a couple of days of a running nose, or crashing out on the couch for a day and watching TV while you recover.

If you’re vaccinated, go back to living your life however you want.

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Anonymous wrote:I am vaccinated, with Moderna, dear amused pp, for me this pandemic is over, one way or another.

Just plan for fever, cough, 10 days of quarantine, losing taste and smell, body aches and fatigue.

That's it? BFD.

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Anonymous wrote:I think this winter will be difficult in colder climates especially. Masks are now required indoors here, plus doing the recommended social distancing & hand-washing now. We expect capacity limits on indoor dinning, church, etc. to come again later this fall. We are going to take a daily multi-vitamin, get a flu shot and our vaccine boosters/kid vaccines when available. We have a little back stock (basics like toothpaste, peanut butter, chicken stock, beans and toilet paper) here at home if needed. I think that is about all we can do. The rest is out of our hands at this point.

why, after all this time, would you hoard food and TP?

Anonymous wrote:I think this winter will be difficult in colder climates especially. Masks are now required indoors here, plus doing the recommended social distancing & hand-washing now. We expect capacity limits on indoor dinning, church, etc. to come again later this fall. We are going to take a daily multi-vitamin, get a flu shot and our vaccine boosters/kid vaccines when available. We have a little back stock (basics like toothpaste, peanut butter, chicken stock, beans and toilet paper) here at home if needed. I think that is about all we can do. The rest is out of our hands at this point.

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Anonymous wrote:I think this winter will be difficult in colder climates especially. Masks are now required indoors here, plus doing the recommended social distancing & hand-washing now. We expect capacity limits on indoor dinning, church, etc. to come again later this fall. We are going to take a daily multi-vitamin, get a flu shot and our vaccine boosters/kid vaccines when available. We have a little back stock (basics like toothpaste, peanut butter, chicken stock, beans and toilet paper) here at home if needed. I think that is about all we can do. The rest is out of our hands at this point.

Who is WE? And where is it HERE?

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Anonymous wrote:I am vaccinated, with Moderna, dear amused pp, for me this pandemic is over, one way or another.

Just plan for fever, cough, 10 days of quarantine, losing taste and smell, body aches and fatigue.

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Anonymous wrote:I am vaccinated, with Moderna, dear amused pp, for me this pandemic is over, one way or another.

Just plan for fever, cough, 10 days of quarantine, losing taste and smell, body aches and fatigue.

Anonymous wrote:I am vaccinated, with Moderna, dear amused pp, for me this pandemic is over, one way or another.

Anonymous wrote:I think this winter will be difficult in colder climates especially. Masks are now required indoors here, plus doing the recommended social distancing & hand-washing now. We expect capacity limits on indoor dinning, church, etc. to come again later this fall. We are going to take a daily multi-vitamin, get a flu shot and our vaccine boosters/kid vaccines when available. We have a little back stock (basics like toothpaste, peanut butter, chicken stock, beans and toilet paper) here at home if needed. I think that is about all we can do. The rest is out of our hands at this point.

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Anonymous wrote:There are a number of ways that anxiety distorts your thought patterns, with the effect of increasing anxiety and making it harder for you to make decisions, enjoy things you'd normally enjoy, and just generally function. Here are a few:

Catastrophizing is when someone assumes that the worst will happen. Often, it involves believing that you’re in a worse situation than you really are or exaggerating the difficulties you face.

Jumping to conclusions can involve both believing that you know what others are thinking (mind reading) and predicting the future (fortune-telling or predictive thinking).

Overgeneralization means believing that the results of one situation predict the results of all future situations. If your thoughts often involve the words "all," "never," "always," and "every" you might be overgeneralizing.

Mental filtering means only seeing the negative parts of situations, and filtering out positive or neutral information.

Black and white thinking means seeing everything in extremes; there is no room for the middle ground and you see everything as all or none. Whatever the issue, there are no shades of gray when you are thinking this way. People are right or wrong and situations are good or bad.

If you recognize your thinking in any of this, especially around Covid, I would highly recommend talking to a medical professional about anxiety. I would also recommend maybe getting a workbook on CBT for anxiety, which will help you recognize when your thinking is being distorted by your anxiety and learn how to make adjustments so that instead of feeding anxiety, you can evaluate situations and make productive choices. Here is one: https://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-Behavioral-Workbook-Anxiety-Step/dp/1626250154

Cool. Covid numbers are still going up at an alarming rate. Even if the person saying so doesn’t exhibit any of the foregoing signs of anxiety. That’s the thing about numbers - they aren’t susceptible to right wing crazies on the internet calling them chicken little.

When you resort to calling reasonable people who disagree with you “right wing crazies” the problem might be with you, not everyone else. This isn’t April 2020.

Whoaaa there cowboy…..it’s worse than April 2020. New variants, vaccine loosing its effectiveness, Covid fatigue, schools closing. I’m a huge fan of CBT. The reality is you have to PLAN for the worst and hope for the best. CBT is great….once you have all your ducks in a row. Meditation and mindfulness is where it’s at.

It's nowhere near as bad as April 2020. The majority of deaths occurred pre-vaccine. Even now, the vast majority of deaths are unvaccinated. An infection that you need a box of Kleenex for, or one that knocks you around for a couple of weeks, is not a big deal when you hugely mitigate that death factor. In addition, schools moved to a virtual-first mode in April 2020. Now, they lead with in-person and will temporarily close if/as necessary. Further, reports are starting to come out that Delta is peaking and/or near peaking. There isn't a big new variant on the tail of Delta right now. Plus, all of these current Delta infections will provide additional resistance (i.e., not "immunity" for those that want to jump this) going forward.

And then there’s FL.

Florida has long peaked.

Frankly, people are running around scared because there's a few thousand more people in the hospital. Out of millions and millions and millions.

Which I find interesting but that's the way it is.