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OT: The Covid has returned

The outside mask wearers are the cream of the crop.

You don’t know their situation. It is most likely that they either have some sort of preexisting condition, or have covid or something else and trying to avoid spreading it to judgmental pricks like you.
 
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Got back from 15 days in Japan Tuesday night with whole family congested and tired...no surprise with length of trip and all. steadily worse and this morning multiple positive. Good news is it doesn't seem as bad as previous...much lower fever this time with headache and horrible head congestion.

Wil have plenty of time to follow first week of practice coverage!
My son in-law also came back from Japan with it. Mild symptoms. Tested positive.
 
You don’t know their situation. It is most likely that they either have some sort of preexisting condition, or have covid or something else and trying to avoid spreading it to judgmental pricks like you.

So now we are OK with someone with COVID not being locked away in their bedroom. It’s OK for them to be out as long as they wear a mask? No more need for them to be quarantined for weeks?
 
Got back from 15 days in Japan Tuesday night with whole family congested and tired...no surprise with length of trip and all. steadily worse and this morning multiple positive. Good news is it doesn't seem as bad as previous...much lower fever this time with headache and horrible head congestion.

Wil have plenty of time to follow first week of practice coverage!
It has never gone away.
 
Lots of cancer patients wear masks to protect from all kinds of stuff. It doesn’t have to be just Covid.

I am good with that...my point was more on the comment on they may have COVID and trying not to spread.

Honestly if someone wants to wear a mask, a speedo, pajamas in public, or whatever else...I do not give a shit...bothers me little

But majority of people wearing masks are just still living in fear
 
The place my wife works at just required everyone to mask up again for the next two weeks. They finally stopped wearing masks in February & this is the 2nd time since then that they’ve had to do the two week mask up…
The person making the call on this is a liberal of course…
 
I did because there was one at the house and curiosity got the better of me. Positive. Mild flu, basically.

Honest answer:
It depends

Some companies still have “requested”, as opposed to the formerly “required”, protocols. Duke Energy being one of those.
Since, in my organization, there are many over 60 years of age, as well as a significant number whose immune systems are reduced/compromised, it is agreed upon practice to stay home if not feeling well and to home test for Covid (or lab test, your choice). Since everyone is a hybrid worker (50% work from home, 50% in office) I can allow working from home during this time. T is also expected (not”required”) that if you know you have been exposed that you work from home for five days and test to ensure you do not become positive.

We (my group and myself) consider this to be a “consideration for my fellow workers” rather than a ”burden”.
Vaccination is encouraged but completely a personal choice for each individual to make.

Feel free to make light of the severity of risk that Covid presents today but be aware that there are many for whom the risk is greater than for you.

Given my personal experience, I know that I NEVER want to have Covid again.

My feelings regarding Covid
 
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You don’t know their situation. It is most likely that they either have some sort of preexisting condition, or have covid or something else and trying to avoid spreading it to judgmental pricks like you.
You are right I don’t know everyone’s situation but I certainly can express my opinion. I’ve traveled extensively internationally for the past 15 years and prior to Covid there were very few people ever wearing a mask outside. Anywhere, much less in the US.
 
Testing is few and far between. A lot and I mean a lot of labs going out of business. There are some that got into the lab business because of COVID that went all in and now are going out and there are others that stopped selling their lab services focusing on COVID testing and when it stopped they could not replace the business to survive and cover the equipment investment

Only if symptoms are crazy bad do people even think of testing.
I mean, LabCorp and Quest did roughly 90% of the PCR test throughout Covid. Sure, some small companies invested, but I think you're overstating this quite a bit. LabCorp and Quest literally are the market. If they merged, which they won't, it would immediately get blocked as an antitrust issue.
 
Back in June I started feeling terrible in the office one day. I left and went to a doc in a box. They tested me for strep and flu, and said then wanted to send me home with negative tests. I said wait, aren’t you going ton test me for covid? The doctor said, “we can, but it will be $75 out of pocket. I didn’t know if you would want to pay that.” I said hell yes, if I am going home to my family I would like to know.

A poor like @SDTiger9 would have opted out of such an expensive test.
I’ve had 3 Moderna shots
- 2 confirmed cases of COVID between the 2nd and 3rd and after.
- 2nd case of Bells Palsy (the other 23 years ago) that was vax induced.

I don’t wish any ill on anyone and certainly no perversion of science from a political perspective. Cause that would make you an idiot, like really an idiot.

There are no absolutes in science. There are ALWAYS outliers and iterations and time to learn from. My experience happens to be a mathematical outlier. People ask me that bothers me? No, only thing that bothers me are devout followers unwilling to search for the truth. I wouldn’t change a thing.

But any devout Vaxxer or anti Vaxxer are complete fools especially when taking guidance from a politician, a church or even “A” handful of scientists.

Do GLOBAL research and make smart decisions. COVID like anything else is not a 1 size fits all.

Signed,
Rhombus Quadrangle Polygon

Respect my angles
 
wait the flu is back...

haha now it is funny that the new COVID test tests for flu, covid, and rsv...
For someone who is in the business, you sure who act like an idiot sometime. Also, yes the multi rapid test has been around for about a year and a half now. It has a positive box for each so you can tell which illness you have. As far as a diagnostic tool goes, it was a huge leap forward. I don't think people truly understand the quantum leap we had due to all the research and money being invested into Covid research, including, lab technology, treatment, and vaccines.
 
For someone who is in the business, you sure who act like an idiot sometime. Also, yes the multi rapid test has been around for about a year and a half now. It has a positive box for each so you can tell which illness you have. As far as a diagnostic tool goes, it was a huge leap forward. I don't think people truly understand the quantum leap we had due to all the research and money being invested into Covid research, including, lab technology, treatment, and vaccines.

I agree a multi-test is great...I also agree that the country was over tested and the economy suffered from all the regulations put into place. Both can be OK

But the flu basically disappeared during that time...the numbers prove it
 
Was in the security line at airport this morning and some little beta dude tries to strike up a conversation and says “no Covid protocols anymore and it’s everywhere!”

I responded, “you don’t believe that shit do you?”. Got him to shut up and mind his own business.
 
So now we are OK with someone with COVID not being locked away in their bedroom. It’s OK for them to be out as long as they wear a mask? No more need for them to be quarantined for weeks?

Covid now is much different than than what it was. So yes, I am OK with someone who has covid going outside with a mask.
 
I had Covid (confirmed with a test). On my last cruise, my wife and I got sick (as did our fixed dinner companions), we didn't bother to test. What difference does it make if you have one virus or another?

I am not diminishing the danger / impact of COVID. People I know died from it. I have a friend who had their taste altered. They can't handle the flavor of most cooked food and have been losing weight (now to a bad level). Just like polio the effects are going to linger or pop up for many. This shitty virus may be like chicken pox and manifest in another form like shingles.
 
I am good with that...my point was more on the comment on they may have COVID and trying not to spread.

Honestly if someone wants to wear a mask, a speedo, pajamas in public, or whatever else...I do not give a shit...bothers me little

But majority of people wearing masks are just still living in fear
Apparently it does bother you....
 
I agree a multi-test is great...I also agree that the country was over tested and the economy suffered from all the regulations put into place. Both can be OK

But the flu basically disappeared during that time...the numbers prove it
Bullshit, the flu didn't disappear and the numbers don't prove it. And on the public decisions that were made, were on the premise it would likely save lives. Many died, but many probably didn't because of those decisions. How do you quantify, if you're a public servant tasked with making these decisions, the worth of some lives vs the discomfort to society? Thankfully you're weren't the one playing god.
 
My wife and I home tested positive on Saturday Morning. She has been coughing for 5 weeks and we went to her third trip to doctor on Thursday and he finally diagnosed her with reflux induce cough from her stomach ulcer. They said they would do a Covid test but must have forgot after her chest x-ray.

I started coughing on Wednesday but thought it was just my sinuses from spending so much time outside. I walked 15 miles on Friday and did a two hour weightlifting session at the YMCA.

My wife has minor symptoms but I spent Saturday and Sunday resting in bed with fever, headache and congestion. The pinch nerve in my neck made it hard to find a comfortable position.

Fever and headache is gone today but I still have some congestion.

This is my first dealings with Covid. Thank goodness I’m not vaccinated so it could not trigger spike proteins.
 
I know a bunch of people who got COVID over the last month. Many on a company reward trip in late July. A couple family members had it this weekend. Definitely seems to be going around.

That said, it’s a cold now. We don’t test just as I’ve never tested for routine head colds or coughs. We don’t do anything differently. We certainly don’t wear masks. Just as nobody wore masks prior to 2020.

Best treatment and prevention? Good nutrition, maintain a healthy weight, exercise, vitamins, quality sleep, fresh air and sunshine. Same as it’s always been.

I did see one of those infamous weirdos wearing a N95 mask in his car by himself on the Cooper River bridge last week. Just bizarre.
 
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Seems legit to me Covid in at #3:

So embarrassing.

Live running total from the World Health Org who airs on the side of caution. When you compound the actual real number due to comorbidities such as obesity or cardiovascular disease, the number is even smaller.

6,953,743 deaths
768,983,095 cases =
0.009042777461837 or 0.904% or less than 1%.

Globally, as of 1:56pm CEST, 2 August 2023, there have been 768,983,095confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,953,743 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 30 July 2023, a total of13,492,099,754 vaccine doses have been administered.
 
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