Most kids I see getting off the bus keep their masks on walking home. Some don't but nobody cares. Kids get it.
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Most kids I see getting off the bus keep their masks on walking home. Some don't but nobody cares. Kids get it.
The two schools my kids are at, elementary and middle in Seattle, are still mostly all masking. Never really stopped when they dropped the mandate. I think a lot of families were keeping it up to ensure they could go on their spring break. Then ba. 2 happened and it would have been foolish to stop then so here we are. We've managed to dodge it so far and my wife works in a hospital so hoping to keep that trend going.
Very little masking here. I still do when I go in stores. And thing#3 has AAU basketball finishing this weekend.
Masks in stores, etc is maybe 1 in 10 here, but per my friends with kids, it's still a solid majority at schools in the city. Out in the county, it's zero for both. 100% political.
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Originally Posted by yeahman
Kids are more committed to safety than adults in this metro area
I realize that isn’t common across the US
I guess they’ve just accepted it as a thing to deal with — it’s a major part of their lives (but not imposing, if that makes any sense); they don’t know different; it just is
My niece’s prom last Friday in the Bay Area was a super spreader event. 70 kids so far tested positive. School is nearly completely maskless. This week, there were kids that attended that prom with friends are already home sick, they’re symptomatic but have not tested positive on an antigen test (yet), they believe that their symptoms are allergies or a cold, they’re going to school maskless, and they’re following the school’s guidance.
Most kids are wearing them at my son’s small HS, but it’s the opposite at the big HS across road. My twins small middle school, in the midst of an outbreak, most kids were not at school after the camping trip, the school strongly suggested that kids wear masks at school, and only about half of those that came to school were masked.
Wow my kid goes to a big HS in sf but most kids are still wearing masks. Def hearing about more sick so we may be about to get prom fall out as well
Yeah, mine called the recent prom a super spreader too
They didn't mask at the prom?Quote:
Originally Posted by ::: :::
Cases are ... "only" up 40% here this week. Here we are, unless it's double or triple nobody bats an eye anymore. A few more folks have put the masks back on inside stores and venues, but hardly noticeable.
They didn’t mask at my HSer’s prom, either. This is the small HS where most (almost all) the kids and staff wear masks every day in class.Quote:
Originally Posted by yeahman
So interesting teen social stuff going on.
The Bay Area prom of my niece, she spent about 20 minutes goofing off with friends in an enclosed photo booth set-up. Something like 7 or 8 friends. She’s the only one of that crew that hasn’t tested positive yet.
Lady coughing out a lung in LAX on Saturday. Wife started to feel weird Monday, coughing and sick Tuesday. Her self test showed 2 lines (positive) today. FML as we are in Amsterdam due to take the train to Paris tomorrow. What to do other than keep her in the hotel room?
O we are double boasted. Her Pfizer and mine was Moderna
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Originally Posted by liv2ski
Did she wear a good mask or raw dog the airport and flight? And you've probably got it also by now, maybe asymptomatic, but in a hotel with her so exposed.Quote:
Originally Posted by liv2ski
He didn’t go so I dunnoQuote:
Originally Posted by yeahman
(Given the proclivity at school, I’d guess yes, but then again maybe not per bodywhomper)
We were masked up a lot. I will take a test tomorrow to see if I am asymptomatic. I was always sick the day after my Moderna boasted, where as she wasn't with her Pfizer, so maybe I am more immune? Neither have tempetures but she is congested, and coughing a little. She has been sleeping all day.Quote:
Originally Posted by SumJongGuy
I don't know what the criteria in Europe are but if risk factors then see about Paxlovid or monoclonals. Good luck.
It takes 5 days for the pharmacy to receive paxlovid, so that is a little late. She just woke up after sleeping all day and said she feels much better than this morning. Hopefully a little better tomorrow and so on.
So how accurate are the in home Covid-19 self tests? Specfically the iHealth Antigen Rapid Test??
A member of the house was tested at a Hospital and was admitted for treatment. I was coughing some Sunday and yesterday and a bit of sinus pressure (which I've had from time to time over the years even before covid came on the scene), but no other symptoms - no fever, no lose of taste, no problems breathing. I did the test yesterday and it showed positive. Nobody else in the house had positive, but still everyone the house is Quarantining and will all be doing another testing round tomorrow. I cancelled all work on sites Yesterday and today and will only be doing remote or alone work. Feeling even much better even this afternoon also.
I regularly get asked the standard questions - cough, any one you been in contact with in the last 10 days with Covid, Travel outside the country, Entering some locations. Get my temperature taken regularly some places and usually it is lower than 98....
So 5 days after the symptoms go away and 2 negative tests is safe? Or longer??
Pretty sure the last update recommendations was to isolate 5 days after positive but OK to go out MASKED after 5 days if you're feeling OK. Take the mask off after day 10.. unless still symptomatic, fever, etc..Quote:
Originally Posted by RShea
If I am inside I am masking when out still (except for eating and drinking something.) Outdoors was a different story, but have no problem masking for 10 days at all times indoors or out if that needs to be done and is the recommendation. Thanks. Found CDC Quarantine where you enter the date of your first symptoms, and they say May 28th, and travel later date.Quote:
Originally Posted by SumJongGuy
Study suggests association between air pollution and severity of covid outcomes:
An extensive study of thousands of COVID-19 patients in Ontario hospitals found links between the severity of their infections and the levels of common air pollutants they experience. “This adds to existing evidence that air pollution is a silent killer,” said Chen Chen, an environmental epidemiologist at the University of California and lead author of the study.
https://www.cmaj.ca/content/194/20/E693
Just here to say, get the Moderma booster. It is working for me. Wife feeling a bit better each day, but is sleeping a bunch, so there goes the first week of the trip. O well, first world problems.
Hope that she's back to normal soon. I guess the bright side is you aren't finding this out before your flight home in which case you would be trapped there until she tests negative.
Taking the family to Europe the summer and I'm a bit nervous about one of us testing positive and not being allowed back in. It happened to my in-laws a couple months ago. The requirements are such bullshit, it makes absolutely no scientific sense when our own country is such a free-for-all.
Look on the bright side - by then it may not be *worth* coming back in.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yonder_River
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Adding a checkmark to the "highschool prom equals superspreader" column. Niece's classmates in a bay area county are testing positive - sister says they are dropping like flies. Photos show a large building with high ceiling (like costco high), but no masks.
My niece has escaped the firing squad from prom so far (two weekends ago). She was directly exposed with long periods unmasked in small and minimally ventilated places where many others were infected at prom and exposed from secondary “attack” by infectious prom attendees. This is their second time of high exposure w/o being infectious. Most of their choir and their choir teacher were all infected during/after a week-long trip where no mitigation measures other than vax protection were utilized and my niece never tested positive after over a week of pcr testing after the trip. Wild.
Two weeks post prom here and all kinds of cough/crud is going around the high schools but I don't think anybody is testing for covid. Spring sports divisional and state tournaments are going on and nobody wants to miss their chance to compete.
Like how there wasn't a single positive COVID case in the NCAA national football championship teams or the Superbowl teams.Quote:
Originally Posted by yeahman
My daighter's prom had a lot of positive cases (school was testing most students through last week). At least 3 of the kids my daughter went with got it. My kid wore a mask most of the night. She hates getting sick.
Saw my 2nd covid patient in MONTHS......family wanted patient to get checked out. Day 8 of illness, doing absolutely fine. 80+ yrs old, triple mRNA vacc, no 4th shot. Lung ultrasound really unimpressive, chest xray looked great, was just tired. Kind of mirrored a lot of what we saw since the new year. Elderly being admitted with minimal hypoxia, typically being admitted for weakness/dehydration.
My point, while there may be a lot of covid, we have seen very little with any significant disease burden since Delta.
It’s interesting to see how death rates differ in different parts of the country. Where I live, we seem to lag behind other areas of CA but our spikes last longer. While other rural counties, like Del Norte county, have long, tall, and sustained peaks.
Death rate in the country per 100k was second highest during omicron b1 surge. First was Jan 2021. Currently, at national level, we are at the same level as the beginning of the delta surge back in late July. I hope we stay that way, but b4 and b5 apparently are concerning.
I was happy to seen the testers at my only local county clinic (there’s another in truckee) finally wearing better ppe. The first time I went in mid 2020, most worker at the clinic were only wearing face shields and the attending nurse was only wearing her reading glasses.
Today, there was an old hippy man (70+ years) that tested positive today from the clinic’s AG test who was super confused and getting into everybody’s business as he was struggling to hear what staff at the testing center were telling him and they were struggling to hear him. They finally got him connected to the attending nurse at the clinic about 20 minutes later with a fair bit of anxiety for him and the staff. Felt pretty bad for the guy.
I was at my DIL's osteopathic med school graduation. Masks required for grads, faculty, and audience but I was surprised that in that setting few of the faculty and grads wore good masks.
You and your sons are real doctors and you let one of them marry a fake doctor?Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
Well, I have been pressing her to move forever, maybe the CDC is trying to hrlp me outQuote:
Originally Posted by skaredshtles
In my lengthy briefing last week I said:Quote:
Originally Posted by Trackhead
"BA 2.12.1 Omicron is so contagious that there will still be some staff who get sick. Our vaccines prevent us from getting severely ill, but you don’t have to be severely ill to be unable to work
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• The severity of this wave is expected to be significant, peaking in June or July, though less severe vs the initial Omicron wave this last winter (25-50% the impact).
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• Expect some staffing disruptions and to a lesser extent an increase in patients (larger if BA.4/BA.5 become dominant)."
We're between 7 and 5 days in here.
Daughter caught it at prom (who the fuck was responsible for putting 600 students into 1500 square feet hotel suite?).
Wife and I developed symptoms 2 days later.
Both wife and I double vaxxed (pfizer), double boosted (one pfizer, one moderna), daughter is double vaxxed, single boosted.
We all had faucet nose the first 2 days. After that the most common symptom was slight fever, fatigue and some body aches. My body aches became really severe days 2-4 to the point where my hip flexors hurt so badly I couldn't sleep. Last night was the first time I've slept soundly all night in 3 nights. All we do is water and vitamin C, with an aspirin for me last night to deal with aches.
Daughter tested negative last night, wife is still testing positive, I'm not bothering until I feel 100%, which is getting closer today.
Wife has been taking care of her 90+ y.o. double vaxxed, double boosted parents 10 minutes away, managed to not infect them and got her brother to finally cover for the interim.
All in all, it's been the weirdest illness I can remember with symptoms of a severe cold, maybe a little fever, but incredible body aches. We're all hoping for no long term symptoms.
You don't even know what you're talking about. How are they a fake doctor?Quote:
Originally Posted by riser4
DOs are absolutely real physicians.Quote:
Originally Posted by riser4
Perhaps you were confusing with a DC, which is a fake doctor?
He’s usually confusedQuote:
Originally Posted by Summit
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Tune up the sarcasm meters folks.