Post by foundmylazybum on Dec 22, 2021 11:46:52 GMT -5
As others have mentioned, no I haven't resigned myself to getting it. I..got the flu shot every year and worked in basic training with the Army (like it was germy) and didn't get the flu 🤷♀️. Maybe bc they..idk REQUIRED EVERYONE to get the shot, and if there were break through cases they isolated those sickies?
I've mentioned here many times that I've seen how public health prevention measures work. I think its possible I could get it but I'm not like "yep its happening"
Also, I think that science is most likely moving beyond vaccines and into some sort of pill for either treatment or possibly prevention. I'm not sure what it will look like (not horse medicine lol) but I think we are moving forward in the concepts of what's next.
Post by sometimesrunner on Dec 22, 2021 12:00:15 GMT -5
I had it in early December. I tested positive within 7 days of getting my booster. I had a slightly runny nose, and then eventually I did lose my sense of smell. We had just been around my immediately family celebrating Thanksgiving when I tested positive, so my parents, siblings, niece, coworkers, and my immediate family tested when I got my positive. Not a single other person tested positive (and they are all vaxxed, except for the 2 year old), so I don't necessarily think it's inevitable, but since we're vaccinated I'm not concerned about horrific consequences.
I haven’t resigned myself to getting it, but I’m really, really worried about going back to my office next month and taking public transportation. I know quite a few fully vaccinated and boosted people who have COVID.
There's no way we won't get it at some point. DS is in daycare and preschool and my H is a school principal dealing with kids in close quarters every day in a mask optional school (he wears his, but I'm sure most kids aren't now). I'm the least at risk working from home, but assume one of them will bring it home and give it to me.
We're in a rural area in Central PA that is usually late to the game for most things so I am not sure that Omicron is here yet, but I imagine it will be very soon. Honestly I'm just trying to make it through the holidays seeing our families and friends (all vax) and expect to be a lot more cautious following the holidays, but we're not going back to isolating ourselves or anything. We'll still see our vaccinated friends and family, we'll probably just avoid indoor dining and crowded spaces.
Post by sillygoosegirl on Dec 22, 2021 12:11:37 GMT -5
Yeah, I'm fully expecting to get it. I'm grateful that my whole household is/will be vaccinated before it happens. And I will continue wearing a mask in the hopes of not getting it soon and hopefully not passing it on to my elderly parents, and hopefully not getting it during a surge when there might not be a hospital bed for me if I am so unlucky as to need it. But at this point it's pretty clear that the cooperative effort necessary to control it just isn't going to happen.
Yes…kids all in school, DH working and traveling for work, cases exploding in the Northeast, I kind of assume we will get it in the next few weeks. If so many boosted adults/newly vaccinated kids weren’t catching it, I might feel more optimistic but all I can do is hope we don’t get too sick. I still have one too young to be vaxxed.
A friend had a bad case last year around this time. She’s since been vaccinated (and likely boosted as a nurse but I don’t know for sure). She now has it AGAIN and so does her infant. The baby has had some difficulty with it although seems to be on the mend and her case was much less severe than the previous one but damn, this virus sucks.
My husband works in a hospital so I was sure from the beginning that we'd get it, but I was also convinced one or both of us would die. The anxiety around that and the shit going on with schools was what was really going to kill me so I am glad to have moved past that.
Everyone I know who has gotten it now was fully and recently vaccinated. I'm guessing it's Omicron and I'm glad that it's a more mild illness. I do assume I'll get it, but it's so random you just really never know.
No. Not resigned. I think there is a reasonable probability, but I also think we are specifically well positioned to get lucky on this.
We are all double vaxxed, and adults are boosted. We live in a high vaccine and mask compliance place. We wear masks in all indoor settings. We focus on outdoor only activities with others (no ballet this year. outdoor concerts only) and don't dine inside restaurants. We won't be attending anymore Christmas or New Years parties. We declined an invitation to Tahoe. I may keep the kids home the first two weeks back.
Could some form of coronavirus be inevitable? Perhaps. that seems likely. But I don't think Omicron is inevitable for us. And just like getting into a car accident *someday* is inevitable for anyone who drives, that doesn't mean it has to happen this season.
Given that coronavirus reinfections are a thing - and every infection comes with a new risk of longer term consequences - I'm striving to hold off longer. I can't control everything and we may still get hit by this surge. But I'm not resigned.
I was thinking about doing a straight up Have You Had It poll but these answers indicate not as many had its as I thought.
Nobody I know in the Bay Area has had it except one family of probablys back in February 2020.
Yeah, I noticed this as well. Living in a super-cautious area means we don’t know as many people here who’ve had it.
I guess I’m resigned in the sense that if I get it, I’m not going to beat myself up about it. I’m not planning to stop taking small risks like seeing friends and family because I can’t do 2020-level isolation again. But I don’t think it’s inevitable that I catch it either. Especially here, where there seems to be a collective will around prevention.
As a side note, everyone keeps talking about the flu like it’s something everyone gets — I’ve never had the flu either!
I feel like we did everything "right" and H and DS still got covid last winter. So I have accepted that, short of wrapping myself in a bubble and not allowing any of us to leave the house, that we are at risk and could get it at any time.
I am much less anxious now that all 4 of us are vaccinated, since by all accounts the vaccine works to mostly prevent severe illness/hospitalization.
Beyond that, I just have to release it. You can do everything "right" and still get it; you can be a raging unvaxxed unmasked asshole and never get it. I have no control over any of it, so I have accepted it that I may get it/my family may get it again.
My husband works in a hospital so I was sure from the beginning that we'd get it, but I was also convinced one or both of us would die. The anxiety around that and the shit going on with schools was what was really going to kill me so I am glad to have moved past that.
I was there previously (sure we'd get it and very fearful a family member would die). I'm also glad to have moved passed that. No hospital time for DH in the near future (it's his second job and he signs up for shifts when interested. so we have some control there).
I’m vaccinated and boosted but I work in manufacturing and am around 4,000 a day, H works in a grocery store and is around hundreds if not 1000+ people a day. We wear masks in public but I 100% believe one or both of us will have it at some point.
Yes I have felt like it was inevitable for awhile. I'm still not quite sure how we didn't get Delta. I sent DD back to school during our huge summer surge in a mask optional environment. I was exposed several times as was DD. I knew for sure it was just a matter of time especially when it took out basically half of our neighborhood. A cold went around our house in September and I still wonder if that was actually Covid but all tests came back negative.
After that we opened up a lot more. That was all so stressful and just not worth it. We are pulling back for Christmas but once January comes we will back in activities and a mask optional school. If Omicron is still raging then I see no way we won't get it.
I was thinking about doing a straight up Have You Had It poll but these answers indicate not as many had its as I thought.
Nobody I know in the Bay Area has had it except one family of probablys back in February 2020.
Up here there is a high correlation between people who think corona doesn't really make you sick and don't want to "let it rule their lives," and those who get it. I expect another post Tahoe/Hawaii/Mexico case boom. Unfortunately, thinking it won't have consequences hasn't correlated with not having consequences.
I haven't had it yet, but I'm assuming we will at some point given how contagious omicron is. We wear masks and my H and I are both vaxxed and boosted (although I had J&J initially, so I guess I could theoretically be less protected?), our newly 5 year old has had one shot so far, but we also have a 19 month old. Both kids are in daycare and we provide care for my H's 95 year old grandmother who lives with roommates. Given omicron's contagiousness, and the various avenues for infection in our lives, I wouldn't be shocked if one or all of us got sick.
Still trying to avoid it, but pretty convinced that we will eventually get it and just hoping it will be mild due to the vaccines helping us out. We are getting together with family this Christmas. Everyone is vaccinated, but some are flying in. We’re just not willing to go any longer without seeing each other as we’ve been very careful all along. I’m just hoping we can get together, and if any of us end up getting breakthrough Covid, so be it.
Post by seeyalater52 on Dec 22, 2021 13:03:23 GMT -5
We are not resigned but we are increasingly afraid given the spike in cases. We are doing everything in our power to prevent it but I’m clear-eyed that we aren’t able to avoid 100% of risk factors (we have a 15 month old in daycare, my wife works in an office although one that requires both masking and vaccination.) At this point I don’t worry as much about us as I do our baby. I’m really not willing for him to roll the dice, small as the risk may be.
Since a lot of people compare the inevitability with the flu, I've had influenza twice in 43 years. Once, as a toddler, I was hospitalized for several days with it. Then again once as an adult. I've only started getting vaccinated for it since DS was born 10 years ago. So my thought is that I will probably get COVID at some point, hopefully once antivirals are available and that if I can delay that as long as possible, treatments will be better if I have complications but it's not like we get the flu every single year.
We wear masks, are fully vaxxed and adults boosted. We work from home but I expect DS will go back to in-person school in January (where there is a mask requirement and all adults and most eligible kids are vaxxed but...omnicron so 🤷♀️ at this point).
ETA: We have changed a lot in the past week and moved to pick-up groceries and we aren't doing some of the holiday gatherings we had planned.
We think we got it via daycare at the verrrrrry beginning of the pandemic, and eventually our luck will run out and we'll get it that way again no matter how much working from home and not going to restaurants the adults do. My hope is by then the 10-20 day quarantines from care will also be a thing of the past.
There was a time when we hoped being vaccinated would mean you'd never get it (similar to measles), but Omicron has made it pretty clear that covid shots will almost certainly be more like flu shots - needed every year and even then not a guarantee against symptomatic infection.
Post by turkletsmom on Dec 22, 2021 13:11:52 GMT -5
My whole house had it in January. I'm sure we will have it again at some point. I'm hoping for much milder cases if/when we get it since we are all vaxxed now. I live in a deep red area with no masks or precautions in schools and only about 50% vax rate. I have zero plans to lockdown again and other than mask wearing, we're back to normal. I'm positive my feelings would be different if we hadn't already had it.
I don't know if I'd use the word resigned, but yes I think it's not unlikely that I will get it at some point. I don't think it's likely that literally EVERYONE will get it, especially in the short term future, and we do have probably fewer risk factors than most (no kids and we primarily wfh, plus we live in a pretty cautious and highly vaccinated area). But, I won't be surprised if we get it either. After my whole family of origin came down with it, even after being extremely careful throughout the whole pandemic, I feel like anything is possible.
We aren't completely locking down but we are pulling back on being out and about and doing things we don't have to do. I doubt we'd end up hospitalized even if we did get it, but I really don't want to get sick ever and when I know something highly contagious is going around, I'd rather be more cautious than I would be otherwise.
It’s in my house right now. It came on swiftly in NE Ohio.
Prior to this week, I hadn’t heard of many people in my extended family or friend group that had it… within two days, there were ten people (who weren’t in contact with each other) that tested positive.
The ship has sailed for us, but prior to having it in the house, I was resigned to getting it eventually. But like others, not in the, “throw all caution to the wind sense”…
We are all fully vaccinated, masked when appropriate, tested when sick, etc.
But, living in Ohio, with people basically acting like Covid isn’t real, we have had to assume a high level of risk just working and going to school.
The new variant is highly able to avoid the vaccines, prior infection immunity, and traditional masks (from what I can tell). It is spreading like wildfire.
No, but I feel like I have very minimal exposure points. I am fully vaxxed and boosted, live with only one other person who is also fully vaxxed and boosted, in an area with mask mandates. Other than going to work, where there are mask mandates and every person in my office is also fully vaxxed and practicing social distancing, I very, very rarely go to indoor events with other people. My husband is still 100% remote working. My only holiday gathering this year required everyone to be vaxxed and provide a negative test. So, obviously still trying to actively avoid it if we can. I worry about long-haul Covid effects most, honestly.