Post by gretchenindisguise on Aug 17, 2021 16:19:05 GMT -5
Similar to how I felt about Graham - given that he's vaccinated - I hope he has a very mild case and will help shout from the mountains that vaccination helped.
eta: but wtf to being treated while being asymptomatic. Is this a thing I don't know about?
"The Governor will isolate in the Governor's Mansion and continue to test daily. Governor Abbott is receiving Regeneron's monoclonal antibody treatment.
"Governor Abbott is fully vaccinated against COVID-19, in good health, and currently experiencing no symptoms. Everyone that the Governor has been in close contact with today has been notified. Texas First Lady Cecilia Abbott tested negative."
Similar to how I felt about Graham - given that he's vaccinated - I hope he has a very mild case and will help shout from the mountains that vaccination helped.
He actually HAS been encouraging vaccines.
He just won’t mandate them or masks because “personal responsibility.”
Similar to how I felt about Graham - given that he's vaccinated - I hope he has a very mild case and will help shout from the mountains that vaccination helped.
Yes. But, they are not doing enough to promote vaccinations because they don’t want to scare off their base. My Trumpian city council member organized a protest against vaccine mandates in Manhattan the other day (shitty turnout, yay) and was jeered when he said he was vaccinated and promoted vaccinations. But he has spent months and months and months denigrating any kind of safety measure, so he can’t be shocked that this is the result.
“The Transportation Security Administration will extend its US federal transportation mask mandate through January 18, according to a source familiar with the matter, who requested anonymity because the announcement has not been made public.
The mandate was set to expire on September 13.”
This is a relief to me as we are set to travel on 9/15.
“The Transportation Security Administration will extend its US federal transportation mask mandate through January 18, according to a source familiar with the matter, who requested anonymity because the announcement has not been made public.
The mandate was set to expire on September 13.”
This is a relief to me as we are set to travel on 9/15.
I have been anxiously awaiting for something about this...I travel for work (well, have been putting off going to FL for obvious reasons) but the September deadline was making me nervous.
“The Transportation Security Administration will extend its US federal transportation mask mandate through January 18, according to a source familiar with the matter, who requested anonymity because the announcement has not been made public.
The mandate was set to expire on September 13.”
This is a relief to me as we are set to travel on 9/15.
I have been anxiously awaiting for something about this...I travel for work (well, have been putting off going to FL for obvious reasons) but the September deadline was making me nervous.
Yes, I’ve been anxious about this also.
I have a work conference in October (in Florida no less), and was anxious about the mandate expiring.
“The Transportation Security Administration will extend its US federal transportation mask mandate through January 18, according to a source familiar with the matter, who requested anonymity because the announcement has not been made public.
The mandate was set to expire on September 13.”
This is a relief to me as we are set to travel on 9/15.
I have been anxiously awaiting for something about this...I travel for work (well, have been putting off going to FL for obvious reasons) but the September deadline was making me nervous.
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Yes me too as I am bringing three unvaccinated kids with me and was so stressed about it.
I've been a hermit since the beginning of the pandemic, I still mask indoors and out. Work in a 2 person office and we mask when in the same room.
We had our annual charity golf outing last Wed which I run. It was fully outside and I wore my mask the whole time (no one else did), but people were still breathing all over me at check-in and a couple of people hugged me.
I felt like my allergies were a bit more annoying than usual so I got a PCR test on Saturday, not really expecting it to actually be positive but I got the email results this evening. I'm still shocked that it was.
My father and stepmother, whom we haven't seen since February 2020 were flying in tomorrow morning for a visit. That's cancelled and I'm feeling pretty devastated.
I'm fully vaxxed but my WBC count was low when I got my 1st shot so maybe I didn't have a great immune response.
Sorry for the word vomit, I'm just so sad, angry and stressed.
They’re about to recommend that everyone who got moderna or Pfizer get boosters after 8 months. Anyone else starting to feel hopeless against this all?
Also I head to Florida for a week tomorrow for work and I feel like I’m being sent into the eye of the storm. LOL. Sob.
Oh well this sucks:( Is there any out here? I’d avoid La, FL and a few other southern states like the plague, pun intended. I’d never come here now if I didn’t live here!!
Not really. I could have said no a few months ago but at this point it’s too late. I bought a few N95s, will sanitize like crazy and try to head back to my room between commitments. We bought plexi glass dividers for the area I will sit in. Hopefully it’s all enough.
They’re about to recommend that everyone who got moderna or Pfizer get boosters after 8 months. Anyone else starting to feel hopeless against this all?
No, not because of this. Infectious disease experts have said for a while now that COVID is going to be endemic. Sure, recommending getting a booster after 8 months is different from a yearly influenza vaccine, but once COVID has been around longer, and we have all have more built up immunity to it, I think it's really going to be the same as influenza. Some years influenza is really bad and more people get really sick and/or die from it, but by in large, vaccines save our bacon, so to speak. I'll feel a lot better, though, when age-based eligibility is the same as it is with influenza vaccines.
This part, in particular, makes me feel better, we will have more immunity.
I’ll get boosters whenever they are recommended/offered to me, but pro-vaxx, immunocompetent people like me getting a third shot ain’t gonna be what changes the course of this pandemic when 30% of the country still refuses. We’d be better off if all of those people would get just one shot instead.
Employer mandates are one way to get this done, as well as mandates to enter certain locations. I've noticed vaccinations are rising in NYC again since the most recent announcements regarding work requirements and restaurant, gym and cultural attraction visit requirements. It's still not going to convince everyone, but it's something.
I'm back in the office 3 days a week. No one else wears a mask indoors, and I have a coworker coughing her face off all day 3 cubes over (she says she's covid negative)
I wish they would send us home again. But it feels like everyone here thinks covid is over and done.
They’re about to recommend that everyone who got moderna or Pfizer get boosters after 8 months. Anyone else starting to feel hopeless against this all?
No. I think it’s inevitable that we will all get Covid at some point but I don’t feel hopeless. This wave will pass. I don’t love the boosters but at least it’s something proactive and not reactive. I wish there was more info on J&J though. I feel like a dope for getting the first one available to me.
They’re about to recommend that everyone who got moderna or Pfizer get boosters after 8 months. Anyone else starting to feel hopeless against this all?
No. I think it’s inevitable that we will all get Covid at some point but I don’t feel hopeless. This wave will pass. I don’t love the boosters but at least it’s something proactive and not reactive. I wish there was more info on J&J though. I feel like a dope for getting the first one available to me.
I don’t think you should feel like a dope or like you got duped.
You did the best you could with the info and availability we had. And it’s still quite effective against hospitalization and death. It’s not like you received a placebo.
They’re about to recommend that everyone who got moderna or Pfizer get boosters after 8 months. Anyone else starting to feel hopeless against this all?
I’m actually feeling hopeless bc I got J&J at the urging to get the first available &…once again!…am being iced out of a booster shot despite it being less effective than either of the Mod/Pfiz. I’m also obese so at risk for complications
I have a sinking feeling that we will see an increase on this board of cases. I am so sorry Bad Dingo .
And we’ve got to stop treating getting infected as some sort of morality failing (re: the “but I did everything right until I reentered society for 5 minutes one time!” comments). This isn’t March 2020. You are not to blame if you are vaccinated and still get Covid. It sucks, yes, it absolutely sucks, but I wish we could all stop talking about the spread of an incredibly infectious AIRBORNE disease as a moral failing.
Thank you
And to put a positive spin on it each time we have an exposure we are training our body (again) how to fight this thing. It means each time it is less and less of a scary virus to our body. I hope it means that future exposures will continue to be even more mild for anyone who gets a breakthrough case.
I am fully prepared that I will get it at some point. I won't feel shame when it happens. It will be annoying, but it won't be because I did something wrong.
Post by chilerellanos on Aug 18, 2021 8:25:33 GMT -5
Also, those that got the J&J vaccine talked to their doctors about guidance?
Idk how much the doctors will know, because I was having a pretty in depth convo with one of the docs I work with on Sunday at work, and boosters never came up at all.
But they would probably at least be able to find out if something is in the works. 🤷🏼♀️
We were going to do a half day company outing/picnic next Wednesday afternoon (we are all still fully remote) and now we are not. BUT they are just giving us the afternoon off instead, which in some ways is better.
We were going to do a half day company outing/picnic next Wednesday afternoon (we are all still fully remote) and now we are not. BUT they are just giving us the afternoon off instead, which in some ways is better.
This sounds so much more enjoyable rather than forced socializing .
Thank you everyone for the nice thoughts, I've developed some symptoms today (headache, sore throat, chest congestion) but feel generally fine.
I definitely don't think getting Covid is a moral failing, I think everyone who is anti-vax or a Covid denier has a moral failing and I am directing all of my internal wrath at them.
They’re about to recommend that everyone who got moderna or Pfizer get boosters after 8 months. Anyone else starting to feel hopeless against this all?
I’m actually feeling hopeless bc I got J&J at the urging to get the first available &…once again!…am being iced out of a booster shot despite it being less effective than either of the Mod/Pfiz. I’m also obese so at risk for complications
So we're only 8 months out from the first set of Pfizer shots, right? (Second doses). I assume once we get to that point for J&J (November?) there will be more guidance about boosters or mix-and-match. If we're giving boosters, we're not going to just ignore the millions who got J&J (including my father, so I have someone to be worried about here).
I posted last week about the math showing that is more effective (in terms of reducing spread per dose) to get second doses into everyone who only has a first of Pfizer or Modena than it is to give boosters. I will get a booster if it becomes recommended for me, but I hope we continue to focus our efforts on partially vaccinated and higher risk individuals and those in other countries where variants are likely to develop due to limited access to the vaccines.
The science behind all of this, including the near-miracles of these vaccines, has me hopeful. This is not at all to dismiss people's suffering but I think it could have been so much worse without the development and rollout of the very good vaccine options in the U.S.