What’s life like where you are?

[kate1482]

Dec 13, 2021 20:43:17 GMT -5 niq said:

Dec 13, 2021 19:43:27 GMT -5 kate1482 said:

niq we are on the other side of the lake from you. The bar keeps moving. I thought everyone moving to Idaho were crazy but I’m kind of envious at this point.

Not sure I'd go the far

Overall I think Western WA has done really well, things are just a bit more cautious now than if I ran the zoo. I just hope it ends soon-ish.

Ha! Yeah but you have to admit selling your house for a billion dollars and living mortgage free in a comparable home in Idaho is tempting

I just wish more things were open in king county. I’m fine wearing a mask inside. I think we have a high percentage of people who are still hunkered down working from home and have forgotten what life use to be like.

[Yankees21]

Dec 14, 2021 20:44:09 GMT -5 tarajane said:

I'm in a purple city? in a red state. 62% vaccinated. Hospitals are full and staff are burnt out. Thankfully the kids school district just extended their mask mandate. No other mandates. I went to Walmart today and other than employees, I saw one other person in a mask. Indoor events at capacity with no masks. Positivity rate is over 35%.

I’m getting really nervous about the hospitals this winter.

My son’s district doesn’t have a mask mandate for the schools. He’s consistently been one of a few wearing a mask in his class. At least he’s fully vaccinated now, so that’s a little relief.

[estrellita]

I'm in a very red area of a blue state. Low vax rates, hospital at capacity. E wears a mask at school but is one of the only kids in his class that does. He's probably one of very few vaccinated too. We finally went to a movie last weekend and very rarely do much of anything, mostly because A can't be vaccinated yet. I'm just tired honestly. There's so much hate around here, at the governor, at the president, at mandates, etc. I'm tired of people thinking they know more when they never even leave this area and learn stuff from debunked videos on the internet. It sucks. But luckily despite all the science denying, we've been fine so far and the cases at school have been low.

[formerlyak]

I’m in Los Angeles County. Everything is open. Masks inside have been required the whole time except like two weeks in June. Many people still wear them outside if it’s crowded. LA city requires vaccine proof to eat indoors. Vaccine or negative test required for any large event - indoor or outdoor.

Yesterday we had the largest case count in months with 3000, but that’s in a city of 10 million. And hospitals here still have beds thankfully because my dad was rushed to the hospital earlier this week and almost died (not Covid) but was luckily stabilized and admitted.

We are all vaccinated and my DH and I are boosted. Most of our friends are the same status. Almost 90% of our city is fully vaccinated.

[Gato]

I'm in Portland, Maine. Our county is over 90% fully vaccinated. Pretty much everything is open, although the hours are often radically reduced from the normal business hours before COVID. H and I were thinking about going to see Al Franken in March, our first indoor large event.

Now, I don't know. COVID is raging through Maine, and we haven't even really seen the Omicron variant yet. Not many people were exposed to the virus before Delta, so the unvaccinated places have almost no immunity built in. Plus, we're an old state, and since seniors got vaccinated really early, now the effectiveness of their vaccines is wearing off. So far, it seems like not enough people have gotten boosters.

So while where I am, people are vaccinated, wearing masks, and doing all the right things, rural areas are turning into disaster areas. The governor has called the National Guard into hospitals to help. I really, really feel for everyone in medicine right now.