Yeah I thiiiink I’ve decided to take rapid tests every morning but go about my (masked) business as usual otherwise. But I feel both reckless and paranoid by that decision.
I got exposed by someone at work, so it’s not like I live with her. But we were hanging out over a meal for like 2 hours. Maybe 5-7 feet apart. So it’s not barely an exposure either.
Yeah, that’s definitely unsettling! Fingers crossed she is also vaccinated and was therefore not very contagious.
So far so negative!
Went to go get some ice from the breakroom, it smelled heavily of garlic.
Said “ooh- it smells so good in here”
Person in the breakroom “Oh really, I can’t smell anything, allergy congestion, I guess”
Me: Suddenly don’t need ice, leave very quickly.
It’s 10 degrees outside. What does she think she is having allergies from?
My dh has many winter allergies - dust and scented detergent among them. He sneezes as much in the winter as in the summer!
My brother has mold allergies, he’s always way worse in winter. I truly hope that’s the case here 
The way she said it did not give me confidence she regularly has allergies in the winter. More of surprise by it.
Yikes. How can someone be that dense at this point in the pandemic?
I actually have this as well, my best guess has always been I’m allergic to (moldy) rotting leaves because I don’t have another explanation for the vague illness I get every year for 2-3 weeks at an odd time between autumn and winter.
Omicron confirmed in Florida. Governor DeSantis vowing no restrictions or masks or anything approaching common sense.
Moved this here from where I posted on wrong thread
I also posted in the wrong thread 
My mum is on and on about myocarditis risk from Pfizer in children. She is a heath professional and I do respect her opinion but I’m suspicious that my dad (Australian Trump supporter) is feeding her misinformation in this instance.
My eldest is 5 in March, and by then I assume Pfizer will be approved here for 5+ and if not added to the schedule, we would need to make a decision.
Risk has been proven to be significantly less from the vaccine than from getting COVID. I think @Bracken_Joy posted the stats a while back.
This is what I thought and I looked it up a while back and came to the same conclusion and yet on the phone today she sounds so convinced/convincing, citing studies that I really should ask her to send me but I’m probably too tired to read.
I think what throws me is that my mum is not anti vaccination. She vaccinated us herself when we were kids. She offered to pay the $300 odd each to get my kids the meningococcal b vaccine. She says the favourite part of her job is vaccinating children and she is so so anti covid vaccines for kids 
Ask her to send you the articles, then post them here and we’ll crowdsource the understanding.
Scientists are surprisingly REALLY receptive to misinformation, because they think they’re so objective that if they believe the misinformation it must be true. I fight with this myself all the time. Do I believe something because it’s sound or because my unconscious bias is creeping in?
Anyway, I would certainly be interested to see her sources. But all the ones I’ve seen show that myocarditis risk, while lower for kids with covid than adults with covid, is even lower still for kids with the vaccine.
Wheeeee, omicron found in Chicago. 
In someone who’s vaxxed and boosted.
“The person who has the case is a Chicago resident who came in contact with someone from another state who was sick with the Omicron variant and visited Chicago.”
Well, it was probably already here anyway.
Somewhat encouraging that a booster seems to provide some protection against omicron, hope this proves to be true upon further study: https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/08/health/pfizer-omicron-vaccine-data/index.html
Ugggggghhhhhhhhh
We have a flight booked to fly across country for the holidays. Husband and I are fully vaxxed + boosted (3X moderna). Toddler is 2 and will mask (poorly).
We’re staying with Husband’s sister and her family (all vaxxed), and then probably meeting up with more family. I ordered three kits of rapid tests, and we’ll all test 2 days after we get there and on Christmas Eve.
Is this a terrible idea? I dunno
Is this riskier than sending my child to daycare on a day-to-day basis? I dunno
Will Omicron evade all our vaccines? I dunno
I would be more anxious and worried except I’m just… a little numb? At this point, I dunno <— is my answer to everything.
I would go. Planes have not been shown to be big spreaders and we can’t give up our family holidays forever. I feel you on the numbness!
This is not how risk assessment works, but I’m also vaxxed + boosted and going to get on a plane for the holidays. It will be by far the riskiest thing I’ve done in a long time but a) I can’t drive across the country right now (like, emotionally) and b) masks do seem to work much more than it feels like they ought and c) I would really like to see my family and d) I’m getting some N95s and direct flights and just powering through it.
Also, solidarity. I’m trying really hard to not just throw up my hands and actually think this one through, but. I think the tradeoffs are worth it (for me) (right now).