Went to Green Mill on Saturday for Paper Machete (a friend was in the lineup) and the guy at the door said they don’t bother bc people can fake them.
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NICE. 
Oh man… Green Mill was the very last place I went in 2020 before stuff shut down.
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They need to, like, start putting holograms on our vax cards like we have on our licenses or something! 
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Two shots are still effective against severe disease!
Antibody levels from two shots aren’t enough to block symptomatic disease, but all your other immune responses (especially T cells) are primed from the two shot series.
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This is basically how I feel. We work from home but have 2 kids in daycare. It seems just so inevitable that we will get it and all mitigation seems really pointless right now.
Note husband and I are both boosted, we work from home and generally don’t go too many places. So it’s not like we are out being super crazy.
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Yep, both my husband and I are boosted, we wear masks whenever we go out, and we don’t really go out that much. (Limit trips to the grocery store, no restaurants, no events, no christmas parties…but we did get tickets to a basketball game the first week of january, and the kids have a masked gymnastics class, and daycare where the older one is masked.)
It just makes me wonder if we should be like everyone else and just go back to normal, because we are all getting this anyway. Before it felt like there was a chance to keep people healthy, this variant, less so.
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Thank you ilu
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My brother and his fiancee are headed down to Florida after Christmas and intend to spend NYE at Universal Studios. They are supposed to visit my house for lunch the following day. I kinda want to tell them we can’t meet up.
Everything sucks.
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i had a couple friend dates set to take place in public spots (the conservatory, the aviary) that i was excited about this week but i think i am going to try to downgrade them to walks outside. i have 2 weeks off and ill be damned if im gonna spend them sick!
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In the EU they are QR codes linked to a database.
My virtual one (from my insurance company, in my apple wallet) here is a QR code but it doesn’t scan with the EU app
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Throw me into the pit as another person who doesn’t know what my risk factors are.
Am I willing to go to an indoors 7-person all-adults-vaxxed holiday party this friday with a kid under 5 (i.e. no vax)? What about a 3 person dinner next week?
Am I willing to go to the crowded rink with hundreds of people who are masked (at varying degrees of effectiveness) if the flip side is me not working out at all?
I’m tired.
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My sister said we needed to un-invite 10yo niece from Christmas dinner if she wasn’t vaxxed. Her mom (dad is my late brother) was dragging her feet, so my mom was just like, I’m coming to get her and taking her for a shot, and she got one yesterday.
I don’t know how much good it will do to be 1 week past her first shot… but it feels good psychologically not to have anyone who is not vaxxed.
It is 20 people for dinner, which is a number that is giving me sweats. But… who do you drop? The 20th person is my older niece’s brother-in-law. He just got back from a tough deployment. He was going to spend the holiday with his mom, but she’s immunocompromised and caught covid from her unvaxxed husband (evidently he’s African American and- not unjustifiably- not over Tuskegee yet). So… I mean, yeah, we’re gonna set him a place.
We are trying to get as many people as possible up to 2 rapid tests before dinner, that being better than one.
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Same dude. Same.
I’m sorry you’re in this position as a person with more risk factors. I am sorry we are all in this position. What garbage.
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We are going to visit Howie’s family for Christmas out of state. We skipped last year, so they really want us this year. I’m actually not as worried about the traveling part after going to the Grand Canyon in October and seeing that masking was enforced really well on flights and in the airport. But I’m not looking forward to the constant risk calculations, especially when I’m the most cautious one. Like, they will probably want to go out to a restaurant to eat, which I really would rather not do. Judging from social media, I don’t think they mask as consistently as I do in public places. At least they are all vaccinated and boosted. Howie hasn’t been boosted yet as he just recently was eligible.
That all said, I have two international trips (both fully refundable) booked for 2022 because at some point I just said “screw it” and that I had to trust the vaccinations and masks. Will I be ok with going when the time comes? Who knows!
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At what point are you no longer being appropriately cautious and have crossed over into sheer blind panic?
Asking for myself. The weather forecast just got worse so I’m doubting meals outside will happen and I’m slowly, but surely working myself up into a sobbing mess instead of packing.
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I just impulse-bought a bunch of disposable face masks for myself because I read they were better than cloth. I don’t love wearing them because I have a small face and have to knot the elastic and then I spend like all day fiddling with it, but if I and my cuckoo egg will be safer…
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I don’t know and I’m in the same spot. Sending you good vibes. It’s a really hard time for this to be happening because of the Christmas and NYE holidays and everyone having more gatherings so we can’t just “wait and see”, esp after not getting together last year.
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I have a coworker who is constantly parroting COVID statistics in meetings. We work in industrial supplies. She doesn’t have special access to additional information from the CDC or government or research or anything. We all see the same numbers and headlines. Why say it like your coworkers aren’t constantly monitoring and reading the same stuff you are?! She already trends towards know-it-all, but this is the topic that grinds my gears the most, probably because the news changes daily already. I feel kind of bad about it now (but also… I don’t!), but in today’s check in I straight up said, “We all read the same stuff.” and that shut her up 
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I just…don’t need watered down NPR! Leave me alone! 
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Indoor meals really stress me out. Because there is no appropriately cautious at them. You take off your masks and sit close together.
I have no issue with shared food dishes, however.
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