I agree with you, and also I wonder if we’ll be able to get any at all. We don’t have mail service at our house and do everything with a PO box.
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Even for those of us who do have mail service… entrusting this to USPS which continues to be a black hole that things like Boyfriend’s renewed driver’s license and my HSA card have fallen into? OK then, guess we’ll see how that goes.
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I saw this news story just before popping over here and seeing your comment. I guess it truly is a black hole sometimes!
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I was insanely miserable all day. Coughed to throwing up as my wakeup. Miserable at my parents’ house and wanted my Robitussin and puffer I haven’t used all day etc.
When I got home aching from coughing I wasn’t strong enough to go up and get meds so I had chamomile tea and honey first. Symptoms down 90%. Guarantee my parents had chamomile tea and honey or could have run out for it
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CDC stopped short of recommending universal N95/KN95 use, but that’s the implication:
“clarified on its website “that people can choose respirators such as N95s and KN95s, including removing concerns related to supply shortages for N95s.””
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I finally went and skated today in a k95 and it wasn’t bad! I thought it would be worse.
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This was surprising to me to read: “
“Omicron may be a small step back in severity. But it’s probably more severe on its own than the original version of the virus,” Bhattacharyya says. Becoming “more mild” hasn’t been the trend or evolutionary trajectory, he says.”
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This is what spouse has been saying for a few weeks but I had no data or experts to back it up so I wasn’t really repeating it (even though I believe him and he’s actively working on covid). Thanks for posting because now I can’t point family to it as well.
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It’s also very worth noting as parents of young kids that while presentation is still generally mild, omicron is more likely to cause croup. We’re great at treating that, but I bet that’s what’s driving a lot of Children’s hospital visits.
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Oh shit I’m crying thank you Captain Awkward you fucking hero for this excellent write up. I’mma work out how to send her some money.
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She has a Patreon!
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Yes and as a patron I must say her patron content is very fun—more musings on letters, cat pics, recipes, media reviews. Good stuff.
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I might join it! I sent her some money through her PayPal link.
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I’m sure she will appreciate that. Fun fact: Captain Awkward lives pretty close to me! Well, one neighborhood north.
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So, my dad just told me there’s 50% likelihood of long term complications from COVID. That is an absurd number. Right?
Eta: sorry, posting fast bcuz my child is all ov r th place
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Depends on how you define long term effects. You can see some lung inflammation, cardiac inflammation, etc for a period of time after many Covid infections. That doesn’t mean it impairs function in any way, and differs from other viruses in any particular way. If we checked for pericarditis after every single bout of flu or or common cold, we’d probably perceive those as having a lot of “long term damage”. But like. Damage is in the eye of the beholder.
To quote my dads favorite quote- there’s lies, damn lies, and statistics.
You can make numbers say lots of things. 
Definitely not clear cut issue here.
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“New York State recorded about 48,000 coronavirus cases on Friday, a nearly 47 percent drop from the roughly 90,000 cases reported a week earlier, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced on Saturday.”
Finally some good news. Crossing my fingers that this trend keeps going…
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Having managed to keep covid at a long safe distance over the last two years, Omicron is now everywhere in my part of the world, ie Melbourne and came very close in the last week.
It was my daughter’s birthday last Monday and we had organised a family dinner at ours - our daughter and her partner, our son, and my husband and I.
However she texted early in the day to say plans had changed - she had woken up feeling congested so had done a Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) and the result was +ve, eek! She has always been careful, particularly because her partner’s Dad has a health condition, so was pretty upset.
The only think she can put it down to (other than supermarkets and the like) was a skin check she’d had 4 days previously. She had been wearing an FFP2 mask, (ie similar to N95 but earloop), but at one point had to remove it for some images to be taken. Interestingly the dermatologist was only wearing a surgical mask.
We had briefly caught up with her the day before - her partner asked her to go out while he was icing the birthday cake he had baked for her and she called around to say hi. So we had to rush around trying to find RATs (they are very difficult to get here at the moment) and were lucky enough to get them at one of our state testing centres. We quarantined and waited for a couple of days to allow for incubation time, and luckily we both tested negative and have not had any symptoms. (Perhaps not relevant in Omicron times re catching the virus - but we are triple vaxxed as of late December.)
Luckily neither our daughter nor her partner have had recent contact with his family.
The interesting thing, especially given that its 99% certain she has omicron, is that her partner did a test a couple of days later (he waited because he had no symptoms) and he is also negative - and they are together 24x7 at the moment. He works from home and she is a psychologist at a school, but on holidays at the moment.
Also other than the low grade congestion, and some mild back pain, she has had no other symptoms. She is triple vaxxed, and perhaps has a low viral load but seems to have had a lucky escape.
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So your post reminded me- I’d forgotten to share my brother and SIL got it. SIL’s symptoms sound very similar to your daughters, down to the back pain. Luckily brother stayed even more mild. They’d gotten it due to a work trip to Hawaii for Brother. They were both triple vaxxed. They’re totally fine now except for the stress of missing work.
Fortunately or unfortunately, this speaks to when they got us sick in December, it not having been Covid most likely. Not that SirB and I have been assuming we’re in the clear, but we weren’t sure if we’d already had it or not.
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