This is why we aren’t leaving the house… although it might come for us anyway like it came for @Bracken_Joy who is as cautious as we are. 
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We’re also severe risk in my county. Even though I’m vaxxed and as is my other household member, since I’m immunosuppressed, every time I go to the rink, I think about how I’m just rolling the damn dice. I am skating with a K95 on now, but that it not particularly fun.
But not going skating sucks. Ugh. I’m tired of making decisions.
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Sorry to stress out everyone who is equivalently cautious but, that’s the balance we picked. We aren’t going to totally shut Latte away from all people in all circumstances. We took on a small amount of risk knowingly, and well… even small amounts are high risk still right now. I knew that, and here we are. I don’t think we would change our choices, though. She talks about the neighbor boys for DAYS after she sees them.
Bright side to all this, putting her in a little care outside of the home is way lower risk now. Found a co op near us that requires adults mask and are fully vaccinated, staff and classroom adult helpers. doing a little more info search now but once she’s recovered, we may start Latte in 2 days/ 2.5 hours at a time care per week so she can see other kids.
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I wonder how that works. I made the donation last year, I didn’t make the donation to get the masks.
Also, I donated the money to my DAF like 6 years ago, so it has long since been deducted…
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Oh yeah, symptoms so far for people who are curious;
Thursday or Saturday; likeliest exposure
Monday: cranky toddler, low grade fever (100.1), relative malaise for her
Tuesday; toddler still cranky, fever gone. PM, right before bed, husband and I get sore throats
Wednesday: worst day for toddler. Very sore throat. Screams when she tries to drink fluids until I give her meds. This is the brain-poking (aka testing) day for husband.
Thursday: all of us with relatively light symptoms, sore throats fading, but plenty of congestion. Lots of sneezing for me.
Friday; headache for me. Sore throats seemingly gone. CRANKY AF TODDLER. I am sneezing so goddamn much. Husband and I are both pretty congested, toddler surprisingly not? Unsure what hurts with toddler, but her mood improves a lot with meds so we’re giving them.
So that’s where we’re at. Hoping we shake this soon.
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Illinois is at 194.9.
Huh, interestingly, FL is more vaccinated than IL? By 2 percent, 77 vs 75. Interesting.
Holy shit. Yay but also I’m sorry.
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Q: will a tiny spot of hot glue on the outside of a N95 disposable style mask kill the integrity of it?
I want to glue on a cartoon mustache. 
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I think there’s plastic in it? So the big question would just be if it results in a hole right at that spot. (Plastic melts) If it just makes it adhere though, it would just be a small loss of function at that spot, just losing a little surface area. The air would come in elsewhere then.
You can always trashy-DIY a fit test by doing some candles smoke or perfume.
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I will experiment!!!
What about one of those stick-on mustaches?
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Could you use a glue dot? Like for scrapbooking and things?
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Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, @meerkat, but there’s no way that number is accurate in terms of residents. The zip code that includes the Miami airport has a more than 100% vaccination rate. There was a vaccine clinic in the airport that did not require folks to be residents to get the vaccine.
I personally know of 6 people from Brazil who got vaccinated in Florida and then went back. 
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Oh, right, forgot about that. My sense of balance in the world is restored.
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I’m so frustrated. Most of my Ohio family has refused to get vaccinated and I found out today that my cousin got covid in September and is still suffering from symptoms, and she is still adamantly anti-vax 
She was also complaining that since she caught covid anything with artificial flavors or ingredients tastes terrible and she can only stomach eating things like fresh fruit and vegetables but how is she supposed to feed her family that “bullshit.” She said 90% of the foods they normally eat taste terrible to her now and she’s so over this and just wants it to go away. Guess what? Maybe you should have gotten the flipping vaccine!! I just can’t believe her logic and I feel terrible for her children.
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Blech. So frustrating to watch.
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help me understand this, smart people.
correlation?
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Here’s the article; Science Advances is peer reviewed. I’ve just started going through it, but I’m not the biochemist in this house, so I’ve also sent it to husband.
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There we go. Neighbor Mom woke up with symptoms today and tested positive. So it’s in both households. Who the heck knows- they certainly have way, way more exposures then we do, but we had symptoms first
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It’s promising. Some in vivo work (mice) as well as the in vitro work from a study this summer being reproduced.
To have protective effect, it has to be CBD only, relatively pure. Other cannabinoids, especially THC, seem to counteract the antiviral effects. Authors caution against use of CBD prophylactically now, before human trials (they kind of have to) but also say there’s promise for this as a prophylactic treatment.
Much discussion of mechanisms, no certainty on that yet. But it’s not the ACE-2 receptors; it’s after attachment. That means the protective effect, if it’s real, would not be undone by protein spike mutations.
It’s not ready for prime time yet, but it’s promising, maybe even exciting, on my read. Husband hasn’t read it yet, though, so he could still find flaws I’m not qualified to find.
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