Unfortunately I don’t think there are any ‘right’ answers here.
Our household would not be visiting, but many others would make a different choice.
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My decision is ultimately based in pettiness.
I haven’t traveled in so long because my kid is not vaccinated.
Exposing him to my aunt means I get the risk of travel anyway but none of the fun.
No!
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“ The C.D.C. on Friday also encouraged people with moderately or severely weakened immune systems who had originally been given the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to take two additional vaccine doses, rather than only one.”
I guess I gotta figure out how to go get another extra shot?
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The ride offer stands, as always. Lemme know.
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I live like 3 blocks from 3 different pharmacies, I just need to figure out which shot to get and make sure my doc recs it!
I got moderna .5 for my “booster” to J&J, so do I get moderna Full-strength or another moderna booster or go for a hat trick of J&J, Moderna, and Pfizer.
From CDC
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If you get Pfizer at least you don’t have to fuss about dosage.
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I feel like pfizer might cause the most issues with immigration though- maybe better to match my last shot, since my J&J is now too long ago to count as fully vaccinated for a bunch of countries.
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I wouldn’t go unless it’s an outdoor event or she’s really important to you, I guess. With the toddler vax hopefully coming within a few weeks we’re kind of white-knuckleing it to the bitter end. I’m making exposure decisions based on the question “how would I feel if this is how my toddler got covid after all this time?” So, outdoor playdates to get some socializing and stay sane, if we got it from that I would accept our fate. But, indoor family events I would kick myself.
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this was also my argument for getting our booster as pfizer, because then we had two of the same thing (AZ first), though probably by the time we’re going to NZ it won’t matter anyways.
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The fucking gall of my brother trying to argue mandates should be dropped because everyone who wants a vaccine has one, when he saw us YESTERDAY and we talked about how Latte can’t be vaccinated yet… insane to me. Like. Argue it on other fronts, sure. But “you can have a vaccine if you want one” doesn’t work when MILLIONS of kids can’t get it yet. That is a factually incorrect statement.
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That drives me crazy, too. No, not everyone can get it. Can’t we wait 1 more month at this point? Like, yes, we should be able to all have gotten one by now if the FDA hadn’t jerked us around so much. But that’s not what happened.
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I thought this was a useful piece.
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PS just got a medscape article- some of the rapid tests contain sodium azide in the testing reagent, which is super dangerous to kids. Be sure you’re storing them where no ingestion by kids or pets can possibly occur.
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this is super useful and also heartbreaking because of all the folks with disabilities who are suffering and losing their lives with the let her rip policy. here’s hoping those new anti-virals roll out quickly.
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Legit question- what’s our alternative? If we’re now to a point that we know it’s going to be circulating forever, and everyone in society will get it… other than waiting for the current surge to end, what are our options? And I’m earnestly asking, I haven’t seen any other action plans proposed?
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i truly do not know, at least not beyond the basic stuff we could and should have been doing all along, like masking more consistently and improving ventilation in buildings.
i saw a photo of a sign in japan that showed the CO2 ppm for each theater in a multi-plex (a good analog for how much covid could be in the air) and was like damn, imagine if “the richest country in the world” could do cool stuff like that.
but i live in an overwhelmingly blue area and i’d say fewer than half the people i see in public spaces are wearing masks so i guess everyone is just done. apparently the same thing happened in the 1918 pandemic – people just hit the wall. it really sucks.
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So would you like to see people mask indoors in public forever going forward? I’m just curious what we could actually, actionably do.
(ETA personally I’d like to see masking on all air travel forever going forward, and it seems like a reasonable/small part of life request. Masking forever everywhere seems like an insane burden on service workers though).
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Thank you for mentioning this. I will relocate mine out of the dog zone and kid visit zones. I’m not even sure mine are worth keeping. My mom sent me an article about a shipping temperature issue a couple days after I complained to her that ours were received in below freezing temps. I never read the details because it was behind a paywall.
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We have a mask mandate indoors here and everyone is still wearing them! But I’m legit at a pandemic wall even as someone who wears a k95 at the rink everyday to exercise
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Oregon announced today they’ll end the mask mandate march 31.
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