Oh no! I hope you get through it easily.
Duckling’s school had > 5 cases announced in one day last week, and most days had a case, so I’m wondering if we should be keeping him home.
Did you see there’s researchers going door-knocking, asking people to do spot-checks of COVID-19?
Thanks @Ms_Terror , my work mate who has severe lung issues had it last week and didnt have any symptoms.
I am hoping i get lucky as well
@LadyDuck i saw that about the random door knocks. I will be home if they come by here 
Moderna has announced that their 6 months-5 years vaccine trial was successful and that they will submit “in the coming weeks.”
Here for s reality check.
I just don’t really think about Covid anymore. Is that unwise or just a sign that Covid Cautious is just my lifestyle now?
It just feels very “set it and forget it” now. I imagine we will get Covid eventually. Just hoping it’s no big deal?
That’s roughly where I’m at.
This is also me.
That’s pretty much where I’m at, with the added factor that my kid masks like 5% of the time and I just roll with it, because it’s not The Battle I’m willing to take on right now.
That sounds set it and forget it in an adaptive way, not a bad way.
Same. Kiddo is supposed to mask but has come home from spring break camp without his mask for … three days in a row now? And mostly I’m annoyed that he’s losing lanyards (I bought a bunch in a pack so I have more but tomorrow he gets just a mask. The dumb lanyards are supposed to help keep him from losing his mask and work just fine at school. 
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I did book a hotel for June, first time we will have stayed at a hotel since March 2020 (literally got the “Schools are closed for a week just in case!” text walking back to our hotel room, not that that memory is seared in my mind or anything). Since it’s a couple months off I would like the next spike around here to happen soonish so it’s on the way out when we’re on our vacation please. We are also staying somewhere that we can drive to/from so we can come home if needs be. We haven’t particularly weighted activities for being indoor/outdoor because of Covid risk - air conditioning and how much it will entertain an energetic child are way up the list of considerations.
This is where I have landed too since we have moved. It helps that it’s easier to spend time outside here; it feels like skipping less-safe activities is not really a hardship because I have safer options now.
I have rules I follow, like no indoor dining and masks indoors in public always, and that feels normal now. Set it and forget it.
I’m often the only person in a store or whatever wearing a mask, which I sometimes get worried about, but it’s an N95 which feels relatively safe to me now, I guess?
I’ve given up. So has the rest of the state.
I wear a mask in crowded stores, but not if there are only a few people in there. Obviously I wear a mask at healthcare facilities. Our daycare no longer uses masks. Technically the CDC says our area does not need masks.
But our personal risk is now low. Statistically, if we get sick, it would be like getting sick with anything else.
I don’t know how the hospitals are doing, but they aren’t being reported on anymore.
AND!!! My daughter is now 5!!! She can get her vaccine!
I’m masking only where I’m required to or when it’s clear it would make someone else more comfortable. Between traveling at Christmas and teaching yoga in person among people who didn’t mask in Jan & Feb, I think the probability that I haven’t been exposed or had it is zero. I dine indoors occasionally to socialize with others. I don’t go to lots of large events, but I didn’t do that very often before Covid. I feel my personal risk is also low.
This is also where I am, with some variation in our types of exposure (my metamor is teaching small in person classes, we’re dining out like 1x per week, but have pretty much no social life. Houseguests test before staying overnight.)
We’ve decided we’ll re-evaluate if case rates go way up or hospital capacity becomes a problem.
I was at set it and forget it, but traveling reset the level of risk we had to endure (eating inside with other people, even though vaccines are required to dine in, not sure it made a difference) and now: SSO has Covid in a foreign country now and is stuck in hotel quarantine 
At least we‘re in a country with free and efficient testing (free PCR tests available all over the place! Delivered to SSO‘s hotel door.)
Anyway I keep wondering what would’ve been different if SSO had gotten very sick but not with Covid at a work trip in the before times- quarantine? Notifying everyone in the whole conference with what sessions he attended? Surely not. Makes you think about the risks we endured before for other infectious diseases
My husband’s uncle- the brother of his father, who died before I met him- has died of covid. That is the first relative either of us has lost and the first serious case in either of our families (my kids had a little vaxxed omicron, NBD).
I have never met this person and had him blocked on FB and I don’t think the Boy especially cared for him either, but one has feelings about how one’s dad would have felt about losing his baby brother to a preventable illness, and for his grown children and so on.
Death certificate for father in law reads Covid-19 and nothing else. He was vacced but was both old and in bad health, but still, that’s brought it as close to home as it could be, really.
So, I’m eligible for the 2nd booster due to my age… but I’m reading conflicting things about whether it’s better to get it now, while case loads are down (I just checked and my county is "low transmission), or to wait until the fall when bigger surges might happen. Because the booster might have worn off somewhat by the fall if I get it now.
But - I am in the south now, where it seems surges happen more often in summer because that’s when people are more indoors here?
What do all of you smarties think? I do have to find a doctor soon and go there so that I can continue my meds, and I will ask then (and hopefully I don’t get an antivax doctor?!) , but that’s likely not happening until May sometime.
Point of info: the pandemic is apparently completely over in Heathrow airport. 20% mask wearing, most staff not wearing masks. When boarding for the US, the mask less gate agent said “put your masks on now before you board”
I had my booster in October and will wait until fall for the next one.
So this isn’t a science based situation, but my
Booster is almost expired in the EU- it only counts for 270 days past, I couldn’t have eaten at any restaurants or entered Austria if my booster had been one month earlier, so I’m getting my extra shot for immunosuppressed people next month so that I can go to the EU again in May.
I had no idea boosters counted as “expired” anywhere in the world. Huh. I was just going to chill till fall/back to school season.