Glad it’s been mild for you. sorry it’s all over the place.
even though oregon swore when it dropped the mask mandate it would bring it back on a county by county basis when numbers rose… they’ve never moved it back to mandatory, just suggested despite this being the county case count:
ok, yeah that was pretty good!
Anyone have a recommendation for KN95 masks from a seller on Amazon that you trust to be genuine? I really like these ones from Powecom and may just order more from them, but also have an Amazon gift card I’d love to use on this (just don’t have the time to dig through reviews). Bonus if they fit small adult heads well!
Got these on rec from a coworker. I have a small face (I wear children’s glasses lol) and they fit decently well! The orange color is intense but otherwise no complaints lol
Ooh thank you! Those are cheap too!!
I am no scientist so not sure how to verify but they feel legit?
What would you do?
Next Saturday we have a family event for a milestone anniversary for my aunt and uncle. I want to go, I want Kiddo to see his cousins (last the he saw them was Thanksgiving). It’s a far enough drive that we’re going to stay the night at my mom’s house and drive home the next day.
My mom was just at a ballroom dance competition. I thought it was a local, one day thing. Nope, it went from Wednesday through Saturday and had people flying in from across the country and done international people too. All indoor, no masks to be seen of course. I realized after I talked to her yesterday that we’ll be at her house basically a week after what I see as an exposure event.
We’re also sending Kiddo back to school Wednesday, meet the teacher is today. We can do those masked but who knows if other kids in the class are from antivax families or just got back from vacation. There’s also going to be antivax family members at the family event but I was thinking it’s basically a calculated risk for the sake of seeing family and making sure Kiddo has that relationship.
We’re all vaccinated, my mom is also fully vaccinated but I know that only helps so much with the most recent variant. I was thinking of asking my mom to do a COVID test before we arrive but if I know other people won’t is there really a point?
Personally, I would just have her test and proceed. Kiddo is vaccinated right? For me, that gamble would be well worth it. 
(And we did essentially this last weekend)
Since you’re staying with your mom I think it’s fair/worth it to ask her to take a test, and to please be honest if she develops any symptoms beforehand (even if she tests negative). But a week out, she will probably test positive by then if she caught covid at her competition. If she’s negative, I’d go.
Tbh I personally don’t have the energy anymore to worry about people who are antivax. I think it mattered earlier on when the strains were closer to the original alpha strain and there was evidence of a reduction in transmission. Now that the virus has evolved, it seems like the vaccine helps more with reducing severity than reducing the spread. That’s just a hunch based on experience, though, I haven’t come across any solid data about that.
EDIT: Ah, someone has indeed done the study. Basically confirms what I suspected. Effectiveness of the vaccines at blocking symptomatic disease with omicron basically goes to zero over time. The booster helps, but effectiveness also goes down over time. Because of how long data analysis takes the science is always going to be a little behind - this study only goes out to 9 weeks after booster. Not to say vaccination isn’t worth it for a lot of reasons, but I wouldn’t necessarily trust vaccinated people to be safe any more than unvaccinated people, unless they got a booster very recently. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2119451
I would have mom test and i would mask at the big family thing when i was indoors.
We did our 4th shot and 2yo first shot this week. Reactions for all! But all better now
I’m seeing more and .ore people my age (mid-30s) getting a fourth shot. Is that a thing now in the US?
I’m supposed to go to a conference in Texas in September and I haven’t had a booster since December so… I’m pretty much planning on getting COVID there. I’d feel much better about severity if I had another booster in me this month.
I don’t know but I am 45 and I am technically not eligible for the 2nd booster in my state. Supposedly I am supposed to travel to California for work in Sept or Oct and I am super not into it without a second booster. But I have also heard that they are working on boosters that have better resistance to more recent variants and/or maybe combined with the season flu shot? and it is better to wait? I would love to know what to do.
We’re the same age, and anecdotally, almost everyone I know who is our age who lives in the Bay Area has gotten a fourth booster, and I don’t know anyone in Denver who has So idk!
AFAIK I don’t know anyone my age who has gotten a fourth shot, none of my nurse friends I’m aware of or anything.
I know a few people in their 30s who have gotten a 4th shot in Oregon, but they’re all immunosuppressed so they were entitled to “extra shots” vs “boosters”. One of them has now had covid 3 times despite having 4 shots, so that’s great.
Everyone else I know getting 4th shots is over the age of 50.
I qualify for another shot being immunosuppressed but I was waiting til whatever immunity I had from having covid in May has worn off. It probably has by now…so…
I got my 4th back in February, but I’m immunocompromised and omicron was running rampant. Now I’m six months out and feeling a little vulnerable as reports keep coming in of more and more cases.
We’re supposed to have a new shot for new strains soon right? Does anyone know the timeline there?
Oh yea, aaron’s in his mid-30s and has gotten a 2nd booster already, but that was because he had J&J so technically they will let you load up because J&J wasn’t very effective against delta.
They said hopefully you shouldn’t get one now, and wait like ~1-2 months so you can get a fall booster for the new spicy flavors of covid.
