I think there is misinformation on both sides that are preventing people from getting the vaccine. I am all for vaccine education and a different approach to increase our numbers. The people dying of COVID on my girlfriend's Vanderbilt unit are unvaccinated, obese, and have comorbidities. There is no difference between this group below vs that crazy pastor in Mount Juliet = https://www.newschannel5.com/news/n...-race-police-even-respected-meharry-president Both Godbody and True have also posted misinformation about COVID vaccines -- at a time when the city has tried to convince residents to protect themselves from the virus. “They’re herding a bunch of you motherf**kers to the death now with this vaccine sh*t," True said in a video posted in February. The Gideon's Army leader even took aim at Meharry Medical College President Dr. James Hildreth and his impressive medical credentials. “They’re using him to sell you the dream of safety because he studied epidemiology. He’s the leading doctor in infectious disease,” True said. “All that means is that you learned how to be a good house n****r and do what they say do long enough to learn their mentality, and you’re the token boy, a poster boy to spread that infestation amongst our people.”
Welp. After doing what we can and choosing to not do all of the fun things we do for nearly 2 years (sports, theme parks, anything indoors really) our 2 y/o tested positive. 4 y/o negative. I’m just so disappointed. So far mild symptoms and good oxygen levels. So hoping it just passes. But his only possible exposure was daycare. Both parents vaccinated and we don’t work in offices. Filtered masks wherever we go. Haven’t eaten indoors since January 2020. just really thought we’d eek it out until he could get the vaccine. Fuck you Florida. edit: ffs Florida. Just got the email they sent to the whole class. Because our health department no longer requires quarantine exposure they are keeping his class open. So that started today apparently.
My friend who teaches kindergarten caught COVID last week. She started having breathing problems and went to the ER, but they sent her back home due to capacity. She’s been fully vaccinated since March. These unvaccinated people in hospitals need to get the boot.
I thought so too. But when it happens I’m actually just sad and tired. Don’t even have it in me to be enraged.
Same thing happening in my sons middle school. We get 2-3 emails a week with grade and such with infection. If in my sons class they tell us but require nothing more than that. He is 1 week away from being fully vaccinated at least.
Yeah and what's great about our case is, as I said, there's really no other place he could have gotten it. We went to tennis courts Saturday (outdoors), the beach Sunday and a couple of playgrounds recently. So his only exposure would have had to be in his class. So if he didn't bring it into the class, the kid(s) who did are still there and without quarantine now. Removing just my son likely did very little to stop spread in his class.
Yes, Ron decided to let parents decide if they wanted to send their kids to school if exposed Reasoning was too many kids are missing school....
Unless kids and the teachers in daycare are wearing N-95 level masks 100% of the time inside then it's inevitable they'll get it at some point. This is just entirely too contagious.
I was talking to my wife about this. Our 1 yr old son is going to get covid and there’s really nothing we can do unless one of us quits our jobs which isn’t possible unfortunately.
Yes and this is such a shitty feeling. We have a toddler and it is just a helpless feeling sending them into day care every day just waiting on their turn to have covid. Our daycare has zero teachers wearing masks and since we are in SC there is only a 50% chance they are vaccinated. Our kid was out all of last week with hand foot and mouth....got an email last Friday that one of the teachers has COVID (thankfully ours was out)....all students welcome to come back on monday as the class room is still open and the other teacher will be there. No testing required, no masks, no classroom shutdown...nothing. So in all likelihood there are several people with COVID in that classroom this week. But to your point, we can't quit our jobs to keep the kid at home so just have to make the best decisions we can with the information we have. Since my wife and I had to take off a bunch of work last week for the hand foot and mouth thing we couldn't take off this whole week but we worked with our bosses and took off M/T/W so that we only have to send them to daycare on Thursday and Friday. Not perfect but doing everything we can to keep them safe. Shit sucks Sub-Zero I'm sorry to hear about your child getting COVID. Good vibes/thoughts/prayers that it is a non-event for them. Your approach sound similar to how we have been trying to handle the past two years. I know I'll be pretty defeated whenever it is our turn.
That’s terrible. I can’t believe they wouldn’t even wear masks. Fuck they’re getting directly paid by parents but I guess if they majority of parents don’t care there’s nothing to do about it.
Appreciate that. Defeated is the best word as far as how it feels at the moment. What's even crazier is that the only reason we know my son was positive is because I bought a bunch of at-home tests a couple of months ago. He had his flu shot on Monday so we didn't think anything of a slight temperature (not over 100) and his pretty constant runny nose (convinced he has allergies). He's been tested before with the runny nose. It's all been negative and basically been the same behavior. So when he still felt 'slightly' warm this morning and coughed a couple of times I just tested him on a whim since we had them. He's not acting sick at all. Had we not have had access to the at home tests, he likely goes back to school this morning since everything was so mild and im pretty sure his allergies affect him. So even a slight cough can just be from that in the morning sometimes. Without quick and accessible tests, he goes back to school and maybe infects others. And pretty damn sure thats what another parent did that led to my son's infection in the first place. And in some ways I don't blame them if it's really that mild and testing is a pain in the ass. All of this after we held him out of daycare at all until just this August's school year was when he started for the first time.
Best part about this is at private daycares and whatnot, they now don't need to be compelled to not charge families for that week since it's the parent's choice to keep them out or not. Before, if families had no choice, they wouldn't be charged or would be 50% or something. Now they get to keep the money even if we quarantine (if we were one of the kids who tested negative but was exposed)
Booster hitting me about 15% harder than the second dose. Still worked out so not that bad. Dear diary
Yeah probably just died with the vaccine. It was the heart attack that did it, which in no way was associated with the vaccine.
One of the comments said she the dr said she collapsed from low potassium. Was just curious if that was even possible from the vaccine 25 damn days later. Aren’t most reactions immediate
Break it down for a big dummy please. Is this suggesting/implying/directly saying that natural immunity is impossible for a population group?
It doesn’t even sound related, dude. Lots of people die 25 days after buying a pastry from Starbucks but I’m gonna let you in on the secret that correlation, especially with a single data point, doesn’t imply causation.
Anyone else still really nervous about all of this? Even being fully vaccinated I’m still hesitant about being around large groups of people and traveling. Maybe I’m being overly cautious.
Idk how you can't be nervous about all this unless you're deep in denial. I think we're moving in a positive direction though... Or I hope
I worry I’ll be that one very very rare case that dies of covid even though I’m vaccinated , only to fuel the antivaxxers that it was the vaccine that killed me. *my future MIL
Santa Cruz County dropped its indoor mask mandate due to dropping cases, now just a recommendation. Does not affect state mandates regarding businesses and schools, etc.
Absolutely. I had a mechanic looking at my car with his mask under his nose and I was wearing a mask and I was still like fuck this guy.
the Gym is the only public place around strangers that I go to regularly I may consider traveling somewhere in the next month or 2 if things seem to trend down but idk .. it is difficult to trust the cdc or anyone else’s predictions after their ‘mask off’ celebration early Summer. After that I finally started eating at restaurants outdoors and in my head thought maybe we are really done w this then a few weeks after July 4 Delta explodes in Florida
This shit will never disappear, but I think you are being overly nervous/cautious considering you are fully vaccinated. Since this isnt ever going away, it would be helpful to calm down about it for your own sanity.
More or less. Any successful variant from delta is extremely likely going to inherit all its replication efficiency. Vaccinating our way out of the pandemic was treated as the path to total victory, and with the original first big variants it might've been, but at this point with people in the US willingly using their bodies as mutation fuel on their way to wrecking their own families and communities, its more than likely a (still very important and still very big) first step now. There has been literally no evolutionary pressure to make it less debillitating or less deadly and, again, there's still little data on Covids long term effects, like Tamu's study showing some loss in brain volume (dunno if this is temporary or not). Natural immunity alone is very, very stupid, especially with that CDC study saying like 1 in 3 women (or was it just people?) dont even end up developing antibodies for minor cases. NPIs like masks are like the bare minimum for any serious effort to defeat covid
I’ve always been way more nervous about spreading to my parents or other elderly people I’ve done a lot of shit in my days that have given me a much higher probability of death