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mikeyank
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I’d be curious to hear from other forumites where they feel like they are today regarding the virus.
I’m vaccinated, boosted, & still wear a mask EVERYWHERE and social distance. I learned a long time ago that a lot of people are just not clean. They say you should wear a mask to protect others but I wear a mask to protect myself…lol.
I have had 4 shots of Moderna (double boosted), if outside I rarely wear a mask, at work since I work in a locked room that few people have access to and I know my other coworkers are vaccinated, I'll skip it (my face broke out with long term use when work mandated them while in the office). When I go into a store or other place where I'm near people I'll wear a mask.
One of my coworkers got it this past week (I just found out today) but I suspected it when he had a sore throat last week. I tested myself tonight and it was negative, but that happens with at home tests so I'm not 100% sure, but I do know I'm feeling OK right now and I'll test over the next few days to see if by chance I'm asymptomatic and then quarantine. I'm lucky that I can work remote with no issues. I believe I read an article that said the incubation is 5-14 days so I'll know within the next week if I was lucky and it bypassed me.
mikeyank
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Apparently I am not as cautious as you guys are. I’ve been using the subway since August 2020 and now go to stores unmasked. I’ve said all along that everyone has to make individual decisions based on their own comfort level. Of course being fully vaccinated and boosted, plus having antibodies in my system from March 2020 factors into my decisions as well. I’d be curious to hear from other forumites on this subject.
For me it's been a mixed bag. I'm going out to some restaurants now where I'm mostlly unmasked. But if I go into a grocery store, a pharmacy, doctors' offices or an especially crowded place...yes I'm still masked up. (Even if it feels like I'm in only the 5-10% of people in there who are.)
mikeyank
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From today’s New York Times.
C.D.C. Eases Covid Guidelines, Noting Virus Is ‘Here to Stay’
The new guidelines eliminate quarantines and put less emphasis on social distancing, routine surveillance testing and contact tracing.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention loosened Covid-19 guidelines on Thursday, freeing schools and businesses from the onus of requiring unvaccinated people exposed to the virus to quarantine at home.
The changes are a sharp move away from measures such as social distancing requirements and quarantining, which had polarized much of the country, and effectively acknowledge the way many Americans have been navigating the pandemic for some time. The agency’s action comes as children across the country return to school and many offices have reopened.
“We know that Covid-19 is here to stay,” Greta Massetti, a C.D.C. epidemiologist, said at a news briefing on Thursday. “High levels of population immunity due to vaccination and previous infection, and the many tools that we have available to protect people from severe illness and death, have put us in a different place.”
The C.D.C.’s new guidelines come after more than two years of a pandemic in which more than one million Americans have died. With the highly contagious BA.5 subvariant of Omicron spreading, the United States is recording more than 100,000 cases and nearly 500 deaths a day on average.
But many Americans dispensed with practices such as social distancing, quarantine and mask-wearing long ago.
“I think they are attempting to meet up with the reality that everyone in the public is pretty much done with this pandemic,” said Michael T. Osterholm, an infectious disease expert at the University of Minnesota, referring to the C.D.C.
The agency has been working for months on the new guidance, which builds on previous recommendations issued in February, when the agency shortened isolation times for many Americans. The C.D.C. said it is making changes now because vaccination and prior infections have granted many Americans some degree of protection against the virus, and treatments, vaccines and boosters are available to reduce the risk of severe illness.
The changes shift much of the responsibility for risk reduction from institutions to individuals. The C.D.C. no longer recommends that people stay six feet away from others. Instead, it notes that avoiding crowded areas and maintaining a distance from others are strategies that people may want to consider in order to reduce their risk.
And the recommended prevention strategies no longer draw a distinction between people who are up-to-date on their vaccinations and those who are not, streamlining a complicated set of rules that could be difficult for schools and businesses to navigate.
People who are exposed to the virus no longer must quarantine at home regardless of their vaccination status, although they should wear a mask for 10 days and get tested for the virus on Day 5, according to the new guidelines. Contact tracing and routine surveillance testing of people without symptoms are no longer recommended in most settings.
C.D.C. Eases Covid Guidelines, Noting Virus Is ‘Here to Stay’
The new guidelines eliminate quarantines and put less emphasis on social distancing, routine surveillance testing and contact tracing.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention loosened Covid-19 guidelines on Thursday, freeing schools and businesses from the onus of requiring unvaccinated people exposed to the virus to quarantine at home.
The changes are a sharp move away from measures such as social distancing requirements and quarantining, which had polarized much of the country, and effectively acknowledge the way many Americans have been navigating the pandemic for some time. The agency’s action comes as children across the country return to school and many offices have reopened.
“We know that Covid-19 is here to stay,” Greta Massetti, a C.D.C. epidemiologist, said at a news briefing on Thursday. “High levels of population immunity due to vaccination and previous infection, and the many tools that we have available to protect people from severe illness and death, have put us in a different place.”
The C.D.C.’s new guidelines come after more than two years of a pandemic in which more than one million Americans have died. With the highly contagious BA.5 subvariant of Omicron spreading, the United States is recording more than 100,000 cases and nearly 500 deaths a day on average.
But many Americans dispensed with practices such as social distancing, quarantine and mask-wearing long ago.
“I think they are attempting to meet up with the reality that everyone in the public is pretty much done with this pandemic,” said Michael T. Osterholm, an infectious disease expert at the University of Minnesota, referring to the C.D.C.
The agency has been working for months on the new guidance, which builds on previous recommendations issued in February, when the agency shortened isolation times for many Americans. The C.D.C. said it is making changes now because vaccination and prior infections have granted many Americans some degree of protection against the virus, and treatments, vaccines and boosters are available to reduce the risk of severe illness.
The changes shift much of the responsibility for risk reduction from institutions to individuals. The C.D.C. no longer recommends that people stay six feet away from others. Instead, it notes that avoiding crowded areas and maintaining a distance from others are strategies that people may want to consider in order to reduce their risk.
And the recommended prevention strategies no longer draw a distinction between people who are up-to-date on their vaccinations and those who are not, streamlining a complicated set of rules that could be difficult for schools and businesses to navigate.
People who are exposed to the virus no longer must quarantine at home regardless of their vaccination status, although they should wear a mask for 10 days and get tested for the virus on Day 5, according to the new guidelines. Contact tracing and routine surveillance testing of people without symptoms are no longer recommended in most settings.
Well I got my 5th COVID shot yesterday (2 primary and 3rd booster), it was the Pfizer bivalent one with the added omicron protection. So far a sore arm and some very minor chills, also did the flu shot at the same time. I'm now all wrapped up like a cocoon hoping I don't get the full body shakes like I did with the last moderna shots LOL
Same here. I got my 5th Covid booster last Thursday. But I got the Moderna bivalent one. No issues withh side effects other than some soreness on the arm.
You must have some "special" medical conditions also to qualify for the second booster before bivalent. haha
I also qualified for an injection called Evusheld. It's a prophylactic monoclonal antibody shot. Whether all this helps prevent me from getting another bout of Covid is stll an open question of course. haha
I don't know how I feel about Joe Biden saying, "The pandemic is over." I disagree with the wording and the message. Yes. It's okay to take a victory lap and cheerfully say that apparently (and hopefully) the worst of the pandemic is behind us. But "over" I think sends the wrong message implying that all of us can totally go back to living normal lives immediately.
As in, no masks at all, no handwashing, no avoiding or at least limiting our exposure in crowded public spaces.
I don't think we're there yet. Though I agree that yes... We are going to have to just adjust to the fact that Covid is not going to magically go away. And it's something we'll just have to accept and deal with as we do with various annual flus that come up.
As in, no masks at all, no handwashing, no avoiding or at least limiting our exposure in crowded public spaces.
I don't think we're there yet. Though I agree that yes... We are going to have to just adjust to the fact that Covid is not going to magically go away. And it's something we'll just have to accept and deal with as we do with various annual flus that come up.
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Since Covid, I continue to wash and sanitize my hands. I don't wear the mask anymore with the exception of I am flying on the jet plane and stuck in a room full of people. But day-to-day activities, I don't wear the mask but I would recommend washing and sanitizing ones hands.
Same, I'm religious about having hand sanitizer on me or near me. I too don't wear a mask unless I'm in a crowded area or at a medical facility, but if I have a doubt I wear it. They are cheap and I have probably 100 of them LOL.
I just followed the guidelines as they came out. I have 4 or maybe 5 of the conditions that they say increases your risk for covid if you count lack of physical activity, but I'm working on that one!
The Pfizer booster the side effects were not bad at all, the Moderna bivalent was not near me that I could find.
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mikeyank
Long time forumite
As I was out earlier this morning doing my morning chores, I overheard a guy in his early 30’s, I’d guess, speaking loudly on his phone and complaining to the person on the other end of the conversation, saying something to the effect, “I can’t believe she’s not going. She has no symptoms. Now there’s only three of us going. That’s so 2021”.
It made me think of what we’ve all been through since Jay started this thread in early March 2020, less than three years ago. I got my fourth vaccine last week and feel like I am very well immunized to serious illness from COVID, but of course we didn’t see the world shutting down back in 2019 so we can’t predict the future either.
But at least for now, we seem to be back to where we were, with a full New York City Marathon taking place today, fully packed concerts and sporting events, riding on subways, trains and planes largely unmasked. We will see what the future brings, but overall I am optimistic.
It made me think of what we’ve all been through since Jay started this thread in early March 2020, less than three years ago. I got my fourth vaccine last week and feel like I am very well immunized to serious illness from COVID, but of course we didn’t see the world shutting down back in 2019 so we can’t predict the future either.
But at least for now, we seem to be back to where we were, with a full New York City Marathon taking place today, fully packed concerts and sporting events, riding on subways, trains and planes largely unmasked. We will see what the future brings, but overall I am optimistic.
mikeyank
Long time forumite
Jay started this thread on March 11, 2020, almost three years ago. Today while walking outside I reached for my phone in my coat pocket and didn’t realize that something fell out of my pocket, until a guy passing said to me, “You dropped your mask”. I thanked him as I picked it up and thought to myself how much the world has changed in these last three years.
I wouldn’t have had a mask in my pocket three years ago and he wouldn’t have immediately recognized the piece of black cloth that fell out of my pocket as a mask. Words like pandemic were not a part of everyday life, and terms like “social distancing” and “stop the spread”, would have been foreign to most of us back then. Thankfully for the most part, the pandemic has passed and while Covid is and will always be with us, it is now a treatable and mostly non life threatening disease, (except for compromised individuals) and much as the flu will always be a part of our society, and we need to be aware and get vaccinated each year. To quote the Grateful Dead, for these past three years.
I wouldn’t have had a mask in my pocket three years ago and he wouldn’t have immediately recognized the piece of black cloth that fell out of my pocket as a mask. Words like pandemic were not a part of everyday life, and terms like “social distancing” and “stop the spread”, would have been foreign to most of us back then. Thankfully for the most part, the pandemic has passed and while Covid is and will always be with us, it is now a treatable and mostly non life threatening disease, (except for compromised individuals) and much as the flu will always be a part of our society, and we need to be aware and get vaccinated each year. To quote the Grateful Dead, for these past three years.
It's nucking futs how quickly that went. Shite, 3 years!!!???
mikeyank
Long time forumite
Very true my young friend. And the bad news that you will discover is that as the years pass by, it all goes by quicker and quicker. We all need to learn to enjoy today, for as said in Carly Simon’s fine song, “These are the good old days”.
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