Coronavirus Tales

kazar wrote:
Kiri wrote:

I will never understand why people refuse to self quarantine. A woman I know spouse works with someone who is Covid positive. They had masks on 1 day and the other they were sitting at a table outside having a drink.

Was this a table on their property at least 6 ft apart from any other person or a table at something say a restaurant or a public park. The two are drastically different.

If someone has a risk of being Covid positive, this is still very high risk behavior. There's nothing magical about 6 feet or outside. It's just safe(r). If someone has had a contact with a Covid positive individual they should be quarantining. Period. It's selfish to do otherwise.

DSGamer wrote:
kazar wrote:
Kiri wrote:

I will never understand why people refuse to self quarantine. A woman I know spouse works with someone who is Covid positive. They had masks on 1 day and the other they were sitting at a table outside having a drink.

Was this a table on their property at least 6 ft apart from any other person or a table at something say a restaurant or a public park. The two are drastically different.

If someone has a risk of being Covid positive, this is still very high risk behavior. There's nothing magical about 6 feet or outside. It's just safe(r). If someone has had a contact with a Covid positive individual they should be quarantining. Period. It's selfish to do otherwise.

That is why I said on their property at least 6ft apart. if they are on their yard, they are quarantining. But if they were in a public park, that is very different. The complaint was generic and there are circumstances where "being at a table outside" is still quarantining.

kazar wrote:
DSGamer wrote:
kazar wrote:
Kiri wrote:

I will never understand why people refuse to self quarantine. A woman I know spouse works with someone who is Covid positive. They had masks on 1 day and the other they were sitting at a table outside having a drink.

Was this a table on their property at least 6 ft apart from any other person or a table at something say a restaurant or a public park. The two are drastically different.

If someone has a risk of being Covid positive, this is still very high risk behavior. There's nothing magical about 6 feet or outside. It's just safe(r). If someone has had a contact with a Covid positive individual they should be quarantining. Period. It's selfish to do otherwise.

That is why I said on their property at least 6ft apart. if they are on their yard, they are quarantining. But if they were in a public park, that is very different. The complaint was generic and there are circumstances where "being at a table outside" is still quarantining.

Unless every person at the table is from the same household they risk spreading it outside of the household. I don't know how that part matters.

Dad gets his second Pfizer shot next week. Octagenarian director of the ICU so he was pretty high in the priority list. Unfortunately the phases in Vermont are not defined past the next phase so septuagenarian mom still doesn't know when she will get hers.

Greece has been locked down (again) since November. We were down to 300 new cases a day, so the government started making plans for opening up a few things. Like high schools. I was in a meeting on Friday to talk about opening up the schools on Monday, only to be told by the government at 6pm that nope, nope, nope, nope, with new cases back to 900-something, not opening up sh*t.

I have no idea how to feel. I was going to go with double masks and possibly a long stick to keep people away from me. But I also HATE teaching online classes....

My mother was supposed to get her first vaccine dose today, but they ended up turning her away because she had a flu shot ten days ago. She's been rescheduled for the 4th. Sigh.

kazar wrote:
Kiri wrote:

I will never understand why people refuse to self quarantine. A woman I know spouse works with someone who is Covid positive. They had masks on 1 day and the other they were sitting at a table outside having a drink.

Was this a table on their property at least 6 ft apart from any other person or a table at something say a restaurant or a public park. The two are drastically different.

It was at a golf club where they both work. Not sure how far apart they were. My friend recently had a cardiac procedure.

This is not a personal tale but it certainly sounds interesting

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Got my second dose (Moderna) yesterday morning and it was a rough night. High fever, headache, so achy that I couldn't find a comfortable position to sleep in... I haven't felt that bad in a real long time. Better today, but I've also been taking alternating doses of tylenol and ibuprofen when my fever starts to creep back up.

Took my parents to get their second dose yesterday. Their arms were a little sore today, but I felt like a huge weight had been lifted off of my chest. I hadn't realized how much I'd been worrying about either of them getting sick.

My parents snow bird in Arizona from Iowa and within a few days were able to get an appointment and first Moderna shot. So yeah that's a partial relief for me.

billt721 wrote:

Got my second dose (Moderna) yesterday morning and it was a rough night. High fever, headache, so achy that I couldn't find a comfortable position to sleep in... I haven't felt that bad in a real long time. Better today, but I've also been taking alternating doses of tylenol and ibuprofen when my fever starts to creep back up.

Do you know your blood type?

Today the Government, via the NHS decided to tell me that I should actually be on the "clinically extremely vulnerable" group and should now be shielding. This isn't exactly a shock but given we're a year in and my medical history isn't great, it has come as something of a surprise.

It does mean I'm now in the priority list for getting a vaccination though, so it does have a silver lining. And in any case I think the only real difference it's going to make is probably not going to the supermarket in person and now relying on home deliveries.

Got my second dose today. About 90 minutes later, my arm feels like it’s moderately on fire and I’m feeling chilly generally. Seems too quick to be actual side effects, so it may be just mental manifestations of stress and worry, but its an oddly specific sensation I’ve never felt before. Either way, I’m fully expecting a pretty miserable night tonight and a day in bed tomorrow. So, yay? But vaccine is vaccine, so yes, yay.

Those are both valid reactions, from what I've heard. Means the vaccine is triggering reactions, which is good.

Wife got her 2nd this morning. A slightly sore arm. Said she is a bit warm but could be nothing. All in all normal day. She worked a full 8 hours at CPR class afterwards so we'll see how tonight & tomorrow go.

It was somewhere in the 12-15 hour range before my symptoms kicked in (though my arm was tight and sore almost immediately). But I was basically fine the next day other than a slight fever that I treated with meds and worked a full day. My wife was about the same. Sister-in-law was very fatigued a few hours later but that was the only reaction she had. Mother-in-law had no reaction at all. On the other end of the spectrum, I had one coworker who was in bed and miserable for 36 hours after getting his second dose.

It's interesting how wide the range of reactions seems to be to these vaccines.

Hobear wrote:
billt721 wrote:

Got my second dose (Moderna) yesterday morning and it was a rough night. High fever, headache, so achy that I couldn't find a comfortable position to sleep in... I haven't felt that bad in a real long time. Better today, but I've also been taking alternating doses of tylenol and ibuprofen when my fever starts to creep back up.

Do you know your blood type?

I do not -- is that a thing that seems to have some bearing on what sort of reaction someone gets?

billt721 wrote:

It's interesting how wide the range of reactions seems to be to these vaccines.

Not really? People have a wide variety of immune responses. It's also true of all vaccines, not just these covid ones.

Robear wrote:

Those are both valid reactions, from what I've heard. Means the vaccine is triggering reactions, which is good.

Wait, you can have reactions to a vaccine that are invalid?

No, but you can mistake other things for vaccine reactions.

MikeSands wrote:
billt721 wrote:

It's interesting how wide the range of reactions seems to be to these vaccines.

Not really? People have a wide variety of immune responses. It's also true of all vaccines, not just these covid ones.

You're right. I no longer find it interesting.

billt721 wrote:
Hobear wrote:
billt721 wrote:

Got my second dose (Moderna) yesterday morning and it was a rough night. High fever, headache, so achy that I couldn't find a comfortable position to sleep in... I haven't felt that bad in a real long time. Better today, but I've also been taking alternating doses of tylenol and ibuprofen when my fever starts to creep back up.

Do you know your blood type?

I do not -- is that a thing that seems to have some bearing on what sort of reaction someone gets?

With Covid it was found that Type A blood was impacted worse. My curiosity is that it impacts those vaccinated similarly. My wife is O+ and has had almost nothing except exhaustion after the first dose. I am worried as I am A-. But I'll take 3 days of sick for the vax!

Hobear wrote:
billt721 wrote:
Hobear wrote:
billt721 wrote:

Got my second dose (Moderna) yesterday morning and it was a rough night. High fever, headache, so achy that I couldn't find a comfortable position to sleep in... I haven't felt that bad in a real long time. Better today, but I've also been taking alternating doses of tylenol and ibuprofen when my fever starts to creep back up.

Do you know your blood type?

I do not -- is that a thing that seems to have some bearing on what sort of reaction someone gets?

With Covid it was found that Type A blood was impacted worse. My curiosity is that it impacts those vaccinated similarly. My wife is O+ and has had almost nothing except exhaustion after the first dose. I am worried as I am A-. But I'll take 3 days of sick for the vax!

I'd say that's interesting, but it's been pointed out to me that I don't know what's interesting. Is it cool? Can I say that? Feels weird saying something related to covid is cool. Maybe if I'm only talking about the science...

But I know what you mean -- I would have been happy to endure the 36 hours my coworker went through in order to get the vaccine.

Well, so far, about 8 hours in, those first symptoms seem to be the only I've had so far, but they've persisted save for the times I distracted myself with some games and forgot about them.

Pretty sure I'm A-, which as you say is worrying. Trying to avoid all of it. Even as an introvert I'm getting sick of the physical isolation.

I’ve been wondering how seriously to take the blood type stuff. I couldn’t even remember my type, so I had it checked a month ago and I’m O+. That gave me a little relief, but nothing more.

I am so over this pandemic. I wake up with a sore throat and extra tired. Normally I would say oh this is sinuses but now I have to evaluate everything to make sure I don't spread covid to my family. I don't have the brainpower for normal things let alone a fully body monitoring on top of that.

No worse symptoms overnight, though I did wake up more than a dozen times the first few hours, and a handful more the rest of the night/morning, mostly feeling really parched and dry. Now, I’m just fatigued and a little bit dizzy at times. Took the day off as planned. Now to decide what to play or watch with my day in bed.

EDIT: Let the body aches begin!

Robear wrote:

Pretty sure I'm A-, which as you say is worrying. Trying to avoid all of it. Even as an introvert I'm getting sick of the physical isolation.

We are far too similar at times my friend.