Covid Support Thread
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Another comic friend I know who has been SO careful unfortunately tested positive this week. He’s vaccinated and says it feels like a cold. He just started doing shows inside after he got fully vaccinated, and he thinks the one he did in Louisiana was the one that got him because everyone was packed in and no masks were being worn except by him and his wife. It’s such a bummer, especially since they have 5 kids between them (blended family).
Thinking about being in lockdown and not able to sit/eat/perform outside this winter for a second time is making me go to a mental place I don’t need to be. It seems like that’s what’s going to happen, though.
Oh nooo @TheLadyE! I’m sorry you haven’t been able to get the CPAP machine yet. I hope that happens for you soon!
I know of a handful of breakthrough cases. A childless cousin who thinks she got it at a low-key bar she went to with two friends (the friends are fine). And then my boss and his wife, whose kid I guess started school and there was an immediate outbreak. Boss was very spacey in a meeting on Monday even though he said he was felling better than he had during the weekend. And a friend’s SIL, who also got it from her kid who goes to daycare. I keep reading that breakthrough cases are rare (though rare in context of the size of our vaccinated population is still a lot of people) but IDK how they even make that determination… on a podcast I listened to, the woman being interviewed acknowledged that they haven’t really been keeping track of breakthrough cases. Maybe just “severe” breakthrough COVID cases are rare. So I was cautiously optimistic as we went into spring and we did let our guard down a bit, but lately have been feeling blergghhh about the direction things are going and more mindful in what we do.
Thank you @Copa. I really hope I get it soon too. I think it’ll change a LOT. The sleep test wearing it was shockingly different.
Meanwhile, my company decided to keep us working from home up until at least January 2022. I feel really grateful for that.
Yeah, that’s good. My employer has also decided not to go back to the office for now. Got my new desk chair today! And my new desk arrived probably almost a week ago but I haven’t put it together yet. My sister’s company, on the other hand, has returned to the office. Hybrid, but she’s not pleased about it. They’re at least covering her parking so that she doesn’t have to get onto public transit.
Breakthrough cases with Delta are not rare and it’s wildly misleading that health authorities characterize it that way.
Relative protection against symptomatic illness ranges between 50 and 88 percent depending on the study. With more than a hundred thousand cases a day it’s going to be very common. I know several people with breakthrough infections and I don’t know that many people.
Fyodor: I know of at least two colleagues with breakthrough infections. I agree. They are NOT that rare.
I “know” one person with a breakthrough… A friend of my husband who doesn’t live in MA. She’s young and an athlete and says it felt like a sinus infection and passed quickly.
I actually don’t know anyone in my friend group or at work (Boston HQ, other offices in New England and elsewhere) who’s had a breakthrough infection. I do think they’re common with Delta but also that it varies a lot by level of vaccination where you live.
My Indian colleagues were telling me last Spring that the shots didn’t seem to work against the new variant, but also at that time not very many people in India were vaxxed, just the oldest.
Everyone whose had a CPAP machine has loved it. Hope you get yours soon TheLadyE!
I didn’t encounter a personal experience with COVID until my cousin who lived in an apartment got it in February 2021. He was so careful but it must be the multi residential living situation. I fortunately haven’t heard of any breakthrough cases even “friend of a friend”. I am nervous though. We all still wear masks but sure we are going to outdoor baby showers and such.
Honestly, you probably haven’t heard of breakthroughs because you ARE wearing masks in Canada. It didn’t help that we stopped wearing them indoors in May right when Delta was circulating.
