Covid Support Thread
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I expect that at some point we’ll get sick despite being vaccinated. Covid will likely be with us forever (same as the pandemic flu from 1918). I just need that to not happen until AFTER my daughter has been vaccinated. I’m very concerned about the possibility of long covid after vaccination, but at least at that point maybe we’ll have a fighting chance against it, and we’ll almost certainly stay alive and out of the hospital! I’ve been checking the clinical trials to see if there is a dosage study (no placebo) that I can get her into, but there’s no availability. So far I don’t personally know anyone with a breakthrough case, but have heard plenty of stories. I’m good with wearing a mask in public indoor places until the end of time, though. It doesn’t bother me. It blows my mind that masks for school are at all controversial. The kids are better about wearing them than the adults! I’m so glad that I never even had to think about whether our district would mandate them- they did, and I don’t think there’s even a very vocal opposition to it. In any case, our governor- Virginia- just mandated that all K12 public school students and staff wear masks. Good.
My elderly mom is coming to stay with me for a month as she recuperates from a serious car accident. She’s vaccinated and we’re vaccinated but breakthrough cases are popping up all around me. I’m freaking out. If she gets a breakthrough, given her weakened state and underlying health conditions, she may well fall in the percent that have to be hospitalized or worse.
Ugh, MissMJ! I feel you, it’s so hard when you are trying to protect a vulnerable family member. I was reading that the FDA might soon be approving booster shots for immune compromised people- maybe she’ll be eligible for a booster?
LadyE, it’s good to hear from you! I’m sorry things have been so rough. I hope you’re sleeping better very soon!
Talked to my just turned 16 year old niece a few minutes ago. She was worried about the school board meeting this week because they were making the decision on whether or not to mandate masks. Teachers and students were for a mask mandate. Parents were against. Teachers and students won!!
This is in southern IL, right across the Mississippi from MO.
Canada’s overall disease levels are about 1/10 of ours on a per capita basis so when you have many fewer people getting sick you’ll have fewer breakthroughs. There’s also reason to think that their dosing schedule (spread out 8-12 weeks) gives you more protection.
Breakthrough cases are not rare, and I agree with Fyodor that it’s been incredibly irresponsible for the CDC to message that they are. Maybe if they were honest with us, you wouldn’t have fully vaxxed parents of unvaxxed, unprotected kids doing indoor shows for unmasked audiences in freaking Louisiana, which has the highest covid transmission on the planet, my god. LadyE, how is your friend’s children?
My mom was pressuring me to travel north for the aforementioned birthday. I told her of my concerns and she tried to dismiss them but I mostly shut her down. If she wants to travel and my sister is ok with that, great.
While the risk of infection is low, I simply don’t feel comfortable.
The more I think about it, the more I’d like to ignore this birthday altogether anyway.
My boss messaged me this morning that she woke up with a headache and body aches. I was like, oh no! Can you take one of those CVS tests? She’s like, oh, I don’t think it’s Covid. Meanwhile, her college-age kids are staying with her right now, and also she went to lunch last week with one of my teammates and a vendor. Personally I’d take a test!
Y’all, I cannot express to you the comfort I take in coming here and reading like-minded messages from all of you. At the end of 2019, I never could have imagined that A DEADLY VIRUS could be politicized and that some of the people closest to me would be so immovably stubborn, selfish, ignorant, stupid, and argumentative. It is so, so disheartening.
I’ve been really close with my one guy friend (I’ve written about him before, we met at work years ago, liked each other, he went and married another woman, she turned out to be abusive, now he’s divorced and in a bitter – and I mean BITTER – legal battle for any kind of custody of his daughter). He’s been there for me when I needed him, like we’ve been hanging out just as friends for years, since, like 2017. (We met in 2012.) I think he thinks we’re going to end up together. Every once in awhile he references that, and did recently too.
But the level at which he is either unwilling or unable to understand the fact that this is a deadly viral pandemic and not a Democratic hoax (??) I cannot believe. I cannot understand it; I can’t understand how someone seemingly so smart and kind would be this ignorant. We tried talking about it again the other night because he doesn’t wear masks (he has to now, the governor re-instated the mask mandate) and will not get vaccinated. I’m literally on supplemental oxygen right now. He sees his daughter unmasked. He works in real estate so he is always out seeing people. But the conversations we have are not debates or discussions: they’re full on him giving me pointless, red-herring, ridiculous right-wing arguments that have zero basis in science and trying to refute everything I say as being too “leftist”. He won’t give it to me or his daughter. It’s 99% survivable. Kids can’t get it. He’ll be fine. It’s a hoax.
All that to say – 1. I’m so glad we’re not actually married because when he says this stuff I want to lose my ever loving mind and 2. If I thought in the future maybe we could end up together, this is making me NOT WANT TO DO THAT. I don’t even want to have him in my life now sometimes, but damn, I just went through this breakup and I’m lonely but WHAT IN THE ACTUAL EFF.
Anywho. What he doesn’t know is that I’m back on a dating site and I refuse to even entertain anyone who does not say they’re vaccinated and AT LEAST moderate if not liberal. I’m done. I can’t. It’s now 100% a dealbreaker. Even my friend’s Trump supporting former Navy husband got vaccinated!!!
The anger. The sheer rage. I swear it’s not helping my very fragile health right now.
Oh and pro tip, if you wanna make a man really mad, say something like “C’mon, I know you’re smarter than this” while you’re having a discussion. Heh.
They’re $24 for a box of two, super easy to use, and results in 15 minutes. We got a bu ch and plan to alternate doing weekly tests in our family.
I have a test in my bathroom right now! Also she lives in walking distance of a major drugstore.
