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Covid
Dec 7, 2022 6:48:34 GMT -5
Post by k9krap on Dec 7, 2022 6:48:34 GMT -5
I just saw the RAHD numbers from last week. It looks like quite a few KG residents attended the same Thanksgiving super spreader.
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Covid
Dec 7, 2022 11:22:13 GMT -5
Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Dec 7, 2022 11:22:13 GMT -5
I was assured that it would magically disappear 3 years ago. Just scheduled us both for the flu shot this week. Her doctor said 90 days after last positive test for her to get covid booster although she doesn't want it anyway. I'll probably get mine after Christmas. I assume we're both running on antibodies from October and should be good at least until then.
And since there's now evidence that the boosters aren't for shit anyway, I will reassess before I get one.
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Covid
Dec 7, 2022 14:46:57 GMT -5
Post by minx on Dec 7, 2022 14:46:57 GMT -5
It's now becoming like the flu, where it mutates so the vaccine may or may not work. But I also think we still don't know enough about this shit so we can formulate a good vaccine for all the damn variants.
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Covid
Dec 7, 2022 22:21:09 GMT -5
Post by k9krap on Dec 7, 2022 22:21:09 GMT -5
The flu vaccine is supposed to be nearly on the money for this year’s strain. Got mine 6 weeks ago and not a sniffle (except for allergies). 🤣🤣
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Post by minx on Dec 8, 2022 16:24:54 GMT -5
Too bad more people (especially kiddos) haven't. I do worry about how January will look - there are already a lot of cases now.
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Covid
Dec 8, 2022 18:12:00 GMT -5
Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Dec 8, 2022 18:12:00 GMT -5
The grandkid has had covid, rsv, and the flu. So he's not in the daycare any more. Luckily they found someone to watch him at home. From what I hear she's been doing great with him so far.
I felt like shit all day and canceled on the flu shot until I feel better, which will most likely happen when I'm able to sleep for at least 6-7 hours without waking from nightmares, peeing, sweating, helping her, and that's not even the main problem, which is falling asleep to begin with.
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Covid
Dec 8, 2022 21:36:59 GMT -5
Post by k9krap on Dec 8, 2022 21:36:59 GMT -5
I actually slept through about 5 hours yesterday! I haven’t done that in years. I always have to get up to pee. I’ve started a new bladder control supplement and have noticed I am peeing more often while I’m awake the past two days. Not sure if that’s related or not. But, at my age I don’t expect to sleep through. But getting up 4 or 5 times (and still leaking!) is ridiculous.
And I can sympathize with caring for your wife. I still have nightmares of lying in bed, exhausted, and hearing my mom calling me on the intercom. (Sometimes, she’d call her mom first, then my dad, maybe one of the caregivers that took care of her during the day.)
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Covid
Dec 9, 2022 9:46:51 GMT -5
Post by minx on Dec 9, 2022 9:46:51 GMT -5
OMG John - no wonder you can't sleep right now!
Keeping all of you in my thoughts, especially Levi - that's a lot for a little one to be dealing with. Hoping that both he and the missus are on the mend soon.
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Covid
Dec 9, 2022 11:15:21 GMT -5
Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Dec 9, 2022 11:15:21 GMT -5
I premedicated last night and it worked about as well as I could hope for. Dozed off in my chair around midnight listening to a Carl Sagan lecture. Didn't wake until 0545 so that was pretty good. Went to the restroom and then in the bed (with the CPAP) and got in another 3.5 hours undisturbed. Still had a lot of the vivid dream stuff but at least they didn't wake me. All hail the magic of Ativan.
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Covid
Dec 9, 2022 15:36:40 GMT -5
Post by minx on Dec 9, 2022 15:36:40 GMT -5
Ativan - the wonder drug that works wonders.
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Covid
Dec 18, 2022 11:47:09 GMT -5
Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Dec 18, 2022 11:47:09 GMT -5
I've been looking for a PEZ dispenser for them this week, believe me.
PS- Headline on my preferred news page this morning cites Chinese morgues and hospitals unable to keep up with covid deaths. Remember when this was going to magically disappear? This does not bode well considering that country was wearing masks 50 years ago and I'm pretty sure they get vaccinated or else.
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Covid
Dec 18, 2022 13:32:52 GMT -5
Post by minx on Dec 18, 2022 13:32:52 GMT -5
This sadly is where China's secrecy is coming back to bite them in the ass.
Western governments offered to share all vaccines available - Moderna, Pfizer, J&J & the other one I can't remember. Both countries said they had their own 'better' vaccine. There was a ton of skepticism about both - clearly China's vaccine sucked. And while mass shutdowns of cities prevented the spread, it did so at the cost of the economies of both cities.
Of course the real victims here are the ordinary Chinese people, just like the victims of the government incompetence and lack of response in 2020 are the ordinary Americans who sacrificed their livelihoods, health and even lives at the altar of incompetence.
Sadly, we seem to have learned next to nothing from this experience, except that our reaction to this could have been better, and that we are woefully unprepared for a pandemic or massive disaster. Good times.
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