Conavirus......

I'm wondering if people are taking any special precautions over the holidays?

I'm getting the impression from any social contacts or the media that it's maybe 90 percent or something back to pre-pandemic life. Schools and gatherings like sporting events are back to the usual. My local theater than I have season tickets for has dropped the requirements for proof of vaccination and of course, masks. I went to the first of the season last month, but am uncertain about winter performances. Last year the annual Holiday performances were cancelled mid-way due to the actors getting covid. Just examples and not to mention other family and social gatherings.

The news is saying the dominants strains are new have some immune evasion of vaccinations or previous infections and may be resistant to anti virals. I know of two people who have had covid in the last few months. No one got very sick, but both were vaccinated. What they are calling community transmission in my county has been low for some time. I've thought to keep an eye on that as an indicator. I'm not comfortable in relatively crowded indoor places where there are strangers of unknown health precautions, but maybe just behavior from recent conditioning.

I was going to go to a Christmas music event that’s a fundraiser for a Chicago Maritime Museum. Folk music of the Great Lakes. But the room is long and low and people are packed in - or at least they were in 2018 and 2019. This is the first time doing the event since 2019. I really wanted to go but then I remembered how everyone is packed in, and so I’ll not go this year. Cases are starting to increase here again.

That would be the only special event I go to at the holidays that is somewhere I don’t usually go. Church as usual and I’ll be at friends’ for T’giving. I’ll be driving back from cave diving in FL on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, so no gatherings. I’ll be with friends a lot in FL, but they have a camp and we hang around outside and have potluck meals.

Tradd, I surely do not want you to get sick before your Christmas diving event that would be tragic.


I’m sure people around here are Going back to normal. I’m living a normal life. I see lots and lots of masks in St. Louis. I don’t see any masks in Hermann other than at the hospital, and that’s not even required it’s just required if you as a visitor have been sick or fevered or whatever the list is. The staff wear masks but they pull them down to talk.

I still exercise reasonable precautions when in public spaces and will continue to do so for a while.

After just getting over the "common cold" (negative covid tests), it was so awful that I am increasing my vigilance over being in groups. Had a scare that almost involved an ER visit so I do not want to get it or anything like it for awhile. I am fully vaccinated and got the flu shot too.

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Originally Posted by bae

I still exercise reasonable precautions when in public spaces and will continue to do so for a while.

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Same here. No large gatherings are planned, but those aren't my favorite even under pre-Covid circumstances.

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Originally Posted by bae

I still exercise reasonable precautions when in public spaces and will continue to do so for a while.

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Ditto. Still masking for stores, which are starting to fill with holiday shoppers.

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Originally Posted by sweetana3

After just getting over the "common cold" (negative covid tests), it was so awful that I am increasing my vigilance over being in groups. Had a scare that almost involved an ER visit so I do not want to get it or anything like it for awhile. I am fully vaccinated and got the flu shot too.

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Last week I got a flu shot and second Covid booster.

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Originally Posted by iris lilies

Tradd, I surely do not want you to get sick before your Christmas diving event that would be tragic.


I’m sure people around here are Going back to normal. I’m living a normal life. I see lots and lots of masks in St. Louis. I don’t see any masks in Hermann other than at the hospital, and that’s not even required it’s just required if you as a visitor have been sick or fevered or whatever the list is. The staff wear masks but they pull them down to talk.

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Thanks. Got my second booster and flu shot a few weeks back.

We’re not traveling at all this holiday season for various reasons not directly related to covid. Other than that we’ll only be going to two holiday parties. One will be small (maybe ten people) and the other will be outdoors (a lighted boat parade on the canal behind a friend’s house so the party will take place on her deck that has a propane fire pit and basket of blankets.). There are a couple of work related holiday parties that I will get invited to but I am not planning on attending.

We’ve both been bivalent boosted and flu shotted so hopefully if we do come in contact with covid we’ll be defended. My phone has informed me twice in the past six weeks that I’ve been exposed but neither time resulted in me having a case of covid. (Based on when the exposures occurred both times were when I was traveling for work and likely someone in an airport or on an airplane in which case I would have been KN95 masked the whole time. )