Conavirus......

[iris lilies]

Good luck getting paupers on Medicaid to pay.

Oh that’s right, I guess they don’t pay anything, Medicaid insured folks. Even the multi millionaires. Well, they can make a sliding scale based on what income they do have, such as: Get the vaccine, it’s free. Don’t get the vaccine, we charge five dollars a month. Or $10 a month. Or whatever.

[bae]

Our County had its first covid death today. An unvaccinated individual who basically lived the life of a hermit. Be careful out there.

[jp1]

It's fascinating to me how random it is who gets infected. SO's mom has two of her adult (obviously, since he's the youngest at 56 years old) kids living with her. One is a waiter, the other is a cashier at Costco. Both have been working throughout the pandemic. No one in the family has gotten infected so far. Even now with Omicron raging. But then one hears about the person in bae's county, or IL's husband, who have been steering clear of people for the most part, yet they still get infected.

[pinkytoe]

And then there are folks like my 87 yo MIL in assisted living where there have been repeated outbreaks among staff. She was moved to a new facility today with no testing required. She has been exposed many times over and remains Covid-free even though she has many health issues.

[Yppej]

It's fascinating to me how random it is who gets infected. SO's mom has two of her adult (obviously, since he's the youngest at 56 years old) kids living with her. One is a waiter, the other is a cashier at Costco. Both have been working throughout the pandemic. No one in the family has gotten infected so far. Even now with Omicron raging. But then one hears about the person in bae's county, or IL's husband, who have been steering clear of people for the most part, yet they still get infected.

This is the hygiene hypothesis at work. If you are exposed to germs you develop immunity to them.

[SiouzQ.]

My test was negative! Just an average cold after all, but several of the symptoms mirrored what people are reporting for the new variant. I don't regret waiting in the long line (except the part where I really, really needed to use the bathroom for over an hour and couldn't get out of the car line, lol)!

[sweetana3]

We have been reminded of memories by FB and several were of serious colds we had about this same time over the years. It is just a given this time of year and now with other concerns. After all, none of the other virus types have magically disappeared. Sigh.

[iris lilies]

Here’s a report from Covid land:


Sweetana3 may be right, perhaps we do not have it.
DH was monitoring his temperature was staying in Hermann and it never got above 99°. He is very very weak however. Had some coughing, but I think that’s over.

Yesterday I came down with lots of nasal drip which as the day progressed, I figured that something was going on and then in the night I had lots of coughing. Only a slight temperature this morning. But since I am apparently sick with DH’s illness, I told him to come home from Hermann.

So we are recovering together.

I don’t have my home test yet so can’t test for it. I’m not going to go to one of the test centers and take a test and space just to satisfy my curiosity. DH will know for sure when he goes to his regular doctor appointment in February where he will ask them to do a antibody test. Since he has not had the Covid vaccine I would think if he’s got Covid antibodies, we can assume this illness was Covid.

It’s not over for either one of us so we’re keeping an eye on the situation and staying very inactive, testing temperature and oxygen.

[iris lilies]

I will add that DH’s sister in Florida told him he has Covid because his symptoms were exactly the same as hers when she had it. Dr. Sister does medical coding for Blue Cross, so…ummm, ok sis, . Not exactly a dr.

So now he’s convinced he has Covid.

[bae]

Be well Iris!