The Daily Peeve / Rant

[SiouzQ.]

Sorry to hear of this Tradd - I hope all goes well and sorts itself out.

[rosarugosa]

In a show of solidarity with President Biden, DH and I have developed covid for the first time. This was not on my list of things I wanted to do! Thankfully it just feels like a head cold, worse for me than for him. We've had all our vaccinations and MD is prescribing meds because we have significant risk factors. I'm just glad we're getting it now and didn't get it back in the days of refrigerated morgue overflow trucks.

[iris lilies]

In a show of solidarity with President Biden, DH and I have developed covid for the first time. This was not on my list of things I wanted to do! Thankfully it just feels like a head cold, worse for me than for him. We've had all our vaccinations and MD is prescribing meds because we have significant risk factors. I'm just glad we're getting it now and didn't get it back in the days of refrigerated morgue overflow trucks.

oh no!!!! I still have not had Covid.

I stopped vaccinations after shot #3, but am not opposed to more, just haven’t got around to it.

[rosarugosa]

oh no!!!! I still have not had Covid.

I stopped vaccinations after shot #3, but am not opposed to more, just haven’t got around to it.

I've had 8 shots so far. Hopefully that will make me one of the mild cases.

[iris lilies]

I've had 8 shots so far. Hopefully that will make me one of the mild cases.

Hunh. How often are we supposed to get them now? I’ve lost track.

[pinkytoe]

I know several here recently diagnosed with Covid. I thought I might have it due to head cold symptoms but test was negative.

[frugal-one]

Jeez. I thought there were 4 covid shots. I stopped at #3 also.

[Alan]

My wife and I stopped at 3 as well. Neither of us has ever had it either, at least not to our knowledge, although we both got very sick with what we later found were covid like symptoms during our annual Christmas at the beach trip in late December 2019 and early January 2020. This was a few weeks before the first confirmed case in the US so it probably wasn't covid but since neither of us gets sick very often, I've always wondered, what if?

[iris lilies]

My wife and I stopped at 3 as well. Neither of us has ever had it either, at least not to our knowledge, although we both got very sick with what we later found were covid like symptoms during our annual Christmas at the beach trip in late December 2019 and early January 2020. This was a few weeks before the first confirmed case in the US so it probably wasn't covid but since neither of us gets sick very often, I've always wondered, what if?

I remember my friend came over to our house February 2020 after checking with a doctor about pneumonia. She didn’t have it but she said this is as sick as she’s been in a long time.

Later, she figured out it was Covid. She figured she got it at her hairdressers who has many clients, businesswoman, who fly internationally.

I suppose by the time she was sitting on our couch she was no longer spreading it.

[rosarugosa]

DH feels fine at this point and I feel like I'm in the recovery phase of a head cold. The Paxlovid has the weird side effect of leaving a metallic taste in my mouth, but DH is not experiencing this. It's nothing I can't live with for a few days; it's just weird. The CDC guidance now is so wishy-washy that I don't wonder about the spike in cases. Once symptoms are subsiding and no fever for 24 hours, you are OK to go forth into the world. Oh, you may very well still be contagious, so it would be nice if you wore a mask, and took the usual precautions, but we're not trying to force you or anything. Geesh. We're definitely going to err on the side of not spreading illness around.