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Post by MichyM on Dec 6, 2022 1:48:06 GMT
Clearly y’all need to use your own judgement in order to determine which “category” you fit. 😎 Nothing scientific about the poll!
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anaterra
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Post by anaterra on Dec 6, 2022 1:51:14 GMT
Very super cautious in the beginning because i live in texas and myshelly is the exact example of people all around me... Ive been vaccinated and boostered and super careful... ive had it twice anyway... I was probably the last person in my area wearing a mask... i dont wear it anymore... I did not have severe cases but i DO know people who were hospitalized... in the plant i work in, weve lost 4 people and several immediate family members... spouses, parents, siblings and children..
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Post by snoopy on Dec 6, 2022 2:08:43 GMT
I am moderately cautious, but DH just got his first positive test this morning. My test was negative, but I think it’s likely I will test positive by the end of the week. We are both fully vaccinated and got the updated boosters in September, so I anticipate our cases will be manageable at home. I’m kinda bummed he got a positive test, but I feel it was only a matter of time, and we were fortunate to avoid it for almost 3 years. See if he can get the anti viral...I felt great within 12 hours of taking it and I tested negative today 6 days later I just got back from picking up his Paxlovid RX. I hope he will feel much better soon!
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Post by lisae on Dec 6, 2022 2:15:05 GMT
I was very cautious for the first year and then moderately cautious. I am avoiding some situations but I'm no longer wearing a mask unless required at a doctor's office. Never had Covid as far as I know. Or not yet anyway.
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Post by Delta Dawn on Dec 6, 2022 2:17:05 GMT
Clearly y’all need to use your own judgement in order to determine which “category” you fit. 😎 Nothing scientific about the poll! Pea science is real. Better than the FB 👀. I don’t want to invite strangers…I am paranoid tonight I guess.
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Post by withapea on Dec 6, 2022 2:25:00 GMT
We still wear kn95 masks when out and about and avoid crowds if possible. I don’t dine in restaurants unless I can be seated outside. I’m vaxxed and boosted to the max. I have gone to two concerts which were the exception to the crowd thing and the riskiest thing I’ve done post-COVID ( of course we masked ). I have asthma and lung cancer and I’ll be pissed if I get taken out by something else. I’m letting the state track my anti-bodies and I’ve never had COVID. One of my daughter’s got it at work but luckily she quarantined well and no one else in the immediate family got it.
I’ve known a ton of people who have had it. I’ve known several who died. I know a couple of people with long COVID and it is just awful.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2022 5:23:22 GMT
I've had it 3 times. Twice was via school, my son caught it first. Last time was flying back from Europe. We were pretty cautious but by that point I was like I give up, so I didn't mask. Pretty much regret that.
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Post by PLurker on Dec 6, 2022 13:59:02 GMT
I was very cautious at the beginning before the vaccine, now not really cautious at all. I caught it in NYC in June after having the vax 2x and 1 booster. I had the second booster in October. Obviously if I were around immunosuppressed people, my behavior would be different. Not picking on you but whenever someone says this I often think, if you're out and about how do you know your not around immunosuppressed people? They don't wear signs in their forehead and there are plenty everywhere. OR they are Not everywhere because it's not safe for them. Some don't even know they are compromised until they know it after being diagnosed with something. Full disclosure, as a transplant recipient I am one of those people. I still mask when around people but not just for me but for those around me for same mentioned reasons. Funny thing is while I am cautious, my kids are far more adamant about the precautions than me. They probably keep me in line so to speak as like everyone else this whole thing is tiresome and I ling for the pre carefree days. I always try to remember and think "how would I and want everyone to act if the one (s) I had the dearest were in danger. Which is probably why my kids are more naturally adamant than me.♥️ Surprise, surprise, one of my kids shared this with me that applies to masking etc among other things.
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Post by stittsygirl on Dec 6, 2022 15:41:23 GMT
I’m vaxed and boosted, but not with the latest booster. I work in a hospital that still requires masks for everyone, and I mask whenever I’m out in public. I finally came down with Covid at the beginning of November. It came at the end of one of the most physically exhausting and stressful work weeks I’ve ever had, and I think my immune system was just done trying to protect me. I have no idea where I picked it up - no one around me at work or home either had it at that time or has had it since.
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Post by christinec68 on Dec 6, 2022 15:57:14 GMT
As far as I know, I only had COVID once in the very beginning. I was asymptomatic and only know I had it because of an antibody test and that my sense of smell/taste changed significantly about 2 years ago. I was moderately cautious in the beginning by wearing a mask but mostly when I had to and I never got into wearing gloves and only used hand sanitizer when there was no hand washing option.
Now I am vaccinated with one booster and not cautious at all. I'll wear a mask when required such as in a medical facility but that's about it. I've always had good hand hyenine.
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Post by gar on Dec 6, 2022 16:12:09 GMT
I was very cautious at the beginning before the vaccine, now not really cautious at all. I caught it in NYC in June after having the vax 2x and 1 booster. I had the second booster in October. Obviously if I were around immunosuppressed people, my behavior would be different. Not picking on you but whenever someone says this I often think, if you're out and about how do you know your not around immunosuppressed people? Can’t answer for peano but for me, ‘being around’ means spending time with, not just passing in the street. I know there are situations that are perhaps less clear cut but to me it means being with someone I might hug or kiss, sit next to, talk with for more than a moment or two etc.
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Post by PLurker on Dec 6, 2022 17:29:31 GMT
gar I would too. Except add confined and/or crowded indoor spaces. I would feel more apt and comfortable in going some places if more masked. For now, I'm mostly left out. I myself don't live in metro area so stores are easy to keep your distance. I always have mask with but admit I drop it when near no one. ETA for the most part, I am not complaining. I had my share of concerts and such/ crowded places in my youth. Not as appealing to me anymore. If it was now I was my younger but immunosuppressed self I might be a little more irritated that people don't consider others more. Which may be why my kids are more pissed off than me. Lol
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Post by CardBoxer on Dec 6, 2022 17:44:58 GMT
I picked moderately cautious and never had it. I think I am “moderate”, someone else may think I am “very” cautious. If I am indoors, sitting in one place for an extended period of time (airplane, theater, etc) I’ll wear a mask. A busy store/place (Target, Walmart, airport, etc), I’ll wear a mask. But we do eat indoors and go to our gym without a mask. We’ve been to parties, and we do travel. And, as I mentioned in another thread, I’ve only had one booster so far. Not a judgment, just illustrates we have our own definitions. I can’t imagine categorizing eating in restaurants, being in gyms without masking or going to parties (without masking?) as very cautious. I realize you didn’t put yourself in that category, just that you thought someone else might. I’d consider myself very (extremely, ugh) cautious bc of my health history, so no restaurants, gym, indoor gatherings or even people in our home unless necessary—like for a repair—and it that case everyone masks and social distances. Still mostly curbside shopping or a quick run in and out. And so on. But I did make myself go have oral surgery. I have to go back to the surgeon and then to a regular dentist but will try to find a new one since the mask kept slipping down below the nose of my current dentist and even when it was on her nose you could drive a car through the gaps. It was surprising.
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Post by mrsscrapdiva on Dec 14, 2022 3:06:06 GMT
I didn't want to vote earlier because I didn't want to jinx myself On Saturday I tested positive, it came on very quickly and it is the 1st time I have ever tested positive for it...from the very beginning. I am a school teacher and it was almost unavoidable this past week. So much sickness going around covid and influenza, many absences and students going home sick. Both my teenage boys have the same exact symptoms as me with higher temps and both tested negative. We tested on 2 different days too. My first test was a faint positive and the 2nd one 30 hours later was dark and positive right away. I have had the whole array of symptoms. Right now the very stuffy full feeling head, nose, ears, sinuses is the worse. I can't think straight. I had a bad fever, chills, body ache and also a headache for 2 days. I had a deep cough for only one day and I am very thankful that has not gotten worse.
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Post by janet on Dec 14, 2022 15:13:19 GMT
I'm moderately cautious and I just got over my 3rd bout of Covid. I credit this to working with children in a choral setting. Fortunately a. it was pretty mild and b. no one I've been around has caught it.
Can you be a reverse carrier? i.e. you get it but no one you've exposed does? This is literally the third time this has happened, where I have been around lots of people right before symptoms started, and even my husband and kids after, and no one has gotten it from me.
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