Neverending Covid-19 Coronavirus

So we’ve been essentially open here where I live for many months now. Restaurants stopped being limited capacity probably in like September? Yet we’ve had a mask mandate since July. It’s set to expire at the end of this month. Our cases aren’t rising right now, but this is coming after a brutal three months of insane numbers. Vaccination rates aren’t rising fast enough but they do keep chugging along. I wish my employer (the university) was forcing people to get vaccinated, but they apparently can’t. But they aren’t even incentivizing it. Where I work now more people have been vaccinated, but there’s still a good bit of people who refuse mostly cause of laziness, not any real concern over actually getting it.

But so now I’m almost two weeks out from my second dose. I still haven’t really been inside a grocery store in months. And I haven’t gone to eat anywhere since January 2020. I am at work every single day for 9 hours. And I never once had to get tested. I never had symptoms. I never felt sick. I feel so lucky right now. But I still find myself being a bit cautious about “re-entering society.” As a whole, people in this city have sucked. And I don’t think anyone is super excited to get vaccinated. But my work is now planning an after work dinner at the end of this month. I think I should be fine? But at the same time...I can't help but feel some anxiety about it.
 
Bennnnn said:
So we’ve been essentially open here where I live for many months now. Restaurants stopped being limited capacity probably in like September? Yet we’ve had a mask mandate since July. It’s set to expire at the end of this month. Our cases aren’t rising right now, but this is coming after a brutal three months of insane numbers. Vaccination rates aren’t rising fast enough but they do keep chugging along. I wish my employer (the university) was forcing people to get vaccinated, but they apparently can’t. But they aren’t even incentivizing it. Where I work now more people have been vaccinated, but there’s still a good bit of people who refuse mostly cause of laziness, not any real concern over actually getting it.

But so now I’m almost two weeks out from my second dose. I still haven’t really been inside a grocery store in months. And I haven’t gone to eat anywhere since January 2020. I am at work every single day for 9 hours. And I never once had to get tested. I never had symptoms. I never felt sick. I feel so lucky right now. But I still find myself being a bit cautious about “re-entering society.” As a whole, people in this city have sucked. And I don’t think anyone is super excited to get vaccinated. But my work is now planning an after work dinner at the end of this month. I think I should be fine? But at the same time...I can't help but feel some anxiety about it.
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I mean, you should be fine. Even if you catch COVID the vaccine will lessen he symptoms enough so that it shouldn't be that big of a deal. I worry more about the people I come in contact with catching it from me, so I'm going to try and wait until everyone I know who will get the vaccine has had a chance to get it before I start enjoying public gatherings again.
 
Bennnnn said:
So we’ve been essentially open here where I live for many months now. Restaurants stopped being limited capacity probably in like September? Yet we’ve had a mask mandate since July. It’s set to expire at the end of this month. Our cases aren’t rising right now, but this is coming after a brutal three months of insane numbers. Vaccination rates aren’t rising fast enough but they do keep chugging along. I wish my employer (the university) was forcing people to get vaccinated, but they apparently can’t. But they aren’t even incentivizing it. Where I work now more people have been vaccinated, but there’s still a good bit of people who refuse mostly cause of laziness, not any real concern over actually getting it.

But so now I’m almost two weeks out from my second dose. I still haven’t really been inside a grocery store in months. And I haven’t gone to eat anywhere since January 2020. I am at work every single day for 9 hours. And I never once had to get tested. I never had symptoms. I never felt sick. I feel so lucky right now. But I still find myself being a bit cautious about “re-entering society.” As a whole, people in this city have sucked. And I don’t think anyone is super excited to get vaccinated. But my work is now planning an after work dinner at the end of this month. I think I should be fine? But at the same time...I can't help but feel some anxiety about it.
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You got the first dose, which did you get, Moderna or Pfizer?
 
Max Sterling said:
I mean, you should be fine. Even if you catch COVID the vaccine will lessen he symptoms enough so that it shouldn't be that big of a deal. I worry more about the people I come in contact with catching it from me, so I'm going to try and wait until everyone I know who will get the vaccine has had a chance to get it before I start enjoying public gatherings again.
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Yeah I feel I know this logically but it’s been so long I am a little reticent to take that step being around others, maskless.
 
Bennnnn said:
Yeah I feel I know this logically but it’s been so long I am a little reticent to take that step being around others, maskless.
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You should still wear a mask per CDC recommendations to prevent you potentially transmitting it to others. But you are fully immune now. The evidence shows that even with the variants, these vaccines are effective. If you get one of the variants and aren’t vaccinated then that’s where the difference lies.
 
Sonicpharmacist said:
You should still wear a mask per CDC recommendations to prevent you potentially transmitting it to others. But you are fully immune now. The evidence shows that even with the variants, these vaccines are effective. If you get one of the variants and aren’t vaccinated then that’s where the difference lies.
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Yeah I’m still wearing a mask all the time, leaving my building, getting gas, obviously at work. But eating at a restaurant…it just feels so foreign right now.
 
Oh by the way, I’ve still been having to pick up my mail from the post office and the past two times there has been a different customer in there just…no mask, no worry. What gives? And why when I see this do the workers never say anything?
 
Bennnnn said:
Yeah I’m still wearing a mask all the time, leaving my building, getting gas, obviously at work. But eating at a restaurant…it just feels so foreign right now.
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Sure, that’s normal and probably expected. Just realize, however, that you are protected, easier said than done after all this time, I know. I’m lucky enough to live in a “small” town of about 65,000, so when I go to the store and come across someone unmasked, i rest assured that I won’t get it. I feel more at ease now than I did before. And you will too, eventually.
 
Djxfactor511 said:
Got my first Phizer shot at a max vaccination site in Cleveland this afternoon. Man, they have that running like a machine! Filed in like sheep, wham, bam, wait 15 minutes, out the door. Military-run operation and it shows.
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First dose effed me up pretty good these last few days. Low fever, headache, vomiting, diarrhea, chills. Just starting to feel better this afternoon, although my stomach is still pretty uneasy.

Can't wait for dose 2!
 
Djxfactor511 said:
First dose effed me up pretty good these last few days. Low fever, headache, vomiting, diarrhea, chills. Just starting to feel better this afternoon, although my stomach is still pretty uneasy.

Can't wait for dose 2!
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Seems to me that people’s reaction can vary between their first and second doses. My first I felt terrible, similar to you, and my second all I had was a sore arm.
 
Over the course of the last year, my daily life didn’t experience much appreciable change. I still travel coast to coast in an unceasing basis. I still encounter and interact with many different people on a daily basis to the tune of easily 10 thousand people. As far as masks go, I use the “when in Rome” method to determine if they are appropriate. If a business is posted, or the folks around me are wearing one, I’ll put mine on. If nobody else is wearing it, I don’t either, because I don’t care.

That’s pretty much my whole approach to Covid now. I don’t really even think about it anymore other than to act in the moment to not upset the folks in my immediate vicinity.
 
Chucktshoes said:
Over the course of the last year, my daily life didn’t experience much appreciable change. I still travel coast to coast in an unceasing basis. I still encounter and interact with many different people on a daily basis to the tune of easily 10 thousand people. As far as masks go, I use the “when in Rome” method to determine if they are appropriate. If a business is posted, or the folks around me are wearing one, I’ll put mine on. If nobody else is wearing it, I don’t either, because I don’t care.

That’s pretty much my whole approach to Covid now. I don’t really even think about it anymore other than to act in the moment to not upset the folks in my immediate vicinity.
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Over the course of the last year, I’ve seen people die from Covid. I’ve seen people get pulmonary embolisms and strokes from Covid. I’ve seen people with long term complications come back to the hospital due to Covid. I wear a mask everywhere I go unless i’m with a small group of vaccinated people.

must ne nice not to care about how it affects everyone else, Chuck.
 
Sonicpharmacist said:
Over the course of the last year, I’ve seen people die from Covid. I’ve seen people get pulmonary embolisms and strokes from Covid. I’ve seen people with long term complications come back to the hospital due to Covid. I wear a mask everywhere I go unless i’m with a small group of vaccinated people.

must ne nice not to care about how it affects everyone else, Chuck.
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You also work in a hospital and constantly see the .1% of cases. I’ve lived the last year out and about in the 99.9%. Our experiences direct our worldview.
 
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