How did you define crowds outdoors? I had a KN-95 in my pocket at the golf tournament, but never put it on outside. Closest we came to a crowd was being maybe 2 deep on the ropes, so like five people within arm’s length and maybe 10 within 6-8 feet, and only for like 1-3 minutes at a time.
Most of the time the ropes were one deep, if that. Often there was nobody within 10 feet.
Anyway just curious where people are drawing the line outdoors on crowd vs no crowd.
I’ve yet to catch COVID. I almost never eat in restaurants and I wear a mask everywhere indoors. However, I’ve been to two baseball games and did not wear the mask at my seat, and I was only semi-consistent with masking when I went to the bathroom or concession area.
I think I would have to feel physically constricted in a packed outdoor crowd before I would consider wearing a mask outside.
The analysis, conducted by researchers at the University of Oxford and drawing on health records data from more than 1 million people around the world, found that while the risks of many common psychiatric disorders returned to normal within a couple of months, people remained at increased risk for dementia, epilepsy, psychosis and cognitive deficit (or brain fog) two years after contracting covid. Adults appeared to be at particular risk of lasting brain fog, a common complaint among coronavirus survivors.
The researchers matched almost 1.3 million patients with a diagnosis of covid-19 between Jan. 20, 2020, and April 13, 2022, with an equal number of patients who had other respiratory diseases during the pandemic.
For people between the ages of 18 and 64, a particularly significant increased risk was of persistent brain fog, affecting 6.4 percent of people who had had covid compared with 5.5 percent in the control group.
The study found that 4.5 percent of older people developed dementia in the two years after infection, compared with 3.3 percent of the control group. That 1.2-point increase in a diagnosis as damaging as dementia is particularly worrisome, the researchers said.
While cautioning that it is impossible to make full comparisons among the effects of recent variants, including omicron and its subvariants, which are currently driving infections, and those that were prevalent a year or more ago, the researchers outlined some initial findings: Even though omicron caused less severe immediate symptoms, the longer-term neurological and psychiatric outcomes appeared similar to the delta waves, indicating that the burden on the world’s health-care systems might continue even with less-severe variants.
I had no adverse reactions to the vaccine shots, and I will happily take the next booster when it comes out. I stayed safe from Covid for 2.5 years. I was exposed to the virus at the 2022 All-Star game at Dodger Stadium. I was not wearing a mask because the event was outside. I will wear now wear a mask to all group settings—indoor our outdoor—until this is over. I hope you will continue to live full lives while also minimizing your risk of catching this disease as much as possible. If this can happen to me, it can happen to anyone.
In August, 2022, I wear a mask: (anonymous, pick the most cautious true statement)
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I’m basically at 2019 levels of taking precautions and have been since I got vaccinated over a year ago. How my family hasn’t gotten it, especially with 2 little kids at a babysitter and preschool, is beyond me. We had a family funeral a few weeks ago. My cousin’s and sisters family’s both got it from that. We somehow dodged it. My mom just got back from a vacation, and is now pozzed. I’m probably jinxing us into it right now.
I selected basically never but I would wear one in the grocery store (wife has been going) and I do wear one when I go to the pharmacy, medical offices, or other types of places vulnerable people are forced to go. Like if for some reason I needed to enter a bank, I would wear a mask. Out to eat, no. Amusement park, no. Etc.
I haven’t worn a mask since they were no longer declared mandatory in April.
I wear them on airplanes when I travel. Even if COVID wasn’t a thing I probably still would. A KN95 doesn’t bother me at all for 3-4 hours. I feel like I used to get sick too often when I flew.
I answered “grocery stores”, but am basically where you’re at.
I do wear them at grocery stores and banks, etc. Not for any outdoor activity. Have only been eating at home or outside (because we only get to do that for a few months in northern New England). Would definitely wear one on a bus or plane. Did wear one at the AEW show earlier this month.
Risk isn’t the only calculus for me. I wear one shopping if there are a lot of people because who cares why not. I wore one on all my flights and in all airports on my recent US trip. I don’t wear one in settings where I am interested in having human interactions. Like if I was in a crowded bar talking with friends I would not wear one even if not eating/drinking despite the fact that that is hugely more high risk than a grocery store.
Fauci has announced his retirement. An American hero.
Dry cough. Fatigue. Slight fever.
Do I have the 'rona?
Or any one of a million other viruses. Test, and treat it like you do until you get results, but any time you are sick it is still more likely than not that you have not covid then you have covid, just based on the law of averages.
I’m betting on the rona here. gl/gl
Fabulous just pozzed on a rapid test. Any advice on how to get paxlovid at 830 pm on a Friday hugely appreciated.
Urgent care tomorrow prob best bet.
