Friend of mine just got covid 2 weeks after getting his third shot. Guess it doesnāt give you immunity even at almost peak protection. Ruined his holiday plans.
likely wasnāt at peak when he was exposed.
He was exposed 2 weeks after his third dose which I thought was peak. Maybe it takes longer for a booster to be effective than I thought. He has almost no symptoms but is positive on RAT and PCR so canāt get on the plane.
oh sorry assumed by your phrasing he tested positive at two weeks.
never truly know your exposure really either unless youāre being exceedingly careful.
Yeah, vaccines even at their very best arenāt 100%, unfortunately.
Yeah, itās a bummer that he canāt get on the plane, but bolded is the main goal as far as Iām concerned. This is a vaccine success story although Iām sure it doesnāt feel that way to him.
Yes the standard for vaccines is donāt get sick and die. Not never poz.
Am I just a raging asshole for thinking masks on airplanes is absurd at this point?
Masks on airlines are fine until we get a vaccine mandate for air travel.
Kind of? Maybe? I would actually welcome masks being standard on planes. I personally donāt even know Iām wearing one any more (surgical mask) and there are other things I could catch. Even just significantly less risk of a cold is worth it for me. I donāt know if there is any evidence for that, tho.
Maybe Iām the asshole for wishing a bit of discomfort on everyone else to reduce my own chance of being sick.
At the end of the day, I donāt care all that much one way or another, but I donāt think āabsurdā is quite what I would call it.
It just seems exceptionally stupid given how well ventilated airplanes are. Not to mention the silliness of people being able to sit at airport bars and get hammered maskless while 10 feet away anyone at a gate has to mask up. Iām sorry, fully willing to entertain being wrong here but it has been 2 full years of this shit, we have a vaccine, enough.
Iām sure there are at least some studies on this stuff, so you should defer to those over what I post. But if someone is sitting adjacent to you, the benefits of good ventilation are probably attenuated. Thatās true of masking too. But if both people are masked most of the time will that reduce the initial inoculum of virus, which in turn may reduce the severity of disease and the subsequent transmissibility? I donāt know, but it doesnāt seem completely crazy.
As mentioned above, itās possible that there have been good studies done (which I am unaware of) that have looked at this specifically. If they exist and show no benefit, then your view is hard to argue with. Even if they showed some benefit, I donāt think your position is crazy either.
I pity the fool with that kind of pony.
Ahem. The correct response is:
I pity the foal.
Your humor has me screaming in laughter. Now Iām a little hoarse.
Yes. Not everyone who may need to travel can get vaccinated at all, and omicron has been shown to spread even in well-ventilated spaces, like the outdoors. And, cases are on the rise in places once again. Not sure how high they might get this time, but cases grow exponentially until they donāt, so itāll be changing very rapidly.
Not to mention, the downside to requiring masks on planes is exactly fucking zero.
Jab #3 complete. Weāll see how my body reacts, but I have the The Masters set to record so healthy or miserable Iāll be sprawled out on the couch for the next four days watching golf.