Grrr, tested positive today. Knew I shoulda made that little bastard live in the backyard or something.
Have like the driest cough ever, my throat feels like the damn desert, but no fever or aches or anything. Son had nothing worse than bad cold symptoms and bounced back quick, so hoping it’ll be the same for me.
Went to a friends’ birthday party tonight. A few hours before the party one of the people who was going to come decided to take a “just in case” rapid test and it was positive. Sad that they couldn’t make the party, but so happy they tested. #thanksBiden (for real tho)
There seems to be a surge in DC based on anecdotal talk of positives along with politicians pozzing. But when I was there a couple weeks ago the masking was amazing compared to home. More people had masks on outdoors in DC than indoors in PA, and a ton were N95s vs virtually none.
Saw the same although not quite as good in Alexandria…
Yet it still seems like there’s a surge.
Looking at the data, there is a definite upswing, but still not like the spike we had in December/January. DC has also changed the way it reports some of the data, and, like you said, a lot of government officials and reporters have gotten it recently (shout out to the Gridiron dinner), so it’s also probably getting more coverage.
As far as masking, I haven’t traveled much in the past few years, but there is more masking here than anywhere else I have been. I think a lot of people are still masking up in some places where they mix with the general public like grocery stores and elevators of office and apartment buildings. I’ll even keep my mask on outside if I’m just making the quick walk from my building to the store because I find it more annoying to take the mask off just to put it back on again in a block.
I think the biggest change is when people are just casually hanging out with friends. For example, last year when this same friend had their birthday party, everyone stayed outside and wore masks except when actively eating or drinking. This year, the party was mostly indoors and no masks. Logically there is probably not much justification for being less guarded this year, but I think that after one more year of Covid disruptions, people were willing to accept a little more risk in order to just be able to hang out and relax
Mask mandate got ditched here yesterday after being in place for something like a year. Still have to wear it on public transport and in rideshare but no longer in most indoor venues. Going to go play poker maskless tonight for the first time in more than two years.
Even though the pandemic hasn’t really been much of a burden on me personally, it feels good to take this symbolic step towards moving on. I would guess we’ll get hit with a winter wave that will see masks reinstated, but that’s fine. We’re getting there.
Jesus fucking christ. Just got a 1099-MISC in the mail from Pfizer in my wife’s name. Couldn’t for the life of me think of why they sent that, but it turns out it is for Clinical trial money. Arrived to us on APRIL 16TH…
What the actual fuck. Now I have to amend our return due to this.
Slighty OT, but Jesus.
Just found out last night that might 2 year old nephew spiked 105 fever last Monday night. He had an ER visit and a GP visit in the same day.
Why would they not test for Covid? @CaffeineNeeded
if they thought they had a non-covid source or the parents refused.
Thank you so very much for the quick response.
What would your course of action be from here? I’m grunching and am not quite up to date on vaccination status for his age.
ETA: I see the vaccines aren’t out of trials yet. I wasn’t trying to be lazy I just got a little shook.
I just listened to the Plain English podcast on Shanghai’s attempt to get to covid zero. It sounds like a dystopian nightmare.
For the kid? I dunno they’ll probably be fine and it probably won’t be Covid.
Yeah, huge overreaction on my part.
Seems like there are five possibilities:
They know something we don’t, and they aren’t sharing it.
The Chinese government suddenly cares a lot more than we thought about the wellness of their citizens as opposed to the economy and the best interests of the ruling class.
They’re using the opportunity to explore what they can get away with.
They genuinely think they can get to zero covid and keep it out.
They’re just cluelessly mashing buttons.
It seems like 2 and 4 are extremely unlikely, and 3 doesn’t make much sense to me. Hopefully it’s 5 cause 1 would be really bad.
My understanding is that back in Wuhan the Bigwigs were annoyed the mid level people weren’t able to stop it and feared unrest, so they made stopping COVID the only priority. This means the mid level people have all the incentives keep tightening the screws and compete with each other to be the toughest on COVID.
Everyone was coughing in the stores today. Reminded me instantly of both Delta/Omicron. My child is sick but keeps testing negative.
- The Chinese government suddenly cares a lot more than we thought about the wellness of their citizens as opposed to the economy and the best interests of the ruling class.
It seems like they have put preventing the spread of the virus over the economy/economic interests of the ruling class the entire time. At this point, it truly seems like overkill.
Good luck. We had to amend our 2020 return in April of last year, and it’s still not resolved.
If you are getting a refund, isn’t the best play to let it ride and get your refund first and then submit the amended return with a small check if it ends up that way?
Probably. I don’t know if there are intricacies. I have a tax preparer and he fucked up and filed us married filing jointly when we had decided we needed to file married filing separately. So we had to pay for both returns. And are still waiting to get the amount back the amount we paid for the original return. And our state taxes are fucked up because they are waiting on the federal return to get sorted. And we didn’t get any child tax credits because of this. The latest update was the IRS recently sending us a notice saying we needed to send them proof that we are divorced. Wtf IRS, we didn’t file separately, we filed married filing separately.
