NYC has great mask compliance
https://twitter.com/NYPDPC/status/1528699680443355137?cxt=HHwWgsCi0dGQhLcqAAAA
Covid has breached the spidercrab household. Wife tested positive yesterday. The kids and I all tested negative, but weāll see if we can maintain it. Her symptoms are mild, mainly just coughing.
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I really need to get a 4th shot scheduled.
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You might be right. My wife tested positive last week and went into isolation. I got a test at a nearby testing clinic, but the rest of her family tested at home. We all came up negative but if anyone (other than me) was positive I guess it wouldnāt have made it into the official count.
Letās move it along
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Actual number has to be close to 20x more than reported number, if not higher. Between unreported at home tests and people just not testing a huge, huge number of cases arenāt being counted. Anecdotally Iām hearing of more covid positive people that I personally know now than at any other time in the past 2 years.
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See anything about when theyād actually approve anything? Or is just going to be a few days beyond it.
Big study out today. Havenāt read the primary study yet, but this is a summary and explainer that looks right on the face if it:
https://twitter.com/awgaffney/status/1528876982754476032?s=21&t=RbSyzvkc_erBpCp07NtPPQ
https://twitter.com/awgaffney/status/1528877012395302912?s=21&t=RbSyzvkc_erBpCp07NtPPQ
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Same here, 20x is a ton but I would say at least 10x.
Niece pozzed yesterday in Ohio (cold symptoms). Her grandmother (my MIL) that watches her after school is scheduled to fly here for the weekend on Friday.
MIL is doing daily home tests. Plan is to still fly if she tests negative and symptom free all five days. No one else on family is pozzed yet.
Last domino recently fell and now Iām the only person at work who hasnāt got covid. Nobody infected each other they all got it at different times. Only 4 other people but still this basically means Iām invincible and they should each give me $20 for winning the last longer I just invented.
Also my close group of friends is 3 couples with 2 young kids each and nobody has tested positive because weāre taking this seriously and care about stopping the spread to save lives thank you very much.
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Sir_Unstoppable, lord of the manor
Iāve been out of town but I know theyāve already joked like what the hell why everyone but this guy! Heās the least healthy and health conscious person out of any of us and he just does whatever and nothing happens to him! Weād have bet him on being the first to get covid!
Meanwhile, covid is completely bottoming out in the Czech Republic despite being restriction free for the last 6 weeks. The number of active cases we have is the lowest since August 2020. Number of people hospitalized with COVID lowest since mid-September 2021. And only 3 of the 141 hospitalized are in intensive care.
Itās expected that itāll start its comeback around the end of the summer. Ministry of Health recommends another booster in August. Purely anecdotal but it seems that one booster every 6 months seems ideal. However, you canāt get boosters here whenever you want like you apparently can in America.
So I have been isolating in our basement for 5 days since testing positive. Today is morning of day 6 and I tested positive again. What is the play here? Leave and sporadically interact with people (daughter/wife) wearing N95 or continue isolating for 5 more days?
Thatās a good question, the public health guidance here is to isolate for 5 days and then basically do your damnedest to avoid āriskyā situations in days 6-10. If you and your family can hack it maybe try to isolate for an additional 5 days.
Official guidance is to isolate for 5 days and then mask for 5 days, but thatās possibly driven by corporate greed and the need to get people back to work asap. If you can bear more isolation, it certainly wouldnāt hurt to give it another couple days.
Rules for the Czech Republic for mild covid is to stay in quarantine for 5 days and after that you must be symptom-free for two consecutive days before leaving quarantine. No need to test out of quarantine now (has been the case for at least the last few months).
No idea why covid is surging in the states when itās nothing here. Got about the same vax and booster rates.
Thanks all. Iāll try and isolate for 2-5 more days, but will continue with the N95 around people until Iām testing negative.
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I feel like crap. Sore throat and productive cough. Home test negative. Getting exposure notifications from my sonās school literally every day. And this morning my dog got skunked, which was awesome in its own right, and my son didnāt smell itā¦