I have a hard time believing the marginal protection of swim goggles on a plane is very high vs ba5.
https://twitter.com/joeyfox85/status/1534669593268166657?s=19
Blocking airflow under the door to your hotel room? Are you guys doing these things?
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Yeah, Iāve got no idea how effective it is. Iām just saying that if it were effective, Iād do it even to avoid mild illness. I hate getting sick even if itās not even close to killing me.
LOLā¦Iāve been pretty hermit-like for the past two years, but Iāve stayed at hotels during this time and would never think to do this.
Unlike Frank Zappa, Iām not afraid of germs coming in low and attacking high.
Brag: I dodged COVID from my maskless session, tested negative twice at 3 days and 6 days out.
Beat: I got an exposure notification on my phone for a cash game session three days ago. I wore an N95 the whole time, well fit, and tight enough to leave marks and indentations on my face. I did pull it down to chug water every 90 mins to 2 hours, but I took a deep breath before and held my breath while chugging then breathed back in the mask. So at most I would get like one breath of exposure every 2 hours. None of the players had symptoms, one dealer did. No water consumption around him.
Variance: Last night I had a scratchy throat, this morning I have a runny nose, and a cough coming from my upper respiratory tract - not my throat.
I donāt expect to test positive today even if I have it, but Iām bought in for the Little One today and itās my last bullet of the trip. So Iām going to test now to be as safe as possible, if negative Iāll play, and then test again in a few days I guess. And obviously keep N95ing.
Hopefully my mind is a hell of a drug, or sleeping with the room too cold gave me a little cough.
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I got 3 separate covid notifications like that, never masked and played 40+ hours over 3 days - I think your odds are decent with the mask
Do you think this is going to be your standard from now on? I admire the discipline; I couldnāt stay that vigilant (and got tagged last month).
Thatās very hard to answer. Forever? Almost certainly not, God I hope not. For a while? Probably. I donāt see it changing until the fall boosters, at least, and weāll see what the situation is then with efficacy. The other thing that would change my behavior is more research on Long Covid that proves itās not as bad as Iām concerned it is, or drugs that can reverse it, etc.
Iāve gotten a total of like 2 notifications despite treating hundreds if not thousands of Covid patients with it on.
Tbf I donāt linger in those rooms or Covid tents
I am doing zero of those things
small towns usually lag behind the cities with stuff like this so thereās a chance you can get out in time (ie, itās not bad in wheatville yet)
I also assume youāre getting it even with a mask in the western US cities right now especially vegas I hear itās basically everybody.
four weeks, this shit is insane itās july and itās spreading, also itās infection rate is crazy, also you get reinfected quickly, good god
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I aināt got time to read that, but when they say āworst version of the virus we have seenā, do they mean highest morbidity and mortality (by any measure) ? If not, GTFO.
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Yeah seems like most inconvenient (if you follow isolation rules while pozzed) which for a lot, probably majority imo, is the worst
Yeah I expect to get infected 2-4 times in the next year.
Maybe Iām reading it wrong, but I think itās saying you can get BA.5 within 4 weeks of having been infected with an earlier variant. It doesnāt say you can get infected with BA.5, and then re-infected with BA.5 in as soon as 4 weeks, right?
I have decided to get a fourth shot tomorrow, I hope this provides at least some increased protection against this goddamn thing.
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I wish I had my 4th before tomorrow but I couldnāt squeeze it in once the schedule was set.
Correct.
Man. Fourth shots were only opened to 30-60 year olds today in Australia and I wandered into the vaccination center expecting it to be quick. It turns out half the fucking city is here.
Im getting it because I want protection to kick in for my international flight. Idk why most of these other people donāt just go home and come back another day.
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Day zero. Spent 1.5 hours in a room with 140 people at the memorial.
There was some cross ventilation. But shook a lot of hands and had many close conversations.
How many days until Iām in the clear?