COVID-19: Chapter 8 - Ongoing source of viral information, and a little fun

superuberbob · July 31, 2021, 8:52pm

Same here. Will definitely be telling future generations about bathing in oatmeal.

MrWookie · July 31, 2021, 9:03pm

I honestly didn’t remember there was a vaccine for chicken pox. Now I feel doubly old.

Riverman · July 31, 2021, 9:08pm

JFC

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1421576405142355974?s=21

WichitaDM · July 31, 2021, 9:13pm

Maybe they should try testing less.

microbet · July 31, 2021, 9:21pm

Except in 1991 you were a kid and Chesspain was already old enough that it was bad to get chickenpox. I think.

(I had chickenpox when I was about 8. I don’t actually recall my parents making sure my brothers and I all got it, but that was a thing and I expect they did that.)

microbet · July 31, 2021, 9:23pm

Did they stop giving it? Didn’t your kids get it? (Not that I could tell you all the vaccines my kids got, but they did get the chickenpox vaccine.)

Trolly · July 31, 2021, 9:27pm

It looks like the “delta is as transmissible as chickenpox” thing was based on some faulty datasets, so that’s good. Thought it sounded a little too much to be true.

Melkerson · July 31, 2021, 9:35pm

I’m guessing his kids aren’t old enough to get it yet.

microbet · July 31, 2021, 9:39pm

I have little memory for this stuff, but CDC says first dose at 12-15 months and second dose at 4-6 years.

Melkerson · July 31, 2021, 9:40pm

I guess I forgot about the first one. I just remembered that my kid got one at around 5.

MrWookie · July 31, 2021, 10:13pm

I don’t know when it’s supposed to be administered. Maybe at an appointment MrsWookie handled? They haven’t missed on anything the doctor says it’s time for.

j8i3h289dn3x7 · July 31, 2021, 10:22pm

Why don’t you guys just get covid tests when you’re sick? It’s so easy around me and I figure you’d want to know for: 1. Peace of mind; and 2. So you can take precautions if you have it. Like, you don’ thave drive through sites? I’m sick too, I took what must be my 13th covid test yesterday just to make sure.

microbet · July 31, 2021, 10:23pm

Got me thinking about times when school was closed and I remembered one of those times we had to wear masks. Mount St. Helens.

Riverman · July 31, 2021, 10:24pm

Where I am, COVID tests cost $140.

j8i3h289dn3x7 · July 31, 2021, 10:24pm

They’ve already tried that. It Isn’t working.

microbet · July 31, 2021, 10:24pm

Covid tests are free here (where Suzzer is). I had one not too long ago.

suzzer99 · July 31, 2021, 10:26pm

From what I understand the first one was free but another one might cost me $130 or something.

Plus you have wait around. And then like me you find out you got the shitty PCR test, when you didn’t even know there was a shitty PCR test.

Annoying.

j8i3h289dn3x7 · July 31, 2021, 10:26pm

That’s nuts. They’re free in NY. At least, all of the state run sites are free, and insurance seems to cover everything else but the instant ones.

suzzer99 · July 31, 2021, 10:28pm

I dunno they wanted my insurance. Somehow I got the impression one was covered but not more.

j8i3h289dn3x7 · July 31, 2021, 10:29pm

I mean, dont’ get me wrong, It’s very very very likely you don’t have covid as a double-vax, even with delta, so it’s mostly for peace of mind.