No QR code on there?
Great. Have you had symptoms? Iāve got a head cold at the moment. Iāve contacted my docās office to see if I should get tested.
Nah, thatās my sonās test. He had a positive case in his preschool class.
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A teacher got covid at my school. So all of the unvaccinated students he taught are in quarantine.
My classes are clean. I think only a few students I teach are in quarantine now.
Evidently, Iām the only teacher who is wearing a mask in the classroom. To be fair, I only wear it when I am not socially distanced from the students.
Thank fuck thereās a 4 day weekend coming up this week.
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Why has Czechiaās vaccination rate flattened out so much? Hesitancy or lack of supply?
Itās like America. People just donāt want it after a certain point whether theyāre anti-vax, feel that they donāt need it or donāt trust the government for one reason or another.
Some people are eligible for third shots. I wonāt be able to register for one since itās too early for me. But come December, Iāll be able to get a booster.
About 1/6 of the population has tested positive for covid and due to the inadequate testing early on (some days over half of the tests taken were positive), itās believed that way more than that had covid.
Well not really though, like:
US is at 64% first-dose vs Czechia 56% and the US line is still going up slowly, while Czechia seems to have stalled entirely.
I guess the idea of students āgoing into quarantineā while the country is 56% first-dosed is confusing to me, either you care about the virus or you donāt? If I was living in a country with vax rates remaining that low by choice I wouldnāt be lifting a finger to do any prevention beyond wearing a mask. Whatās the point? Delta will be endemic there one way or another if it isnāt already.
Edit: Similar feelings about your āthank fuck thereās a 4 day weekendā, like your chances of being exposed to covid sometime in the next year approach 100%, I would not be worrying about it. I guess youāre hoping you can get a booster first.
Not wearing a seat belt indeed endangers others, but I think the ratio of how much it endangers the āchooserā vs. the public is not nearly as bad as COVID.
Anyway, itās interesting that the seat belt phenomenon occurred in midst of Reaganās catastrophic Presidency. I wonder what the reaction would have been had the seat belt laws some out in the 1970s.
Nope
I felt an immediate sense of joy after getting the first shot, but never really entered āregular modeā after that. Mainly because of kids - we have two who were vaccine eligible with the 12+ authorization, but we still have one more who wonāt be eligible until the 5-11 authorization (hopefully by Halloween?). So weāve never felt entirely out of the woods. And we certainly feel even less out of the woods now with cases and hospitalizations so high around us.
As far as our day to day life goes now, we are largely being very cautious. We still havenāt eaten indoors since the pandemic began. Weāre not attending any discretionary indoor events. And weāre not doing any traveling.
But we are doing some stuff (mainly kid stuff) that some here would probably criticize. (Hell, I would probably criticize someone else for making exactly the same decisions.) All 3 kids are going to school each day, and the kids are enrolled in activities (mainly outside, like soccer and color guard). But itās an enormous amount of decision fatigue because weāre constantly making these decisions where we really have no idea how to weigh things. Like, our youngest son got invited to a birthday party featuring a pizza dinner and time at some outdoor maze thing - heās skipping the dinner party and weāre driving him to the maze so he doesnāt have to share a car with a bunch of unvaccinated kids. My daughter has a pre-football game dinner for color guard, and we try to get logistics (outside? screened in porch?) before saying yes or no.
But Iām not pretending that weāre super consistent in our choices. Weāre trying, but itās just so tiring, especially when weāre losing friendships over it and we continue to watch ~everyone else around us carry on like normal.
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A smaller dose of Pfizer and BioNTechās Covid-19 vaccine is safe and generates a ārobustā immune response in a clinical trial of kids ages 5 to 11, the drugmakers announced Monday.
The news couldnāt come any sooner for parents anxious to get their children vaccinated as kids start the new school year with the delta variant surging across America. Childrenās Covid cases remain disturbingly high with 243,000 new infections during the week ended Sept. 9. ā the second-highest number of kidsā cases since the beginning of the pandemic, according to the most recent data from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
The data, which included more than 2,200 children, will be submitted to the Food and Drug Administration and other health regulators āas soon as possible,ā the companies said. Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said last week the company could submit data on children ages 5 to 11 by the end of this month. If the FDA spends as much time reviewing the data for that age group as it did for 12- to 15-year-olds, the shots could be available in time for Halloween.
The companies tested a two-dose regimen of 10 micrograms ā about a third the dosage used for teens and adults ā administered three weeks apart. They said the shots were well tolerated and produced an immune response and side effects comparable to those seen in a study of people ages 16 to 25.
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The delta spike seemed to encourage more people to get vaxxed in America. We didnāt have a huge spike here. I mean things are rising but itās quite slow.
I totally think the restrictions in place for schools here are inadequate. We went from part of one class in quarantine to part of three of them. Only a matter of time before classes move online temporarily.
I am curious who paid for the airplane rode that surely cost at least $100k.
So happy kids are going to get vaccinated. My oldest grandson is turning 6 soon and started Kindergarten.
He had major heart surgery at 5 months (full septal defect, essentially no vertical wall in his heart but they can fix that). He is normal now but will need a further valve fix at some point, hopefully not until adolescence. No idea what the myocarditis risk is for him or how prevalent it is with lower doses for kids.
He sees a clinic associated with a high end childrenās hospital so they should be up on the best guidance.
His brother is almost 3 and my granddaughter is just five months. Theyāll have to wait. The gd was in utero for her Moms first mRNA dose.
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You are doing a really great job and your kids are lucky to have you and your partner as parents. Seriously. Keep it up, I canāt imagine how difficult itās been. 
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Well, my 5 year old is quarantined due to three kids in her class testing positive on surveillance testing, which is 
. She happened to be out last Friday, which is positive. Our school has a two-week quarantine, but allows early returns if you test negative after 5 days, which seems like a pretty solid policy. On the negative side, they insist on calling their remote learning program āquaranteaching.ā
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