Just found out my vaccinated friend caught covid most likely from a vaccinated co-worker. His symptoms aren’t horrific, but still, its nothing I want to catch. Run down feeling, low-grade fever, loss of taste, runny nose and cough. Didn’t have the body aches that I hear many people get. He thinks its not a matter of if, but rather an issue of when you get it, regardless of vaccination status. I don’t know what to think.
Surreal indeed, the last 6/7 years or so , so much shit has happened that I thought impossible previously.
SIL is a breakthrough case.
High school friend that passsed, his mother, brother and daughter got it as well.
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I’ve been saying that for a while, especially with kids in school. Seems inevitable.
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Possible this isnt the case with a third dose or vax 2.0 but as of now, yeah, everyone is getting COVID.
EDIT: also with different policies to reduce transmission but lol no for most places
That might be true.
All the more reason to get vaxxed
Raising the question of whether I want to go back into almost full shutdown mode or into “fuck it” mode.
Again, I haven’t ruled out that we all got nuked some time ago and ended up in some kind of Donald Trump-themed purgatory.
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I’m about to go ballistic, and before I burn too many family bridges, I gonna need to vent to you fine folks for a second.
My Dad and Stepmom are both in their 70’s. A few minor health issues, but probably of average to good health for folks their age. Both fully vaxxed. I’ve seen them in person twice since March 2020, because I didn’t want to spread anything to them. They actually get out and about way more than I do, so it’s more likely that I would have caught it from them, but my own conscience just felt better knowing that I wouldn’t be the source. For similar reasons, my brother and his kids have only seen them in person once.
Anyway, throughout this whole time they’ve been regularly hanging out with my stepsister and her daughters (all of whom work as nurses, btw). We’re talking multiple visits a month, indoors, no masks, etc. Stepsister just tested positive. Fortunately, they hadn’t seen her within the likely contagion window, but, the larger issue is that this is apparently the first time that my Dad and Stepmom had bothered to ask if they were vaccinated and it turns out that neither the stepsister nor her daughters are vaccinated, apparently because they think it will make them infertile…
Tl/dr: I hate everyone
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My wife is a manager of an urgent care whose parent medical group put out a vaccine mandate, and virtually everyone she knows of that let themselves get fired rather than get the jab were women that were afraid of fertility problems. Seems to be a very popular boogeyman.
I’m sort of surprised to hear all the anecdotal evidence that so many nurses are dumbasses.
All my experience with nurses had led me to believe they are by and large smart, capable, and rational.
You forgot horny.
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The fact that breakthrough cases are a thing and they couldn’t be bothered to, at the bare minimum, mention their vax status to your parents is horrendous.
Do what you will. Your stepsis and daughters are massively self absorbed(perhaps just plain dumb, but most likely the former with a sprinkling of dumb.)
I assume most are good people, but, like Surf said, it’s a big profession so they’ll always be a percentage of bad ones, and they’re the ones most likely to make headlines.
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Yeah, I’m super pissed at the stepsister and her kids for not mentioning it. Also, kinda pissed at my Dad and Stepmom for not asking. MAYBE they just made a bad assumption, but I kinda suspect they didn’t ask because they knew they wouldn’t like the answer and didn’t want to have to deal with the possible confrontation about it.
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Any chance they just figured since they were vaccinated themselves, that someone else’s vaccination status was irrelevant?
I’m sure that was the main reason. Also, more generally, since they got Vaxxed, they’ve been over Covid. They eat out all the time, host dinner parties, etc. They even hosted a 30 person family reunion recently and just didn’t bother inviting me or my brother 'cuz they knew we’re the oddballs who would be reluctant to come b/c of Covid. It’s pretty clear that I’m just out of step with their risk tolerance.
This inspired me to go get my booster today. I figure 52 + technically obese + borderline high blood pressure is good enough.
I have a friend who still can’t smell and taste normally - like 9 months after catching covid. Fuck that.
The requirement is basically “Are you willing to check a box?”
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I also got a bad cold in the last couple weeks but tested negative. I was pretty shocked bc I haven’t had a bad cold in like 10 years, very weird.
Had my first real contact with an antivaxxer today (client of mine who can’t audition for a job because she won’t get vaccinated). A snippet of her email:
What’s really sad is these vaccines don’t work nearly as well as the protocol I’m on. Silly. Plus the antibodies I have are better than any protocol. I realize this country is in the middle of a very false narrative and that the FDA whose job it is to regulate drug companies is actually funded by drug companies. Which seems to be A-OK with the average American. But I wasn’t raised to be average. I was taught to think critically and to research everything. And never ever believe anything until you have found the source of the information.
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