How has the coronavirus affected your personal life?

[jjohnwm]

I'm honestly starting to wonder if getting a severe, debilitating case of Covid-19 would actually be any worse than continually seeing this thread rise to the top again and again and again...and, no, the irony of me adding to the problem is not lost on me...

 

[Rocksor]

She was infected after the vaccination?
. . . or perhaps she was infected before the shot and didn’t show symptoms until after the vaccination? How do you tell?

She was vaccinated in April, no symptoms due to vaccine. So yes, she got Delta variant months after being fully vaccinated.

 

[Ulu]

pacu mom
Good luck with the test.??

I’m sure I have been exposed over and over, and so far it’s not catching. I worry more about my wife, because members of her family have died from valley fever, which also goes right into your lungs. She also lives with some weird thing called Sjogren’s syndrome. To me it sounds like people who don’t have diabetes but get the symptoms of diabetes because of, well whatever.

I used to smoke Churchill cigars every day, and I inhaled the damn things. I smoked Camels etc, but after decades of that it did not kill me. (Yet)

I quit in 2008 and I have never regretted that. Particularly now, in the age of 19d.

 

[Ulu]

She was vaccinated in April, no symptoms due to vaccine. So yes, she got Delta variant months after being fully vaccinated.

Thank you.

 

[RD.]

Ulu - hey good for you on the smoking. Like yourself I grew up in an era where smoking was glamorized, and I fell prey at an early age. After 40+ years of smoking, I kicked the habit in 2012 while in the hospital getting stents inserted due to a heart attack. That seemed to be the nudge that I needed. lol

FYI ...... all of the vaccines being used in North America, have proven to be effective at keeping the vast majority of folks from getting seriously ill, and/or dyeing. So far, that includes the Delta variant. What may or may not be coming down the road is anyone's guess.

 

[Ulu]

I'm honestly starting to wonder if getting a severe, debilitating case of Covid-19 would actually be any worse than continually seeing this thread rise to the top again and again and again...and, no, the irony of me adding to the problem is not lost on me...

It’s even worse than you imagined because you’ve elicited a response. Double whammy!

Anyhow, this thread hasn’t been so bad. I think we’ve only had one person take his ball and go home.

 

[Ulu]

Ulu - hey good for you on the smoking. Like yourself I grew up in an era where smoking was glamorized, and I fell prey at an early age. After 40+ years of smoking, I kicked the habit in 2012 while in the hospital getting stents inserted due to a heart attack. That seemed to be the nudge that I needed. lol

FYI ...... all of the vaccines being used in North America, have proven to be effective at keeping the vast majority of folks from getting seriously ill, and/or dyeing. So far, that includes the Delta variant. What may or may not be coming down the road is anyone's guess.

If your history is like mine, your mom had a smoke before she went into the delivery room, and as soon as the anesthetic wore off they gave her a cup of coffee and she had another smoke. Then they gave her the baby who had been sucking up caffeine and nicotine and alcohol in vitro for nine months.

We were Baptists but I was born in a fancy Catholic hospital, and at some point a lovely lady named Sister Mary Devota came in and gave my mom the birth certificate to sign.

She was still all goofy, and she put down the wrong name. I was supposed to be named after my ancestors, but I ended up named after movie stars.

And people wonder how I turned out like this? ?

 

[skjl47]

Hello; Question or observation about flu vaccines. The way I have heard it explained is the flu vaccine makers have to make a bet about which version of flu they will make the vaccine for. It is not a purely wild guess but to have vaccine by the time it will be used they start early. Some seasons they guess better and the vaccine fits the flu that is going around. Some times they make a vaccine and the version of flu going around has either mutated or they just guessed wrong. Guess it also could be some folks have a flu shot which matches the type of flu they become ill with, but for some reason that does not jog in my memory. Which means little of course. ( I also get that the flu vaccines can be tailored for more than one variant in one shot.)

I do not recall hearing about other vaccines including the flu vaccine having people being told they will very likely be infected with the illness they were vaccinated for to the point they are going to shed and spread the virus to others. This seems a new thing to me. The story has been, so far, the covid virus does not drift or mutate fast like the flu virus. Anyway the news about the covid injections seems at odds with what I thought I knew about vaccines. I cannot say from memory that the analogy of flu vaccines does not fully explain what seems to be odd about the covid shots. Maybe I am much more out of touch than I though.

 

[RD.]

Mom never smoked, dad quit when at the age of 8 I asked him when I could start smoking. I decided to pass on his good advice. Either way, glad to see that today's generation decided that smoking isn't such a great idea.


As far as this topic, IMO it is far more mentally stimulating, and should cause less angst, than "is a 55 gallon tank big enough for an Oscar for life?" Seems simple enough to me how to proceed if a topic does not interest me.

 

[RD.]

Flu shots are basically a crap shoot from season to season, based on educated guesses as to which strain or variant is going to be most prevalent. Having said that, it has always been clear to me that one can get a flu shot, and still get sick, and still spread the virus. This is common knowledge, at least it is amongst those who work in health care. This is NOT a new thing. Our facilities ask that one is at least 3 days symptom free before returning to work if one is off sick, with the flu. It's been that way forever.

In health care facilities (and there is data/studies to support this) it is not the residents that bring the flu into the buildings (they aren't the ones shopping at Walmart!) it is the staff, and family members visiting. But mostly staff. The same staff in many cases who had a flu shot weeks/months prior to getting sick. As reported previously, our Provincial lab confirmed flu count dropped to zero this past year, no question as to why. Masks, and increased hand sanitation. Those very simple precautions have been HUGE in lowering the flu virus, and no doubt, the spread of covid, within health care facilities and elsewhere.

Today, the medical experts that are dealing with covid, are dealing with a moving target, a target that is constantly changing/morphing, which in turn causes the need for new studies, more research, and more changes as this pandemic unfolds. How could anyone guess that a Delta (or whatever) would happen, or how that new variant would react with a vaccine that was created for a different strain? It seems rather illogical to even consider that experts in this filed will not change their minds, or medical decisions, as more research and data emerges over time.