Omicron reaches the U.S.
Will be interesting to see how it does in a country that's already flooded with the Delta variant.
Hearing that Omiciron infections are milder than Delta among the vaccinated. Let’s hope that continues.
Tested positive two weeks ago, had fever and headache for first 48 hours, still dealing with lethargy, mild cough, and difficulty smelling and tasting. Glad I was fully vaccinated so that it wasn't much worse. Unfortunately happened the day before I was scheduled to get the booster.
Fortunately my fully vaccinated wife and two children did not come down with anything.
@patespo1 posted:Tested positive two weeks ago, had fever and headache for first 48 hours, still dealing with lethargy, mild cough, and difficulty smelling and tasting. Glad I was fully vaccinated so that it wasn't much worse. Unfortunately happened the day before I was scheduled to get the booster.
Fortunately my fully vaccinated wife and two children did not come down with anything.
Now the third person here I know who got Covid and continues to suffer its effects weeks or months later. In fact, seems the other two will suffer aftereffects permanently. It hit the other two before vaccines were available.
@patespo1 posted:Tested positive two weeks ago, had fever and headache for first 48 hours, still dealing with lethargy, mild cough, and difficulty smelling and tasting. Glad I was fully vaccinated so that it wasn't much worse. Unfortunately happened the day before I was scheduled to get the booster.
Fortunately my fully vaccinated wife and two children did not come down with anything.
Yikes. Hope you make a full and speedy recovery!
Indeed, best wishes for a speedy recovery.
One of the assistants in our office got Covid back in March of this year. She still has no sense of smell, and very little taste.
@Rothko posted:Indeed, best wishes for a speedy recovery.
One of the assistants in our office got Covid back in March of this year. She still has no sense of smell, and very little taste.
Certainly as a wine and food lover, this is a big fear. I can taste some things right now but smell is the one that I'm having most trouble with at the moment.
@patespo1 posted:Certainly as a wine and food lover, this is a big fear. I can taste some things right now but smell is the one that I'm having most trouble with at the moment.
wow, speedy recovery pat!
And yet a good chunk of our populous won't do a simple thing to help increase the chances of ending, or at least mitigating, this thing.
@The Old Man posted:And yet a good chunk of our populous won't do a simple thing to help increase the chances of ending, or at least mitigating, this thing.
literally if we all collectively spent 2 weeks inside, this would pretty much be resolved.
but nope too hard, then they complain about lockdowns. i mean 60% of folks locking down doesnt do anything if the other 40% are just spreading around and creating new variants.
@The Old Man posted:And yet a good chunk of our populous won't do a simple thing to help increase the chances of ending, or at least mitigating, this thing.
Does anyone think things would have been at least a little better if Hillary had beaten Trump and so implemented the common sense measures and messaging that the rest if the world (bar Brazil and a few others ) have implemented? Or would the toxic poison of Fox News and others have validated the lunatics as much as Trump did.
Friend of mine just got back from Madrid. Spain is 91% vaxxed. Everyone wears masks inside and outside. You get a computer thing to carry around that has your passport number, name, and a bunch of other data. Everytime you go into a store, a restaurant, a museum, whatever, you show the computer thing and they scan it......They can thus track you down if the need arises. The populations is very compliant.
How would that work here? Idiots would say it is to much of an invasion of privacy and so forth.
@bman posted:Does anyone think things would have been at least a little better if Hillary had beaten Trump and so implemented the common sense measures and messaging that the rest if the world (bar Brazil and a few others ) have implemented? Or would the toxic poison of Fox News and others have validated the lunatics as much as Trump did.
I don't see how she could have done worse. At the least there wouldn't have been the denigrating of science.
@bman posted:Does anyone think things would have been at least a little better if Hillary had beaten Trump and so implemented the common sense measures and messaging that the rest if the world (bar Brazil and a few others ) have implemented? Or would the toxic poison of Fox News and others have validated the lunatics as much as Trump did.
no, just look at the 1918 pandemic. same sort of folks always pop up regardless.
Chicago headline articles
@g-man posted:no, just look at the 1918 pandemic. same sort of folks always pop up regardless.
Chicago headline articles
I don't see the equivalence here. It appears most everyone was taking it seriously. There was no cult of personality that caused tens of millions of people to reveal their ignorance.
I have an internet friend on another forum board who lost his 47-year old son to a heart attack two weeks ago, then his wife to COVID just a few days ago. Needless to say, it's going to be a rough Christmas for him. He says they were both vaccinated.
On a more upbeat note, my 7-year old grandson was the first kid to get the vaccine at our local clinic. He took the needle like a champ, and all the doctors and nurses gave him a standing ovation. He was pretty proud of himself. His brother turns 5 in April and will get a shot for his birthday.
(Got my 2nd shingles shot today. So I am fully up on all my shots now.)
@mneeley490 posted:I have an internet friend on another forum board who lost his 47-year old son to a heart attack two weeks ago, then his wife to COVID just a few days ago. Needless to say, it's going to be a rough Christmas for him. He says they were both vaccinated.
On a more upbeat note, my 7-year old grandson was the first kid to get the vaccine at our local clinic. He took the needle like a champ, and all the doctors and nurses gave him a standing ovation. He was pretty proud of himself. His brother turns 5 in April and will get a shot for his birthday.
(Got my 2nd shingles shot today. So I am fully up on all my shots now.)
Good for your grandkids. My youngest got his second shot yesterday, so we are now a fully vaxxed house.
Got my first cold in over two years. Tests came back negative for Covid and Flu, so I guess it's just a regular old fashioned whopper of a cold. Man, I've forgotten what it feels like to be sick. It sucks.
Knock on wood i can't tell you that time I had a good to honest cold or flu.
The last two years have brought forth a new human species- uneducated, stubborn, narcissistic. Homo ignoramus. Darwinism is Murphy's Law!
I love the Title of this Article: https://www.yahoo.com/news/vir...-case-165735331.html
"'Virtually every’ COVID omicron case at NY college was in fully vaccinated, official says"
It makes you think that Omicron is only infecting fully vaccinated people. Don't get the vaccine or you'll get Omicron!
Of course, then you read the article and what it says is that 97% of the college population is vaccinated, and they are having Omicron cases. So yeah, what you are seeing are breakthrough cases. Not that the virus is targeting the vaccinated.
@Rothko posted:I love the Title of this Article: https://www.yahoo.com/news/vir...-case-165735331.html
"'Virtually every’ COVID omicron case at NY college was in fully vaccinated, official says"
It makes you think that Omicron is only infecting fully vaccinated people. Don't get the vaccine or you'll get Omicron!
Of course, then you read the article and what it says is that 97% of the college population is vaccinated, and they are having Omicron cases. So yeah, what you are seeing are breakthrough cases. Not that the virus is targeting the vaccinated.
even so, no severe illness for the vaccinated
@Rothko posted:I love the Title of this Article: https://www.yahoo.com/news/vir...-case-165735331.html
"'Virtually every’ COVID omicron case at NY college was in fully vaccinated, official says"
It makes you think that Omicron is only infecting fully vaccinated people. Don't get the vaccine or you'll get Omicron!
Of course, then you read the article and what it says is that 97% of the college population is vaccinated, and they are having Omicron cases. So yeah, what you are seeing are breakthrough cases. Not that the virus is targeting the vaccinated.
So true. Part of the problem is students coming back from T-giving and congregating in large groups w/o masks. 100% of the cases are students. It's not simply "irresponsible" behavior. It is also owing to most faculty and staff having their 3rd jab, while most students have not (yet). This points to the importance of that 3rd jab/booster.
got my booster and the boys got their first shot.
though, i think my cvs booster shot might have been an incorrect dosage, i thoguht the dosage for the booster was suppose to be half of the regular dosage?
@g-man posted:got my booster and the boys got their first shot.
though, i think my cvs booster shot might have been an incorrect dosage, i thoguht the dosage for the booster was suppose to be half of the regular dosage?
The Moderna booster/3rd dose is usually half strength. I don't know about the Pfizer.
Pfizer booster is same dose as 1st two
Secretary in another office on my floor tested positive this past Saturday. Has not been in this week. She had her two shots but no booster. She smokes and is grossly overweight. So far minimal symptoms. Meanwhile the other two secretaries in her office, neither of whom has had shots at all are ok. Go figure.
@irwin posted:Secretary in another office on my floor tested positive this past Saturday. Has not been in this week. She had her two shots but no booster. She smokes and is grossly overweight. So far minimal symptoms. Meanwhile the other two secretaries in her office, neither of whom has had shots at all are ok. Go figure.
Pure blind luck.
Haggis and Dr. T are correct, I believe. The Moderna booster is a half dose; the Pfizer is a full. Moderna went with a half because I think they showed that it was still very effective and less chance of side-effects from the shot.
I'm trying to convince my adult son to get a booster. He's refusing, so far: "If the two doses don't work, why get a booster?"
Great to see the recent stats. Florida 290 deaths /100k people. only NY, AR & NJ ahead of us. Also he is losing his voters, we also have one of the highest rate of cases. Gov Ron is doing his best to keep us in the top 5 of something.
In addition to low teacher salaries, aid to schools etc.
Seahawks-Rams game scheduled for tomorrow has been postponed to Tuesday, due to the fact that 25 Rams players tested positive for COVID, as did 2 Seahawks. Rams won't simply forfeit, because due to new rules enacted this year, no players would receive a paycheck for this week. 
Now the NFL has elected to stop testing vaccinated and asymptomatic players because it would really increase the case counts. Or something.
I’m fully Modernaed and I asked my pharmacist for the full dose for dose three (I told him I had a high lymphocyte count last time my blood was drawn, which is true but my doctor wasn’t worried). He gave me the full dose. (Or so he claimed!) So I should be as fully vaccinated as you can get. I just don’t understand the people hesitating. I’m ready for shot #4.
I now know 4 separate (2 live together, though) fully vaccinated and boosted (all Pfizer) people who’ve gotten presumably Omicron in the past 10 days. All had mild symptoms relative to COVID. All described it as a head cold with headache, post-nasal drip, some stuffiness, and a sore throat. And a couple had sub 100F fevers (like 99.5 .) Two of the four went on monoclonal antibodies just to be extra precautious. All four retained their ability to smell just fine. The first to test positive is now completely better (he is one of the people who took monoclonal antibodies) and the other three say they think they’re over the hump. All-in-all, kinda scary, but if that’s what Omicron is if you’re fully vaccinated, it is just a standard head cold that maybe lasts a few days longer than average. Of course, for the unvaccinated, even if on a per case basis it isn’t as severe as Delta, given the sheer volume of cases likely to emerge, there’s going to be another round of real and mostly avoidable suffering. 🤦♂️
@drtannin 2 posted:Pfizer booster is same dose as 1st two
ah thanks for the headsup.
Was just wondering because i did well with the first initial two and this last one kinda knocked me on my ass.
Two people I know died in the last week from Covid (person 1) or Covid related (person two was in the hospital for a week with Covid, died the day after they released him from a heart attack when he got home). Both oddly enough were 51 years old. The first person I know for certain was not vaccinated; the second I am not aware of his status.
Sorry to hear that patespo1. I fear we are in for a tough month or six weeks.
Omicron is the 15th letter in the Greek alphabet, out of 24. I truly hope that we finish with the Covid pandemic before we exhaust the Greek alphabet, but I think that is not likely.
Our governor has tested positive. I wish him well.
im surprised that trump has been telling on his tour for everyone to get vaccinated and the booster.
@g-man posted:im surprised that trump has been telling on his tour for everyone to get vaccinated and the booster.
They've been booing those comments like good little trained lemmings.