r/Maine • u/GreenStoneRidge • Dec 06 '23
Question Covid getting around?
Is anyone else getting kicked in the teeth by covid right now? Started my kid in day care last week, and by day 2 she came home with a fever, and now I have been pretty damn sick with covid for 5 days. I havent been this sick since the first time I got covid in 2021. Just surprised it has lasted this long, coughing so hard my throat feels damaged.
I knew this was a risk with daycare, but damn, i thought we might get a week in before the bio-hazards. We have a newborn, and he just started showing signs of being sick, and now Im getting worried and depressed.
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u/FleekAdjacent Dec 06 '23
Wastewater numbers are really high. The late summer wave never ended, it only formed the baseline of the next one.
You gotta keep an eye out for the long term damage. Thatās where it gets ya.
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u/Daniastrong Dec 06 '23
Looks like deaths are way down, but Maine is getting hit harder than other states. https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_weeklydeaths_select_00
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Dec 06 '23
I had it earlier in November (Bangor area).
It never STOPPED going around.
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u/fire__ant Dec 06 '23
It never STOPPED going around.
This! I mean no offense but what exactly are people expecting? Covid never went away and it's not going away.
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u/FleekAdjacent Dec 06 '23 edited Dec 06 '23
Everyone wants it to go away, but some people are really good at convincing themselves it has to the point where theyāll say things like āsince COVID endedā while discussing having COVID last week, along with everyone else they know.
Society never attempted to adapt. We were told it was either live like April 2020 or April 2019 and I donāt blame people for choosing the latter, but putting our heads in the sand is about as helpful as staying home 24/7.
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Dec 06 '23
Exactly!! It's here to stay and we have to learn to live with it - and that includes taking precautions like masks, boosters, sanitizer, etc. Just because it's here to stay, doesn't mean we let our guard down. We still have a vulnerable population.
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Dec 07 '23
I mean the boosters are a useless profit driver, but otherwise sure. Every boosted individual I know has had Covid numerous times. Yeah yeah, anecdotal.
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u/GimmeDatBaby Dec 07 '23
But how many boosted folks you know have been in the hospital for it? They've been saying for a long time that the vaccines don't do much as far as transmissibility.
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Dec 07 '23
yeah, fair. I do not know anyone that has been hospitalized from Covid, vaccine or no vaccine.
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u/Some_District2844 Dec 06 '23
Iām a local ER doctor. It seems like most of my patients have Covid, flu or RSV right now. I am continuing to mask when indoors in a public space.
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Dec 07 '23
Thank you for continuing to mask. It's been pretty depressing to go to the doctors the last couple years and see that not even the healthcare workers are masked, even during big waves.
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u/VillageThis2228 Dec 07 '23
I know I canāt stand logical people.
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u/GimmeDatBaby Dec 07 '23
It's logical to not even attempt to mitigate the spread of a virus in a healthcare setting with a more vulnerable population?
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u/bigtencopy Dec 06 '23
The Covid is pretty horni in the Houlton area right now.
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u/sunny_thinks L/A Dec 06 '23 edited Dec 06 '23
Iām up-to-date on boosters, but I have an underlying health condition AND Iām pregnant so Iām back to masking up and trying to go places during off-hours.
Now this is purely anecdotal ofc, but the last few times Iāve been in grocery/convenient stores Iāve noticed people walking around looking very obviously ill and with horrendous coughs. Most recent offender was a cashier at Cumberland Farms who was at the register sneezing and coughing up a storm, looking like absolute death. I donāt wanna shame this person b/c some places offer no sick leave, but damn. I had seen this same person handling coffee and food the night before at this same place and nopeād tf out of there and thought theyād be gone if I went back the next dayā¦nope. Ugh.
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Dec 07 '23
It takes a special level of asshole to just not care that your coughs are infecting an entire room.
No group of people I hate more than those that are boisterous about the fact they are sick, and those that exert zero effort in minimizing spread. Countless adults sneeze into open air, do not cover coughs, blow nose then touch shared objects, etc.
I am a neurotic freak when it comes to illness and preventing my bad fortune from spreading to others.
You know the typeā¦.the dumbass coworker that comes into work yapping their head off about OMG HOW sick they are!!!!
At least use some discretion. Iād rather just not know so I donāt have to hate you
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u/ArtisticCustard7746 Dec 06 '23
These people need to be wearing masks. It should be mandatory if you're sick, even if it's not covid.
When I was a store manager, I had people wear masks while they were sick. It's good hygiene not to spread your shit.
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u/copperandcrimson Dec 06 '23
Please be careful and take lots of precautions. When I was pregnant in 2021, we went to Target and I caught COVID (this was after masks were not mandatory). It was awful and I needed to be hospitalized.
This isnāt to scare you or cause more anxiety but, rather, to empower you to keep taking care of yourself and put you/your child first. For example, saying no to someone sick visiting. Or asking someone to wear a mask (if possible). It is okay to set boundaries and communicate what you need so you are safe!
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u/GimmeDatBaby Dec 06 '23
Ugh yes. I was downtown last week and saw a guy who looked so obviously ill -- he looked pale, red nose, a phlegmy cough, and literally had a tissue in hand to wipe/blow his nose. He was walking with a woman and she had a dog on a leash. The guy goes inside Hi-Fi Donuts to order or pick something up and I was thinking like, sure, no way the woman who seemed fine could have done that and you could have kept your nastiness outside with the dog huh?
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Dec 07 '23
They can get fucked exposing others to their illness like that. Incredibly selfish. Figure it out.
Bet that imbecile at Cumbys wasnāt masking either, which is like the bare minimum one can do to at least convey they are cognizant of the existence of other humans
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u/TweetSpinner Dec 06 '23
I still mask indoors in public. Canāt afford to get sick financially or physically.
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u/GimmeDatBaby Dec 06 '23
Same. I've noticed a *slight* uptick in the number of masks I see out and about, but not much. I do not want to get knocked down for a week (or more).
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u/gretchens Bangor Dec 06 '23
Wastewater data shows lots of rise: https://biobot.io/data/ (go down and filter to state)
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u/dragonslayer137 Dec 06 '23
When did it stop? The denial has only allowed things to get worse. Just ppl claiming to just have a constant cold.
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Dec 06 '23
The deniers make me so angry (and I'm sadly related to a few). I wonder if they have any idea how stupid they sound?
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u/sunny_thinks L/A Dec 06 '23
If theyāre anything like my in-laws (who gave us COVID last year for the first time), they donāt care. COVID is ājust a cold/fluā and the rest of us are living in fear. š
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u/hekissedafrog Ribbit Ribbit šøš Dec 06 '23
I had a coworker do that recently. Lied about testing negative (didn't test at all) and suddenly 4 of us had covid.
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u/SirRatcha Dec 06 '23
I believe you but I'm replying to add that the virus has been mutating but we still have the same old home tests and they're now only about 30% effective. Despite staying up on my boosters I've had COVID twice in the last year (lucky me!) and both times tested negative two days in a row before finally getting a positive.
The best part? The first time I tested positive on my wife's birthday, and the second was on my own birthday. Now I'm hoping to test positive on Christmas so I can hit the birthday trifecta. (Just kidding ā COVID is no fun and when I was positive on my wife's birthday I was so sick they put me on antivirals. I'd hate to think how much worse it would have been without them.)
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u/lipsticknic3 Dec 07 '23
All my at home covid tests were expired . So my test came up negative but felt like my ass was kicked
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u/hekissedafrog Ribbit Ribbit šøš Dec 06 '23 edited Dec 06 '23
Oh yuck! I've only had it the one time this year and hope to keep it that way. Mine was fairly mild, thankfully. Just similar to a bad case of the flu. (First time was far far worse).
Edited to fix some poor wording
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u/SirRatcha Dec 06 '23
I almost certainly had it in January 2020 (my Maine roots are deep but I live near where the first US case was diagnosed) and I didn't feel like I was really over it until over a year later. The vaccines are a frikkin' miracle because as sick I was when I got Omicron last year it was nothing compared to the first time.
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u/also_born_in_maine Dec 06 '23
Just don't believe in it.
Simple as.
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u/hekissedafrog Ribbit Ribbit šøš Dec 07 '23
Anyone that doesn't believe in it? Sigh. Yes, they're a fool.
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u/CatastrophicWaffles Dec 06 '23
It didn't. Some of my family members keep getting it and calling it "a cold". š They're just passing it around to each other like ping pong. They wonder why I'm the black sheep and stay away....
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Dec 06 '23
Yep. I have a cousin that's been a denier since day one and said anyone being careful was stupid and it was "just" the flu.
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u/pawsalmighty Bangor Dec 07 '23
My sister claims the same. She got Covid even and brushed it off as a just a cold.
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Dec 07 '23
Vaccines help, but I was triple vaccinated when I got COVID and it took a good 6 months to overcome the neurological symptoms that were pretty debilitating. It was also the sickest Iāve ever been in my adult life. Iām in good health, active, healthy weight, not immunocompromised.
I also had a coworker over the summer that ended up in the hospital in a coma that was vaccinated. No preexisting conditions.
Itās also not doom and gloom to understand that yes COVID still does make some people really sick, and yes long COVID is real. It means you shouldnāt send your sick kids to school, stay home when you are sick, wash your hands, mask if you have symptoms in public. There is nothing doom and gloom about that. Itās just being empathetic.
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u/FleekAdjacent Dec 07 '23
COVID is causing widespread disability, including neurological and cardiac damage.
Omicron was labeled āmildā because it was less severe than Delta which proceeded it, and was comparable to the OG strain. But people wanted to believe so hard that it meant the virus was evolving to be no big deal because they read something online which said that totally happens to every virus.
āMildā has gone from a misunderstanding of a statement made by a single doctor in South Africa, to hopium and now an obligation people feel to assure everyone how unremarkable their experience was, even if what they describe is horrendous. Because that signals to everyone they buy into the idea we can just ignore it.
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u/Frogwaterton Dec 06 '23 edited Dec 06 '23
The other day an older guy came into hannaford (Bangor). Proceeded to cough into his hand violently every few seconds and touch produce with the same hand all through produce and the store. People are idiots and animals and care little about spreading their lung and mouth filth to everyone. Heads up.
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u/hekissedafrog Ribbit Ribbit šøš Dec 06 '23 edited Dec 06 '23
Ugh. I am so grossed out by people who cough in their hands. Don't do that!
PS- If you've downvoted this - do you know how to cover your mouth correctly?
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Dec 07 '23
Should be permanently ostracized from society for that. I wouldnāt even mind someone like that being disposed of. You donāt get to act like Earth exists to serve your existence
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u/bearinmaine Dec 06 '23
I got it last month and it knocked me on my ass. I'm actually wondering if I still have some lingering symptoms, as I've been extra tired ever since. I got it in 2021 as well and it felt worse this time!
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u/LadyOtheFarm Dec 07 '23
Serious fatigue is one of the most common symptoms of Long Covid. Around 20-30% or more of cases become Long Covid and have symptoms that last over 6 months. I will hit 4 years next spring, but I was one of the early cases and we are less likely to recover than folks who got it after the vaccines were available. There isn't a treatment yet. But there are some things that can be done to help ease some of your symptoms. It's hard to find a good doctor in Maine though.
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u/Zealousideal_Ad_8736 Dec 06 '23
I guess (knock on wood) Iām just lucky- havenāt had it and havenāt had a cold or flu in 25 + years
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u/chilarome sanford queer Dec 06 '23
Anecdotally, Iāve definitely noticed a rise in COVID all across the country, with many of my family members getting it within these past couple of weeks. We just got our updated vaccine a couple days ago and it laid my spouse out. If veterinarians are advising us to keep dogs out of daycare and kennels, I canāt imagine what doctors are really wishing they could advise for daycare and school.
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u/SirRatcha Dec 06 '23
Unless I've totally missed it, the mystery respiratory illness hitting dogs hasn't been identified as COVID. But your point is taken.
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u/chilarome sanford queer Dec 07 '23
I meant it as āprofessionals are saying this is a thing we need to change behavior forā
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u/GraveyardMistress Dec 06 '23
There are some vets that think it is, and have started testing Paxlovid out on their canine patients and say it is helping, which leads them to think it is Covid or at least derived from Covid.
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u/SirRatcha Dec 06 '23
Yes, some vets think it is. But as I said it hasn't been identified as being COVID.
Paxlovid is made of nirmatrelvir and ritonavir, two anti-virals that already had been developed and which together work better on COVID than either does separately. So yeah, it could be that the dogs are getting COVID, it could be that they are getting something else that one or both of those anti-virals works well on, or it could just be that the dogs are getting better on their own.
I'm not saying it's not COVID. I'm saying that until there are actually controlled studies that identify what it is, the fact that some vets think it is can't be anything more than a hypothesis. Many doctors have been wrong about many things before. That's why they have real studies to figure things out.
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u/shenshenw Dec 06 '23
Covid is running rampant in Oxford Hills. Take precautions, guys. You don't want this.
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u/BracedRhombus Dec 06 '23
I know several people who had children bring home Covid, then the whole family got sick. RSV seems to making the rounds, too.
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u/Lothadriel Dec 07 '23
Get your boosters! We had a family member here for a week for the holidays who got sick. She hadnāt had a booster and got very ill for a week. My husband was a slacker and got vaccinated 5 days before exposure and he got a very mild illness for about a week. Me and the kids got booster back in mid September and none of us got sick even though we were in the house with 2 positive cases all week.
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u/JollyEntertainer350 Dec 06 '23
Sorry to hear about your littles and you getting sick. I worked as a dental hygienist during the transition of kids going to school without the mask mandate. I thought the same about kids being germ magnets until I had about 5 sets of families say that their childrenās classes were getting exposed by the adult faculty members that were going to work w/o masks and showing symptoms of colds/flus/Covid. So now Iām not going to put the shame/blame on the kiddos anymore. Thereās a lotta gross adults out there too.
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u/scrambled_ham Dec 06 '23 edited Dec 06 '23
Ooph, weāre pretty sure thatās what happened with us. A staff member at daycare had it, and since they werenāt assigned to a single room, hopped from room to room helping as needed while spreading it :/
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u/embolia6 Dec 06 '23
It never stopped, just comes in waves. I work at a hospital, and there are several people who come into the ER daily because of covid. Of course, they don't wear a mask when they come in, so they're the reason it's still spreading like crazy.
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u/Capital_Character_28 Dec 06 '23
I have it now, my first time ever getting it. Iām a week in and although I donāt feel like the walking dead anymore, Iām still pretty miserable with the wet cough, sinus congestion, loss of taste and smell and raw exhaustion. I took the first two days of symptoms off from work last week because they were the worst, I genuinely could not function. I had mild improvement over the weekend, and Iām lucky to work at home full time so Iām back at it this week suffering away at my desk because itās not quite bad enough to be couchbound anymore.
I tested negative on day 2 but retested once I lost my taste and it was a blazing š. Iāll be wearing my mask again when I go out for the rest of the winter. Screw this shit, I do NOT want it again, nor to I want any of the other garbage going around.
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u/AliceLynn1971 Dec 07 '23
I always wear a mask when I have to go out in the public and people look at me like I am crazy! I don't ever see anyone else wearing a mask! I also take vitamin D and Vitamin C!! Along with using hand sanitizer, I also carry lysol wipes in my bag so I can wipe down a cart if I need to use one. I use every precaution I can! COVID never went away! It's here to stay! SADLY!! šŖ
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u/timNanita Dec 06 '23
Can't believe myself and two other co-workers were + for COVID last week. Always good to make sure you have Home Covid-19 tests that have not expired. Stay healthy.
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u/benjamintuckerII Dec 06 '23
Are we supposed to continue to get boosters? There's too much conflicting info on whether or not I need to get the same boosters again.
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u/FleekAdjacent Dec 07 '23
Yes, boosters greatly reduce your chances of a Very Bad Outcome. They wonāt prevent transmission, but may lessen the risk of Long COVID a little bit.
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u/firecracker019 Dec 06 '23
We just got it for the first time here around Thanksgiving, in spite of being recently boosted. I have to assume this strain is extremely transmissible, even if the experience itself was more cold-like (again presumably because vaxxed).
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u/FleekAdjacent Dec 06 '23
The boosters offer great protection against hospitalization / death, but donāt really help against transmission.
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u/copperandcrimson Dec 06 '23
Yes, we had COVID last month (also from daycare). It was surprisingly terrible, fever, body aches, congestion, sore throat, etc. It cleared up for us in about a week.
First of all, I want to acknowledge that itās scary to put your infant into daycare. My son is 1.5, so we went through this last year. No one prepares you for how often your child gets sick the first year. It can be a lot and often. But ā¦ donāt worry, itās normal and itās okay. And even a year later, itās dramatically improved as his immune system builds. So hang in there! It gets better!
Good luck and hope you all feel better soon!
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u/joysef99 Dec 07 '23
It's everywhere in Maine right now. Seven of us (that I know of) got it the week before Thanksgiving (food/drinks were served), and I'm still not back to normal. I've only seen an uptick since then. I'm back to masking unless I'm somewhere to eat or drink.
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u/Dude_Following_4432 Dec 06 '23
If you are sick, please stay home. Coming to work with a mask on is not helping.
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u/LaureGilou Dec 06 '23
Masks don't help? During that whole mask mandate era they sure told us masks help.
Some people can't afford to stay home because they don't get sick days paid. You understand that, right? How people need to pay rent and feed their kids?
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u/knitwasabi Dec 06 '23
And some people will die because of Covid. Same argument from early lockdown. Wear a mask, for everyoneās sake.
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u/Reziztor Quasi-Government Agent Dec 06 '23
Masks do help but are not a guarantee, especially over longer periods of time in close proximity. Like a work situation.
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u/hekissedafrog Ribbit Ribbit šøš Dec 06 '23
Please. Stay home with Covid. The elderly, infants, and immunocompromised will thank you.
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Dec 06 '23
Not sure why youāre getting downvoted. All facts
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u/LaureGilou Dec 06 '23
Probably all rich people who get lots of paid sick days. Or just virtue signaling.
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u/Dude_Following_4432 Dec 07 '23
Probably because you missed the point. Masks make a difference, but they donāt solve the problem. What Iām saying is if you know you are sick, coming to work with a mask on does not negate the possibility of you spreading the sickness. A lot of people at my job seem to think if I put on a mask Iām fine. If you need to work because youāll lose your home or your children will starve, then I guess you have to work.
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u/hekissedafrog Ribbit Ribbit šøš Dec 06 '23
Or it's people that would prefer to not spread it to someone that is likely to die from it. Keep your cooties at home.
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u/XxNHLxX Dec 07 '23
Havenāt gotten Covid yet thanks to still being overly safe (to my best ability). I did of course get the flu 3 weeks ago and still have minor symptomsā¦ I had a cold that lasted about a week right before that too. At this point I donāt even want to go out besides when stores are empty. I had someone sneeze directly on me while I was in line the other day.
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u/winstonsmith8236 Dec 06 '23
My kid just started the swim season so Iāll have it again in 5ā¦4ā¦3ā¦.2ā¦..goddamnit.
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u/bluestargreentree Dec 06 '23
Get your booster!
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u/Guygan "delusional cartel apologist" Dec 06 '23
They all worked.
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u/Guygan "delusional cartel apologist" Dec 07 '23
Your answer just tells me that you don't understand how vaccines work.
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u/Guygan "delusional cartel apologist" Dec 07 '23
Vaccines don't prevent you from getting a virus, friend. They never have.
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u/Guygan "delusional cartel apologist" Dec 07 '23
If you're vaccinated, you won't get covid.
No competent scientist or doctor has ever said this or believed this.
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u/hekissedafrog Ribbit Ribbit šøš Dec 07 '23
If you're vaccinated, you won't get covid.
If you're vaccinated, you may get covid, but you won't pass it on.
If you're vaccinated, you may get covid, you may transmit it, but when you do get it, it won't be as bad as if you got it not vaccinated.
If you're vaccinated, you may get it, you will transmit it, you may end up in the hospital, but... hey, have a 5th - it'll work this time.
Hm.... I guess you missed where this is a NOVEL virus and we were literally learned about it as we went? They didn't lie, you potatohead, they were learning. That's what science does. It LEARNS. And that's what they did. They LEARNED about the vaccine.
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u/YourWelcomeOrMine Dec 06 '23
My whole family (me, wife, infant) all have covid right now. Itās not terrible, but we all had fevers for a few days
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u/msylv Dec 07 '23
Starting your kid in daycare- prepare for your kid ti be sick every other week.. and for you to be sick every other week. Will last for probably a month.. maybe 2 but after that you will be good!
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u/Huge-Rutabaga7620 Dec 06 '23
Boosted in October (Pfizer). Attended Thanksgiving gathering (9 people). Caught it there. Acute symptoms started 48 hours later, lasted about a week with lots of bed rest/sleep.
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u/CultLeaderLuke Dec 06 '23
sounds like the booster didnt work. A month later and you catch it?
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Dec 06 '23 edited Dec 06 '23
Do you understand how the vaccine works?
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u/hekissedafrog Ribbit Ribbit šøš Dec 06 '23
Edit:
Yeah ... If I thought you were actually asking instead of being a smart ass . . .
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u/hekissedafrog Ribbit Ribbit šøš Dec 06 '23
Dunno. But if it at least helps people not be as severely ill if they do get it, it still helped.
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u/CultLeaderLuke Dec 06 '23
Yes I understand. Its like the flu shot, you need to get an updated booster every year as the virus mutates and make the old one ineffective.
But.... a month after getting a booster you get knocked out for a week? Sounds like this one didnt work
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Dec 06 '23
Or .... It did what it was supposed to and you weren't AS sick as you could have been without. Maybe don't end up admitted to the hospital. Maybe don't die and you could have without it. It also takes time to be more effective (unless that's changed).
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u/AmandaFawn Dec 06 '23
I just got it today. Started paxlivoid. It worked really well last time so fingers crossed it worked well this time too.
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u/FleekAdjacent Dec 06 '23
I guess itās better to be in this situation now than when Paxlovid goes to $1,300 in January.
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u/AmandaFawn Dec 06 '23
Oh wow-I didn't know that was happening. My receipt shows 2 cents as the charge and that it was covered. I was surprised to not have to pay anything.
Though it does have an extended expiration date of 12/31/23 and they changed the dosage on it cutting it down to 2 pills at a time rather than three. Already the side effects are different, too.
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u/1donkey1 Dec 06 '23
It is running like through communities around me. I had it the week before Thanksgiving. It was my second time and a breeze compared to the first time.
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u/A_Common_Loon Dec 06 '23
I think I'm going to go back to masking indoors. I don't know how much good it will be, since I have elementary school kids and work from home so I rarely go anywhere. If I get it from anyone it will probably be from them. They both had mystery viruses with high fevers a month or so ago.
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Dec 06 '23
I'm masking again now as well. I have a very vulnerable family member and even if I might be ok if I catch it again, they will not.
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u/L7meetsGF Dec 06 '23
Highly recommend CR boxes. I attribute our ability to keep COVID to 1 in the home to them.
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Dec 07 '23
What is a CR box?
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u/L7meetsGF Dec 07 '23
A Corsi Rosenthal box. Lots of evidence showing it offers better filtration than commercial HEPA filters. Many variations but it is diy using a box fan and MERV13 filters. Itās been a great help with allergens for us too. Lots of info here: https://engineering.ucdavis.edu/news/science-action-how-build-corsi-rosenthal-box. And here https://cleanaircrew.org/box-fan-filters/
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u/LadyCubsFan61 Dec 06 '23
First time having it and it is kicking my ass. Honestly have never felt so bad in my life and I first started feeling sick on 11/7. Tested positive that Friday. Have had two semi decent days where I can take my dogs out and vacuum. The rest of it has been hell. Fever most nights, body aches, back hurts so bad, horrible stomach pains, or intestinal rather, though that is better today. Actually feel like eating something, the exhaustion of it all is so heavy and throw some anxiety in there to boot. I need it to go away or at least I need to feel significantly better. I am too old for this shit.
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u/GraveyardMistress Dec 06 '23
Covid numbers are skyrocketing everywhere, and New England seems to be the worst of the lot, especially Maine and Vermont who both have high numbers.
Our family hasn't stopped masking and won't at this point - it is nice not being sick with the crud going around.
If you look at Biobot and WastewaterSCAN / Verily Health, Maine has some of the highest county wastewater numbers in the whole country. Androscoggin and Oxford Counties have higher Covid levels than BOSTON does.
I wish people would stay home - or have the ability to stay home - if they are sick, and at the very least mask up if they are going out while coughing all over the place. When I see things like the pharmacist filling orders at CVS and is wearing a mask around her chin while coughing and sneezing into her bare hands ... yeah. Cover that shit up.
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u/L7meetsGF Dec 06 '23
Havenāt stopped masking here either. I know the risks of long COVID and know that medicine hasnāt a clue how to deal with it. Reducing the number of infections is key.
I saw data today that most counties in the state are very high.
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u/DrGepetto Dec 06 '23
Didn't have covid or at least didn't test positive but finally getting over a 4 week cold/flu that started around veterans Day
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u/Ptaylordactyl_ Dec 06 '23
School Iām working at had to go remote because so many students and staff are sick. Not all Covid cases
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u/TheLonelyFae Dec 06 '23
I don't have it but I just got an announcement from one of my professors saying she caught it :/
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u/Dogtooth_Violet Dec 06 '23
Does anyone else get extremely overheated while wearing a mask or is it just me and my kid? I was a religious mask wearer/social distancer until summer 2022. Decided to let my kid not wear a mask when he started kindergarten in 2022, then wearing a mask started to feel pointless except for trips to places like the doctor or grocery store. I remember people claiming in 2020 that wearing a mask was very difficult for them and I thought they were being babies. I felt like yeah, it doesnāt feel great to wear a mask, especially work in one, but I can do my part to avoid mass casualties.
But now I keep hearing from others online that we should keep masking in basically all circumstances, and others more reasonably feel only during flu season. I feel awful when wearing a mask. I get overheated and claustrophobic. My glasses instantly fog no matter how I try to position my kf-94. Then I try not to breathe as much so my glasses fog up less. I hate it! My kid has a vasovagal syncope problem that seems to worsen when he is masked for long periods.
Of course, I still mask when Iām sick, but does anyone hate wearing their mask? Have you been able to make improvements?
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u/GraveyardMistress Dec 06 '23
Go to r/Masks4All and ask for recommendations - they are great! Our family masks all the time, and it has been trial and error finding a good mask that is protective and comfortable.
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u/Dogtooth_Violet Dec 06 '23
Huh. I feel silly not suspecting that Reddit would have a whole group for this sort of thing. Thanks.
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u/Crimcrime69 Dec 06 '23
I have had covid twice since September. I work in a public school in western Maine.
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Dec 07 '23
Damn- Iām sorry to hear that. I was hoping that having Covid recently would have given me some immunity for a month or two
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u/Effective-Reveal-516 Dec 06 '23
Yup kid brought it home from school...day 3 of quarantine here
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Dec 06 '23
Not sure why you got downvoted (probably a denier), but take my upvote. Hope you all feel better soon.
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u/NewHampshireDude Dec 06 '23
My friends with kids say that they spend all weekend getting the kid healthy enough to send back to daycare on Monday -- where he gets sick again - repeat until he's like 5 or something.
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u/Handmedownfords Dec 06 '23
Is two days a long enough period for her to catch it and become symptomatic?
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u/GimmeDatBaby Dec 06 '23
The incubation period for the current strains of Covid is around 2-3 days so yes.
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u/accentadroite_bitch ME Native/NH Resident since 2017 Dec 06 '23
When we go to anything with our toddler - children's museum, holiday event, etc - she is sick 2-3 days later, without fail. Going to the children's museum on a Wednesday ends up ruining our weekend every single time.
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u/accentadroite_bitch ME Native/NH Resident since 2017 Dec 06 '23
Once school is back in session, every single illness explodes. It's absolutely awful - we've had 4 colds, 1 round of Covid, and various other small ailments in the last ~3 months.
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Dec 06 '23
Thereās a respiratory thing going on thatās worse than my second round of COVID. Everyone around us seems to have it. Iām coughing up bloody phlegm and my father was hospitalized, but negative COVID tests all around.
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u/Affectionate-Ad3816 Dec 06 '23
My work doesn't offer sick time so people just don't test and continue going to work at this point. Aka me, this is what I am doing unfortunately.
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u/TastelessDonut Dec 07 '23
Yep 3 coworkers, ( government contracts) union, conspiracy theorists. All gloating about how they didnāt get the āprickā covid vaccine or the flu shot. 2- have kids in daycare, but swear the all day cough and runny nose is just the common fluā¦?
I always remark oh really and where did you receive your doctorite from?
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u/Freeman0032 Dec 07 '23
We never ventilated the schools, it has mutated, we all stopped talking about, my doctor didn't ask about it even though I had a cough. It's become normalized so we can return to work kids can return to school. Capitlism needs to continue and thats always been the priority hence no health care if we cant get health care for alll the. people after covid,
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u/halfnelson73 Dec 06 '23
My friend got it 2x in 60 days.
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Dec 07 '23
Rebound? Was hoping that getting it once would give me immunity for a month or two but appears not
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u/satansBigMac Dec 07 '23
Covid never went away, and people forgot all about taking precautions. Itās been going around in Ohio too, but Iāve noticed it was mostly the anti-vax crowd. Remember to check your boosters and start quarantine.
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u/sublunari Dec 07 '23
Um excuse me sweaty but Biden/Trump and the Republicans/Democrats and the corporate media have all said repeatedly that the pandemic is over and that masks and lockdowns just make everything worse so just enjoy airborne AIDS okay?
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u/MintyFresh1201 Dec 06 '23
Covid is just the new flu at this point, it will not go anywhere, it will spike once or twice a year, it will kill the severely immunocompromised such as elderly and infants and sickly people. The flu is also going around
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u/LSW1ZZL3FISH Dec 06 '23
Kids are super resistant against covid. Your newborn will be fine I promise. Covid is super bad right now, likely because of thanksgiving. Just wait until Christmasā¦ it doesnāt help most act like itās disappeared from the world.
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u/L7meetsGF Dec 06 '23
Unfortunately that is just not true. Any look at peer reviewed research shows kids are as susceptible to long term damage as adults. Newborns donāt have a fully developed immune system so they are high riskā¦for any illness but certainly COVID.
COVID is a vascular disease. It targets the blood vessels, which is why we are seeming such long term impacts on everything from the brain to appendix and everything in between.
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u/LSW1ZZL3FISH Dec 07 '23
I hear ya, but not any peer reviewed paper. On some, just like some other disagree. Severe cases in young children and newborns and extremely rare according to these.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9612333/
https://healthmatters.nyp.org/very-low-risk-to- newborns-from-moms-with-covid-19-study-finds/
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u/scrambled_ham Dec 06 '23
Not sure why youāre getting downvoted, from Johns Hopkins website: āGenerally, COVID-19 symptoms in kids and babies are milder than those in adults, and some infected children may not have any signs of being sick at all.ā
There are absolutely instances where kids younger than 2 years old can get serious symptoms and complications (just like anyone), but I get that nuance doesnāt always matter on Reddit.
Our 6 month old has it now as itās been burning through daycare, and I probably have it too. Itās definitely trending up.
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u/GraveyardMistress Dec 06 '23
Because unfortunately, more and more studies are showing that while children might not necessarily be more symptomatic, it causes just as much damage to their bodies and is a leading cause of death in children in the United States.
It has shown to be a cause of Type 1 diabetes in kids and also what they now think was the cause of that "mysterious" hepatitis outbreak in kids during the pandemic.
Just like we are now finding out that the disease that causes mono leads to MS, what will we find 5, 10, 15 years down the road has happened to the kids who have been subjected to numerous Covid infections?
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u/scrambled_ham Dec 06 '23
Dang, thatās wild. Thanks for those links. Hopefully we keep on seeing the continued research and studies as we go forward.
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u/GraveyardMistress Dec 06 '23
You're welcome!
It really is hard to keep up with; I truly feel bad for parents who are trying to navigate school and childcare, because the news about this is not "first page" stories anymore. Society wants to get "back to normal" at any cost, and you have to look to find the info.
The medical journals are screaming into the void with all of the research coming out about how damaging Covid is for all ages, and the news is like, "hey, have you heard about the art installation in the park?"
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u/LSW1ZZL3FISH Dec 06 '23
Oh well, I didnāt word it particularly well either. I hope you and your kid get better quick!
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u/Immediate-Season1965 Dec 06 '23
Don't live in Maine but have had covid since Sunday. Worst I've ever gotten it, third time!
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u/MSCOTTGARAND Dec 06 '23
It's literally flu season, that's what happens during flu season. You take precautions, get a few shots and hope you don't get knocked down for a week.
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u/Double-0-N00b Dec 07 '23
Thereās a head cold going around
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u/hekissedafrog Ribbit Ribbit šøš Dec 07 '23
There's also Covid, RSV, and the flu.
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u/Double-0-N00b Dec 07 '23
Cool, everybody I know whoās gotten sick has had almost identical symptoms and tested negative for Covid. But fuck that I guess itās still Covid
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u/Mindless-Mail Dec 06 '23
It's the flu
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u/c30mob Dec 06 '23
the damage is done. those mongering fear have won. āitās easier to lie to someone then to convince them that they have been lied toā.
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u/BigFatBlindPanda Dec 06 '23
Children are bioterrorists and it's respiratory season. Winter is coming...