Covid is surging again. I caught it in September for the first time (that I know of). My Dr recommended that I wait until December to get the booster in order to maximize immunity. I got boosted yesterday and have a foggy headache today.
Annecdotally a lot of people who have had it before seem to be catching it again. Sample group being my friends and extended family who caught it over the holidays. Some are still suffering from GI related side effects.
Do your best to stay safe and please mask up when indoors in public. Stay home if you can when you have symptoms. Test yourself if you can.
https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVID19-currentlevels.html
Have you been noticing the uptick around you?
Feel free to talk about anything else.
Yes, becoming rampant again, and people aren’t masking…yet. Here’s hoping you feel better soon!
When I lived in Alabama years ago, the dentists had just given up. They knew people were going to eat waaaay too much pie and carbs and holy fuck the sweet tea.
I feel like that’s how doctors are now with covid, RSV, and the flu. People won’t to basic things to reduce risk. Oh well, at least we tried.
Feel better soon! I heard a horror story about our realtor from 20 years ago (she’s now retired) getting hospitalized for weeks recently. It can still be harsh.
I’ve noticed more people at the grocery store masking up. I may start again. I got my booster in November, and I’ll keep my fingers crossed it helps.
Thanks! I’m better already. The Tylenol and a nap made a huge difference.
Don’t tell anyone. Get as much mileage out of this as you can.
Covid swept through my wife’s library. Something like 15 people got it, and all of them (ostensibly) got vaccinated. I mean, librarians. These ain’t MAGA morons. My wife hasn’t caught it though. We got the current shot in November as well.
But anyway, yes, there’s a definite increase in cases.
COVID is surging again. Here’s what to know and why experts encourage caution
I think a big hurdle toward the public taking it more seriously is that Covid has been lumped together with respiratory diseases (flu, RSV) when it is a vascular one.
Because I’m bored, instead of Fox news I’m presenting an episode of Owl news.
Yesterday at dusk I was out a couple of blocks from my house and looked up in a tree, and thought “that branch looks like an owl.”
And in fact it was a barred owl. I watched it for a minute,and then it flew a short distance to another tree where it hunkered down. It looked at me briefly, and then some squirrels staarted running in another tree which caught its attention, but it didn’t seem to be in hunting mode and then it just hunkered down again.
Unfortunately I didn’t have my camera, so I had to settle for a phone photo.
That’s a great picture! I can never spot the owls in our neighborhood. Except for one time when one flew right by my balcony. It was eerie. I heard the silence of it, if that makes any sense. Like a large void flew by.
It’s crazy how quietly a big bird like that can fly. But they can make super crazy cries when they want to make their presence known.
And they can *also* sound like drunk assholes, trying to prank their friends!😉😆😂
(At least Great Horned Owls can!)
That is awesome. Always have my eye out for birds in my neighborhood.
I had a cold – I did two covid tests but they came back negative. It definitely felt more like a garden variety cold. My neighbor has covid she said it was bad for a day and a half but now feeling much better.
I have a cold too. Mornings my nose Darwin’s like crazy & sneezing but by afternoon, I am fine. Been like this since Friday.
WTF? Drains! How did autocorrect to Darwin’s?
This last time we had Covid, a little over a month ago, O-H never tested positive, despite having all the same symptoms as I, who did test positive, did. We’re both vaccinated, too. Currently, KidSmacks3 has it, and I am PRAYING I/we don’t get it again.
everyones got the lerg again over here
buuuut no testing
kinda like the flu…if you feel sick enough to stay home do that…otherwise come to work and share freely
after all sharing is caring…and its production uber alles
ive given up….no avoiding it here…counting on my vaccinations and natural immunity now…i mean…ive had it like 4 times now
on that note…..the first 3 people went home sick from work yesterday…..im expecting more as the week goes
(edit) oh also ive not been able to smell much of anything for like a year now…useful when dealing with kitty litter….bothers me less than i thought it might
I’ve been doing some pondering lately, that’s a bit of a branch off this *excellent* old Reddit post;
I first ran across the “Boat Rockers” post by someone linking it into their comment, when someone was asking for advice *somewhere* on reddit (not on Just no MIL, I don’t read that sub)…
It’s honestly a *great* way to help describe certain relationships, though, so I bookmarked it, and have used it as a helpful link *myself* when folks are asking for advice on other subs–it’s just GOOD at summing up certain families & their dynamics.
But the “pondering” came in, when I realized that in *my* family, we’re not quite so much “Boat Steadiers” since Grandma died back in the late 1980’s, as we are “Dinghy Patchers”
And I’m *at least* a 3rd generation Dinghy-Patcher.
I’m “flexible” in tough situations. I’m considered “adaptable” by my bosses. I’m a float in part because my supervisors KNOW they can toss me into pretty much *any* Pre-K classroom, anywhere in the district, and they *know* I’ll be able to find a way to connect with the kids I need to, and help out for as long as they need me there.
Thing is? Those skills are rooted in childhood trauma, and dinghy-patching. Like the Second-generation the Boat Steadiers, those of us who grow up Dinghy-Patching, grew up with it being a “normal” and “natural” part of our lives. We patched the dinghy with ALL our skills, because if we didn’t, we (or our whole family) would drown.
So we learned to wake up in the morning, check before leaks before school, patch ’em while we ate breakfast, then head off to school… Come home after school, eat a snack, check & patch, *then* start on our homework… quick check again before bedtime, patch up anything *active*, re-check the earlier patches, annnnd then reinforce the spots over there that *might* start leaking soon, too.
Happen to wake up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom or needing a drink? Sweep the premises for assurance that there aren’t leaks, or patch what popped up since bedtime.
When ya grow up patching the damn dinghy? It DOESN’T take much time to fix it, you get pretty quick at it… but you don’t *realize* until the dinghy finally breaks apart, runs aground, or gets sold to a scrap yard, right out from underneath your feet, *EXACTLY* how exhausting & time-consuming the Dinghy Patching has become.
That, because of your “skills” in patching, those repairs only take 15 minutes a day, 3-18 times a day… except that it means you’re *losing* .75-4.5 *hours* every day, repairing the stupid, leaky, ratty-tatty old boat, that’s inadequate in today’s waters, and which *should* have been retired when your Grandparents were children!
But *YOU* were so busy every day *fixing* the damn problems on the dinghy & keeping the stupid thing *floating*, that you NEVER had the time to assess the condition of the stupid dinghy in the *first* place🙃
The thing hadn’t been seaworthy in *decades*, yet because *you* were born to the children/grandchildren of the *first* dinghy-patcher, you never HAD the time to notice something like that… you just kept adjusting *yourself*, your schedule, your sleep patterns, mealtimes, eals, snd your entire *life* until you slowly managed to side yourself into a life you no longer even *recognize* as the one you used to have.
You “adapted,” “adjusted,” and “team player(!)”-ed yourself into so many knots trying to keep that damn dinghy *above* the water line, that you completely lost *any* sense of who YOU are anymore.
Until something comes along, and breaks the whole thing apart, snd you notice how much more energy you have, the *time* you now have, and the distance you’ve moved from your previous center.
And then, when you *do* suddenly realize how far you’ve shifted & adjusted *yourself* in trying to patch the damn dinghy, it can be tricky to figure out who *you* even are, anymore.
Being “adaptable” is considered a “good thing”/ “good trait” in today’s society… but when you grew up patching leaky dinghies from the time you were a child, those traits can also be fairly dangerous to your own sense of self & your ability to set or use protective/self-preservation tools like boundaries & limits.
Damn, Em… Why you gotta call me out like that?! 😂
In all seriousness, though, this is my life. I feel like I never get ahead because I’m too busy patching up whatever the last disaster was.
Some hospitals reinstating mask mandates as COVID, flu and other illnesses spread