I got the Moderna RNA vaccine last week because the Jewish high holidays were this past weekend.
A woman in the congregation told me that she had been exposed to Covid but she wasn’t wearing a mask because she didn’t have symptoms.
Well, now I have Covid. (The old test worked - two stripes.) I’m really p!$$ed off. I have been super-careful. This is my first bout of Covid.
I had a fever of 101.8 degrees last night and I was very weak. My temperature is 101 now. My normal temperature is 97.5 so this is a significant fever.
I apologize for skipping the Control Panel this week. Just couldn’t do it.
Yes, it is a sign of extreme selfishness not to wear a mask when you are sick. In fact, I would argue that one should stay home. I can’t tell you how many times I would have sick coworkers in nearby cubes that didn’t want to take their sick leave (one insisted she needed to save it for summer break with her kids…she would take PTO and sick leave). She was spreading god-knows-what at work.
It’s a good thing you got the vaccine. Though I think it requires several weeks for immunity to take full force. Not sure if a week is a enough.
I got COVID after having two shots (the first, and the later booster). It was like a bad flu. I knew at least one person who died (no vaccine), and another who was on a ventilator for a week (again, he didn’t get the shot).
No apology necessary. I’ve had COVID a few times. My first bout was rough! Uncontrollable shivering, low SpO2, yada, yada, yada. I hope you feel better soon!
Far far too many people insist on all sorts of weird obsolete stuff in manners and clothing, but find covering their nose and mouth with a mask when ill to be a horrible burden. I find myself struggling to maintain civilty all too often.
Agree with @Leap1 …civility is misplaced with such types.
A guy at the same table as me at a Rotary meeting a few months back announced he didn’t have the Covid vaccine or the flu shot. Didn’t believe in them . I told him he was an immunological freeloader. Doesn’t sit by me now. I can hack that.
Odd thing while I take a step back at work, the coworkers are cool. Plus I am now very senior so who can they complain to?
Socially? Luckily regardless of their vaccine crap, my best friend never gets me sick. The rest of us vax up every six months. The inflammation from Covid is similar to the Flu, but more people supposedly are dying from Covid inflammation meaning heart attacks. Sorry to say that Wendy. Step back please when someone sniffles.
I do believe in being around sick people, just not close face to face. We catch things all day long. Little viral loads sharpen and train our immune functions.
We differ in our ways of thinking and using the word civil and its extensions, especially incivil and incivility.
I have often done what you both do, and I plan to continue to so in a form that I see as being quite civil but also quite clear, both verbally and physically, about my opinion of their flouting a basic modest dignity we share as a public united in trying to block transmission….
Civility is almost holy for me as I see it as the cornerstone of having a civilization and living a civilized life, the crux for having any opinion ever about anything. It is impossible to usefully describe in detail, beyond observing that the sense of enacting and expectin common decency is part of the core of it.
My Dad was a truly brilliant man. He looked for the principle to guide. Most often it was direct honesty.
He could be seen as arrogant and too honest.
Considering how many people he helped, the good outweighed a few egos being crushed.
He was also very addicted to cigarettes. The doctor who took over the clinic system he ran till age 81 told me Dad smoked outside the main entrance. When asked by the new management not to smoke, he got in his car and drove around the block smoking. The doctor just had to laugh. What was he going to do with an 81-year-old doctor who was otherwise excellent?
The point is, surviving with people is its own art form. No one is so perfect. No one is so flawed. Until what we are witnessing now. Considering world leaders, most of them are even more horrible than ours. This is causing major distortions of reality in the internet age.
If we do not get a backbone to be completely honesty, we will get the very short end of the stick. Sensationalist clickbait is not an honest solution. We do not have to change the press, but do not expect pleasantries for “shifting the truth”.
Calling a spade a spade, Ds will win this election, I will vote with them because of how horrible things are, but much more honesty is needed to lead this nation. Winning an election with tepid amounts of honesty is a lack of character when it is sorely needed.
At the height of the pandemic, before we were eligible for the vaccine, I called a woman in Costco who wasn’t masked and wasn’t distancing a “plague rat”.** She got all huffy, but left our vicinity (which is what I wanted).
They were only letting in a few shoppers at a time then, so she couldn’t have argued that it was crowded.
**I actually said it loudly to 1poorlady…something like “watch out for the plague rat”. It was one of her first trips out of the house after her chemo, and she was starting to feel sort of normal again.
Our last shots were last Sept. I know there is a new flu shot. There’s also a new COVID shot, but is it in pharmacies already? We get ours from the pharmacy. No muss, no fuss, and they give us shopping coupons as a bonus.
I hate the COVID shot. I always feel fatigued and sluggish for about two days after.
. I told him he was an immunological freeloader. Doesn’t sit by me now. I can hack that.