I have to assume that anybody who goes to a school is going to get it.
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I went to Temple for a few days around Christmas and the day after I returned my wife felt like she had a cold. She ended up testing positive from an at-home test on Friday (the PCR test she took last Tuesday came back positive yesterday as well). I never felt any symptoms and we mostly isolated and masked up inside for about a week but Iām still waiting on the results from a test last Friday. My guess is that I had it but was asymptomatic (we slept in the same bed the night I came home) but who knows. Some friends of ours had the mom and one kid get it while the dad and the other kid did not.
My sons school postponed opening until Monday, but I really donāt understand what good that will do. Itās not like the wave will pass by then.
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Probably.
Today, for the first time, teachers at my school were offered one N95 mask. They donāt have enough for all the other employees that have to be on campus, and of course they have nowhere near enough for students too.
The masks the office gives irresponsible students are cloth and so big that they donāt fit even the biggest adult. This is all madness.
SCOTUS heard arguments today in the appeal against vaccine mandates in the workplace. Two of the lawyers contesting the mandates are appearing via remoteā¦because they have COVID.
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Do you have any idea how you contracted the virus? Totally understand if you donāt want to share in a public forum like this.
5 of 11 on my executive team at work have had the virus sweeping through their homes in the last 10 days after avoiding infection for 22 months. No change in behavior either. 100% telework, mask wearing 100% of the time outside the house as each lives in states/locations with mandates. Each suspects that their kids at school were the vector into their houses. And, all were vaccinated + boosted.
Iām trying to wrap my head around the infection vectors. If it sweeps through my fully vaccinated house, so be it. But, 40% of my wifeās clients are children that are too young to be vaccinated and too young for effective online counseling and we are super concerned about being asymptomatic or delayed symptomatic and passing it along to those kids.
If it helps, one family of six that I know - including two that are too young for the vaccine - all got it. All of their symptoms were mild, no worse than your usual cold.
What scares the shit out of me is if thereās some long-term effect (e.g., heart atrophy) that weāre ignorant of right now.
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I think itās pretty clear that most of us are going to contract omicron at some point. The good news is obviously that dangerous symptoms typically do not manifest in the vaccinated.
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Thanks. The kids my wife sees are all medically compromised to some degree as a byproduct of their crushing anxiety or neurodivergence. These represent a significant percentage of the unvaccinated kids that are ending up in hospitals.
Do not worry about stuff like this. You are going to drive yourself crazy with āwhat ifs.ā
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This.
I get the fear but itās a fine line from fear to phobia. I try not to fret things knowing Iāve taken every safety precaution. JKL
Totally agree. I refuse to worry about stuff I cannot control. I can control my behavior and my decisions, and I work hard at that.
I donāt have a clue where I got it. I will say that there are a few places Iāve gone where I couldāve picked it up and wouldnāt be surprised, but Iām mostly pretty careful.
I did go to a UT basketball game a few days before I started feeling sick where essentially nobody was wearing a mask, but there werenāt any notably sick people around me, and really not many people around us at all.
I figured it was just a matter of time before I got Omicron, and Iām double vaxxed and boosted so I wasnāt super concerned about it.
Mostly it manifested itself as a sore throat with a slight cough for a few days, and about the same snot effects as a bad high mold count day for me.
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We flew yesterday from Houston to Honolulu, with a four-hour layover in LA. Everything was packed, including the flights. We had planned the trip a couple of months ago before omicron. We stuck with it, but frankly if I was ever going to get sick it was yesterday. Or it was grocery shopping before Christmas, or it was having my daughter over for Krisās birthday, or it was something else. Itās everywhere, and unless we hole up weāre going to be exposed.
I did get tested after my son and sister tested positive after singing Christmas carols at our house on the 20th, and I was negative. I donāt think Iāll get tested again until I run a fever.
I do not think a fever is necessarily a part of Omicron. A sore throat is.
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Iām not sure which type of Covid i had but i got the fever before any other symptoms. 102 fever with aches. A fierce headache accompanied it too.