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I got the new booster alongside my flu shot Monday night after multiple failed attempts. First, I had an appointment at CVS the Friday after the vaccination had been approved, for the Moderna booster. But when I got there, my insurance company hadn't yet added the new boosters to their approved...

The crazy thing is that the Smallpox vaccine is effective against Monkeypox, but we were so successful at eradicating Smallpox that we don't have enough Smallpox vaccine on hand to vaccinate everybody who needs it. There's that generational divide between people who have the blister scar from...

The good news is that I'm starting to feel better. The really, really bad news is that I gave it to my mother, who has Stage 4 lung cancer and was supposed to receive her last round of chemo next Monday. :( I feel awful about it, but I don't know how I would have avoided it. I tested negative...

They've got me on a five-day regimen of Paxlovid anti-viral drugs due to my compromised breathing. I'm hopeful that will speed up my recovery.

Sorry to hear that Wayne! Upstate is really getting swamped at the moment, thanks to that highly contagious B.A.2.12.1 variant. Both of my parents currently have it, and since I was over for Mother's Day yesterday I figure it's only a matter of time until I test positive.

So far no price gouging locally, despite the intense demand. The two-pack I picked up was $23.99, same as it had been.

Just got back from driving to a Walgreens in another city 35 miles away, because it was the closest place I could get an at-home rapid antigen COVID test. When I went to the in-store pickup line, there were like twenty other test kits for other people who did the same thing. Unfortunately, once...

I'm in the middle of buying property, and it's not easy when all of the offices you need to talk to as issues arise are closed to the public.

I think part of the reason credit card companies are taking a hard line stance about adhering to the fine print of their terms of service right now is because they anticipate a tsunami of merchants going bankrupt before this whole thing is over.

When we ate lunch at The Publyk House in Bennington that Saturday, we had a reservation but the group in front of us didn't. The way the restaurant solved it was by having them make a reservation for 15 minutes later while they were standing there.

Could I have gotten away with not doing it? Probably. But Vermont's cross state leisure travel rules are pretty clear, and I was coming from one of the red counties (more than 800 active cases per million residents). I'm an employee of the State of New York, and Governor Cuomo takes COVID-19...

Had to get self-quarantine for seven days and test negative before spending a long weekend in Vermont. State lines mattering is a relatively new phenomenon for me.

This about sums it up:

...I have been making great time. :lol:

Same. Not sure if this is Malcolm's situation or not, but: I claimed zero allowances on my W-4s and actually have an additional amount withheld from every paycheck from my primary employer. I use my refund check each year to pay certain bills (like car insurance) that recur on an annual basis...

For me it started with a sore throat around March 20th. That was the only symptom I had for a few days, and then a week ago it abruptly got much worse: a horrible dry cough and a wheeziness when I breathed. It felt like someone wrapped a belt around my rib cage. As the day wore on I had more and...

Today was my first day feeling meaningfully better. Worked a full day at home from 9:00 AM to around 7:30 PM.

My respiratory ailment continues. If it is the coronavirus, I'm definitely in the milder half of cases. But it's frustrating how this thing ebbs and flows; I'm used to getting sick and then feeling better, while with this I'll be feeling better for a while and then worse for a while and then...

I work for the New York State Education Department. Given that all of the schools have been closed statewide, there is a lot of uncertainty. I was burning some vacation time when everything started to spiral, so what was intended to be a long weekend ended with my entire office being directed to...