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15 days for me to go positive to negative, but took about nine months to feel better afterwards. Not an experience I’d care to repeat and not one I’m likely to forget.

I hope you feel better soon. You made it long enough for there to have been vaccines and treatments available, so that is a major victory. Best wishes towards a speedy recovery :)

There’s some non-Covid cold making the rounds in my kids’ school that’s giving the kids runny nose and ear infection symptoms and giving the adults something that feels 100x worse. That’s been fun. Hope she feels better soon!

I’ve had both over the years and each Moderna left me feeling like I had just been hit by a freight train, and each Pfizer I felt no side effect afterwards.

That’s exactly right from what I’ve read from epidemiologists. As they explained it: A faint positive line that shows up 14 minutes into the 15 minute wait period means you’re infectious, but on the more mild side - your household members may get sick if they’re in close proximity to you, but...

No doubt @Carlo_M will tell me this is because I use Lodge rather than Smithy 🤣

My arm was incredibly sore after the vaccine this time around, but I think that was from the cast iron pan I dropped on it while packing to move :D

So sorry it came back for an encore performance - I hope it passes soon.

So very sorry to hear of your family’s illnesses. I’m trying to put a silver lining on it but you managed to keep Covid at bay until 2023 - that’s a pretty incredible achievement and I hope you’re not beating yourself up over it. The rapid at home tests, from what I understand after all these...

I definitely take all that I can get for free kits and hold on to them as long as possible. A set of four tests works great for an individual but my household is a family of four - so one round of testing and they’re gone in the blink of an eye.

The Moderna version of the shot had me feeling awful for up to a day each time I had that one. I had Pfizer once and no side effects. The flu shot has always made me feel lousy so I don’t know how much that factored in to me feeling bad the last time around. I know they recommend getting both...

A lot of them had their expiration dates extended - they were overly cautious in using short expiration dates and the FDA later gave approval to extend those. I believe there’s a website you can go to where you can match up your old test kits to see what the new expiration dates would be but I...

I had a similar experience a year ago - a close relative spent time with me indoors all afternoon, I didn’t get sick, he went to a friend’s house that same evening and everyone there did. I think he wasn’t yet contagious in the morning/afternoon and became contagious in the evening just after he...

It’s really difficult to balance the calculation of individual risk tolerance in an environment where society has more or less moved on. It was much easier to abstain from things when there were no things to abstain from. Mark, I sincerely hope you feel better soon (and I definitely recommend...

That seems about the same, but you’ll only ever get an alert if someone you were in close proximity with had the same software on their phone and decided to send an alert when they realized they had Covid, and I’m guessing from what Dave said that not many people actually do that.

John, I’m not sure the answer is appropriate for a family forum such as this one 🤣🤣🤣

Not from me! I am always up for considering viewpoints different from my own, especially when delivered in a respectful, thoughtful manner such as your post. Even if we don’t agree on everything, we should still be able to be friendly :) For me, that’s the key point with all of this - when...

Agreed, probably a combination of density as well as differing local attitudes towards covid - localities with populations “over it” are less likely to use these tools than areas where people remain more vigilant, though at this point I’m not sure anywhere remains uniformly concerned. I haven’t...

For what it’s worth - speaking only of my own personal experience. A mask that isn’t a good fit is uncomfortable and provides less than ideal protection. A property fitted N95 mask (or equivalent, like a KN-95), worn properly, should not feel uncomfortable and is protective to both the...

I’m so sorry to hear that. Sending best wishes towards a speedy recovery. I’m not a doctor, nor do I play one on TV, but please don’t hesitate to seek additional medical help if your symptoms worsen. Some of my colleagues have also had very positive results with Paxlovid to lessen symptoms and...

Best wishes to @Jake Lipson towards a full and speedy recovery. Sending solidarity to @JohnRice. I accept that we are at a point where there is no longer consensus on what the “right” thing to do is and that people will largely make whatever decisions they feel are appropriate for them. What...

Feel better, Tony! (If it helps your spirit any, please know that everyone I know who did Paxlovid was better in 5-6 days and everyone who didn’t had double the recovery time - so you’re on the path to being better sooner!)

I can relate. I have allergies to both certain kinds of dust and certain kinds of pollen that produce sore throats and other cold symptoms that fall into the spectrum of possible covid symptoms, so I’ve wound up preemptively taking the daily allergy pill almost year round instead of selectively...

I dodged a bullet earlier this year where I was in close proximity to someone who started feeling sick/immediately tested positive about 12 hours after we spent time together. In a car with windows closed for about two hours. That individual then went to visit with one of their friends...

And we let 20 million doses of the newer monkeypox vaccine expire without even a thought towards replenishing them, which seems shortsighted, to say the least.

My best wishes to your wife for a speedy recovery, and my sincere hopes that somehow you manage to avoid it (and if not, the same wish to you towards a fast and full recovery).

We’re certainly at a point where individuals differ in their risk calculations and over what degree of precaution is necessary and under what circumstances. I don’t begrudge anyone for making different choices than I do and recognize that I might be making different ones if I was in a different...

So sorry Adam. I hope it’s a speedy and not too painful recovery.

FWIW, I’ve known more people who have gotten covid in the last two months than I have the last two years. It is what it is. I’m saddened that people I care about have gotten ill, heartened that most recovered on their own without additional medical intervention, and pretty much over offering...

From what I remember, what made it a superspreader wasn’t the outdoor event itself but the indoor components - people packing inside bars, congregating in the indoor portions of the host venues, etc. There is possibility of outdoor transmission when there’s little air movement and people...