How is the corona virus affecting you?

FowlersFreeTime said:
As I mentioned in the general chat, I tested positive today. The weird thing is my wife tested negative. I assume she will probably test positive in a day or two, but for now we're sleeping in separate rooms and I'm wearing a mask around the house. Will see how this goes over the next few days...
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Funny, we're in that same boat!
DH tested positive today (wasn't feeling well from Sunday), I have no symptoms so I don't meet the protocol to be tested, yet.
Our variant if you will is my elder Mother who came to live with us back in August.
I fear for her, DH and I have been discussing through the afternoon if we should send her to a hotel for a few days to help (maybe) keep her safe.
 
FowlersFreeTime said:
As I mentioned in the general chat, I tested positive today. The weird thing is my wife tested negative. I assume she will probably test positive in a day or two, but for now we're sleeping in separate rooms and I'm wearing a mask around the house. Will see how this goes over the next few days...
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Strangely I was just reading something on this earlier....apparently a surprisingly high proportion of people don't catch Covid when another member of their household has it. I didn't read the articles in full so I'm not sure if they know why, but it certainly seems that its not inevitable that everyone will get it. I also know at least 3 households where one or two tested positive but the rest of the households didn't.

kaneohegirlinaz said:
Our variant if you will is my elder Mother who came to live with us back in August.
I fear for her, DH and I have been discussing through the afternoon if we should send her to a hotel for a few days to help (maybe) keep her safe.
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Would a hotel even accept her? Whenever I've stayed in a hotel recently you have to declare if you have any symptoms or have been in recent contact with anyone with Covid and if either answers are positive then they won't allow you to stay. Personally, I think its the correct policy as otherwise you risk someone infected spreading to a lot of other unconnected people in the hotel.
 
MrsDangermouse said:
Strangely I was just reading something on this earlier....apparently a surprisingly high proportion of people don't catch Covid when another member of their household has it. I didn't read the articles in full so I'm not sure if they know why, but it certainly seems that its not inevitable that everyone will get it. I also know at least 3 households where one or two tested positive but the rest of the households didn't.


Would a hotel even accept her? Whenever I've stayed in a hotel recently you have to declare if you have any symptoms or have been in recent contact with anyone with Covid and if either answers are positive then they won't allow you to stay. Personally, I think its the correct policy as otherwise you risk someone infected spreading to a lot of other unconnected people in the hotel.
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Yup. Right before Christmas my youngest daughter's fiance tested positive and they live together. She never caught it. I remember reading an article some time ago there was speculation that blood type might be a factor. She's O+, which the article stated was a blood type of people who appeared to be less likely to contract it. And what about genetics? In 50 years they might know more about this damn virus.

Edited to add they were both double vaxxed but not boosted. It hadn't been 6 months yet and he was eligible the week after he got sick.
 
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Some people aren't going to be infected because they're fully vaccinated and when we combined that with our own immune system which has two important functions. One is our innate immune system which provides a general defense against invaders and then we have the adaptive which makes antibodies and uses them to specifically fight certain germs that the body has previously come into contact with. Others and this is a bigger percentage than is currently believed and that is people that are vaccinated and were infected before and also have natural immunity, that combination is pretty much the best there is. Some people rarely get the flu while others get it almost every year also right now the amount of asymptomatic people is huge plus the amount of natural immunity around is also big, so to me it doesn't come as a surprise that some people don't contract the virus. A PCR test or any quick test is never going to show if a person has ever been infected previously it just lets us know if a person is positive or negative.
 
I suspect soon that gov'ts will be forced to allow essential and front line workers to continue to work even if they're infected, otherwise it all falls apart. Their reasoning will unfortunately align with what some Dr's have said should have been done right from the very beginning and it's just inflicting more pandemic pain with little gain. The pandemic endgame is upon us and it will be curious to see how different Countries tackle this, but this is just a guess.
 
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For the record, wife and I are vaxxed and boosted, she with Pfizer and I with Moderna. This new variant seems to laugh in the face of vaccination status, but thankfully it is mild (at least in my case).
I just spent over an hour cleaning house air conditioner & vents and will be sanitizing a good portion of the house today. This is how I'm spending my sick day, but I think its worth the effort.
 
FowlersFreeTime said:
For the record, wife and I are vaxxed and boosted, she with Pfizer and I with Moderna. This new variant seems to laugh in the face of vaccination status, but thankfully it is mild (at least in my case).
I just spent over an hour cleaning house air conditioner & vents and will be sanitizing a good portion of the house today. This is how I'm spending my sick day, but I think its worth the effort.
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Yeah we both got vaxxed and boosted, me Moderna and him Pfizer as well.

Delta is still going around too, but as everyone know the vaccines were for a different strain, still effective enough to keep you out of the hospital.

You are a loving, kind husband. Hope your wife stays well and you have a speedy recovery.
 
I have had time to think on my probable exposure date being Dec 27th (where I was mask-less at a wedding) or Dec 28th (walking around Disney Springs in just a cloth mask). So that puts me at Exposure + 9 days. The sore throat is subsiding a bit and very rarely do I feel like coughing. Still wearing mask in the house and watching my wife's low grade fever and fatigue... but we can't tell whether the fatigue is due to the virus or the pregnancy lol. She gets re-tested tomorrow.
 
FowlersFreeTime said:
I have had time to think on my probable exposure date being Dec 27th (where I was mask-less at a wedding) or Dec 28th (walking around Disney Springs in just a cloth mask). So that puts me at Exposure + 9 days. The sore throat is subsiding a bit and very rarely do I feel like coughing. Still wearing mask in the house and watching my wife's low grade fever and fatigue... but we can't tell whether the fatigue is due to the virus or the pregnancy lol. She gets re-tested tomorrow.
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So you tested positive Tuesday and were possibly exposed the 27th or 28th, did you start experiencing symptoms Monday? I'm always curious about incubation periods. Yours was likely 5-7 days?

Glad you're feeling better. Fingers crossed your wife is just tired.

Congratulations on the new addition to your family!
 
JAS_OH1 said:
So you tested positive Tuesday and were possibly exposed the 27th or 28th, did you start experiencing symptoms Monday? I'm always curious about incubation periods. Yours was likely 5-7 days?

Glad you're feeling better. Fingers crossed your wife is just tired.

Congratulations on the new addition to your family!
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I started experiencing symptoms on Saturday, so that's a 3-4 day incubation period. The only reason I waited so long for a test was because the drive through tests were booked out!
I have read that Omicron has faster incubation and resolution of symptoms, but who knows since home test kits don't tell you anything more than +/- and most drive through tests do not specify. So many questions, so few concrete answers...
 
FowlersFreeTime said:
I started experiencing symptoms on Saturday, so that's a 3-4 day incubation period. The only reason I waited so long for a test was because the drive through tests were booked out!
I have read that Omicron has faster incubation and resolution of symptoms, but who knows since home test kits don't tell you anything more than +/- and most drive through tests do not specify. So many questions, so few concrete answers...
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I had heard of the nightmare long waits at testing sites, ugh. I think it's more likely you got it at the indoor unmasked wedding than while masked outdoors, don't you?

These days the slightest sneeze or twinge of a cough/sore throat is enough to scare anyone. I haven't gone anywhere since Monday 12/27 and I double masked to go inside of a store for less than 10 minutes. But yet I woke up with a swollen gland in my throat and stuffy head yesterday and it scared the crap out of me. Hubby hasn't been anywhere and has 0 symptoms. I have such horrible allergies that in the past the weather change or something else easily triggered a flareup, so that's all it must have been since I feel fine today. Still it was worriesome. But a 9-10 day incubation period is stretching it from what I have read. Not impossible, but a reach, especially since I was wearing a N95 mask and a loose fitting cloth mask over it (so the fit of the N95 was not compromised) and was inside the store for such a short period of time. And today I am well.
 
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Today we have a total of 319 up 31 people in IUC with a total of 27 on ventilators. A fraction from previous highs.

200 more people in hospital today with a total of 2279. In January 2021 we had 4900 in hospital. Most
in Hospital are incidental and flu like symptoms.

Deaths so far are about 20% as many as during the Alpha and Delta surges. Many of these are still Delta and people unvaccinated and with comorbidities.

Still can't seem to convince a friend to get vaccinated. The reason is ridiculous. A woman he's seeing isn't vaccinated so he's just towing the status quo, frustrating.
 
garlichead said:
Today we have a total of 319 up 31 people in IUC with a total of 27 on ventilators. A fraction from previous highs.

200 more people in hospital today with a total of 2279. In January 2021 we had 4900 in hospital. Most
in Hospital are incidental and flu like symptoms.

Deaths so far are about 20% as many as during the Alpha and Delta surges. Many of these are still Delta and people unvaccinated and with comorbidities.

Still can't seem to convince a friend to get vaccinated. The reason is ridiculous. A woman he's seeing isn't vaccinated so he's just towing the status quo, frustrating.
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Yes, your friend is being ridiculous and the woman he is seeing is an idiot. Hopefully they don't get sick.

My oldest stepdaughter has her vaccine appointment for next Wednesday. Her husband is not on board, but she told him she is doing it anyway and if he doesn't want to do it, whatever, he can't make her health decisions for her. For the longest time she bought into his mother's and her mother's antivaxxer rhetoric, but she sees that her dad and I, grandma and grandpa, and two of her siblings are safely vaxxed and not ill (plus countless cousins and friends), and she has finally realized that the vaccine is safe and the best option. Such a relief.
 
JAS_OH1 said:
I had heard of the nightmare long waits at testing sites, ugh. I think it's more likely you got it at the indoor unmasked wedding than while masked outdoors, don't you?

These days the slightest sneeze or twinge of a cough/sore throat is enough to scare anyone. I haven't gone anywhere since Monday 12/27 and I double masked to go inside of a store for less than 10 minutes. But yet I woke up with a swollen gland in my throat and stuffy head yesterday and it scared the crap out of me. Hubby hasn't been anywhere and has 0 symptoms. I have such horrible allergies that in the past the weather change or something else easily triggered a flareup, so that's all it must have been since I feel fine today. Still it was worriesome. But a 9-10 day incubation period is stretching it from what I have read. Not impossible, but a reach, especially since I was wearing a N95 mask and a loose fitting cloth mask over it (so the fit of the N95 was not compromised) and was inside the store for such a short period of time. And today I am well.
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The wedding was open-air, but yes, it is more likely that the wedding on the 27th was my point of contact.
 
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