Covid Comeback?

[TinkAgainU]

... Planes are a no-brainer. Last flight in May there were an insane amount of people deep-coughing. Could not wait to get off that plane.

Right?! My last flight from Orlando I thought I was sitting in the Emergency Room. I bring my "best" masks for the airplanes but wish the flight crews could ask people coughing to wear a (provided) mask without fear of getting beat up by someone with an attitude.

 

[Christine]

Right?! My last flight from Orlando I thought I was sitting in the Emergency Room. I bring my "best" masks for the airplanes but wish the flight crews could ask people coughing to wear a (provided) mask without fear of getting beat up by someone with an attitude.

Yep. Before I enter the airport doors and all the way out, I have on my 3M N95 Aura. I have to wear it for the full 8 hours. Ugh.

 

[White_Rabbit18]

I know. I've got a BIG trip coming up in about 4 weeks. I'm taking my parents and it's been their first big vacation in about 6 years. They've been hermits. The good thing is that they have COVID right now so the likelihood of them getting sick on this trip is small (not impossible). Now I'm just worried about me. OMG, if I get it on this trip so much will be ruined and it just irritates me.

Fingers crossed that you stay healthy on your trip. I think cases have been spiking the last few weeks so maybe a month from now you won’t have to deal with so many Covid cases swirling around.

I think people are just going on with their lives so you have to be very careful to mask everywhere if you really want to avoid it

 

[DVCjj]

Yep. Before I enter the airport doors and all the way out, I have on my 3M N95 Aura. I have to wear it for the full 8 hours. Ugh.

Have the same masks. Not comfortable for sure but I feel more secure.

 

[focusondisney]

And right on cue, my daughter just tested +. She had an exam for a professional certification Saturday morning. She said at some point Saturday, she started with a sore throat. She hadn’t been anywhere but work all last week & they had a group lunch in the building Thursday. Sunday she still had the sore throat, congestion & had a slight cough. She tested & was negative. She felt pretty much back to normal yesterday & had several meetings so went to work. Figured she tested - & felt ok. This morning the symptoms were back & much worse so she worked from home. She also got a back ache which she has had the other 2 times she had covid. She had used her last test the other day, so I brought her couple of kits. Before I even got back home she texted & said the test was immediately +. . She feels horrible that she might have exposed someone at work yesterday, but she must have been gotten it from someone at work herself. She’ll work at home the rest of the week & hopefully get better by the end of the week. The other times she’s had it, it lasted about a week.

She does live with her boyfriend, so far he’s fine.

 

[ClaraOswald]

I know. I've got a BIG trip coming up in about 4 weeks. I'm taking my parents and it's been their first big vacation in about 6 years. They've been hermits. The good thing is that they have COVID right now so the likelihood of them getting sick on this trip is small (not impossible). Now I'm just worried about me. OMG, if I get it on this trip so much will be ruined and it just irritates me.

Just be careful. They aren't likely to catch Covid again so quick. But their immune systems may be lowered and therefore would be more likely to catch other illnesses instead.

 

[flyingdumbo127]

Healthy prayers and a hug to all.

 

[leebee]

Count me in. DD tested + on Sunday, today it's my turn. I feel awful.

 

[luvthatduke]

If you are going back to that timeframe (2021 with data gathered from 2020), then grocery stores were probably it. Grocery stores were essentially the only "crowded" place that was still open during that time. Grocery store employees were some of the worst hit (after health care workers) because of having to show up to work on schedule and deal with the public. I think once everything opened back up, bars and restaurants, and things like weddings became the superspreader areas. I'm not sure today that grocery stores are worse than any other public gathering space.

I neglected to add that as of the end of 2023 I was still seeing
charts showing supermarkets were the number 1 place to catch Covid,
it never changed since 2021.
Of course any place with tight crowds (bars, etc.) churches,
and large parties would be what my DM calls "super spreaders."
If I find the info I'll post it.

My prayers are for everyone here who is sick or has family sick with Covid.
I still think it should be treated as more than just a cold.
It's wonderful that it's not the killer it once was but it should be treated like the flu, IMHO.
It's like the pendulum swung from 2020's worldwide panic to now being 2024 it's no big deal.
The arc of the pendulum has swung too far.

 

[monarchsfan16]

I still think it should be treated as more than just a cold.
It's wonderful that it's not the killer it once was but it should be treated like the flu, IMHO.
It's like the pendulum swung from 2020's worldwide panic to now being 2024 it's no big deal.
The arc of the pendulum has swung too far.

Having had a confirmed case of the flu in January, Covid IS now being treated like the flu. The guidelines are the same: symptoms improving and fever free for 24 hours without meds.

 

[sam_gordon]

Myself, DW, DD1, DSiL, DS, DS Fiancé, DD2, DD2 Friend got off a cruise Saturday. Because of the flight mess, we ended up driving home in two cars and arriving Sunday morning. DD1, DSiL, DS, and DS Fiancé were in one car.

Yesterday, DSiL tested positive. So far, others in his car have no symptoms.

 

[Pink Partridge]

Yep. Before I enter the airport doors and all the way out, I have on my 3M N95 Aura. I have to wear it for the full 8 hours. Ugh.

I would love if I could do that. LOVE! But, alas, 2 hours and I am in full panic mode. I couldn't even make it with my Aura on a 3 hour flight. Had to switch to a disposable mask. But, at least it was something.

I have always managed to catch illnesses on flights. Even pre-covid. Masks absolutely have diminished that for me. I never even thought to wear one until covid. I will always wear one on planes from now on.

 

[Pink Partridge]

Count me in. DD tested + on Sunday, today it's my turn. I feel awful.

This one is a doozy. Just when you think you feel better, it creeps back. Rest, leebee.

 

[Christine]

Count me in. DD tested + on Sunday, today it's my turn. I feel awful.

Oh no, sorry to hear this. What symptoms are you having?

My 86 y/o dad has barely anything, my mother (80) has gone into a fullblown headcold and fevers. I'm fortunate that both my parents are extremely healthy with no underlying medical conditions at all besides their age.

 

[aprilgail]

The rules changed, not because of how the virus works, but because they want to keep people in the workforce. Has little to do with science.

It is because the covid that is around now is no worse than your typical common cold.

 

[Christine]

It is because the covid that is around now is no worse than your typical common cold.

For some people, the outward symptoms do just resemble a common cold, but there are things going on internally that do not happen with the common cold. It's becoming more clear that COVID is an infection of the vascular system as well as neurological. Whether you experience those symptoms is another matter, but it is doing very different things within the body compared to the common cold.

Latest information here: https://www.heart.org/en/news/2024/01/16/how-covid-19-affects-your-heart-brain-and-other-organs

 

[robinb]

It is because the covid that is around now is no worse than your typical common cold.

Common colds are annoying but they do not cause deaths except in extremely rare circumstances. Covid is still regularly hospitalizing and killing people.

It is not the common cold and treating it like the common cold is why we have spikes like this one. People still just “push through” a common cold. When they “push through” Covid or don’t even bother to test, we get spikes. When I had it earlier this month I treated it like Covid (NOT a cold) and isolated myself until my symptoms were gone 24 hours and then wore a mask for 5 more days. No one that I know (except my DH, poor guy) got sick from me because I didn’t treat it like the common cold.

 

[sam_gordon]

No one that I know (except my DH, poor guy) got sick from me because I didn’t treat it like the common cold.

Except you don't know that's why they didn't get sick. As I mentioned above, my SiL tested positive yesterday morning. There were eight of us on a cruise last week. We spent an hour in a van from the cruise to the airport Saturday, and three hours spent 16 hours with him in a car when we drove back overnight Saturday into Sunday. Knock on wood, no one else has symptoms. No one was masked.

Covid doesn't follow logic.

 

[ClaraOswald]

It is because the covid that is around now is no worse than your typical common cold.

Except that isn't true for everyone. I'm immunosuppressed and Covid is far more dangerous for me than the common cold. (And the common cold is worse for me than the average person as well. Though not likely to give me any long term issues or kill me.)

 

[Smugpugmug]

I was just at the bank doing a currency exchange and there was a woman in line behind me that was standing pretty close to me. When she gets to the teller, she loudly proclaims that she has Covid. She wasn't wearing a mask either. So if I get Covid soon, I'll be sure to thank that lady breathing on my neck

Everyone in the bank called her out for being there when she knew she had Covid and the staff went into full disinfect mode but that was just so ridiculous.