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bill_g wrote: ↑Wed Jul 28, 2021 8:58 am The face mask asshole detector worked for me last Saturday at Safeway. It got the attention of a lady who took it upon herself to remind me the mask mandate had been recinded. I know. Thank you very much. Turn and try to keep going down the aisle, but she made a side step to tell me the harm masks caused. I put up my hand in a Stop gesture, slid my glasses down my nose, gave her The Eye, and moved on.

I can hardly wait for the next encounter. I think I'll get a pocket airhorn.

sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Wed Jul 28, 2021 1:58 pm

Masks don't cause nearly as much harm as strangers telling me about the harm masks cause.

Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Thu Jul 29, 2021 2:07 pm

sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Wed Jul 28, 2021 1:58 pm

Masks don't cause nearly as much harm as strangers telling me about the harm masks cause.

You need to mark that up and sell it on Cafe Press.

I ventured out today, still coughing up crap, but no fever (never had one). I wore a mask into Dollar Tree and I'm pretty sure I was the only one in the store. Had lunch outside in the blazing heat, but better than sitting inside a small cafe. Then off to Aldis where, I'd guess, about 60% of the people were masked, including the workers.

When Hubs and I both came down sick, I figured the chances of us both breaking through were pretty slim, but now maybe not so much.

He's almost over it, I probably sti
ll have another week of draining and coughing to go. I was trying to think what the false negative rates were on the quick test, as I recall they were pretty high. That said, I'm not suggesting I have covid, but what I do have is pretty bad as summer colds go.

Yes, the summer cold and cough season really is worse than usual.

“I’ve had bad colds, but I’ve never experienced a virus like this,” said Holly Riddel, 55, an entrepreneur in Redondo Beach, Calif., who has been suffering from congestion, clogged ears and a raspy throat for about two weeks. “I want this gone. I haven’t been able to work out. I’m just not feeling like myself.”

Months of pandemic restrictions aimed at Covid-19 had the unintended but welcome effect of stopping flu, cold and other viruses from spreading. But now that masks are off and social gatherings, hugs and handshakes are back, the run-of-the-mill viruses that cause drippy noses, stuffy heads, coughs and sneezes have also returned with a vengeance.

“It was a bad chest cold — chest congestion, a rattling cough,” said Laura Wehrman, 52, a wardrobe supervisor for film and television, who caught a weeklong bug after flying to New York from Austin in late June to visit friends. Although she’s fully vaccinated against Covid-19, she took multiple tests to be sure she wasn’t infected. Eventually a doctor confirmed it was a rhinovirus, a common cold virus. She said several of her other friends also have been sick with colds and coughs as well.

“I was staying with one of my best friends, and it got tense for a minute because she had started a new job, and she didn’t want to be sick,” said Ms. Wehrman. “I actually went and checked into a hotel for the last two days so I could just cough away by myself.”

Infectious disease experts say there are a number of factors fueling this hot, sneezy summer. While pandemic lockdowns protected many people from Covid-19, our immune systems missed the daily workout of being exposed to a multitude of microbes back when we commuted on subways, spent time at the office, gathered with friends and sent children to day care and school.

Although your immune system is likely as strong as it always was, if it hasn’t been alerted to a microbial intruder in a while, it may take a bit longer to get revved up when challenged by a pathogen again, experts say. And while some viral exposures in our past have conferred lasting immunity, other illnesses may have given us only transient immunity that waned as we were isolating at home.

“Frequent exposure to various pathogens primes or jazzes up the immune system to be ready to respond to that pathogen,” said Dr. Paul Skolnik, an immunovirologist and chair of internal medicine at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine. “If you’ve not had those exposures, your immune system may be a little slower to respond or doesn’t respond as fully, leading to greater susceptibility to some respiratory infections and sometimes longer or more protracted symptoms.”

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that cases of common respiratory viruses, including respiratory syncytial virus (R.S.V.) and human parainfluenza viruses, which cause typical cold and flu symptoms, are on the rise this summer. The spike in R.S.V., which can be especially risky to the very young and very old, is particularly unusual for this time of year, said a spokeswoman at the C.D.C., which plans to release a report this week about the pandemic’s effect on a variety of respiratory viruses. The surge in R.S.V. was most notable in several southern states, but the virus has begun to crop up all over the country. Its spread has been tracked primarily in young children, some of whom have been hospitalized with severe symptoms.

W. Kevin Vicklund wrote: ↑Wed Jul 28, 2021 10:46 pm Started feeling ill at work today. Got home, temp spiked to 100.8^oF. Getting my brain scraped tomorrow morning, working from home the rest of the week. The good news is the fever is backing off. Still 2^oF above normal for this time of day, but I'm feeling better as well.

I've been awaiting the inevitable result of my lapse: a case of breakthrough Delta Covid and my tragic, prolonged, and lingering death.

fierceredpanda wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 2:36 pm Mrs. FRP and I are heading west for our scheduled vacation in Breckenridge this afternoon. I probably won't be around the Fogbow until we get back next weekend. Y'all behave while I'm gone.

Mrs. FRP and I are heading west for our scheduled vacation in Breckenridge this afternoon.

ZinWhit wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 2:49 pm Douglas Cty, OR has its highest covid numbers of the pandemic, actual, positivity rate and hospitalizations. It's one of the lowest vaccinated in Oregon and the delta is dominant.

Many Evergreen Family Medicine doctors (the county's largest) aren't vaccinated, Mercy hospital board member Powell (owns EFM with his brother) is anti-mask and for "natural" herd immunity since the beginning of the pandemic, all doing harm to the community.

I left my former Dr. yesterday during an appointment, disgusted.

This was the first in-person visit in 20 months and I asked for telemedicine (declined). I'm immuno-compromised, he's not vaccinated, and never was I told such, putting me at risk. Furthermore, at no point was I asked about my vaccination status. At least he was masked - a state mandate for health care providers.

This major community health network is helping to drive the spread of covid, violating their hippocratic oath. People go away saying their doctor is cool with natural herd immunity, screw vaccination.

As I left, I told my doctor he's going to be damn busy over the next month, what I thought about their moral and ethical accountability.

Now I must find a new doctor in Eugene.

Phoenix520 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 5:02 pm

Mrs. FRP and I are heading west for our scheduled vacation in Breckenridge this afternoon.

Y’all come back now, ya hear?

Andy: That’s wonderful!! What changed his mind?

ZinWhit wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 2:49 pm
Many Evergreen Family Medicine doctors (the county's largest) aren't vaccinated, Mercy hospital board member Powell (owns EFM with his brother) is anti-mask and for "natural" herd immunity since the beginning of the pandemic, all doing harm to the community.


This major community health network is helping to drive the spread of covid, violating their hippocratic oath. People go away saying their doctor is cool with natural herd immunity, screw vaccination.