re: Hey Baws, Covid check in

If it is important, do your own research and do not assume what some other person tells you is fact. Every one of us has a "personal agenda" that in some way molds our choices, actions, and how we broadcast our opinion.

My family (wife, 3 daughters, me) have each had covid but none of us got it from another family core member that had it. All of us had it before the vaccine was an option except for one. Since having covid last August, I know of 11 times I have had significant exposure and my natural immunity from having had it has protected me from getting it again.

My eldest daughter got it from my son-in-law (a doctor) that got covid after having been vaccinated. They have have both also gotten covid a second time (Delta this time). My vaccinated son-in-law, both times had a worse case than my daughter who had no vaccine. Both times her symptoms were minor and she was over it in 3 days or less.

My wife, My other two daughters, and I all had minor symptoms and were over it in 36 hours or less.

Extended family, Mother (late 80's) - we protected her and she never got it. She has been vaccinated earlier this year. My younger brother, no vaccine but he did get covid before the vaccine was an option. My older brother (also a doctor) was vaccinated early on and still got covid. His was not a bad case but lasted just over a week. His entire core family has been vaccinated and all but two still got covid (some before vaccine and some after) all mild cases that lasted 5 to 10 days.

All of my core family members get to make the choice of to vaccinate or not to vaccinate for themselves. My wife, youngest daughter and I will not get the mRNA vaccine. However, once the Novavax version (traditional style non-mRNA) is available, we will likely get that one.

As for masks, only when REQUIRED. All of my extended family members (not including my wife and me) are consistent with mask and best we can tell got covid while wearing a mask (oldest daughter exception, she got it at home from her husband).

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But the vaccines do reduce this risk, because they greatly shorten the time you have the disease.

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Yes, for sure. It appears to help most people to have not as severe of a case.

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And even more critical day by day is what is happening in the hospitals. It isnt just grand ma and grand pa. And a lot of kids and pregnant women are getting it too. That doesnt have anything to do with Grand Ma.

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Vaccine doesn't seem to be changing any of this in Israel. I doubt it will be different here.

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The problem with this argument is that our government is so fiscally irresponsible and our politicians so greedy that $25 of that $30 would go to lining politicians' pockets while the majority of the hungry children remained that way thanks to that greed.

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Childhood hunger isn't an issue in this country anyway. We feed every child at school and even give them free food in the summer.

ETA: That's before even taking into account individual and charity actions.

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We feed every child at school and even give them free food in the summer.

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Hell, my kids' ISD here in Texas is giving free breakfast and lunch to every single kid in the district for the 2nd year in a row.

I’m fully vaccinated, as is my wife and our 13 year old son. My extended family has had multiple people test positive without any serious problems; at the same time, I work at the hospital and see people dying of it almost every day.

The problem, as I see it, is extremists on one side pretending that the disease is nothing and extremists on the other side who want to mask and distance forever and never resume life. I wish we could all just be sensible.

Sorry for the rant. RMFT

In before

I will add this here because I have seen many doctors suggest part of the problem with the rise among children is due to sheltering them. This is from Dr. Sarah Combs, a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Children's National Hospital in Washington, DC

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There's another factor. Kids have not been exposed to seasonal viruses for more than a year. "I think one thing is that we essentially sheltered a lot of these children during Covid," Combs said.

"So there's a theory that their immune systems didn't have the normal low-lying, routine level of exposure to the normal routine viruses like rhinovirus, so they weren't able to mount those kind of micro-responses to viruses and keep themselves ticking over," she added.

"Essentially it was like a bubble child, right? You've had them contained. You've had them quarantined ... and then all of a sudden we released these children. They're often in summer camps and we're even looking at going back to school. So all of a sudden these relatively naive immune systems that have kind of been resting on their laurels for the past 18 months are forced to confront the normal load of viruses and it's just that much harder to fight them."

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I agree as our bodies develop a natural immune to many things. I am not advocating not to be cautious or throw our kids into a mosh pit but the concerns for hospitalizations rising among children from Covid has more to do with unseasonable epidemic of RSV which is being thought that lack of exposure by children to bolster their immune system has allowed Covid to weaken it more and be exposed to other respiratory viruses that their body normally can fend off for children that are otherwise healthy. increasae

Back in January. Started showing symptoms night of the Natty. Was really bad when the basketball team whipped UK in Rupp.

Honestly I was still having shortness of breath problems until about a month ago.


And after all that I still think people overreact about Covid. Take it seriously but dont live in fear over it. I advocate for the vaccine but if you don’t want to get it that’s your right and nobody should be criticized for their personal choice

I'm here. My 5G is working really well.