I did, but I’m a university employee who occasionally hears requests to donate to the on-campus food pantry at the holidays, and donates a small amount monthly to pay towards a program that gives out dining hall meals for kids who need help.
Got my first jab (Moderna) just this afternoon. Just to make sure it got to all parts of my body, I went on a 2-hour bike ride immediately after. Didn’t want any of the vaccine lollygagging around in my arm muscle.
I’m totally cringing at the idea of the sunburn one could catch most of the year out here.
As a talking point, I got my second Moderna shot in early March. I did spend a few slothful days in bed, but the weather sucked and I’m retired.
Hubs started showing symptoms of COVID on 5/16 and is still sick. This means he has been shedding virus since the beginning of May. We share a smallish 1500sq home and a queen sized bed.
I don’t have so much as a sniffle, which pretty much says the Moderna vaccine is very effective. He’s been coughing, sneezing, sweating and suffering from gastro distress and extreme fatigue. It seems that not getting vaccinated as soon as possible is not as effective as far too many people think.
Maybe you’ve answered this before, but how did it happen that you were vaccinated in March and your husband was still not vaccinated in May? Does he not believe in vaccines?
Wow! Hope he gets better soon. Have you gotten him tested? Also, you may want to buy an O2 monitor just to be on the safe side.
Because he’s a brain-washed trumper.
Masks are not very helpful for that. You need Happy Heinie™ Gass Mints.
Hi @JaneDoe42 - I brought this back over from the breaking news thread because @Tfletch1 had asked the question here. So you did get him tested - was he positive? If so, what was his reaction (if you don’t mind me asking)?
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Sorry for not answering @Tfletch1. Yes I was able to get him tested 10 days after he started showing symptoms and the results were positive. Its definitely COVID.
Hubs didn’t have a visible reaction to the news, he slouched back into the car, told me he was positive, gave me his paperwork and went to sleep.
This morning, day 15 btw, he walked out onto the porch. That wore him out so much he had to sit down and rest for 20 minutes before being able to go back inside for a nap.
One of my kids has in-person occupational therapy (OT) once a week, masked and as distanced as is possible. We were just notified that her OT this week is cancelled because her therapist tested positive.
Someone in her therapist’s household, who’d had the Johnson and Johnson vaccine, but was 10 days away from being “fully vaccinated” was showing symptoms and tested positive. The therapist is fully vaccinated. She and one other fully vaccinated person in the household tested positive, but are, so far, asymptomatic.
I’m only a little worried about my kid – I think the precautions keep the risks pretty low. I thought it was nice how much information they gave us. We were concerned for them, and also it was nice to know everyone was vaccinated. (We knew the OT therapist was.)
A few days ago, Mr. brown and I went for an early morning hike on a local semi-wilderness trail. This trail is actually a dirt road going into the hills for a few miles, winding among oaks and fronting a stream. We didn’t bring our masks because it’s outdoors, we seldom encounter people at 6:30 a.m., and the CDC says we can go maskless in such situations.
We were scarcely one minute on the trail when we encountered a woman coming back from an early morning walk. She was masked and she shrank to the further side of the road and called out to us to stay six feet away from her. This road is about ten feet wide and we were already on the opposite side of the road. I blandly said “OK”, but I’m afraid Mr. brown said something sarcastic to her. Later I pointed out to him that she might have had health issues, either physical or mental.
No real point to this story, other than we were on the receiving end of some sharp disapproval, despite our being vaxxed early and adhering to all safety guidelines.
My husband gives platelets every other week, and they test his blood for antibodies, both to the spike protein and to the body of the virus. A vaccinated person should react to the first test, but not the second. Someone who’s had covid should react to both.
On May 2 he tested negative to both
On May 3 he got his first dose of Moderna
On May 16 he tested positive to both
He had no symptoms. Other than giving blood, his only exposure is to me and our daughter, both fully vaccinated. Plus a mother’s day party at which everyone else was fully vaccinated, we stayed outdoors, and he was mostly masked and always will away from the rest of us.
My best guess is that it’s a false positive. He gave blood again yesterday, and I’m curious to see the results. But i thought it was weird.
Sounds like she’s the one who was at the sharp end, not you. She just asked you to stay well away from her. It’s your husband who was snippy, per your story.
Yeah, he didn’t need to over-react like that. I said as much to him.
So sorry to hear this, especially toward the end of this pandemic. Take coare of yourself too.
My bold.
Ri-i-i-ight…
A buddy and his wife have spent the pandemic in Costa Rica, successfully avoiding Covid until now. They flew back to the States last week and were seated next to a visibly ill woman who claimed to have tested negative and been vaccinated. They got their vaccines (J&J) the day after they landed. They are both now quite sick with Covid. I would’ve freaked out in their situation. He said they were very nervous but did not say anything…
How old are they? I hope they are alright. One thing they might want to do is get a pulse oximiter. They’re about $30 from most drugstores and will allow them to easily test their oxygen levels at home. People aren’t noticing when their oxygen levels dip critically low and don’t realize they need to go to the hospital. Hopefully it doesn’t come to that with them, but $30 is cheap insurance against more serious problems.
They’re my age–early fifties. They are monitoring their oxygen levels–probably doesn’t help that they went from CR to 10,000’ in Telluride, either!
My wife’s aunt who has been fully vaccinated for a while has worse-than-mild COVID-like symptoms. She doesn’t want to get tested because she doesn’t want to have to disclose all the people she’s seen recently if it comes up positive.
I know.
Is a person who came down with a breakthrough infection more of a risk to others than other vaccinated people after recovering?