Swabbing my tonsils would be a major process probably requiring sedation for either me or the swabber. Or both.
I have gag reflexes you would not believe. They’re not under voluntary control.
I’m pretty good at staying home, though. I need a few exceptions, but not many, and those usually only every two or three weeks.
– half my neighbor’s family came down with it recently; they’re recovering. Some of them were vaccinated (including the very pregnant one, thank goodness), some weren’t. Another neighbor came by (across the fields, not by road or sidewalk) and stayed outside and well back because he was coughing and sniffling. The second neighbor probably won’t get tested unless he winds up in the hospital (which I hope he doesn’t), he’s Old Order Mennonite; but I suspect omicron’s running wild in that community by now.
A couple of students in every class I teach. Luckily, they all caught it over Christmas vacation, so they are at home and haven’t contaminated my classroom. Yet.
Since Christmas four people I know have come down with it. All of them were vaxxed and boosted, one is a physician, one a pharmacist. The pharmacist got the worst case, with her temperature spiking up to 104.
I started to feel sick on Tuesday. Got tested on Wednesday. Got the official result a couple hours ago. I feel no worse than if I had a regular head cold.
I know way more people who have gotten it in the last two weeks than the last year and a half combined.
Just anecdotally the regular work e-mails about infected people at my job have suddenly shifted from 1-2/notice and concentrated in specific sections that were notoriously anti-vax. Now it is 3-6 and hitting well-vaccinated sections as well . We’re up to a little south of 10% of the work forced infected to date.
A coworker has just tested positive. Another tested negative a few days ago, but feels like crap. One coworker had COVID a few months ago, as did a former coworker.
QFT. The daily message from District telling us how many cases have been confirmed on campus is usually 1 or 2. All this week the numbers have been higher. Today’s was 19. I am afraid this might make us switch back to virtual classrooms for a while. Hope not.
At work, where we employ a couple hundred people total, we’ve gone from one email every few weeks about one employee reporting they were exposed to someone who later tested positive (and less than one employee per month testing positive themselves), to multiple emails per day, each one about multiple employees testing positive. I’m starting to think they should rethink this system; it’s not really helpful at this point.
A friend announced she has COVID and is feeling pretty wretched.
No, she has not been vaccinated. AND she works as a home health aid for the elderly.
She has been drifting toward the radical right for some years now.
I’m debating to post this on her FB posting: “Ugh!! Sorry you’re feeling so wretched!!! Since people can get COVID more than once, you should check into the vaccine once you recover - that will make the next bout (if there is one) less likely to make you feel that rotten”.
She may well have murdered someone as a result of this - and yeah, I consider someone wilfully refusing to be vaccinated a potential murderer.
Just got word that a niece and nephew and their two kids age 10 and 12 are all down and out sick with Covid. All of them have already had it and all have had all their available shots.
She’s a school music teacher so local schools are, umm, going viral with the news.
I know of 4 people who haven’t vaccinated. Two are friends, one of whom had to call an ambulance today because their previous COVID infection has reared up again and they’re having great trouble breathing.
. We’re up to a little south of 10% of the work forced infected to date.
. I’ve had three Pfizers as well. Ah, well - at least they seem to be keeping people out of the ER.
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. They’re now coming 5-14/notice.