# \#covid-quarantine **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/tag/covid-quarantine/99.md [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) --- ## [When should I get my next Covid Vaccination?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-should-i-get-my-next-covid-vaccination/990285)
**Author:** [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Replies:** 239\ **Last updated:** [September 30, 2026, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-should-i-get-my-next-covid-vaccination/990285 "2026-09-30T02:54:30Z")
So I started off with J&J, then Moderna, then Pfizer. I hear of a new vaccine that’s either coming out, or already out. My last shot was 9/19/22. I already got my flue shot for the year. I’m 43 years old this November. I… --- ## [Why is there no quality control in consumer products ever since the coronavirus started?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-no-quality-control-in-consumer-products-ever-since-the-coronavirus-started/926315)
**Author:** [@craft458](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/craft458)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [April 28, 2026, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-no-quality-control-in-consumer-products-ever-since-the-coronavirus-started/926315 "2026-04-28T00:17:21Z")
I have noticed ever since the coronavirus started that there is a very concerning lack of quality control in products that you buy and products that I have bought all my life without any issues suddenly constantly have i… --- ## [Nipah virus -- Time to sound the panic klaxons soon?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nipah-virus-time-to-sound-the-panic-klaxons-soon/950785)
**Author:** [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2026, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nipah-virus-time-to-sound-the-panic-klaxons-soon/950785 "2026-01-31T00:15:05Z")
The forum title, “Quarantine Zone”, seems to be non-Covid-specific. So how about a little panic for the Nipah virus? https://news.yahoo.com/experts-nipah-virus-potential-another-010041031.html OT1H, less transmissible… --- ## [Should we start talking about Mpox (formerly called Monkeypox)?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-start-talking-about-mpox-formerly-called-monkeypox/967120)
**Author:** [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [October 1, 2025, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-start-talking-about-mpox-formerly-called-monkeypox/967120 "2025-10-01T01:45:22Z")
…or maybe not yet? https://www.health.state.mn.us/news/pressrel/2022/monkpox062722.html … The need for vaccine or antivirals is being evaluated on a case-by-case basis, in consultation with CDC officials. The CDC doe… --- ## [Is it desirable to have a schoolboard that's good for teachers?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-desirable-to-have-a-schoolboard-thats-good-for-teachers/1022506)
**Author:** [@DemonTree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonTree)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [August 27, 2025, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-desirable-to-have-a-schoolboard-thats-good-for-teachers/1022506 "2025-08-27T23:45:16Z")
Continuing the discussion from NYC Mayor election thread: This comment in another thread surprised me, because I would have thought the most important thing is to have a school board that’s good for the kids’ learning,… --- ## [Were you an "essential worker" in 2020?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-an-essential-worker-in-2020/996257)
**Author:** [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [August 21, 2025, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-an-essential-worker-in-2020/996257 "2025-08-21T03:04:06Z")
Since there’s talk of winding this forum down, I thought this would be a good time to reflect on what’s certainly been the biggest historical event to happen in my lifetime (which includes 9/11 and the fall of the Soviet… --- ## [New information suggests a laboratory accident that might have been the spark that started the Covid-19 pandemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-information-suggests-a-laboratory-accident-that-might-have-been-the-spark-that-started-the-covid-19-pandemic/1015672)
**Author:** [@LouMa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouMa)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2025, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-information-suggests-a-laboratory-accident-that-might-have-been-the-spark-that-started-the-covid-19-pandemic/1015672 "2025-04-24T01:33:32Z")
NYT writes that scientists have withheld information about the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic. This undermines trust in government structures and science. How can we trust the information we get from them? How dangero… --- ## [Is it true that the latest version of Covid will show up negative on a test strip?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-true-that-the-latest-version-of-covid-will-show-up-negative-on-a-test-strip/1003002)
**Author:** [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [April 7, 2025, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-true-that-the-latest-version-of-covid-will-show-up-negative-on-a-test-strip/1003002 "2025-04-07T19:13:39Z")
Family member has Covid-type symptoms but has shown up negative on a test strip. Flu like symptoms but with sore throat and cold type feeling mixed in. Is this what the latest variant is like? --- ## [Flu, how to do it](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flu-how-to-do-it/1015419)
**Author:** [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [March 17, 2025, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flu-how-to-do-it/1015419 "2025-03-17T16:14:30Z")
Need help two major things: how do I clear my nose out so I can breath, & how do I sit up in terms of posture, not greatness. I am 58, and to my knowledge, have never had flu before. So I need shortcuts om all the comfor… --- ## [Covid, Amtrak: thoughts?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-amtrak-thoughts/1013167)
**Author:** [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Replies:** 77\ **Last updated:** [March 17, 2025, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-amtrak-thoughts/1013167 "2025-03-17T15:04:27Z")
We’ve long wanted to take Amtrak from Seattle to Chicago/Milwaukee and back. Friends in Milwaukee have invited us out for a couple of weeks in April. It’s hard for us to evaluate the Covid risk and so, we turn to the Dop… --- ## [A theory I saw about how COVID may have escaped from the Wuhan lab](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-theory-i-saw-about-how-covid-may-have-escaped-from-the-wuhan-lab/933082)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 614\ **Last updated:** [March 10, 2025, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-theory-i-saw-about-how-covid-may-have-escaped-from-the-wuhan-lab/933082 "2025-03-10T15:20:52Z")
I’m not saying I believe COVID was made in a lab, although we do all know that it was being researched in and around Wuhan and this is a not-unlikely IMNSHO theory as to how the virus may have escaped. Here goes. This … --- ## [CDC recommends spring COVID booster for people 65 and up](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cdc-recommends-spring-covid-booster-for-people-65-and-up/998260)
**Author:** [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [November 22, 2024, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cdc-recommends-spring-covid-booster-for-people-65-and-up/998260 "2024-11-22T15:21:29Z")
The spring booster will be an additional shot of the 2023–2024 COVID-19 vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, and Novavax. The booster dose should be taken after at least four months have passed since a previous … --- ## [Free at home Covid tests are available again](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-at-home-covid-tests-are-available-again/993434)
**Author:** [@Tarataratara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarataratara)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [October 3, 2024, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-at-home-covid-tests-are-available-again/993434 "2024-10-03T11:45:28Z")
--- ## [Revisiting covid denial and covid restrictions](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revisiting-covid-denial-and-covid-restrictions/998932)
**Author:** [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Replies:** 249\ **Last updated:** [September 13, 2024, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revisiting-covid-denial-and-covid-restrictions/998932 "2024-09-13T11:48:15Z")
I am wondering why all the people I know who’ve never been vaxxed for covid have never gotten sick. --- ## [I'm sick. Everybody move back six feet. If you have a mask, put it on](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-everybody-move-back-six-feet-if-you-have-a-mask-put-it-on/1005958)
**Author:** [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2024, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-everybody-move-back-six-feet-if-you-have-a-mask-put-it-on/1005958 "2024-09-09T15:12:03Z")
This is about as miscellaneous and personal as it gets. Pretty damned pointless too! We live with The Daughter and her family in SCal. Who knows when we’ll get back to AZ? Anyway, six people and a whole bunch of cats un… --- ## [Welcome, JN.1 - we're so proud!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-jn-1-were-so-proud/1006060)
**Author:** [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 23, 2024, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-jn-1-were-so-proud/1006060 "2024-08-23T13:20:19Z")
A January JAMA article starts off with: Parents often bask in the glow of their children’s accomplishments, so if SARS-CoV-2 variants were like people, BA.2.86 would be busting its buttons right about now. A little w… --- ## [So what shortages are you personally seeing?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-shortages-are-you-personally-seeing/916268)
**Author:** [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Replies:** 1612\ **Last updated:** [August 4, 2024, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-shortages-are-you-personally-seeing/916268 "2024-08-04T18:07:46Z")
Of course, toilet paper was a big one in the beginning (though I’m seeing it back on the shelves lately. But what also seems to be short. I’m seeing the canned soup aisle usually has big holes in it. It’s even harder … --- ## [RSV vaccine approved by the FDA for those over 60](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rsv-vaccine-approved-by-the-fda-for-those-over-60/983517)
**Author:** [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [July 14, 2024, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rsv-vaccine-approved-by-the-fda-for-those-over-60/983517 "2024-07-14T18:09:22Z")
No, not covid. But this seems to fit well here: FDA Approves First-Ever RSV Vaccine | MedPage Today GSK said the vaccine would be available ahead of the 2023/2024 RSV season, and that the CDC’s Advisory Committee on… --- ## [Question about Tony Fauci](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-tony-fauci/981355)
**Author:** [@survinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/survinga)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [June 20, 2024, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-tony-fauci/981355 "2024-06-20T02:07:34Z")
So, if this topic is already somewhere else, I apologize. I scanned the Quarantine Zone, and didn’t see a similar topic. I’m trying to understand one of the lies told about Fauci, namely that he helped engineer the vir… --- ## [How many people here have never knowingly had COVID?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-here-have-never-knowingly-had-covid/995566)
**Author:** [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Replies:** 81\ **Last updated:** [May 4, 2024, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-here-have-never-knowingly-had-covid/995566 "2024-05-04T20:48:05Z")
I hope I’m not the only one. --- ## [Are COVID-related staffing shortages still a thing?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-covid-related-staffing-shortages-still-a-thing/1000588)
**Author:** [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2024, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-covid-related-staffing-shortages-still-a-thing/1000588 "2024-04-23T00:19:05Z")
In this thread ( How Many and What Kinds of Stores Are Open 24 hours a Day Near You?), there’s commentary about how COVID-related staff shortages are still going on in some areas. I’m not seeing it where I’m at, at leas… --- ## [Huge Increase In School Absenteeism](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-increase-in-school-absenteeism/999579)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2024, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-increase-in-school-absenteeism/999579 "2024-04-02T16:26:40Z")
I could not say if this article (gift link below) is accurate, but it certainly seems school absenteeism has dramatically increased since Covid. This seems like it could be or become a huge problem. --- ## [Why is RSV such a big deal these days?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-rsv-such-a-big-deal-these-days/974909)
**Author:** [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [March 20, 2024, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-rsv-such-a-big-deal-these-days/974909 "2024-03-20T21:13:07Z")
Respiratory Syncitial Virus, that is. Back when my kids were toddlers, this was something we new parents all read about. Basically, an adult might catch it and feel like they’d had a regular cold. A baby or toddler coul… --- ## [Talk to me about loss of sense of smell/taste post-Covid](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-to-me-about-loss-of-sense-of-smell-taste-post-covid/995493)
**Author:** [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [March 14, 2024, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-to-me-about-loss-of-sense-of-smell-taste-post-covid/995493 "2024-03-14T12:50:59Z")
I’m a couple of days done with my Paxlovid rebound case of Covid. The rebound phase really punched me in the nose, so to speak. I haven’t been so badly clogged in many years. But I’m done with it, except for a bit of … --- ## [Some (relatively) good news on Covid and kidney issues](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-relatively-good-news-on-covid-and-kidney-issues/998120)
**Author:** [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2024, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-relatively-good-news-on-covid-and-kidney-issues/998120 "2024-03-11T00:35:57Z")
About 20% of people hospitalized with Covid also experience resulting kidney impairment while hospitalized. In a post hospitalization longitudinal study of those who did, it looks like long-term kidney effects are less l… --- ## [Do you still see a lot of Covid “Ghost Artifacts”?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-see-a-lot-of-covid-ghost-artifacts/998295)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 96\ **Last updated:** [March 10, 2024, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-see-a-lot-of-covid-ghost-artifacts/998295 "2024-03-10T17:28:54Z")
You know what I mean. Signs on the floor saying to social distance, or only go in one direction down the aisle. Wall dispensers and bottles of soapy goo. That sort of thing. Still see a lot of these “ghostly remnants… --- ## [Here's what happens when you get 217 COVID booster shots](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-what-happens-when-you-get-217-covid-booster-shots/998542)
**Author:** [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [March 7, 2024, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-what-happens-when-you-get-217-covid-booster-shots/998542 "2024-03-07T20:16:25Z")
Turns out not much. Link won’t display properly, so here’s the short version: a guy in Germany got 217 COVID immunization shots over 29 months, allegedly so he could sell vax cards. Medical researchers, upon hearing ab… --- ## [How Long Did you Hold out against Covid?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-did-you-hold-out-against-covid/968418)
**Author:** [@Moonrise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonrise)\ **Replies:** 337\ **Last updated:** [March 6, 2024, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-did-you-hold-out-against-covid/968418 "2024-03-06T16:51:31Z")
I tested positive two days ago. Since the WHO declared the outbreak a pandemic on 11 March 2020, it means that I held out against Covid for 2 years, 4 months and 11 days. I must say that, being extra careful with the sa… --- ## [Covid and brain fog](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-and-brain-fog/998265)
**Author:** [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 29, 2024, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-and-brain-fog/998265 "2024-02-29T11:35:11Z")
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2400189 A new study compares the cognitive functioning of people who didn’t get covid, those who had mild covid, serious covid, long covid, etc. There are lots of findings, an… --- ## [Does fresh air help with Covid recovery?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-fresh-air-help-with-covid-recovery/995450)
**Author:** [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2024, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-fresh-air-help-with-covid-recovery/995450 "2024-02-26T22:31:07Z")
As I lay here in my little isolation room on the wing of the house, I have the French doors open even though it’s 40° outside. The heat is off, and I am under a down comforter, and it is very pleasant to have fresh air. … [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/tag/covid-quarantine/99.md?match_all_tags=true&page=1&tags%5B%5D=covid-quarantine)