Well, Covid has hit home...

[markie]

my daughter just got tested (positive) and I have an appointment Wed. to test (symptoms, so pretty sure it will be positive)

we both have been vaxxed with boosters (me-2 boosters ) always careful with mask, distance, hand washing, etc... this thing is crazy!!


she went to Boston New Year's Eve celebration (with mask--before symptoms)

[Quakerfriend]

1. Hope your symptoms are only mild

As of today, we’ve had 12 family members test positive
since Christmas.

[markie]

8. hopefully

symptoms stay mild enough so I can spend this time planning my hiking trip... can feel it in my lungs, so taking it easy

[MontanaMama]

2. Omicron is super contagious even for the vaxxed and boosted.

My husband is positive...with mild symptoms. He most likely caught if from one of our employees who is vaxxed and boosted who attended a family Christmas get together where all eligible attendees were vaxxed and boosted. As of last Thursday ALL of those in attendance except are all positive except one. All of them have various levels of sickness. Two twin infants have 103+ temps are are very sick. I have tested negative twice but have a sore throat, fever, cough and runny nose. I'm betting I'm positive and the antigen tests just haven't picked it up. Omicron is CRAZY contagious. The only thing I can recommend is to steer clear of everyone that you can...and do not skip mask wearing, ever.

Hope you recover quickly...this sucks for sure.

One more thing. I have another employee who has a newborn at home. He and his wife did not get together with family over the holidays because of their little one. The rest of the family did gather...there were 18 of them and every single one of them was vaxxed and boosted and every single one of the now has covid. For real. Omicron ain't playing.

[markie]

6. best wishes for you

and family... my daughter has 100+ temp... I hope we ALL recover quickly


"Omicron ain't playing"

[Leghorn21]

3. Sorry to hear this, markie, but I swear, it seems as if you can just LOOK at an infected person

from across the room (or, in my case, across the grocery store!) and BOOM

You must lay low and stay hydrated and hey, extra vitamin C is pure hell on whatever ails us! Baby yourself as much as possible - that dadgum laundry and vacuuming will just have to WAIT!!

I’ve been out and about today scoring food at two different groceries, and I wouldn’t be shocked to catch a case of covid, I honestly wouldn’t

Sending best wishes to you

Sandy

[markie]

5. seems that way... just have to look at someone

Emergen-C's and lots of water and rest... no more primal screams... it's hurting my lungs

[LoisB]

4. It seems as if this Omicron doesn't care how careful one is. Hope you and your daughter

both recover soon and fully.

[Bayard]

7. Went to be tested this afternoon

Negative! I've just never had a sinus infection lay me this low before.

Be well all!

[markie]

11. listening to NPR today

talk of Flu being bad this year... and current flu shot misses the mark for the new strain

Healthy wishes to you!

[SharonAnn]

12. I had a sinus infection kick my butt first two weeks of December.

Tested negative for Covid, but I haven’t been that sick for 20 years or more.

[ProfessorGAC]

20. I Just Got Over A Nasty Cold

Went to doctor. Tested negative. (They showed me the test card.)
Drainage was clear & colorless so she said "just a cold".
Never had a cold make me feel that crummy. Also, lasted a full 2 weeks not the usual 8 or 9 days.
Now, I'm hearing rapid tests are missing omicron. So, I'm unsure.
But, my wife got nothing. So,.....

[Tree Lady]

26. My daughter had a cold few months back that

Lasted 3 weeks because she couldn't stay home for all of it being top manager, even her taking a week off told me how bad it was, we can't get her to take vacation at all. She was tested many times for covid but always negative.

[BlackSkimmer]

9. Two boosters?

Is that approved?

And hell, if you can contract it with two boosters, yikes.

[markie]

13. not approved

however, I said what the hell... I will be the test case... first 2 shots with VT Department of Health... 1st booster with primary... guess they don't communicate and the state kept reminding me to get my booster, SO... I went any they gave me another shot

and yikes is right... this is crazy!!

[Tickle]

10. I just got a call

my granddaughter tested positive. I'm with my grandchildren all the time. My grandson is negative but I'm sure I got this one. I think most people will get Omicron it's just too contagious

I like what I'm reading here about it being mild almost like cold and flu

[Maru Kitteh]

22. You wouldn't call flu mild if you ever had a full-on case of influenza a.

Shit nearly killed me, in my late 20's no less.

[wildheart]

14. So it seems that being vaxxed

and boosted (as I am) is not protecting us from catching and spreading. Ugh. My local hospital numbers do show that about 90%+ of those admitted are unvaxxed. Also about the same numbers for those in icu..on ventilators...unvaccinated. it still concerns me about the few fully vaxxed people who are in icu. I just want this to go away.

[markie]

16. think

there will always be a few exceptions (vaxxed in hospital) however, my understanding is the vaccination is saving a lot of people from more serious problems...

YES! we want this to go away

[uponit7771]

21. Vaxed, masked and boosted SLOWS the spread but does not guarantee no infection.

[LeftInTX]

15. My MIL was just d/c'd from the hospital

She is 89 and has been at death's door for the past month due to some serious heart issues.
She tested positive last Wednesday after she developed pneumonia, but they sent her home today.

Hubby tested positive the next day mainly because he paid $90 to a private testing place
He's doing fine and I'm pretty sure I have it.
I coughed a bit for a few days, but burning eyes have been my worst symptom. (Allergies probably complicated the eye thing)

The hardest thing for us: I had not bought groceries and we were completely out of food and coffee. I hadn't gotten back in the groove of curbside, so for a few days, we were going through the drive throughs of fast food places for all of our food!

Last night, I finally placed a curbside order for groceries.

[tavernier]

18. My neighbors (family of 4) went to Disney all week.

Came home today, 3 positive for covid.

He had to get fully vaccinated (and very angry about it) in order to be allowed to work. He was negative. Wife and kids (unvaccinated) all positive. They are very nice folks, educated, but purely stupid on this subject, a dozen dumb excuses.

It makes me wonder if there was anyone at the theme parks this week who didn’t bring home a car full of omicron.

[spinbaby]

23. Me!

We took the grandson to Disney for a week over Christmas break. Probably not the brightest, but a week before Christmas, omicron wasn’t yet such a huge thing. We’re vaccinated and boosted, wore good masks, didn’t eat in restaurants (had a place with a kitchen), and seem to have come through it healthy. Truthfully, I’m more leery of my local stores where most of the red neck customers and half the employees aren’t masked correctly.

[mzmolly]

19. Same here.

I think my husband lugged the virus home from a work holiday gathering. He works with a couple of folks who refuse to vax, sadly.

That said, I'm comforted by the fact that my entire HH is vaxed and boosted. I expect we'd fare much worse were that not the case.

Feel better soon.

[liberal_mama]

24. My husband caught Covid from his unvaxxed coworker! He told me that he's one of the only ones at

his work who got vaccinated.

On Monday, an unvaxxed coworker had symptoms of Covid, but claimed he took a test and it was negative. Sure enough, he tested positive the next day, and now most of the employees are infected with Covid. He must have been a superspreader! His boss told him that almost everyone was out sick with Covid and they were going to have to close down. It's a big company too.

My husband is really sick. 102.1 fever, sore throat, muscle weakness, and non stop coughing. He can't even speak a few words without a coughing fit.

I don't know why they didn't crack down enough on these unvaxxed idiots. These germ spreaders should have to work from home and stay in their houses! I'm so furious.

[markie]

25. you have every right to be furious...

someone referred to the anti-vaxxers as "plaque rats" good description!

best wishes for your husband... it's no fun