My kid's best friend has Covid.

[Crunchy Frog]

He apparently got quite sick with it despite being vaccinated. Was at his sickest about a week ago, and still very audibly sick on his Skype call to my kid right now.

His other best friend has had it, apparently more than once.

They're currently being homeschooled in order to keep their 82 year old grandma safe.

Pandemic definitely not over yet.

[Coventina]

1. And yet my school is going to have in-person, unmasked, no social distance graduation!

Can you say "Super-spreader Event"?

We're required to attend, but I'm going to take personal time to avoid that cluster.

[SheltieLover]

7. Dont go!

[Coventina]

12. I'm not. I'm going to take personal time.

[SheltieLover]

18. Great choice!

[markie]

2. not done in Vermont either

my daughter works at the VA here and a number of employees are out with Covid...

[lapfog_1]

3. the vaccines and boosters do not prevent infection

they lessen the severity of the disease.

Masking helps... but Omicron and the sub variants are so contagious that it takes very little of the virus penetrating the mask or migrating around the edges to cause an infection.

The good news is that Omicron tend to infect the bronchial passages (airways) and less in the lungs... whereas previous versions of Covid tended to lodge in the lungs and then migrate in the blood to other organs... causing havoc.

The vaccine and boosters fight the infection (cause the body to be trained to fight the infection) at the entry point, meaning you are likely not to develop a lung infection or the infection is less severe and lasts a much shorter period of time.

Many people will be infected and never even know they picked up Covid.

[Hortensis]

4. Yes, bless everything that it's affecting the lungs less.

Good rundown.

[Crunchy Frog]

5. That's why I thought it was notable that the kid got pretty sick.

If a healthy, vaxxed 12 year old can get that sick, I really worry about a healthy vaxxed, boosted 82 year old.

[SheltieLover]

9. Is the bronchial containment true of BA2 as well?

I'd seen one scant mention 4-5 weeks ago saying there is deep lung involvement.

Ty!

[Scrivener7]

6. A new wave is on it's way. Already up about 100% from the lows here.

That respite was pretty short.

[Crunchy Frog]

8. Yes, it's going back up here again too. ☹️

(Can hear kid's friend coughing in the background.)

[Scrivener7]

11. I read what you guys were talking about up-thread. A member of my immediate family has it

and she and the rest of my immediate family and I were together for all of Sunday, including a good amount of time in a closed car. (The rest of us tested negative this morning.)

But on Wednesday when she tested positive, what occurred to me was the huge luxury we had of knowing that, even though she has it and the rest of us might get it, we were all likely safe due to the vaxes and boosters.

I could have cried with gratitude. This is my pod and one of us has it. But, really, we are safe.

How different it was for so many families till such a short time ago.

[SheltieLover]

10. Healing vibes on the way to your kid's friend! 💓💓💓

[Crunchy Frog]

14. Thanks. I think he'll be fine. He sounds chipper enough,

just with hoarseness and coughing. They're pretty resilient at that age.

[SheltieLover]

16. I think so, too.

Is it mostly bronchial?

[Crunchy Frog]

17. Probably. Hard to tell listening to him in the background on Skype.

[Poiuyt]

13. Was he boosted as well as vaccinated?

[Crunchy Frog]

15. Don't know.