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I live in Wisconsin. Nobody* masks in Wisconsin.

*Not nobody, but so few that I either figure they are currently sick or they care for someone at high risk.

I've had a couple of colleagues complain about being "knocked out" by brief coughing spells and runny noses and when I suggest it might be COVID they look at me as if I'd asked them to join a synth pop band -- and these were some of the most COVID-conscious people in my office two years ago. It's as if a mindwipe has happened.

No one in Sweden appears to wear a mask anymore

It would be pretty sweet if they developed an at-home test that covered COVID, flu, etc all in one. per tipsy it’s very nice to know what you’ve got

I think you need to cough on different cards or whatever but isn't this exactly what they developed at Pluslife?

Yeah some people I know aren't even testing anymore when they get sick. Which is super weird to me, because if I can know what I'm sick with, I would like to!

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 26 June 2024 23:55 (yesterday) link

I don't bother anymore, because it's not going to change my behavior. If I'm sick, I stay home, stay away from others and sleep in the spare room so I don't get my wife sick.

I mean, there's a public health benefit is you test positive and report it online (I did once a couple months ago), but I think they're able to glean all the data they need via wastewater samples now

Further updates, flying back from Ireland direct to L.A. and I have never heard that much coughing or sneezing on a plane. Kept my mask on, kept the air blowing down on me from above, sneaked in some bites of food at dinnertime, and I guess we'll see what happens.

My wife's boss and his boss, both them and their entire families are knocked out by it currently, and they picked it up from different sources. The former had to cancel his vacation, the latter are stuck in a hotel room on their vacation.

My companions who got knocked out by it were my father, brother, and his wife. I was worried for my dad because, well, he's battling brain cancer. This was his final journey over there. But he had just been vaccinated and therefore overcame it quickly. The others are still fighting off lingering symptoms, ten days later and back in the states.

My dad likely picked it up on the flight over. He didn't mask up, he's a bit stubborn about it. I was really insistent that he do so, too. But at least he wore the mask flying back home.

I finally got unlucky. :(

now almost everyone i know has covid

yeah I'm back to masking in grocery stores etc

Unlucky here, on my American holiday :-((((

Ivy and sleeve where are you? Haven’t known any people getting it recently in the DC area.

nyc

I was visiting DC earlier in the week!

Oregon xxp

It finally got me

Hope it's not too bad.

noooo

Get through okay! Was looking for this thread a couple of weeks back, finally got me then too.

oof, get well soon Neando, a lot of people are getting it, but masking is still so rare here in DC, unfortunately.

You hung out longer than anyone, man. Cheers!

When I get sick with ANYTHING, even a mere cold, my immune system overreacts severely at first. No exception here. Got high fever, weakness, night sweats, no voice, ick.

Then a day later all that's gone, I'm fine and I'm only slightly congested. From deliriously screaming FACE ME SON OF JOR-EL at 3 am to being bored and sipping Gatorade

tested negative today (day 8).

for all I know, I'd have tested negative yesterday or the day before, just didn't try because it's expensive to test every day and I'd decided to be housebound until i next tested.

my main theory about how i'd avoided until now despite like 6 exposures is that I'd been ahead of the curve for years on the vaccine, getting the first two shots before the rest of the world du eto the trial, getting my first booster before Delta even showed up on a lark, and from then on, not letting 5-6 months go by without getting the new shot or a booster of the last one. and that streak broke last fall, after I got my fall shot, I didn't get another this spring like I'd done last year. CDC didn't recommend it for me, dad's not around anymore, mom didn't get a reboost, and I just didn't think about it.

thought about doing it anyway 2-3 weeks ago and almost made an appointment, but one of the experts I read said if I did that, I'd have to wait 4 months to get the new fall formula so I said I"d just awit. oops

glad you are okay!

i'm already looking forward to the new shots. i keep hearing about it being around. i've never had it as far as i know though i suppose i could have had an asymptomatic covid. my dad's never had it either and i'm looking forward to him getting the new shot as well. he lives with me. he's 89. so, you know, i worry in general about him.

(by "it" being around i mean covid not the new shots.)

Man, people all around me are down with it. I was worried about it on my recent UK vacation, but didn't get it and came home to find it just rampant in my own backyard. Some bad cases too, no hospitalizations or anything but just bad sick. And school starts tomorrow, so that's bound to be fun.

School starts so early now compared to when I was a kid and people started in the last week of August or even the day after Labor Day. Why?

A friend who caught it the first time two Augusts ago at a Vegas convention returned from the same convention last week...with COVID lol.

I too didn't get a spring booster like I did in '22 and '23, but I still mask in class, public transportation, and any place I feel uncomfortable. I still go out to eat in restaurants. At this point if I'm going to catch it it'll be because I hung out in someone's kitchen or living room.

I caught an asymptomatic infection in September '22 so I've no idea what symptoms are like.

School starts so early now compared to when I was a kid and people started in the last week of August or even the day after Labor Day. Why?

― guillotine vogue (suzy),

Same thing in Florida. A friend told me it's because here at least they finally get Thanksgiving week off.

I had a mild case late april/early may but I was still hawk tuah-ing up shit until very recently, mostly first thing in the morning... it seems to be finally over

maria got it and isolated in a bedroom and i felt so bad for her to be alone like that for so long. she got pretty sick but none of us got it from her. feels like a lifetime ago.

it helps that i have no friends and never go anywhere. i always knew there would be an upside to that someday. during peak pandemic people always masked when they came in the store and i never got sick.

maria probably got it from her step-mother who never met a mask she would wear or a new age dance party that she wouldn't go to. just this past week maria was supposed to go to dinner with her at the very place she thinks she got it all those years ago and her step-mother called to cancel because of covid!! it would have been the double step-mom whammy!!

she's very nice - and a nurse! - but that contact improv crowd is not to be trusted.

Nurses are the most feral COVID deniers imo.

My mom got it for the first time, tested positive this morning. She has hypertension so I'm a bit worried, going to tell her to take it very easy. My aunt also got it possibly for the first time (they didn't get it from each other.) I was at my mom's house two days ago, and flew back on yet another plane full of coughers. And O'Hare sounded like a collective sickbed. Wish me luck, I'd prefer to never get this.

Though I suppose I could have had it asymptomatically and never knew...what a bullshit virus.

We think my wife had it about a month ago — very mild case if so, but flu-like symptoms and major fatigue lingered for three or four weeks.

Based upon all available evidence, my mom appears to have picked it up dining outside at a restaurant, on a breezy day. The server was semi close to her. It's really everywhere right now. Sending the kid back to school wearing a mask, he's been masking since he went back to school in person in fall of 2021 so that's not a change. I'm just glad several of this close friends continue to follow the same masking philosophy so he doesn't feel weird.

I've never heard of an outdoor case! At least around me.