I'll get my vaccine over here. I'll get my vaccine over there. I'll get my vaccine just about anywhere.
I will get it on a train. I will get it in the rain. I will get it on a hill. I will get it from a guy named Bill.
I will get it on my lunch. I will get it, I have that hunch. I will get it in my car. I will get it at a bar. I will get it through a spoon. I will get it on the moon.
I will get my booster shot, for protected as I am, many still are not.
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@starpath depending on what part of Georgia you are in ... Lookout Mountain, Little River Canyon if you are in/ near northwest sector... Blue Ridge,Brasstown Bald,Tallulah Gorge if in northeast sector... Tybee Island and anywhere along the Georgia coast... Providence Canyon and other State parks if in the middle of the state. Just a few of my favorite places to go see and feel waterfalls,mountains,ocean and Nature ... all power places for me.
Just a head’s up from a relative who is a health care provider: She says she is seeing patients who are getting sicker with the flu than the vaccinated patients are getting with COVID. (Younger population). So consider getting the flu shot, too.
So consider getting the flu shot, too.
Yes indeed. I think sometimes we can get complacent about the flu since it's been around forever and we learned to live with it even before flu shots were commonly available. I didn't use to bother with getting an annual flu shot, reasoning I'd lived through the disease several times before and I could deal with it.
Then one day it dawned on me that even my so-called mild flu experiences had been utterly miserable, and why should I bother putting up it with again now that there was a vaccine? (My mom used to say that the way you could tell the difference between a cold and a flu was that when you had the flu, you felt like you were going to die and kind of wished you would.)
So yes, folks, get a flu shot. Being in bed miserable for a few days is just that, MISERABLE, and fortunately, avoidable.
I live in Georgia and I will need to talk to people or research places near here where I can try his suggestion.
You don't necessarily need to look far for a spiritual place. Some places might be more powerful than others but just about any quiet place in nature will help. There's a big oak tree in an urban park by my house that I used to commune with during one difficult phase of my life. He (the tree) was comforting.
Thanks for the suggestions...I live in Athens. I have seen Talullah Gorge but not Brasstown Bald.
I have been wanting to check out Providence Canyon for a while now.
I will try to plan something in January possibly.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/14/health/pfizer-covid-pill-paxlovid.html
Pfizer says it's covid pill is effective on all of the covid strains, including Omicron.
We are about to enter our third year in a covid 19 world.
THRID YEAR!
Kinda shocking that this is our reality.
@lovendures and what I find surprising I feel the previous 2 years went fast. I was looking for a photo of the smoke we had from our horrific bushfires thinking it was a year ago and it was 2019. We went from fires to Covid lockdowns and floods back to Covid. Those years seem to have flown.
regards
Matildagirl
COVID is a proxy for the cosmic shifts that are underway, so we should expect seemingly level-headed individuals to be destabilized by the sheer convolutions of pandemic life and the cross currents of public opinion. I just read portions of a new essay by Charles Eisenstein, and it's clear that he has been destabilized to a certain degree (Charles is a public intellectual and not a psychic, so I'm allowed to mention his name). Despite claims to the contrary, he's disseminating self-righteousness and an us-versus-them mentality that says anyone who enforces pandemic safety measures is an abuser...
The point is that all of us are under enormous stress right now, perhaps more so than in any other period of human history, so it's important to practice spiritual/intellectual hygiene. For me that means using mindfulness/meditation practices to stay grounded and resist the pull of tribalism.
Remember Dr. John Campbell from the U.K. who was a huge bright light of calm information on Covid for many of us during the early part of the pandemic?
Well I just came across him again on Youtube and his informationDec. 17th on Omicron is rather interesting. He has a lot of charts and data and is speculating what we can expect with this new virus. What is going on in the UK will likely happen in the U.S. It is worth taking a look.
Right now 10% of the hospital staff there are out with the disease and they are expecting much higher percentage soon. But it is causing much less disease. The big questions are if it overtakes Delta and if it will burn out quickly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T6C-2FNy8I
Local anecdotal evidence suggests that triple vaccinated people are getting COVID and one suspects Omicron. Last night my triple vaxxed hair dresser texted telling me she had it. A relative on the front lines of health care is seeing many tripled vaxxed cases of COVID; the cases have been mild but she serves a young population. My hair dresser does have significant symptoms but she is not in the hospital, yet, at least.
It seems prudent to return to the more cautious COVID protection techniques. Masks, ventilation, avoid crowds and even be careful in all-vaccinated settings. Also, wash hands and surfaces, not for so much for COVID but for the flu; the flu virus is very communicable by contaminated surfaces.
Local anecdotal evidence suggests that triple vaccinated people are getting COVID and one suspects Omicron. Last night my triple vaxxed hair dresser texted telling me she had it. A relative on the front lines of health care is seeing many tripled vaxxed cases of COVID; the cases have been mild but she serves a young population. My hair dresser does have significant symptoms but she is not in the hospital, yet, at least.
It seems prudent to return to the more cautious COVID protection techniques. Masks, ventilation, avoid crowds and even be careful in all-vaccinated settings. Also, wash hands and surfaces, not for so much for COVID but for the flu; the flu virus is very communicable by contaminated surfaces.
the cases have been mild but she serves a young population
Dr fauci did say that vaccines are not 100% but they prevent hospital stays.
@practicalnihilist foe the record? No vaccine - for anything- is 100%.
TBS - given in a timely fashion? They Do lessen severity and morbidity rates.
I wanted to share this dream which has been troubling, usually I write them down and forget them. It was 27 November of this year and in the dream I was an observer.
On occasion I have had dreams that presage something, but I never know at the time, only when I go back and look at my running dream journal of scribbles and sketches.
I am not able to discern if this was about the Covid trajectory (which is why I have posted it here in this topic) - deaths and hospitalizations are now back on the rise in my red state - or personal or both. It had a "bring out your dead" kind of vibe. (My husband and I are triple-vaxxed and cautious when out and about.
In the dream it was night and dark and I was standing on the steps of a brick townhouse in a city, an Eastern seaboard city like Philadelphia. In the street, city yard waste workers were picking up from all the townhouses lining the street large, green cabbages and tossing them into the back of the truck. So many cabbages. Why are you throwing them out? I asked. They have worms all in them, someone said, full of worms. I looked at the steps where I was standing, it was late on Halloween night and there sat a carved jack-o-lantern with a funny metal chimney-like hat where the stem would be, a candle that had almost burned down, and a dried out dead patch at the back of the pumpkin. A bunch of large, short-haired black dogs were circulating at the bottom of the steps. The feeling was dark and kind of foreboding.
(PS I do love cabbages and grow them in my garden.)
Yes, one expects breakthrough infections. I just wanted members here to be aware that those seem to be at a higher rate than I would have expected. Extreme caution seems to be warranted.
Hi,
Life has gotten interesting here. They relaxed the rules on mask mandates and using QR codes and gave the unvaccinated the same rights as the vaccinated from Wednesday 15th at the same time as cases were starting to go up because of Omicron. Last week we had about 250 cases a day, this week we had the highest number of cases a day ever recorded in Australia of 2482 yesterday. Today we broke it again with 2566. Timing is everything. I think I will keep my mask on. The new Premier is going with personal responsibility and high vaccination rates and staying open.
This living in history being made is a bit fraught.
Regards to all
Thank you for sharing this information with us. It is important to understand that tripple vaxed people are having symptoms that are more that mild. Thankful your hairdresser is not too bad but if Dr. John Campbell is correct, we may be info a big wake-up call in the near future because if many people are getting covid, even if it is mild, that means many people will not be able to come to work...that means a lot of places will be closed or running with reduced staff...and you get the picture.
Some anecdotal covid information from Cleveland area.
My daughters school closed for the winter break early due to high number of Covid Cases.
Spoke with a dr at the clinic who said they’re only doing elective surgery and number of covid patients almost as high as the peak last year. 94% unvaccinated
I work in retail. About 40 employees. 4 positive cases in last 3 weeks One associate’s entire family of 4 has had breakthrough cases . Mild for 3 but the forth hit hard.
My 17 yr old son said “ oh I know alot of kids who have it at school.
I am still grateful to be vaccinated. It feels never ending. Wearing masks and washing hands.