Now there is more than anecdotal evidence that covid is spreading even among the vaccinated. These are called "breakthrough" cases. Front page of Boston Globe this morning: Covid surge on Cape Cod, including among the vaccinated. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/07/20/metro/cape-cod-is-weathering-surge-covid-cases-height-tourism-season-including-many-among-vaccinated-people/
More than ever, people need to be vaccinated but being vaccinated is not a license to go maskless. I was going maskless at my health club but now I'm back on with the mask and no longer using the locker room. This week it was filled with unmasked teens grouped closely in bunches of twenty. There is no proof required to show someone is vaccinated, and given the news of the numbers of breakthrough cases (people who are vaccinated who are getting covid), I'm just going to show up for my swim and then bypass the locker room afterwards and go straight home.
I feel the CDC is slow to catch up. to the latest science. True, they have hundreds of scientists working for them doing volumes of research, but the people at the top can be slow to react. It was due to their slowness to put out the latest research to doctors that I ended out getting Lyme disease six years ago. I had been bitten. I had classic lyme symptoms but no bullseye rash. I brought a photograph to the doctor of the tick that bit me and I knew I needed antibiotics right away. And still the doctor wouldn't treat me because the test was negative and he quoted a CDC guideline. Then I got sicker of course as the spirochete proliferated exponentially. Today you don't need a positive lyme test to get treatment. If you know you were bitten, they give you antibiotics immediately.
Meanwhile the CDC is advocating back to school in the fall without masks even though a large pediatric association is advocating masks in schools. I feel for the teachers and the families.
@jeanne-mayell thanks for this update. I have been struggling with conflicting feelings of dread as I see what is happening with covid and what is coming, and the feeling that I’m overreacting and can’t trust my judgment. My therapist recommended I seek a reasonable accommodation to work from home since the higher ups in my agency are pushing for us to be back in the office full time in September and I am scared. Right now we’re in the office one day a week and no one is wearing a mask; there are more than a handful of anti-mask/vaxers around here, too. I’m pregnant and my daughter isn’t old enough to get vaccinated, so I worry (ha!). I see my OBGYN on Friday for a well visit (about 17 weeks along now) and I’m all nervous that they won’t be willing to write a letter or that even if they do, HR can just turn me down (even though I have several coworkers who are approved to work from home). I have been working from home since last March and I think I’ve proven that I’m capable of being productive and efficient, but who knows what the higher-ups are thinking. Money is king, probably. I’m praying for those of us who are trying to stay safe and protect our families but I’m afraid that at this point, there’s no will from the higher-ups to do what is necessary to stop this (again). Praying for us all…
@nelysthealchemist I pray you can get the home pass. I have a feeling that by the time fall comes, they will be giving a booster.
I have a feeling that by the time fall comes, they will be giving a booster
I feel “booster” too, but I’m getting more around Christmas-time. ??♂️. I am also not certain everyone who went rounds 1-2 are going to go through round 3.
I heard yesterday they think we’ll see approval for under 12 (my daughters! Yay!) would come in winter of 2022 but as soon as I heard it, I saw a turkey and cranberries in my head with my daughters with bandaids on their arms - I’ll be interested to see if we have a Thanksgiving surprise :-). We’ve had a lot of conversations with them, and while they saw “Mommy” down for the count for three days after her second shot, “Daddy” was absolutely fine after both of his. They want it so they can feel safe again.
On a related but slightly different note, we’re spending our anniversary week at my mom’s - the daughter’s second full week with Grandma and our first full week since the Pandemic began. My brother is telling us to mask up particularly for the unvaccinated twins but even ourselves when we go out. Prior to this we had had so much fun “emerging from our foxhole” and feeling that warm light of “normal” again. I’m so disappointed that we’re entering another wave and hope my gut, which is telling me not to worry too much about this one, turns out to be right. I’m not certain mentally I can handle another wave of shut downs and work from home. (If my boss hadn’t surprise retired I’d be okay with more work from home, but with a new boss with no background in our department I feel getting back to the office is imperative to her/our continued success.)
Money is king, probably. I’m praying for those of us who are trying to stay safe and protect our families but I’m afraid that at this point, there’s no will from the higher-ups to do what is necessary to stop this (again). Praying for us all…
Light and love to you @nelysthealchemist - I’ll send some light out to a continued work from home for you!
Yes-- after a year of being comfy, few will want to back to heels and restrictive itchy fabrics. And a lot of men are probably going to want to ditch the necktie.
I have noticed (and appreciated - I did better with the second shutdown than the first, but still threw all good eating to the wind in June and am only about to go back to my Keto lifestyle) a large uptick of menswear in particular that look business casual but mimic what we’ve all become accustomed to.
In the last week (again because I’ve been on a two month bender) I bought a pair of Joggers from Old Navy which are essentially sweatpants but made out of the Khaki materials, a pair of eWaist Khakis from the Gap (drawstring pants baby!) and a weird pair of pants called “hybrid pants” that is some combination of spandex, sweat pants material, and khaki that again - looks perfectly like Khaki’s but has this incredible amount of stretch.
I may be going back to work larger than last time, but I’m “sticking it to the boss lady” with business casual sweat pants!
I mean, we’re all in this together. ?
@nelysthealchemist. To allay fears about the breakthrough cases of vaccinated people getting covid, they are saying that vaccinated people are much less likely to need hospitalization. So much is not known yet, so it pays to be careful, but careful people should feel safe.
@jeanne-mayell I appreciate this. I think my biggest concern (and I haven’t been able to find any data about this) is that I’m pregnant, and that puts me in a somewhat immunocompromised state. I haven’t been able to find any info about outcomes in vaccinated pregnant women and whether the vaccine has reduced efficacy comparable to the reduced efficacy seen in immunocompromised people, but I do know that in general, outcomes for both mother and baby without the vaccine can be really bad. I also have an unvaccinated 4-year-old and I worry about picking up/passing on to her. Have you seen any data on vaccinated pregnant women who get COVID?
Have you seen any data on vaccinated pregnant women who get COVID?
I have not but it is worth researching.