Covid is right here, and it's getting bad fast.

I saw a news report where Michigan was leading the country with the highest new cases of covid variants and Georgia was second.
 
Boss 302 said:
I saw a news report where Michigan was leading the country with the highest new cases of covid variants and Georgia was second.
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The highest number of new Covid variants still has to do with travel, with the exception of the British variant which at this point is not really new. That's kind of a worthless statistic.
 
I'm scheduled for my first vaccine shot on Friday.
It's probably Moderna.

The TrophyWife received her first dose yesterday and said her arm was very sore.

She said: "Don't you dare touch my arm."

I told her: "It ain't your arm that you need to worry about."
 
lotstodo said:
I will say that the Gilmer Co Health Department was excellent. I got mine early on directly through them. The lines were busy but I was persistent. I even caught an accidental publishing of the first online sign up.

The ladies are just wonderful here. An elderly gentleman was complaining on the local FB page last week that he hadn't been able to get his shot and now everyone else was trying. One of the ladies, using her personal FB account, responded with her number and extension at the health department, and told him to call her directly the next day and she would help him find an appointment. She did.

Even Mrs.LTD had a good experience over in Dalton. She just kept going to the website every couple of hours and caught an appointment in two days. They were great there too, no wait.

I guess it's one of the perks of a small town.
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The city clerk where Marc works got his appointment scheduled. While he was there, he told the nurse that he had an elderly father-in-law, a mother-in-law that was a double organ transplant recipient, and a wife who is their caregiver. The nurse called me and we got our first appointments scheduled.

Sometimes it is nice to live in a small town, but I don't like all the "Gladi".
 
J-man said:
Amazingly the flu has all but disappeared. Nah, more fake news.View attachment 9726
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I don't believe that 1822 is the real number, but do believe it is much smaller than usual for several reasons:

1) Many people used to go to the doctor at the first signs of flu, wanting to get a Tamiflu prescription. With the offices filled with Covid patients, they stayed home unless it got really bad. This reduced the chance for the Dr offices to test and report flu, reducing the count.

2) Businesses were sending people home the instant they looked sick, thinking it might be Covid. No more Managers pressuring people into going to work sick because you didn't have sick time left and passing it to half a dozen other people. Plus many were working from home, greatly reducing the chance of catching it.

3) Same with sending sick kids to school because mom and dad both have to work, passing it to other families.

And the big reason:

4) Flu is nowhere near as easy to pass as covid is. The standard precautions (masks/sanitizers/washing etc) against Covid would work really, really well against the flu since it's harder to catch in any case. Thus, while covid was slowed a lot by the precautions, the Flu was stopped in it's tracks.

But don't worry. It's not down for the count. As soon as people start interacting again next year, it will be back.
 
Regarding the flu...some cases are being diagnosed as COVID. But I do think the instances are way down. Our new, cleaner lifestyle (distancing, masks, handwashing, etc) has dramatically reduced the transmission of probably lots of bugs.

My question about that is...what will that do to our natural immunity over time? EX: You can go out into the jungles and find a tribe who has never been exposed to some of the bugs we take for granted, and because they haven't developed immunity to our common bugs, a single exposure could wipe out an entire tribe. Are we setting ourselves up for this down the road?
 
The Sound Guy said:
I don't believe that 1822 is the real number, but do believe it is much smaller than usual for several reasons:

1) Many people used to go to the doctor at the first signs of flu, wanting to get a Tamiflu prescription. With the offices filled with Covid patients, they stayed home unless it got really bad. This reduced the chance for the Dr offices to test and report flu, reducing the count.
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One of the other big problems is when you tell the doctors office you have a fever and sore throat, they send you away! You have to the ER and take your chances.
Guard Dad said:
Regarding the flu...some cases are being diagnosed as COVID. But I do think the instances are way down. Our new, cleaner lifestyle (distancing, masks, handwashing, etc) has dramatically reduced the transmission of probably lots of bugs.

My question about that is...what will that do to our natural immunity over time? EX: You can go out into the jungles and find a tribe who has never been exposed to some of the bugs we take for granted, and because they haven't developed immunity to our common bugs, a single exposure could wipe out an entire tribe. Are we setting ourselves up for this down the road?
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I don't think it will hurt our immunity down the road because we live in such a kaleidoscope of places and people throughout the year, then each year a different strain of flu shows up anyway. If you look at history, you find that one great determining factor to longevity is cleanliness as antibiotics and immunizations are relatively new.
 
The Sound Guy said:
I don't believe that 1822 is the real number, but do believe it is much smaller than usual for several reasons:

1) Many people used to go to the doctor at the first signs of flu, wanting to get a Tamiflu prescription. With the offices filled with Covid patients, they stayed home unless it got really bad. This reduced the chance for the Dr offices to test and report flu, reducing the count.

2) Businesses were sending people home the instant they looked sick, thinking it might be Covid. No more Managers pressuring people into going to work sick because you didn't have sick time left and passing it to half a dozen other people. Plus many were working from home, greatly reducing the chance of catching it.

3) Same with sending sick kids to school because mom and dad both have to work, passing it to other families.

And the big reason:

4) Flu is nowhere near as easy to pass as covid is. The standard precautions (masks/sanitizers/washing etc) against Covid would work really, really well against the flu since it's harder to catch in any case. Thus, while covid was slowed a lot by the precautions, the Flu was stopped in it's tracks.

But don't worry. It's not down for the count. As soon as people start interacting again next year, it will be back.
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Funny you mentioned it. I don't believe any of the other numbers either, mainly because they keep changing to fit the current narrative.
 
Guard Dad said:
...and because they haven't developed immunity to our common bugs, a single exposure could wipe out an entire tribe. Are we setting ourselves up for this down the road?
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Another reason I'll pass on the vaccine.
 
Guard Dad said:
My question about that is...what will that do to our natural immunity over time? EX: You can go out into the jungles and find a tribe who has never been exposed to some of the bugs we take for granted, and because they haven't developed immunity to our common bugs, a single exposure could wipe out an entire tribe. Are we setting ourselves up for this down the road?
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Who remembers Chicken Pox Parties, where everyone brought their kid to someone's house that had it so they could get it and get it over with.
 
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