Thanks! I’m feeling a lot better, but still testing positive. It’s supposed to get down below freezing here tonight, so the open windows thing will be dialed back a bit.
I wish I had a backpack version of the box. I’m tired of schlepping into wherever I want to hang out, so end up kind of staying in one room and it’s getting boring.
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tl;dr: Rare events are rare, the immune system is weird and way overpowered, and the vaccine is far safer than the illness. Oh, and anything to do with human bodies is complicated as hell and not generally amenable to armchair analysis.
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I get that the medical community and the mRNA people want to figure it out but from the standpoint of us vaccine getters…
Luckily, the conditions are usually mild and resolve on their own.
I’d rather take that risk then the side effects of covid, like death and or debt from a long hospital stay.
Doesn’t anyone ever talk to actual doctors when making medical decisions.
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It continues to infect, hospitalize and kill thousands of Americans per day.
Black and brown populations must be especially vigilant as data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows they continue to be disproportionately impacted by COVID-19. Black Americans, for example, are twice as likely to be hospitalized and nearly twice as likely to die of the virus.
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Where I am, the people I see still masked up on a regular tend to be older Black folks, but it’s not everyone.
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That poor kid.
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Day 4 of a high fever in a young child is time to call the pediatrician, who will likely say 'I’ll meet you in the ER".
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And the pediatrician will probably ask why you didnt bring the child in three days ago
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The Ventilation in Buildings page did previously have info taken from guidance by the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-Conditioning Engineers, but didn’t specify any quantity of air changes and hadn’t been updated since June of 2021. For schools, the section on masking now uses, “At a high COVID-19 hospital admission level, universal indoor masking in schools and ECE programs is recommended,” rather than, “At a high COVID Community Level…”
ETA: The first screenshot came from the new Improving Ventilation in Buildings page.
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I’ve often thought that financially supporting that kind of retrofitting of buildings would have been a great jobs-creating initiative by Biden and Co.
But no, instead the aim has apparently been to get the economy moving again by pretending the virus is no longer a threat. 
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This would also affect vaccine development funding: 
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“Can anyone think of any illnesses not going around?”
At my office we are having the worst strep season I can remember, numerous brutal viruses, covid, and oh, by the way, *Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever just for S&G. Yeah, this is bizarre. Add in the number of parents who think my job is to make their kids not catch viruses while refusing to consider masking and hand washing.
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I wonder if kids are back to sharing their drinks and food? When I was teaching HS, the teens were very into sharing; but after one student died from meningitis, I encouraged my students not to share their food and drinks.
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https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/us-study-finds-1-10-long-covid-after-99608525
The new study zeroed in on a dozen symptoms that may help define long COVID: fatigue; brain fog; dizziness; gastrointestinal symptoms; heart palpitations; sexual problems; loss of smell or taste; thirst; chronic cough; chest pain; worsening symptoms after activity and abnormal movements.
BUT…
Everyone’s doing studies of long COVID yet "we don’t even know what that means,” Horwitz said.
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During the pandemic, a group of Brazilian doctors defended, even with advertisements in the press, the so-called early treatment against the coronavirus. These doctors advocated the use of Chloroquine among other ineffective medications.
The Judge accepted actions by the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office against the Associação Médicos pela Vida and other defendants; in one of these lawsuits, the groups were convicted and had to pay a fine of R$ 45 million, at about US$ 8.934.777,00.
In the judgments, Médicos Pela Vida (Association Dignidade Médica de Pernambuco - ADM/PE), and the companies Vitamedic Indústria Farmacêutica, Centro Educacional Alves Faria (Unialfa) and Grupo José Alves (GJA Participações) were jointly sentenced to pay R$ 55 million for collective moral and health damages, within the limits of their responsibilities. In one of the actions, the amount of the payment imposed by the Justice was R$ 45 million and, in the other, the conviction was in the amount of R$ 10 millions.
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Dunno if it is concern about coronavirus or food allergy, but my kid’s elementary school is very strict about sharing food
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Oh, wow, it didn’t strike me as a pattern until reading that, but my friends with kids have all been dealing with this, in various states.
This is so frustrating. We’ve seen even family spread is avoidable. I recently shared about my own experience and though I tested positive for 2 weeks, Mr. Linkey stayed uninfected. I started asking some of my friends in the building science field and anyone who’s gotten it has managed to avoid spreading it to their household. Because we know how it spreads. But friends in other industries have gotten their whole households sick.
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