Coronavirus, Covid 19 Discussion and How It Has Affected Your Daily Life Chat Thread

[Winter Creek Coop]

100 day federally owned land and govt contracted mask mandate. :O

So if someone is outdoors on federal public land they have to wear a mask. I’m all for masks indoors or in crowds but the outdoor mask stuff is silly.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Well I think a lot of public trails get people who refuse to mask up even when coming within 6ft of other people and also campsites and buildings and monuments and people hosting gatherings on them. I know someone who does hikes in state parks and has a lot of problems with it. But I agree that someone chilling alone in a park should be able to be unmasked.

 

[Cynthia12]

77 degrees yesterday, wow. We need more rain.

We need moisture big time! Hardly any this year, not even in the mountains! We rely on the snow we get in the mountains..but silch.

 

[Cynthia12]

Hey! Lightening struck!

I got a text from a friend in Oakland who has a Los Angeles friend who had an appointment to get a vaccination. She sent me the link her friend used. I've got appointments for my husband and myself tomorrow late morning.

I guess I'll be missing parts of the Inaugural festivities but I suppose Joe would want me to go so I will.

Let us know how it went!

 

[Cynthia12]

Yay! My husband and I got our first shots. Moderna so we'll have to wait 28 days for the next shot then 2 weeks for our bodies to get our immune systems to full strength. Six weeks total to some security after all these months of caution and never knowing if the virus would rear its ugly head. As I understand it we should get something like 60-80% protection from this initial dose over the next 2 weeks.

We had appointments -- about 20 minutes apart. That's how fast the spots filled up! Dozens of people registered in the system while I was filling out the paperwork for my husband's appointment. Nevertheless, they checked to see that we had the emails confirming our appointments then just ushered us into the relatively short line for a couple dozen injection stations.

They've put us in their system to notify us when we will get our next shots. We may have to show up at a less convenient location when that time comes but I can live with that.

We passed hundreds of people in lawn chairs who didn't have appointments but who would spend the day waiting for whatever shots might be available at the end of the day. Thank god it's a pleasant day here if just a bit chilly. They seemed prepared for their wait. I wonder if some of them have done this already a time or two. I'm glad those folks won't let any vaccine go to waste but who knows how long they had already been waiting and they still had at least 4 hours to go to find out how many might get lucky. Nevertheless, it was an orderly process without any crowding or enhanced exposure and the people administering the shots and logging us in were cheerful and efficient.

I hope you all can get vaccinated as soon as possible. I hope our country and our world can return to security and sanity.

 

[benevolent_leonela]

Just seeing this thread y'all.
I am grateful that my life style has been relatively unaffected from COVID. My husband and I are arborists so our job is outdoors. When Covid really hit here in Oregon, our clientele surged. Folks were at home, spending time looking out the windows and noticing things about their trees that they otherwise might have not noticed due to daily life routines or being at work all the time. I am extremely lucky that I wasn't hit financially from this pandemic. 2020 wasn't too bad of a year for my household. We already had been living this isolated, self dependent life style pre covid so having to adjust wasn't much of a change for us accept not being able to see friends and family too often. I stayed busy in my garden and raising up my first flock and now here in the colder months we stay busy by fishing, picking mushrooms and raft down the river.

I hope life can return to normal for the world, then again I often think of how the pandemic shifted the entire world out of whack and I hope the good comes from this global event is that individuals realize the importance sustainability and depend on themselves more, less on the ease of commodities in society. Finding joy in simple things!

 

[kat_and_hens]

I just joined this thread.

Sorry, replied to the wrong quote...convalescent plasma is a very common treatment in my hospital (for people, lol).

 

[Winter Creek Coop]

Sorry, replied to the wrong quote...convalescent plasma is a very common treatment in my hospital (for people, lol).

How are the results? Does it seem to help recovery noticeably?

 

[kat_and_hens]

How are the results? Does it seem to help recovery noticeably?

It really seems to depend on the patient. The men seem to do much better when they receive it, doesn’t seem to impact the women positively in the same positive way. That’s just my anecdotal evidence, though.

there’s a theory that people with type A blood are more likely to get seriously ill from the virus, while type O blood people exhibit less severe symptoms. Most of our donated convalescent plasma recipients are type A.

 

[Tonyroo]

Hey! Lightening struck!

I got a text from a friend in Oakland who has a Los Angeles friend who had an appointment to get a vaccination. She sent me the link her friend used. I've got appointments for my husband and myself tomorrow late morning.

I guess I'll be missing parts of the Inaugural festivities but I suppose Joe would want me to go so I will.

What a nice friend, wish I had someone like that. Lucky you