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Community Covid-19 Check-in Post!

Community Covid-19 Check-in Post!

This is certainly an interesting time right now. I know many of us around the world are social distancing, self-quarantining, or whatever phrase you are using for it. 

So let's take a moment and check-in here and let the community know how you're doing during all this.

 

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Reply #251 Top

Quoting Jafo, reply 249

BTW....Melboure Oz is currently in its 6th lockdown....tho I'm in the country so can get to pubs, etc - yet another advantage of exiting the 'burbs' ...;)

 

Yup no lockdown here in Bendigo. Just pre lockdown restrictions. masks etc etc. Ive had both shots now and had no side effects whatsoever. Plus i got a lollypop both times. B)  

Reply #252 Top

Quoting Nimbin, reply 251


Quoting Jafo,

BTW....Melboure Oz is currently in its 6th lockdown....tho I'm in the country so can get to pubs, etc - yet another advantage of exiting the 'burbs' ...;)


Yup no lockdown here in Bendigo. Just pre lockdown restrictions. masks etc etc. Ive had both shots now and had no side effects whatsoever. Plus i got a lollypop both times. B)  

I'm just down the road in 'the Rat' ....off to Irish Murphy's tomorrow...but second shot on friday...;)

Reply #253 Top

Quoting Jafo, reply 252

..off to Irish Murphy's tomorrow

Hmmm, still have Irish Murphy's up there, heh!!!  All three of the Irish Murphy's pubs I went to are no longer trading under that banner, including the one that was here here in Launceston.  Its now just called 'The Irish Pub', as are the ones that were up there in Ipswich in Qld.

Oh well, not that it matters much to me anymore, I very rarely go to the pub these days.  I went to the 'British Pub' here in Launceston around 6 - 8 months ago for a counter lunch, and my previous pub visit would have been around about a year before that.

Reply #254 Top

There is a Irish Murphy's pub here in Geelong also. (to be sure to be sure)

Reply #255 Top

Quoting Aussie007, reply 254

There is a Irish Murphy's pub here in Geelong also. (to be sure to be sure)

It seems, then, that Victoria's Irish Murphy's pubs didn't undergo the name change I wrote of before.

Reply #256 Top

Quoting starkers, reply 255


Quoting Aussie007,

There is a Irish Murphy's pub here in Geelong also. (to be sure to be sure)



It seems, then, that Victoria's Irish Murphy's pubs didn't undergo the name change I wrote of before.

I just looked if up and it is now known as Murphy's Pub not Irish Murphy's. It was originally known as the Argyll Hotel. I can just remember that.

https://murphysgeelong.com.au/

Reply #257 Top

Oz has lost its collective mind.

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Reply #258 Top

Had a test for Covid on Tuesday. Came back positive.  Yes I have had my vaccines, and wear a mask.  This is a mild case. Doing fine. 

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Reply #259 Top

No test, no mask and no vaccine. We're just sitting here in our red corner of a blue state watching the rest of the country go batshit crazy. Doing fine.

Never had a flu shot either.

Reply #260 Top

Quoting teddybearcholla, reply 258

Had a test for Covid on Tuesday. Came back positive.  Yes I have had my vaccines, and wear a mask.  This is a mild case. Doing fine. 
Hope you do alright.

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Reply #261 Top

Quoting teddybearcholla, reply 258
Had a test for Covid on Tuesday. Came back positive.  Yes I have had my vaccines, and wear a mask.  This is a mild case. Doing fine. 

I had a breakthrough infection after having two shots of Moderna.  It was very mild and I was mostly over it in three days.  :thumbsup:  

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Reply #262 Top

Quoting teddybearcholla, reply 258

Had a test for Covid on Tuesday. Came back positive.  Yes I have had my vaccines, and wear a mask.  This is a mild case. Doing fine. 

I hope it goes well, sounds like you should be in pretty good shape with all your shots.  This is when I would (or more likely will) say "Glad I got all those "stupid" shots." ;)    I'm sure all the staff in your local hospitals appreciate it too.

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Reply #263 Top

We get our booster shot on 4th Jan.

:grin: :grin:  :grin:  

Reply #264 Top

Since this is a Covid-19 check in thread, let's leave politics out of it. Viruses have no political affiliation. ;)  

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Reply #265 Top

I can get my first booster shot now but will wait until the new year to get it because I rarely go out these days and I'm in a low transmission area anyway.

Quoting teddybearcholla, reply 258

Had a test for Covid on Tuesday. Came back positive.

Hey Barb, here's hoping you recover fully and quickly.

Anyhow, a happy holiday season to all and stay safe.... especially from covid.

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Reply #266 Top

Quoting starkers, reply 265
I can get my first booster shot now but will wait until the new year to get...

Anyhow, a happy holiday season to all and stay safe.... especially from covid.

Better hurry and get shot #3 before #4 comes out lol (seriously they are starting to talk about #4).

Happy holidays to you too :zoomba:  

Reply #267 Top

I'm spending Christmas with COVID, so yay!

Reply #268 Top

Quoting Island, reply 267

I'm spending Christmas with COVID, so yay!

Not Good , Get well soon Spencer ..

Reply #269 Top

Quoting Island, reply 267

I'm spending Christmas with COVID, so yay!
   Sad to hear, hoping it is mild and you stay out of the hospital! 

Reply #270 Top

Positive test results in the mildly ill and in the worried well are up (they count all positive tests as cases here, regardless of reason obtained or the presence or absence of symptoms), now at about the rate of July 2020, but well below (~50%) of the January 2021 peak.  Both hospitalizations and deaths are even futher below the January 2021 peak, down about 60% & 70% respectively.  There have been two recent wave peaks, one in September and one the first week of December.  I have a large percentage of Medicare age patients in my practice, a moderate number of whom have had COVID, most of them having had at least 2 shots, now some of them having had the booster, too, and so far all have had unpleasant but mild illnesses and have recovered uneventfully.  The virus variant isn't reported here (result is either virus detected or not), and I can't find any info on the incidence of the various variants on the DHS website.  I assume that information is available to the labs and is being shared at some other reporting level.

End of COVID update.

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Reply #272 Top

At this point we're really talking about 2 different populations, the vaccinated and the unvaccinated.  This little graph says a lot.  U.S. hospitalizations, Blue line is unvaccinated, green line is vaccinated.  Putting social responsibilities aside, which I do not, we are all literally paying for that either through insurance premiums or taxes:

 

 

Link: You have to go here, then on the left side click on "Vaccine Effectiveness and Breakthrough Surveillance", then choose "Hospitalizations by Vaccination Status - Covid.net" from the dropdown:

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#datatracker-home

 

Reply #273 Top

Quoting Island, reply 267

I'm spending Christmas with COVID, so yay!

Stay safe, Spencer...and get better soon...;)

Reply #274 Top

Quoting Island, reply 267

I'm spending Christmas with COVID, so yay!

Oops, went off on my little data-mission and missed that.  I hope it's a mild one, get well soon.

Reply #275 Top

The NSW health minister made a brave statement that everyone in the state will get the omicrom variant.... despite many residents having their 1st and 2nd vaccinations, and some even having had their booster shot.  I sure hope he's wrong because that would mean most of Australia would contract it.

There is talk of a 2nd booster shot here and possibly a 3rd.  Israel has already mandated a second booster shot to all who have had their initial shots and their 1st booster.  A 3rd booster is being discussed there and is somewhat likely.

Sadly, I see no end, no light at the end of the tunnel.  Every time the experts come up with a vaccine to combat the current strains, this damned disease comes up with yet another variant that's near immune to current vaccines and it runs rampant through society.