YLE, you are a rock star. This is just what hubby and I have been needing to evaluate our risk of re-entering the world. (We have been practicing what we call extreme social distancing for the duration, except for those few glorious months last summer post vax and pre-Delta. This means we don't go inside public places unless we have to, …
YLE, you are a rock star. This is just what hubby and I have been needing to evaluate our risk of re-entering the world. (We have been practicing what we call extreme social distancing for the duration, except for those few glorious months last summer post vax and pre-Delta. This means we don't go inside public places unless we have to, we wear N95 when we do, and we do not socialize except over Zoom or few outdoor get-togethers with other vaxxed/boosted folks.)
Does extreme caution actually leave folks more vulnerable once they start gathering again with family and friends, because it's not likely they have had *any* exposure to SARS-CoV2, let alone a viral load enough to make them sick?
Also, my family doctor practically recommended that healthy, vaxxed/boosted folks go out and get Omicron. What are your thoughts on this? We are concerned about long COVID and are not at all worried about severe illness or death -- especially not after reading your post! We just don't want to live the rest of our still-active years (we're in our late 50s/early 60s) fighting a chronic illness.
A good test for whether an idea (A) is awful is to see if there's another awful idea (B) that's better than awful idea (A). Here, "going out and sneaking in another booster" is better than "deliberately getting infected."
The other aspect is that given the way case rates are plummeting, getting infected on purpose right now is pretty damn hard. And since lots of places still have rules in place that make getting infected rather life limiting, why chance it? It's one thing to tell people "Avoiding Covid doesn't need to be the highest priority in your life any more", but deliberately catching it? Dumb advice, and good luck with that.
YLE, you are a rock star. This is just what hubby and I have been needing to evaluate our risk of re-entering the world. (We have been practicing what we call extreme social distancing for the duration, except for those few glorious months last summer post vax and pre-Delta. This means we don't go inside public places unless we have to, we wear N95 when we do, and we do not socialize except over Zoom or few outdoor get-togethers with other vaxxed/boosted folks.)
Does extreme caution actually leave folks more vulnerable once they start gathering again with family and friends, because it's not likely they have had *any* exposure to SARS-CoV2, let alone a viral load enough to make them sick?
Also, my family doctor practically recommended that healthy, vaxxed/boosted folks go out and get Omicron. What are your thoughts on this? We are concerned about long COVID and are not at all worried about severe illness or death -- especially not after reading your post! We just don't want to live the rest of our still-active years (we're in our late 50s/early 60s) fighting a chronic illness.
A good test for whether an idea (A) is awful is to see if there's another awful idea (B) that's better than awful idea (A). Here, "going out and sneaking in another booster" is better than "deliberately getting infected."
The other aspect is that given the way case rates are plummeting, getting infected on purpose right now is pretty damn hard. And since lots of places still have rules in place that make getting infected rather life limiting, why chance it? It's one thing to tell people "Avoiding Covid doesn't need to be the highest priority in your life any more", but deliberately catching it? Dumb advice, and good luck with that.
Full disclosure, I'm definitely in the "avoiding Covid is no longer my highest priority" camp. Took me a while, though.
Next time someone suggests getting Covid on purpose, just answer: "You first."