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Going forward, for vacation travel during cold and flu season, for sure. Who wants to have a runny nose and cough on their Coz dive vacation? I have long made it a habit to wash my hands often and wipe down airplane seatback trays and armrests with sanitizer; adding a mask to these precautions seems like a no-brainer. The pandemic has removed the "weird" stigma; nobody gives someone wearing a mask a second look now.
Not quite, as they are different but I see I could have worded that statement better.
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What I wonder in cases like yours an Don's is exposure to other sickness and such.
Wow. You edited that pretty quickly! I guess that you do carry your driver's license when you drive. And passport when you travel internationally.Not quite, as they are different but I see I could have worded that statement better.
Getting covid mostly provides a protection equal to being vaccinated, sometimes better, sometimes worse.
Recent studies point to it lasting longer than two shots. But give it time and more studies and it very well might change.
What is really up in the air is how hard it will be on the person who goes that route. But if you are vacinated your concern should not be how hard the sickness effects those who do not take a vaccine.
Anyhow with the current rate of spread, eventually all will have had it and/or the vaccination.
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This news story has been updated to reflect the publication of the study, previously available on BioRxiv, in a peer-reviewed journal. Hope for a future without fear of COVID-19 comes down to circulating antibodies and memory B cells. Unlike circulating antibodies, which peak soon after...
What I wonder in cases like yours an Don's is exposure. I went on life as normal but with a mask and lots and lots of hand washing and sanitizer.
I know of a few who have had covid that had almost no symptoms. One of my vaxxed friends, from what I was told, got quite sick and was weak/tired for a long while. Maybe without the vax they would have been in the hospital, its hard to say. As far as boosters and who has had theirs, I have no idea and maybe they are all out of date.
No, I didn't say anything about trust. Look up it's there.
My son-in-law was not worried about the plague when it first hit, then he, my daughter, granddaughter, and two great-grandkids all came down with it before the vaccines came out. The toddlers weren't bothered by it really, but they still take a lot of care, and my ill daughter was complaining that the SIL needs to get out of bed and help. I wanted to go help, but that would have just made things worse when I went down. Finally, she loaded him up and drove to the hospital to drop him off near the admissions tent. I was very scared but helpless still. He got into a real room after a couple of days, got better a few days later, then finally got to come home. I started breathing easier finally. The adults have since been jabbed thrice each, but I do wish they would stop acting like they're immune now.
Really. We could still be hiding from smallpox and polio. I think the apathy started when measles and mumps vaccines offered to save the world, but much of the herd rejected.
