Boy am I glad I'm having surgery on Thursday.
In a hospital.
Full of people with these highly contagious respiratory illnesses.
Oh well, at least I'm vaccinated.
Good luck! I hope it's completely unremarkable.
Me too. Thank you.
Good luck. I went to one for an hour appointment and got COVID. Also vaccinated. The strain out there right now just does not care.
The strain out there right now just does not care.
For real. Caught covid for the first time just before Thanksgiving. Got the newest booster back in October. New strain be like a honey badger.
Why aren't things separated into something like surgical/lab test centers and illness centers.
Why must I sit next to someone with COVID just to get my 3rd colonoscopy of the week?
The hospital here does have a separate surgery center, but it is only for simple procedures. Apparently mine requires more than what the surgery center can do, so I have to be in the main hospital.
It's insane to me that hospitals and doctors' officers don't require masking of all parties while indoors. They spread disease almost as much as children do (not really, but they tend to spread worse diseases than children do), and they get lots of immunocompromised people in there.
There is no shame in following doctor's orders.
Maybe get some more N95s?
Wear an N95 mask. You should be making up in hospitals and clinics anyway.
Saw a guy on the subway having a cough the whole ride, two weeks later I have COVID again. I find myself wearing a mask this month cause I don't want a flu or anything, and not a single person has a mask on and is looking at me like I'm a psycho for wearing a mask.
I have seen so many sniffly and sick people out and about recently and not a single one had a mask. It's like everyone just said fuck it, forgot about the pandemic and just went back to no masks and looking at masked people like they're crazy
I'm so glad I live in the Seattle area. Plenty of people still wear masks.
for robberies doesn't count. lol
I moved to Portland over a year ago and I'd say about 25% of people at the grocery stores here are still wearing masks to this day and nobody makes a fuss about it. It's been great.
The good news is that it’s likely you didn’t get COVID from that guy. Gestation period is on average 5 days.
A significant portion of the population still believes masks don't work because their favorite talking heads told them they don't.
I made the mistake of going back to Reddit ONCE and got in an argument with an alleged "MPH" (master of public health) who was adamant masks don't work, despite the overwhelming evidence they do. He ended up threatening to stab me with an icepick. Multiple times across various, unrelated threads. Reddit actually banned him.
These motherfuckers are out there and they're some combination of stupid and crazy.
Its almost like the government told us we were on our own to stay safe, then stopped funding the tracking, testing, and reporting that would let us do so.
You can get free tests from the US Government. They still report on it.
Christmas gatherings will really get it going.
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