If you haven't had COVID yet, does that mean you're a hermit/recluse/shut-in?

NYC here: live in Greenwich Village, work in Harlem, commute by subway. I'm a college coach and deal with multiple people, the majority POC, on a daily basis.

Have never had Covid-19 (and I have to get tested weekly for work). Probably partly luck, but I find that the more I wear a mask and stay vaccinated/boosted, the luckier I seem to be.

Hogwash , I live in a red state and have travelled to NYC and DC during the pandemic. A mask is about the only difference , don’t be so dramatic

Not infected wrote:

Steve The Addict OFFICIAL -----^^^^^ wrote:

Overprotective people, anti social people, authoritarian people, those who benefit in some capacity from covid hysteria love this charade.

100% correct.

Turn on CBS if you dont believe.

Its 8F, -5F wind-chill, at the Patriots game, right now.

70,000 people. All having good times.

Maskers are pathetic, anti-social losers who didnt have a life "pre-covid". They are making no sacrifice. Its makes them feel better about being a stay at home loser.

Its true.

Thats true. Thats why large parts of the Internet loves it. Makes them feel good everyone is forced to live a life as pathetic as them

What makes remote learning inferior to in person learning if just hearing the teacher speak without seeing their face is equal?

Dcboy63 wrote:

Hogwash , I live in a red state and have travelled to NYC and DC during the pandemic. A mask is about the only difference , don’t be so dramatic

Well.

Other then the fact you cannot eat at a restaurant, see a movie, work out in a gym, see a Knicks game without proof you have been jabbed,

Seems pretty dramatic to me

I'm so embarrassed at not having had it. Am hoping to contact malaria for bragging rights.

Iowa State tweet her wrote:

What makes remote learning inferior to in person learning if just hearing the teacher speak without seeing their face is equal?

Education isn't about the face, dude.

When you're writing on the board, and they are taking notes, they aren't looking at your face, dude.

When you are giving feedback on assignments or tests, they aren't looking at your face, dude.

But I get it now. Like many teacher/coach hybrids, you have this inner need to show people how wonderful your face is and how fit you must look because you're healthy and as your key mantra, you want everyone to know it!

You're willing to disregard the community because of vanity and narcissism.

What a great example to backslide your students into a dog -eat -dog mentality.

Go you.

No. I am in the medical field. My clinic has been open throughout. Never was able to work from home or have a single day off. However, we do ask patients not to come in if they have symptoms (we are a sub-specialty clinic). I wear proper PPE at work and patients are required to wear masks (although a lot wear it under their nose). I live in an area with a high vaccination rate and I am vaccinated and boosted. That being said, I have gotten Covid-19 exposure alerts on my phone 3 times, so I know I have been near the virus. I am fully expecting to get it at some point, but so far, I have not. None of my family or close friends have gotten it either, although one friend has a test pending and likely does have it now.

I have not had it. I do work from home, but I venture out of the house into public areas daily. My wife is a college professor, so she is gone 5 days a week during the week, interacting with students and other professors. She has not had it. We are both vaxxed and boosted. We wear masks in public places and wash our hands and use hand sanitizer in the car when we get back in after being in a public place.

We socialize with our friends who are also vaxxed and boosted. We go to family gatherings. I've even been on a cross-country airplane ride during the pandemic.

So, social life? Yes. Doing what I can to not get exposed? Yes. Lucky? No. I could still get it despite my best efforts, but as the saying goes, the more prepared I am, the luckier I get (meaning it's the preparation).

You continue to be rude. We all want lives to be saved and children to learn. I asked a simple question. I believe that remote learning is worse because humans learn more from being able to somebody's mouth moving. Our brains absorb through hearing but also somewhat through watching enunciation. There are studies that support this. Why do you think remote learning is worse but masked teachers is equivalent to unmasked teachers? We all want to learn.

Iowa State tweet her wrote:

You continue to be rude. We all want lives to be saved and children to learn. I asked a simple question. I believe that remote learning is worse because humans learn more from being able to somebody's mouth moving. Our brains absorb through hearing but also somewhat through watching enunciation. There are studies that support this. Why do you think remote learning is worse but masked teachers is equivalent to unmasked teachers? We all want to learn.

If you don't like my rudeness, you're free to stop responding. I'm not calling you sir. I'm not going to kowtow to your freaking feelings. I don't have to be cordial. I don't have to respect your recklessness just because you teach and coach.

I don't care what you believe. There is no evidence to support your claim for the ages you teach.

There is no evidence that the information given from an unmasked teacher is better received than from a masked teacher.

There is evidence that an unmasked teacher has a 100% chance of transmittal of RNA as aerosols, containing any and all existing viral particles.

The masked teacher has far less chance of doing so and shows their regard for their students.

You don't impress me because you coach in some cow town and think you're an iron man.

If you're not caring about the student health needs during a pandemic and grandstanding by falsely asserting your feelings as if they are indisputable ironclad facts to justify why you just have to show that face of yours, then you're part of the problem.

You're selfish, but you just got too complacent with your athletes regarding you as some Joe Cool.

Koko the Gorilla wrote:

Most people have had COVID now. If someone hasn't yet, do you assume they don't have a social life or are they just lucky?

Uh.....point of correction. Most people have not contracted Covid19. 66 million Americans have. America has 330 million people.

I haven't caught it. I wear a mask in all indoor public places (grocery store, home depot, dry cleaners etc.) Anybody who comes to my house who isn't a relative is not entering unless they are masked. Two of my relatives were disinvited to Thanksgiving because they were anti vaxers and didn't believe in maks. Two of them caught Covid19 and ended up losing their sense of taste. They still aren't vaccinated. Not welcome in my house.

I haven't attended in crowded in gatherings such as concerts and sports games. People in my household have compromised immune systems, so I don't want them to catch it from me and die.

Vaccinate and take precautions to greatly reduce the chances of getting it and dying.

You probably were not doing theses things "pre-covid" either, mask-lover.....

former democratt wrote:

I’m so envious of Red Staters. I’m about to go take my daughter to a some funday kid stuff and fully expect it to be a hyper-masked hell of ridiculous COVID anxiety.

You guys don’t know how lucky you are to live around reasonable people.

I am in Texas this morning, instead of Washington where I live. (Just ran the Houston Marathon.) It has been so nice over the last few days to see people's faces and not constantly be bombarded with Covid safety measures. Lots of people, probably more than half, wear masks here voluntarily. And with Omicron raging, that seems sensible. But it's a breath of fresh air compared to back home. I honestly feel the Covid measures in WA are oppressive. It's just depressing to be constantly reminded of Covid morning noon and night with mask signs everywhere, announcements in the grocery store about masking, Covid testing alerts from the kids' school, etc.

Oh, and I have not had Covid. I am not that social, but certainly wouldn't describe myself as a recluse. And I have three kids. We have a lot of exposure. But no one in my family has been infected . . . yet. I assume it'll happen, probably sooner rather than later.

My wife got pregnant in June 2020 when there was essentially no information on how it might effect in utero. I worked in a busy touristy cafe so we played it safe and didn’t allow customers indoors. Saw my parents in Sept 2020 and the day after we left my mom tested positive, somehow we dodged it. In October 2020 I found out I had a very aggressive form of leukemia and I was essentially hospitalized for 3 straight months. My state was having the worst peak during this time so we pulled my daughter out of daycare. I had to have a stem cell transplant which means for quite a long time after I had zero immune system. The oncology wing I was on had to be shutdown twice (different hospital stays) to make room for covid surge. Then they had to put covid + patients on our wing, one patient caught it and died.

Two weeks after my transplant my wife had the baby, and vaccines were not available to my wife or myself yet. We stayed home pretty much all summer and only saw my parents and her parents. Wife and I got vaccinated and boosted as soon as we could. I coached cross country in the fall with a team of 40 kids. We rode busses to meets and I was extremely strict that the kids wore masks and they knew why. Our daughter went to kindergarten in the fall and I got extremely sick with the flu, then RSV but apparently never covey. We are still pretty careful because I am on immunosuppressants. We see friends as long as they are reasonably careful but only one at a time. Now we are trying to balance the goal of never getting covey just to feel better than other people (and so I can continue being alive) and living as normal of a life as we can. We try to balance those things 50/50.

Questionable5 wrote:

Koko the Gorilla wrote:

Most people have had COVID now. If someone hasn't yet, do you assume they don't have a social life or are they just lucky?

Uh.....point of correction. Most people have not contracted Covid19. 66 million Americans have. America has 330 million people.

That's cute. You think everyone who gets COVID gets tested. Most people I know who got it didn't try to get tested. I even thought about getting tested but the lines were too long.

Questionable5 wrote:

[quote]Koko the Gorilla wrote:

Most people have had COVID now. If someone hasn't yet, do you assume they don't have a social life or are they just lucky?

Uh.....point of correction. Most people have not contracted Covid19. 66 million Americans have. America has 330 million people.

What kind of pandemic takes over two years to infect less than 6% of the nation?

Koko the Gorilla wrote:

Questionable5 wrote:

Uh.....point of correction. Most people have not contracted Covid19. 66 million Americans have. America has 330 million people.

That's cute. You think everyone who gets COVID gets tested. Most people I know who got it didn't try to get tested. I even thought about getting tested but the lines were too long.

With at-home quick tests becoming more widespread, people are going to report Covid at even a lower percentage or total.