Discombobulated

[digitS']

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

I got the booster over a month ago. It hit me hard - fever and chills.
My 35 yr old DD got hers yesterday and same - fever and joints ache.
Her husband had no reaction, as did my hubs.

 

[digitS']

Being careful about one's health is the responsible thing to do. There are people who depend and were people who expected that from each and every one of us.

I've tried to pay attention. And, was so discombobulated (and slightly distrustful) with the first shot, its cause was imagined for every discomfort. The second shot barely registered on any scale of discomfort.

The third shot experience was completely forgotten through most of the hours of the days that followed.

Lucky Steve

 

[flowerbug]

i was able to do a walk-in today for the booster. i was hoping to hold off longer into January but decided that with a bunch of people currently getting sick around here that i might as well get it done now. first two doses had no real effect on me other that a very slight sore arm for the day. this time nothing so far and don't expect anything but since i'm not really doing much of anything anyways you'd never know if i was taking it easy or not.

Michigan is still rather screwed up with new cases and hospitals getting full again - i was hoping to see signs of things levelling off but the newer numbers don't come out until another hour or two. i never trust the Monday numbers because they are usually lower from the weekend.

i'm hoping the Omicron outcompetes and drives Delta into the pages of history. going to be an interesting next 6--8 weeks, but if it goes the way it has gone so far in South Africa we might make it out the other side of that with wide ranging actual herd immunity to all sorts of variants. just hope that no even more worse ones can mutate and get out before then. we'll see...

 

[digitS']

Left or Right, @flowerbug ?

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[flowerbug]

@digitS' left for all three.

 

[flowerbug]

i'm not sure if hospitalisations have peaked for this round or not yet. it may be, or just a temporary blip. certainly i hope so as each person in the hospital means an entire family having to deal with this crud.

11/17	3,362	698	381	2,283	153,000	23,104	2.20%	2,437	60
11/19	3,592	761	454	2,377	171,000	23,232	2.10%	2,254	69
11/22	3,917	848	488	2,581	160,100	23,315	2.45%	2,175	46
11/24	4,080	843	493	2,744	177,100	23,595	2.30%	2,559	58
11/29	4,386	917	577	2,892	187,400	23,732	2.34%	2,430	57
12/1	4,452	929	590	2,933	203,900	24,090	2.18%	2,672	64
12/3	4,497	987	591	2,919	222,300	24,367	2.02%	2,482	55
12/6	4,585	993	618	2,974	203,700	24,494	2.25%	2,117	51
12/8	4,630	996	601	3,033	219,100	24,845	2.11%	2,286	59
12/10	4,701	1,012	628	3,061	230,900	25,080	2.04%	2,406	61
12/13	4,721	1,033	638	3,050	226,700	25,240	2.08%	2,050	61
12/15	4,566	1,007	640	2,919	238,700	25,570	1.91%	2,311	53
12/17	4,331	990	645	2,696	251,000	25,824	1.73%	2,252	57
12/20	4,053	971	661	2,421	209,500	25,984	1.93%	2,012	52

[edited to add the numbers for the 20th - a nice drop i hope it continues]

 

[digitS']

A WA State senator has died of C-19. He was 52.

I thought to look at what the age divisions are in Washington but the stats were taking so long to load that I gave up ... and looked at California, instead . (Ya know, some state governments seem to make it dang difficult to glean some information about this epidemic, that may yet claim a million Americans. Probably, WA isn't especially in that group of states.)

Just looking at that million - that would be 1 death in 320. Okay, who are they? Most are older people. If I did my addition right, about 80% are over age 65.

If a person has close relationships with 30 people, there is a very good chance that they will not have any of those passing. This would be especially so if only a couple are in that 65 & older age group. A very, very good chance.

Oblivious ... except for the chance that they know someone directly involved in healthcare or someone in need of a hospital. That may be looked on by some folks in the same category as those 20 months of inconveniences experienced broadly, like parenting of school kids, visits to the barbershop, long lines in the drive-thru, wearing a mask ...

Steve
trying to order seriousness

 

[flowerbug]

for direct family members who've had a Covid infection it would be no deaths, but eight infections and a few ER and ICU visits, none of those were cheap. testing for various from the same group would come in about a dozen tests or so that i know of. just the past few weeks a bunch of them decided to go on vacation and so far half of the people who went are sick.

for the more extended family of cousins, aunts and uncles i've not heard much beyond the one cousin's daughter who spent a month in the ICU last year (still hasn't fully recovered) and the rest of their family who were sick from it at the same time. i'm sure there are a bunch of cases and testing that we never heard about (a lot of people won't admit their vaccination status or if they've been sick).

in friends of the family category i know of six people who've died. half were younger people with no known complications. nurses or care-givers. the really hard cases are the younger people who are healthy and then suddenly they're not and then gone.

the older people did have the regular noted complications that made their conditions frail to begin with. one friend's mother had Covid three times (could have been one infection that stuck around for a long time) before finally passing away - she didn't need ICU care but it just kept dragging on and she faded away.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

Not sure if this is covid related, but I heard today the walk in clinic by Coeur d' Alene had almost a 4 hour wait time. The one in Post Falls they said did not have a doctor until 2 so all morning no doctor. They said if you needed medication it was a THREE TO FOUR DAY wait at Walgreens in Post Falls and 1 to 2 day wait at Walgreens I think in Coeur d' Alene. Not sure what they all have. DD's friend's kids have hand, foot and mouth and they said that was going around and RSV. I just read Elizabeth Warren has covid and vacciated and booster. I just typed a report on a woman who also had same vaccinations and is on her second time of having covid. Strange stuff.