Im guessing you havent had it. I dont think i have either unless im about to develop symptoms from my flight on Saturday
I had a really bad cold-like illness near the start of the pandemic, followed by reduced energy for months. But Iāve been tested a couple times since then, and donāt have antibodies to the nucleocapsid proteins. So if i got it then, i stopped making antibodies before testing was available. And chronic-fatigue-like symptoms can be triggered by an awful lot of viruses.
Iām still in the club afaik.
My son became sick about 6 days after his last youāve-been-exposed letter from school, so I was expecting covid, but heās had a couple home tests so far and theyāve been negative.
I went ahead and got the booster yesterday.
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Iām out.
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iāve taken a few risks lately. flying to red states, took a packed express bus to my parentās house, still covid free.
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Feel better soon.
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https://www.kansascity.com/news/coronavirus/article262352297.html
A lot of people have been turning in their Covid Virgin card lately, according to that article. Although the article itself says they donāt really know for sure due to fewer organized testing and more at-home testing.
I did go to a outdoor festival over the long weekend and got the sense there were a lot of people going to their first event with crowds since the pandemic.
Best wishes.
Iām one of those. I just got a second booster, and Iāve decided that now is as good a time as any to be exposed, and while Iām still masking in a lot of situations, Iām also doing a lot of in-person stuff I havenāt done since before the pandemic. I even ate at a couple of restaurants while traveling.
Still negative as far as I know, but Iāll be testing tonight, before going out.
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Gonna fly again 4th of july weekend.
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I feel under the weather today.
Did the at home test and negative.
Iāve also been suffering from allergies though so it could be a slight inflammation from that. Will test again tomorrow and see.
My kid got admitted to the hospital - not covid and not anything real serious. But apparently the hospital is covid central and Iāve been sitting here all day with him. Yikes. Iām trying my best not to breathe.
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Iām not a COVID virgin, but Iāll chime in on the āfirst eventā subjectā¦
My wife and I have been relatively cloistered since the start of the pandemic. We arenāt as religiously isolated as we were pre-vaccination, but we have been in risk-reduction modeā¦although thatās easing.
Tonight, weāre going to our first sporting event since the start of the pandemic (USL football (soccer)).
Also, I have four trips planned in the next five weeks. While two of those trips will be car trips, without big crowds anticipated, trip #3 involves a couple of short flights and an MLB game, and trip #4 involves four 6-hour flights and two 3.5-hour flights. Iāll be in the minority of passengers wearing masks, but Iām still hoping that my four doses of Pfizer and prior cases of COVID protect me from learning that my COVID card has been punched again.
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Thatās an odd one.
Yeah, I was puzzling over that roo. Iāve been to destinations that are unreachable with fewer than 3 flights in each direction, so it seems possible, but usually at least one of the flights is much longer than 6 hours.
Like Africa was a flight from where I lived to Atlanta, then Atlanta to Johannesburg, then Johannesburg to our African destination. But ATL-JNB is 15.5 hours (and JNB-ATL is even more time due to unfavorable winds at 16.5 hours).
Maybe west coast to someplace like Bora Bora if you changed in Honolulu and then a second intermediate point. But Guam is more than 6 hours from Honoluluā¦ Iām not sure what else is 6 hours from HNL other than just going back to the west coast.
Possibly west coast to New York / Boston to Paris / Amsterdam / Frankfurt to some other point in Europe.
Or maybe Seattle to Charlotte to London to somewhere in Europe?
Thereās more than one destination. To maintain some pretense of anonymity, I wonāt name the destinationsā¦but they can probably be puzzled out:
Day 1: Van/shuttle to JFK
Day 2: 6-hour flight to connecting airport A, then 3.5 hours to destination B
Day 3: @ destination B
Day 4: 3.5-hour flight back to connecting airport A, then 6 hours to destination C
Day 5: @ destination C
Day 6: 6 hours to connecting airport D; officially a 15-hour layover, but Iāll go spend the night in an airport hotel
Day 7: 6 hours back to JFK, then van/shuttle home.
Day 4 annoys me. When I originally booked the trip, there was a non-stop from destination B to destination C. However, the airline has since done away with that flight, so I have an additional 6.5 hours in transit.
And to answer other likely questions:
- The trip is recreational.
- I wanted to complete trips to B and C by this year, becauseā¦ reasons.
- Wish I spend more time at both destinations, but my schedule wonāt allow it. Decent chance Iāll be taking the wife to destination C for a week sometime next year.
- Doing this in first class, and I have lounge access at JFK, A, B, and D. I wouldnāt do this trip if I were limited to coach.
- Iām also doing this with airline miles. Only cash outlay for the ticket was fees/taxes.
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Looking forward in 8 or so days to not wearing a mask much anymore.
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I lost my COVID V-card this weekend. Iām glad I didnāt have any big plans for the long Independence Day weekend.
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If you donāt want your vaccination records stored on teh cloud, well, fair 'nuff. But I found having it on my phone to be super convenient back when I regularly needed to show it. My gf even put a screen shot as her lock screen so she didnāt even have to unlock her phone to show it.
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