damnit get vaccinated and wear a mask! 😡Yeah, I’m tired of wearing it, especially having to wear glasses but I’d rather deal with the annoyance of the mask than be hacking up a lung.
My 77 year old mother was diagnosed with influenza yesterday. Neither she nor the recent home health aide wear a mask around each other. Me? You sure as hell know I am cause I’ve got asthma & other immune issues.
This sign was on my doctors wall in the exam room yesterday. A totally preventable problem. 🤬
@JPSCHWEIZER63
Ooff! I’ve had chronic pneumonia in the past but funny enough, I’ve been ok since I started wearing a mask in 2020. Gee, if only doctors had told me all those years to wear a mask throughout winter, it may have saved me a lot of missed work and pain.
@see_the_sus And if you're already vaccinated but not boosted with the bi-valent, get that!
@sfleetucker I’ve been meaning to get the Omichron booster. Must schedule ASAP since The White House is ending funding for the vaccines the first of the year. 🤬
my $0.02? this is a terrific idea.
they are saying that this [bivalent] booster is much more effective against the current [omicron] strains.
so yes, i think now is the time for those who are willing to be vaxed to go get vaxed.
@grapho @sfleetucker Omichron hit me in July, despite having just gotten the 2nd booster in May. Ended up in the hospital for 3 days. I’ve been so damn busy since moving back to Albuquerque in September.
@see_the_sus @grapho you couldn’t get a dual booster before September.
@sfleetucker @grapho Oh well I don’t feel so bad now!
@see_the_sus YES! Even though I am vaxxed and boosted, I am immunocompromised and it's appalling to me how many people are running around maskless, even as numbers are rising. It's one reason why I get groceries and other things delivered as much as it's possible for me to do. I'm genuinely terrified of going into a retail establishment at this point.
@XaoslordErie I hadn’t gone in a big-box grocery store, (Walmart, Kroger…), since 2020 until I moved back here and have now had to go in some because I can’t convince my mom to let me help her place pickup orders! Same with brother2. 🤬
@see_the_sus I haven't set foot in a big store since winter 2021 and it was the only time I'd gone into one since spring 2020 in Portales. I did go to the Sprouts here in LC in winter 2021, and those two occurrences have been it for me. Just too many knuckleheads out there.
@XaoslordErie I still go in places like Sprouts, (was Fresh Thyme in IN), TJ’s, Whole Foods, Natural Grocers, etc. Smaller and faster to get out of.
@see_the_sus Many grocers here - like Sprouts, Albtersons, etc. are too far away for me to get to, and there's the infection fear I have, too, so I just go on and have stuff delivered. That said, I do miss the days when I could stroll around the farmer's markets and not have to fear for my life because someone insists on 'muh rights and freeDUMBS'.
@see_the_sus I'm sorry to hear this, I hope that she's ok soon, I worry for my 78 year old aunty , she talks her caregiver into taking her to the casino once a month at least!
@Tattoomonkey29 oy vey! Casinos are such healthy environments. 🤦
@see_the_sus I know right? :( Aunt Judy has her ways and as she lives an hour north of me there's no way to talk her out of it! In her mind she's 78 about had it with this world can't stand what is happening to it and no one is going to take her fun away !
@see_the_sus sorry to hear that, hopefully she will have a full recovery. Had my husband to the ER this morning, he's tested positive for RSV and is coughing his head off. Sent home, too late for antiviral medication same old hydrate, rest, otc meds. Could turn into pneumonia so come back then.