And we did not have it either until we did. Our last booster was about 9 months ago, so possibly a booster after 6 months could have saved us.

We take ballroom dance lessons and attend a dance party every Friday evening. I can’t think of any other activity that one does in public that would be more conducive to transmission than spending 3 minutes with multiple partners with the head about 1 foot away from another person and holding one or both of their hands.

Edited to add: practically everyone we know contracted it during the Omicron wave.

The Omicron wave is what killed the pandemic so it was a net positive. Nature ran (is still running) its course.
https://forum.allaboutcircuits.com/threads/coronavirus.166679/post-1685890
https://forum.allaboutcircuits.com/threads/coronavirus.166679/post-1685950

 

Thyme +Salvia officinalis herbal tea plus sugar-free foods as possible ,
These things worked like charm for me when I felt some mild symptoms at first.
Also check if you have done things harmful to the nature :E

 

https://www.science.org/content/art...ientist-accused-being-pandemic-s-patient-zero
‘Ridiculous,’ says Chinese scientist accused of being pandemic’s patient zero
Ben Hu denies he was sick in late 2019, or that his coronavirus work led to COVID-19, and newly declassified U.S. intelligence doesn’t substantiate allegations against him

 

@BobTPH , I hope you have recovered.

 

I got worse two days after my post, went to the ER and was prescribed Paxlovid. Got better, tested negative at the one week point. Then yesterday tested positive again (bounce back) at two weeks. Symptoms are none to very mild. Hopefully will be done with this in a few days.

 

Symptoms are none to very mild. Hopefully will be done with this in a few days.

Who knows ... maybe you're the chosen one and your body's created the strain of antibodies that will end COVID forever ...

Jokes aside, I'm glad you're out of the woods ...

 

Oh, and the lovely wife Morticia( no Paxlovid) is recovered and tested negative, so maybe my Dr was right.

 

Oh, and the lovely wife ‘Morticia‘( no Paxlovid) is recovered and tested negative, so maybe my Dr was right.

And you go by Gomez? lol

kv

 

I've been vaxed and boosted 3-4? times and I hear there is another booster still to take but I've quit masking and laugh inside a bit when I see folks still wearing them. I always thought it was very odd when I'd see pictures of Asians masked up every time there was a flu outbreak but I guess the masking will be with us from now on. Used to be if I saw someone masked, I was scared to death they had tuberculosis because people infected are mandated to wear masks at all times and I gave them a wide berth. Not so anymore. The nurses were masked in the ER but most had them pulled down below their nose so it was just for show and to "follow protocol" I think.

 

My wife and I will get the 6th Covid vax dose soon. The Pfizer version has been tweaked for the Covid strain from "the other side of the world" and people from there are coming here every day.

 

https://apnews.com/article/pandemic...siness-labor-f33cdb6d2a9f0dbee8716c349d82250a
The Great Grift: 5 things to know about how COVID-19 relief aid was stolen or wasted

HOW MUCH WAS STOLEN?

An Associated Press analysis found that fraudsters potentially stole more than $280 billion in COVID-19 relief funding; another $123 billion was wasted or misspent. Combined, the loss represents a jarring 10% of the $4.2 trillion the U.S. government has so far disbursed in COVID-relief aid.

 

And you go by Gomez? lol

kv

That was a different costume. I currently go by Freddie.

 

https://www.webmd.com/covid/news/20230905/highly-mutated-covid-strain-cant-evade-immunity-as-feared
Highly Mutated COVID Strain Can’t Evade Immunity as Feared

Sept. 5, 2023 – The new highly mutated COVID variant BA.2.86 does not have a heightened ability to evade the protection of COVID vaccines or immunity from prior infection, new laboratory tests show.

The BA.2.86 variant grabbed the attention of public health officials in recent weeks due to its quick spread across the globe and a large number of mutations. Having so many mutations increased the chance that it would behave differently than previous versions of the virus, possibly making it more dangerous.

Now, experiments conducted by two teams of U.S. scientists show that antibodies from COVID vaccinations or prior infections can recognize and fight off the BA.2.86 version of the virus, CNN reported, noting that the protection may be “perhaps even better” than antibody responses to other currently circulating strains of the virus.

The new studies showed that people infected within the past 6 months with an XBB-version of the virus had the strongest immune responses to BA.2.86.

The CDC in last week’s COVID risk assessment update on BA.2.86 indicated that 97% of people in the U.S. have antibodies from previous infection, vaccination, or both, which “likely” will provide protection against severe cases of COVID-19.

 

https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/neanderthal-genes-are-linked-to-severe-covid-risk-d992ccad
Neanderthal Genes Are Linked to Severe Covid Risk
Study in Italy’s worst pandemic hot spot sheds light on why some people fell seriously ill and others didn’t

 

https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/neanderthal-genes-are-linked-to-severe-covid-risk-d992ccad
Neanderthal Genes Are Linked to Severe Covid Risk
Study in Italy’s worst pandemic hot spot sheds light on why some people fell seriously ill and others didn’t

I have some. My daughter took a test with 23andMe, result came back and she instantly blamed me. The ones I took also reveal those results.

kv

 

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/art...l-joe-nocera-bethany-mclean-book-excerpt.html

COVID Lockdowns Were a Giant Experiment. It Was a Failure.
A key lesson of the pandemic.

Michael Osterholm, the prominent epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota, also doesn’t think lockdowns did any good. “There is actually no role for lockdowns,” he says. “Look at what happened in China. They locked down for years, and when they finally relaxed that effort, they had a million deaths in two weeks.” As for flattening the curve, “that’s not a real lockdown,” Osterholm says. “You’re just reducing contact for a few weeks to help the hospitals.”

So in attempting to gauge the value of lockdowns, the most appropriate way is to look not just at COVID deaths but at all deaths during the pandemic years. That’s known as the “excess deaths” — a measure of how many more people died than in a normal year. One authoritative accounting was compiled by The Spectator using data gathered by the OECD. It showed that during the first two years of the pandemic — 2020 and 2021 — the U.S. had 19 percent more deaths than it normally saw in two years’ time. For the U.K., there was a 10 percent rise. And for Sweden — one of the few countries that had refused to lock down its society — it was just 4 percent. An analysis by Bloomberg found broadly similar results. In other words, for all the criticism Sweden shouldered from the world’s public health officials for refusing to institute lockdowns, it wound up seeing a lower overall death rate during the pandemic than most peer nations that shut down schools and public gatherings. It is not unreasonable to conclude from the available data that the lockdowns led to more overall deaths in the U.S. than a policy that resembled Sweden’s would have.

 

I've never worn a Mask.
It took me 3 days to be completely convinced that the whole fiasco was
a "test" to see how many people would willingly "comply" with the TV-Talking-Head-Actors.
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LowQCab, I guess you never got the 10(?) vaccinations that allowed kids to attend school, therefore you never went to school.
How many millions of antivaxxers were killed by the flu and by Covid?

Maybe not as many as were killed or injured by the vaccines.

 

The Covid and other vaccines kept most of us vaccinated people healthy. The few who caught Covid were not seriously ill.
The hospitals were over-filled with dying anti-vaxers.

Vaccines are made to kill and injure viruses, not people.

 

In my experience there are two things that militate against “conspiracy theories” as being the answers to large scale social phenomomena.

First, having worked on projects of varying scales it is my conclusion that the competence and secrecy required to pull off the sort of conspiracies generally offered as explanations for these large scale social phenomena are simply absent from the real world.

This is compounded by the rôle of chaos in things operating in the realm and at the scale required. It is the functional equivalent of controlling the weather. There is also the problem of greed. Somehow, the controllers of the conspiracy have to arrange things so the greed of conspirators at all levels doesn’t cause actions that will tend to destroy the intended conspiracy due to sub-conspiracies to increase personal profits.

These things don’t mean it is completely impossible to have a fairly grand conspiracy, but with the problems outlined above and the confounding factor of modern communications and instant mass publishing, it makes the idea so exceedingly unlikely as to be effectively impossible.

The second thing is an alternative explanation for these things. It is a sort of conspiracy, but not one centrally conceived or directed. So many of these things can be traced to a conspiracy of self-interest. That is, the convergence of self-interest by a variety of actors with varying levels of socioeconomic power will, quite organically, create steady state “conspiracies” without the need for explicit coordination.

I do believe there are actors who are capable of detecting and exploiting such emergent conspiracies, but it is more like surfing than building roads to their destination. And, when such a conspiracy collapses, these meta-actors have strategies to recover—even from what seems it should be the end of their powerful positions. They come back and do it again.