COVID-19 2nd wave - Texas only - Stats and such

[gsoda3 3245]

son just tested positive on a home test today.  he started complaining about a headache last night but i attributed that to being on the lake all day.  this morning he woke up with the same headache and a very slight cough.  developed a fever at 11:30am.  that's when i pulled out the home test and he popped the positive result.  so we all went and got pcr tests, awaiting results.  

[Snake Diggity 4619]

Went for a run for the first time since catching COVID.  My household’s COVID timeline:

6/10: 3 year old sent home with fever.

6/11: 3 year old with 101-103 fever.  I start feeling bad. 

6/12: I feel like total shit.  Wife starts feeling bad.  Me and 3 year old test negative for COVID.

6/13-6/14: Wife and I feel like shit, 3 year old mostly better. 6 year old still well. All but 6 year old test positive for COVID.

6/16: 6 year old starts feeling bad. Wife and I start feeling better. 3 year old is well.

6/17: 6 year old to ER with 105+ fever.  I go for a walk and have to stop to catch my breath every 1/4 mile (I usually run 3 miles ~twice a week).

6/18-6/20: 6 year old sick with fever 101-104.  Wife and I mostly better but with lingering cough and fatigue.

6/22: 6 year old feels a lot better and hasn’t had fever since 6/20.  Me and wife test “barely” positive.  3 year old tests negative.  6 year old tests positive.

6/23-6/26: Head to the coast.  Stay to ourselves.  Kids are well; 6 year old has minor stuffy nose that could just be allergies.  Me and wife feeling better but still some minor lingering cough/congestion and fatigue.  I feel well enough to drink a few beers on the beach on Friday and Saturday.

6/27: 6 year old tests negative.  I feel “well” for the first time in 2 weeks, and go for a 3 mile run, feel mostly normal but can tell I’m out of shape.

 

That shit was not cool.

Edited June 27, 2022 by Snake Diggity

[Jiggy-Z 3432]

On 6/26/2022 at 5:52 PM, Jiggy-Z said:

I will also add...very contagious. I think I got mine at the one and only meeting I have attended in the kast two years.

As it turns out this was the event.  We had about a dozen Japanese guys in the meeting and they are all stuck here in Austin because they are not welcome back in their home country.

I am supposed to go to Norway on the 6th with my family.  I have to go straight to my quarantine room when I get home. My wife controls all the streaming passwords and they have not been forthcoming.

I am allowed to watch TV as long as I go outside and look through the window.

I do get room service though.

I'm thinking eggs Benedict for breakfast.

[Bozo_Casanova 26436]

After 11 straight weeks on the road and many mass gatherings with superspreader outcomes and not getting it, I got from my wife when I got home. 
I came back Thursday night looking forward to two blissful weeks at home, but she tested positive Saturday.

I was negative until this morning, but positive this afternoon. 
Don’t care, had sex
 

 

Edited June 27, 2022 by Bozo_Casanova

[bschoolprof 6252]

A friend of mine tested positive last week, but just had to go see his side piece, as her husband is out of town for work a lot and was due to come back. No one seems to care about precautions anymore.

[Orale 1087]

I've joined the club (suck it never-covids!). I flew late last week. I mask in terminal and until the filtration system kicks on around take off. But who knows. I woke up with a mild cold and light cough this morning. Took the test just in case and sure enough. It sucks because I'm still on that trip and now I'll be isolating in a hotel room all week (with some masked walks in nearby parks). After a round of DayQuil and Vitamin C I feel pretty good. I'm vaxxed/boosted so I'm glad for that. Hopefully I don't get the up and down recovery some experienced. Onward!

[Grade of D as in David 13253]

3 hours ago, bschoolprof said:

A friend of mine tested positive last week, but just had to go see his side piece, as her husband is out of town for work a lot and was due to come back. No one seems to care about precautions anymore.

You didn't need to call out your buddy for rawdogging his side piece.

[achooloco 1067]

11 hours ago, LTtxfan said:

How often can you get a booster shot especially for Seniors ??

(Have family members in their 90's that have had 3 shots already...)

Not positive but I think for the olds the second booster has been approved. Pretty sure my parents got original vax in Aprilish 2021, booster October 2021, booster Mayish 2022.

edit: they’re in their late 70s

Edited June 28, 2022 by achooloco

[Jiggy-Z 3432]

6 hours ago, achooloco said:

Not positive but I think for the olds the second booster has been approved. Pretty sure my parents got original vax in Aprilish 2021, booster October 2021, booster Mayish 2022.

edit: they’re in their late 70s

Info is getting sloppy in here.

My parents (80s)have already had a 4th shot. 2 shots original vacine + booster 1 + booster 2.

I myself at the young age of 55 have had booster 1 and am ellipse for booster 2. I think it is 50+ now considered old.

[South Austin 52448]

11 hours ago, bschoolprof said:

A friend of mine tested positive last week, but just had to go see his side piece, as her husband is out of town for work a lot and was due to come back. No one seems to care about precautions anymore.

Your friend is a piece of shit.

[CooterBrown 18003]

13 hours ago, Jiggy-Z said:

As it turns out this was the event.  We had about a dozen Japanese guys in the meeting and they are all stuck here in Austin because they are not welcome back in their home country.

I am supposed to go to Norway on the 6th with my family.  I have to go straight to my quarantine room when I get home. My wife controls all the streaming passwords and they have not been forthcoming.

I am allowed to watch TV as long as I go outside and look through the window.

I do get room service though.

I'm thinking eggs Benedict for breakfast.

No TV in your quarantine room? Have Favor pick you up a TV and streaming stick at Costco. Delivered in 2 hours. 

 

[CooterBrown 18003]

1 hour ago, Jiggy-Z said:

Info is getting sloppy in here.

My parents (80s)have already had a 4th shot. 2 shots original vacine + booster 1 + booster 2.

I myself at the young age of 55 have had booster 1 and am ellipse for booster 2. I think it is 50+ now considered old.

A 2nd booster is available for anyone with specific health issues. Anyone over 50 can also get a 2nd booster. 

[bschoolprof 6252]

Your friend is a piece of shit.

I don’t know what Bozo’s wife sees in him.

[Bozo_Casanova 26436]

4 hours ago, bschoolprof said:

I don’t know what Bozo’s wife sees in him.

She’s got weird taste

Edited June 28, 2022 by Bozo_Casanova

[achooloco 1067]

16 hours ago, Jiggy-Z said:

Info is getting sloppy in here.

My parents (80s)have already had a 4th shot. 2 shots original vacine + booster 1 + booster 2.

I myself at the young age of 55 have had booster 1 and am ellipse for booster 2. I think it is 50+ now considered old.

Eh, my understanding was the original vax recommended for almost everyone to get both rounds. Being in New York, didn’t meet anyone who seriously considered one shot as “I’m vaxxed!”. Everyone just got both cause why fucking risk it after the all the deaths we saw in the beginning. So I’ve always considered two shots as fully originally vaxxed, none of this half shit.

so original full dose + 1st one shot booster + 2nd one shot booster.

I guess I’m just weird but I wouldn’t say That my folks had 4 shots, just that they got boosted twice and I expected that to be the norm.

As to the original question, I guess I just read it my way but looks like I was wrong. Yours was the correct way to interpret it and a 90+ olds are eligible now for a second booster. 

Edited June 29, 2022 by achooloco

[dcbc 14465]

I got my original two vaccine doses in December 2020 and January 2021.  Boosted in August 2021.  Followed TXCARES results from September 2021 through February 2022, no infection, and antibodies from vaccine always about 2,500 (out of range).  I've been holding out for a strain specific booster, but if we don't have that or plans for that by this August, I'll probably re-up before the kids go back to school.  It looked like this wave was calming down, but the numbers this week are less encouraging.  Hope I can dodge it yet again, but no one else other than South Austin seems to have been so lucky.  I haven't felt the need to be overly cautious since February.  And my June experience seems to have been blind luck thus far.  But I may be digging the mask out of the glove compartment soon for big crowds.

[Don Johnson 4752]

Those of you still hiding from it, just go ahead and get it (unless you are high risk).  Sure, getting sick sucks (and it doesn't even suck for everyone), but it's better than months and months of stress over avoiding it.  And if you have kids, summer is the best time to have you world turned upside down for a week or two.

[Judge Roybeanbag 11819]

18 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

She’s got weird taste

That’s because of Covid, no taste at all.

I went to a work function yesterday with probably 75 or so people in the office.  Probably will get sick now, I’m over 50 and haven’t gotten my 2nd booster.  

Edited June 29, 2022 by Judge Roybeanbag

[dcbc 14465]

37 minutes ago, Don Johnson said:

Those of you still hiding from it, just go ahead and get it (unless you are high risk).  Sure, getting sick sucks (and it doesn't even suck for everyone), but it's better than months and months of stress over avoiding it.  And if you have kids, summer is the best time to have you world turned upside down for a week or two.

I'm going to wait for @South Austin to get it first.  I'm not hiding from it at this point.  But I'm not going out and licking toilet seats either.  I just spent half a week in Austin in a room full of people for eight hours a day at a conference followed by long waits in crowded restaurant bars waiting for a table and no dice.  Nobody masked and nobody worried, myself included.  I'm sure my number will be called, but it hasn't been yet (knock wood).  If getting it meant I'd really be done with it, I might be eying those toilet seats a little more closely.  But it doesn't.  I could get it tomorrow and get it again in the fall.  So I feel like I'm better off living my life, managing to avoid it by pure luck and a modicum of common sense.  And if I get it during the school year, at least I'll have the house to myself during the day to convalesce. 

[South Austin 52448]

2 minutes ago, dcbc said:

I'm going to wait for @South Austin to get it first. 

Hey, I'm doing my part.  Went to San Fran this past weekend.  Going to New Orleans next week for a Fifth Circuit oral argument.  Colorado in early August.  No masks in airports, planes, restaurants, etc. 

[HouTex 1866]

1 hour ago, Don Johnson said:

Those of you still hiding from it, just go ahead and get it (unless you are high risk).  Sure, getting sick sucks (and it doesn't even suck for everyone), but it's better than months and months of stress over avoiding it.  And if you have kids, summer is the best time to have you world turned upside down for a week or two.

This.  I finally got it last week.   Everyone reacts differently to being sick, but for the vast majority of healthy people it’s a light cold now.  The main negative for me was the isolation.  

[Don Johnson 4752]

10 minutes ago, HouTex said:

This.  I finally got it last week.   Everyone reacts differently to being sick, but for the vast majority of healthy people it’s a light cold now.  The main negative for me was the isolation.  

When I say this, I'm not talking about OG Covid.  Or unvaccinated, elderly or obese people with asthma, etc. 

I'm talking about you average healthy individual under 60.  People say it sucks, but colds and the flu have always "sucked" (you don't feel like yourself for a few days) but we never stressed out about avoiding those.  

For a number of people I know, getting it was the best thing that ever happened to them.  It got them out of this stressful shell they'd been living in.  You realize you're going to be just fine.

Edited June 29, 2022 by Don Johnson

[dcbc 14465]

1 hour ago, South Austin said:

Hey, I'm doing my part.  Went to San Fran this past weekend.  Going to New Orleans next week for a Fifth Circuit oral argument.  Colorado in early August.  No masks in airports, planes, restaurants, etc. 

Good luck in the Fizithf.  What kind of case?

[dcbc 14465]

22 minutes ago, Don Johnson said:

When I say this, I'm not talking about OG Covid.  Or unvaccinated, elderly or obese people with asthma, etc. 

I'm talking about you average healthy individual under 60.  People say it sucks, but colds and the flu have always "sucked" (you don't feel like yourself for a few days) but we never stressed out about avoiding those.  

For a number of people I know, getting it was the best thing that ever happened to them.  It got them out of this stressful shell they'd been living in.  You realize you're going to be just fine.

I got over worrying about it some time ago.  If I get it, fine.  I'll deal with it.  If I don't, better but still fine.  Since getting it once doesn't prevent me from getting it again, I'd just as soon not get it while also not worrying about it.

[South Austin 52448]

8 minutes ago, dcbc said:

Good luck in the Fizithf.  What kind of case?

It involves public improvement districts. Extremely boring subject matter unless you’ve been swimming in litigation over it for the past two years. 

[dcbc 14465]

Just now, South Austin said:

It involves public improvement districts. Extremely boring subject matter unless you’ve been swimming in litigation over it for the past two years. 

Ooh, yeah.  Maybe start off with some magic tricks to keep the panel engaged.

 

[Pato del Muerto 52485]

26 minutes ago, dcbc said:

Ooh, yeah.  Maybe start off with some magic tricks to keep the panel engaged.

 

Illusions, dcbc. 

[Brisketexan 105062]

It involves public improvement districts. Extremely boring subject matter unless you’ve been swimming in litigation over it for the past two years. 

Wait until Edith Jones audibly sighs in exasperation during your argument. That’s fun. It cracked GOLL up so much when it happened to me that he may have made it his ring tone.

[dcbc 14465]

5 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Wait until Edith Jones audibly sighs in exasperation during your argument. That’s fun. It cracked GOLL up so much when it happened to me that he may have made it his ring tone.

When she sighs, you know you're on the right side of history.

[dcbc 14465]

25 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Illusions, dcbc. 

Man, I really set myself up for that one.  Well played.

[Brisketexan 105062]

1 hour ago, dcbc said:

When she sighs, you know you're on the right side of history.

We were.  Didn't matter.  But afterwards, we went to Felix's and drank a crapload of beer and ate 5 dozen oysters....each.  While our bartender told us the story of his two sons -- one of whom was going to Tulane on a full ride, the other of whom was headed to be a guest of the state at Angola for a LONG time.

[PantsTent 2002]

Checking in as never had it and haven't really taken any precautions for the last year other than following mask mandates when they were requested by businesses. Same goes for the wife and 2 daughters.  I'm not the type that sits in crowded bars every weekend but have been to bars, restaurants, planes, sporting events, concerts, private gatherings, etc.  Most of my daughter's friends have gotten it but she never has either despite being around them at the time.  I get the feeling NYC will do us in next week, otherwise maybe they can use my blood for treatment or something.

 

[dcbc 14465]

On 6/29/2022 at 12:38 PM, Brisketexan said:

We were.  Didn't matter.  But afterwards, we went to Felix's and drank a crapload of beer and ate 5 dozen oysters....each.  While our bartender told us the story of his two sons -- one of whom was going to Tulane on a full ride, the other of whom was headed to be a guest of the state at Angola for a LONG time.

Haven't been to Felix's since my bachelor party weekend in 2002.  Good memories, what memories there ever were.  Followed that up with Mother's on Podras for breakfast the next day.

 

 

Edited July 7, 2022 by dcbc

[Nice Guy Eddie 13508]

On 6/27/2022 at 8:20 PM, bschoolprof said:

A friend of mine tested positive last week, but just had to go see his side piece, as her husband is out of town for work a lot and was due to come back. No one seems to care about precautions anymore.

surly husbands who have both recently tested positive AND were out of town be like

 

[bschoolprof 6252]

12 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

surly husbands who have both recently tested positive AND were out of town be like

 

yeah it was a (obviously bad) joke prompted by Bozo's post right before it. Maybe I should have made it more on the nose. He got it though. It may have angered@South Austin though.  

[Patron 230]

19 hours ago, dcbc said:

I got my original two vaccine doses in December 2020 and January 2021.  Boosted in August 2021.  Followed TXCARES results from September 2021 through February 2022, no infection, and antibodies from vaccine always about 2,500 (out of range).  I've been holding out for a strain specific booster, but if we don't have that or plans for that by this August, I'll probably re-up before the kids go back to school.  It looked like this wave was calming down, but the numbers this week are less encouraging.  Hope I can dodge it yet again, but no one else other than South Austin seems to have been so lucky.  I haven't felt the need to be overly cautious since February.  And my June experience seems to have been blind luck thus far.  But I may be digging the mask out of the glove compartment soon for big crowds.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/moderna-ceo-covid-variant-vaccine-be-ready-shipping-august-2022-06-22/

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/25/1107638114/covid-pfizer-omicron-vaccine

[justhookit 4191]

^

@Anastasis seems like that’s about 6 months late. It’s not the variant we are dealing with now as far as I can tell. Unless they think the new vaccine will provide better protection from severe disease than the original?

[Anastasis 23459]

13 minutes ago, justhookit said:

^

@Anastasis seems like that’s about 6 months late. It’s not the variant we are dealing with now as far as I can tell. Unless they think the new vaccine will provide better protection from severe disease than the original?

Haven't really dug into the details, but at minimum seems like it should be closer to the current variants in circulation that the original wuhan strain. As I understand it, all the current variants in circulation are more closely related to omicron than original wuhan strain. I am triple vaxxed and had elite level antibody response and don't really see the pressing need for another shot until they update the vaccine. My calculus would be different if I was an old or had other circumstances. But yeah, would have liked to have had an updated vax available a few months ago. In the meantime, family has been going commando for a while now and just doing hand washing and common sense type stuff without a lot of worry. Shit I spent some time last week in a casino. We've all dodged symptomatic COVID so far (wife tripped a positive N antibody test but was asymptomatic), no jinx.  

ETA: I will boost as soon as available with an updated vaccine. Will slow play boosting the kids (none to date have been boosted). 

Edited June 30, 2022 by Anastasis

[Patron 230]

Another vax in test.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/biontech-pfizer-starting-testing-universal-coronavirus-vaccine-h2-2022-06-29/

 

[Foosters 17828]

Welp, after 2+ years working everyday in a crowded building, I finally joined the club today. Feeling not so great.

10 day out-of-state vacation was supposed to start tomorrow...

[utee94 15805]

1 minute ago, Foosters said:

Welp, after 2+ years working everyday in a crowded building, I finally joined the club today. Feeling not so great.

10 day out-of-state vacation was supposed to start tomorrow...

Timing is a real bitch, that sucks.  Hope your symptoms stay mild.

[South Austin 52448]

43 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

In the meantime, family has been going commando for a while now and just doing hand washing and common sense type stuff without a lot of worry.

So are you saying that if I stop wearing underwear I have a better chance of avoiding COVID?

[Gatorubet 30185]

On 6/28/2022 at 1:13 PM, Bozo_Casanova said:

She’s got weird taste

You need to have the ass to mouth consequences chat.

Edited June 30, 2022 by Gatorubet

[grazinhorn 472]

8 minutes ago, South Austin said:

So are you saying that if I stop wearing underwear I have a better chance of avoiding COVID?

[dcbc 14465]

17 minutes ago, South Austin said:

So are you saying that if I stop wearing underwear I have a better chance of avoiding COVID?

People may be more likely to stay six feet away from you.

[South Austin 52448]

6 minutes ago, dcbc said:

People may be more likely to stay six feet away from you.

[Anastasis 23459]

34 minutes ago, South Austin said:

So are you saying that if I stop wearing underwear I have a better chance of avoiding COVID?

Working so far for me. 

[utee94 15805]

[chainsaw 9857]

On 6/28/2022 at 7:57 AM, South Austin said:

Your friend is a piece of shit.

Jodie is dedicated

[Borachio 416]

I tested positive last Thursday, at home and PCR. First timer.  Was negative this morning with an at home test, but I've probably been negative for at least a few days now. 

Symptoms started last Tuesday.   I had 3 symptoms,  mild nasal congestion, sore neck/lower back and my sense of taste was going in and out over the weekend.  All very mild.