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

[Guest]

Any more word on deaths from Omicron? Saw the headlines of the first death occurring in Texas a week ago and then nothing since.

[3adays 454]

PSA — If you need a quick PCR or Rapid test go to the old Walnut Springs Elementary site in Dripping Springs. I’ve been the last two days and was the only car in the line. 

 

[Willfully Horn 8284]

1 hour ago, Immaculate Vibes said:

the unknown long term risk of the vaccine,

Yeah, no.

[Judge Roybeanbag 11860]

13 minutes ago, Eastwood said:

Wife has her smell and taste back already. My smell is starting to trickle back and I tasted about 75% of my coffee this morning. Kids seem to have skated by and they are unvaxxed due to age. We got it from a small, less than 15 person, family event where everyone was vaxxed, a couple boosted, a couple prior infected. The boosted people never had any symptoms, the prior infected plus Vax have coughs, but they also have been smoking for 3 decades, and those who were symptomatic were just vaxxed, not boosted.

I wanted to hold off on the booster until after the holidays because we had zero plans to be around random people and were only going to be around other vaxed people. I was going to get my booster literally this week, but Omicron didn't care. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that 1/4 of the entire nation is currently in some stage of COVID infection, be it incubation, active, or recovery in the final infectious hours/trace virus that would be detected. It is burning through every social circle in my family's life, right now.

I know it’s probably been asked and answered already, but for those of you who lost taste and smell, how much did that affect the burn you feel from spicy foods?   

[Eastwood 4394]

I know it’s probably been asked and answered already, but for those of you who lost taste and smell, how much did that affect the burn you feel from spicy foods?   

For me, I lost 95% of my taste and all I could really taste on the worst day was pepper and spicy food.

[Enchubben 5600]

41 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

R/Austin has a pinned thread with info about which stores have rapid tests in stock. The CVS near campus, and the one on 5th and Congress, and one in Pflugerville have stock in store, as of one hour ago.

Thanks dude. Houston here, though irrelevant now. 

[Surly Bevo 25778]

1 hour ago, Eastwood said:

 I wouldn't be surprised to hear that 1/4 of the entire nation is currently in some stage of COVID infection, be it incubation, active, or recovery in the final infectious hours/trace virus that would be detected. It is burning through every social circle in my family's life, right now.

Yea.  I've read stuff that estimates during higher transmission winter months 10-12% of the US is infected with a common cold virus on any given day.  If you think about the novelty of this that is still there and couple that with the fact Omicron is an order of magnitude more transmissible than OG Covid, which had transmissibility estimates fairly in line with the common cold, it's easy to buy a quarter of folks with this on any given day.  

Edited December 31, 2021 by Surly Bevo

[Anastasis 23718]

If I get COVID it will be directly traced back to the trip I just made to HEB.  What a total shit show that was. 

[Buzzrock 15149]

3 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

I don’t think that many people really care what their physician thinks unless the patient was already in agreement with the physician’s opinion or they had no opinion to start with. If you walked into a doctors office against the Covid vaccine, the doctor is not going to spend much time trying to convince you otherwise. They don’t want to talk you into a medical decision.

Is that how the conversation went with you and your doctor?

 

[statsman 5698]

Question- the vaccinated that get breakthrough Covid and have it bad enough to go to the hospital (and I know that vaccinated are like five percent as likely to get it bad, should they even get it)- are they older and/or fatter? More likely to have co-morbidities? 
(Asking because I’m not young anymore)

Edited December 31, 2021 by statsman

[Pato del Muerto 53603]

39 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

If I get COVID it will be directly traced back to the trip I just made to HEB.  What a total shit show that was. 

My mother cannot be vaccinated, and just yesterday my wife was able to get her set up on the heb app for curbside. Two damn years of in-person shopping for unvaxed, over 60, and high bmi.  Maddening that she wouldn’t bother taking some easy steps earlier. 

[Herbie Hancock 7503]

I can tell you the people I’m seeing are overwhelmingly middle age or older and either overweight, smoker, or both. And vaccinated. If I had a dollar for every person that has mistreated their body for the last 40 years that looks at me and says “It can’t be Covid I’ve had my shot!”

[TexasGrunt 72]

My daughter, no pics, is vaccinated and had covid in August. She has been feeling bad for almost 2 weeks, had covid symptoms. Did multiple covid rapid tests and a pcr in er, all negative. Her mom took her to er because she was feeling bad, fever and body aches, er found nothing wrong with her of course.. Did rapid today for a party tonight and postive....

[Foosters 18287]

4 hours ago, Lobo said:

Good point.  I think Americans have way different conversations with their physicians than the commercials/media would have us believe, or more likely---no conversations with their physicians.  

You guys got physicians?

[GreenspointTexas 9992]

Are people unable to tell where they are catching Omicron?

[StruggleBus 3922]

31 minutes ago, GreenspointTexas said:

Are people unable to tell where they are catching Omicron?

Probably from other people 

[MonkeyDoughnut 10811]

2 hours ago, statsman said:

Question- the vaccinated that get breakthrough Covid and have it bad enough to go to the hospital (and I know that vaccinated are like five percent as likely to get it bad, should they even get it)- are they older and/or fatter? More likely to have co-morbidities? 
(Asking because I’m not young anymore)

And are they going to hospital "because" of covid or was it tested when they got there for another reason? 

[Herbie Hancock 7503]

7 minutes ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

And are they going to hospital "because" of covid or was it tested when they got there for another reason? 

The ones I’m taking to the hospital have mostly already been diagnosed 5-10 days prior and have been unable to beat it or it has gotten worse to the point that their oxygen saturation is in the 70’s (normal in healthy adults is 97-100)

[Deej 77883]

Had exposure Sunday and Monday to two people who tested positive yesterday. CVS has an empty store in Pflugerville that is a testing center now. Grabbed an appointment yesterday for this morning. Negative...for now. 

[SimonBolivar 11068]

30 minutes ago, Deej said:

Had exposure Sunday and Monday to two people who tested positive yesterday. CVS has an empty store in Pflugerville that is a testing center now. Grabbed an appointment yesterday for this morning. Negative...for now. 

I was at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston yesterday which happened to be free day. That a huge mistake and I've now been exposed to every disease from the 4 corners of the globe.

[GTX Horn 1725]

So are the boosters more or less holding up at preventing symptomatic infection from Omicron? There’s seems to be a lot of breakthrough cases amongst those who have gotten the first round of shots but not as many breakthrough infections in people who’ve received a booster. At least that’s what I’ve gathered from anecdotal evidence from here and other boards and social media I peruse.

[gsoda3 3363]

Wife tested positive with symptoms yesterday. We've been tripled up since August. Youngest kid positive today, asymptomatic. Me and the other kids are so far negative. I've had my three shots once August also, the non-positive kids received their booster today. We'll see how long we last as negatives.

[Reynolds Woodcock 5101]

3 hours ago, Herbie Hancock said:

I wasn’t clear and that’s my fault. When I say promote, I mean really press the issue of being healthy. Give people discounts/tax credits for not being a drain on the healthcare system, not just for getting the shot. They were giving away prepaid credit cards in NYC and some other cities for being vax’d, why not reward people for losing weight or for checking in to the gym X amount of times in a set time period. I have a whole bunch of really silly ideas, so I’lll stop while I’m behind. 

 

3 hours ago, BrickHorn said:

I’m 100% behind this. But I think we all know how it would be received, because such a program is not without recent precedent. 

It would be helpful if a prominent public official - or maybe even the wife of a prominent public official - devoted 8 years to promoting something like healthy school lunches. I bet we could all coalesce around something as common sense as that.

Edited January 1, 2022 by blacklab
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[blacklab 12072]

There's a fat people thread around here somewhere if you want to talk about that and if you want to discuss what the government should or shouldn't do with regard to fatties there's a board for that

[DDD Dad 14663]

There's a fat people thread around here somewhere if you want to talk about that and if you want to discuss what the government should or shouldn't do with regard to fatties there's a board for that

I’m just big boned!

[Harrison Bergeron 1798]

22 hours ago, blacklab said:

There's a fat people thread around here somewhere if you want to talk about that and if you want to discuss what the government should or shouldn't do with regard to fatties there's a board for that

Life imitates art.

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Edited January 2, 2022 by Harrison Bergeron

[Pato del Muerto 53603]

On 12/31/2021 at 5:30 PM, SimonBolivar said:

4 corners of the globe.

Hmmm

[SimonBolivar 11068]

3 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Hmmm

If the Earth were a globe then everyone in Australia would fall off.

 

Edited January 2, 2022 by SimonBolivar

[Harrison Bergeron 1798]

4 hours ago, Harrison Bergeron said:

Life imitates art.

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@Celery Man Sorry for posting your wife.

[South Austin 53270]

On 12/31/2021 at 8:43 PM, blacklab said:

There's a fat people thread around here somewhere if you want to talk about that and if you want to discuss what the government should or shouldn't do with regard to fatties there's a board for that

[Nice Guy Eddie 13743]

Was just out for an early grocery run. The line for the unopened, drive-thru testing site looks to be the longest that I’ve seen yet. Add 30 degree temps, and I feel for the employees at that site. Their employer should be announcing some bonuses today. 

[Neonmoon 38130]

13 hours ago, Harrison Bergeron said:

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Take that shit to the CR 

[Gatorubet 30789]

I felt a little funny Saturday (a bit achey and tired) but attributed it to yard work and my not being as active since my pooch passed.

Yesterday i felt tired, more achey, was coughing, and had a 101 low fever. Slept 11 hours, and fever is gone. Do not really ache as much now.

Anyone have just a 1 day temp covid experience?

[Marcusshelton 86]

18 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

I felt a little funny Saturday (a bit achey and tired) but attributed it to yard work and my not being as active since my pooch passed.

Yesterday i felt tired, more achey, was coughing, and had a 101 low fever. Slept 11 hours, and fever is gone. Do not really ache as much now.

Anyone have just a 1 day temp covid experience?

My experience late October/early November was pretty much this. I would not have even thought Covid because it came and went so quickly and I was vaxxed. I was set to return to work the next day when I lost taste and smell. Tested positive and quarantined with lack of taste and smell being only symptom I still had. I felt great otherwise. 
 

[Eastwood 4394]

1 hour ago, Gatorubet said:

I felt a little funny Saturday (a bit achey and tired) but attributed it to yard work and my not being as active since my pooch passed.

Yesterday i felt tired, more achey, was coughing, and had a 101 low fever. Slept 11 hours, and fever is gone. Do not really ache as much now.

Anyone have just a 1 day temp covid experience?

I never even had a temp. Highest it ever got was 99. My body went into overdrive and had palpitations for 4 days, though.

[UTGrad98 2343]

I was exposed to someone at work Tuesday who later tested positive. Also exposed to someone who just felt bad that day but didn't get tested.  I felt chills,  had night sweats, a bad headache amd overall malaise Thursday night. No fever. Friday afternoon and since  felt right as rain. No symptoms at all.  Tested negative Friday morning after my bad night and then negative again this morning with 2 rapid antigen tests. I took a pcr today as well and will know tomorrow if I had it I guess. Strange course for me. Literally 1 bad night and then nothing. I'm thinking I didn't have covid but it sure felt like I  got something. I never ever get sick and especially like that.

[Newdoc 3511]

We are getting a ton of false negatives on the rapid antigen. Recommend PCR for confirmation of negative especially if exposed and symptomatic.

I suspect it is a combination of less test sensitivity to Omicron and lower viral loads with immunized and/or natural previous infections.

[statsman 5698]

I was with a (vaxed) friend on 12-24, who later tested positive (mild symptoms). I was tested when I found out, on the 29th (drive thru PCR). I have no symptoms at all. Luckily, CDC guidelines are relaxed (for fully vaxed, like me) to where I just need to wear a mask while out in public (which I do anyway). It is now the 2nd and I still don’t have test results back. 

[workswithseed 2205]

11 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

Take that shit to the CR 

Was it actually your wife?

[atomheartbevo 90679]

8 hours ago, statsman said:

I was with a (vaxed) friend on 12-24, who later tested positive (mild symptoms). I was tested when I found out, on the 29th (drive thru PCR). I have no symptoms at all. Luckily, CDC guidelines are relaxed (for fully vaxed, like me) to where I just need to wear a mask while out in public (which I do anyway). It is now the 2nd and I still don’t have test results back. 

We found out tonight we were exposed a few days ago, and we'll be doing the drive-through PCR like you did.  And the people that have it, they are friends we know from my wife's former church (which is a big-ass church), and of course they were at church this morning and were unmasked. They didn't know they had it - apparently they missed the messages/phone call/whatever means of informing them was used yesterday, because they had a shit-ton of family and friends texting/calling/emailing Happy New Years and just ignored a bunch of that stuff. I was impressed that somebody even tried to contact them about it on New Year's Day.

Anyways, when the husband called me tonight to tell us that we needed to get tested, we got to talking about other shit and we both have cedar/juniper issues (which is what he initially thought he had until his wife had issues, and she never has issues during cedar season in Austin).  He mentioned that the cedar was really bad because a lot of people at church this morning were clearly having problems, coughing, etc.

And I was just thinking about all of the stories of people testing positive for COVID who thought they had allergies, including him.

Would like to have had that smartphone app being developed that can tell a COVID cough from everything else, and just walk around with it running at a place like that church.

And I will be following the numbers this week to see if it truly is Ball Game since we are a week out from Christmas and a lot of people headed to parties Friday night, and plenty of others to Church this morning.

[atomheartbevo 90679]

I do think people are following this a lot more closely than some have claimed, because the few stores we went out to this weekend in Austin, including HEB, which was open, there were a lot more people masking up versus a few weeks ago. 

But of course, fucking cedar is hitting everything hard right now.  Then again, that maybe forcing more people to get tested.

 

[dcbc 14645]

13 hours ago, Gatorubet said:

I felt a little funny Saturday (a bit achey and tired) but attributed it to yard work and my not being as active since my pooch passed.

Yesterday i felt tired, more achey, was coughing, and had a 101 low fever. Slept 11 hours, and fever is gone. Do not really ache as much now.

Anyone have just a 1 day temp covid experience?

My wife, no pics, slept until 11 today, had a low grade (99.1) fever, and was tired.  She also coughed a couple of times.  She self-diagnosed herself as not having COVID, and I tend to believe her.

[XYZ 2154]

4 minutes ago, dcbc said:

My wife, no pics, slept until 11 today, had a low grade (99.1) fever, and was tired.  She also coughed a couple of times.  She self-diagnosed herself as not having COVID, and I tend to believe her.

FIFY. Also pics are not showing up for me.

[UTGrad98 2343]

On 1/2/2022 at 1:13 PM, Newdoc said:

We are getting a ton of false negatives on the rapid antigen. Recommend PCR for confirmation of negative especially if exposed and symptomatic.

I suspect it is a combination of less test sensitivity to Omicron and lower viral loads with immunized and/or natural previous infections.

Well both nasal swab and throat swab pcr came back negative. I am going to assume I am ok now. 

Edited January 3, 2022 by UTGrad98
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[Homercles 10206]

We just spent 11 days in Orlando for a Disney trip, a very special Santa gift that had already been rescheduled once else we would have tried to move back again.  It was an absolute madhouse with masks only required indoors/rides, and constant ACL-like crowds of maskless people outside.  It’ll be a miracle if none of us caught it despite masks.  

Given the huge number of morbidly obese and/or old people who couldn’t handle walking and were relegated to electric scooters, I’m pretty sure some of those I saw (and were constantly trying to run me over) won’t survive an infection.  Naturally they were least likely to wear a mask.  
 

Fingers crossed.  Buddy and his family took rapids today (negative) and so far no one is symptomatic, but will need a few more days to be sure. 

[Harrison Bergeron 1798]

11 minutes ago, Homercles said:

We just spent 11 days in Orlando for a Disney trip, a very special Santa gift that had already been rescheduled once else we would have tried to move back again.  It was an absolute madhouse with masks only required indoors/rides, and constant ACL-like crowds of maskless people outside.  It’ll be a miracle if none of us caught it despite masks.  

Given the huge number of morbidly obese and/or old people who couldn’t handle walking and were relegated to electric scooters, I’m pretty sure some of those I saw (and were constantly trying to run me over) won’t survive an infection.  Naturally they were least likely to wear a mask.  
 

Fingers crossed.  Buddy and his family took rapids today (negative) and so far no one is symptomatic, but will need a few more days to be sure. 

My son is heading back today from a week at Disney. You probably saw that lady from the picture I posted. The boy took it last week at the Magic Kingdom, and he saw her at least twice but does not have the skills of some of our "Hot or Not" posters and did not risk a picture on day two! LOL.

[bschoolprof 6352]

47 minutes ago, Homercles said:

We just spent 11 days in Orlando for a Disney trip, a very special Santa gift that had already been rescheduled once else we would have tried to move back again.  It was an absolute madhouse with masks only required indoors/rides, and constant ACL-like crowds of maskless people outside.  It’ll be a miracle if none of us caught it despite masks.  

Given the huge number of morbidly obese and/or old people who couldn’t handle walking and were relegated to electric scooters, I’m pretty sure some of those I saw (and were constantly trying to run me over) won’t survive an infection.  Naturally they were least likely to wear a mask.  
 

Fingers crossed.  Buddy and his family took rapids today (negative) and so far no one is symptomatic, but will need a few more days to be sure. 

We went in early December. I was amazed/uphualed at all the fats in scooters that got to jump in the front of the line. Holy shit there are so many of them. We did the new star wars ride, which is kinda supposed to be role playish/immersive, but it's hard to imagine yourself taking on the dark side when our ship has 11 scooters of 300 pound fatties. The only resistance they are mounting is to insulin.   

[Homercles 10206]

I’m 30lbs overweight and probably worse after the holidays, so can’t talk too much smack…but managed 20k steps a day, often pushing 3 kids in a stroller, without issue.  If they’re too obese to handle that then I wish they’d just stay home.  The constant backup beepers from them was a humorous addition. 
 

And we managed to do Rise of the Rebellion twice, those seats are pretty tight by WDW standards and I’m not sure how some manage that.  

[Nice Guy Eddie 13743]

54 minutes ago, Harrison Bergeron said:

My son is heading back today from a week at Disney. You probably saw that lady from the picture I posted. The boy took it last week at the Magic Kingdom, and he saw her at least twice but does not have the skills of some of our "Hot or Not" posters and did not risk a picture on day two! LOL.

taking photos is a good way to be publicly shamed. Probably 50/50 this guy posts here.

 

[Nueces River Rat 5799]

On 1/2/2022 at 10:19 AM, Gatorubet said:

I felt a little funny Saturday (a bit achey and tired) but attributed it to yard work and my not being as active since my pooch passed.

Yesterday i felt tired, more achey, was coughing, and had a 101 low fever. Slept 11 hours, and fever is gone. Do not really ache as much now.

Anyone have just a 1 day temp covid experience?

I came down with the stuff on Wednesday.    I had a low grade fever and chills from Wednesday evening, the balance of the day on  Thursday and broke the fever Friday morning.   But as of today, I still fell the fatigue.  

I got both of my vaccines in August, and I'm still confused about the booster and the timing.   Why does waiting six months stick to mind with the booster?   

Edited January 3, 2022 by Nueces River Rat