28 minutes ago, The Norseman said:

Good luck buddy. A colleague of mine who lives in Antwerp just got over it. Was laid up for 3 weeks and had to go to the hospital. Some of the strains over there are getting bad again.

First go round was pretty sheety for me but the others haven’t been so bad.

Ohhhhh crap his immune system is weak. Get him Diehard!

15 minutes ago, DEagle7 said:

Ohhhhh crap his immune system is weak. Get him Diehard!

He’s going to need more than that

44 minutes ago, we_gotta_believe said:

Stock up on that Ivermectin and show big pharma who's boss, brother!

No need. I have plenty of designer cloth masks and am about to get my 17th vaccine booster.

3 hours ago, DrPhilly said:

4th time around for me now. Been about four days. No major issues and much like the last time around. Just a bit tired, bit of a cough, low fever (max 100), headache... Wife a couple days ahead of me.

Going to get it once a year I suppose.

So far, my wife has not got it at all, and I have only gotten it one time. It was pretty mild for me. The biggest problem for me was quarantining for a week.

2 hours ago, The Norseman said:

Good luck buddy. A colleague of mine who lives in Antwerp just got over it. Was laid up for 3 weeks and had to go to the hospital. Some of the strains over there are getting bad again.

1 hour ago, The Norseman said:

No need. I have plenty of designer cloth masks and am about to get my 17th vaccine booster.

Trumpbot just got done saying his friend landed in the hospital from covid and in the very next breath he mocks the importance of the safe and effective vaccine available to help prevent that outcome.

1 minute ago, we_gotta_believe said:

Trumpbot just got done saying his friend landed in the hospital from covid and in the very next breath he mocks the importance of the safe and effective vaccine available to help prevent that outcome.

he was vaccinated and boosted, I asked

32 minutes ago, The Norseman said:

he was vaccinated and boosted, I asked

So it wasn’t effective keeping him from getting COVID or being hospitalized, but did he live?

26 minutes ago, Tnt4philly said:

So it wasn’t effective keeping him from getting COVID or being hospitalized, but did he live?

The vaccine is 95% effective in preventing hospitalization in people under 65. The remaining 5% are presumably immunocompromised. So either his friend is much older, is in the latter category, or he's just lying and hadn't received a booster in over 6 months, more likely a year. I have my theory.

Some details on my situation. I've had COVID four times including in the 1st week of Feb 2020 just as it started to hit the West. The first go round was pretty rough with lots of painful muscle spasms, fever up to 103/104, etc. The other three bouts were quick and relatively issue free. As for the vaccine, I've had four shots with the last one a couple years back. The 3rd and 4th shots brought a couple weeks of heart flutter/discomfort so I've decided to forgo more for now and will reassess as I approach 65. I don't have any health issues generally and in decent shape thru weight lifting workouts and some aerobic stuff.

Both my wife and I are fine. She's over it now and I'm close. I almost played golf today but probably did the right thing to hold off.

6 minutes ago, DrPhilly said:

I almost played golf today but probably did the right thing to hold off.

The rough is grateful

7 minutes ago, Arthur Jackson said:

The rough is grateful

Well, I never hit a ton of fairways but I'm solid at scrambling and quite good once I'm inside of 100yds

44 minutes ago, Arthur Jackson said:

The rough is grateful

The course’s or the wife’s?

10 minutes ago, Tnt4philly said:

The course’s or the wife’s?

Depends on if he's using a wood.

39 minutes ago, Arthur Jackson said:

Depends on if he's using a wood.

My woods are long

37 minutes ago, DrPhilly said:

My woods are long

I had covid twice but later. After vaccinated and after the Delta strain. I had a friend die of Delta right when the 1st vaccine was available. He didn't take it. Another friend just before vaccine time was hospitalized twice and actually suffered a stroke. Medical people took great care of her, and she is still unvaccinated and doing well today. I understand this since she was severely infected. A young co worker of mine unvaccinated lived thru being ventilated for almost 3 days. He was actually an undiagnosed diabetic. He is doing really well today. Is medicated for the diabetes and thriving.

I really haven't processed. I understand trying to vaccinate people to lower their symptoms, yet it didn't stop the spread. It needed to go where it needed to go and mutate. Some mutation's more dangerous than others. Let's just hope we don't live thru another pandemic.

19 minutes ago, DiPros said:

I had covid twice but later. After vaccinated and after the Delta strain. I had a friend die of Delta right when the 1st vaccine was available. He didn't take it. Another friend just before vaccine time was hospitalized twice and actually suffered a stroke. Medical people took great care of her, and she is still unvaccinated and doing well today. I understand this since she was severely infected. A young co worker of mine unvaccinated lived thru being ventilated for almost 3 days. He was actually an undiagnosed diabetic. He is doing really well today. Is medicated for the diabetes and thriving.

I really haven't processed. I understand trying to vaccinate people to lower their symptoms, yet it didn't stop the spread. It needed to go where it needed to go and mutate. Some mutation's more dangerous than others. Let's just hope we don't live thru another pandemic.

Sad stuff. One of my high school friend's little sister died and hadn't been vaccinated. She was a great athlete at Unionville and a national field hockey and lacrosse player. She had been running marathons and doing triathlons later in life and had just run a marathon a month before she got sick. She passed within two weeks of catching COVID.

5 minutes ago, DrPhilly said:

Sad stuff. One of my high school friend's little sister died and hadn't been vaccinated. She was a great athlete at Unionville and a national field hockey and lacrosse player. She had been running marathons and doing triathlons later in life and had just run a marathon a month before she got sick. She passed within two weeks of catching COVID.

It's why I get angry when people think they knew the answers and politicized it. So sad the loss of lives, and it was not just the old and decrypted. Feel better!

36 minutes ago, DiPros said:

I understand trying to vaccinate people to lower their symptoms, yet it didn't stop the spread.

Ot didn’t stop the spread, but who knows how much faster it would have spread, or more deadly it would have been without the vaccines.

8 minutes ago, Tnt4philly said:

Ot didn’t stop the spread, but who knows how much faster it would have spread, or more deadly it would have been without the vaccines.

So true IMHO

12 hours ago, lynched1 said:

False dilemma.

A third type of person is the one who does not GAF what others do when it doesn’t affect them.