Poll: What Did/Do You Do To Protect Yourself From COVID-19?

Tell us what you've been doing since 2020 and 2021 and 2022 to protect yourself from COVID-19.

  • Total voters
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Ruthanne

Ruthanne

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Tell us what you've been doing since 2020 and 2021 and 2022 to protect yourself from COVID-19. This is a multiple choice poll. You may select as many responses as you have done.
 

I answered the poll, but I think it's basically confusing. It asks what we have been doing since 2020, 2021, and 2022. What does that mean? Some of those things were done in 2020 and then stopped. One example is "quarantine." I clicked Yes for that, but only quarantined in 2020, before the vaccine came along. But the way the question is worded, it sounds like I've been quarantining SINCE 2020. That is not true, of course.
 

Adjusting to the pandemic wasn't much of a hardship for me.

I suppose I did experience some stress over the unknown and the possibility of getting sick.

It was a bit of an adjustment to shop every couple of weeks instead of running to the store every day or two.

"You just roll with it, baby." - Steve Winwood / Will Jennings
 
Sunny said:
I answered the poll, but I think it's basically confusing. It asks what we have been doing since 2020, 2021, and 2022. What does that mean? Some of those things were done in 2020 and then stopped. One example is "quarantine." I clicked Yes for that, but only quarantined in 2020, before the vaccine came along. But the way the question is worded, it sounds like I've been quarantining SINCE 2020. That is not true, of course.
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All I meant is the things that you've been doing over the past 3 years nothing more than that. It doesn't mean or it doesn't have to mean since 2020...
 
The only things I've been doing are the same things I always do - washing hands & not touching my face while I'm out.
I don't care for crowds, anyway. I've visited friends & they've been visiting me. Some are vaccinated, some are not. I don't ask & I don't care.
I'm not. I only wear a mask when shopping because it's required; not because I think it protects.
I've never asked any visitors to wear a mask, either. I've had several contractors & plumbers in my house. Only one wore a mask because he said it was his company's policy.
That's been working for me, so I see no reason to change. I don't mess with success. Your mileage may vary. :giggle:
 
Did not do poll as was never so simple, and evolved over months. Some of the time depending on specific situations, did some of those things. The "Worn a mask" item for instance is certainly the most dependent on situation. Early during the pandemic during our lockdown, it took weeks of posting on my local Nextdoor site to silence the stubborn numbers that thought everyone outdoors running and exercising were supposed to be wearing masks. Those that kept trying to spread guilt trips on anyone that didn't interpret policy as they did. The amount of back and forth hostile posting in several threads was ridiculous.

Yeah, people that never even read policies but rather received information from clueless tv reporters making terse comments. It wasn't enough to just post links to our county health department policy page because many continued to misinterpret that legalese like text. I had to comment line by line explaining what sentences meant since so many in this era have poor reading comprehension skills. And then that stopped but then there is much more pandemic nonsense we could discuss.
 
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In many ways, life went on as usual. This is a farming and fishing area and that doesn't stop. We still had to go shopping which we did quite often as an excuse to get out. We could also take different routes to town. We went out as much as we wanted because this is a sparsely populated area, and we don't socialise a lot. As time went on, it was obvious that people were adhering less and less to rules, but few people had problems with Covid.
 
In addition to masks, shots etc:Stayed as well informed as possible from reliable sources. Encouraged people who were “on the fence “to respect the science to protect themselves& others.
 
hollydolly said:
I did just about everything on the list.. I even became a hermit for the last 2 years basically... but I still got it..albeit at the beginning of the pandemic, but my husband who was working all through the pandemic got it and brought it home..
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Maybe you got it from another hermit. :LOL:
 
win231 said:
Maybe you got it from another hermit. :LOL:
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that was the problem.. my o/h wasn't a hermit.. I stayed home, having retired 2 years previously he went to work still, full time , he was supposed to be getting tested every morning when he got to work, and wearing a mask all day too ( which is what he was telling me) ....but I discovered much later he was also going to the pub at lunchtime, with a group of people from work ...so despite his promise to me that he was being careful in case I got it due to my real care.. he brought it home to me......we're now living apart...
 
Actually, I had quite a few of those things mandated to me as I live in NJ and in a Senior Living facility. Since COVID-19 grabbed me at the outset of the pandemic, I was pretty well protected, as I carried the antibodies. I am still tested to this date every 3 months and still have them. Of course I did get vaccinated and had the booster since I also subsequently underwent radiation treatments to both lungs. Pfizer felt that my immune system may have been slightly compromised by those treatments, so I opted for the booster to be on the safe side. Of course I was sick as all get out after each shot. Having the antibodies will do that.
 
I just recently got vaccinated (2nd shot on Jan 19th) but was taking other precautions, including social distancing pretty regularly. The exception that put me a little closer to others in a confined space was when I took a couple of bus trips to Atlantic City. I was blessed to not have a seat mates going and lots of empty seats all around me coming back on one of the trips. Masks are mandated to ride the bus. I take Zinc on a regular basis and have always almost obsessively been a hand washer. I've also been taking Vit D which is supposed to be helpful.

I go to the supermarket when they first open and usually only one or two other customers are there at that time. I have gone to Costco about three times since the pandemic. It's usually more crowded but I still try to keep my distance. My sister was annoyed at me for quite awhile because I refused dinner invitations due to COVID concerns about some of the guests. She and her S.O. had been vaccinated. I was exposed to my son when he had COVID but didn't catch it.
 
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hollydolly said:
that was the problem.. my o/h wasn't a hermit.. I stayed home, having retired 2 years previously he went to work still, full time , he was supposed to be getting tested every morning when he got to work, and wearing a mask all day too ( which is what he was telling me) ....but I discovered much later he was also going to the pub at lunchtime, with a group of people from work ...so despite his promise to me that he was being careful in case I got it due to my real care.. he brought it home to me......we're now living apart...
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Sorry to hear that, Holly.
 
hollydolly said:
that was the problem.. my o/h wasn't a hermit.. I stayed home, having retired 2 years previously he went to work still, full time , he was supposed to be getting tested every morning when he got to work, and wearing a mask all day too ( which is what he was telling me) ....but I discovered much later he was also going to the pub at lunchtime, with a group of people from work ...so despite his promise to me that he was being careful in case I got it due to my real care.. he brought it home to me......we're now living apart...
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These are difficult times for you.
 
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