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

[Forerunner]

I avoided the toxic jab and built up natural immunity. I go out once a month and caught the plague from masked and probably people. I see the masked and vaxxed as a threat to my health, so I avoid them as much as possible.

 

[Remy]

Vaccinated, boosted (required to keep my job in California.} I wear a mask everywhere. I still shop, especially thrift stores. I take vitamins and vit. D though not daily. Hand sanitizer in my car and purse, (and use it immediately when I get back in my car after shopping) wash hands when I get home.

Don't expect things to change anytime soon.

 

[Oldntired]

I’ve been vaccinated and boosted. Wear my mask anytime I’m in a store and sanitize my hands, steering wheel, etc. as soon as I get back in the car. Wash my hands as soon as I get home. I’ve avoided crowds as much as possible and stopped taking my exercise class at the senior center. I’m going to start going back to my class in March. I just recently had a mild case of Covid…runny nose and slightly stopped up, very slight cough. No fever, aches, sore throat. I believe Covid is just floating around in the air.

 

[Sunny]

Oldntired, that's interesting, because I had exactly the same symptoms (runny nose for one day, very annoying but nothing more), and tested negative the next day. Did you test positive? Mine turned out to be just a cold (or something), but it definitely wasn't Covid.

 

[Sunny]

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Sane people with normal intelligence think for themselves & make their own health decisions & don't ridicule others who make a different decision than they made.
Such behavior not only shows their lack of maturity, it also shows their lack of confidence in their choice to get vaccinated.

Yes, we obviously do make our own health decisions. Mine is to do what I can to stay healthy, and to use the miracles of medical science that have been proven to work.

900,000 people in this country are already dead from this disease. Millions more throughout the world. But your "decision" is to ignore the safe vaccine that will protect you, and keep up the smirky mocking about it.

Either:
a. You have a phobia of needles and/or vaccines
b. You have been brainwashed
c. You are intelligent enough to have been vaccinated, like most of us on this forum. But you enjoy being a troll, stirring up arguments, which in your case go on endlessly.

I wonder how you would feel about a person who smokes around the clock, has been smoking since his teens, and has been lucky enough not to have any bad health effects from it, or says so anyway... and keeps endlessly arguing on a social forum that the tobacco lobby is right, People should make their own "health decisions" about whether to smoke. You are living proof that the medical establishment is wrong, or prejudiced against the tobacco farmers or something. How sane or intelligent would you sound?

 

[suds00]

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Yes, we obviously do make our own health decisions. Mine is to do what I can to stay healthy, and to use the miracles of medical science that have been proven to work.

900,000 people in this country are already dead from this disease. Millions more throughout the world. But your "decision" is to ignore the safe vaccine that will protect you, and keep up the smirky mocking about it.

Either:
a. You have a phobia of needles and/or vaccines
b. You have been brainwashed
c. You are intelligent enough to have been vaccinated, like most of us on this forum. But you enjoy being a troll, stirring up arguments, which in your case go on endlessly.

I wonder how you would feel about a person who smokes around the clock, has been smoking since his teens, and has been lucky enough not to have any bad health effects from it, or says so anyway... and keeps endlessly arguing on a social forum that the tobacco lobby is right, People should make their own "health decisions" about whether to smoke. You are living proof that the medical establishment is wrong, or prejudiced against the tobacco farmers or something. How sane or intelligent would you sound?

i agree

 

[Oldntired]

Oldntired, that's interesting, because I had exactly the same symptoms (runny nose for one day, very annoying but nothing more), and tested negative the next day. Did you test positive? Mine turned out to be just a cold (or something), but it definitely wasn't Covid.

Yes, I tested positive. I had been feeling off for a few days, then decided I better take a test. My husband got sick about a week later but only had a runny nose for about three days. I was expecting Covid to be some horrible thing…very surprised symptoms were so mild.

 

[Irwin]

Yes, I tested positive. I had been feeling off for a few days, then decided I better take a test. My husband got sick about a week later but only had a runny nose for about three days. I was expecting Covid to be some horrible thing…very surprised symptoms were so mild.

Some people have mild symptoms or even no symptoms while other people wind up in the hospital or die. The unvaccinated are far more likely to wind up in the latter category. It's like playing Russian roulette.

 

[John cycling]

Yes, we obviously do make our own health decisions. Mine is to do what I can to stay healthy, and to use the miracles of medical science that have been proven to work.

The miracle is that so many people subscribe to their bogus BS, but considering the people who do, maybe not.

I wonder how you would feel about a person who smokes around the clock, has been smoking since his teens, and has been lucky enough not to have any bad health effects from it, or says so anyway... and keeps endlessly arguing on a social forum that the tobacco lobby is right, People should make their own "health decisions" about whether to smoke. You are living proof that the medical establishment is wrong, or prejudiced against the tobacco farmers or something. How sane or intelligent would you sound?

Actually a person like that is doing the same things that you do, i.e. poisoning yourself and then saying it's healthy.

The unvaccinated are far more likely to wind up in the latter category.

Because we haven't been poisoned, huh. Sure, keep believing that nonsense if it makes you feel better.

@suds00 - I never have and never will, which is why I'm healthy and you're not.
.

 

[suds00]

The miracle is that so many people subscribe to their bogus BS, but considering the people who do, maybe not.



Actually a person like that is doing the same things that you do, i.e. poisoning yourself and then saying it's healthy.



Because we haven't been poisoned, huh. Sure, keep believing that nonsense if it makes you feel better.
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this is nonsense yet you continue spewing it.hope that you never have to rely on any medicine to keep you alive.

 

[AnnieA]

bless you PB,..you'll make me cry... I'm constantly on the edge of tears, trying to be normal on here.. have hidden it all for a while now..

@hollydolly , I'm so sorry to see this, dear friend. Cannot imagine how betrayed that made you feel and how scared that early in the pandemic.

 

[hollydolly]

@hollydolly , I'm so sorry to see this, dear friend. Cannot imagine how betrayed that made you feel and how scared that early in the pandemic.

thank you Annie,

 

[Sunny]

I think most people have settled into a lifestyle that protects them as much as possible, and as much as they can stand. It seems to vary a lot from one person to another. Some people, especially those with certain religion/political incllinations, apparently enjoy flirting with death. Others go to the other extreme. Here's one example:

In the senior community where I live, most of us are reasonably careful and sane about Covid prevention. We have a nearly 100% vaccination rate and a very low (or nonexistent) death rate; I haven't heard of a single person in this community of about 9000 dying of it. But some manage to overdo everything, and this is no exception.

About a year ago, when the masking regulations and advice were much stricter than they are now, everybody wore a mask when going outdoors for a walk. If they were walking with a friend, they were careful to stay 6 feet apart. But for some people, that was still not enough. So if they were about to walk past you on the sidewalk, they would go out into the street and walk around you in a wide arc, leaving much more than 6 feet between you. Apparently, the much bigger risk of being hit by a car didn't bother them at all!

I guess this was considered either being considerate - after all, they were the ones assuming the risk of going out into the street, allowing you to have the sidewalk... or maybe it was just a way of showing off how super-careful they were. Or possibly their level of terror exceeded their level of common sense. Whatever the reason, it always struck me as ridiculous. After all, we were all masked, and we were outdoors, for heaven's sake!

While plenty of people are still wearing their masks outdoors, I haven't seen that walking in the street behavior for a long time now. So little by little, largely thanks to vaccination, things are slowly improving. We still have indoor mandates in my state (and the lowest death rate in the nation), but I have a feeling it will ease up soon. We will all find whatever level of accommodation we are comfortable with.

 

[Jules]

@Sunny - wow, 9000 in your senior community. We have many average towns that don’t have half or even a quarter of that.

We never had to wear or wore masks outside, that was a personal choice. On a sidewalk stepping off by the person approaching the traffic would step off (we were the one who could see the oncoming traffic) happens and would likely still happen except for the snowbanks. Our sidewalks aren’t 6’ wide. Obviously we didn’t step off it wasn’t safe to do so.

We still go single file when meeting others. I’ll be surprised if that goes away soon.

 

[Lewkat]

I wasn't aware of the overall outcome for you, Holly. So sorry to read this. Had another impression entirely. At any rate, be well my friend and know we care about you.

 

[Mr. Ed]

Master of the art of holding my breath

 

[win231]

Master of the art of holding my breath

That only works for Mayors.

 

[hollydolly]

I wasn't aware of the overall outcome for you, Holly. So sorry to read this. Had another impression entirely. At any rate, be well my friend and know we care about you.

thank you so much Lois, ..it was very difficult, and continues to be so...

 

[Alligatorob]

I see the masked and vaxxed as a threat to my health

How so?