Upswing in reported cases locally

chic said:
That was my thought also. It ends when people stop complying.
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Ok, read these "lies"...do you follow the protocols! Do your own research...if you are going to wear masks, you have to follow the guidelines or they will actually put you at greater risks...

MASKS

For those of you that 'totally' accept the "science" behind wearing masks for the Covid virus… I am sure you follow the guidelines on "How to Properly Wear a Face Mask"? Below, I have provided specifics from John Hopkins Medicine. I have read. If you do not "follow" these guidelines, you are wasting your time wearing the masks...from my personal observations very few, if any, who wear masks follow these guidelines.


HEALTH INFOGRAPHIC
How to Properly Wear a Face Mask: Infographic
John Hopkins Medicine, Lisa Lockerd Maragakis, M.D., M.P.H.

Wearing a face mask in public helps prevent the spread of COVID-19 — but only if worn properly, covering both your nose and mouth. Read our mask-wearing tips to get the maximum protection for yourself and others.


FOLLOW THESE GUIDELINES TO PROPERLY WEAR YOUR FACE MASK​

Wash your hands before and after touching the mask. You must wear an N92 mask for viruses. All other mask's, paper of cloth, are too porous for virus protection.

  • Touch only the bands or ties when putting on and taking off your mask.
  • Make sure the mask fits to cover your nose, mouth, and chin. If you adjust the mask to cover those areas, wash your hands before and after.
  • Make sure you can breathe and talk comfortably through your mask.
  • Wash reusable masks after each use. If the mask is disposable, discard it when visibly soiled or damaged.
TO PROTECT YOURSELF AND OTHERS, AVOID THESE COMMON MASK-WEARING MISTAKES

We do not recommend wearing bandanas, gaiters, masks with exhalation valves or clear shield-like face masks* as face coverings.

Don’t touch your or your child’s mask while it is being worn.

Don’t wear the mask under your chin with your nose and mouth exposed.

Don’t leave your nose or mouth uncovered.

Don’t remove the mask while around others in public.

Don’t share your mask with family members or friends.
 
Timewise 60+ said:
Ok, read these "lies"...do you follow the protocols! Do your own research...if you are going to wear masks, you have to follow the guidelines or they will actually put you at greater risks...

MASKS

For those of you that 'totally' accept the "science" behind wearing masks for the Covid virus… I am sure you follow the guidelines on "How to Properly Wear a Face Mask"? Below, I have provided specifics from John Hopkins Medicine. I have read. If you do not "follow" these guidelines, you are wasting your time wearing the masks...from my personal observations very few, if any, who wear masks follow these guidelines.


HEALTH INFOGRAPHIC
How to Properly Wear a Face Mask: Infographic
John Hopkins Medicine, Lisa Lockerd Maragakis, M.D., M.P.H.

Wearing a face mask in public helps prevent the spread of COVID-19 — but only if worn properly, covering both your nose and mouth. Read our mask-wearing tips to get the maximum protection for yourself and others.


FOLLOW THESE GUIDELINES TO PROPERLY WEAR YOUR FACE MASK​

Wash your hands before and after touching the mask. You must wear an N92 mask for viruses. All other mask's, paper of cloth, are too porous for virus protection.

  • Touch only the bands or ties when putting on and taking off your mask.
  • Make sure the mask fits to cover your nose, mouth, and chin. If you adjust the mask to cover those areas, wash your hands before and after.
  • Make sure you can breathe and talk comfortably through your mask.
  • Wash reusable masks after each use. If the mask is disposable, discard it when visibly soiled or damaged.
TO PROTECT YOURSELF AND OTHERS, AVOID THESE COMMON MASK-WEARING MISTAKES

We do not recommend wearing bandanas, gaiters, masks with exhalation valves or clear shield-like face masks* as face coverings.

Don’t touch your or your child’s mask while it is being worn.

Don’t wear the mask under your chin with your nose and mouth exposed.

Don’t leave your nose or mouth uncovered.

Don’t remove the mask while around others in public.

Don’t share your mask with family members or friends.
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Why did you quote ME? :unsure:
 

Timewise 60+ said:
Look folk's viruses mutate all the time, that is why we NEVER get rid of them (e.g. colds, seasonal flu, etc. etc.) Covid is no different, except that the governments/ CDC keep reporting metrics through the media. Many times the uptick in reported cases is due to an increase in the number of covid tests being done. If you test more people you will find more infections. Hospitalizations due to covid is a better metric, as long as you recognize that someone could go into the hospital for a bad gall bladder and if they test positive for Covid, they will be reported as a covid related hospital case. Deaths from covid could also be a good metric, except people with compromised health problem, many known to be fatal such as COPD, Cancer, Heart Disease can also test positive for covid. No doubt that covid might have hastened their demise, it is not the primary cause. Yet they will be reported as a Covid Death.

My point is beware of the media reports and governmental data...in many cases it is purposely misleading!
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That’s not exactly correct according to Johns Hopkins. When I was in the hospital, I asked two doctors who were in my room talking to me about my Encephalitis, if viruses ever stop mutating. They both said somewhat the same thing. They can become extinct, like Smallpox. However, there opinion of COVID is that it’s here to stay for longer than we first expected.

My Neurologist made the comment that if we had a 100% effective FDA fully approved vaccine for COVID, it may be possible to be rid of COVID, but not of all the viruses caused by the virus that caused SARS.
 
I'm not following Covid cases locally but found out they are up. When I went to work yesterday we had to go back to the N95 masks from the blue surgical masks. No cases in my building but I'm afraid it's a matter of time.
 
Marie5656 said:
I am in a darn rehab center and got the damn bug! After 2 years of precautions. But my own resistance is down and a few patients here have it.
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First, I hope your symptoms, if any, are as mild as can be; that you go home as soon as possible.
Second, thank you very much for your reminder and warning of rehab centers, etc. as these places don't demand all their workers be totally vaccinated and appear to spread covid quickly & often.
 
Well, with age comes knowledge. Just because they say it is okay, we also thought we would be protected with the vaccine. I have had three and am getting to go get my fourth. If I had to where a mask forever in public I don't mind.
 
We just had 20 new cases of positive COVID tests. 4 turned out to be false positives. 2 were serious enough to warrant antibody treatment and the rest were very mild. We wear masks indoors, but not outside.
 
I stopped wearing masks after my second booster. My logic may be faulty, but since the boosters 'wear off' after 4 months, I figure that by constant public exposure (maskless in stores etc) that my vaccine induced immunity will be challenged over and over just mildly (like tiny asymptomatic infections) and so my vaccine-induced immunity will gradually morph into a natural immunity (is that the right term for immunity due to successfully eliminating the virus?), hopefully without ever causing a full blown case.
Or, I guess as the virus mutates I would eventually get a case but should be milder, like with other viruses. I had measles in my 40s and measles destroys the immune memory cells, and for months I caught cold after cold and every one was horrific not just a short cold. So from that experience I'm guessing covid might be similar, that as long as my immune system has a memory the infection won't be as bad as when there is no immune memory.
 
Funny how no one answered by basic question here. If you believe in wearing masks will protect you, do you follow the protocol listed in post 27 above. If you do not follow standard masking protocol, wearing a mask is likely to increase your odds of being infected with COVID or other biological infections...
 
Timewise 60+ said:
Funny how no one answered by basic question here. If you believe in wearing masks will protect you, do you follow the protocol listed in post 27 above. If you do not follow standard masking protocol, wearing a mask is likely to increase your odds of being infected with COVID or other biological infections...
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I've never believed masks protect anyone from Covid. I only wore a mask during mandates because I couldn't walk into any building without one. Even Flip-Flop Fauci admitted at the beginning that they don't prevent transmission. He only changed his tune when he was told to.
I'm still chuckling about that magic "6-Foot Distance" to prevent transmission - while the "Experts" who suggested it stood shoulder-to-shoulder.
The "Experts" want to show that they're doing something & know something, so they come up with this nonsense.
Then, when they lift mask mandates, they report "Increased Cases" to show how right they were. And non-thinkers fall for it.
 
Blessed said:
Well, with age comes knowledge. Just because they say it is okay, we also thought we would be protected with the vaccine. I have had three and am getting to go get my fourth. If I had to where a mask forever in public I don't mind.
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erring on the side of caution is rarely unwise...


We both got Omicron in January. It was not mild. It was horrible. I came close to being hospitalized.

take care.
 
HoneyNut said:
I stopped wearing masks after my second booster. My logic may be faulty, but since the boosters 'wear off' after 4 months, I figure that by constant public exposure (maskless in stores etc) that my vaccine induced immunity will be challenged over and over just mildly (like tiny asymptomatic infections) and so my vaccine-induced immunity will gradually morph into a natural immunity (is that the right term for immunity due to successfully eliminating the virus?), hopefully without ever causing a full blown case.
Or, I guess as the virus mutates I would eventually get a case but should be milder, like with other viruses. I had measles in my 40s and measles destroys the immune memory cells, and for months I caught cold after cold and every one was horrific not just a short cold. So from that experience I'm guessing covid might be similar, that as long as my immune system has a memory the infection won't be as bad as when there is no immune memory.
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I am not sure that kind of paradigm applies to this virus. It may apply to some organisms, but I am not sure it applies to this one.

I would suggest maintaining as much caution as you can, for as long as you can.

The media is reporting that Omicron and the newer variants are less dangerous. And I am sure that they are. But that idea, is really for people generally...and not for people with compromised immune systems, or people over 60 and many others.

We both got Omicron in January. It was a nightmare. I was close to going to the hospital.

Take care.
 

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