2052

My two year old kid had yet another positive COVID contact in his daycare classroom on Monday, and so that is closed for two weeks. As it happened, he had a fever, cough, nausea – a bunch of COVID symptoms on New Years Eve Day. But he tested negative over the weekend. We brought him to the doctor for another test the next available day, Tuesday. The doctor called back with good news and bad news.

“He tested negative for Coronavirus…”

Good!

“…buuuuut he did test positive for influenza.”

Oh, the flu! How quaint! I’d almost forgotten about that one. My kid’s symptoms are gone by now. His classroom is still closed, and it’s possible that he could start exhibiting 'rona symptoms if it turns out that he was sick with both COVID and the flu.

But I think we dodged yet another bullet this time. I really really hope the Moderna vaccine trials for little kids successfully wrap up soon.

2053

Indeed, lots of flu going around. Get vaccinated for it, if you haven’t already.

2054

Good god yes. My job has free day care but we haven’t dared take advantage of it with the 1.5 year old while he’s totally unprotected - he has enough breathing issues as it is.

2055

My son got his Covid booster on Monday. Tuesday said he was tired. Wednesday he felt a bit better and then Thursday he said his throat started getting sore. I just got him tested today and he came back positive for Covid. I started having some nasal symptoms yesterday and have them today, so I’m assuming I have Covid too. He seems to feel better today, so hopefully mild cases for everyone. I was boosted a little while ago after they became available.

2056

I got my booster two days ago. It was Moderna, whereas my first two doses were Pfizer. Only side effect is soreness at the injection site. More sore than when I got Pfizer but nowhere near as sore as when I got my flu shot.

2057

I had Moderna all 3 times and I think the second time my arm got slightly sore. No other side effects.

My wife was knocked out for a couple days, got a large lump on her arm and just felt sick. I don’t know if that means her immune system is better than mine because her body responded so strongly?

2058

I had my booster four days ago, first two were AZ and this was Pfizer. It knocked me for six, nasty headaches, dizziness and fatigue for two days and a bit. The worst part is everyone I know who’s had the booster helpfully observing that all they got was a sore arm. ;)

I’ve had a couple of deeply unpleasant tropical diseases in the past, including a recurring one that is sometimes triggered by physiological stress, and this felt very much like that. Not sure if related.

2059

I had two Moderna and then an AZ booster, and this was basically my experience, except it was only a day or so, and included a high fever and chills.

2060

Both my second and third Pfizer shots knocked me out for a day and a half. Fever, chills, severe fatigue, arm so sore it can’t be moved above shoulder level, general misery. In both cases it started very abruptly about 12 hours after the shot, and ended just as abruptly on the other side. People that cruise through these things without much impact don’t know how good they’ve got it, they hit my wife exactly the same way.

And I suppose I should be clear it’s all very much worth it, which doesn’t change the fact that it sucks. :)

2061

My fever / chills / headache lasted about 12 hours, but they were the overnight hours, so I didn’t sleep, and consequently I was a wreck for the next day even after the symptoms went away.

2062

Same! Except I also had a headache on the day after my shot. And I got mine a week ago.

I liked finally having some symptoms after a vaccine, made me feel it was actually priming my immune system. Thanks Moderna!

2063

My 13 yr old son got his booster on Monday night. Was ok in the morning, but after lunch developed a 101F fever so we picked him up from school. Weds morning he was fine.

2064

Got my booster yesterday morning (Moderna, after 2 Pfizers), and had chills all day (and a bit of a sore arm, as usual). Woke up early this morning (courtesy of that still sore arm that woke me every time I turned on it) with a mild headache. And that’s about it so far.

My wife also got the booster yesterday and feels pretty much the same, except her arm doesn’t hurt.

2065

My 15 year-old got his booster yesterday. He’s the final one in our family, so we’re all leveled up at this point. He’s feeling a little off this morning but is fine otherwise.

2066

Welp, wife woke up with a cough and sore throat. We had at-home tests from Kaiser, so we both did them and drove them over to turn them in. The she finds out her student teacher tested positive. So yeah, it’s probably hit us.

2067

What a drag. Well, I hope she’s fine and it’s only a drag.

…it’s coming for all of us, sooner or later.

2068

Yeah we’re both boosted so hopefully we’ll get through it relatively easily. It sucks when you’re so careful and in the end it doesn’t matter.

2069

But it does matter. The vaccine does not simply prevent covid, it confers a heightened immunity against it so if you do contract it, your body is in a much better position to fight it off. Unvaccinated people, according to the CDC, are 5 times more likely to catch covid, 29 times more likely to be hospitalized due to it and 11 times more likely to succumb to the disease. So if you do get vaccinated and catch it, your odds of avoiding serious complications are amazingly better than if you are unvaccinated. That is why I hate it when I hear people saying ( and Im not referring to you ) “If Im going to get it anyway, why should I get the vaccination?” While it does help people from getting covid, the real payoff is when you do get it. I’m no statistician but that 29 times hospitalization and 11 times death seem like a dammed good reason to get the shot regardless of the chances of getting covid, which the shot does a pretty good job on as well.

2070

Nonon I know, it’s just frustrating. I feel as if we had fewer fucking freedumbdumbs in this country we’d be in a better place than we are.

2071

So far both me and my son are still just experiencing mild cold symptoms after he tested positive. We are both immunized so the shots seem to be doing their job. Good luck to both of you.

Barely anyone at his school wears a mask. Same at the stores. Maybe 5-10%