Covid is back and it ain't playing.
My elderly father is in the cardiac care unit with elevated heart enzymes which the doctors attribute to Covid pneumonia. I am almost sure he contracted Covid the weekend before at another hospital when he was being treated for a fall. (I was nearly the only one in he place wearing a mask.)
My slightly less elderly mother is in the bed with relatively minor symptoms. My wife developed Covid symptoms yesterday but she has improved to the point that she is not playing "Komm, süßer Tod" on a loop. I thought I had dodged the bullet when I tested negative on Sunday morning and night. To day, the test strip was brilliant red (I tested twice).
I really had no symptoms in the morning but in the afternoon, I developed a low grade fever, headache and nausea. Tylenol will knock down the fever but there is no relief from the headache and nausea.
Fortunately, my brother and SiL drove in to check on Dad, so it's their turn to care for the elders. (It's almost worth the headache and nausea to get a break.)
At least in southern Arkansas, Covid is back. The hospitals are filing up and buying test kits requires a treasure hunt.
Everyone mask up and be careful out there.
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I live for the time being (already bought a house far, far away and am packing to move) in dumbass SW AZ, armpit town yuma to be exact. Many morans here--red don didn't visit multiple times for nothing.
Last week I brought up the subject of masking to this neighbor. He told me masks don't work. I think his "rationale" was that people often wear them askew so no protection is afforded. I told him that's the fault of dumbasses, not the masks. Not sure where he was going with this--it's virtually impossible for me to follow how his mind works. But, he has a point--there was and is a lot of resistance to wearing masks in this place. I get funny looks at the grocery store when I walk in masked. Good luck to all those gambling with their health.
up with Pneumonia. Then in March, we all got sent home. Whole family had it, started in November 2019. We are fortunate. I had two family members and a close friend die, dead, gone.
I blame the orange anus for all the denial and total bullshit spewed costing us over 1 MILLION of our citizens. His reflexive lying and co-opting CDC and other entities led to that many deaths. Never should have been that many and it's all due to the chronic lies. At a time when we should have come together, he spurred further division and we all saw it play out; anti-maskers, anti-vaxxers. I lost lots of faith in this country from what we all witnessed. 
I had some long COVID after party…fainted a couple of times, Brain fog, heart palpitations. Luckily it went away after about seven months. Both are vaxed to the max and we will get the new jab as soon as it is available.
Mask up kids, it’s going to be another bumpy ride.
Bach CDs take up a shelf on my CD "bookcase."
Same here 
Blessings, and hopeully you, hubby and family will be okay and remain mostly healthy.
I know that fire inspectors have to come in. NO issues there. But others? 
Be well, and PLEASE take care of yourself 
so I’m very careful and wear a mask and wash hands the minute I get home. I noticed the nurse at his Drs office just started wearing a mask again last week. Good luck!
The fall/winter peak over the past couple years (notably with Omicron variants like the XBBs which are the predominate - not that "new" one), has been between November and March (which includes a number of holidays). We are still at the beginning of September. The hope is that it slows and peaks lower.
The latest (using the "new" drop down item) hospitalizations plot from CDC - https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_weeklyhospitaladmissions_select_00
but it is also a threat to anyone of any age who has a compromised immune system - whether due to something like rheumatoid arthritis like one of my sisters or someone who has had an organ transplant, like her hubby. And this also includes those who have undergone cancer treatments like my other sister.. All of them obviously take precautions but even with that, one of my sisters had ended up getting it last year and it took months to clear, because she eventually had what was dubbed "flurona" (flu + coronavirus), forcing her to go off her infusions that suppressed her immune system needed to combat the rheumatoid.
In May of 2021, the call to "throw off your masks" came and in came Delta, the now-forgotten variant that took off over that summer with a rare summer surge. Delta flipped the "elderly" script with most of the deaths happening among the under-75s -
And as it died down, it was quickly followed by Omicron in late fall, another that was initially dismissed until it tore through not just the elderly, but children as well, something that too many also dismissed until the numbers made it impossible to ignore - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142844876
The push to get children up-to-date with the vaccine has been a chore. It made a difference in 2021 and would today.
You can see from the beginning through last year, how when certain protective behaviors were removed, the virus came surging back -
But at this point, the vaccinations are making all the difference the world in terms of, as they say over and over, "severe illness" (including hospitalizations), and "death".
Right there you have introduced a false and OTT reaction to what I have posted.
What degrees, or even "experience" do you have, if any, in any kind of "science". 
I have actually given nationwide training within my agency on biotech-related testing methods including gel electrophoresis (which is what is used nowadays for the COVID PCR test) and including lysis of genetic material.
It doesn't seem that you understand the mechanisms behind the virus and have merely been posting info from tweets by a respected physician who once worked in the as part of Biden's COVID response (am assuming that is who you are quoting) and who recently left back in June. You need to understand what it is they are saying.
I'm 69 and fully vaxed and boosted 4 times. I got it somewhere in the SE on business. Either Greensboro, Charleston, or Charlotte. 3 others in my group of 10 got it and we were all out of service for 10 days or so.
I started feeling symptoms and tested positive and started Paxlovid that day. I tested negative 3 days later, then tested positive again on the 4th day, then negative the next day and ever since.
Some of the others in my group had similar experiences. Negative one day then positive the next, then negative again.
Mask up everyone.
