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Posted: **Mon Aug 08, 2022 2:00 pm**

My wife still cannot taste or smell and has coughing bouts a month later after we got that brand new Euro strain. It's more of an annoyance than an issue, I guess.

Damn, that sucks. Mine feels her pain, that taste/smell thing can really be a major mental hazard. I know you know that but it really deprives sufferers of two major dopamine sources.

Posted: **Mon Aug 08, 2022 2:02 pm**

I still don't think there's really enough data, or anything that I've seen that points to any one person getting long-covid. Seems like it's relatively random, and they won't stop the world for that.
12.7% of adults w/COVID have symptoms lasting longer than 2 years.
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspec ... me-2-years

Thanks for this - doesn't appear to be rhyme or reason, outside of catching COVID. I don't see how they stop anything decided going forward.

Posted: **Mon Aug 08, 2022 2:05 pm**

By the way, I went on r/coronavirus to see how they reacted to the rumor of the new restrictions. As you may have guessed, it was not good. There are still people on the sub who mask everywhere and haven't eaten inside a restaurant since March 2020.

Posted: **Mon Aug 08, 2022 2:05 pm**

I lost taste/smell totally for 5-7 months. My taste, hasn't totally come back, I guess. Certain things don't taste like they used to taste, but I've gotten used to the new normal.

Posted: **Mon Aug 08, 2022 2:09 pm**

I am already excited about a 2027 epidemiology paper that pinpoints exactly why this virus impacts certain people worse than others and what causes long covid while others escape the pain. There's gotta be some rhyme or reason to it.

Posted: **Mon Aug 08, 2022 2:14 pm**

By the way, I went on r/coronavirus to see how they reacted to the rumor of the new restrictions. As you may have guessed, it was not good. There are still people on the sub who mask everywhere and haven't eaten inside a restaurant since March 2020.

I find those people to be lunatics prior to who looked for a reason to go totally nuts, imo.

It doesn't impact me at all, but those people seem crazy.

Posted: **Mon Aug 08, 2022 2:15 pm**

My wife and daughter will sometimes wear a mask depending on what store we're in, but it's voluntary at this point. I don't force my daughter to wear one if she doesn't want to. When community transmission is high, we all wear one if going out. Nothing wrong with that approach, IMO.

Posted: **Mon Aug 08, 2022 2:19 pm**

My wife wore one last week at a conference. I think the last time my kid or I wore one was a few weeks ago when she went to get her Covid vaccine. Before that, I couldn't tell ya.

I have nothing against people wearing them, but nah. Not for me right now. We'll see what this winter brings.

Posted: **Mon Aug 08, 2022 2:20 pm**

I would love for things to actually be better in the winter, because I really don't want to have to wear one at the airport or on planes again. That sucked.

Posted: **Mon Aug 08, 2022 2:25 pm**

It's less about the masks and more the absolute refusal to return to any kind of normal behavior. Not eating at a restaurant for over 2 years? Avoiding any sort of gathering? Masking outside? I'm talking about the extreme weirdos on r/coronavirus.

We masked all throughout our vacation and still brought Covid home. Mask all you want in stores. Just don't be one of those people who wear a mask into a restaurant while getting seated. That's so stupid.

Posted: **Mon Aug 08, 2022 2:38 pm**

I honestly don't care what anyone does. I try to not be judgmental. I'm sure some people who mask up all the time are immuno compromised or what not, or just feel that's best for them. Doesn't really effect me even if I think it's silly.

As long as I am free to not be required to mask at this point, I don't really care what others do, or what precautions they take.

Posted: **Mon Aug 08, 2022 2:48 pm**

It's less about the masks and more the absolute refusal to return to any kind of normal behavior. Not eating at a restaurant for over 2 years? Avoiding any sort of gathering? Masking outside? I'm talking about the extreme weirdos on r/coronavirus.

We masked all throughout our vacation and still brought Covid home. Mask all you want in stores. Just don't be one of those people who wear a mask into a restaurant while getting seated. That's so stupid.

Very much this. I wore a mask flying and at a conference two weeks ago. I don't care - but I returned to normalcy because that's what's expected.

Those people who seclude themselves going on two years, is just more crazy town than anything.

Posted: **Mon Aug 08, 2022 3:43 pm**

Queen Colby and I forgot to take a mask to the hospital for my her induction... I had one single dirty paper mask at the bottom of my center console. I put it on long enough to walk in and ask for two masks.

This is how much I have forgotten about masks

Posted: **Mon Aug 08, 2022 4:04 pm**

lol I just did that a week ago for a dr. appt. Totally forgot needed it.

Posted: **Mon Aug 08, 2022 4:14 pm**

Queen Colby and I forgot to take a mask to the hospital for my her induction... I had one single dirty paper mask at the bottom of my center console. I put it on long enough to walk in and ask for two masks.

This is how much I have forgotten about masks

so who got induced…you or her?

Posted: **Mon Aug 08, 2022 4:57 pm**

I don't mask anywhere besides the required medical offices/hospitals. I actually don't mind that those areas are still requiring one. I might do that even if it weren't, especially in a hospital.

Posted: **Mon Aug 08, 2022 5:16 pm**

I mask most places (work, public transit, planes crowded indoor spaces). I am immunocompromised though, so it's part of what comes with that. I also limit places where my mask would be off and near people outside my friends (crowded restaurant for example).

I mask so I can do things.

Posted: **Mon Aug 08, 2022 5:33 pm**

The only thing that's changed for us re masking is that I stopped running the HEPA filters in my covering. Otherwise we're still rolling pretty much the same way we've been doing for like 2 years or whatever.

Posted: **Wed Aug 10, 2022 9:00 am**

another friend loses their COVID Gold Star. his daughter's first day of public school kindergarten was Monday. they went to the school's Open House last week. his wife and daughter had been feeling crappy for a few days but testing neg. this morning the wife tested positive and now my friend is having symptoms. I was around him last night for over an hour but he was masked. we're all max vaxxed. we'll see what happens......

Posted: **Wed Aug 10, 2022 9:08 am**

I don't care what anyone else does but unless I'm sick I'm pretty much done masking.

One of my friends the other day said they were invited to a kid's birthday party at a location that was requiring masks and they were going to go and refuse to mask because the face diaper nonsense has gone too far. So seriously you're going to take this stand, probably get booted, and have this and not the kid be what people talk about?

If you want to take that stand, call the parents and say "sorry, we're not going if we have to mask" and don't go. I'm not huge on government mandates but private citizens can require whatever and I can choose to comply or not go, and not be a dadhole.

Posted: **Wed Aug 10, 2022 9:15 am**

I don't care what anyone else does but unless I'm sick I'm pretty much done masking.

One of my friends the other day said they were invited to a kid's birthday party at a location that was requiring masks and they were going to go and refuse to mask because the face diaper nonsense has gone too far. So seriously you're going to take this stand, probably get booted, and have this and not the kid be what people talk about?

If you want to take that stand, call the parents and say "sorry, we're not going if we have to mask" and don't go. I'm not huge on government mandates but private citizens can require whatever and I can choose to comply or not go, and not be a dadhole.

Yeah agree with this. That person sounds like a dad hole.

Posted: **Wed Aug 10, 2022 9:20 am**

in August 2022 it’s dumb that anywhere is enforcing masking but also being a pissant about wearing one when asked is extremely immature

Posted: **Wed Aug 10, 2022 9:38 am**

in August 2022 it’s dumb that anywhere is enforcing masking but also being a pissant about wearing one when asked is extremely immature

That's been the case since this started.

Posted: **Wed Aug 10, 2022 11:22 am**

Daughter tested positive once again. First dose of vaccine was to be tomorrow. Office might still do it.

Posted: **Wed Aug 10, 2022 11:41 am**

Yeah my daughter never got her booster before she got it again last week. She kicked it pretty quickly.

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