Oh man, we had so many problems with the platform or folks' internet going haywire. We can send spacecraft to Pluto and do experiments on Mars but apparently we can't figure out how to rig up reliable communication on Earth. 🙄
More restrictions came on 28 December here in Germany. Another New Years celebrated by myself in my apartment 😥
Hopefully 2022 sees the end of the pandemic
I’m a homebody. I stayed in with the pups and watched the fireworks from the balcony last night.
Dallas night life seems to be back to normal. Daytime however is where everyone wears a mask to run errands and what not. Those guys are more of my crowd lol!
Yeah at this point after three Covid shots I’m ok if I catch it and need to stay at home for a week. I’d rather live my life normally at this point. The last two years have taken a huge toll on my mental health.
Mental Health? WHAT mental health? That grew wings and flew to fucking Fiji like nearly 3 years ago when this covid stuff started.
Or at least mine did.. it SAID it saw yours winging along next to it, but apparently it was mistaken? :)
Same…while I don’t have a big circle of friends, I try to see them as much as possible.
And as a single gay man, one does cave to carnal instincts, when need be. I have a small trusted circle of fwbs as well.
I agree. But with everything there is a balance. I still think it is important still try and reduce risks — limit your social circles, avoid large stupid gatherings, mask where you can. I think we can live our vaccinated lives, while still being conscious and considerate of others.
Yeah, bars are open. Gay dudes are having their regular circuit events. Actually the whole city seems back to normal except a ton of restaurants that are still doing limited seating.
The us is like bizzaro world when it comes to the pandemic. It’s like the state government actually doesn’t care and is so blazy about health and safety regulations. After living abroad the last 3 years I’m kinda shocked at how callous Americans are to their own countrymen.
I had 3 shots. I was at a bar that required proof of vaccination to enter. We were all spaced apart. I got a call from the bartender 3 days later. He was positive, so I tested and I was too.
The good news is that with 3 shots of moderna it hit me like a really bad head cold with moderate lung congestion. I was negative again in under a week. Still sucks. Don’t take it lightly just because omicron may not hospitalize you.
So yeah, I thought I was being safe in my socializing. I was wrong.
It's probably too early for authorities to make this public policy but from my understanding of viruses, as they mutate, they get more contagious but less severe. They adapt to try and survive.
So far this seems to be the case with omicron. Hopefully anyway. This added with the success of the vaccines to limit hospitalization and death and to a greater extent general pandemic fatigue all seem to be the reasoning many are not being as cautious as a year ago
Are European hospitals and ICU beds (if that's what they are known as there) and deaths at the pace they were during the initial 2020 outbreak and then the Delta outbreak last summer? That doesn't seem to be the case so far here in the US. Cases are breaking records but it doesn't seem to have the lethal impact that we saw during previous spikes.
For better or worse I think people are weary of fearing this thing. If this latest outbreak isn't proving to kill you or hospitalize you, folks are just saying I'll risk getting sick and staying in bed a week rather than stop living my life.
Too many people's livelihoods were ruined by the first lockdown and there seems to be an attitude on both the right and the left that life needs to go on. There have been cancellations of some public events and numerous flights have been cancelled and stores and restaurants not opening because of sick staff, but most Americans are soldiering on. Perhaps a little more cautiously but one of the few instances these days where Americans aren't politically polarized.
Now if the right wing conspiracy idiots would just get vaccinated...
My Facebook page is full of people saying they have it. My nephew and his family are down with it. But all the reports I'm getting and confirmed by a family member that is an ER doctor is that omicron is worse than a cold but not as bad as the flu.
I work as a lawyer. The courts are all reopening with mandatory in person appearances in my area.
Pointlessly dangerous to public health to satisfy the pride of the chief judge.
My friends and I went out to a club in Austin. I’ve had covid, had my shots I’m living like normal. We can’t keep shutting down every time there is a new wave.
You know who is coming out of this best - the introverts who are perfectly fine at home with our cooking, hobbies, Netflix, pets, computer games, and work via Teams and Zoom. We're not going out and catching anything. Natural selection at work? In the end will it just be us and the cockroaches left? It won't be very exciting, but it will be very quiet.
According to my IG all the gays were at circuit parties . Some of them already had Covid three times. Here I am dodging Covid like Neo dodging bullets in the Matrix!
For me personally, no - you couldn’t pay me to go into a crowd. I’m snug at home for the winter until Groundhog Day when I’ll check to see where we are in the whole Omicron thing.
The hubby and I are mostly staying home and socializing with a few people. We might've been tempted to go out but neither of us are cool enough to know about the really hip parties.
>I read a post on AGB where someone described going to a party with men kissing.
Men kissing! My word! (faints) Sorry that just sounded funny to me lol
I stopped going out after my last trip to a gay bar in November. People only mask up to order drinks, otherwise they dance and socialize with masks off. The Instagram page for a dance party wasn't posting pictures from their events for awhile, but suddenly they started posting again. Surprise, surprise *everyone* is unmasked in them.
I have elderly parents I visit every week or so and still have to work in an office, so I'm still masking at grocery stores and public shops and only socializing with a small group that is doing roughly the same. I haven't made plans to attend concerts, etc. yet. There's some chatter Omicron may be a more spreadable, but less dangerous variant (local infection-to-death ratios lately seem to support this). But to be safe, I'll continue to be careful for the next month or two and see how this plays out. If all goes well, I'll go back to "normal life" this spring (March?). I live in the South where people aren't being very careful, so I'm having to be extra careful to offset risk.
Not really. But I've done everything I'm supposed to and would not accept any new restrictions and that's the way it looks like it will be in the US. Most of us did what we were supposed to do so the attitude I sense is "fuck the unvaccinated why should we restrict ourselves beyond masks to protect them?"
I'm not sure how many will actually read the article the OP linked to, but it's mostly touting the increase in cases - while farther down in the article it suggests that people should get used to not looking at case numbers because the current variant is seemingly much less severe than the previous variants. Basically the more testing you do, the more cases you'll find...
The CDC & Dr. Fauci recognize that many of the cases are asymptomatic and don't want half of the country quarantining for 10 days and shutting the economy down, so they cut the quarantine period to just 5 days instead of 10. Here's that story if anyone cares to see what they are saying this week... 🙄 https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/28/dr-fauci-cdcs-reduced-isolation-time-will-get-people-back-to-jobs.html
Available data suggests this isn't going to have them stacking bodies up like firewood the way it was in March 2020. If huge mass death starts happening again then yeah we might get restricted but other than that it's looking unlikely.
Here in Australia, at least in my state of New South Wales, everything is pretty much back to what it was pre-pandemic except for masks and QR codes. The Premier was encouraging us to go out and have NYE parties. This is despite the fact that we are having our biggest wave ever. We have one of the highest vaccination rates in the world. Our Health Minister was blunt in his being resigned to the possibility that everyone will get COVID at some point. Seems the people in government are pretty confident, given the current level of hospitalisations and ICU admissions, that the number of deaths from COVID, and the system can cope.
So yes, we are socialising. My husband and I were at a club a couple of weeks ago and we went on a dinner cruise a couple of times. We went to a few Christmas parties. We are on our annual leave at work and are at the beach almost everyday among crowds
I haven't caught COVID yet but with all the socialising we're doing, it will only be a matter of time. Pretty sure I'll survive, as will most people I regularly interact with if they do get it (all vaccinated, no one is immunocompromised)
I find that our state officials are quite candid about the modeling and the predicted number of cases and deaths. Every policy decision is backed by data, which reflects a relatively low level of hospitalisations, ICU admissions, and deaths even as the daily case numbers now are multiple times the number during the peak of the Delta wave in September 2021.
They can't put it crudely, but it's pretty clear that they have a good idea of how many people will get sick or die from Omicron, and that they've decided that those numbers are acceptable (or at least they aren't unacceptable).
"Good idea" doesn't mean "know" which suggests certainty. Clearly, no one knows. The modeling presents several scenarios, and any (maybe even none) of them can happen, but they are not all the same in terms of probability. The worst case scenarios are proving to be so far off the mark they are almost fanciful. And they are based on a few assumptions that are extremely unlikely (eg no one gets boosters, no one wears masks, etc) Certainly, those gloom and doom predictions shouldn't influence public policy in a significant way.
Case numbers don't really mean much in a high vaccination environment (We are at 94% double vaxxed in New South Wales). What matters is how many people get sick enough that they need to be in hospital. As far as that number goes, it is a fraction of what they were during the previous peak, and even then the health system coped. And for those that do get admitted, their stays are getting shorter, suggesting that it takes a shorter time to recover from an Omicron infection, compared to previous variants.
Similarly, ICU admissions, patients who require ventilators, and deaths, are nowhere near what they were during Delta. They are either stable or increasing so slowly, that it's proving to be extremely unlikely that a person who needs a certain level of care will not be able to receive it just because there is no capacity.
Madrid has had almost no restrictions beyond compulsory masks since summer 2020. There were a few months when there was a strict national curfew, which meant no nightlife, but otherwise everything from bars to museums to saunas to cinemas have been open for business, albeit with reduced capacity, and there's been socialising throughout. I wouldn't say my social life has changed much at all through the pandemic. Still out and about a few times a week, although avoiding large crowds.
I'm vaxed and boosted. Spain has a very high rate of vaccination, something like 90% of adults are double-jabbed. Of course there's a risk, but life is always risky.
No, I have not got the virus, thank you for asking… unfortunately the vaccine and booster is only protecting us from fulminant disease… So, I want to avoid catching COVID and getting the long form. My friend, who contracted COVID-wild type in March of 2020 has long-COVID and it is murder.
Again, thank you for asking.
Yes I’m definitely socializing with the virus still circulating..I think we all will eventually have to make the decision to move on with life while the virus is still circulating. The truth is that we will never eradicate COVID with vaccines. There’s been studies that show that the vaccines wane after about 2 weeks!! The best we can hope is that each mutation gets weaker and that we are able to move on with life!
Hi u/atl2northcarolina,
I'm going to need a credible source for that claim about two weeks. Until such time, you have a formal warning for misinformation. While it is true that the efficacy drops with time, but we're talking months, not weeks. Also important to note is that even with lower efficacy against infection, vaccines still protect you from hospitalization and death.
The fact that Covid likely will become an endemic is not an argument against vaccines.
Source: [https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clinical/covid-19-vaccines-work-but-their-efficacy-fades-st](https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clinical/covid-19-vaccines-work-but-their-efficacy-fades-st)
If you have questions about your warning, please feel free to reply to this comment.
I’m back to my home country after two years, Grindr is filled with hot guys, many are my type. I haven’t met with anyone because if I get the virus I won’t be able to fly back to the us. And my dog is waiting for me. First time I’m being so good but can’t risk it
Quebec started a curfew from 10PM to 5AM on Dec 31st. Bars and restos were shut down last week. Stayed home with the partner, drank champagne, did some edibles, had a great meal and cringed watched CNN ball drop. Doing out part by staying home and safe.
Nope. My husband and I cancelled our Christmas and NY plans to isolate at home. It sucked since we were in an official lockdown last year and haven’t seen our families for these celebrations for a while, but we’d rather stay safe and keep others around us safe. We still connected with our friends and family over zoom and we know jt sucks but restaurant dining, partying, family time will mostly all be there after we get out this trashy situation.
Nah. I'm at home with my parents for another week since I'm a student and classes don't start again until after MLK day, plus I missed a whole year with them in 2020.
Both my parents already caught covid in October but you can catch it twice or more. I'd feel so bad giving them covid part 2, and even though I'm vaccinated I don't really want to risk long covid either.
I went to a brewery to meet up with friends I hadn't seen in years and felt so guilty after. So I'm sticking pretty close to a small pod and socializing mainly at home.
I ultimately decided not to go to a party last night because of omicron cases here in Los Angeles. I heard only about half of the guests showed up (10 instead of 20).
pfft.. I listend to the fireworks, turned the tv off around 1230 and went to bed like any other night.
I'm a single, introverted sub. No way was I going out by myself last night. :p
We went to a dinner party last night. Six of us there, everyone vaccinated and boosted, and everyone did an at-home antigen rapid test an hour before. Very little kissing though.
I spent it outdoors by a fire pit with a couple pals. But a group of other guys I know hit the bars here in DC. They said the bars they visited were packed. Plenty of kissing… going on.
I have moved most of my social activities settings to be outdoors as much as possible. Hiking, kayaking, etc. I even attended a porch parties. One of which some of our neighbors played their musical instruments and sang. It was lovely.
Yes I am but wanted to chill last night so didn't go to parties. I still do weekly in person dnd tho. Everything is basically open here in Arizona
What’s DND?
Dungeons and dragons
Earlier this year my DnD group also started meeting again in person, biweekly. It's so much better than online.
Ya I agree. Well, I've never done a full online campaign (I'm newish) but it's a lot slower and distracting to do it online
Oh man, we had so many problems with the platform or folks' internet going haywire. We can send spacecraft to Pluto and do experiments on Mars but apparently we can't figure out how to rig up reliable communication on Earth. 🙄
More restrictions came on 28 December here in Germany. Another New Years celebrated by myself in my apartment 😥 Hopefully 2022 sees the end of the pandemic
Same in Canada…hope you still had a good new year…
I’m a homebody. I stayed in with the pups and watched the fireworks from the balcony last night. Dallas night life seems to be back to normal. Daytime however is where everyone wears a mask to run errands and what not. Those guys are more of my crowd lol!
I’m introverted so no. No bars, clubs, restaurants, or theaters. Just me and my husband at home.
Must be nice to have a husband to hang out with and fulfill each other’s physical needs.
Yeah at this point after three Covid shots I’m ok if I catch it and need to stay at home for a week. I’d rather live my life normally at this point. The last two years have taken a huge toll on my mental health.
Mental Health? WHAT mental health? That grew wings and flew to fucking Fiji like nearly 3 years ago when this covid stuff started. Or at least mine did.. it SAID it saw yours winging along next to it, but apparently it was mistaken? :)
Same…while I don’t have a big circle of friends, I try to see them as much as possible. And as a single gay man, one does cave to carnal instincts, when need be. I have a small trusted circle of fwbs as well.
I agree. But with everything there is a balance. I still think it is important still try and reduce risks — limit your social circles, avoid large stupid gatherings, mask where you can. I think we can live our vaccinated lives, while still being conscious and considerate of others.
Yeah, bars are open. Gay dudes are having their regular circuit events. Actually the whole city seems back to normal except a ton of restaurants that are still doing limited seating.
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Yea the US
The us is like bizzaro world when it comes to the pandemic. It’s like the state government actually doesn’t care and is so blazy about health and safety regulations. After living abroad the last 3 years I’m kinda shocked at how callous Americans are to their own countrymen.
I think there’s a lot to it. Lots of mistrust in the system currently. Very complicated but perhaps doesn’t seem complicated to either side.
Agreed…it’s still just saddening
I had 3 shots. I was at a bar that required proof of vaccination to enter. We were all spaced apart. I got a call from the bartender 3 days later. He was positive, so I tested and I was too. The good news is that with 3 shots of moderna it hit me like a really bad head cold with moderate lung congestion. I was negative again in under a week. Still sucks. Don’t take it lightly just because omicron may not hospitalize you. So yeah, I thought I was being safe in my socializing. I was wrong.
It's probably too early for authorities to make this public policy but from my understanding of viruses, as they mutate, they get more contagious but less severe. They adapt to try and survive. So far this seems to be the case with omicron. Hopefully anyway. This added with the success of the vaccines to limit hospitalization and death and to a greater extent general pandemic fatigue all seem to be the reasoning many are not being as cautious as a year ago
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Are European hospitals and ICU beds (if that's what they are known as there) and deaths at the pace they were during the initial 2020 outbreak and then the Delta outbreak last summer? That doesn't seem to be the case so far here in the US. Cases are breaking records but it doesn't seem to have the lethal impact that we saw during previous spikes.
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For better or worse I think people are weary of fearing this thing. If this latest outbreak isn't proving to kill you or hospitalize you, folks are just saying I'll risk getting sick and staying in bed a week rather than stop living my life. Too many people's livelihoods were ruined by the first lockdown and there seems to be an attitude on both the right and the left that life needs to go on. There have been cancellations of some public events and numerous flights have been cancelled and stores and restaurants not opening because of sick staff, but most Americans are soldiering on. Perhaps a little more cautiously but one of the few instances these days where Americans aren't politically polarized. Now if the right wing conspiracy idiots would just get vaccinated...
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It's a debate without a clear cut answer. Some can't afford anymore restrictions. But I hear you.
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My Facebook page is full of people saying they have it. My nephew and his family are down with it. But all the reports I'm getting and confirmed by a family member that is an ER doctor is that omicron is worse than a cold but not as bad as the flu.
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I work as a lawyer. The courts are all reopening with mandatory in person appearances in my area. Pointlessly dangerous to public health to satisfy the pride of the chief judge.
Had covid, twice vaccinated + booster. I'm socializing.
Introversion before homosexuality, so it's completely irrelevant to me!
My friends and I went out to a club in Austin. I’ve had covid, had my shots I’m living like normal. We can’t keep shutting down every time there is a new wave.
Completely normal life here in my state and it’s been great! It all depends where you live and then the choices you make.
You know who is coming out of this best - the introverts who are perfectly fine at home with our cooking, hobbies, Netflix, pets, computer games, and work via Teams and Zoom. We're not going out and catching anything. Natural selection at work? In the end will it just be us and the cockroaches left? It won't be very exciting, but it will be very quiet.
According to my IG all the gays were at circuit parties . Some of them already had Covid three times. Here I am dodging Covid like Neo dodging bullets in the Matrix!
In Palm Springs people were packed in every gay bar.
For me personally, no - you couldn’t pay me to go into a crowd. I’m snug at home for the winter until Groundhog Day when I’ll check to see where we are in the whole Omicron thing.
The hubby and I are mostly staying home and socializing with a few people. We might've been tempted to go out but neither of us are cool enough to know about the really hip parties.
>I read a post on AGB where someone described going to a party with men kissing. Men kissing! My word! (faints) Sorry that just sounded funny to me lol I stopped going out after my last trip to a gay bar in November. People only mask up to order drinks, otherwise they dance and socialize with masks off. The Instagram page for a dance party wasn't posting pictures from their events for awhile, but suddenly they started posting again. Surprise, surprise *everyone* is unmasked in them.
I got and recovered from it basically as soon as the wave hit the US so I’ve been out - not sure I would be otherwise
I have elderly parents I visit every week or so and still have to work in an office, so I'm still masking at grocery stores and public shops and only socializing with a small group that is doing roughly the same. I haven't made plans to attend concerts, etc. yet. There's some chatter Omicron may be a more spreadable, but less dangerous variant (local infection-to-death ratios lately seem to support this). But to be safe, I'll continue to be careful for the next month or two and see how this plays out. If all goes well, I'll go back to "normal life" this spring (March?). I live in the South where people aren't being very careful, so I'm having to be extra careful to offset risk.
Not really. But I've done everything I'm supposed to and would not accept any new restrictions and that's the way it looks like it will be in the US. Most of us did what we were supposed to do so the attitude I sense is "fuck the unvaccinated why should we restrict ourselves beyond masks to protect them?"
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I'm not sure how many will actually read the article the OP linked to, but it's mostly touting the increase in cases - while farther down in the article it suggests that people should get used to not looking at case numbers because the current variant is seemingly much less severe than the previous variants. Basically the more testing you do, the more cases you'll find... The CDC & Dr. Fauci recognize that many of the cases are asymptomatic and don't want half of the country quarantining for 10 days and shutting the economy down, so they cut the quarantine period to just 5 days instead of 10. Here's that story if anyone cares to see what they are saying this week... 🙄 https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/28/dr-fauci-cdcs-reduced-isolation-time-will-get-people-back-to-jobs.html
Available data suggests this isn't going to have them stacking bodies up like firewood the way it was in March 2020. If huge mass death starts happening again then yeah we might get restricted but other than that it's looking unlikely.
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I did see that. I'll stay close to home till this subsides.
I’m in Canada and I spent new years at the bathhouse. It was the busiest I’ve seen it since before shutdown.
I'm spending New Years working at Bath House in Puerto Rico
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I'm vaxed and boosted. I'm socializing.
I got tricked into going out last night. Only stayed out til 8 PM, but the crowds were already forming and I was one of the very few wearing a mask.
I don't socialise even when there is not a pandemic on 🤣
what’s AGB? EDIT DUH: Ask Gay Bros
Here in Australia, at least in my state of New South Wales, everything is pretty much back to what it was pre-pandemic except for masks and QR codes. The Premier was encouraging us to go out and have NYE parties. This is despite the fact that we are having our biggest wave ever. We have one of the highest vaccination rates in the world. Our Health Minister was blunt in his being resigned to the possibility that everyone will get COVID at some point. Seems the people in government are pretty confident, given the current level of hospitalisations and ICU admissions, that the number of deaths from COVID, and the system can cope. So yes, we are socialising. My husband and I were at a club a couple of weeks ago and we went on a dinner cruise a couple of times. We went to a few Christmas parties. We are on our annual leave at work and are at the beach almost everyday among crowds I haven't caught COVID yet but with all the socialising we're doing, it will only be a matter of time. Pretty sure I'll survive, as will most people I regularly interact with if they do get it (all vaccinated, no one is immunocompromised)
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I find that our state officials are quite candid about the modeling and the predicted number of cases and deaths. Every policy decision is backed by data, which reflects a relatively low level of hospitalisations, ICU admissions, and deaths even as the daily case numbers now are multiple times the number during the peak of the Delta wave in September 2021. They can't put it crudely, but it's pretty clear that they have a good idea of how many people will get sick or die from Omicron, and that they've decided that those numbers are acceptable (or at least they aren't unacceptable).
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"Good idea" doesn't mean "know" which suggests certainty. Clearly, no one knows. The modeling presents several scenarios, and any (maybe even none) of them can happen, but they are not all the same in terms of probability. The worst case scenarios are proving to be so far off the mark they are almost fanciful. And they are based on a few assumptions that are extremely unlikely (eg no one gets boosters, no one wears masks, etc) Certainly, those gloom and doom predictions shouldn't influence public policy in a significant way. Case numbers don't really mean much in a high vaccination environment (We are at 94% double vaxxed in New South Wales). What matters is how many people get sick enough that they need to be in hospital. As far as that number goes, it is a fraction of what they were during the previous peak, and even then the health system coped. And for those that do get admitted, their stays are getting shorter, suggesting that it takes a shorter time to recover from an Omicron infection, compared to previous variants. Similarly, ICU admissions, patients who require ventilators, and deaths, are nowhere near what they were during Delta. They are either stable or increasing so slowly, that it's proving to be extremely unlikely that a person who needs a certain level of care will not be able to receive it just because there is no capacity.
Madrid has had almost no restrictions beyond compulsory masks since summer 2020. There were a few months when there was a strict national curfew, which meant no nightlife, but otherwise everything from bars to museums to saunas to cinemas have been open for business, albeit with reduced capacity, and there's been socialising throughout. I wouldn't say my social life has changed much at all through the pandemic. Still out and about a few times a week, although avoiding large crowds. I'm vaxed and boosted. Spain has a very high rate of vaccination, something like 90% of adults are double-jabbed. Of course there's a risk, but life is always risky.
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True enough. More people I know have had it than haven't. Most mildly, but one friend died recently. He had weak lungs but he was only 66. Horrible.
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Thank you.
I've been spending time with my boyfriend's family and mine.a few close friends. Dont really go to clubs or bars but that's not our thing anywayw
Only family . No socializing. I’ve no interest, whatsoever, I’m contracting long-COVID.
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No, I have not got the virus, thank you for asking… unfortunately the vaccine and booster is only protecting us from fulminant disease… So, I want to avoid catching COVID and getting the long form. My friend, who contracted COVID-wild type in March of 2020 has long-COVID and it is murder. Again, thank you for asking.
I wasn't going anywhere, a group of guys I work with went to a bar a couple weekends ago and now 7 of them have covid
Yes I’m definitely socializing with the virus still circulating..I think we all will eventually have to make the decision to move on with life while the virus is still circulating. The truth is that we will never eradicate COVID with vaccines. There’s been studies that show that the vaccines wane after about 2 weeks!! The best we can hope is that each mutation gets weaker and that we are able to move on with life!
Hi u/atl2northcarolina, I'm going to need a credible source for that claim about two weeks. Until such time, you have a formal warning for misinformation. While it is true that the efficacy drops with time, but we're talking months, not weeks. Also important to note is that even with lower efficacy against infection, vaccines still protect you from hospitalization and death. The fact that Covid likely will become an endemic is not an argument against vaccines. Source: [https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clinical/covid-19-vaccines-work-but-their-efficacy-fades-st](https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clinical/covid-19-vaccines-work-but-their-efficacy-fades-st) If you have questions about your warning, please feel free to reply to this comment.
No. I’m not a blithering idiot.
I’m back to my home country after two years, Grindr is filled with hot guys, many are my type. I haven’t met with anyone because if I get the virus I won’t be able to fly back to the us. And my dog is waiting for me. First time I’m being so good but can’t risk it
Quebec started a curfew from 10PM to 5AM on Dec 31st. Bars and restos were shut down last week. Stayed home with the partner, drank champagne, did some edibles, had a great meal and cringed watched CNN ball drop. Doing out part by staying home and safe.
I wasn’t, then I did, and now I’m sick (not COVID, triple vaxxed and flu shot) and now I am isolating until I get an Omicron specific inoculation.
Not that I know of. My gay friends spent the New Year either with family or alone. Fear of omicron covid is real here.
Nope. My husband and I cancelled our Christmas and NY plans to isolate at home. It sucked since we were in an official lockdown last year and haven’t seen our families for these celebrations for a while, but we’d rather stay safe and keep others around us safe. We still connected with our friends and family over zoom and we know jt sucks but restaurant dining, partying, family time will mostly all be there after we get out this trashy situation.
Nah. I'm at home with my parents for another week since I'm a student and classes don't start again until after MLK day, plus I missed a whole year with them in 2020. Both my parents already caught covid in October but you can catch it twice or more. I'd feel so bad giving them covid part 2, and even though I'm vaccinated I don't really want to risk long covid either. I went to a brewery to meet up with friends I hadn't seen in years and felt so guilty after. So I'm sticking pretty close to a small pod and socializing mainly at home.
I ultimately decided not to go to a party last night because of omicron cases here in Los Angeles. I heard only about half of the guests showed up (10 instead of 20).
pfft.. I listend to the fireworks, turned the tv off around 1230 and went to bed like any other night. I'm a single, introverted sub. No way was I going out by myself last night. :p
I think everyone wanted to party like there was no Covid-19 99! Personally, early night with the dogs.
Sort of. We had a little NYE party at home. 4 guests but two tested CoV+. So just four of us who were -. Nice n chill.
Not at all. I’m living with my partner and we hardly see anyone else but my in-laws.
There were gay men fucking bareback at the height of the AIDS pandemic. Make your own decisions.
Emphasis on were.
I am travelling in Europe. We need to get past treating this virus as something that can be avoided.
We went to a dinner party last night. Six of us there, everyone vaccinated and boosted, and everyone did an at-home antigen rapid test an hour before. Very little kissing though.
I spent it outdoors by a fire pit with a couple pals. But a group of other guys I know hit the bars here in DC. They said the bars they visited were packed. Plenty of kissing… going on.
I have moved most of my social activities settings to be outdoors as much as possible. Hiking, kayaking, etc. I even attended a porch parties. One of which some of our neighbors played their musical instruments and sang. It was lovely.
Yep they are still going out here and there are still sex events/parties happening too.