Well, given that 80% of adults have gotten at least one vaccination, 70% are fully vaccinated, and 33% boosted, the chances are high that most people you know got vaccinated - it's not like being vaccinated raises your odds of infection, unless it prompts you to unsafe behavior because you think you're incapable of getting infected.
Curious how your clinic treated you - since you suspected you had COVID, I assume they allowed you inside with a mask? But if you had already done a home test and wanted a PCR confirmation, they likely wouldn't have allowed you into the office - my PCP won't allow infected people inside.
Looks like I may be over the hump - fever broke overnight, now down to 98.1, and I ate solid food for breakfast, was starving - lost 3 lbs in the last two days from not eating. Only oddity is that my sinuses are the worst they've been all week - had to wake up to blow my nose around 3:00 am because I was so stuffy - sinuses were almost full of snot, and were full again when I got up at 9:30 am - must have used 20 kleenex's in those 7 hours.
I do not like mail order drugs, only do it when I have no recourse, like the one off label drug I take that Medicare won't cover, so I have to buy it from Canada - but it's a solid pill, no worries of affects of weather on it, as opposed to bottles of V sitting in my mailbox or on the front porch for hours in 95 F heat (more like 110 if you include heat of sun on the box) - that can oxidize V.
Don't know what you mean about me welding - haven't welded anything since my late 20's - it's the one tool I miss the most for my shop, but my breaker box is maxed out and the ozone created from welding would irritate the hell out of my lungs - when I'm repairing/testing electric stuff and accidentally touch hot to a ground, creating a shower of sparks, my lungs burn like hell from the ozone generated from the arcing. And no respirator filter can trap ozone for very long, the activated charcoal gets saturated really quickly - not like I could fit a respirator under a welding helmet anyway.
The Thought Police: To censor and protect. Craig Bruce
