Are you still taking Covid seriously this year of 2022?

Very sorry to hear that. I am still taking it seriously but since I had it recently and have recovered, I feel a little freer for now about what I do. I will be more cautious as I see the need.

I know it must be shocking and sad for you.

I’m sorry for your loss.

Yes, I still take it seriously, albeit not as seriously as the years before.

I just went down with Covid a few days ago and had to skip work for an extended period of time. I could do nothing but lie in bed. I’m still dealing with coughing and a little fatigue. I know at least three friends who got hit with Covid several months ago. One was in bed for more than a week and the other had to deal with long Covid symptoms of breath shortness.

I’m so sorry for your loss. Covid is still pretty much a problem even when it doesn’t seem like it.

I’m still wearing a mask in shops. I just received the second dose of the JYNNEOS vaccine to protect me from monkey pox, and I have to wait 4 weeks for the new covid vaccine. I’m going to be extra careful not to contract it.

I’m very sorry to read about your loss.

Yes, two people close to me got Covid in the past month, one of them quite seriously. Vaccinated smart people, even.

I am sorry to hear about this.
Tonight my wife told me she wasn’t feeling well. Her temperature was up (102), and her heartbeat was elevated. Her blood pressure was a little high (140/90).
We did a Covid test, and it was negative.
So it’s probably a combination of something she ate, and the heatwave.
To answer your question, yes. We still take it seriously.

By now, so many people that I know had Covid. I had it in the spring, too. It was like a bad cold, and I stayed home for almost a week with headache, sore throat, cough and runniy nose. It wasn’t pleasant but it wasn’t like at the beginning of the pandemic when it was a horror show. I had the vaccines but no boosters. I don’t wear a mask any more unless requested to do so, like when going to a medical visit.

@filmfann: What I found out when I was sick was that you need to test multiple times over a few days, for an accurate result. Your wife may be negative or she may be positive, but you should test in a few days one more time just to be sure.

My life is almost back to normal but I know that Covid hasn’t gone away. I haven’t had Covid and I still wear a mask in some situations and I haven’t been in a cinema for almost three years. I’ll be getting my second booster jab next month. Be safe.

Firstly, I am so sorry for your loss.

Yes, I am still taking it seriously. I have not had any direct losses and find myself lucky in this regard.

@mazingerz88 I am so sorry to hear that.

Yes, I am still taking it seriously, but I am a bit more relaxed than in 2020. I will eat at restaurants, but not if they’re crowded, and I time my shopping for quiet times.

I feel that things things are getting a bit better, but nowhere near pre-Covid normalcy.

I am still taking it seriously. My 98 year old mother tested positive a few weeks ago, and continues to test positive even though she is asymptomatic. A colleague cut his vacation short this week because his wife became ill on Tuesday and tested positive.

It is still a concern for those of us that are overly vulnerable despite vaccine and boosters. I will get the new omicron targeted booster as soon as it is available locally.

Yes, mask up in all public places.

I’m not taking it too seriously and havent masked since my mom died in May.

@mazinger I’m sorry for your loss. Nursing homes seem to get hit very hard. Hugs.

A good friend of mine lost her mom to Covid in the beginning while in a nursing home. It was the first person I knew that died from Covid.
I’m not as careful as I was in the first couple of years. I used to wash my hands every time I walked in and out of my house or office, took my clothes off in the basement at the washing machine, wore a mask every where and didn’t see my family for Thanksgiving or Christmas.
Now I wear a mask to work and the store only. I don’t was my hands as much.
@mazingerz88 I’m so sorry for your loss.

I take it seriously. And from the arrival of the disease have wondered just how many unnecessary deaths and infections will accumulate due to those who choose not to take it seriously or seriously enough.

I take it seriously. My 87 year old mom got it last May. She was in and out of hospitals for 2 months. Had to move her into a nursing home last August because she lost strength in her legs – could not get up. I got Covid in June when I went to a resort wedding, where no one wore masks (imagine that!). So it’s real and it’s severe. Roll your dice if you want to play.

@RocketGuy My mom lost use of her legs from it, too. Two months before she passed.

I think Covid fatigue has set in, which the government said would happen.

^^I wish my friend’s two adult sons, one is a banker and one is a doctor did not place their Mom in an assisted living facility where she got Covid. She probably would still be alive if they took her in their own homes.

These facilities put up a good front then don’t provide the care that they advertise. The one my mom is in keeps screwing up her pill schedule. Luckily she still has the capability to do it herself.

@RocketGuy From what I’ve seen out here, when seeking long term care for a loved one, I would first check out those long established institutions affiliated with the major religions.

@jca2 We now believe my wife had a touch of food poisoning.

I’m very covid cautious. Covid is rampant in the schools here in Southern California, especially since the mask mandates were lifted. The positivity rate is very high in my area. The only people I purposely have contact with are all high risk individuals. For privacy’s sake, I won’t go into their medical histories here. The only people I am around without a mask are in my own household. We are all fully vaccinated and boosted, and we mostly stay home.

Unfortunately, pretty much no one in this area masks up anywhere, except for me and my few people in my little covid cautious bubble.

I avoid anything indoors, no stores without double masking, always wear N95s, and I rarely go inside stores, especially since the numbers got high again. I mostly do curbside grocery pickup or order things online.

I don’t go to restaurants inside, and rarely ever go through a drive through. I cook most of our meals at home. I don’t go to movies, or concerts, or parties, or family gatherings. I work from home.

Even before the numbers got high again, I always masked up and wiped down the shopping carts and use hand sanitizer, and dodge and weave whenever I was inside a store.

Over the last 3 months, both of my elderly neighbors on either side of us got covid, because they were never very cautious to begin with, and when the CDC told everyone that is was OK to stop masking, they did, and promptly caught covid and spread it to their friends, and families. One of them got extremely sick. Both had their original vaccinations, and at least one booster, but one got it for certain before she had her 2nd booster.

My best friend’s 40 year old cousin died an excruciating death from Covid in January of this year. She had no underlying health conditions that they were aware of. The family was very anti-mask and were simply not taking precautions. At that time, all the experts were saying to be careful over the holidays, but she and her family decided to go on a ski vacation with a bunch of other people, all unmasked, and one of the kids had covid and she caught it and ended up with severe breathing problems and something called (if I remember properly) “shattered glass lung”. She got pneumonia, and had to be intubated, and died within 5 days of being admitted to the hospital.

In February, the family held a massive funeral where hundreds of people packed inside of a church, mostly everyone was unmasked, and the woman’s own father ended up getting Covid along with a bunch of other people who attended. It was a super spreader event.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, I have personally lost 4 friends to Covid, and I know countless people, friends, family members, and acquaintances, who have gotten covid, several of them multiple times, and at least 3 friends (that I know of) are suffering from Long Covid.

I don’t foresee being less cautious anytime soon. If the people who I am closest to and love weren’t high risk people, I might be a little less cautious, but I doubt it. My own health is precious, and I want to stay healthy and safe, but I also don’t want to knowingly, or unknowingly spread covid to my own loves ones, or to any vulnerable people who are total strangers to me.

I think the government entities whose job it is to maintain public health (especially the CDC) have failed. The government itself has failed, first with Trump and the anti-maskers and anti-vaxers, but also the current administration who despite the President and his wife getting covid (and getting the isolation and gold standard treatment we all would like) carries on mask-less as if covid were a thing of the past. It isn’t, and now there is just a sense of society having “covid fatigue” and just throwing caution to the wind, which in my opinion is a very dangerous precedent to follow.

As I read this question yesterday, I got a text from a friend telling me that her nephew now has Covid. The young man’s brother had Covid last month.

I don’t see an end to this until we get vaccines that are much more efficient. They need vaccines (or is it inoculations?) to prevent the virus from infecting people, otherwise it just continues to spread, and mutate.

And for anyone reading this in the future, it is September 2022. Two and a half years into the pandemic. I have kept a daily log of how many days I have been “sheltering at home” and I am on day 902 : (

Seriously enough, for my area, I guess. It’s still around, but since the little kids can get vaccinated, and paxlovid works, it’s definitely taken the edge off. Some of my behaviors have changed for good, but no, I don’t really mask these days.

Yes people still die of Covid everyday, but, now it really is more like the flu, and we need to get so many things back on track after the pandemic that I just can’t devote energy to fight a losing battle to minimize all risk.

I’ll admit that there things have been 100% pre-covid normal* for a very long time. The only reminders that Covid existed are the occasional (around 1% of people) person I see with a mask on in the market.

* Besides me, my spouse, and my 3 kids, I have a very small family. I lost most of them to Covid isolation. My sister has MS and was diagnosed with breast cancer and scheduled for surgery the week Covid shutdowns hit the US. Due to her health, she isolated, and my mother isolated in order to be able to visit my sister. Since then, a combination of genuine health concerns and explosion of pre-existing anxiety conditions have led them all (and my aunt) to completely isolate.

There are some unfortunate realities concerning existence post-pandemic that bring out issues around how we see disabilities, risk factors, and age. There are conflicts of interest that are really difficult to navigate without sounding callous, paranoid, or provoking claims of ableism. I honestly don’t know how to navigate any of it. But I selfishly don’t have any interest in my children going through the nightmare experience we had for a short time again.

There is no question that the disease managed to alter both the society and our lives markedly in ways none of us might anticipate. For me, the profound shift in the labor dynamic is almost unbelievable.

At work, so many people WFH that offices were barely occupied. They even took away my cubicle because I was WFH. The company let the lease lapse on the main building, saving $$$. They are not complaining since the employees are not.