COVID-19 Outbreak Information Updates (Reboot) [over 150.000,000 US cases (est.), 6,422,520 US hospitilizations, 1,148,691 US deaths.] (3 Viewers)

[Doug B]

Anyone know where in the N.O. area to go to buy "soft" N95 or KN95 masks? Similar to the one pictured below? Specific brand is not important.

I was getting them regularly at the Robert's on West Esplanade in Metairie, but they stopped carrying them a few weeks ago and our home supply has run out. My wife still wears them for work (non-medical) and my son wants to keep wearing them for school.

The chain drugstores around here only seem to carry the regular blue surgical masks. Same with our Wal Mart and Target.

I know many people order masks online, but I prefer to be able to pick up a small quantity as needed and not wait for the delivery.

 

[where yat brah]

Day 8

Still get tired but mostly at the end of the day. Still occasional throat clearing. Wearing Level 3 surgical mask with KN-95 underneath at work. Mandatory mask policy instated at my office this week, by me. I won't test again until Monday since I won't be around people this weekend. Hoping to be 100% by Monday (day 11).

 

[efil4stnias]

Day 8

Still get tired but mostly at the end of the day. Still occasional throat clearing. Wearing Level 3 surgical mask with KN-95 underneath at work. Mandatory mask policy instated at my office this week, by me. I won't test again until Monday since I won't be around people this weekend. Hoping to be 100% by Monday (day 11).

glad to hear all good. thanks for the rolling updates!

 

[Goatman Saint]

glad to hear all good. thanks for the rolling updates!

11 days and you should be down to random cough. I still have a bit of fatigue but only when hiking

 

[bigdaddysaints]

i recently found out I've had a vitamin d2 defecincy.
ever since i had covid back in sept 2020, i have been extremely tired in the mornings, not just tired, but literally having to force myself out of the bed.
my doctor told me covid can have that effect on people with a vitamin d defecincy. i have been taking it weekly for the last 3 months. (also started met foreman and high blood pressure medicine). i forgot to refill the vitamin d prescription, so i missed 3 doses. when i realized i have been having that lagging feeling again in the mornings, i feel like such a dumbaz for not refilling it when i should have. i made sure i got it refilled today .

 

[Doug B]

Anyone know where in the N.O. area to go to buy "soft" N95 or KN95 masks? Similar to the one pictured below? Specific brand is not important.

I was getting them regularly at the Robert's on West Esplanade in Metairie, but they stopped carrying them a few weeks ago and our home supply has run out. My wife still wears them for work (non-medical) and my son wants to keep wearing them for school.

The chain drugstores around here only seem to carry the regular blue surgical masks. Same with our Wal Mart and Target.

Well, I looked in our local Walgreens last night, and see that they are now selling N95s. They're kind of expensive per mask - I was paying 75 cents per KN95 mask at Robert's, whereas the ones I found last night vary between $1.70 - $3.35 per N95 mask.

I'll start checking around WalMart and the home stores again. See if the inventory has changed lately.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Just saw a blurb saying that Los Angeles is considering going back to mandatory masking

 

[bclemms]

Just saw a blurb saying that Los Angeles is considering going back to mandatory masking

Masking has been a safety illusion since Omicron so I really hope they don't.

 

[Arathrael]

Masking has been a safety illusion since Omicron so I really hope they don't.

In what sense?

I mean, they're clearly not magic in the sense of making any particular individual invulnerable, and they won't prevent community outbreaks of Omicron.

But in terms of masking reducing individual risk and potentially community prevalence, they're as applicable as they've ever been (that is, more so if the masks are higher quality and well fitting, less so if they're not). Which is particularly critical for, e.g. critically vulnerable individuals during potential exposure that they can't otherwise avoid (e.g. if a critically vulnerable person has to take public transport to a hospital and back, they'll be at lower risk if they and other people are wearing masks during that journey and at the hospital than if they're not).

 

[bonnjer]

COVID reinfection has a silver lining—one that may tame the pandemic

When we talk about immune-evading variants, we’re really only talking about antibody immunity—and that’s only half of the story.

www.yahoo.com

 

[superchuck500]

 

[SaintInBucLand]

This is just getting weird. Why is it people who are boosted and even double boosted getting covid over and over all while masking and other precautions . And somebody like me who had it last year (late July, Delta) and got only one shot and been around multiple people who had various versions of Omicron has not gotten it again(unless those sniffles and bit of sore throat I had for 2 days a couple months ago was it).

 

[superchuck500]

This is just getting weird. Why is it people who are boosted and even double boosted getting covid over and over all while masking and other precautions . And somebody like me who had it last year (late July, Delta) and got only one shot and been around multiple people who had various versions of Omicron has not gotten it again(unless those sniffles and bit of sore throat I had for 2 days a couple months ago was it).

Hard to say. That person lives in Brooklyn - I think population density could be a factor. But could also be some people are just more susceptible and some are less.

Or could be that the new variants haven’t made their way to be prevalent in your area yet. Kind all wide open right now.

 

[SaintInBucLand]

Hard to say. That person lives in Brooklyn - I think population density could be a factor. But could also be some people are just more susceptible and some are less.

Or could be that the new variants haven’t made their way to be prevalent in your area yet. Kind all wide open right now.

My area is dark red for omicron BA5. I was even in a small contained area with 4 people who had covid for more than 45 minutes as well. No masks or anything.

 

[bclemms]

In what sense?

I mean, they're clearly not magic in the sense of making any particular individual invulnerable, and they won't prevent community outbreaks of Omicron.

But in terms of masking reducing individual risk and potentially community prevalence, they're as applicable as they've ever been (that is, more so if the masks are higher quality and well fitting, less so if they're not). Which is particularly critical for, e.g. critically vulnerable individuals during potential exposure that they can't otherwise avoid (e.g. if a critically vulnerable person has to take public transport to a hospital and back, they'll be at lower risk if they and other people are wearing masks during that journey and at the hospital than if they're not).

In the sense that the newest strains are some of the most transmissible viruses in the know world and about 800% more contagious than original covid strains.

In the sense that very few people are wearing proper masks or wearing them correctly. If they havent figured it out in the first 3 years they wont get it in the next 90 days.

Next, most of the spread happens at home anyway and when people are around family they dont wear masks.

So yes, they still make a difference but the people that are going to wear them correctly are the same that will do it without a mask mandate.

Finally, the fatality rate has gotten so low. We arent seeing hospital crowding and the impacts do not justify the near immeasurable difference of half arse masking.

This coming from someone that still wears masks on planes.