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Default Mar 24, 2022 at 08:10 AM
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Btw, I received as a booster shot Moderna. Do you know if this vaccine messes up with women menstruation. Because I had noticed problems with it and if I remember well, one of the vaccines cause these kinds of problems but I don’t remember which one?
I heard it can happen with any vaccine - so many things can influence our hormones! I haven't noticed any effect but I still need to get my Moderna booster. Can someone just drag me to the vaccination centre next week?

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Do the rapid tests even work? My husband got sick last week, tested negative twice. I'm sick now with slightly different symptoms and swear this is Covid but tested negative also. I had plans to meet up with four different people this week and am glad those plans fell through for various reasons so I am not exposing anyone to whatever this is.
They're a lot less sensitive and apparently especially with omnicron there is only a short window in which you would test positive. I don't know about other place but the news mentioned we had a flu wave going around here as well, so it might not be corona.

Even if it's not corona, I guess it's not a bad thing if we are more careful about spreading viruses to others. Thinking back to all the times people sat coughing and sneezing in the office or on public transport - it seems so icky now! But then we didn't have the option to work from home, it was either call in sick for "just" a cold or go to work and infect everyone around you. Probably the one good thing to come out of this is more companies offering remote working.
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@AzulOscuro some women did find that the vaccines messed with menstruation. I think my first Moderna dose made mine come early.

Do the rapid tests even work? My husband got sick last week, tested negative twice. I'm sick now with slightly different symptoms and swear this is Covid but tested negative also. I had plans to meet up with four different people this week and am glad those plans fell through for various reasons so I am not exposing anyone to whatever this is.
I had read Omicron isn’t always picked up by rapid flow tests, and also that the throat and nose ones detect it better than nasal only (opposite to delta apparently). I do know quite a few people who’ve had omicron (I guess that because they’ve had covid recently) who did test positive for a week or so though so broadly speaking the rapid tests can detect it in many cases. I wonder if some people just don’t quite have enough viral load? One friend got a faint line for one day only and jokes she had covid for an hour, her little girl and husband were sicker though.

Hoping you’re feeling better soon and glad you’re able to isolate!

There’s definitely been documented evidence of menstrual disturbance following covid vaccination in a number of women, although personally I was okay.
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@AzulOscuro - Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with requiring masks on public transit or other enclosed spaces where people are close together. However, I think that we must be the only or one of the only countries that requires masks anywhere outside. When I go for walks in my neighborhood, there is usually no one around. When I come across people, we keep a decent distance. It's silly. The transmission risks in a situation like that must be tiny. I have severe respiratory allergies that don't respond well to treatment, so wearing a mask is pretty uncomfortable for me.


I think most countries have also gotten rid of vaccine passports, but not here.
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I am just positive this must be Covid. My husband told me to go get a real test, but even if that came back negative, I wouldn't believe it, so I am just going to treat the situation as if I have it. Our Covid case count is very low here so maybe it really is something else.

It is very weird. I'm not at death's door and the symptoms are like a cross between a cold and norovirus. I just feel *weird.* There's this brain fog. My thinking is slow and it's like there's some extra layer between me and reality. If this is Covid after three vaccinations, I am glad I did not get it before.
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I am just positive this must be Covid. My husband told me to go get a real test, but even if that came back negative, I wouldn't believe it, so I am just going to treat the situation as if I have it. Our Covid case count is very low here so maybe it really is something else.

It is very weird. I'm not at death's door and the symptoms are like a cross between a cold and norovirus. I just feel *weird.* There's this brain fog. My thinking is slow and it's like there's some extra layer between me and reality. If this is Covid after three vaccinations, I am glad I did not get it before.
Feeling weird is exactly how my experience of covid was after 2 vaccines, it didn’t feel like a cold, just odd symptoms. Is your taste and smell okay? That used to be the hallmark but not so much with omicron.
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'Weird' is how I've heard so many people describe it! Taste and smell has been fine but I have zero interest in food. I feel like I've turned a corner this afternoon.
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I tested negative again, so who knows. I lost four lbs. Yesterday I started to smell cigarettes that aren't here. Of course this all happened around the time I started my period and the cramps have been the kind that bring you to your knees. I hope today is the day that goes away. It's the last severely limiting symptom. I'm looking forward to leaving the house again some day!
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@AzulOscuro - Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with requiring masks on public transit or other enclosed spaces where people are close together. However, I think that we must be the only or one of the only countries that requires masks anywhere outside. When I go for walks in my neighborhood, there is usually no one around. When I come across people, we keep a decent distance. It's silly. The transmission risks in a situation like that must be tiny. I have severe respiratory allergies that don't respond well to treatment, so wearing a mask is pretty uncomfortable for me.


I think most countries have also gotten rid of vaccine passports, but not here.
Of course, I agree with you. Outside the masks shouldn’t be an obligation at this point in time, as long as you keep distance with other people.
I can understand how bad you may feel with the mask on, especially having those problems to breath due to allergies. It must be horrible.

I only was stressing on the contradictory thing in my country. On one hand you have to wear a mask any place indoors. It’s not that for me it’s a problem at all, but on the other side they let people who are positive with low symptoms to expose to people. No quarantine. I simply don’t understand it.

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NL and BE have gotten rid of most of the restrictions now. Germany is slowly phasing them out, but masks are still required inside.

The differences between countries so close together are silly. Last night, I was at a concert in Belgium. No rules at all. It was a full house (not sure how big but definitely several hundred people), no certificate of any kind needed, no masks.

Today I went to a gig in Germany. Small gig at a tiny cafe,
probably only around 20-30 people there. Show proof of vaccination and wear a mask unless you're seated.
And they almost didn't want to let me in because I haven't gotten my booster yet which is NOT a requirement in Germany. 2 shots still qualifies as fully vaccinated and let's you into places which have either 2G or 3G. But the venue was re-opening tonight and no-one knew about the rules for "only" 2 shots. In the end they told me it's me who's taking the risk and let me go inside.
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Oh that’s crazy Break, but glad they let you in!

This week once again lots of people I know had tested positive, all like bad colds, even the elderly ones thankfully, this is reassuring.

A neighbours daughter who nurses covid patients told her that 9 out of 10 people in hospital with covid have no vaccination at all.
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I have noticed something interesting. Since the start of the new government, the number of daily tests has gone way down. In the last daily report, only about 35,000 tests were done. Under the old government, it tended to fluctuate from 60,000 to 90,000, with more during the week and fewer during the weekends. I wonder what is up there?


There also are complaints about a lack of vaccines in some cities. That doesn't seem to be a problem where I live. My husband went to get a second Pfizer dose because his first two doses were Sinovac and he does not feel protected. He had to wait for more people to show up before they opened the vial.


One small town in Patagonia decided to eliminate the mask requirement. They have a high vaccination rate and low case numbers. The federal government is all up in arms, saying that they can't do this because Covid policy is made at the federal level. In the end, it sounds like the town can just refuse to enforce the mandate. It's generally the municipal security workers that are supposed to do that.
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Pretty much no mandate anywhere anymore except airports and medical settings. But USA just cleared the forth shot for those 50 and older. Completely voluntary and up to individuals. Those 12 and older with compromised immune systems are also eligible for the forth shot.

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I'm going to a gig in a city that I think will be quite crowded. I will also be taking a bus and subway for the first time since this pandemic started. A little nervous. It looks like masks are still required on all public transport and in most of the places I plan to visit.


That's interesting about the lower test rates. Do you think people are just less interested in taking them? Have the positivity rates changed? We also have very low test rates right now but I believe it is due to low incidence.
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Positivity is down. When we were at the worst of the most recent wave, it was around 20% or even higher in many places. The most recent report gives a rate of 7.6% in the country as a whole and 6.7% in the Metropolitan Region, which is the most populous.


For a few months now, the Metropolitan Region has generally had lower positivity than the national average. I am wondering why that might be. A lot of municipalities in the southern part of the capital suffer from severe overcrowding. These areas also have some of the lowest vaccination rates. Many were hard hit in earlier waves. I guess that could mean more people have some immunity from previous infections.

The government extended the health emergency without giving an explanation of why. That means they can continue to mandate masks and capacity restrictions.
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How do you control anxiety levels on public transport? People are coughing and it’s freaking me out because I’m stuck on here for a couple hours. Everyone is supposed to be wearing a mask but some have it pulled down.
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How do you control anxiety levels on public transport? People are coughing and it’s freaking me out because I’m stuck on here for a couple hours. Everyone is supposed to be wearing a mask but some have it pulled down.
Think that after the vaccines, even if you catch the virus, there will be very few probabilities that your symptoms will be grave.
I guess the windows in the bus are open so the concentration of virus is not gonna be so high.

I guess in transportation, the use of a mask is obligation. So, would you feel very embarrassed if you asked the person whose mask is down to put on him/her. With nice words, of course. Without any need for a confrontation.
Then, there are a type of mask (I can’t tell you now which ones, because I don’t remember) that not only protect people from you, they also protect you from people.

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I haven't been keeping up with the news and only found out yesterday that my state has done away with most rules as of yesterday. Masks only still required on public transport and care facilities, no longer in stores. Still when I went grocery shopping this morning, most people were wearing a mask, only a few went without.

So now that things are mostly possible again.... I feel like I should be doing better mentally. But of course I'm not. How do you recover from 2 years of isolation? I've traveled again, I've been to gigs, but they were just brief distractions. I already didn't have a huge social circle to begin with, and I've lost touch with almost everyone. How do you get back from that, when you also have social anxiety? And work is still offering the possibilty of home office, so very few people go to the office. I am certainly not brave enough to go out by myself and meet people. So WTF do I do?
I want to work at getting a life again, but then when I get motivated and want to do stuff, it only takes one slight setback to knock me right off my feet again

But then, I wasn't even supposed to be affected this much, right? The lockdown was oh so terrible for kids and uni students, but I guess by my age, I should've had a partner and close friends, probably even a kid to look after. That makes me feel even worse. Like things should be back to normal now and I should just magically bounce back like everyone else seemingly has?
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How you feel is completely valid @BreakForTheLight I don’t know a single person who hasn’t been affected on some level.

Yesterday I had the humbling experience of sitting next to a lady who was clinically extremely vulnerable although not elderly, and still scared to leave her home - she was at her first social event in 2 years. Was she relaxed? No! How could she be.

They talk about living with covid but IMO it’s misleading- we’ve all been living with covid these last 2 years and we’ll continue to.

Please feel free to ignore but is there any way you could volunteer? Or join a hobby group (exercise/crafts?)? Those are both ways I’ve helped myself socialise.
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I haven't been keeping up with the news and only found out yesterday that my state has done away with most rules as of yesterday. Masks only still required on public transport and care facilities, no longer in stores. Still when I went grocery shopping this morning, most people were wearing a mask, only a few went without.

So now that things are mostly possible again.... I feel like I should be doing better mentally. But of course I'm not. How do you recover from 2 years of isolation? I've traveled again, I've been to gigs, but they were just brief distractions. I already didn't have a huge social circle to begin with, and I've lost touch with almost everyone. How do you get back from that, when you also have social anxiety? And work is still offering the possibilty of home office, so very few people go to the office. I am certainly not brave enough to go out by myself and meet people. So WTF do I do?
I want to work at getting a life again, but then when I get motivated and want to do stuff, it only takes one slight setback to knock me right off my feet again

But then, I wasn't even supposed to be affected this much, right? The lockdown was oh so terrible for kids and uni students, but I guess by my age, I should've had a partner and close friends, probably even a kid to look after. That makes me feel even worse. Like things should be back to normal now and I should just magically bounce back like everyone else seemingly has?
You can’t guess how much I understand you.
On one side, these two years of restrictions and isolation, for someone with social anxiety is like having to begin from zero again. On the other side, the fact of having these thoughts in your head about not having a couple, no babies, only a reduce social group and now distanced because of the pandemia. All this made you nearly impossible to do what for other people is normal.
Sure your head tells you all the time, you are different, people will know I’m different at the first sight...how can I behave normal and confident with people when I don’t feel that way even when I’m alone.

I’d wish I could put all these thoughts in your head away or there were a therapy that did it.

From my ignorance, I think that only if you get free from these thoughts or somehow you arrive to an agreement with yourself about that it’s not so bad what you have achieved so far and you take care of yourself by accepting everything in yourself and even little by little reach to the point when you even like many things in yourself, is the only way to face to any situation without triggering your anxiety or at least, you will notice it pretty diminished.
I know is something very difficult. I saw it impossible. And I got it thanks to many circumstances I went through such as, getting rid of one of the things that put the bigger pressure onto me, my job. So, I only have to be grateful. No need to feel forced to deal with people every single day.
And suddenly, one day, a friend of you and me, proposed and encourage me to do some kind of stuff to get more confident. I don’t feel now less than anybody when I used to see everyone as superior.

I know you can’t see it but you are completely fine and suit with the world today. Many men and women don’t have a loving relationship. Many people don’t have babies. And others, the only friends they have are online contacts. Many people don’t even cross a couple of words with their neighbours.
On the other side, you have some really good points. Not everyone have them so developed.
You are smart and intelligent. Very funny.
I’ve been knowing@Break for a time. That’s why I know it.
She’s funny. The most rare things happen to her and when she’s telling about it, you can’t avoid laughing.
You have an interesting conversation, a good writer, faithful and trustworthy. You can’t see it but you are full of good points and you have your ideas very clear only that the f@cking social anxiety plays bad games with you.
I’m very sorry because I know how much it can stop a person.
But, think about the positive I have said to you because it’s f@cking TRUE. I wouldn’t say it if it were in a different way.
This is what people see.

I’m thinking about two possibilities. Have you got someone who you can go jogging with? You will feel safer with this company and who knows what’s going to happen any moment along these runs. You can meet people, coincide with others you already know. Something funny may happens. Noone knows. Surprise!

Another possibility is to go walking alone instead of go jogging (the former is cleaner, I’m gonna tell you why now), then, at the end of the route, the finish line will be a café to take something. A coffee, a juice or whatever.
There again, you won’t know what can happen. Who is gonna go there too. Who’s gonna share some words with you.
This is more or less what I do. And I have shared with different people. Some of them, I share time with when we see us and I even have an appointment with a lady from time to time with our doggies and go to have lunch or something like that. I also had the possibility to do the same with guys but you know, I have a partner. So, I’m closed to that possibility unless he became a friend and I trust he’s not looking for anything but a friendship.
You can do it. I know the harder part is to take these thoughts out of your head. I know it. Wished I could help you with that. Only you can pass through this way.

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As of tomorrow the outdoor mask mandate is finally gone, except in areas where it is not possible to keep a distance. It's about time! Silly me, I thought it was in effect yesterday and walked to the security booth at the entrance to our neighbor without a mask, only putting it on to sign for the package. What a rebel I am haha!
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