You misunderstand, I was responding to the person who said the year spent under restrictions have been a "lost year" out of our lives. We too experienced job/income loss that we are still working through in our household. But, the time we've spent together has been positive. My husband has become an expert bread baker and my son has taken up piano.
Probably longer than 3 months...
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Not the same thing, but I’m due to have a baby in a few weeks and was just told that they’re letting one visitor in a day as of about a week ago. I’ve been told all along that they know how important support is and that as soon as numbers dictate they will keep loosening guidelines.
I don't misunderstand. That's fine if you have found some silver linings. But don't throw that out as some sort of counter balance to the high price so many have paid. The economic hit has been devastating to some families. Learning to play piano or bake bread isn't much consolation in those cases.
And in my particular case being vaccinated(not the same as having had covid) in September (and assuming I was not exposed to the actual virus after that) my blood still has covid antibodies detectable in my latest blood donation.
My Mom's primary care doctor had COVID-19 back in April of last year and still had high levels of antibodies in December when he elected not to be vaccinated figuring the doses were better used on somebody else. How long immunity lasts after actually being infected is far from settled science at this point.
I think the social distancing and various indoor restrictions helps a lot with the flu. Also the focus on don't go to work if you are sick.
Probably longer than 3 months...
How Long Does Immunity Last After COVID-19? What We Know
Here’s what we currently know about how long people may be immune after they recover from COVID-19 or get the vaccine.
Yes, it is definitely multifaceted. Not to be attributed to one mitigation or another. Again, if people want to wear masks in future flu seasons, more power to them. Hopefully schools and offices (kids and workplaces being primary spread locations for cold/flu season) have learned to keep things clean in perpetuity. Cruise lines learned a lot and large infestations of norovirus hardly pop up there anymore. Hopefully cruise buffets in their traditional sense are long gone, too.
As data comes in, that timeline is likely to change for vaccine recipients. In increments of 3 months (or whatever), as data allows. We just don't know yet, and that's ok.
My husband is an essential worker in CT. He was just given paperwork to send his info to the state and they’d assign him an appointment. We’re still waiting to hear from them, but we’re impressed that he didn’t have to make the appointment and that they want to take care of workers.
Regarding sick policies for workplaces and schools, how does an employer or teacher distinguish a sneeze or sniffles as the cold/flu/Covid versus simply seasonal allergies? How does an employer create a sick leave policy that is both fair and enforceable? If it’s too rigid, employees may end up coming to work sick. If it’s too lenient (as it is where I currently work), the bad employees will walk all over it and the management will do nothing. Meanwhile, the good employees consistently get stuck picking up the absent employees’ slack.
Teachers and school administrators can't distinguish, but we shouldn't get hung up on that. My oldest, a 7th grader, had to come home from school just before Halloween due to being nauseated from what was probably hypoglycemia. Working in an OR, getting out to pick him up was an inconvenience to more that just me, but I can't fault the school for being hyper cautious. Their policy is 24 hours symptom free without medications, or a negative test result. So, he could have technically returned to school the next day after lunch. We kept him home for the whole day, and he was able to sign in to his classes and make up the work while also enjoying some time on the couch.
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A fair and enforceable sick policy is what some companies do. Accrue a certain amount of missed work days per the employee contract the the employee signs off on and risk termination if the amount of missed work gets to that amount. Bottom line is employees do come to work sick to avoid being fired .
From several days of reading your posts here, I suspect that if someone said, "I think the sun will come up tomorrow," you would say that might be a little too optimistic.