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I wonder if it’s also misleading to only say that young adults have a rise in cases (due to less vaccination) and be fearful of that. The overall hospitalization and death is still lower (I think I read another article that talked about either in California or NY) because they’re better at handling covid. We need to present the hospitalization / death by age range for vaccinated and unvaccinated which if anyone has any data on that I would love to see it.

Go in on Monday, explain your situation and just say you won’t be able to get it done. It takes courage but a much needed courage. Our management believes we can do so much with so little people but what they don’t understand is we had people working late nights and weekends doing 5/60+ hours a week and not saying anything about it. So it gives them that sense of “this much work can be done from 9-5”.

I sometimes experience “boreout” on days where most of my team members are on holidays or when it’s a bit slow at work. However I still have to be “at the computer” even if I’m not doing anything. On the days I am bored, I don’t have motivation to even shop or cyberloaf. With remote work I literally touch my mouse, make sure my teams status is green, walk away and do something else at home. Sucks because I can never disconnect from work for the day. I wish we would advance quicker into performance based / tasks oriented work rather than just needing to be available.

I’m a half introvert/extrovert (Myers Briggs has me leaning towards introvert). I definitely felt less lonely during the pandemic. I lost a lot of “friends” (acquaintances) and gained some truly intimate relationships with a few. I thought it was the best thing that’s ever happened to me. Though this worked because I had a few friends to begin with who wanted to be in a bubble

My colleague got her first vaccine in January as she was considered immunocompromised but days after she had swollen ankles, lymph nodes, some brain fog, and a bunch of symptoms. They’ve run tests on her such as cancer and other illnesses and has not been able to find anything. She also got her second shot after but 6 months later since the initial, she’s now questioning whether it’s the vaccines it was the only thing that was different for her day to day and doctors haven’t been able to find anything else.

My mom’s friend had 2 doses as well but with the 2nd dose she’s gone deaf in one ear. Same thing, doctors are running a lot of tests on her to determine if it’s something else, but it’s been months as well and no findings yet.

And then a good friend of mine, doctor at a local hospital, got his 2 doses way back and his alopecia came back (though he had cancer 15 years ago and had beat it) so the vaccine may have triggered it back.

These are some first hand cases I know with people that have symptoms post vaccination. Long covid sucks but I don’t think we can discredit the fact that there may be ‘long covid shots’ too.

I think we all need to look at our own risk profile and determine the risk of firstly getting it, recovering from it and then should long covid happen, how to manage it. I really like how Dr. John Campbell puts it here https://youtu.be/ReDzaHoNwi0 (starts 19:54). Though if your kids at vulnerable then that’s a different story.