For those vaccinated - confidence level?
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Got my second Pfizer shot Friday, so by this Friday I should be at 95%. MFR gets her first (only?) shot tomorrow. But I find myself wanting to see more evidence that it is effective on a wide population. Ohio has kept a mask mandate and I will follow that. It is difficult to give up precautions after a year of them.
How do you feel about it? Would you boldly go into restaurants to eat? Bigger gatherings? Would you fly?
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The mask mandate is still in place, vaccinated or not. So that’s a no go if you were thinking of dropping.
I would be careful until a week or so after MFR’s 2nd dose. After that, I would still want to keep some social distance in public, but otherwise get back to normal.
Of course, I’m not vaccinated yet, but I’m good with eating in restaurants and going to stores. My only concern is breathing the same air as others in tiny metal tubes. Flying and public transport is out until I get vaccinated.
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I’m two months post vaccination.
I’m comfortable being unmasked with dept staff who are 100% vaccinated. Not with patients, although most are also vaccinated.
Still haven’t gone to restaurants or anything too public but that will change soon enough. We are at about 50% population vaccinated with at least one dose. 40% two doses.
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@bachophile said in For those vaccinated - confidence level?:
I’m two months post vaccination.
I’m comfortable being unmasked with dept staff who are 100% vaccinated. Not with patients, although most are also vaccinated.
Is your concern for your own health and safety or other's? At this point you can still spread the virus to the unvaccinated (and vaccinated)...
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Quite honestly I don’t know what my concern is.
95% efficacy still means 5% failure. And who knows about the variants.
Or maybe I’ve just been institutionalized into a covid phobia which will take years to get past.
Be that as it may, definitely less stressed now than say, 6 months ago.
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I am pretty confident once I get my second shot. Part of it is wear I have been traveling to/from.
I have actually even flown during the past year (but not as much as usual). Had to decide seriously about flying because it is quite a hassle to do so (quarantine, etc.)
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Really the only change I can see for me (fully vaccinated as of Friday) is that, after my parents are also fully vaccinated in a couple weeks, I´ll feel comfortable hosting them for a visit. I saw them at Christmas at their house, but I got tested and quarantined first.
And added feeling of safety is that I get weekly covid tests at work, and the results come in Friday, which is perfect if they come down for the weekend.
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@Optimistic I'm similar to you. We are visiting my parents-in-law in MN starting Saturday, so I'm somewhat cautious until after we arrive, even though they are (just recently) vaccinated too.
That being said, I'm pretty confident (and the warm weather hitting the east coast this week I think will make lots of folks extra confident!) and am mainly in a weird spot of knowing I have the vaccine but knowing most around me don't yet have it so I continue to wear the mask and keep a distance.
Like I said in my other thread...combine vaccinations and dropping rates and (most viscerally) warm weather, by June folks will think of COVID as mostly a thing of the past.
