Well, I am holding my breath...UPDATE

[PA_jen]

My mom and I are vaccinated. You will remember in June I lost my father who was fully vaccinated to the Delta variant. My sister who has become an anti-vax freak. She still hasn't gotten it. She was coming to see my mom this weekend has called mom saying she is getting a sore throat.

Mom wasn't thrill bout her coming in but now she is understandable worried. I am too.

I am hoping it is the start of allergy/sinus infection and that is all.

My sister and I suffer with allergies and sinus infections 3/4 of the year. We are the type that will hear someone sneeze and we catch whatever it is.
I have been lucky to be in my home since covid began and the few trips I make out I use protocols I set up for myself, mask gloves purely get home Lysol my clothes and shoes showed (sometimes twice) and clothes are washed asap.

I am worried

Thank you for letting me vent. I am on my tablet.

My sister decided not to come. Please send well wishes that it is just a cold and not covid. Many you said don't let her visit or My Mom shouldn't. I live an hour away from Mom. I use all preclusions when I see her. Mom is afraid if she tells Sis not to visit Sis never talk or see her again. Right now My Mom has lost her parents and both her brothers so she doesn't want to do anything to upaet Sis.

[Enter stage left]

1. We're here for you...feel free to vent.

[elleng]

2. Fingers crossed.

Welcome to DU.

[LisaL]

3. I am assuming you meant she is getting a sore throat?

A common symptom of delta covid. You seemed to think that you have to accept that your sister is going to show up?


“Headaches, fevers, shortness of breath, those are the things that people are going to commonly have, but what we see with the Delta variant so far has been that you’re a little be more likely to have a sore throat, more likely to have sinus congestion, and a little bit more likely to have a runny nose,” said Medical Director of Disease Control for the Jefferson County Department of Health, Dr. Wesley Willeford."
https://www.wbrc.com/2021/08/11/doctors-say-delta-variant-has-different-symptoms-than-original-covid-19-strain/

[PA_jen]

6. Thanks I fixed it. My table's autocorrect hE a mind of its own

[Hugh_Lebowski]

19. Autocorrect always hE a mind of its own, it's not just your table (nt)

[SheltieLover]

4. Personally, I would not allow her to visit feeling ill.

But that's just me.

Good luck with this situation!

[PA_jen]

8. Mom is a don't fight with each other. She is afraid of sis cutting all contact

My mom is the last of her nuclear family her parents and both her brothers have passed. So she is begging us not to fight and even though she is worried about getting covid.

[LisaL]

10. A lot of people are getting infected right now.

It's not a good time to be meeting with un-vaxxed family members with a sore throat.

[SheltieLover]

13. Really there shouldn't be anything to fight about

She has synotoms. Stay home.

Your mom would do well to watch some videos healthcare providers have posted.

[lagomorph777]

17. This is not about fighting; it's about not letting your sister commit murder.

Sorry to be blunt but that's about the size of it.

[MissMillie]

12. +1000

It's not a fight.

Hell, I remember about 13 years ago, I avoided Thanksgiving dinner because I was sick. Heck, when my granddaughter was born 3.5 years ago, I waited a week to see her because I was sick.

When you love people, you don't get them sick, if you can help it.

The visit can wait until sis is feeling better.

[Jerry2144]

5. I feel your pain

Every day I wonder if it is allergy-induced suffering or real Covid-19. I just check daily to see if this is any change from baseline allergy symptoms and if I took my allergy medicine. All I can do is practice the normal precautions, minimize going into the real world to what I must do, and avoid the crowds. I just hate the avoidable loss of humanity, good or evil.

It sucks and is easy to become a hypochondriac. At least I am fully Vaxed.

[Ms. Toad]

15. My employee is out with "ragweed allergies" right now that were actually COVID.

Symptoms started Saturday. She scheduled a rapid test on Tuesday (she works from home on Monday) and tested positive. She's fully vaccinated.

[MLAA]

7. Can you suggest she wait until she isn't feeling any 'allergy' symptoms in order to be safe for mom.

[PA_jen]

9. Last time I tried she start covid is a hoax. She is thinking of not coming in so I am hoping she

Won't. If I say don't come she will.

[MLAA]

11. She sounds delightful.

Wishing you the best. You don’t have to see her. I would not risk it. Sorry you have to deal with her.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

21. Seriously if anyone in my family told me remotely recently that 'covid is a hoax'

I would sadly resolve myself to never having a relationship with them again.

It's one thing to whine and whinge about getting vaccinated and freedumb and all that, but to ACTUALLY THINK ... this whole thing is a 'hoax' ... STILL? At this point, everyone at least knows someone well ... who's had someone close to them die from it. My ex-wife's 1st cousin just died of it a couple months back. I'd met him 1 time but didn't know him.

Unless it was my parent or my child, I'd be like ... bye. Sorry, but I just can't.

Sorry you're going through this

[Ms. Toad]

14. Tell your mom to have her reschedule.

I have been exposed 4 times in the last month. Three were by vaccinated individuals who ended up COVID positive even though they were sure what they had was a cold (in one case) or allergies (in the second) or a headache (in the third).

The most recent one was by one of the most cautious people I know. She and I were 2 of the only 3 people at the University department where we work who never stopped wearing our masks. She likely got it from her kids, since the only place she is unmasked is at home (her kids just started back to in-person school).

You're being overprotective as to the least likely means of transmission (contact) - and underprotective as to the most (a visit from an unvaccinated sister)

[lagomorph777]

18. Back-to-school is going to add a milion deaths to the toll.

[electric_blue68]

16. Good Luck for allergies only!

[summer_in_TX]

20. If she actually does come, ideally your mom and she could visit outdoors.

And if indoors have the windows open and fans going. Plus hopefully your mom stays masked, using her allergy symptoms as an excuse.

I hope you luck out and she doesn't come though.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

22. Do not let unvaccinated sister visit.

Period.

I have lots of seasonal allergies myself, and am constantly sneezing an blowing my nose. I'm fully vaccinated, and am reasonably sure I have not been exposed, mainly because I don't work (retired) and don't go out all that often. I have the good fortune to live in northern New Mexico where people are very good about masking indoors.

Heck, I've been needing major dental work recently, and it bothers me that I have to take the mask off for that, even though I and the staff at the office are also vaccinated.

I do happen to be one of those annoyingly healthy people. In normal times I simply never get sick. I do not use that as a reason not to be vaccinated. I am vaccinated, even though I'm reasonably confident that were I exposed I'd barely get sick.

Back in December I had a heart attack, went to the local hospital where they immediately gave me a test to see if I had Covid. I didn't, which meant I could be placed in a regular ward.

As mentioned above, I'm in New Mexico. My only son lives in Fairfax, VA. He's a grad student at George Mason University. I last saw him in October, 2019. Understandably, I'd love to see him again, but I'm personally not willing to get on board an airplane and fly to visit him, and I won't ask him to do something I myself won't do. So it's going to be who knows how much longer before I see him.

Here's what I've been saying for some time: Pretend it's the spring of 1939, you and I are good friends who are planning a trip to Europe next year. We've been scrimping and saving and working extra jobs for a couple of years now, and it will finally happen. We can hardly wait. We will go to London, Paris, Madrid, probably other cities. We haven't worked it completely out yet, but it's going to be great! Then September rolls around, and WWII breaks out. Oh, crap. We won't be taking that trip next year, but we're optimistic that this war won't last very long, and we'll go in 1941. But no. The war goes on. And on. And on. It doesn't finally end in Europe until May, 1945. Our long postponed trip won't happen until 1946, maybe a year or two later. And when we finally take it, we'll visit a Europe vastly different from the one we might have seen in 1939.

And so it will be with Covid. This is going to last longer than we might have imagined. And there will be vast changes, far beyond what we even now currently think of. When it's finally over the world will be as different as the world of 1946 was from 1939.

[scarytomcat]

23. wear a mask at all times

multi layer mask