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I did everything right. I got both doses of the vaccine back in April. I wear a mask in public places. The only places I ever let my guard down were at the gym and ONCE at a sports bar to watch a football game. And now I just found out that I've tested positive for COVID. I started feeling like I was coming down with a little bit of a Fall cold last Wednesday, and my symptoms have been very mild ever since. Never had a fever, and I cough maybe once an hour. I thought it was sinuses draining from a little cold, and I actually have been feeling better every day.
Then my son (who is unvaccinated because he's 11 years old--the only person in the house who is unvaccinated) started feeling sick on Sunday with a fever. I took him to get tested and I got tested too. His results haven't come back yet, but I think it's safe to say we know what they're going to be. Thankfully, his symptoms have been super mild too, and he says he feels like he's on the mend after just a day. But I'm absolutely gutted that I may have given this crap to my unvaccinated child. Simply devastated.
What really makes me upset is the fact that I was at a crowded sports bar last weekend to watch a football game. I was there with a friend who is 100% anti-mask (proudly declared last year that he HAS never and WILL never wear a mask), and I guarantee is unvaccinated because he's a Trump sycophant (one of the reasons we had a long falling-out is because he said he thought COVID was all just a big hoax--wonder if he's changed his mind now that he has it). He told me yesterday that he and his girlfriend (also with him at the sports bar) both have COVID now. So I think the chances are good that I got it from him. There is still a possibility I got it at the gym, or that one of my sons brought it home from school (we're getting COVID notices from their schools multiple times per day), but I think my close contact is to blame.
I'm upset with myself for unwittingly passing a deadly virus to my son, but I'm even more upset at whoever so cavalierly passed it on to me for no good reason whatsoever. Congratulations, asshole. You just endangered the life of a CHILD in order to prove your fealty to a politician who doesn't give a shit about you. And I'm even MORE upset that you can be like me, doing virtually everything right, and STILL catch it. Because after we JUST ABOUT had it beat, YOU decided your political beliefs were more important than my health. You let it hang around just long enough to mutate so it could evade the virus we worked so hard to get developed and out to people. Maybe I'll repay your consideration by finding an anti-mask/anti-vax protest and going around handing out hugs to the crowd. F every last one of them.
LisaL
(44,962 posts)NT
OrangeJoe
(286 posts)It is wishful thinking to believe that your anti-vaxxer Trump humping friend is going to change his mind about COVID. These people rarely see the light even as they are approaching the one at the end of the tunnel. If he gets a mild case he'll be convinced COVID is no big deal. If he gets a more serious case and beats it he'll think he's Superman or maybe his personal friend Jesus saved him. If he croaks, well then there will be one fewer asshole in the world. Hope you and your family are better and next time remember what your parents told you about running around with thew wrong crowd.
Doodley
(8,976 posts)SoCalDavidS
(9,998 posts)But I think you're afraid to admit to yourself that this "Asshole," who gave it to you, is your so-called friend.
Speaking for myself, I would not want to be friends with someone like what you described. They endangered your health, and the health of your family, and will 100% do it again.
ecstatic
(32,567 posts)Get well soon!
LetMyPeopleVote
(144,005 posts)I would consider getting infusions if you can for you and your son if you have any major worries.
womanofthehills
(8,584 posts)What were you thinking?
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)madaboutharry
(40,153 posts)For whatever reason, you were unable to say no to your friend about going to a sports bar. It was obviously a mistake to even be around your friend.
I am also sorry that you and your son are now sick I I hope you both get well very soon.
orleans
(33,987 posts)1. letting guard down at gym
2. going to crowded sports bar
3. hanging out with anti masker/vaxxer asshole
(i wonder how many other people in the bar got a does of covid from that asshole & his girlfriend and then went home to inadvertently share it with their families)
i just googled monoclonal antibodies for children and found this:
What parents need to know about kids under 12 and monoclonal antibody treatments
Hasbro Childrens Hospital in Rhode Island is offering the treatment, which has emergency use authorization, to pediatric patients who recently tested positive for COVID-19
PROVIDENCE Hasbro Childrens Hospital is now offering monoclonal antibody treatments to pediatric patients 11 and younger that have tested positive with COVID-19.
Officials at the US Food and Drug Administration recently an emergency use authorization for monoclonal antibody treatments for pediatric patients age 12 and older, but Lifespan Corporation, which owns Hasbro Childrens, is participating in a new open research study offering the treatment to even younger patients.
While children 12 and older are eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, younger children are not yet eligible. As the Delta variant continues to infect Rhode Islanders, including unvaccinated children, this treatment could help some of them fight off the virus, according to health experts.
Monoclonal antibody treatment is safe and effective for treating adults with COVID-19. The study focuses on dosing for pediatric patients and understanding the efficacy of the medication, according to the Rhode Island study lead.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/08/20/metro/what-parents-need-know-about-kids-under-12-monoclonal-antibody-treatments/
more at link. this looks like it is a study being done.
i hope you and your kiddo get better soon
piddyprints
(14,600 posts)1) You couldn't get me within a mile of a gym. They're gross on a good day. If someone is exercising right, they are breathing hard. Lots of droplets. I work out at home with very little equipment and get the same results, and I've been doing it every day for over 4 years.
2) Yeah, right? Crowded sports bar. SMDH
3) Yep again. That's taking too many chances, especially for someone who lives with an unvaccinated child.
Good to know that kids can get the monoclonal antibodies. Still, I'm on the "why risk getting them sick in the first place" camp.
As a society, I think we have let our guard down maybe a little too much.
My hope, as yours, is that the OP and kid get better soon.
LisaL
(44,962 posts)OP's kid is 11.
piddyprints
(14,600 posts)the article linked in the post I was responding to.
Blue_Adept
(6,384 posts)There's a good chance of an undiscovered outbreak at the school and he may have given it to you.
MichMan
(11,790 posts)LisaL
(44,962 posts)NT
lindysalsagal
(20,444 posts)I hope you recover soon.
Skittles
(152,967 posts)with all those sweaty, heavily-breathing folk around?
no fucking WAY would I go to a gym, mask or unmasked
and a SPORTS BAR? WTF
THIS IS HOW IT SPREADS