I feel really strange and terrible. I hope it's just my allergies going to my ears, too (already bad asthma and sinuses). My brother was in town last week and Dad and he ate inside at a restaurant, smh. It's possible I'm sick sick. Otoh, ear stuff always makes me dizzy and weird.
@ThePandemica That sucks that there's nothing more. I never thought of too much air. I'm already on Flonase and an antihistamine spray, myself. I'm hoping I just need little drain tubes like kids get. They feel so clogged when this happens.
@ThePandemica I need to go to a better one. After he only checked my hearing and sent me on my way, I read reviews for him. He's terrible, lol! I really think I might have a tube problem that crops up a lot.
@Cathi_Bea@JReinerMD Yes! I've noticed that NC (my state) trades off between rural and cities, like smaller cyclical waves. But it's like there's always a wave too close for comfort, unfortunately.
@Biykend @ccleveland234 @NyeJoe@JReinerMD But that's not true anymore about being vaxxed. It might be, under a certain age? But hospitalizations and deaths of vaxxed are now a pretty darned high percentage of the totals. Maybe that's just because "natural immunity" is acting like a vaccine in so many unvaxxed now.
@ThriftyHeel@HbKg31@StJamma@TheAsset81@patriottakes Near Kville, so GBO and Winston are my usual spots, yep. Kville itself is more red, I believe? I actually don't really know anyone in town there, I just realized, lol.
@BarbaraKJanik@Ellemnopas1 I had my doctor's office do mine. They have to write the exception reason anyway, so I just asked them to file for an exception for x med because it was dropped by insurance. I did give them a fax and phone number for exception requests from a letter I got from insurance.
So, it looks that #COVID19 may be evolving differently and that we may not need a new variant to cause a new wave of infection. We are seeing this with BA.4 and 5 in SA and with BA.2.12.1 on the east coast of the USA.
Today, new results from our friend @sigallab show that previous infections with Omicron BA.1 will not be sufficient to prevent a second infection with BA.4 and BA.5. This confirm our epi and Evo results suggesting that South Africa may start a new wave of infections with BA.4 & 5
@icemachine79 @patriottakes Bladen has been here forever, too. I have ancestors from there. They could vote blue like other NC counties and clear up their corruption any time they feel like it. But, alas, they simply don't, smh!
@HbKg31@StJamma@TheAsset81@patriottakes Yes, even in my area, you might not know how grossly conservative a person you encounter may be. We are blue but not solid blue by any means.
@ThomB01 @camper_cozy @patriottakes You know we're a purple state, right? My blue county offers sliding-scale pricing on public health dentistry. And Medicaid here covers dental since our governorship went Dem.
@HbKg31@StJamma@TheAsset81@patriottakes My whole area in the Piedmont, NC is blue. It's not like being the only liberal person in a sea of red. But we do also have a large number of rural counties that are mostly red. I haven't ever been to most of them.