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Why Some Americans Are Still Isolating From Covid-19
Wall Street journal ^ | 08/29/2022 | Julie Wernau

Posted on 08/29/2022 3:42:48 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations are in decline. People are traveling, socializing and returning to workplaces in greater numbers.

But a group of people are still keeping mostly to themselves and taking other measures to minimize infection risks. Compromised immune systems and the risks of long Covid are among reasons they say they are maintaining caution.

(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: americans; branchcovidian; covid; fearbros; isolating; masks; some
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Why am I picturing the last Japanese soldier to emerge from the forest to surrender in 1974.


21 posted on 08/29/2022 4:06:54 PM PDT by Husker24 (Pp)
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To: SamAdams76

I got sick with the Wuhan Whooping Gleep in June, one of the worst illnesses ever. Plaxovid got rid of it but my Wife with both boosters was sick for 3 weeks. Me? 5 days. It is NOT a cold or the flu.


22 posted on 08/29/2022 4:12:04 PM PDT by Shady (The #JihadJunta: "We are now a nation of Men, Not of Laws. You are not as equal as we are...")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

By now it’s pretty easy to know, if they are still wearing a mask, they are a demorat.


23 posted on 08/29/2022 4:12:59 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’m isolating from WOKE. Media gone woke, church has gone woke, even one of my kids has gone woke.


24 posted on 08/29/2022 4:13:06 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: ChicagoConservative27

25 posted on 08/29/2022 4:14:05 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, angels protect you and heaven accept you”)
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To: packagingguy

Our next door neighbor stayed home and inside for about 18 months. Then he ventured out walking the dog...with a mask, of course. Finally, after two years, we got together for dinner a couple times.


26 posted on 08/29/2022 4:15:07 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, angels protect you and heaven accept you”)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s hard for some people to admit that they were lied to and they were wrong. What’s harder is admitting that those right wing jerks you hate were right. :)


27 posted on 08/29/2022 4:16:27 PM PDT by marron
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To: Shady

Caught Covid last January. The moment found out I was exposed took Ivermectin.

Sick for one day and my only symptoms were a fever and a runny nose.

Did lose my appetite for about 5 days. (So did all my friends who were exposed when I was.)


28 posted on 08/29/2022 4:24:27 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“The Reverend faces the Newlyweds and tells the Groom:
“You may now kiss the Mask!”


29 posted on 08/29/2022 4:25:59 PM PDT by lee martell ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Two years of fear mongering by the MSM and now they have the gall to ask this.


30 posted on 08/29/2022 4:33:38 PM PDT by Pollard (Worm Free PureBlood)
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To: marron

Yep Stockholm syndrome. You’d have to believe that everything you believed were lies...too much for some to accept. Cognitive dissonance.


31 posted on 08/29/2022 4:37:56 PM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I still see people taking a “health walk” outdoors and wearing a mask. Though not as many as 12-14 months ago. Back then I would see people jogging with masks on.


32 posted on 08/29/2022 4:43:23 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: dennisw

They do around here too...when it’s 10 below zero.


33 posted on 08/29/2022 4:44:29 PM PDT by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Australia still obsessing over zero/5 day/7 day isolation:

VIDEO: 26s: 29 Aug: news.com.au: Covid isolation period likely to be reduced from seven days to five, national cabinet to discuss
A weeks-long push to change one of Australia’s key Covid rules, led by one of the major states, may be about to yield results.
The possible change will be discussed at a national cabinet meeting on Wednesday, with the New South Wales government hoping a national consensus will be reached...

The United States cut its quarantine period to five days last year, and the United Kingdom went even further in January, scrapping all self-isolation rules...
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/covid-isolation-period-likely-to-be-reduced-from-seven-days-to-five-national-cabinet-to-discuss/news-story

29 Aug: Sydney Morning Herald: States split on question of reducing mandatory COVID-19 isolation
By Dana Daniel, Angus Thompson and James Massola
Health Services Union national president Gerard Hayes called for Australia to follow the UK model, saying that mandatory isolation should be scrapped entirely and workers trusted to stay home if sick, arguing for “personal responsibility and community respect” to underpin the rules as workers struggled to make ends meet...
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/states-split-on-question-of-reducing-mandatory-covid-19-isolation-20220829-p5bdm9.html?ref=rss

heavily taxpayer-funded SBS brings out the “experts” to argue for keeping isolation rules:

Updated 26 Aug: SBS Australia: How long should people with COVID-19 have to isolate for? Here’s why experts are divided
Shortening the mandatory isolation period for COVID-positive people from seven to five days could be on the agenda at next week’s national cabinet meeting. Should it be?
by Amy Hall
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/how-long-should-people-with-covid-19-have-to-isolate-for-experts-are-divided/sum2umr00


34 posted on 08/29/2022 4:46:38 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: lightman

Oh the irony. Soon these people are going to set up shop as a disorder and thus be considered a threat group by the government
...


35 posted on 08/29/2022 4:49:17 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hates:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Did you ask him how he got the dog to wear a mask?


36 posted on 08/29/2022 4:49:28 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: packagingguy

They were stark raving mad from the get go. They are not mad from staying in the house, they stayed in the house because they are mad.


37 posted on 08/29/2022 4:50:24 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: ChicagoConservative27; All

Good. It reduced the opportunities for these morons to breed.


38 posted on 08/29/2022 5:03:54 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: ChildOfThe60s; packagingguy

39 posted on 08/29/2022 5:07:08 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Husker24

Perfect, Husker24.


40 posted on 08/29/2022 5:14:25 PM PDT by Walrus (I do not consent)
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