Covid survey

[iomegajaz]

I've been excluded from my office building – working from home – since Christmas. I may yet lose my job.

Update time! My employer/building lifted its mandate at the end of September; I returned to the office the following day and have been there every workday since. I'm still going to quit in June, mostly for a lifestyle change (we're moving interstate) but also, not insignificantly, out of a fair measure of spite.

"No harm done, right? We're cool, right?"
—The Atlantic, among many MANY others.

I'm still unjabbed, obviously.

[swingdjted]

Been vaxxed? Moderna early on; since I'm an educator, they offered it to us first. They came to the school and started with the oldest teachers and worked their way to younger. It was not mandated, just made available. Two shots initially, then a booster this past February, then another booster around September, all Moderna brand.
Vax side effects? First shot, no effects. The second shot that came just a couple weeks later gave me a very high fever (104.2 Fahrenheit), headache, and drowsiness, but only for a portion of a day, then the next day I was completely fine. Third shot (first real booster) no effects. Fourth shot (second real booster) gave me a low 100F fever for a couple hours, then I was fine.
Had covid? I doubt it, although some people can have it and not know it.
Immediate covid symptoms? N/A
Lingering problems ("long covid")? N/A


Sadly I've had some family and family friends die of COVID which was really difficult for everybody involved back when the numbers of victims were still high.



I'm around many hundreds of teenagers every day and have been for decades, so I'm guessing my immune system had to become strong those first couple years, and I'm hoping that all these shots are somehow helping.



Around here, we encourage people to get vaccinated but we in no way mandate it and respect the choices of those that don't feel it's right for them. With that approach, we avoided the heated arguments and ended up getting most of our staff and kids vaccinated to the point where our state governor (and his dog which our students liked) showed up at our school and gave us a $50,000.00 reward for having an extremely high percentage of vaccinated students compared to other schools.


So far our numbers of positive cases and transmission rates have been almost non-existent around here this school year. I hope it stays that way, but it's hard to predict.

[iomegajaz]

I hope you can keep your job.
The bright side of losing your job is that your country has UB.
Some countries don't have that at all and losing your job means you don't have any income.

By UB, do you mean unemployment benefits? The absolute maximum I could receive is $330/week; our rent is $500/week. By comparison, my current take-home (post-tax) income is $1,400/week. The $330 UB is better than nothing, but it's not sustainable.

I'm certainly are going to lose my job , next year on the 6th of july it's 2 years of sickleave and that automaticly means , no more job.
The benefits here are excelent so i don't have to starve to dead.... i can keep living my life as i did before , the decrease of income isn't that much.

It's good – great, even – that you have another 10 months of sick leave, which I assume is paid. That's heaps of time to see if there's some other work you could do, even part-time, once your current employer lets you go.

My workplace never asked anyone to be vaccinated if they weren't already.

Just about every employer here expected that staff would jab up; I'm not sure what proportion actually mandated it like mine did.

To suggest it's galling to me that my employer's vax mandate is still in effect – despite the "current health advice" being that vaccination does not materially affect transmission rates – is an understatement. The unvaxxed are still being ostracised, shunned, negatively impacted, etc. etc. for what is now admitted as being literally no reason. Good times!

[Bizznatch]

Assuming you work, would you have been able to keep your job?

I've been excluded from my office building – working from home – since Christmas. I may yet lose my job.

My workplace never asked anyone to be vaccinated if they weren't already.

[NJK]

I've been excluded from my office building – working from home – since Christmas. I may yet lose my job.

I hope you can keep your job.
The bright side of losing your job is that your country has UB.
Some countries don't have that at all and losing your job means you don't have any income.

I'm certainly are going to lose my job , next year on the 6th of july it's 2 years of sickleave and that automaticly means , no more job.
The benefits here are excelent so i don't have to starve to dead.... i can keep living my life as i did before , the decrease of income isn't that much.

[iomegajaz]

Been vaxxed: Basic, unfortunately (wish I hadn't gotten it at all)

Assuming you work, would you have been able to keep your job?

I've been excluded from my office building – working from home – since Christmas. I may yet lose my job.

[Bizznatch]

Been vaxxed: Basic, unfortunately (wish I hadn't gotten it at all)
Vax side effects: mild
Had covid: once.
Immediate covid symptoms: mild, just a fever and lack of taste
Lingering problems ("long covid"): none

[Vie]

Been vaxxed? Yup, and boosted.
Vax side effects? A day of feeling blerg? Throbbing arm for a couple of days
Had covid? Nope, multiple colds but tested each and has never been Covid itself.
Immediate covid symptoms? NA
Lingering problems ("long covid")? NA

Rather late to the party I appreciate, don't get back here much.

[sgtfuzzbubble011]

I know the purpose of the questions have no ill intent, but I prefer not to provide personal healthcare information. However, I will say one thing.

This virus sucks balls. :|

[NJK]

Update time! This just in: nothing has changed.

same here, nothing has changed.

[iomegajaz]

Update time! This just in: nothing has changed.

Been vaxxed? No
Vax side effects? NA
Had covid? Unsure (likely "No", since my family has not had it)
Immediate covid symptoms? NA
Lingering problems ("long covid")? NA

[myminpins]

Been vaxxed? double-boosted
Vax side effects? mild
Had covid? No
Immediate covid symptoms? NA
Lingering problems ("long covid")? No

[mikm]

Been vaxxed? Vax + booster
Vax side effects? No
Had covid? Not to my knowledge. I haven't been sick in a long time, so I don't think I could have had it masquerading as a cold either. I feel pretty lucky given the current stat that 60% of Americans have had it and that my students have been getting it, so I probably have been exposed to it.

[old and quite mad]

Probably won't get a true reflection of how many haven't been vaxed as many of them will now be dead.

Your optimism is contagious.








see what I did there?

[ryan]

Been vaxxed? Boosted
Vax side effects? No
Had covid? No
Immediate covid symptoms? NA
Lingering problems NA

My 3 year old daughter had it around Christmas but my s/o and I never got it. I consider that to be a success for the vaccine. I'm sure you know how toddlers are.