Covid-19 NON DANCE debate

DanceMentor said:
I still have friends in the dance world where they will not attend dances where proof of vaccine is required because they don't believe in vaccines.
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I have friends in the medical world who don't believe in dance lessons. They dance like it. Personally, I get dance advice from good dance pros and take medical advice from medical pros. So far, things are working out pretty good.
 
dncergrl2 said:
I have friends in the medical world who don't believe in dance lessons. They dance like it. Personally, I get dance advice from good dance pros and take medical advice from medical pros. So far, things are working out pretty good.
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Haha, we have nothing to debate here. :) I have studied with 15 or so world champions, and at least the average dancer thinks I am a pro. :) Perhaps if doctors were more accessible to the average person, the information would better disseminate. Our studio seems to have its share of people who could use better information in both fields of study.
 
At the competition yesterday, I at first thought 9 year old and I were the only ones with masks - and he was wearing his mask only because we think it increased his cuteness and likely improved his results in the past.

I did later spot a couple of groups of middle aged to elderly ladies in balconies wearing masks - 2 in one group, 4 in the other - but I'm pretty sure that was it, out of hundreds of people in the ballroom.
 
A coworker in their 50s just passed away with complications of covid. They previously only had mild medical problems, as many people over 50 do. I believe they were vaccinated. They will be dearly missed by their family, and at work, too.

Of course for many people covid isn't that bad. But it's a reminder to me that it is still important to take precautions (vaccines, masks, talk to doctor about paxlovid if infected, avoid large crowds during surges, etc), especially for those who aren't young and perfectly healthy.
 
raindance said:
A coworker in their 50s just passed away with complications of covid. They previously only had mild medical problems, as many people over 50 do. I believe they were vaccinated. They will be dearly missed by their family, and at work, too.

Of course for many people covid isn't that bad. But it's a reminder to me that it is still important to take precautions (vaccines, masks, talk to doctor about paxlovid if infected, avoid large crowds during surges, etc), especially for those who aren't young and perfectly healthy.
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Sadly, unless we are able to completely eradicate this disease, there will continue to be people dying from Covid. My hope now is that the death rate will continue on the downward trajectory it has been on since Omicron. I believe there is very good chance that it will. We are not that far from Flu-like numbers. A little longer on this trajectory and we may very well get there in the next year.
 
DanceMentor said:
Sadly, unless we are able to completely eradicate this disease, there will continue to be people dying from Covid. My hope now is that the death rate will continue on the downward trajectory it has been on since Omicron. I believe there is very good chance that it will. We are not that far from Flu-like numbers. A little longer on this trajectory and we may very well get there in the next year.
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I agree that some will continue to die of covid.

But future flu like numbers (we're not there yet) are cold comfort to the families that lost loved ones. The two people I personally know who have died of covid were in their 50s (one pre-vaccine, and then the coworker much more recently). I don't personally know anyone who has ever died of flu, let alone a person I knew in their 50s. And everyone I know, knows someone who died of covid. I can't think of anyone I know who knows someone who died of flu in my lifetime, though probably someone does and I just don't know about it.

I guess I understand the constant comparisons to flu, but covid is such a different disease. I think it deserves its own category, even when annual death numbers fall to a more "acceptable" level. We lost over 3,000 people to covid in the US just in the last week (per Johns Hopkins numbers). I don't think we're at an acceptable level of deaths yet myself.
 
raindance said:
I agree that some will continue to die of covid.

But future flu like numbers (we're not there yet) are cold comfort to the families that lost loved ones. The two people I personally know who have died of covid were in their 50s (one pre-vaccine, and then the coworker much more recently). I don't personally know anyone who has ever died of flu, let alone a person I knew in their 50s. And everyone I know, knows someone who died of covid. I can't think of anyone I know who knows someone who died of flu in my lifetime, though probably someone does and I just don't know about it.

I guess I understand the constant comparisons to flu, but covid is such a different disease. I think it deserves its own category, even when annual death numbers fall to a more "acceptable" level. We lost over 3,000 people to covid in the US just in the last week (per Johns Hopkins numbers). I don't think we're at an acceptable level of deaths yet myself.
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It's an evolving situation. Definitely during the early times of the coronavirus people who are saying it was like the flu and nothing more were speaking irresponsibly.

The comparison I am making is mainly in terms of the death rate. The death rate is getting much closer to that of the flu.

If we go back to the flu pandemic of 1918 it also killed many, many people, but after some time (2+ years) the death numbers drop significantly.

There is plenty of support for the same thing occurring right now. Initially many people died, but now the death numbers are dropping quickly.

Whether it be covid or the flu, this is no solace to anyone who died or who has lost a close friend or a loved one.
 
Virtually no masks on anyone else on the flight to or from USDC, or in the ballroom at USDC. Possibly as a result, caught something that started mild early last week, but had the symptoms of a bad flu by Friday, which I spent in bed - severe headache, fever and chills, muscle aches especially next to bones. Tested for covid twice, both negative.

So I didn't isolate, though I did continue to wear my mask, since I figured whatever it was, people wouldn't want to get it.

Daughter came down with the same severe symptoms on Monday. Going back to school the next day, the nurse tested her for covid. Positive. I tested again, despite by that time starting to recover. Also positive. Ironically, by that time I was past the CDC recommended isolation period - it was more than 5 days past my initial symptoms, and I was recovering - but I'm still sequestering myself as much as possible, and daughter is isolating.

Probably not coincidentally, she and I were the only ones in the family who had not previously tested positive at any point. Now everyone in the family has had a confirmed case at some point.

The symptoms for me were very much like an illness I got at the very beginning of the covid outbreak - this was before tests had been developed - so I wonder if that was covid too.
 
Warren J. Dew said:
Virtually no masks on anyone else on the flight to or from USDC, or in the ballroom at USDC. Possibly as a result, caught something that started mild early last week, but had the symptoms of a bad flu by Friday, which I spent in bed - severe headache, fever and chills, muscle aches especially next to bones. Tested for covid twice, both negative.

So I didn't isolate, though I did continue to wear my mask, since I figured whatever it was, people wouldn't want to get it.

Daughter came down with the same severe symptoms on Monday. Going back to school the next day, the nurse tested her for covid. Positive. I tested again, despite by that time starting to recover. Also positive. Ironically, by that time I was past the CDC recommended isolation period - it was more than 5 days past my initial symptoms, and I was recovering - but I'm still sequestering myself as much as possible, and daughter is isolating.

Probably not coincidentally, she and I were the only ones in the family who had not previously tested positive at any point. Now everyone in the family has had a confirmed case at some point.

The symptoms for me were very much like an illness I got at the very beginning of the covid outbreak - this was before tests had been developed - so I wonder if that was covid too.
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I'm sorry you had a hard time with COVID and am glad you are feeling better now.
 
Misspendragon said:
I'm sorry you had a hard time with COVID and am glad you are feeling better now.
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As Covid goes, I don’t think it was bad. By CDC standards, it was a “mild” case: no shortness of breath (which would have been “moderate”), and no hospitalization (“severe”). So I count myself lucky, granted thanks probably in part to vaccination.
 
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