If You Have Been Vaccinated, Have You Changed Your Behavior?

[alfred russel]

I don't think anyone is "immune",

How many vaccines in human history can you list that render people "immune", if you won't qualify these vaccines?

Maybe should retire the word from the human language if these don't qualify as making people "immune".

I've never heard this type of challenging of any other vaccines. There couldn't be a more effective method to discourage people from getting the covid vaccine: you don't get to be immune, you still have to take all the precautions, who knows how effective they are against variants.

[merithyn]

On the other side of the coin from AR...

My daughter is graduating from college May 8th. It's a live graduation in the stadium outside in Ames, IA. We're ordering tacos (serving them individually) and hanging out outside. My sister has a pool, but since it will be evening in early May, no one will likely be in it.

My sons (and their partners) as well as my brother and his family and of course me and E are all heading to my sister's in Des Moines to celebrate. The boys are flying while my brother and I are both driving. ALL of us are now vaccinated, or will be fully vaccinated, prior to her graduation date. The total number of people getting together at my sister's is potentially 15 people. (Again, all 15 are vaccinated.)

As a courtesy, I invited my daughter's father and his family to the gathering after. He and his wife are both vaccinated, but their nine-year-old daughter is not. When my daughter found out that I'd invited them, she was livid. Not because she didn't want them there, but apparently they have been very vocally derisive of anyone doing anything outside their homes even now. Neither leave the house to work, grocery shop, or for any other reason. Their daughter is homeschooled "until this is over". His wife apparently still wipes everything that comes into the house with Clorox wipes. This has not lessened even with the vaccinations.

My daughter wasn't worried about his saying no (he's not even likely to go to her graduation), but his talking shit about us having the gathering at all. She said that she fully expects to have to hear over and over again what morons we are for daring to do such a thing during a pandemic. Mind you, we're going to be following all of the current CDC guidelines for those even *not* vaccinated.

There are extremes on all sides.

[crazy canuck]

Very happy for your daughter 

No announcement on our younger son's grad - he is in Ontario so very likely to be a remote experience.

[KRonn]

I just got my second vaccination shot last week. I haven't changed behavior - still masks and distancing as most stores require or request it and I'll follow their rules. In time things should change, loosen up, or so I hope.

[DGuller]

Now that I've been fully vaccinated, I did change my behavior somewhat.  I obviously still follow all the requirements, but I'm now far less risk averse on top of that.  For example, I already played poker a couple of times in a casino.  In theory, I could've been doing that for the last six months since they reopened, as mask wearing in casinos is mandatory and there are plexiglass dividers at the tables, but in practice there is no way that I would've taken a risk that these precautions would be sufficient absent vaccination.  I'm also less anxious about running into idiots who hack their lungs out or have yet to figure out that the mask goes over the nose.