Sorry to hear this happened, hon. I admit, I've been expecting more reports of this than I've been seeing, which is, I do suppose, a positive thing. Nonetheless, it sucks that you're having to suffer through it. I wish you luck, and I hope that it won't put you down for too long.

As always, lots of love,
Mika

There is no way to be sure. By this time next year, we are on pace to have a full blown MonkeyPox pandemic. Covid won't even be a concern by then. Not to mention the "con crud" that has been commonly known about for years. People only started worrying about masks with Covid, prior to that it was just "part of the experience".

You were not forced nor required to attend the convention, it was your choice and you accepted the risks. It sounds like you did your best to be safe with the mask wearing and what not, and even so as you experienced first hand, you can get negative tests days before a positive test, so even requiring a negative test has very questionable reliability/certainty. There is absolutely merit to making testing available for covid, as well as other infectious conditions. Cons have been offering std testing for years as well along this theme.

But ultimately the only way to be sure you won't catch anything at a convention, is to NOT go. Just like global thermonuclear war, you are only guaranteed not to lose, if you don't play.

Trying to blame others for what happened, is a bit silly IMO. Excepting of course something done intentionally to you, with the intent to cause you harm.

I too recently went through this, and it fucking sucked. For me it was just absolutely frustrating, I wore masks for years, avoided every social interaction possible, have not gone anywhere non-essential for years, and yet still ended up with a positive result. The only places I had gone for 10 days prior to the positive, was work and a self service fuel pump, using a touchless payment method. I avoided opportunities to hang out with friends, to do activities I enjoy, for literally years, in an attempt to minimize my potential for exposure and I still got it. I was very lucky in that I had no severe symptoms, and only really felt "bad" for 2 days. I've had worse symptoms from food poisoning if we're being totally honest. I truly did everything reasonable to avoid this, and it ultimately didn't matter, just 2+ years of missed opportunities from all that effort.

That said, fuck those people bragging about having a positive result and deciding that it was reasonable to attend anyways and put others at risk. But also, fuck the notion that its someone elses fault that you(or I) got exposed to it and therefore everyone else should be punished in the future.

I hope you get through this quickly and without any complications. And I hope that you had fun at the convention(s) despite the bitter outcome. Sometimes shit just happens, that's how life do be sometimes.

Thank you but I doubt Monkeypox will be an issue since physical contact is needed to catch it and there is already a vaccine for it just like the antibiotic for Legionaries was already in existence.

I probably caught the BA 5 variant of Omnicron. 54% of all new cases and it is vaccine resistant...actually resistant to the antibodies. The vaccine for it will be out just before Furpocalypse and it is effective against all past strains.

The difference reflected what did not happen at Furrydelphia 2021 where the restrictions were as tough and the variant did not exist in the U.S. yet: no attendee came down with Covid despite the presence of a casino where "mundanes" did not wear masks.

I hope you are right regarding the monkeypox thing....hopefully production of the smallpox/monkeypox vaccines can ramp up enough to get the vaccine back available in circulation to knock it back before it manages to start evolving rapidly like Covid has done.