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Originally Posted by Derek Sutton
The situation you laid out is could happen just as easy if the person sitting next to you is vaccinated or not. Vaccinated individuals can still spread Covid to you, so your best bet is to simply stay home all together given how at risk your family members are. Going to an NHL game should d be right at the bottom of your to do list.
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i appreciate what you are saying and i do realize that someone who is vaccinated can still get covid and pass it on. the thing that i've read many times and has been reported on lots in the news is that if a person is vaccinated and gets covid, their "virus load" is substantially less than someone who is not vaccinated. also, vaccinated people are more likely to have less severe symptoms (less coughing/sneezing) so less likely to pass it on. so yes, it is possible to still contract covid from someone who is vaccinated, but the chance is much less than if that individual is not vaccinated.
i totally agree that going to an nhl game should be right at the bottom of my to do list - and believe me, it is. the kicker is that our lives have been at pretty much at a standstill for the last 18 months. i have a shop in my house, so i don't leave home to go to work. my "big outing" is doing a superstore run once about every 10 days at 10pm at night to avoid crowds. the only time i'm there earlier is when i need to get asthma meds for my wife and daughter, so i show up around 8:45pm (pharmacy closes at 9pm). other than that, the only other time i go out is to get a haircut, go to the dentist or doctor. any other 'shopping' is either curbside pickup or done first thing in the morning before crowds... but that is very rare.
i'm in two bands - the one has been on hold until further notice. for the other band we rehearse outside when the weather cooperates, well distanced from each other (and all of us are double vaccinated). any visiting with friends is pretty much nonexistent. thank goodness our kids enjoy each others company becuz they don't do play dates with other kids. we pulled them from all of their activities with the exception of our daughter's piano lessons - which she is able to do with zoom.
so yea - "living" like hermits has been our lives for the last year and a half. the only way it will return to any kind of 'normal' will be when numbers are substantially less, and the science says that's when the vast majority of the population is fully vaccinated.