I do not work from home because I am in security. I wish I could work from home.
I have been in the office every single day since this whole thing started. I am grateful to have stayed employed and healthy during this entire thing. The site that I am at is a financial institution and they never close no matter what.
Do you have to have lots of contact with the public in your job? If so, do please be aware of how this virus travels from person to person, and get familiar with the rate of transmission in your area. This information will probably be easy to find on your local government's website. At least it is on mine, here in Massachusetts.
I worry that you have learned all about the problems that can arise from the vaccines and are taking these into account as you make your decisions about whether to get it or not, but that you haven't paid as much attention to the effects of getting the disease as you make your decision. How healthy one is, how healthy one's lifestyle, how good one's exercise and diet, doesn't seem to have much of an effect on whether someone gets it or not. Age plays a part, but young people get it too. It's whether you breathe in air from someone who is infected, even if they have no symptoms. That air will have virus particles in it. It lingers.
With the new Delta variant spreading fast through the US, my readings indicate people tend to hold and shed higher amounts of virus particles than with the previous variant, and remember this happens before symptoms show up so they don't know they are infecting others.
Whether you breathe air with the virus in it or not is going to determine whether you get it or not, as I understand it. Young healthy people are now getting the disease at a higher rate than in the past, which may be due to the Delta variant being more easily transmitted.
And if you get Covid-19, the symptoms can be dire; I"m sure you know that. But often people only have symptoms that are mild, so that's good news, and I'm betting you are aware of that too. Maybe without the vaccine, if you get Covid, you will have mild symptoms. But you may transmit it to others while on the job or while out and about.
Even with mild symptoms, a person can still end up with Long Covid, which is lingering systemic problems with your lungs and heart that continue far after the disease is over. I know someone with long covid who had barely any symptoms at all. The lingering symptoms of Long Covid have been worse for him than the actual disease. You don't want that.
Do please read up on Long Covid, on the Delta variant, and on the rising incidence of people in hospital and dying from the disease, the age of people getting the disease now compared to last year, and pay special attention to the rate of disease in the area where you live.
Best of luck in staying free of the disease and in not transmitting it to others.
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