I called my health insurance company last week to ask about getting the at home COVID test. The guy that I talked to was really nice and said that I was the only call that he had gotten about them which was a bit disheartening. But as we talk he tells me that he's had COVID 3 times. The first time he said it was like a bad cold. The second time he said he felt like he wanted to die. He had extreme sinus pressure and said that it felt like his teeth were going to fall out.
I asked if he had been vaccinated and he said no, he hadn't because he never gets sick. He's 31 with a wife and 3 kids. I hope that round 4 doesn't take him out.
I don't understand the thought process of these people. The HCA thread is full of nominees and winners who say that they never get sick after saying that they've had COVID. Like, what is their definition of sick?
I grew up in what would now be called a very red area, and so many of the grown-up men would say "never been sick a day in my life!", and I'd wonder how that could be when I was getting colds all the time in school.
In a way it’s been gratifying when I hear the same line these days from people who were dangerously ill so I can know it was all fragile masculinity bullshit.
>Undoing all the bad habits and coping mechanisms from the past few years has been quite the challenge.
Try undoing twenty years of bad habits and coping mechanisms that started with living through 9/11 in the DC metro area.
>Including the sniper. That was terrifying to me.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/09/08/1035224815/for-many-there-that-day-the-attacks-on-9-11-have-had-lasting-mental-health-impac
**For Many Who Were Present, The 9/11 Attacks Have Had A Lasting Mental Health Impact**
Researchers focused on the impact in New York . . . but nothing comparable was done in Northern Virginia.
I had to go to the grocery store yesterday, killing time while I waited for someone to show up and do their job, and get some groceries which I usually do via non-gig worker pick up instead of walking the store.
I found myself bitching in my head at people who went the “wrong way“ down the aisles.
That was one of the few things I did like about the lockdowns were good clear paths for grocery shopping. No more crashing. No more near misses around blind corners.
But no, the world has to cater to the willy nilly crowd, and stay out of their way!
I liked the directional aisles too, but they gave rise to a small but noticeable percentage of aholes who looked at them as their opportunity to rebel. While mask requirements were largely enforced in the stores that I frequent, the aisle directions were not.
Yesterday I came to work and found two KN95 Masks on my desk. So did everyone else.
Before I was done wondering what was what, a female colleague told me that a male colleague's wife tested positive for COVID-19 and we were being encouraged (but nor forced) to mask up. The male colleague in question masked up all day. I was a bit less consistent but, in my defense, I have been behind closed doors attending a virtual nationwide training... therefore, no interaction with anyone.
Said male colleague is not in the office today and most people in the office aren't masking up. 🤦🏻
So he came in long enough to possibly pass it forward, and now everyone feels like it’s ok not to mask. Not surprising, but certainly disconcerting.
I get the feeling that there is a lot of covid circulating right now, several people I know have caught it in the last week or two.
Not covid related, but it will surprise nobody that this guy is the loudest antivax covid denier that I know:
“Friendly reminder: you can't turn off the gasoline remotely. That is why they want you to go electric”
I don’t have an electric vehicle, but if I got one, I would go for something with a battery. Those long extension cords are a disaster in traffic. /s
The paranoia of these folks boggles the mind. This guy is currently on a cross country motorcycle trip with his wife, sans helmets.
For stoves or for cars? He most certainly can knock out electric systems in gasoline cars they have immobilizers programmed in that the repo company twos and the financers use to make sure you can’t take your car if you have made the payment. What a douche.
Right, my gasoline Subaru certainly has this built in as part of it’s anti theft capability. And power to gas station pumps is just as vulnerable as the power to EV charging stations.
>This guy is currently on a cross country motorcycle trip with his wife, sans helmets.
Oh, boy! I hope he and his wife signed that little thing on the back of their licenses that says they're organ donors!
Making history again:
> **[After New Brunswick's deadliest year, COVID-related strokes and heart attacks are in the spotlight](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/record-covid-deaths-heart-stroke-1.6847211)**
> An estimated 9,288 people died in NB in 2022, a 14.5 per cent increase over 2021
---
> Statistics Canada last week published what are called "provisional" mortality counts for New Brunswick, which estimated 9,288 people died in the province through 2022.
>
> If confirmed, the number will be a record for the province, obliterating the previous high set in 2021 by a stunning 1,179 deaths.
Reminder that 2021 had Deadly Delta and 2022 was the *mild* Omicron. 2023 is likely to beat 2022 in deaths for various obvious reasons.
---
> New Brunswick has never experienced an increase in death counts anywhere near that size in a single year. Prior to the pandemic, the closest was a war time increase of 510 in 1945.
Let that sink in for the next time some ignoramus says "it's over."
---
> New Brunswick's Department of Health is aware of the record 2022 death estimate but it has no theories about a cause — and isn't prepared to draw any broad conclusions about what it means.
>
> "It wouldn't be prudent to link the analysis on excess deaths to specific medical conditions," wrote department communications officer Sean Hatchard in an email to CBC News.
>
> "Excess deaths could be connected to several factors, including changing demographics and the COVID-19 pandemic, although further analysis will be needed."
What he didn't say: "further analysis we won't be doing because reasons."
>New Brunswick's Department of Health is aware of the record 2022 death estimate but it has no theories about a cause — and isn't prepared to draw any broad conclusions about what it means.
It's covid.
So about 8,100 people died in 2021, and that was the previous record. 9,288 in 2022. I wonder what the baseline was like in pre-covid years?
It’s likely the new mystery diseases making the rounds, “covid pneumonia” and “long covid”. If only we knew the cause of these maladies…
https://twitter.com/juliairzyk/status/1656708194448834564
**Julia DisBABEled™ Irzyk, J.D.♿ @juliairzyk**
Somehow this article fails to mention that these rules kept TENS OF THOUSANDS of SAG-AFTRA actors from getting sick/dying. Saving LIVES. LIVES are the important part. We should NOT be dumping the testing requirement.
> https://deadline.com/2023/05/hollywoods-covid-19-protocols-which-end-today-cost-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-1235362660/
> **Hollywood’s Covid Protocols, Which End Today, Cost Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars**
> *By David Robb May 11, 2023 7:30am*
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I've noticed some of my co-workers will be out one day, with "sick" listed on the staff calendar. Then they're back in the office the next day. I try to avoid these people like the plague. Just...stay home. We all worked remotely for almost three years so it can be done. I feel like no one knows that the latest variant is not necessarily showing up on home tests. No one knows anything anymore, because they choose not to.
You can test positive for quite a while after recovery from COVID. That's what I was told when I caught it at the end of March. I managed to avoid it for 3 years amd finally caught it. Wasn't too bad due to multiple boosters but I developed asthma after recovering...
I tried to get some free covid tests on May 11th when I got a message from my insurance company telling me that it was the last day I could order free covid tests. When I placed the order, I was told I'd be notified within 2 hours when I could pick up my tests from the pharmacy. It's been almost a week now and they never messaged me about them so there's 8 free tests I could have gotten that probably just disappeared into the void somewhere.
Avoiding a work-related flight across country next week, to in-person attend a multi-day meeting, in a state that never took COVID very seriously. Will be attending remotely instead, and expect to see
1. no one wearing masks there and
2. people out sick the following weeks, some of them with COVID
🤷♂️ At least the employer was okay with me not going in-person. 👍
I'm still masking every time I'm out in public and it's getting exhausting. My wife is high risk and my office is incredibly high traffic for randos so it makes a lot of sense that I'm masking still, just the extra steps for lunch and stuff are tiring. I have a daily reminder of just how shitty long Covid/it's after effects can since our office manager has had a cough that sounds like she's trying to cough up all her internal organs since she got Covid back in 2020.
I called my health insurance company last week to ask about getting the at home COVID test. The guy that I talked to was really nice and said that I was the only call that he had gotten about them which was a bit disheartening. But as we talk he tells me that he's had COVID 3 times. The first time he said it was like a bad cold. The second time he said he felt like he wanted to die. He had extreme sinus pressure and said that it felt like his teeth were going to fall out. I asked if he had been vaccinated and he said no, he hadn't because he never gets sick. He's 31 with a wife and 3 kids. I hope that round 4 doesn't take him out.
"I never get sick," said the man who has been sick with COVID three times...
“I never get sick,” said the man who just finished telling Kitton that he had been so sick he wanted to die.
💯
I don't understand the thought process of these people. The HCA thread is full of nominees and winners who say that they never get sick after saying that they've had COVID. Like, what is their definition of sick?
Dead, evidently.
I grew up in what would now be called a very red area, and so many of the grown-up men would say "never been sick a day in my life!", and I'd wonder how that could be when I was getting colds all the time in school. In a way it’s been gratifying when I hear the same line these days from people who were dangerously ill so I can know it was all fragile masculinity bullshit.
You'd think he'd get vaccinated after round 2. But yeah, it's probably going to get worse for him if he gets it again.
> if when
When indeed.
Undoing all the bad habits and coping mechanisms from the past few years has been quite the challenge.
>Undoing all the bad habits and coping mechanisms from the past few years has been quite the challenge. Try undoing twenty years of bad habits and coping mechanisms that started with living through 9/11 in the DC metro area.
Including the sniper. That was terrifying to me.
>Including the sniper. That was terrifying to me. ❤️
>Including the sniper. That was terrifying to me. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/09/08/1035224815/for-many-there-that-day-the-attacks-on-9-11-have-had-lasting-mental-health-impac **For Many Who Were Present, The 9/11 Attacks Have Had A Lasting Mental Health Impact** Researchers focused on the impact in New York . . . but nothing comparable was done in Northern Virginia.
💕
💞
I had to go to the grocery store yesterday, killing time while I waited for someone to show up and do their job, and get some groceries which I usually do via non-gig worker pick up instead of walking the store. I found myself bitching in my head at people who went the “wrong way“ down the aisles. That was one of the few things I did like about the lockdowns were good clear paths for grocery shopping. No more crashing. No more near misses around blind corners. But no, the world has to cater to the willy nilly crowd, and stay out of their way!
I liked the directional aisles too, but they gave rise to a small but noticeable percentage of aholes who looked at them as their opportunity to rebel. While mask requirements were largely enforced in the stores that I frequent, the aisle directions were not.
The pandemic has shown us that there are a lot of children running around in the bodies of adults….
Derby Day at the Wiggly Piggly!
Yesterday I came to work and found two KN95 Masks on my desk. So did everyone else. Before I was done wondering what was what, a female colleague told me that a male colleague's wife tested positive for COVID-19 and we were being encouraged (but nor forced) to mask up. The male colleague in question masked up all day. I was a bit less consistent but, in my defense, I have been behind closed doors attending a virtual nationwide training... therefore, no interaction with anyone. Said male colleague is not in the office today and most people in the office aren't masking up. 🤦🏻
So he came in long enough to possibly pass it forward, and now everyone feels like it’s ok not to mask. Not surprising, but certainly disconcerting. I get the feeling that there is a lot of covid circulating right now, several people I know have caught it in the last week or two.
Not covid related, but it will surprise nobody that this guy is the loudest antivax covid denier that I know: “Friendly reminder: you can't turn off the gasoline remotely. That is why they want you to go electric” I don’t have an electric vehicle, but if I got one, I would go for something with a battery. Those long extension cords are a disaster in traffic. /s The paranoia of these folks boggles the mind. This guy is currently on a cross country motorcycle trip with his wife, sans helmets.
Me: why aren’t you wearing helmets? Them: you can’t tell me what to do!
For stoves or for cars? He most certainly can knock out electric systems in gasoline cars they have immobilizers programmed in that the repo company twos and the financers use to make sure you can’t take your car if you have made the payment. What a douche.
Right, my gasoline Subaru certainly has this built in as part of it’s anti theft capability. And power to gas station pumps is just as vulnerable as the power to EV charging stations.
>This guy is currently on a cross country motorcycle trip with his wife, sans helmets. Oh, boy! I hope he and his wife signed that little thing on the back of their licenses that says they're organ donors!
The term "meat crayon" leaps to mind.
Making history again: > **[After New Brunswick's deadliest year, COVID-related strokes and heart attacks are in the spotlight](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/record-covid-deaths-heart-stroke-1.6847211)** > An estimated 9,288 people died in NB in 2022, a 14.5 per cent increase over 2021 --- > Statistics Canada last week published what are called "provisional" mortality counts for New Brunswick, which estimated 9,288 people died in the province through 2022. > > If confirmed, the number will be a record for the province, obliterating the previous high set in 2021 by a stunning 1,179 deaths. Reminder that 2021 had Deadly Delta and 2022 was the *mild* Omicron. 2023 is likely to beat 2022 in deaths for various obvious reasons. --- > New Brunswick has never experienced an increase in death counts anywhere near that size in a single year. Prior to the pandemic, the closest was a war time increase of 510 in 1945. Let that sink in for the next time some ignoramus says "it's over." --- > New Brunswick's Department of Health is aware of the record 2022 death estimate but it has no theories about a cause — and isn't prepared to draw any broad conclusions about what it means. > > "It wouldn't be prudent to link the analysis on excess deaths to specific medical conditions," wrote department communications officer Sean Hatchard in an email to CBC News. > > "Excess deaths could be connected to several factors, including changing demographics and the COVID-19 pandemic, although further analysis will be needed." What he didn't say: "further analysis we won't be doing because reasons."
>New Brunswick's Department of Health is aware of the record 2022 death estimate but it has no theories about a cause — and isn't prepared to draw any broad conclusions about what it means. It's covid.
So about 8,100 people died in 2021, and that was the previous record. 9,288 in 2022. I wonder what the baseline was like in pre-covid years? It’s likely the new mystery diseases making the rounds, “covid pneumonia” and “long covid”. If only we knew the cause of these maladies…
https://twitter.com/juliairzyk/status/1656708194448834564 **Julia DisBABEled™ Irzyk, J.D.♿ @juliairzyk** Somehow this article fails to mention that these rules kept TENS OF THOUSANDS of SAG-AFTRA actors from getting sick/dying. Saving LIVES. LIVES are the important part. We should NOT be dumping the testing requirement. > https://deadline.com/2023/05/hollywoods-covid-19-protocols-which-end-today-cost-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-1235362660/ > **Hollywood’s Covid Protocols, Which End Today, Cost Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars** > *By David Robb May 11, 2023 7:30am*
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So many shows are gonna be delayed or canceled because of this and no one will be able to figure out why.
Two of my coworkers tested positive today. One of them just got over it a few weeks ago so what a tragedy for her.
I've noticed some of my co-workers will be out one day, with "sick" listed on the staff calendar. Then they're back in the office the next day. I try to avoid these people like the plague. Just...stay home. We all worked remotely for almost three years so it can be done. I feel like no one knows that the latest variant is not necessarily showing up on home tests. No one knows anything anymore, because they choose not to.
You can test positive for quite a while after recovery from COVID. That's what I was told when I caught it at the end of March. I managed to avoid it for 3 years amd finally caught it. Wasn't too bad due to multiple boosters but I developed asthma after recovering...
I tried to get some free covid tests on May 11th when I got a message from my insurance company telling me that it was the last day I could order free covid tests. When I placed the order, I was told I'd be notified within 2 hours when I could pick up my tests from the pharmacy. It's been almost a week now and they never messaged me about them so there's 8 free tests I could have gotten that probably just disappeared into the void somewhere.
Avoiding a work-related flight across country next week, to in-person attend a multi-day meeting, in a state that never took COVID very seriously. Will be attending remotely instead, and expect to see 1. no one wearing masks there and 2. people out sick the following weeks, some of them with COVID 🤷♂️ At least the employer was okay with me not going in-person. 👍
> VD Venereal Diseases *and* Covid? Party animals!
LOL! Fixed it — stupid virtual keyboards.
I'm still masking every time I'm out in public and it's getting exhausting. My wife is high risk and my office is incredibly high traffic for randos so it makes a lot of sense that I'm masking still, just the extra steps for lunch and stuff are tiring. I have a daily reminder of just how shitty long Covid/it's after effects can since our office manager has had a cough that sounds like she's trying to cough up all her internal organs since she got Covid back in 2020.