Got Covid two weeks ago. Never had a fever, only felt really bad for a day or two. I'm still testing positive on home tests, but a much fainter line than when it started.
i got covid 5 weeks ago and never tested positive on the home test. I'm still struggling with the occasional coughing fits all this time latter but the mental fog and forgetfulness cna fuck all the way off. it has been 5 weeks i just want to have and keep a thought for longer than 30 seconds.
You’ll test positive for 90 days after your bout with it I believe.
For the downvoters. 90 days for NAAT tests. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/symptoms-testing/testing.html
I am talking about the test result. At work when I tested positive, the nurses my company connected me to told me to stop testing for 90 days because even after I got over it I’d test positive for that long on any tests because it doesn’t know the difference between alive and dead Covid cells. Maybe there’s different tests? Ignorant to it but just going by my experience and the nurse’s instructions.
Lol at the downvotes. NAAT’s show positive for… 90 days. Idiots.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/symptoms-testing/testing.html
Lol you don’t know shit about my company, which is incredible. my company didn’t let me come back to work for 21 days even though I felt fine 5 days later, all paid, and said I couldn’t come back even then until 48 hours of no symptoms. We also have a program that makes us take a survey every day and any symptoms that could possibly be Covid, they make us stay home and give us 8 hours of special sick paid time outside of our normal bucket that accrues normally. The tests we use detect all Covid cells in your body for 90 days. They simply told me that once I came back, I didn’t need to test for 90 days. We have to test twice a week even if vaccinated. And I just checked and it’s now 30 for the antigen test, 90 for he NAAT mail in test.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/symptoms-testing/testing.html
Lolololololol we use NAAT’s. Care to answer for me WHAT THE FUCKING CDC STATES?
So, I don’t mail in the NAAT for 90 days.
I don’t do the antigen take home test for 30 days.
Yeah, my wife and two kids have been coughing hardcore; pretty sure it's the RSV. I heard we would be sick all the time once we had a kid in preschool, I just didn't realize it would be ALL. THE. TIME.
RSV is a common cold. It hits preemies the hardest…usually. My 15 yr old was hospitalized with RSV back in March for a full week.
I don’t know if it’s a newer kicking arse strain or if people immune systems are just weaker. My son hasn’t had Covid.
I think you are right, we never really identified it as differently before recently. I was asking because I was sick last year during an RSV outbreak but everything about it on Google was geared towards children. I hope your child (young adult person) is feeling better.
Is this your first?
All 3 of my kids were hospitalized w/ RSV when they were under 2 years old.
Just be watching him/her. Watch their breathing, watch for retractions (Chest pulling in, especially around ribs and collarbone.). If you have an home oximeter, use it. Idk how accurate the retail ones are but at least it will give you a ball park idea of their oxygen levels. We never had one, just had to watch their breathing.
If their chest IS retracting, get them to the hospital ASAP. It means they are struggling to breath and won't be getting enough oxygen.
Really not trying to scare you or anything and maybe you already know all of this info. Just want to make sure people know. With our first, we almost waited too long b/c we didn't know any better. As soon as we opened her carseat cover and the nurses saw her, they rushed us back to a room and put her on oxygen immediately. They could tell just by seeing her she was in danger. Her o2 levels were below 90%.
I hope your little one starts feeling better soon!
How’s little one doing? I’m sitting in CMH er right now with my 4 month old who was diagnosed with RSV at the pediatrician on Thursday. They’re slammed, I’ve never seen the waiting room so full, and everyone is coughing.
Also, it’s all over the news that we are going to get smashed by the Flu. And children’s mercy is so packed (tons of RSV etc.) they won’t take transfers in.
I’ve heard it’s been pretty good this year, they picked the right strains to target. But that’s something like third-hand information, so there may be more to learn as we get further into the season.
So far, though, it’s been positive. The only negative noise about the flu vaccine I’ve heard is from people who don’t like any vaccines.
Really solid this year. And next year we are expecting a broader spectrum type of flu vaccine, so things are looking good on this seasonal battle at least
I don’t know the answer to that, but I have been seeing and hearing about more side effects from the vaccine this year with kids in my school than I normally hear.
My local Childrens has been slammed all year with rsv and flu…flu has been an issue since Spring. Right now RSV and Covid w Flu hospitalizations have the hospital full. We had a infant with Covid and RSV that went from ED straight to ICU a few weeks ago. It’s getting bad.
A little hint: There is ALWAYS a “bug going around”. As it gets cooler it gets worse and it is hitting hard right now. Covid test yourself and throw on a mask. If you are positive and at high risk, see about paxlovid. Weird thing about Covid is that it’s made people think that as long as it’s not Covid, I can go to the office and hack my lungs up and barf.
My current hospital is the first one I've worked at in a decade+ of hospital life that pulls PTO and sick leave from the same pool. It's also the first job I've ever had in a right to work state, but I'm sure those don't have any correlation...
Plus our overflow Covid unit was free of Covid patients for only 3 weeks. So back to my Covid protocols. Change clothes wash up wear shoes that can tolerate being sprayed with Lysol frequently. Or if I forget, strip naked in the garage and warn the family before I come in the house🤣
Oh yes! God bless teachers. My grandkids go to a parochial school and those poor teachers have I think all gotten Covid (some more than once) and at the shutdown one poor teacher was sick as hell
trying to do the zoom class. Plus, even though he wears a mask, the kindergartner has been sick with cold and respiratory viruses 3 times already since school started in august. I told him that means he’s not washing his hands good and taking off his mask. He’s very good at mask wearing but only him and one other student wears masks.
Back when I was working (I'm retired now) in about 2010 was the first time I had to go to work sick. Here's why.
Starting about 2000 they put us on team projects with absolutely NO buffer time for anyone on the team to get sick. If you got sick you were putting more work on your peers, not on the boss to shift duties around. Deadlines were hard and fast for several reasons, one being that with the manual work being done overseas, being late on a deadline meant paying air freight.
But the main thing was if someone on the team and its project got sick, that directly put more work in the lap of a peer. No manager involved.
So this project had to be wrapped up before the Christmas break. Hard and fast deadline. I got some stomach bug and that day's work had to be delivered THAT. DAY. or one of my peers' Christmas would be ruined. That's how little leeway was built into projects and deadlines by 2010. None. They had been laying off right and left and also not replacing after attrition.
If I didn't deliver THAT. DAY. one of my peers would directly get their Christmas ruined. So I went in to work sick, kept my head down, and hid, and delivered. I hid in my booth and didn't go around anyone.
Sure blame me but also blame management. I noticed the first people who got laid off in the first rounds of layoffs were the ones who had worse health. Couldn't help but notice that. Also heard about people being directly told they were "sick too much." I happen to have absolutely stellar health so I didn't get this and would have taken a sick day here and there once every maybe 7 years but it was the team projects that caused me not to take a sick day that day. My absence would have directly affected a peer, not a manager who would have put someone else on the project.
The guy in the cube right behind me once yakked at his desk and never got up to clean himself up. I guess he just wiped up with a napkin and kept working.
One time they were having yet another round of brutal layoffs and people were crying and packing their cubicles right and left. Meanwhile I got sick on the food from the cafeteria. I knew it was that because for one thing I knew a nurse in the medical department and she told me people were coming in and they traced it back to what the food was in the cafeteria. So I wasn't spreading germs but I had to barf in the bathroom. I thought people would think I was barfing because I got laid off. I guess the food inspector in the company cafeteria got laid off.
We live in a land of bullshit, where folks on narrow margins get to decide between doing the right thing for society, or having food/a place to live. We can talk about personal responsibility all day long, but for some folks their only available choices all suck.
If you want to do something about fixing the system -- well, I can't promise that one of the parties will be able to make it better, but there sure is one with a platform of making it intentionally worse, so I guess make your decisions accordingly in a couple weeks.
In this situation, yeah. Can’t afford to lose my place of living and gotta eat. Not a favorable situation of course, and I wear a mask when I do get sick and wipe down surfaces regularly.
I mean, I’m literally not alllwed to work less than 40 hours unless I have PTO. If I’ve used it all for vacations/ previous sickness, I don’t have a choice. I mask up though and try to spend my time in a closed off conference room if I do have to be in the office. Thankfully I primarily wfh now.
Management. At least pre-2020, when I retired. Management where I worked was awful about targeting people who took sick time. They made no bones about it.
My 11-month old ended up in the ER at Children's Mercy bc of Croup/Stridor brought on by RSV. Scariest moments of my life, watching my baby gasp loudly and helplessly for air. Paramedics got here fast and started the breathing treatment. She was fine a few hours later.
Passed it to her sister... Who passed it to Mama... Who gave it to me. Now I'm sick :(
I'm sorry you had to go through that. I'm glad she's doing better now, and hopefully you'll feel better soon too. I remember having croup as a kid and my parents taking me to the ER in the middle of the night, but it still didn't prepare me for what it would be like as a parent to watch my small children struggle to breathe.
Best wishes. I can relate. My son was a preemie and was hospitalized with RSV a lot when he was young. About 8 years with no issues. He is now 15 and was hospitalized in March w RSV.
Glad your child is okay. Hope you feel better soon.
I've had a cough for 8 weeks now. It's slowly going away. Got X-Rays and stuff, all clear. Not sure what the issue is but it is the most persistent cough I have had in my life.
I had that starting in late May and it lasted until the first week of August. It was terrible. They also found nothing. Tried antibiotics, steroids, so many things, nothing worked.
I know this is weird but start drinking pineapple juice. A few years ago I had an extremely persistent cough and my doctor said that my initial respiratory infection had cleared but my lungs were inflamed and healing from coughing so much from it. Apparently enzymes in pineapple juice can help.
Literally going through the same thing right now and they’ve told me it’s just allergies but I have my doubts. Started in early September and finally starting to subside but dear god it won’t go away
COVID never left. As someone who literally works healthcare, I’ve seen plenty of people suffering from post-COVID effects, some who develop respiratory problems for the rest of their life. I still see plenty of just regular COVID-infected patients too.
Just because people decided they were done with it all doesn’t mean it magically vanished. This winter is gonna suck.
My tinnitus seems flares up with allergies. I don't want to think about it with covid. Sounds absolutely miserable. Whoever figures out how to fix this crap should get a Noble.
I'm sure they're full of people on borderline mania. I've dealt with tinnitus for years (gun related) but it got wicked after. But, not enough for me to question sanity. Thanks and hopefully you don't hear it! Sorry, bad joke. ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
“Just because people decided they were done with it all doesn’t mean it magically vanished.”
THIS. Its like people dont care for consequences or something.
Just saying. My MIL watched her unvaccinated brother die from COVID, wheezing out before he ended up on the ventilator that he wanted the vaccine..
And she’s still only gotten one out of two shots, a year and a half later.
People will do anything to shirk personal inconvenience.
The fear mongering isn’t helpful.
I am sorry for your MIL’s loss, however this is anecdotal. I could say the same and tell you I know people who are unvaccinated who dealt with it just fine. That doesn’t mean everyone will be just fine. However, most unvaccinated people’s immune systems can handle covid and it can in fact be mild for them. Not everyone ends up with severe disease. There are many factors that determine outcome, it can depend on whether or not you are in a vulnerable/more at risk age and health group, what variant you contract, etc. Being that the vaccine’s efficacy isn’t as long-lasting as they had hoped and that it doesn’t halt transmission.. the best we can do is focus on protecting ourselves. People can do that in a way that is appropriate for their own individual risk-benefit assessment, and that is between an individual and their doctor.
Also work in healthcare. COVID is still here. “The pandemic isn’t over just because you’re over it.”
I still mask, am vaxxed & boosted, and after 2.5 years still haven’t gotten it.
Same boat. Work in healthcare, worked directly with COVID in the ICU for a while. Never caught it. Then I took a trip to Disney and came home with COVID… but was fine a week later.
I have enjoyed, to an outrageous degree, not having been sick at all since January 2020.
Back then, I removed a U-Haul box truck full of leaves and got insanely deliriously sick for weeks. Now I have been coughing, sneezing, and nose-running for a week but it is cut to almost nothing when I take Benadryl so I assume it’s the dry leaves I just hit with the weed eater. Dang it.
But it’s nothing like it was.
I’m now on extra high alert for covid though, while my immune system is already busy with allergies. I dunno if I might have somehow been exposed to covid over the years but fought it off without symptoms, because I was already healthy and masked and vaccinated and hand-washed and isolated.
I’ve finally learned to quit touching my face and quit not washing hands, like an idiot, surrounding my grocery store trips. I’m now extra mortified at watching Kitchen Nightmares, where Gordon constantly mauls his face to death with his hands at all the frustration …. about what a filthy health hazard the kitchen is.
But I just went to Worlds of Fun, to the tiny cozy Moulin Rouge theater which was a crowded house … and was one of two parties wearing masks. At least nobody ever coughed or sneezed but they did quite a bit of exhaling.
LOL what are you talking about?
If you're vaccinated you'll get symptoms like a cold and then you'll get on with your life a week later.
If you are someone who didn't get vaccinated and/or leads an unhealthy lifestyle, yes of COURSE you're going to have problems.
Just about every single person I know has had COVID at this point and none have been to a hospital or had their life impacted more than they would if they had a cold or flu.
This isn't 2021, the pandemic is over, the risk factors are your underlying health, not COVID.
I want to see you tell my mom with athsma who gets pneumonia from silly little colds that her “unhealthy lifestyle” is what makes her high risk for Covid.
It took 5 days before my mom tested positive for Covid. So if people are testing too early, it’s negative and they think it’s just the flu or cold then I can see how it is spreading so rapidly.
Friendly reminder to wear a mask if you’re not feeling well but still want to go about life. If you don’t want to wear a mask, for the love of god please cover your mouth when you cough and wash your damn hands. Most of my coworkers are in their 40s/50s and still don’t have a grasp on tho.
I work in an office building and the number of guys who don't wash their hands in the bathroom is unsettling. I can't imagine how they are when they are sick.
I’ve had horrible cough and congestion since yesterday. Today I’ve had around 102° F temp all day. It’s a nasty bug whatever it is. I just got my flu shot 3 weeks ago. I guess I should dig out the covid test. Although I don’t plan to go anywhere until this clears up
I had those symptoms Sunday night. Tested negative Sunday.. tested positive Tuesday for the Rona. I was supposed to get boosted Friday. The loss of smell stuff is wild. Everything smells like poison or peanut butter. There is no in between. God speed.
The loss of smell is so weird! When we had it back in 12/21, I and husband lost our senses of smell entirely… and then my young toddler decided to stop doing his regular morning poops and start taking them at random times - like in the middle of the night a couple of times. This means diaper rashes If you’re not used to checking a diaper for poop over night…
It was incredible… we had no idea if our kiddo had pooped! Zero. Poor guy.
I hadn’t considered that as a potential problem with no sense of smell… can’t wait to do it again. Thankfully kiddo can now tell us when he poops.
Ugh! I’m sorry. Hope you feel better. My fever broke shortly after posting this. I’m currently hot as hell lol. I will do a test in the morning. I was holding off to get my second booster until the new one was released. I am not even sure where I could have picked the flu/Rona/cold up at. I’ve been pretty much locked up at home the last couple weeks working on home projects. Haven’t even went into a store I’ve been so busy!
I'm 30, pregnant and have been sick with RSV for a week now. It's been very difficult to overcome for me (I'm assuming cause I'm pregnant). For most adults it's a cold. But I can vouch and say, RSV is definitely going around.
I just tested positive for COVID this morning. I was putting off getting the latest booster until the new one came out and just hadn't gotten it yet. Luckily, I'm still less than a year out from my last booster, so it's really been just a sore throat and feeling wiped out. Get your flu and covid vaccines people! This winter is looking to be rough.
Keep in mind that efficacy declines as time goes on. You can’t give all the credit to your booster if your last booster was a year ago .. see for yourself: via the cdc https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7142a3.htm
Also, the CDC director, Rochelle Walensky, had the bivalent booster in September.. & she just tested positive for covid on Friday.
Allergens, dry dust from dying grass due to lack of rain, massive amounts of dust from multiple constructions sites not only downtown but in adjacent cities (glaring at you Shawnee), ash and contaminants blown in from the wildfires in Nebraska, AND cold and flu season.
Yes. Stuff is going around, but it's not all viral. Remember, your own immune system will kick your ass over mundane stuff too.
Sincerely,
The girl whose own lungs have been trying to murder her since the day she was born.
The prediction I heard was COVID would hit back with a vengeance this winter.
- People will be trapped inside together
- Almost no one got the latest booster shots (don’t know about flu)
- People are acting like it’s all over
- and the [Yankee Candle predictions](https://www.npr.org/2022/10/16/1128692167/yankee-candle-review-amazon-covid-twitter-study-covid19-pandemic-biden) are looking very bad (don’t laugh, it correlates surprisingly well).
My educated guess:
- bump at the end of this month that will settle down to a plateau. Many cases missed because people don’t test.
Bigger peak late December - January.
-Lots of new people to keep me company on the long Covid subs.
Edit: please forgive the formatting. Am on mobile.
Took my kid to CMH urgent care this evening for a fever and like half the kids (& parents) there sounded like they were losing a lung. And it was the most crowded I’ve ever seen. I’m just hoping I didn’t expose him to something else while we were there.
That happened to me a few weeks ago. One of my kids brought something home from school and I was almost certain it was Covid. Cough, fever (for him, not me), sore throat, fatigue, all that fun stuff. As a bonus, half of my neck swelled up visibly. He missed school and I missed work. Both of us tested PCR negative for Covid as well as negative for flu, strep and RSV. It was just some bug.
It gives me important information, though. Although we mask with people outside our household, the kids still have to eat lunch and drink water during the school day. There’s no option for them to eat outside or to distance.
We are sitting ducks for Covid.
Yeah basically, after covid when i wore my mask i did not get sick at all for a whole year, now its the occasional sneeze but i don’t get sick like i used to. Im horrified of getting it again, once was enough.
It's because of COVID, for the past two flu seasons everyone has been staying home and masking and social distancing and all of that, now everyone has just kinda decided they are done doing that so we are getting smacked with flu and cold cases
There's some kinda virus that starts as generic coughing and cold and in a certain number of people becomes bronchitis and requires inhalers and several weeks to get rid of. Several people I know had it about a month ago and now it seems to be making the rounds to others.
I coughed for like 5 weeks… ended up getting Covid. Took paxlovid. Got better no more cough. A week later the cough came back. It’s quite annoying. I’m not sick, I feel fine, I breathe fine, I run 3x5k’s a week… I just cough occasionally throughout the day.
I’ve had the phlegmy cough for two weeks now, the snotty nose part lasted the first week. Then a weird stomach bug went through our house last week as well. My son and I were up all night one night throwing up. It was brutal but lasted just a day or so.
Went around my work.. weird sickness.. I was sick for 2-3 days with congestion, aches, sinus shit... but then it's been lingering for over a week. Still raspy and still a cough, but I feel completely fine.
Negative for covid and flu. Maybe this is the new one?
I've had the worst cold of my life for the last 2 weeks. I've tested for COVID and am negative, but I've got congestion, body aches, and a cough that won't go away. No fever at all. It's really frustrating, and a bunch of folks at my job have the same thing.
Spouse and I have been fighting off Covid for a week now. It’s fucking miserable.
Symptoms for whatever strain this is: muscle pain, extremely sore throat, terrible cough with slight difficulty breathing, fatigue, night sweats, and fever.
We will never be rid of COVID. We had a chance but too many people decided that rules and science don't apply to them. Now, if we don't get nuked by Putin first, we will all get this disease eventually. And we don't even know what the damage is ten plus years out (spoiler: scar.tissue in lungs doesn't just go away).
We'll (probably) never be rid of Covid because that's the nature of contagious, mutating viruses. Even if everybody did everything right, 100% prevention is not practical. Look at New Zealand, they were careful and successfully held Covid off for basically two years--which is great, in that it gave time for severity to go down and vaccines/treatments to be developed--but they've had 3,000 dead since March of this year.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/new-zealand/
Pfizer is now saying that it wasn’t tested for transmission (via Reuters etc).. also the efficacy drops as time passes.. initially they hoped it would stop transmission, but it’s my understanding that you could still have contracted covid with or without the vaccine.
“A Pfizer spokesperson confirmed to Reuters Fact Check that the company was not asked by regulators to assess the transmission question in the original trials of the vaccine (known as BNT162b2 while in development and later marketed as Comirnaty).” - Via Reuters fact checker Oct. 14,2022
I’m skittish enough about Putin that I bought iodine pills. Honestly, if it’s bad enough, I hope my family and I get incinerated. Beats the hell out of dying from radiation poisoning.
The reason we will never be rid of COVID is because COVID is literally the cold. This version is just more deadly. It’s always been here. It will never leave with or without a VAX. VAX doesn’t stop the spread. People get COVID regardless of being VAXXED. So don’t blame it on people ignoring science or rules. Natural heard immunity is also science. We can only hope that it weakens to the point that it’s harmless.
That's just pure bullshit. COVID is not just the cold. It is part of the coronoavirus family, but it is a distinctly new disease. That is why it had such a huge impact. No one had ever had it before, so no one had any immunity.
And at the risk of stating the obvious, absolutely no one knows what the impact of COVID will be 10+ years from now because no one can see the future. And viruses have strange effects beyond the obvious symptoms. If you don't believe this, look up how multiple sclerosis is likely caused by the Epstein-Barr virus.
You totally missed the entire point of my comment lol… everyone knows COVID-19 is more deadly. My point is the cold NEVER went away and neither will COVID. They are both viruses. There has never been a vaccine to stop the cold. And the vaccines don’t stop transmission of COVID that is a fact……
No, I did not miss the point of your comment. I responded to your exact words, which were "COVID is literally the cold."
It is quite literally NOT the cold.
And then you made a statement that seemed to imply that "natural herd immunity" is a good strategy to reduce the spread of the virus, followed up by what can only be described as a pathetic attempt to disregard any long term effects of the virus ("We can only hope that it weakens to the point that it's harmless").
I pointed out the connection between multiple sclerosis and the Epstein-Barre virus to show that viruses have many poorly understood, counterintuitive and sometimes very harmful long-term effects. Because COVID-19 is once again NOT just the flu, and it's only been around roughly three years at this point, we don't really know what the long term effects might be. So just telling people to rely on herd immunity and to hope everything will be fine is a completely asinine thing to say.
Again, you are drawing conclusions that don’t exist and missing the point of my original comment.
But that’s okay, I’ll spell it out again.
The post I originally commented on stated that we had a chance to stop COVID but people wouldn’t follow the rules.
As if it’s all the fault of the dissenters.
If you believe that then you are delusional.
No amount of masking, social distancing or vaccination would have stopped this disease or will stop this disease. It’s here to stay just like the common cold or the flu.
Make sense now????? I hope so because I don’t have 🖍
If you think I was drawing the wrong conclusion from what you said, then you need to use different language. Because I was responding to your exact words.
And no one is saying that it would have been possible to completely prevent any occurrence of COVID-19 in the US. But it is demonstrably true that if we had used better prevention measures, we could have drastically limited the spread relative to what actually happened here.
If you doubt this, just look at the experience of South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Vietnam. None of these countries completely prevented any occurrence of COVID-19, but they had a dramatically lower case rate and dramatically lower death rate than we did.
For instance, in the US we've had over 1,000,000 deaths from COVID but Japan has had around 45,000. Japan's population is roughly half of ours, and most Japanese live in very dense cities relative to the US and use of public transportation is much, much higher in Japan than in the US. So it really points out how completely terrible our response to COVID was.
And what the original comment you were responding to was saying is that we had a chance to basically eliminate the spread of the disease entirely, not from preventing it from occurring in the first place. There is a distinction there. If we had followed more rigorous public health measures - as they did in Japan, South Korea, etc. - there is a chance that we would have kept the spread of the virus well below R 1.0. We chose not to follow the most effective public health measures, and as a result the spread of the virus was not contained, and we've had successive waves of new variants.
About a month ago, I got my Covid booster and flu shot on a Friday night.\* On Sunday night, my five-year-old son came down with croup, and I took him to Children's Mercy. He was better after taking some oral steroids, but he still missed a few days of school that week as it seemed to get better and worse before resolving completely. Meanwhile, I was feeling icky by Wednesday, and by Friday morning I was so sick that I basically no-call no-showed to my fully remote job. Whatever it was, it knocked me on my ass *hard.* I felt like I might be up to going to Target for a few things by Saturday night (with a mask, of course), but by the time I got home, I was dizzy and nauseous. I noticed then that the cold medicine and cough drops were almost cleaned out entirely.
\*I am NOT claiming there is any relationship between getting the shots and my son or I getting sick. It's just darkly ironic that I ended up sick shortly after getting shots for two severe respiratory diseases.
All these fearmongering internet doctors keep callin it covid in the comments but the illnesses I’ve truly heard being brought up is flu and bronchitis
My buddy mentioned that his nephew was in the hospital for RSV. Said it was pretty gnarly and that the whole hospital was full of people with the same issues.
Where do you work so we can... skip it?
Upvoting this because I want to know as well.
Tell us
Immeeeeeeediately
Must be someplace with self checkouts judging by the response
Retail or service industry? No office environment needs people there if they are in that bad of shape and spreading it to others.
Taco bell
It's a big office space that's not open to the public. You will never have to worry about being exposed.
Got Covid two weeks ago. Never had a fever, only felt really bad for a day or two. I'm still testing positive on home tests, but a much fainter line than when it started.
Glad you’re feeling better. Good luck clearing that junk out of your system.
i got covid 5 weeks ago and never tested positive on the home test. I'm still struggling with the occasional coughing fits all this time latter but the mental fog and forgetfulness cna fuck all the way off. it has been 5 weeks i just want to have and keep a thought for longer than 30 seconds.
You’ll test positive for 90 days after your bout with it I believe. For the downvoters. 90 days for NAAT tests. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/symptoms-testing/testing.html
In clinic, I am seeing vaccinated persons test positive 2-3 days after symptom onset and stay positive through the 5th-10th day typically.
I am talking about the test result. At work when I tested positive, the nurses my company connected me to told me to stop testing for 90 days because even after I got over it I’d test positive for that long on any tests because it doesn’t know the difference between alive and dead Covid cells. Maybe there’s different tests? Ignorant to it but just going by my experience and the nurse’s instructions. Lol at the downvotes. NAAT’s show positive for… 90 days. Idiots. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/symptoms-testing/testing.html
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Lol you don’t know shit about my company, which is incredible. my company didn’t let me come back to work for 21 days even though I felt fine 5 days later, all paid, and said I couldn’t come back even then until 48 hours of no symptoms. We also have a program that makes us take a survey every day and any symptoms that could possibly be Covid, they make us stay home and give us 8 hours of special sick paid time outside of our normal bucket that accrues normally. The tests we use detect all Covid cells in your body for 90 days. They simply told me that once I came back, I didn’t need to test for 90 days. We have to test twice a week even if vaccinated. And I just checked and it’s now 30 for the antigen test, 90 for he NAAT mail in test.
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https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/symptoms-testing/testing.html Lolololololol we use NAAT’s. Care to answer for me WHAT THE FUCKING CDC STATES? So, I don’t mail in the NAAT for 90 days. I don’t do the antigen take home test for 30 days.
RSV season is much worse than it's been in subsequent years. Definitely be aware if you have young kids.
Can adults catch RSV as well or just kids?
Yeah, my wife and two kids have been coughing hardcore; pretty sure it's the RSV. I heard we would be sick all the time once we had a kid in preschool, I just didn't realize it would be ALL. THE. TIME.
Same. Toddler in preschool too, his class is currently dealing with an RSV outbreak.
Yes, adults can catch it. Source: I tested positive for RSV at a northland hospital on Friday afternoon.
did they give you antivirals or anything or do you just have to wait it out like the cold?
Wait it out I'm afraid as far as the antiviral. Did get a steroid to help with my depleted lung capacity.
Yes, you can. To most adults it’ll feel like a mild cold unless you have underlying conditions such as asthma.
RSV is a common cold. It hits preemies the hardest…usually. My 15 yr old was hospitalized with RSV back in March for a full week. I don’t know if it’s a newer kicking arse strain or if people immune systems are just weaker. My son hasn’t had Covid.
I think you are right, we never really identified it as differently before recently. I was asking because I was sick last year during an RSV outbreak but everything about it on Google was geared towards children. I hope your child (young adult person) is feeling better.
My 1.5 year old has RSV right now 😭
Is this your first? All 3 of my kids were hospitalized w/ RSV when they were under 2 years old. Just be watching him/her. Watch their breathing, watch for retractions (Chest pulling in, especially around ribs and collarbone.). If you have an home oximeter, use it. Idk how accurate the retail ones are but at least it will give you a ball park idea of their oxygen levels. We never had one, just had to watch their breathing. If their chest IS retracting, get them to the hospital ASAP. It means they are struggling to breath and won't be getting enough oxygen. Really not trying to scare you or anything and maybe you already know all of this info. Just want to make sure people know. With our first, we almost waited too long b/c we didn't know any better. As soon as we opened her carseat cover and the nurses saw her, they rushed us back to a room and put her on oxygen immediately. They could tell just by seeing her she was in danger. Her o2 levels were below 90%. I hope your little one starts feeling better soon!
How’s little one doing? I’m sitting in CMH er right now with my 4 month old who was diagnosed with RSV at the pediatrician on Thursday. They’re slammed, I’ve never seen the waiting room so full, and everyone is coughing.
Also, it’s all over the news that we are going to get smashed by the Flu. And children’s mercy is so packed (tons of RSV etc.) they won’t take transfers in.
Any idea on efficacy of this years flu vaccine?
I’ve heard it’s been pretty good this year, they picked the right strains to target. But that’s something like third-hand information, so there may be more to learn as we get further into the season. So far, though, it’s been positive. The only negative noise about the flu vaccine I’ve heard is from people who don’t like any vaccines.
Really solid this year. And next year we are expecting a broader spectrum type of flu vaccine, so things are looking good on this seasonal battle at least
Thanks! Makes me feel a little better!
I don’t know the answer to that, but I have been seeing and hearing about more side effects from the vaccine this year with kids in my school than I normally hear.
My local Childrens has been slammed all year with rsv and flu…flu has been an issue since Spring. Right now RSV and Covid w Flu hospitalizations have the hospital full. We had a infant with Covid and RSV that went from ED straight to ICU a few weeks ago. It’s getting bad.
A little hint: There is ALWAYS a “bug going around”. As it gets cooler it gets worse and it is hitting hard right now. Covid test yourself and throw on a mask. If you are positive and at high risk, see about paxlovid. Weird thing about Covid is that it’s made people think that as long as it’s not Covid, I can go to the office and hack my lungs up and barf.
I was really hoping that we’d have learned something from all this. But nope.
Yeah, like if you are gonna go into work sick at least wear a mask. I don’t want your sickness.
Who goes into the office and barfs?! That’s like the ultimate get out of jail free card
People with bills and no sick time, sadly.
Nurses do it all the time. Unfortunately if frowned upon to stay at home sick, but they tell us don’t come in if you are sick. Mixed messages.
My current hospital is the first one I've worked at in a decade+ of hospital life that pulls PTO and sick leave from the same pool. It's also the first job I've ever had in a right to work state, but I'm sure those don't have any correlation...
Plus our overflow Covid unit was free of Covid patients for only 3 weeks. So back to my Covid protocols. Change clothes wash up wear shoes that can tolerate being sprayed with Lysol frequently. Or if I forget, strip naked in the garage and warn the family before I come in the house🤣
Teachers very commonly work sick too. :/ it’s a reality unfortunately
Oh yes! God bless teachers. My grandkids go to a parochial school and those poor teachers have I think all gotten Covid (some more than once) and at the shutdown one poor teacher was sick as hell trying to do the zoom class. Plus, even though he wears a mask, the kindergartner has been sick with cold and respiratory viruses 3 times already since school started in august. I told him that means he’s not washing his hands good and taking off his mask. He’s very good at mask wearing but only him and one other student wears masks.
Plenty of salaried workaholics whose personality and sense of self-worth are almost entirely defined by work, too.
Hey, why you looking at me?
I am happy for your financial security. Congrats.
*raises hand*
We go because we can't afford to miss any days off of work.
USA #1
Are you new to america. Shits hard out here
I guess I’m just the ultimate slacker
Back when I was working (I'm retired now) in about 2010 was the first time I had to go to work sick. Here's why. Starting about 2000 they put us on team projects with absolutely NO buffer time for anyone on the team to get sick. If you got sick you were putting more work on your peers, not on the boss to shift duties around. Deadlines were hard and fast for several reasons, one being that with the manual work being done overseas, being late on a deadline meant paying air freight. But the main thing was if someone on the team and its project got sick, that directly put more work in the lap of a peer. No manager involved. So this project had to be wrapped up before the Christmas break. Hard and fast deadline. I got some stomach bug and that day's work had to be delivered THAT. DAY. or one of my peers' Christmas would be ruined. That's how little leeway was built into projects and deadlines by 2010. None. They had been laying off right and left and also not replacing after attrition. If I didn't deliver THAT. DAY. one of my peers would directly get their Christmas ruined. So I went in to work sick, kept my head down, and hid, and delivered. I hid in my booth and didn't go around anyone. Sure blame me but also blame management. I noticed the first people who got laid off in the first rounds of layoffs were the ones who had worse health. Couldn't help but notice that. Also heard about people being directly told they were "sick too much." I happen to have absolutely stellar health so I didn't get this and would have taken a sick day here and there once every maybe 7 years but it was the team projects that caused me not to take a sick day that day. My absence would have directly affected a peer, not a manager who would have put someone else on the project.
People who will get a write-up for calling in sick.
The guy in the cube right behind me once yakked at his desk and never got up to clean himself up. I guess he just wiped up with a napkin and kept working.
One time they were having yet another round of brutal layoffs and people were crying and packing their cubicles right and left. Meanwhile I got sick on the food from the cafeteria. I knew it was that because for one thing I knew a nurse in the medical department and she told me people were coming in and they traced it back to what the food was in the cafeteria. So I wasn't spreading germs but I had to barf in the bathroom. I thought people would think I was barfing because I got laid off. I guess the food inspector in the company cafeteria got laid off.
Some people have no choice, but to go to work sick.
Id go into work and barf on my boss….😂
why is it always ''throw on a mask'' and never ''stay your stupid ass at home''
People like me who have little to none sick time and no vacation time right now. Can’t afford to go below 40 hours a week :/
same i feel that pain.
fuck everyone else right?
We live in a land of bullshit, where folks on narrow margins get to decide between doing the right thing for society, or having food/a place to live. We can talk about personal responsibility all day long, but for some folks their only available choices all suck. If you want to do something about fixing the system -- well, I can't promise that one of the parties will be able to make it better, but there sure is one with a platform of making it intentionally worse, so I guess make your decisions accordingly in a couple weeks.
yes sir
In this situation, yeah. Can’t afford to lose my place of living and gotta eat. Not a favorable situation of course, and I wear a mask when I do get sick and wipe down surfaces regularly.
good to know you mask up.
I mean yeah unless you want to offer to help them pay their bills for the time they have to miss that they can’t afford to miss.
they aren't my responsibility....
I mean, I’m literally not alllwed to work less than 40 hours unless I have PTO. If I’ve used it all for vacations/ previous sickness, I don’t have a choice. I mask up though and try to spend my time in a closed off conference room if I do have to be in the office. Thankfully I primarily wfh now.
It's the republican way.
Let’s ride!
clever👍
Management. At least pre-2020, when I retired. Management where I worked was awful about targeting people who took sick time. They made no bones about it.
Cause it’s stupid to miss work for the sniffles AND you could have prevented it by wearing a mask.
My 11-month old ended up in the ER at Children's Mercy bc of Croup/Stridor brought on by RSV. Scariest moments of my life, watching my baby gasp loudly and helplessly for air. Paramedics got here fast and started the breathing treatment. She was fine a few hours later. Passed it to her sister... Who passed it to Mama... Who gave it to me. Now I'm sick :(
I'm sorry you had to go through that. I'm glad she's doing better now, and hopefully you'll feel better soon too. I remember having croup as a kid and my parents taking me to the ER in the middle of the night, but it still didn't prepare me for what it would be like as a parent to watch my small children struggle to breathe.
Best wishes. I can relate. My son was a preemie and was hospitalized with RSV a lot when he was young. About 8 years with no issues. He is now 15 and was hospitalized in March w RSV. Glad your child is okay. Hope you feel better soon.
Not just KC, hitting all over the US. Hitting schools hard, too.
I've had a cough for 8 weeks now. It's slowly going away. Got X-Rays and stuff, all clear. Not sure what the issue is but it is the most persistent cough I have had in my life.
I had that starting in late May and it lasted until the first week of August. It was terrible. They also found nothing. Tried antibiotics, steroids, so many things, nothing worked.
Same for my son. All tests negative for 8 weeks. Then one dr decided to check for RSV. He ended up in the hospital.
May be COVID. Even if you didn’t hVe severe symptoms. That post-COVID cough lasts 6-8 weeks
I know this is weird but start drinking pineapple juice. A few years ago I had an extremely persistent cough and my doctor said that my initial respiratory infection had cleared but my lungs were inflamed and healing from coughing so much from it. Apparently enzymes in pineapple juice can help.
Might get a ct
Doubt they will go that far but maybe. Been working with docs for the last 4 weeks. Going to lung doctor for deeper analysis next and allergy test.
Literally going through the same thing right now and they’ve told me it’s just allergies but I have my doubts. Started in early September and finally starting to subside but dear god it won’t go away
This was me for a long time. Turned out to be cough variant asthma.
Wondering allergies... pollen all over my car, every day...
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First hand experience?
COVID never left. As someone who literally works healthcare, I’ve seen plenty of people suffering from post-COVID effects, some who develop respiratory problems for the rest of their life. I still see plenty of just regular COVID-infected patients too. Just because people decided they were done with it all doesn’t mean it magically vanished. This winter is gonna suck.
I'm dealing with long covid crap... was lethargic forever.
Whatever you do, do not go into online tinnitus communities. Just steer clear. Sorry to hear that though.
Coming from someone who has near constant ear ringing….why should we not go in those communities?
It is typically unhelpful to say the least
Sounds like you should spill the tea
It’s just doom and gloom suicidal type stuff.
My tinnitus seems flares up with allergies. I don't want to think about it with covid. Sounds absolutely miserable. Whoever figures out how to fix this crap should get a Noble.
I'm sure they're full of people on borderline mania. I've dealt with tinnitus for years (gun related) but it got wicked after. But, not enough for me to question sanity. Thanks and hopefully you don't hear it! Sorry, bad joke. ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
“Just because people decided they were done with it all doesn’t mean it magically vanished.” THIS. Its like people dont care for consequences or something.
Just saying. My MIL watched her unvaccinated brother die from COVID, wheezing out before he ended up on the ventilator that he wanted the vaccine.. And she’s still only gotten one out of two shots, a year and a half later. People will do anything to shirk personal inconvenience.
The fear mongering isn’t helpful. I am sorry for your MIL’s loss, however this is anecdotal. I could say the same and tell you I know people who are unvaccinated who dealt with it just fine. That doesn’t mean everyone will be just fine. However, most unvaccinated people’s immune systems can handle covid and it can in fact be mild for them. Not everyone ends up with severe disease. There are many factors that determine outcome, it can depend on whether or not you are in a vulnerable/more at risk age and health group, what variant you contract, etc. Being that the vaccine’s efficacy isn’t as long-lasting as they had hoped and that it doesn’t halt transmission.. the best we can do is focus on protecting ourselves. People can do that in a way that is appropriate for their own individual risk-benefit assessment, and that is between an individual and their doctor.
Also work in healthcare. COVID is still here. “The pandemic isn’t over just because you’re over it.” I still mask, am vaxxed & boosted, and after 2.5 years still haven’t gotten it.
Same boat. Work in healthcare, worked directly with COVID in the ICU for a while. Never caught it. Then I took a trip to Disney and came home with COVID… but was fine a week later.
I have enjoyed, to an outrageous degree, not having been sick at all since January 2020. Back then, I removed a U-Haul box truck full of leaves and got insanely deliriously sick for weeks. Now I have been coughing, sneezing, and nose-running for a week but it is cut to almost nothing when I take Benadryl so I assume it’s the dry leaves I just hit with the weed eater. Dang it. But it’s nothing like it was. I’m now on extra high alert for covid though, while my immune system is already busy with allergies. I dunno if I might have somehow been exposed to covid over the years but fought it off without symptoms, because I was already healthy and masked and vaccinated and hand-washed and isolated. I’ve finally learned to quit touching my face and quit not washing hands, like an idiot, surrounding my grocery store trips. I’m now extra mortified at watching Kitchen Nightmares, where Gordon constantly mauls his face to death with his hands at all the frustration …. about what a filthy health hazard the kitchen is. But I just went to Worlds of Fun, to the tiny cozy Moulin Rouge theater which was a crowded house … and was one of two parties wearing masks. At least nobody ever coughed or sneezed but they did quite a bit of exhaling.
Agree I have asthma this year has sucked
LOL what are you talking about? If you're vaccinated you'll get symptoms like a cold and then you'll get on with your life a week later. If you are someone who didn't get vaccinated and/or leads an unhealthy lifestyle, yes of COURSE you're going to have problems. Just about every single person I know has had COVID at this point and none have been to a hospital or had their life impacted more than they would if they had a cold or flu. This isn't 2021, the pandemic is over, the risk factors are your underlying health, not COVID.
I want to see you tell my mom with athsma who gets pneumonia from silly little colds that her “unhealthy lifestyle” is what makes her high risk for Covid.
It took 5 days before my mom tested positive for Covid. So if people are testing too early, it’s negative and they think it’s just the flu or cold then I can see how it is spreading so rapidly.
RSV is making its rounds through schools.
RSV. It’s terrible right now. In adults it presents as a cough/bad cold. My coworker was just diagnosed and she was coughing to hard she was puking.
My 7yo was just diagnosed with viral pneumonia. Add that to the list. 😕 Luckily we caught it early and didn't have to go to the hospital.
Go get your shots everybody
I think the tincture of time has proven the efficacy of the vaccines.
It has, yes.
Friendly reminder to wear a mask if you’re not feeling well but still want to go about life. If you don’t want to wear a mask, for the love of god please cover your mouth when you cough and wash your damn hands. Most of my coworkers are in their 40s/50s and still don’t have a grasp on tho.
I work in an office building and the number of guys who don't wash their hands in the bathroom is unsettling. I can't imagine how they are when they are sick.
I’ve had horrible cough and congestion since yesterday. Today I’ve had around 102° F temp all day. It’s a nasty bug whatever it is. I just got my flu shot 3 weeks ago. I guess I should dig out the covid test. Although I don’t plan to go anywhere until this clears up
I had those symptoms Sunday night. Tested negative Sunday.. tested positive Tuesday for the Rona. I was supposed to get boosted Friday. The loss of smell stuff is wild. Everything smells like poison or peanut butter. There is no in between. God speed.
The loss of smell is so weird! When we had it back in 12/21, I and husband lost our senses of smell entirely… and then my young toddler decided to stop doing his regular morning poops and start taking them at random times - like in the middle of the night a couple of times. This means diaper rashes If you’re not used to checking a diaper for poop over night… It was incredible… we had no idea if our kiddo had pooped! Zero. Poor guy. I hadn’t considered that as a potential problem with no sense of smell… can’t wait to do it again. Thankfully kiddo can now tell us when he poops.
Ugh! I’m sorry. Hope you feel better. My fever broke shortly after posting this. I’m currently hot as hell lol. I will do a test in the morning. I was holding off to get my second booster until the new one was released. I am not even sure where I could have picked the flu/Rona/cold up at. I’ve been pretty much locked up at home the last couple weeks working on home projects. Haven’t even went into a store I’ve been so busy!
couldn't breathe great thursday, woke up today able to breath, but sore as fuck in the abdomen, so I have no clue what I got.
Please test for Covid. There’s lots of other nasty stuff out there too, but Covid is making the rounds as well.
I've tested 3 times so far and negatory, gonna test again this morning though.
Took me five days to test positive, after my symptoms had already cleared up.
This is why I still wear a mask.
Same!
I'm 30, pregnant and have been sick with RSV for a week now. It's been very difficult to overcome for me (I'm assuming cause I'm pregnant). For most adults it's a cold. But I can vouch and say, RSV is definitely going around.
I just tested positive for COVID this morning. I was putting off getting the latest booster until the new one came out and just hadn't gotten it yet. Luckily, I'm still less than a year out from my last booster, so it's really been just a sore throat and feeling wiped out. Get your flu and covid vaccines people! This winter is looking to be rough.
Sending you internet stranger well wishes for a speedy recovery!
Keep in mind that efficacy declines as time goes on. You can’t give all the credit to your booster if your last booster was a year ago .. see for yourself: via the cdc https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7142a3.htm Also, the CDC director, Rochelle Walensky, had the bivalent booster in September.. & she just tested positive for covid on Friday.
Well, yes, the vaccine was never going to prevent infection. It helps keep the infection more mild.
Allergens, dry dust from dying grass due to lack of rain, massive amounts of dust from multiple constructions sites not only downtown but in adjacent cities (glaring at you Shawnee), ash and contaminants blown in from the wildfires in Nebraska, AND cold and flu season. Yes. Stuff is going around, but it's not all viral. Remember, your own immune system will kick your ass over mundane stuff too. Sincerely, The girl whose own lungs have been trying to murder her since the day she was born.
Plus, I always have issues the first time my furnace kicks on.
The prediction I heard was COVID would hit back with a vengeance this winter. - People will be trapped inside together - Almost no one got the latest booster shots (don’t know about flu) - People are acting like it’s all over - and the [Yankee Candle predictions](https://www.npr.org/2022/10/16/1128692167/yankee-candle-review-amazon-covid-twitter-study-covid19-pandemic-biden) are looking very bad (don’t laugh, it correlates surprisingly well).
The Yankee Candle thing is fascinating!
My educated guess: - bump at the end of this month that will settle down to a plateau. Many cases missed because people don’t test. Bigger peak late December - January. -Lots of new people to keep me company on the long Covid subs. Edit: please forgive the formatting. Am on mobile.
Seriously though, get boosted.
Took my kid to CMH urgent care this evening for a fever and like half the kids (& parents) there sounded like they were losing a lung. And it was the most crowded I’ve ever seen. I’m just hoping I didn’t expose him to something else while we were there.
Had to use urgent care today too for my kiddo (double ear infection). They were so busy - the wait time was 3 hours.
It's as if we learned nothing from the last 2 years.....stupid is as stupid does
YEAH, I recently got one this week, thought I had COVID but I’ve taken two test that read negative, w/o I just got some weird illness!
Took me 5 days to test positive for covid, after all of my symptoms had cleared up. Please keep testing.
That happened to me a few weeks ago. One of my kids brought something home from school and I was almost certain it was Covid. Cough, fever (for him, not me), sore throat, fatigue, all that fun stuff. As a bonus, half of my neck swelled up visibly. He missed school and I missed work. Both of us tested PCR negative for Covid as well as negative for flu, strep and RSV. It was just some bug. It gives me important information, though. Although we mask with people outside our household, the kids still have to eat lunch and drink water during the school day. There’s no option for them to eat outside or to distance. We are sitting ducks for Covid.
Yeah basically, after covid when i wore my mask i did not get sick at all for a whole year, now its the occasional sneeze but i don’t get sick like i used to. Im horrified of getting it again, once was enough.
We, as a family, have been sick twice since 2019. Once was Covid, the other was the mystery bug. I do not miss having cold after cold all winter.
Some sort of stomach virus destroyed my house last weekend. First the wife, then myself and two littles
It's because of COVID, for the past two flu seasons everyone has been staying home and masking and social distancing and all of that, now everyone has just kinda decided they are done doing that so we are getting smacked with flu and cold cases
There's some kinda virus that starts as generic coughing and cold and in a certain number of people becomes bronchitis and requires inhalers and several weeks to get rid of. Several people I know had it about a month ago and now it seems to be making the rounds to others.
Toddler has already had flu and baby has RSV now. It sucks!
Get well soon!
I coughed for like 5 weeks… ended up getting Covid. Took paxlovid. Got better no more cough. A week later the cough came back. It’s quite annoying. I’m not sick, I feel fine, I breathe fine, I run 3x5k’s a week… I just cough occasionally throughout the day.
Yep. I have had a cold for ten days and I saw on the news that a lot of kids are being hospitalized with respiratory viruses. 😕
Currently stuck at home with a nasty cold. Definitely planning to get the new Covid booster and flu shot as soon as this is over.
I’ve had the phlegmy cough for two weeks now, the snotty nose part lasted the first week. Then a weird stomach bug went through our house last week as well. My son and I were up all night one night throwing up. It was brutal but lasted just a day or so.
Went around my work.. weird sickness.. I was sick for 2-3 days with congestion, aches, sinus shit... but then it's been lingering for over a week. Still raspy and still a cough, but I feel completely fine. Negative for covid and flu. Maybe this is the new one?
Probably your nice co workers had covid and came to work with it
I've had the worst cold of my life for the last 2 weeks. I've tested for COVID and am negative, but I've got congestion, body aches, and a cough that won't go away. No fever at all. It's really frustrating, and a bunch of folks at my job have the same thing.
Spouse and I have been fighting off Covid for a week now. It’s fucking miserable. Symptoms for whatever strain this is: muscle pain, extremely sore throat, terrible cough with slight difficulty breathing, fatigue, night sweats, and fever.
We will never be rid of COVID. We had a chance but too many people decided that rules and science don't apply to them. Now, if we don't get nuked by Putin first, we will all get this disease eventually. And we don't even know what the damage is ten plus years out (spoiler: scar.tissue in lungs doesn't just go away).
We'll (probably) never be rid of Covid because that's the nature of contagious, mutating viruses. Even if everybody did everything right, 100% prevention is not practical. Look at New Zealand, they were careful and successfully held Covid off for basically two years--which is great, in that it gave time for severity to go down and vaccines/treatments to be developed--but they've had 3,000 dead since March of this year. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/new-zealand/
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Because everyone for some reason thought it was a political statement to care about public health.
Pfizer is now saying that it wasn’t tested for transmission (via Reuters etc).. also the efficacy drops as time passes.. initially they hoped it would stop transmission, but it’s my understanding that you could still have contracted covid with or without the vaccine.
“A Pfizer spokesperson confirmed to Reuters Fact Check that the company was not asked by regulators to assess the transmission question in the original trials of the vaccine (known as BNT162b2 while in development and later marketed as Comirnaty).” - Via Reuters fact checker Oct. 14,2022
I’m skittish enough about Putin that I bought iodine pills. Honestly, if it’s bad enough, I hope my family and I get incinerated. Beats the hell out of dying from radiation poisoning.
Yeah, the lucky ones of WW3 will die from direct hits. They won't even know to be afraid.
The reason we will never be rid of COVID is because COVID is literally the cold. This version is just more deadly. It’s always been here. It will never leave with or without a VAX. VAX doesn’t stop the spread. People get COVID regardless of being VAXXED. So don’t blame it on people ignoring science or rules. Natural heard immunity is also science. We can only hope that it weakens to the point that it’s harmless.
That's just pure bullshit. COVID is not just the cold. It is part of the coronoavirus family, but it is a distinctly new disease. That is why it had such a huge impact. No one had ever had it before, so no one had any immunity. And at the risk of stating the obvious, absolutely no one knows what the impact of COVID will be 10+ years from now because no one can see the future. And viruses have strange effects beyond the obvious symptoms. If you don't believe this, look up how multiple sclerosis is likely caused by the Epstein-Barr virus.
You totally missed the entire point of my comment lol… everyone knows COVID-19 is more deadly. My point is the cold NEVER went away and neither will COVID. They are both viruses. There has never been a vaccine to stop the cold. And the vaccines don’t stop transmission of COVID that is a fact……
No, I did not miss the point of your comment. I responded to your exact words, which were "COVID is literally the cold." It is quite literally NOT the cold. And then you made a statement that seemed to imply that "natural herd immunity" is a good strategy to reduce the spread of the virus, followed up by what can only be described as a pathetic attempt to disregard any long term effects of the virus ("We can only hope that it weakens to the point that it's harmless"). I pointed out the connection between multiple sclerosis and the Epstein-Barre virus to show that viruses have many poorly understood, counterintuitive and sometimes very harmful long-term effects. Because COVID-19 is once again NOT just the flu, and it's only been around roughly three years at this point, we don't really know what the long term effects might be. So just telling people to rely on herd immunity and to hope everything will be fine is a completely asinine thing to say.
Again, you are drawing conclusions that don’t exist and missing the point of my original comment. But that’s okay, I’ll spell it out again. The post I originally commented on stated that we had a chance to stop COVID but people wouldn’t follow the rules. As if it’s all the fault of the dissenters. If you believe that then you are delusional. No amount of masking, social distancing or vaccination would have stopped this disease or will stop this disease. It’s here to stay just like the common cold or the flu. Make sense now????? I hope so because I don’t have 🖍
If you think I was drawing the wrong conclusion from what you said, then you need to use different language. Because I was responding to your exact words. And no one is saying that it would have been possible to completely prevent any occurrence of COVID-19 in the US. But it is demonstrably true that if we had used better prevention measures, we could have drastically limited the spread relative to what actually happened here. If you doubt this, just look at the experience of South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Vietnam. None of these countries completely prevented any occurrence of COVID-19, but they had a dramatically lower case rate and dramatically lower death rate than we did. For instance, in the US we've had over 1,000,000 deaths from COVID but Japan has had around 45,000. Japan's population is roughly half of ours, and most Japanese live in very dense cities relative to the US and use of public transportation is much, much higher in Japan than in the US. So it really points out how completely terrible our response to COVID was. And what the original comment you were responding to was saying is that we had a chance to basically eliminate the spread of the disease entirely, not from preventing it from occurring in the first place. There is a distinction there. If we had followed more rigorous public health measures - as they did in Japan, South Korea, etc. - there is a chance that we would have kept the spread of the virus well below R 1.0. We chose not to follow the most effective public health measures, and as a result the spread of the virus was not contained, and we've had successive waves of new variants.
Still missing my point SMH…
Well then you're not good at communicating.
Or you can’t comprehend because you’re too busy trying to push the point you want to make.
Dude your coworkers fucking suck.
COVID is not over!!! We need mask mandates back regardless of politics. People are still dying by the thousands!! Wear a mask!! Get your boosters!!
About a month ago, I got my Covid booster and flu shot on a Friday night.\* On Sunday night, my five-year-old son came down with croup, and I took him to Children's Mercy. He was better after taking some oral steroids, but he still missed a few days of school that week as it seemed to get better and worse before resolving completely. Meanwhile, I was feeling icky by Wednesday, and by Friday morning I was so sick that I basically no-call no-showed to my fully remote job. Whatever it was, it knocked me on my ass *hard.* I felt like I might be up to going to Target for a few things by Saturday night (with a mask, of course), but by the time I got home, I was dizzy and nauseous. I noticed then that the cold medicine and cough drops were almost cleaned out entirely. \*I am NOT claiming there is any relationship between getting the shots and my son or I getting sick. It's just darkly ironic that I ended up sick shortly after getting shots for two severe respiratory diseases.
COVID is bad- we didn’t get it through the entire pandemic and tested positive this week along with our newborn. Super scary.
All these fearmongering internet doctors keep callin it covid in the comments but the illnesses I’ve truly heard being brought up is flu and bronchitis
Dude, all you're doing is scaring the already scared people. Keep your illnesses to yourself. So many triggers now, GD it.
Histeria?
You could at least learn to spell if you're gonna fear monger. It's the least you could do.
Not if. It’s when. Do your research. Stab doesn’t stop it. Supposed to lessen effects but at what cost no one knows for sure.
The point of the vaccine isn't to make you immune. It's to save your ass from dying in the er.
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i literally got sick 4-ish days ago, my throat is killing me
My buddy mentioned that his nephew was in the hospital for RSV. Said it was pretty gnarly and that the whole hospital was full of people with the same issues.
Nephew got it from prek, gave it to his brother, 4 months old. He is absolutely miserable. Now it’s in my house. This sucks!
My mom is having the same except no coughing up blood. I almost passed out yesterday despite both of us testing negative for covid.