Anxiouz
12-Oct-2023(#3)Lots of people at work have been getting sick. Like dominos. It's the usual fall flu stuff but I guess our new reality now is fall flu + covid going around.
Feeb
13-Oct-2023(#5)sinnie wrote:> So I found out that as I'm nearing 40 I have late onset ashtma. Supposedly a side
> effect of having covid for some. (and it fudging sucks.) Basically feel like I've
> had a chest infection for 6 weeks and it's just my lungs are inflammed.
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> Feel better soon Feeb!
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Sorry to hear that happened to you. That’s my main concern. Family or friends get long Covid crap. I feel much better but that positive test requires me to stay home for 5 days. Part of me wanted to skip the test and grind on but that was a pretty crapty thought in retrospect- hope I didn’t already pass it around at the office.
KCPenguins
* 13-Oct-2023(#6)My work has no Covid policy, and I'm good with that. If your sick with anything, stay home or stay away. I wash my hands much more frequently thanks to the Covid era among other mindful habits. Done with it.
sinnie
* 13-Oct-2023(#7)Feeb wrote:> sinnie wrote:
>> So I found out that as I'm nearing 40 I have late onset ashtma. Supposedly a side
>> effect of having covid for some. (and it fudging sucks.) Basically feel like I've
>> had a chest infection for 6 weeks and it's just my lungs are inflammed.
>>
>> Feel better soon Feeb!
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>
> Sorry to hear that happened to you. That’s my main concern. Family or friends
> get long Covid crap. I feel much better but that positive test requires me to stay
> home for 5 days. Part of me wanted to skip the test and grind on but that was a pretty
> crapty thought in retrospect- hope I didn’t already pass it around at the office.
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I feel at this point that is what the majority of people are doing anyway... they just don't care. I have felt the same way. If I get it, I honestly can't afford to take off work. It was in my thought process these past few weeks but I keep testing negative (thankfully) and am not contagious since what I'm doing with isn't an infection just brought on by one (or many, most recently strep.) But yeah if I get it, I will stay home if at all possible -- it'll just really hurt financially.
Glad you aren't feeling too bad!! Just get caught up on shows and gaming! Easier said than done I know... when I am stuck in bed I just can't find anything I want. It's so hard to think covid might have damaged my lungs because when I had it, I had no issues with breathing/cough/loss of taste or smell at all. I just felt tired and had a bit of a headache. Not even a fever. I guess you never know what something is really doing to your body no matter how simple it might be...
Foxhack
* 13-Oct-2023(#8)Feeb wrote:> Sorry to hear that happened to you. That’s my main concern. Family or friends
> get long Covid crap. I feel much better but that positive test requires me to stay
> home for 5 days. Part of me wanted to skip the test and grind on but that was a pretty
> crapty thought in retrospect- hope I didn’t already pass it around at the office.
You might not be contagious, but those five days are very important for your recovery. Judging from my personal experience and seeing what others have gone through, not giving yourself enough rest time after you're better will just make you feel worse for longer. Back when this started and I caught it before anyone knew wtf was going on, I spent a couple of extra weeks sick because I refused to stop moving. It sucked.
ManiacMadman
14-Oct-2023(#10)I've never tested for it and never will. Pretty sure I've had it 5 times but didn't know the symptoms I had were out there. They focused on losing your sense of smell and mine is now intensely sensitive to all smells. Lost weight having it but it wasn't healthy weight loss. I found my sense of taste made me not want anything to eat. I had to start using barbeque sauce regularly just to get myself eating again. I just needed spices to get to eat and still find that I need that now. Found it very funny when i saw the doctor between 2020-2022 and until now that not once did they tell me these were symptoms of Covid. I've had a very complicated medical history (mostly because of doctors and surgeons technically just guess when they perforn surgery and never admit mistakes) so I'm skeptical of all doctors. No vaccine here but had I chosen the J&J Vaccine that could of killed me because of my pathetic heart health. Still my doctors have never had them once ask me for a vaccine or if I've had them. Only Wal-Mart does that and the techs there kinda tell you to run the other way but are told to ask anyway.
Don't trust them and ask questions and if you don't get a real answer DO NOT LET THEM INJECT YOU or PERFORM ANY SURGERY. I speak from very bad experiences (also do not have a political party preference) but I do not want others to go through what I've been through with the medical community. Mask up if it makes you feel more comfortable but use your brain and think before you do something you can't take back. Stay safe everyone as I wish this MADNESS would end.
rayzor6
16-Oct-2023(#13)Not doing it again. Just had a good friend who took the jab at the early onset of this due to being in school administration...in excellent health and started having heart problems and just passed away last August.
I'm hoping you both feel better and this isn't an attempt at getting anyone mad...but after the last 3 years feeling we were living in the Stanford Prison experiment: this kind of talk makes me feel like people are trying to mentally gear up to get back to treating people like garbage. I'm just politely adding: Not interested in playing, thank you.
Again, hope you both are well.
rayzor6
16-Oct-2023(#16)My apologies....it was VERY bad around here (central Ohio).
I am not anti vax, but there wasn't a month that went by from late 2020 to late 2021 that if you decided you DIDN'T want the vaccine: you were completely treated like you were horrible, uneducated, a murderer, etc. I believe it should be your choice ALWAYS to inject something into your body. I'm still very sensitive about it because it feels like there is some renewed fervor to get back to demonizing people for their own choices. Jaw & Feeb: you are completely right that wasn't even an inkling here and I sincerely apologize.
sinnie
17-Oct-2023(#18)Feeb wrote:> I’d agree people should be able to choose. I’d also say politics needs to stay
> out of science and health care altogether. It makes no sense that just because someone
> wins a popularity contest they are qualified to make these decisions.
Agreed. Sort of like in olden times when doctors recommended washing hands before treating patients to prevent germs and they were called out as being ridiculous because clearly you were dealing with evil spirits and curses instead.... There will always be disagreements but the science is pretty solid.
John
20-Oct-2023(#19)I guess I tend to be "bothered" by -- or maybe "frustrated" by is better -- the people who go "I'm not anti-vax", but then call it "the jab" and give an anecdote about how someone got "the jab" and then died of a heart issue soon after...
In general, that's what the "anti-vax" people talk about.
I mean, I can easily list off situations where someone ate a ham sandwich and then died of a heart attack a little while later. But I don't call ham sandwiches "the death meal" or anything. And I can list off several people who I know who didn't get "the jab" and were hospitalized with Covid -- and even two who died. Had they not avoided "the jab" because of anecdotal stories about a person here or there who happened to pass away after they were vaccinated -- they might be alive today.
If someone says "I'm not anti-vax, but decided to not get vaccinated myself. But to each their own." and leaves it at that, then fine. But that isn't usually what happens. Instead it is more like "I'm not anti-vax, but a healthy friend of mine once got THE JAB and now he's dead, so..."
So, yeah, it is a bit frustrating to me to hear from people who want to talk about "choice" but instead seem pretty clearly "against."
rayzor6
20-Oct-2023(#23)I posted something and just deleted it so if it was seen: that's what happened.
I don't care to fight...enjoy all your jabbery and following the science. Just give me the autonomy to make my own medical decisions and I'll do the same.
benstylus
20-Oct-2023(#25)John wrote:> I mean, I can easily list off situations where someone ate a ham sandwich and then
> died of a heart attack a little while later. But I don't call ham sandwiches "the
> death meal" or anything.
I gotta start now. Can't wait to order a hot ham and cheese at Hardee's and ask the cashier for the death meal.
John
20-Oct-2023(#28)Feeb wrote:> This virus is and will likely be similar to seasonal flu. If the predominant strain
> is a high morbidity low mortality situation and a vaccine only provides non sterile
> immunity (you will get sick only not as severe) - then the vaccine should only be
> recommended to at risk populations. If the situation is a novel virus with high morbidity
> and mortality as in the initial Covid pandemic- everyone reachable should receive
> a vaccine.
At this point, yes, I agree -- and that appears to be the case right now as far as what they are doing.
rayzor6
20-Oct-2023(#31)Haha Feeb…ok
rayzor6
20-Oct-2023(#33)Great advice
Foxhack
* 28-Oct-2023(#37)I'm probably never getting another vaccine, but only because I'll never be able to get another appointment. -.-
ryanflucas
29-Oct-2023(#39)I got the latest Pfizer vaccine booster today plus the seasonal flu vaccine. You can’t walk into a medical facility here without being asked 3-5 times by support staff if you’ve had the shots before you even get to see the doctor. Even my dentist asked. As they should.
metsfan718
(frozen)29-Oct-2023(#40)I was on the fence for a long time about getting the vaccine. But my rare autoimmune condition was holding me back.
After living for a long time in fear, I skipped a great wedding and went to 7/11 with my KN95 as always.
I walked to 7/11. I touched the door handle and lit up a cigarette. Was in the store for about 60 seconds with my mask on. Didn't really go anywhere well before hand.
Came down with mild COVID. I survived. The fear of being anxious about going to a wedding was a blessing in disguise. I'm glad I got it to get over my fear. Was exposed a few months later on Christmas Eve and didn't get it again.
Then my mom got the first booster. Felt weird immediately after. About 12 hours later, she was in the shower and was about to black out. I helped her get out and put her on the bed. Was about to call emergency but gave here a bunch of water and she started to feel better.
She's 70 years old and said she's never gotten this reaction from a vaccine on her life. And now she's done with it.
Regardless of modern science, the fact that the vaccine was made in 7-8 months means it was clearly rushed. In my opinion they wanted to get the economy back in track quicky to get people outside the house spending money.
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Mind you, I'm not anti all vaccines, I just think that this specific vaccine was incredibly rushed. And the misleading information that came with it. I saw people in summer of 2021 under the premise that they couldn't spread it. But that was a lie.
My aunt's doctor who works for a top heart hospital here in NY metro pretty much recently told my aunt to not get the vaccine.
And just look at the rise of heart attacks and cardiac arrest cases more recently. High performing healthy and young athletes like that dude on the bills and LeBron Jane's son. Both. Collapsed on the field and court.
Case in point, I'm not here to tell people what to do with their bodies. But as long as you respect my choice, I'll most definitely respect yours.