CoronaVirus Disease (COVID-19) Thread : Fuck em, should’ve gotten vaccinated

Wait, the WH still had a public health emergency going on?

 

Chuds going vegan in mass numbers might make my head explode.

 

*molecules of freedom

(seriously, at one point, this is how conservatives tried to brand gas)

 

Parody

 

Finally got COVID, three years in.

Decent chest and nasal congestion as well as mental fog. No loss of taste or smell though.

Glad to be vaxed and boosted, sucks but not too bad

 

How would anyone notice?

 

This you?

 

Man I got something called metapnuemal virus and it is fucking my family up.

Also my 4 year old son threw a bouncy ball and it hit my wife directly in the eye and caused an ocularcardio reflex or something like that. She basically had a seizure. Doctor said he’s never treated a patient with it and has only ever heard of it from eye surgeries.

She’s in the hospital for two days and in day two my daughters virus kicks into gear and I’m covered in bile (also I have only one useful hand because I severed a tendon in my pinky with a butter knife and had surgery two weeks ago).

what a fucking whirlwind. Also my family is made of glass my wife and I got taken down by a butter knife and a bouncy ball within the span of a month

 

Hang in there, bud. Smoother sailing ahead.

 

I just can’t help but laugh inbetween coughing fits. The worlds a fucked up place I’ve got it better than 99% of the rest so whatever. Just a rough couple weeks.

 

When you fellas got COVID, did you take it easy on working out for a bit? Still feeling some chest tightness and my neck has gotten sore all of the sudden even though I feel mostly fine now. It’s been 10ish days since onset of initial symptoms, probably 5 days since I’ve felt real symptoms

Don’t want to push it with myocarditis risk, etc….

 

Yeah take it easy for a while. A couple weeks light work.

 

My wife got the booster yesterday (I couldn't get out of work in time and she didn't want to wait for me) and she woke up feeling like shit today. Whole body is sore and she had 4 blankets on her when she woke up becuase she was so cold.

 

Took almost 3 years but I just popped positive yesterday morning and Im not sure I’ve ever been sicker. I thought I’d surely had it without knowing at some point but after experiencing it, I’m sure I haven’t. Can’t imagine what its be like without being vaxxed and having paxlovid.

 

Everyone I know is getting COVID at the moment, another guy who avoided it for three years just got this strain as well.

 

Yeah one of the highly represented new variants has a longer asymptomatic period so youll prob have more infections as ppl dont knkw they should be self isolating

 

is there a new one? Last one I got was in September.

If not a new one, will there be a new one? Wait until fall again?

 

the latest is the bivalent booster from last year

 

I got covid for the first time and holy moly I’m miserable

 

Have you ever considered being tough?

 

normally I would tell you off in my usually dry and clever ways but I’ve eaten like twice in three days and don’t have the energy

 

For those that got the bivalent booster in September, should we be boosting again soon?

 

I think it’s personal preference. If I was going on an international trip I might think about it 2 weeks before so I didn’t ruin my trip.

 

Shit, this is me in a little more than two weeks. Is it generally recommended and you can get it at most pharmacies or more that you need to bug your PCP or something? I guess no one really checks your cards anymore so probably I could say I never got the updated booster.

 

I wouldn’t say it’s generally recommended. My guess is your insurance won’t cover it if it’s been under a year.

 

Finally got it. Lost my taste and smell as well.

 

Damn. Pretty rare these days in those who are vaccinated.

 

My smell was muted for about 12 hours. Still smelled the skunk that was ran over.

 

Are you supposed to get a booster every 6 months or year?

 

Maybe never again. No evidence that your risk of hospitalization or death goes up over time after the bivalent booster if that’s your hurdle rate (edit: in healthy non-immunocompromised adults under 70 years old or so). We’ll have that data at some point though. I assume yearly at this point but maybe not. If your hurdle rate is I never want to be infected, get it every 3 months.

 

I can’t smell much but I think it’s mostly because my sinuses are just super clogged. taste seems to be okay but no appetite

 

also - is it weird that my tests all went dark line positive after like 30 seconds?

 

no, just means ur in it heavy. In a few days it’ll still show up but slower and fade

 

that means if you walked into a bar you could infect the whole place lol after 4-5 days it will lighten up and means ur less infectious basically the lighter the line my doctor friend explained to to me

 

I got the bivalent booster in September two weeks before a long work trip and ended up getting covid still. I was pissed.

 

also ftr I am completely vaxxed and boosted

 

Brutal. Maybe you needed 3 weeks.

 

Got my bivalent in October, wife got hers in November, and we both got Covid in mid-December, five days before flying to Vienna

 

Didn't stop you, though.

 

Nope. Asymptomatic for three days before the flight, wearing N95s the whole way

 

My dad lost his taste and he is vaxxed. He's also 73 and got wrecked by it. He is still recovering from it 3-4 weeks later.

 

I was thinking it'd be every year like a flu shot but obviously I'm an idiot with no medical expertise. I'd rather get a shot every year to be safe. I wouldn't want to get it without some relatively recent immunity boost.

 

this is the worst sore throat I’ve ever had

 

And I got covid about 2 months after my 4th shot. I wasn't really sick - thought my allergies were bad for a couple days and coughed for a day - but I lit up 2 tests almost instantly.

 

Just to be sure its understood, the vaccine doesnt prevent/stop infections with any amount of dependability, especially as the variants drift further away from what the updated boosters were designed to combat. Its current purposes is to curtail severity.

 

Hang in there, bud.

 

Yes, all I was adding was that, anecdotally, being vaccinated to the gills won't necessarily stop infection, but it definitely seemed to help the severity and duration of my symptoms compared to folks I knew around the same time with fewer shots than me.

 

I wasnt dumping on you, just that i was surprised vaxxed people were surprised they got covid