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Coronavirus (COVID-19) is too exciting for adults to discuss (CLOSED)

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jwinslow said:
Pretty sure many cvs locations have the pcr test with results in about 24 hours (ymmv).


3 weeks ago after flying and not sleeping enough, started showing basic cold symptoms. Turned out to be negative, but it was helpful to be able to test negative immediately and then double check via PCR test afterwards. That way we could keep doing some of our activities but be cautious until we had the PCR results. We ended up paying for the rapid test, $10 each, from CVS because we wanted it immediately. But I think you can get it for free there and elsewhere. And we went back later that day for a free PCR test via drive through
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Pretty sure this is the case, been burning the candle at both ends lately and haven
't had much rest. My two IPAs a night habit probably doesn't help my immune system either.
 
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Wife's cousin has Cystic fibrosis. Actually he and his brother have/had it. Both got lung transplants. The brother didn't make it much past the transplant. This was many years ago for both. Fast forward to Covid.......he can't get the vaccine. He also belongs to an idiot family that doesn't believe in the virus. Like.....doesn't believe in it. His mom is a fucking nurse who has decided to go unvaccinated. Around her own son, who has one of the deadliest, incurable lung diseases in the world. This family wouldn't go out to eat in restaurants with us because the air quality would upset him.....but they've been brainwashed into thinking this is jUsT a CoLd.

Well, he's in the ICU now. His mom got it first, then gave it to him. His nurse mom. His nurse mom who should've fucking known better. He should've known better. His wife should've known better. Fuck you if you're still peddling this vaccines are dangerous bullshit. You know what's dangerous? Fucking Covid. At least none of their freedums got trampled.
 
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NJ-Buckeye said:
FWIW.. couple months back I was sure I had it... all the classic symptoms... I was a mess...
rcvd multiple tests.. Doc said PCR would give results in a day or 2 'but only 60% reliable" !!!
other test, tested for 74 diseases... I came up with two positive viruses but not any of the current Covid strains at that time???

within a week, I also came down with Lyme... so @jwinslow , your post about wife and booster impact has my attention...
interestingly, Lyme symptoms are amazingly similar to Covid... I was a mess but luckily significant improvement in 2 weeks
However my blood pressure and heart went severe haywire for weeks... sucks to be old
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Yes she was hit with Lyme medium hard in high school and still has some side effects. It doesn't help that the disease is poorly understood and still widely disbelieved or at least causes uncertainty and skepticism.


She had a lot of the classic symptoms back when she was sick with Lyme. She could still function. Her sister was wheelchair bound by line from multiple years and wasn't sure if she'd ever get out of it. Thankfully she finally did. The second shot hit her sister very hard. Ironically the booster didn't seem to do the same thing though she got it heading into a four-day holiday and rested the whole time so hard to know if that softened the impact.

my wife just noticed that it triggered a lot of the symptoms. Can send you a message if you want to chat more about that
DubCoffman62 said:
Pretty sure this is the case, been burning the candle at both ends lately and haven
't had much rest. My two IPAs a night habit probably doesn't help my immune system either.
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Yep this was definitely my annual, oh you're not going to be responsible with sleep? Okay well I'll fix that for you... Sickness.
 
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muffler dragon said:
In recent conversations, it's come up that the "quick" tests have a pretty considerably high rate of false positives. Have you seen/heard anything like that as well?
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Really small sample but I can tell you I know of at least a dozen precautionary rapids (3 on me) with no positives.

And to make it more fun, make sure everyone in your travel itinerary accepts rapid tests. A few countries only take PCR
 
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BuckeyeNation27 said:
Like.....doesn't believe in it. His mom is a fucking nurse who has decided to go unvaccinated. Around her own son, who has one of the deadliest, incurable lung diseases in the world. This family wouldn't go out to eat in restaurants with us because the air quality would upset him.....but they've been brainwashed into thinking this is jUsT a CoLd.
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This part for me hit home. I made mention in another thread I know a fair amount of people in medicine. ALL of them, save for 2, are vaccinated. Not only that but all of them, minus the 2, have encouraged others to get vaccinated and to at minimum wear a mask when you go to grocery shop.

The 2 that don't? YUUUUUUUUGE Trump fans. Like, the one has 'LeTs Go BrAnDoN' as a rear window decal on her car. Hilariously enough, before things got serious last year (around January, Feb) posted on FB that "Trust us nurses, we're not worried about this we're actually laughing and you should too". Only to turn around 9 months later and share one of those sappy "I work so much for you and for those in my patient care. I'm scared to go home to my family because I may give it to them" type bullshit. I screenshot the damn thing and sent to in group text to friends for future reference.

Meanwhile the people of Italy were warning the world of what they dealt with and what this disease could bring, but fucks like the girl I mentioned were too busy being arrogant and dismissive.
 
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Something I was pondering on the other day…..do you suppose some people would take covid more seriously if it had a polio-like effect rather than death? The vast majority (~95%) of polio cases had no symptoms or very minor symptoms. And the death rate in polio was extremely low —only .5% of cases had the virus move to the CNS resulting in muscle weakness and, of those, only 2-5% of children and 15-30% of adults died — so quite a bit lower than Covid. If, rather than death, Covid resulted in partial paralysis and we were able to see the impact on survivors as we went about our daily lives, would the 700k numbers seem more real versus those people just being dead and gone?
 
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Fungo Squiggly said:
Something I was pondering on the other day…..do you suppose some people would take covid more seriously if it had a polio-like effect rather than death? The vast majority (~95%) of polio cases had no symptoms or very minor symptoms. And the death rate in polio was extremely low —only .5% of cases had the virus move to the CNS resulting in muscle weakness and, of those, only 2-5% of children and 15-30% of adults died — so quite a bit lower than Covid. If, rather than death, Covid resulted in partial paralysis and we were able to see the impact on survivors as we went about our daily lives, would the 700k numbers seem more real versus those people just being dead and gone?
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I’ve been saying something similar from the beginning…not about polio specifically, but more in terms of somehow death being the only metric. We don’t know what the long-term consequences are or how severe they will be…but yes, I think if the consequences were more, shall we say tangible (paralysis, poch mark scars), that might be different.

That said, so many people are so convinced they are right about being anti-vax, I don’t know that it would matter.
 
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Fungo Squiggly said:
Something I was pondering on the other day…..do you suppose some people would take covid more seriously if it had a polio-like effect rather than death? The vast majority (~95%) of polio cases had no symptoms or very minor symptoms. And the death rate in polio was extremely low —only .5% of cases had the virus move to the CNS resulting in muscle weakness and, of those, only 2-5% of children and 15-30% of adults died — so quite a bit lower than Covid. If, rather than death, Covid resulted in partial paralysis and we were able to see the impact on survivors as we went about our daily lives, would the 700k numbers seem more real versus those people just being dead and gone?
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Yes.

I’ve had that same discussion since the anti-vaxxers came out. I think I’ve mentioned it earlier in this thread.
 
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Fungo Squiggly said:
Something I was pondering on the other day…..do you suppose some people would take covid more seriously if it had a polio-like effect rather than death? The vast majority (~95%) of polio cases had no symptoms or very minor symptoms. And the death rate in polio was extremely low —only .5% of cases had the virus move to the CNS resulting in muscle weakness and, of those, only 2-5% of children and 15-30% of adults died — so quite a bit lower than Covid. If, rather than death, Covid resulted in partial paralysis and we were able to see the impact on survivors as we went about our daily lives, would the 700k numbers seem more real versus those people just being dead and gone?
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I'd read a paper years ago saying that Polio wasn't a very but rather a poison. It was a result of being exposed to DDT.
 
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