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OT: Coronavirus Resources - and other things to not worry about

Wayward DP said:
other than the catching covid part eh?
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I got lucky AF. it was so mild that I worry I have negative antibodies. Cough for a day, stuffy nose for a day, fine for a day then lost my smell/taste for a few days. But never felt worse than allergies or a mild cold.

Interestingly - my roommates both caught it from me but had wildly different sunrooms. One had a cough for half a day, very low grade fever that night (100.3) and then was fine (totally asymptomatic) the next day, but continued to test positive for 10 days post symptom onset.

the other one couldn’t get out of bed for a week and was still testing + 16 days post symptom onset.
 
Wayward DP said:
other than the catching covid part eh?
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I got to say, I'm pretty freaking privileged. I own two properties and I'm staying in my 600 square foot office by myself. People are bringing me food. It's quiet. I'm getting a shit ton of work done. I miss my wife and kids. But other than that isolating through covid has been pretty freaking great so far.

I have an excuse for doing less work, despite the fact that I'm getting more done.

And I don't want to talk to somebody I can blame it on covid.

Part of me thinks that I damn I'm stuck here till Monday. Then another part of me thinks oh fuck I have to go back to the rest of the world on Monday.

So far getting covid has not been terrible.
 
mbow30 said:
I got lucky AF. it was so mild that I worry I have negative antibodies. Cough for a day, stuffy nose for a day, fine for a day then lost my smell/taste for a few days. But never felt worse than allergies or a mild cold.

Interestingly - my roommates both caught it from me but had wildly different sunrooms. One had a cough for half a day, very low grade fever that night (100.3) and then was fine (totally asymptomatic) the next day, but continued to test positive for 10 days post symptom onset.

the other one couldn’t get out of bed for a week and was still testing + 16 days post symptom onset.
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this lines up with my brother's experience. he has two roomies, one was basically bedridden for a week, one was totally fine, and my brother was in between with some minor symptoms...

and of course there is me living with Ms. Wayward and taking no preventative measures and I have been working all week and yesterday she was in bed both when I left in the morning and returned in the eve...
 
Stinky said:
I got to say, I'm pretty freaking privileged. I own two properties and I'm staying in my 600 square foot office by myself. People are bringing me food. It's quiet. I'm getting a shit ton of work done. I miss my wife and kids. But other than that isolating through covid has been pretty freaking great so far.

I have an excuse for doing less work, despite the fact that I'm getting more done.

And I don't want to talk to somebody I can blame it on covid.

Part of me thinks that I damn I'm stuck here till Monday. Then another part of me thinks oh fuck I have to go back to the rest of the world on Monday.

So far getting covid has not been terrible.
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yeah, most of us on here are lucky enough that if/when we do catch it, we can suffer as needed in relative comfort. cannot imagine being a shift worker who lives paycheque to paycheque...
 
Wayward DP said:
yeah, most of us on here are lucky enough that if/when we do catch it, we can suffer as needed in relative comfort. cannot imagine being a shift worker who lives paycheque to paycheque...
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Yup. This is terrible. Can confirm with relatives. My cousin who works at the shipyard is doing fine. They have a really strong union.

The most encouraging thing to come out of these last 2 years has the resurgence in interest in unions. You want to make changes in the world the working class needs to put class politics before identity politics. The middle class prefers identity politics.
 
I have some pretty dirt poor cousins, working grocery stores, Tire factories and in fish processing.

They have been fucked.

Expanding paid sick time for everybody is essential.
 
It's the cumulative aspect of multiple infections that worries me. The original thesis that it will get milder with each exposure has not played out. It seems to be just be taking a lot out of people. The autoimmunity aspect of covid is way scarier than the risks in the acute phase quite frankly.

There is one drug that is going to be trialed shortly that specifically treats autoimmunity; you can get these symptoms from the vax too so it should hopefully work on both covid long haulers and vax long haulers. Of course severity of symptoms can vary significantly but if autoimmunity is the root of all of these long-term issues that could potentially be treated by this one drug (perhaps not as a cure as I suspect some irreversible damage will occur, but it could possibly allow one to live a normal-ish life). Otherwise... there's nothing really being trialed that tackles anything except maybe some symptom relief.
 
Speaking of the scary autoimmune aspect of COVID, my buddy came down with a version of shingles that paralyzed half his face about a week after getting COVID. And the COVID hit him hard. Doctor assumes it’s related. It still hasn’t come fully back almost 3 months later.

he also tested positive the day after getting his booster, which is good anti vax material for preston.
 
Also I want it on the record that I needed to lie to my own mother about leafman being at the superspreader event. To my own mother.
 
The problem is that another friends Mother who speaks to my mother and occasionally speaks to leafmans Mother knows other people there, one of whom we couldn’t draw into this.

Anyways I think the cat is out of the bag because my mother asked me if leafman was there. She asked me by text which I haven’t responded to. I haven’t spoken to my mom in 10 days to avoid this.
 
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