Are you getting sick a lot more since 2020?

Yes but nobody cares. I’m sadly done trying to make people care.

Nope. I haven't been sick in years and years.

Same R2, fingers crossed.

No, however, this week I've needed to stay close to the bathroom. It sucks.

No.

R1 how have you been sick and why do people not care?

Look another hypochondriac frau thread.

Your immune system had less exposure to common viruses due to the COVID lock-down and mask wearing we needed to do for about two years during the pandemic. Now we are all basically catching up with whatever viruses are out there because we are back to normal social activities again. I didn't have any colds for over 2 1/2 years, between January 2020 and September 2022. Since then I had two common colds, both of them pretty bad. And I had also contracted COVID but the symptoms were somewhat minimal.

The COVID vaccines do not lower your immunity.

Nope. I got the vaccines. I wore the masks. I respected social distancing. I didn't get sick with any viruses then, and haven't since.

I've have every vaccine available -and I don't get sick. Not even a cold in the last couple of years.

Is this a stealth anti-vax thread?

R9 The two colds I got were from known social settings. One was from my office where coworker came to the office with a bad cold that whole week. By Friday I started getting symptoms. The second was from a concert I went to and the person sitting next to kept sneezing and blowing her nose. Two days later I got a cold again.

I haven’t had COVID but I had some awful respiratory thing all of January till the middle of Feb.

Your perception OP does not match the health care data out of the CDC aside from emotional and psych issues in children and teens to early 20s who had to isolate during the pandemic.

Yup. :(

No, haven't been sick in years.

Honestly, R6, it’s not even worth discussing. This thread is already filled with people claiming hypochondria or blaming the lockdown rather than the novel pathogen we keep passing to each other.

From my vantage point (NYC), it seems like everyone I know (self included) gets sicker more frequently, and with harder to shake illnesses, and I do believe multiple COVID infections could be the reason. If you saw me, you would never know I have Covid concerns, as I live my life like it’s 2019 and never talk about any of it, but internally I worry about what this shit has done to our bodies.

I never had COVID symptoms and I was exposed a great deal from the beginning. I know for certain I never got it during the first 6 months of the pandemic (all employees were tested for antibodies). Many of my colleagues (most are in their 20s and 30s) never got COVID symptoms until Omicron, which spread like wildfire in the space of a week or two. I didn't get that either. Except for a bad cold in Nov 2019, with no COVID-like symptoms, I haven't been sick for about 5 years. I'm 63.

^^Nov 2020, not 2019

I absolutely am getting more and more sick since I had COVID in early 2021. Sicker for longer and more often.

Some of these queens are probably on their deathbed saying “nope never been sick”

6x vaccinated for COVID and, AFAIK, never got it. I caught a cold last September and realized that I had forgotten how to have a cold! I wasted five COVID tests, having convinced myself that I’d finally got it. Nope.

Since then, I’ve “been sick” and was told to stay home from work a few days on two occasions. 🤫

No, OP.

OP is fat and watches MSNBC all day.

R20, some of us queens have lived through shit you could never imagine...and still didn't get sick.

Nope just the opposite. I got so sick with Covid I wanted to die. I was really early on the Covid list.

And every normal year before 2020 I got at least one cold maybe two a few GI issues and the flu every year. Since Covid 4 years now I have not had one sick day.

But then I am not sucking face with strangers, I am not eating random ass, I don’t spend times in bars breathing others and sucking face, I do mostly take out for eating (saves money on booze as well)

I realized it was not bad luck making me sick it was other people making me sick. Infectious diseases can be avoided but you must try to do so. And if you can’t avoid then you will be sick.

[quote]From my vantage point (NYC), it seems like everyone I know (self included) gets sicker more frequently, and with harder to shake illnesses, and I do believe multiple COVID infections could be the reason.

"Some studies suggest that SARS-CoV-2 infections—particularly severe ones—can trigger changes to the immune system, including reductions in the number and performance of T cells; disruptions to B cells; deficiencies in dendritic cells, which regulate the immune response; and altered gene expression linked to increased inflammation. Some of these changes seem to last months after a serious case of COVID-19.

For people who had mild cases and no long-lasting symptoms, though, the scientific literature does not support the idea of widespread immunosuppression after COVID-19."

Nope, havent been sick at all in years bar a couple of fairly minor colds. Not sure if I've had covid or not, some people have it and dont know, my oldest brothers mother in law was like that. Went to the doctor for a sprained ankle, they tested her and she had covid and didnt even realise

I've never had Covid but have had other bugs more frequently in the last five months or so. It's down to working more, higher stress levels.

The world is a harsher place than it was before Covid. The lockdown, the war in Ukraine - and I want Ukraine to win - and other factors are impacting on the economy.

I've had two horrible colds since 2020, one that turned into bronchitis and a sinus infection. The same thing also happened in 2012 and 2001. I tested positive for COVID once in 2022, and other than a runny nose and a slight fever and not feeling well for a day, I had no other symptoms. Knock wood,

[quote] The world is a harsher place than it was before Covid. The lockdown, the war in Ukraine - and I want Ukraine to win

MAAAARY! Time to get a life, hon.

Yes. I had been vaxed 4 times (got covid anyway) and I'm super tired all the time and often sick-ish since the pandemic. That damn fatigue is the worst.

I haven’t had so much as a cold since 2019, whereas I used to have two or three a year. It’s right around that time that I stopped having to take the train and the subway and sit in a crowded office for ten hours a day five days a week.

I think a lot of its just more severe allergies. I think with climate change all the pollen, ragweed, etc is off the charts. You'd be surprised how fucked up allergies can make you feel.

[quote]I think a lot of its just more severe allergies.

That's certainly some of it.

Knock on wood, I haven't- I got a very mild case of Covid that lasted 2 days. My allergies are out of control, but strangely my seasonal asthma hasn't manifested at all since I got Covid.

Not having sex with strangers really cuts down on the amount of colds one gets.

Not sick, but my allergies this year have been really bad. I think it is all the rain we’ve had.

R32 You are basically a hermit then. No public transportation, no sitting for hours and days next to coworkers. Where are you going to get any exposure to any viruses? Over 95% of the virus we contract are by being in close proximity to other human beings.

Working from home =/= hermit

Haven’t noticed it, nor with my family. Mind you, I’m on chemo with a low immune system so I stay the feck away from anyone with so much as a sniffle.

Nope. In the last 4 years, I had two mild cases of COVID and one mild cold. That's it.

R39 I was being semi-facetious, but yes, if you do not come in regular contact with other people, of course you are not going to get exposed to the current viruses that are circulating.

Many of you are now sick in the head —I guess that is a “yes”?

Yes, MARY!, r30, but are you in business and impacted by shortages/long wait times/massive price hikes on things like steel? Fertiliser prices have only just started to go down after several years of astronomical price hikes. A lot of businesses (clients and specialised suppliers) shut during the lockdown.