Mr Covid finally found me

Were you wearing a mask?

Sorry to hear that, OP. Being sick while far from home is the worst. I hope at least yours is a very mild case.

feel better soon

Yes, I had been careful with the mask but had to take it off on the plane in order to eat. It was a long flight. I suspect that is when I caught it. If this is mild covid I do wonder what the other variety is like. My legs and lower back hurt so much I can barely stand up. Anyway, season 3 of Ramy dropped yesterday so maybe that will distract me.

I hope you feel better soon, OP!

Stealth anti-vax thread.

Be careful.

[quote]Mr Covid finally found me

Not cool to assume gender.

Shit OP, I'm sorry to hear that. I hope you get through this without getting too sick, so you can get back home.

In the long run, Mr. Gravity will be a lot worse.

"Stealth anti-vax thread.

Be careful."

^ Stealth stealth anti-vax thread.

I got it over Labor Day, hacking cough that brought up blood. Took Paxlovid, and after 4 days felt a lot better. I guess I had pneumonia, because my breathing got better. This stuff is real. Feel better OP.

Is it worth taking Paxlovid? People say it lessons the symptoms quickly but then a week later they all come back

[quote]Stealth anti-vax thread.

I hope that was a feeble attempt at humor. Otherwise, you're hopelessly stupid.

Five times vaccinated?? The new one only just came out

If you were able to get five injections, then I'm guessing you must have an autoimmune condition because the rest of us have had only four.

And if your immune system is that compromised, why are you away at some hotel in the first place?

R11 here, Paxlovid worked wonders for me. The congestion and bad cough were gone in a week. I slept in a chair the lst few nights, it was painful to sleep on my back or right side those first few days. I was told to only go to the ER if I couldn't breathe(!) - that almost happened, as I think I had a panic attack, but I talked myself out of it.

Comfort and convalescing, OP. Get well soon.

I got my fifth shot yesterday. Why are you doubting OP?

Second booster was given to anyone over fifty who wanted it. The new, omicron specific booster is the third booster. Five shots is totally feasible.

Op here. I had my 5th injection about two weeks ago at Costco. It may be an age thing. I am over 65. I was given an antiviral today so hopefully it will work. I am surprised by the severe lower back pain. It is hard even to sit up.

Keep in mind that Covid is constantly mutating and these mutations rapidly circulate all over the world. And these mutations currently are much easier to catch than the previous ones. So things you were doing that were perfectly safe earlier this year could get you a big old viral load right now.

The vaccine doesn't make you immune to Covid, but it does make it far less likely that if you do catch it you won't get as sick. Given that this is a virus that works by shredding your lungs and causing collateral damage in your brain, circulatory system, and other vital parts of your body, that's a HUGE benefit.

Sorry to hear, feel better soon.

The back pain is interesting. My sister wound up with a ruptured disc, and COVID was the only factor during that time period. (doctors kept asking her if she'd been in a car accident)

R15 The rest of us have not all had four, so speak for yourself. I had ONE J&J shot last year and no Covid to date. Looks like I made the correct choice of vaccines, and I'm in my 50s and have an autoimmune disorder. You paranoid types can get all the boosters you like, but since they were not designed for the strains of the virus currently out there you might as well be injecting sterile water.

Actually the new boosters are targeted at current strains, r23.

It really sucks that we will be living with the threat of covid for many years. A Chinese lady eats a bat in Wuhan and we get to suffer forever.

I had my 5th Moderna on Wednesday. This one was a little harder than the second and two boosters. It was similar to the initial vaccination and took about 48 hours to feel better. All low-grade stuff but it all added up and made me useless on Thursday. I slowly started to feel better on Friday and am back to normal today.

Bet you thought that monkeypox vaccine you got was going to protect you too.

[quote]I had ONE J&J shot last year and no Covid to date. Looks like I made the correct choice of vaccines

R23 - I had four Pfizer shots and have had no covid to date either.

And I eat at restaurants, go to movie theaters, have gone to see several Broadway shows and NJSO concerts, and saw a comic at MSG.

So it looks like I made the correct choice as well.

Oh, and I went to a big fat wedding.

I had one booster shot but was waiting for the latest one to come out before I caught Covid on a cruise ship, which is one giant Petrie dish. Luckily I started feeling sick on the last day. The second night was the worst, I felt chills that were so bad I couldn’t get out of bed. Worst I’ve felt in years. But by the third day I was feeling like it was just a crappy cold. And luckily, no real cough or congestion in the lungs. Just a sore throat and nasal congestion. The weird thing is I tested positive for nearly two weeks after, but felt fine. I’m sure the vaccine helped keep the virus out of my lungs.

Who wants OP's stuff?

R24 You mean the one that isn't available yet? Kaiser Permanente said they will let us know when they get any.

R33, it’s pretty much available everywhere. I’ve gotten a bunch of notices from my doctor, pharmacy etc.

"Bet you thought that monkeypox vaccine you got was going to protect you too. "

The monkeypox vaccine is more effective after the 1st shot than any of the covid OR flu vaccines.

Anyway I got my 5th last week. I guess I'm used to feeling like a pin cushion at this pointy but I felt nothing going in and zero side effects. (Pfizer)

R29 Glad to hear it, but my choice was just as effective and only took about a half hour on one day, including walking there and back and the 15 minutes they make you wait after the shot. You went four separate times and I'll bet you drove far away and stood in line for a long while for at least one of them.

The husbear and I are getting our fourth Moderna vax today. I don't know anybody who has had five. Damn this thing is a mean bitch.

Feel better OP. Where are you?

Can I have your stuff?

R34 The omicron-specific boosters have only come to market in the past 3 weeks. There is limited availability of one of the boosters and none of it yet in my region.

R23 Ignorantly and stupidly believes that what worked for him should work for the other 7.8 billion humans on the planet without deviation.

I’m sure the CDC and international health organizations the world over will be all ears and ready to focus the brunt of their attentions after listening to your singular experience.

R39 yes, I’m aware—this has been in the last couple of weeks. I’m in a large urban area in the NE part of the country. I haven’t tried to make an appointment so I don’t know if there’s a backlog.

[quote] A Chinese lady eats a bat in Wuhan and we get to suffer forever.

If you believe this, you'll believe anything.

^^ If you didn't recognize that remark as a light-heartrd metaphor you're cognitively handicapped.

I'll be getting my fifth shot this month. I believe OP got 5 shots. Get well soon!

Quick, apply for disability, you probably will get long COVID.

Op here. Honestly, people do not realize the Omicron specific booster has been available the past few weeks? It may be restricted at this point to older people so perhaps that is the confusion. Believe me. You wouldn't want my stuff. I am presently suffering in Bangkok. I was to start a Thai writing class in Monday but maybe not now. I will be sad to miss it. Presently I am in a 12 month journey and hopefully this will not trip me up. And I still feel like shit. Sleep an hour then up an hour.

oh, I just checked. The Omicron booster is available to all in the USA. Some people really need to get out of the house more.

OP even if you're male the American Women's Club of Bangkok will come to your aid (assuming you're American) . These bored hags love to help others. Don't hesitate to call them if you need something.

If you're in recovery the English speaking AA group in Bangkok is very good as well. They'll help you if you ask.

So you're not alone. Feel better.

Great tip about the women's club. I wonder if the would whip me up some vegetarian chicken soup. I am in a hotel which is having a soft reopening and the restaurants are closed. To add to that misery the hotel doesn't allow Uber eats or Grab eats as it's called here. I think they would make an exception if I told them I had Covid but I am sort of worried they would kick me out of the hotel if they knew I was sick.

[quote]I'll bet you drove far away and stood in line for a long while for at least one of them.

No. I live in NJ where everything is thisclose, easy to access and staffed - not in some sparsely populated hinterland.

R41 I'm in DC, and the Moderna booster is not available at KP yet, I just checked. So, if a major healthcare provider with locations in the nation's capital do not have it, I'd say it's not readily available.

R50 Aww, you live in NJ? Your life sucks compared to mine even when we're not at the end of a pandemic. You don't even HAVE a city, you leech your limited culture from Philly and NYC.

Have you heard of anyone experiencing side effects with their arm(s), months after the vaccine?

R51--You could probably get it at any Walgreen's or CVS. They seem to be advertising. My local health system's clinics don't have it yet either but the chain pharmacies certainly do.

R54 But I'm not paranoid or in any rush. I have, however, recently started taking Cosentyx and will speak to my PCP in 2 weeks when I'm there for my first Shingrix vax and this year's flu shot to see when it might be appropriate. Some drugs should not be administered within a certain time frame of taking other drugs.

Feel better OP. This new strain of Covid is no joke.

I'm also in DC, R41 and got my Moderna bivalent booster at CVS with about three days notice on the app. Wild that Kaiser doesn't have it yet. Even the DC.gov district clinics have it. Why wait if they're dragging ass?

R57 Because I don't care enough and think it is highly unlikely that I am in a high-risk group for it. They have the newest Pfizer at KP and I might get it if the doctor thinks I should.

[quote]I had ONE J&J shot last year and no Covid to date. Looks like I made the correct choice of vaccines

Looks like you're lucky.

"The 17 million Americans who received the one-shot Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine are less protected against serious illness and hospitalization than people who got an mRNA vaccine, according to a new CDC study."

Sure, call them and ask them to kindly bring you whatever you need. You can't stay quarantined for days without food and fluids.

[quote]This new strain of Covid is no joke.

Indeed. 48-year-old New Yorker died of Covid-related pneumonia yesterday. Don't know if he was vaccinated. Regardless, the virus is not growing weaker, as some say.

Did Rachel Maddow ever say if she took a booster? She did the one shot J&J as she is afraid of needles. I wonder if she has boosted yet. Maybe even twice now? Her wife is older, IIRC.

[quote] [R23] - I had four Pfizer shots and have had no covid to date either.

Time to remind people (again) that vaccines do not prevent you from being infected by viruses.

Vaccines are not tiny orbiting laser batteries that zap the virus before it can get into your system.

Vaccines teach your body how to fight the virus. You’ll still get infected but you’re vastly less likely to get seriously ill or die.

^ for OP re the American Women's Club.

The husbear and I went to Walmart today for the newest booster. All our previous shots were Moderna. This time we were given Pfiser. The pharmacist said no problem mixing them so we'll see if this booster affects us differently.

How do people who are afraid of needles ever deal with having actual surgery where they cut you open?

I just got my omicron booster an hour ago (fifth shot after the double Pfizer vaccine and two Moderna boosters). I fully expect to be bedridden for most of tomorrow, but hope the side effects clear up by Monday. Will drinking lots of water help?

The pharmacist who gave me the shot told me that covid is rampant in my area, worse than ever (I hope he was exaggerating), but all that is invisible because cases aren't being formally tested and recorded. He was judging from the number of scripts (for Paxlovid) that he's been getting.

All this craziness for a glorified cold? Sure go get your useless injections. Your all too stupid to live, honestly.

An average of 463 Americans have died daily over the past week from this "glorified cold."

Some good news is that the price of disposable masks has gone down for a box of 50 from $22 to $9 at Walmart. You'll find them in the travel dept by the suitcases. Not in the pharmacy.

Feel better, op.

I have read paxlovid helps people recover from the infection.

I was given an antiviral called favipiravir 200. I attempted to look it up but everything comes up in Thai. Too bad I didn't have my Thai writing class before catching covid. Anyone heard of the drug?

Half of Adults Have Heard Little or Nothing About New Covid Boosters, Survey Finds

The latest shots, which target Omicron and its subvariants, could offer protection against a winter surge in cases. But many people are unsure if they’re eligible.

Favipiravir, sold under the brand name Avigan among others,[3] is an antiviral medication used to treat influenza in Japan.[4] It is also being studied to treat a number of other viral infections, including SARS-CoV-2.[4] Like the experimental antiviral drugs T-1105 and T-1106, it is a pyrazinecarboxamide derivative.[5]

It is being developed and manufactured by Toyama Chemical (a subsidiary of Fujifilm) and was approved for medical use in Japan in 2014.[6] In 2016, Fujifilm licensed it to Zhejiang Hisun Pharmaceutical Co.[7] It became a generic drug in 2019.[citation needed]

OP, how did you get the meds? Did a doc come to your hotel room?

R67, of all the asinine posts ever made on DL, seriously, you’re in the top 10. Maybe top 5. And I’ve trolled them all. ALL.

Almost eight thousand people die every from all causes, what percentage is 800? Not much.

so now the cdc is a credible source.

What's your point, Lenny?

Hoping for a speedy recovery.

Far fewer people died from AIDS every day, even at the very height of the epidemic, R76. I assume you think the response to that virus was way out of proportion, as well? Why did we even bother to come up with treatments and prophylactics, right?

R76, did you sleep through the last few years? Where the body bags were piled up because there was no place to put them? Holy shit, we get the dumbest trolls on DL. No use arguing with them, I’m sure they think the earth is flat too.

In Bangkok they have motorbike taxis. I double masked and climbed on the back. He was masked too and wearing a helmet with a shield. The hospital had a separate Covid section. The doctor had so many masks on her I couldn't understand her in any language. I hope the antiviral I got dies something. I did just have a long sleep and woke up feeling less sore all over.

Sorry to hear about your illness, OP.

Get better soon!

Thanks for the good wishes guys.

OP, I just my 5th shot this week. I'm 68 years old and flying to Portugal November with a layover in Dublin. Call me crazy but I'll be wearing either a n95 or kn95 on the plane and in the airports. Yes, airplane air is recirculated but there's at least a 1/2 hour while boarding you're seating in a crowed plane and the air is not circulating. Hope you quickly recover.

OP I was hoping you were visited by a doctor in your hotel room like a scene from a 1930s film. So glamorous. You in your silk robe and all.

That is a nice vision. Sadly the doctor I saw at the hospital was completely useless. And Bangkok is known for it's great medical care. Go figure.

I am pretty sure I would have had an exposure on the flight from LAX to Hong Kong while eating. It is a long flight but I guess I will never know for sure.

I don’t doubt the 5th shot but I doubt it’s actually working as it only just came out

[Quote] Sadly the doctor I saw at the hospital was completely useless.

What did you expect him to do? You have covid

I expected the doctor to give some guidance. I told her I wanted to take antivirals. She then asked me which one I wanted. I asked her what she would recommend and she again asked me which one I wanted. This happened three times. I saw a pricelist on her wall and asked her what was best. She never said. I would have been better off being my own doctor and going to a pharmacy after doing some research. I know nothing about antivirals in Thailand.

"How do people who are afraid of needles ever deal with having actual surgery where they cut you open?"

with a buttload of stress, anxiety and panic. I've been afraid of needles since a teen. I was 50 when I had surgery. I had to have numerous needles. To top it off, I have thick skin (not the emotional kind...I wish but like walrus skin) so my veins are hard to find. Finding a vein is like finding a needle in a haystack. Surgery itself was a breeze since I was knocked out.

[quote] Almost eight thousand people die every from all causes, what percentage is 800? Not much.

Ok Matt-fatso so you have no concern whatsoever about Islamic terrorism, or let’s say crimes committed by illegal aliens. And in fact you don’t care about those things at all.

Because the deaths caused by covid are VASTLY greater in numbers than either of those — hundreds of thousands of times higher in fact. And you’re just shrugging the million dead people off.

So you need to shut up about the dangers of Islamic terrorism and illegal alien crime. Right?

^^^ oh and let’s not forget homicides in nyc. You’re constantly posting about those, Matt-potato face. You’ll need to stop now, because a pandemic vastly more dangerous is no big deal.

OP, this sucks. Take care of yourself and I hope you get better ASAP.

Did you spend a few days in Hong Kong, OP? Any grindr hook ups?

Thank GOD you had 5 injections or you’d be QUINTUPLY dead OP!!!!!

No time spent in Hong Kong this time. In fact I am not sure you can even get in yet. I flew from Hong Kong to Kuala Lumpur and after KL I came to Bangkok to start my class. Doesn't look like I will be learning to read or write this time.

R59 I got the J&J and two Moderna boosters and just went to Walgreens and got the variant booster.

No not a troll whoever is calling me Matt, what the hell is that? I was responding to the old snitty pearl clutcher who said 800 die from COVID everyday. That's a fucking drop in the bucket, fuck you psychos.

R99. Just DIE. We won't notice.

Do simple math, people. It's five inoculations at this point. Five, count your fingers.

Get better, fast, OP.

Gimme your stuff, OP. The end is near.

Believe me. You don't want my stuff. Most came out of second hand shops to begin with.

How are things going, OP? Did you get that soup?

I had the worst night of my life last night. Raging fevers and a throat that feels like I swallowed razor blades. I finally discovered the codeine the doctor gave me which helped. If this is minor illness I am unsure what the major one is like. And I guess I am not enrolling in my Thai writing class which sucks. The gals at the club haven't returned my call. Frankly my throat is so sore I don't think I could eat. Thanks for asking.

Damn, how's your breathing? If you start to feel shortness of breath you'll go back to the hospital I hope? Have you got a thermometer? If you start getting up around 103 probably best to go back to emergency..

Take care, pal and keep checking in. Is there anything good on TV at least?

Thanks for checking in. I don't have a thermometer but trying to figure out the delivery apps for Bangkok. I have reached out to the school for help. If anyone things covid is like a bad cold you need to think again. It's a bad cold times 10. I have never felt so bad. And damn, even too sick to watch mindless TV shows. That's how bad it is. I guess we are looking at a lifetime of mask wearing. I will head to the hospital again if I don't start getting better in the next 24 hours.

Here's the link to the US Embassy in Bangkok. They reference serious illness on this page so I think you qualify for a call and consideration.

You can't go on like this with no food or drink for days. If you don't get into contact with the Women's Club I'd ring the Embassy.

OP I am very sorry to hear this. Do not wait for whatever ladies organization to call - do what R109 tells and call the Embassy asap. They will be able to guide you. I used to have horrendous sore throat due to a health condition when I was young and cannot imagine how you feel. COVID is no joke and most ppl I know are experiencing a few days of horror but they get better and fully recover.

Please keep us posted, we can’t help you there but we can keep you company and send prayers your way. Be well.

Feel better OP. I felt very sick in May when I finally got it. I completely agree about the sore throat.

Sending you love.

Both my partner and I got our omicron specific booster about 4 days ago at RiteAid. Same day scheduled too. So that makes 5 shots so far. Not to mention flu shot and 2 monkypox shots. So OP's story is totally believable. Tired of felling like a pin cushion, but I guess it's better than the alternative. So far never of us has gotten "Mr. Covid". And we get out, went to a Gaga Concert in Dodger Stadium a few weeks ago and I guess the vaccines worked. No Covid.

You weren't on a long-haul flight like OP.

True R113, have not been on a plane for 2 years because of Covid.

The new booster is available in the US for anyone over age 12. I got mine and a flu shot last week.

I mentioned above that I had Covid a month ago, and while it did feel like a bad cold, at its worst (lasted one night) I felt truly as worse as I’ve felt in years—probably since I was a kid. I had uncontrollable chills and a fever. I could not get out of bed and walk three feet for Advil. But I didn’t have breathing or coughing problems and I recovered pretty quickly. And I have no issues with long Covid now (so far). A friend unfortunately got it before the vaccine and had a terrible time with coughing and scarily a bit with breathing. He also has long Covid issues—headaches and stomach aches he did not have before.

I am triple vaxxed and getting my booster soon. I am absolutely sure that if I were not vaxxed, it would have been much worse.

OP here from one of his many naps. I completely screwed up my meds. I was supposed to take 12 pills twice a day but instead took one. How was this possible. So I am way behind on my antivirals. I did call the embassy and they said they would call twice a day to check on me. The school I was to attend arranged a delivery from 7 eleven so I have water, juice and cups of noodles plus some animal products I will not eat. The embassy said they could arrange a caregiving. After I screwed up the meds I think I do need some help so will say yes in the morning . I tried to watch interview with the vampire but fell asleep a few minutes in. In the future if I do a long flight I will skip the meals and fast for 12 hours. That or break the trip in Honolulu and Tokyo. Thanks for the ideas. This really sucks.

You did say you had trouble understanding the instructions from the Dr?

I know but it was clearly written on the prescription in English. I don't know what I was thinking.

I finally got COVID as well. It was inevitable as I work in an elementary school. I thought it was a bad cold at first, then possibly pneumonia because of the cough. Then I went and tested positive for COVID.

I got hives from the antibiotics they gave me for my bronchial symptoms but I think I’m feeling better. I haven’t lost my sense of smell or taste but do feel very drained and lethargic. I was actually craving some Thai lemongrass soup.

R117, a couple of friends had Covid up until last week. There was a lot of coughing and shortness of breath and a lot of sleeping. They were exhausted all the time and this went on for at least a couple of weeks. They’re both testing negative now and still sleep a lot. An hour on, an hour off. Every time they leave the house they have to sleep when they get home. If you can get a pulse oximeter, get one, one friend with pre-existing conditions really had her oxygen level drop. The healthier one was better. Both had every booster available except the new Omnicron. They went on a cruise.

For R55, I think it was, I just had the newest Omnicron vaccine and the flu shot on the same day. One in each arm. My arm was a little sore in the flu shot arm, very sore in the Covid vax arm for several days. They told me at the pharmacy to drink lots of water and move that arm around a lot, which is supposed to lessen the discomfort. I was not able to do either because I had to drive, and my arm was pretty sore for several days. I also had a bruise in the Covid arm around the puncture point. That’s never happened to me before with a vaccine.

I did ask the pharmacist if it was okay to do both Covid and flu shots at the same time, she said it was fine, so I did both. I’d rather get it over with. Other than arm soreness, no other problems.

[quote]I haven’t lost my sense of smell or taste but do feel

They are saying that does not happen now with the new variant. And if you got it in the last month or two it's 90% chance or higher it's the Omnicron version.

R122, R121 here. My friend with pre-existing conditions did lose her sense of smell for about a week or a week and a half. That was probably the newest variant. It was either the last week of August or the first week or so of September ‘22.

I can't decide if the hypochondria coursing through this thread is amusing or just plain sad? Is it mostly eldergays with Aids PTSD? Poz guys overly concerned about their health? The reality is that for most people, even with some underlying conditions, it's just a minor flu, and long COVID is being exaggerated.

My husband and I have been sick for over a week. Neither one of us has Covid. We’re kind of disappointed. Nobody gives you sympathy when you don’t have Covid.

“I’m sick..”

Oh…Covid?”

No. Really bad cold”

“Meh…”

Why does maga want people to be sick?

What is their endgame?

Is it just contrarianism that motivates?

OP, it's a relief to know you're getting some assistance now. I have to say I'm pretty impressed that the US Embassy responded so quickly and efficiently.

Let us know if your health care worker is hot and buff. You did request a gentleman I hope.

I had both Omicron booster and flu in the same arm.

It was sore later that day but only if I poked at it

Fine the next day

I understand people who have a phobia for needles and resist vaccination.

I understand people who are paranoid about vaccines that appeared "out of nowhere" with perceived minimal testing.

But Maga goes further than resist vaccination, maga denies the existence of a public health threat.

Why?

Maga won't wear a mask when required. There's no risk to wearing a face mask.

Maga doesn't observe social distancing. They can't respect the personal space of others even while screeching MYBODYMYCHOICE.

Maga, mostly un or undereducated types threatens and mocks researchers and doctors who devoted their professional lives to the study of virus and epidemics.

What is the end game?

Is the end game reducing the United States to permanent shithole status?

I was first in a line of olds getting my booster this morning at my local drugstore. Looking at the Halloween stuff while waiting out my ten minute post shot period was unexpectedly entertaining.

Moderna booster tapped me out. Low grade fever, pain in arm, swollen lymph nodes and fatigue.

Why do people keep thinking that getting shot will somehow protect you from getting COVID?

They're meant to keep you from dying of COVID

[quote] Maga won't wear a mask when required. There's no risk to wearing a face mask.

Yet someone with HIV can get jail time for even spitting at someone else.

Why on earth would you spit at someone else?

Are you a camel or a llama or another hooved beast?

The previous executive administration deliberately misinformed America citizens re r132.

Including suggesting injecting bleach and eating horse paste as preventive and cures of the infection.

[quote] Why on earth would you spit at someone else? Are you a camel or a llama or another hooved beast?

Who knows but spitting on anyone shouldn't lead to jail time.

Weirdo. Creep. hooved beast.

[quote]Who knows but spitting on anyone shouldn't lead to jail time.

I strongly disagree. It's assault, a particularly disgusting and degrading assault at that.

Covering ICU this week and FYI to whomever needs to hear it: COVID attacks your brain, lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, intestines, immune system, and clogs up your blood vessels like a dirty pipe.

You don’t want it.

Wear a mask. Get Vaccinated.

OP here. I actually had a full night's sleep with no fever. My throat is still sore but I think I am on the mend. I made some instant noodle soap and managed to eat it all. Coved is hell let me tell you but then again I guess all illness sucks.

Kaiser is the Burger King of healthcare.

[quote] I strongly disagree. It's assault, a particularly disgusting and degrading assault at that.

Yes, but the penalty is reserved solely for those with HIV who spit.

Plus, isn't refusing to wear a mask during the deadliest pandemic in a century also a degrading assault?

I got my updated #COVID19 vaccine AND flu shot at DC COVID Clinic (yes, you can get them at the same time). Staying up to date on immunizations is the best way to protect ourselves and our families against the worst outcomes of #COVID19 and the flu.

I'm glad you're on the mend OP. I remember that sore throat. It sucks. Burned like no other.

What happens when we boost with a bivalent vaccine? Our immune memory expands AND is better equipped to handle current variants by updating our repertoire of antibodies! Our immune systems make NEW B-cell responses to Omicron EVEN IF previously immunized with “classic spike.”

[quote]You mean the one that isn't available yet? Kaiser Permanente said they will let us know when they get any.

I went to my medium-sized local Kaiser to get a flu shot and the third Omicron-specific booster. Flu shots were being given away in the lobby, no problem, but the nurse said there is only ONE Kaiser in my area — a 30-minute drive away — that was administering the shot.

Went to Costco and they had plenty of all the shots. In and out (and you don't have to be a member to use the pharmacy).

OP, I hope you feel better. I sympathize with you not being able to take your writing class. That sounds like a dream you've had for a long time.

OP here. I feel like I am back from the ashes. What a ride that was. I can't imagine what it would be like without my five injections. I suppose I will have a lifetime of mask wearing to avoid catching it again. And fasting 12 hours on a long distance flight might be preferred to removing my mask and risking catching covid again. Thanks for all the kind thoughts guys while I was ill. I guess speaking fluent Thai will have to be enough for me. That's okay I guess. I have always wanted to learn to read and write it but not this time around. Thanks again .

[quote]I can't decide if the hypochondria coursing through this thread is amusing or just plain sad? Is it mostly eldergays with Aids PTSD? Poz guys overly concerned about their health? The reality is that for most people, even with some underlying conditions, it's just a minor flu, and long COVID is being exaggerated.

So many "it cant happen to me and if it does its no big deal" Qeens on this thread.

My brother-in-law got long term Covid before the vaccines came out. It dragged on for 6 months. Fucked up his lungs, now he has COPD and he was perfectly healthy before that. He was a a track star in high school and even in middle age he still was very thin, active and healthy before he got covid. I saw him at a wedding a few weeks ago, he looks like he has aged 10 years and dragged through the ringer.

Op, you were forced to take 14 pills per day?

Great news OP. How long have you been told to quarantine?

OP, you have just manned up and gone about your life. Covid is not a big deal anymore except the drama queens.

In the late 2010s, researchers found that increases in Russian disinformation activity on Twitter were correlated with increases in polarising conversations regarding the Black Lives Matter movement.

One such activity included Russian accounts mimicking Black Lives Matter activists, or supported issues central to the Black Lives Matter cause.

Activities on Facebook include purchasing ads to promote Black Lives Matter.

Reporting by investigative journalists uncovered Russian links with Facebook pages promoting Black Lives Matter.

In one instance, Russian activities on social media led to real-life protests on behalf of Black Lives Matter.

Prior to this development, in 2010, a report commissioned for the United States Senate Intelligence Committee, the Russian firm Internet Research Agency was identified as creating social media accounts as part of a complex campaign to suppress the black American vote. However, subsequently, investigative journalists found that the Russian firm sought to promote the issue of Black Lives Matter in order to instigate mistrust in US law enforcement and political institutions

Facts, inflammatory opinions, and outright falsehoods are all components of a successful disinformation playbook.

In their typology of IRA Twitter accounts, Linvill and Warren (2018) separate political users on the left and right from so-called “Fearmongers” whose main purpose is to spread fabricated news stories.

Our results reveal that political IRA users also trafficked in falsehoods alongside factual content and extreme opinions. While previous research has noted this tendency (Howard et al., 2018), we find false content among the ranks of the most widely-discussed tweets, especially on the right. The IRA’s strategy of posting about nonexistent events can only be successful if authentic users engage with and spread such content at scale. This opens the possibility that it may have had some degree of political impact.

OP, do you have any underlying health conditions? Did you take Paxlovid? This Covid stuff scares me.

OP here. I am pretty healthy but my age at 67 plus the extra 10 pounds I carry could have been a negative cofactor for me. Yes, you take a bundle of pills on the antivirals. It was actually 20 pills a day but I screwed up the first couple of days. I am now on 5 pills twice a day. I have a few more days of taking those. I was not offered Paxlovid and am not sure it is even sold in Thailand. I am feeling much better and happy the sore throat and feverish are gone. It all really sucked.

The doctor said nothing about a quarantine. I used the CDC calculator and it said I was good to go out on the 6th while wearing a mask. I will continue to avoid contact with people for a few more days. Bangkok offers a ton of outdoor food choices and I feel confident outdoors. Oh, and 7 eleven delivers here. And tell the guy to knock and drop it at my door so he doesn't have an exposure.

What's local TV like?, OP? Any Thai soaps? Variety shows?

[quote]I am pretty healthy but my age at 67 plus the extra 10 pounds I carry could have been a negative cofactor for me.

No, obesity is a risk factor but an extra 10 pounds isn't going to make any difference.

This is just a mystifying disease. I know a straight couple, he's a marathon runner, thin as a rail, she's probably 40 pounds overweight and sedentary. He had a hell of a time with covid and is still not able to run, five months later. She got it and had no symptoms whatsoever.

Who knew there are 7-11s in Thailand?

I did! I watch videos about the chain on youtube. The 7/11 in Asia are superior than anything we have here.

An interesting video about the history of 7/11 in Japan revealed Japanese investors purchased the rights to operate the chain in Japan by grifters who only sold them the brandname for an obscene amount of money. The rights to operate 7/11 equipment and even the instructions how to use the equipment were sold separately and piece by piece very expensively.

Ultimately, Japanese investors figured out how to operate the chain so successfully that when the American chain experienced an economic downturn, they were bailed out by their Japanese investors.

How are you doing now OP? I hope you're feeling better.

OP is just fine, Covid is just a regular disease we have to deal with now, no big deal. Only drama queens or nervous nellies are still screaming about Covid like the sky is falling.

⚡️Ukraine's military destroys Russian troops, equipment in the south.

Ukraine's Operational Command "South" reported that Ukrainian forces killed 31🇷🇺 troops and destroyed more than 40 pieces of equipment including 8 tanks, 26 armored vehicles, and a Msta-B howitzer.

Sending Covid your way r163. Fingers crossed you succumb.

Cases down to 300 per day , looks like it's almost gone, for now. It's been a steady drop. Move on with life.

Not sure if this is best question for this thread so don’t be surprised to se sit in another thread if it goes unanswered.

They say you can get both shots at the same time, flu and the new improved Covid shot, but should you? Are there extra risks to that? Don’t depend on untrained staff at Walgreens to tell you. Some of them are doing shots all out in the open which is disgusting to me and possibly a hills violation.

I just wonder about two shots at once. Both efficacy and possible unpleasant outcomes.

*Hippa

I already corrected that twice smh

OP is a mama drama queen. Looking for attention.

[quote]Cases down to 300 per day ...

Read again, R166. That's deaths, not cases.

Maga can't read or be reasoned with.

R166 is too dumb to read.

[quote]And fasting 12 hours on a long distance flight might be preferred to removing my mask and risking catching covid again.

OP, just hold your breath. Pull your mask down and shove a bite of food in. Then put the mask back up and chew. Repeat. You probably need some food after what you've been through. Unless you can sleep the whole way.

OP, Thanks for the info. Good luck and good health for you.

300 deaths a day in a country of over 300 million, who gives a flying fuck!

Which country, bore-ass?

Op here. I woke up feeling much better. No fever and no sore throat. I do have a minor dry cough and am feeling very tired. I had Thai TV on earlier and it is full of very white Sino Thai actors. Nothing has changed here. The 7 Eleven revolution is amazing. On one hand it is nice having a clean air conditioned store to shop in but some speculate they are what is behind Thailand's recent entry into the world of obesity. I do wonder what my outcome would have been without my five injections. I do look forward to a day where the vaccine completely prevents illness.

How do you know it wasn’t Mrs Covid? She reminds me ofAlex from Fatal Attraction: yes you’ve had 5 shots but I will NOT be ignored!

OP sounds like a raving attention-seeking hypochondriac. Why else would she go on and on and on about her cold? What a lunatic!

I live in the Mid-Atlantic, and I walked into Sam's Club on September 12 without an appointment and received my fifth Moderna vaccine.

Glad you’re doing better, OP.

OP - the world does not revolve around you and we will do fine without you. We don’t want or need to know your daily health updates. You’re an asshole.

It is great to not have to wear a mask even when getting vaccinated now as I have done when getting not only the Covid booster, but Monkeypox too.

R181, why are you even on this thread? Geez you don’t want daily updates but you proactively click and read a thread that has… daily updates! And then post!

Glad you're OK, OP, and thanks for posting detailed symptoms. I'm 62, overweight, and until a few days ago, a heavy smoker. Finally quit because I'll be having surgery in a few weeks. Reading your posts reminds me that I'm at high risk of getting very sick from COVID, despite being 5X vaxxed, and it's making me not want to go buy a pack, and just keep chewing the nicotine gum, so thanks. I mean khob khun khrup!!

Was in Bangkok 12 years ago. Strangely, what stands out to me most is eating fried chicken livers on skewers from a street vendor. I couldn't stop, and I generally hate liver! (Note: was normal weight back then)

R164. Good luck with the quit. I was a smoker myself once and do wonder how I would have handled this illness if I were still smoking. And now all Thai hotels are nonsmoking so it would have meant venturing out in the rain in a feverish dream for a smoke. What an image. Thailand was where I first started at age 14. I was the shame of the 7rh Day Adventist missionary community. Lol. Listen find yourself a good online support group. I was on a quit group at about.com. Not sure if they are still have a forum but there must be one somewhere. Having the support even online really helped.

OP - Thanks for keeping us updated. I live alone and don’t have friends around and my family is deceased (one member only who lives across the globe). So I relate to being ill without having a support system around me.

I wish you well and don’t listen to the trolls. Keep up with the updates, sending love and hugs your way.

R184 Good luck and glad you quit. Took me several years but I finally quit (Chantix) and it was life changing. Wish you all the best with the surgery - you should start your own thread and keep us updated during your recovery. 🤗

I think it'll find us all in the end.

I still haven't knowingly had it. I've had three vaccines so far (getting my fourth soon). I haven't stopped going out and I don't wear masks or distance in public anymore (no one else is) and yet still haven't had it. Yet. I fully expect to get it at some point, though.

Hope you feel better soon, OP.

Well, R188, yes, Obviously anyone can get, but it's good to see you aren't letting it control your life, unlike some of the chicken shits on here. Time to move on!

Taking Paxlovid now - tested pos last Sunday. It does help with the symptoms almost immediately but leaves a horrible, nasty taste in your mouth, like chewing on the worst pill you can imagine. Not sure about the blowback effects - has anyone experienced them? How severe?

Ivermectin works for some people.

Drink bleach. Lots of it.

ivermectin, vit D and zinc are all you need to fight off this COLD BUG. You believe in science, so look at the science to show that this combo has done wanders. It's like a magic bullet for your immune system.

I'm on weekend PrEP. Since that works gangbusters against viruses, I'm hoping it will protect me from covid. So far so good, knock on wood.

Stench of horse paste eating magats in the air.

Garbage.

You gays and or overeducated people are so quick to tell people to follow the science. Well the science on a ivermectin+vitamin D+ zinc regiment tells me that it's very effective in warding off severe disease from the china virus.

Magat

^The usual overeducated smug gay with zero common sense in the real world. Enjoy your vax-indused illnesses over the next 5-10 years.

Magat filth. Rubbish.

Op, good to hear you are healing.

Yeah, lots of skipped posts here. The MAGATs infest everywhere. Luckily they’re really easy to spot.

So much for gay libs being tolerant of other opinions. It figures. Labeling people magats or deplorables is not the means to constructive dialogue. You people are the true deplorables.

Vexed-induced illnesses? Enjoy the ventilator, bitch.

There are still Covid deniers out there? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

The number of deaths due to COVID-19 increased for all ages from April to July, but rose at a faster rate for older adults and stayed high through August, according to a report published Oct. 6 by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Trolls aren't covid deniers, they are trying to get people sick.

five injections? You bravo. Be careful with Thrombosis

[quote]Trolls aren't covid deniers, they are trying to get people sick.

Perhaps they're suffering from covid-induced psychosis.

You nervous nellies won't be satisfied until the CDC recommends getting vaxxed once a week. And even these yous will complain that it's not enough. Thanks but no thanks. My natural immunity and vitamin D and zinc will protect me from COVID, which is now a stupid cold anyways, so I don't understand all the damn histeria.

trolls want you sick or dying of covid

And they want this thread shut down.

"histeria".

Why not head to Canada for asylum?

A video purports to show Russian troops surrendering their armored personnel carrier to Ukrainian in exchange for a large cash reward.

[quote]Well the science on a ivermectin+vitamin D+ zinc regiment tells me

Oh, dear. The word you want is regimen.

Five injections or five infections. Only fucking idiots would choose the latter. This thread is filled with fucking idiots. The best part is that they fully embrace their idiocy and proclaim it throughout the land.

You know that hurricane that has now killed over 130 people? Didn't listen when told to get a vaccine. Didn't listen when told to get out of the way of a hurricane. Can't cure stupid.

Average excess death rates in Florida and Ohio were 76% higher among Republicans than Democrats between March 2020 and December 2021.

The partisan gap in the deaths widened between April and December 2021, after all adults became eligible for Covid vaccines. Excess death rates in Florida and Ohio were 153% higher among Republicans than Democrats during that time.

Things have worked out nicely for them, r216

With 4 vaccination shots I caught COVID in July. Remarkably mild symptoms - one bad day with fever, congestion and fuzziness, then perfectly normal.

And of course I know several vaccinated people who had it much worse.

Has there been any discussion in the news about the viral load you infection and the severity of symptoms?

*viral load you receive at infection

What's happened this week? Covid cases in France & Germany (500K cases) up 25%, Italy & Austria 33%, UK 40%, Sweden 124%, Singapore up 66%, >15 countries in Africa and Latin America up >300%. Reff in Australia 0.96; in Vic, WA, Qld & Tas it's 0.99. Next wave in Oz is inevitable

I'm coming to find you next OP!

A new Covid-19 wave appears to be brewing in Europe as cooler weather arrives, with public health experts warning that vaccine fatigue and confusion over types of shots available will likely limit booster uptake.

Omicron subvariants BA.4/5 that dominated this summer are still behind the majority of infections, but newer Omicron subvariants are gaining ground. Hundreds of new forms of Omicron are being tracked by scientists, World Health Organization (WHO) officials said this week.

Cases in the European Union reached 1.5 million last week, up 8% from the prior week, despite a dramatic fall in testing. In the week ending October 4, Covid-19 hospital admissions with symptoms jumped nearly 32% in Italy, while intensive care admissions rose about 21%, compared to the week before.

Over the same week, Covid hospitalizations in Britain saw a 45% increase versus the week earlier.

If every American 50 and above with Covid received a course of either Paxlovid or a treatment known as monoclonal antibodies, daily deaths might fall to about 50 per day." Paxlovid is free. If you know someone in this bracket, make sure they get it:

Paxlovid helps patients recover from severe illness.

Paxlovid doesn't prevent infection.

Paxlovid is not a cure, there are no cures for the infection yet.

Vaccines help prevent injury and death from the infection.

Vaccines do not provide immunity from the infection.

Previous exposure to the infection doesn't provide immunity, people report being infected multiple times.

Covid is being identified as an infection that harms the vascular system.

Blood clots and strokes!

Severe Covid infections ‘can harm key brain functions’, study finds

OP, have you noticed any brain damage since your Covid infection? Asking for a friend.

Schrödinger's COVID: a pandemic that is simultaneously over thanks to hybrid immunity (such that mitigation is unnecessary) and running so rampant that everyone being infected repeatedly is inevitable (such that mitigation is impossible).

"A 35-year-old acquaintance drops dead from a hemorrhagic stroke. A friend in her 40s, and another in his 70s, experience recurrent spells of extreme dizziness, their hearts pounding in their chests when they stand. A 21-year-old student with no prior medical history is admitted to the ICU with heart failure, while a 48-year-old avid tennis player, previously healthy, suddenly suffers a heart attack. A relative is diagnosed with pericarditis, an inflammation of the protective sac surrounding the heart.

I can’t confirm the exact etiology of all these cases. But every one of the people I mentioned had a history of COVID either days or months beforehand–and all of them experienced only mild cases of infection at the time."

A 30 yo who recently had a sinus infection died suddenly. Her family offered no cause of death. Procovid activists say the vaccine is responsible.

I will never understand the animosity over COVID booster shots and vaccines in general. Vaccines may have alleviated more human suffering than any other invention. So to all those denigrating science and medicine please get a life. And I mean that literally

[quote]confusion over types of shots available will likely limit booster uptake.

How stupid do you have to be to not understand the very simple rules about these vaccinations?

Covid doomster Anthony Fauci warns a NEW dangerous variant could surge this winter - despite virus rates tumbling

R233, cases are already skyrocketing again across Europe. That always happens before it hits the US. New York cases are also on the rise. That always happens before it hits the rest of the US. You seem to know nothing so you should probably just quit opening your stupid yap.

R233, you say that like you can hardly wait. Get back under the bed now.

OP here. My, my this thread has certainly turned into a hatefest. How did that happen? For those who are interested I continue to bounce back but still not up to my original self. Still have the dry cough and feel very very tired. I haven't had a fever in a few days so it appears i can venture out a bit more. You guys be nice to each other. All this fighting is annoying.

[quote]R18 I got my fifth shot yesterday. Why are you doubting OP?

#MeToo

It’s interesting, I never have a blink of a physical reaction to any of them (Pfizer or Moderna)

I had the fifth shot this week. No ill effects.

A couple of the earlier boosters laid me out.

Just like COVID lays some people out and others have mild or no symptoms, it's odd how differently people's bodies react to the vaccine itself.

And, not to tempt fate, but I haven't contracted it (yet), while I have friends on the same vaccine regimen who have gotten it and gotten sick. There is so much we don't know about COVID.

OP - if you diddle your twat anywhere from 4 to 6 times a day, you’ll feel better. Trust me.

How are you doing, OP? Will you be able to join your Thai writing course after sll?

OP here. It is now the middle of the night and I just woke up. I am still suffering from tiredness but feel so much better. The Thai class is history. It was only an intensive 3 week class so I already missed a third of it. I can try it again in January if I want to come back to Bangkok. You should see all the mask wearing here. Rarely do I see a Thai without a mask on. So different from the resistance to wearing them in the USA.

With the new wave of coronavirus infections already on its way, the Swiss government has recommended that masks be worn in crowded indoor venues, including on public transport and in stores — places and situations that are most conducive to contamination.

“Along with vaccination, individual behaviour is also important to protect yourself and others”, the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) said in a statement on Thursday.

While a mask mandate is not expected to be implemented, “individual responsibility is gaining in importance”,

OP, Asians have always loved masks, it's practically an obsession. I actually plan to visit Thailand early next year, but definitely will not be wearing a mask!

I hope R243 is murdered in a back alley in Thailand for being an asshole. Maybe one of the ladyboys he likes will do it.

Didn't you get the memo, R244, masks are pretty much over with, except for paranoid freaks and I guess Asians.

COVID deaths decreasing in NYC! But shelter in place anyway.

Wearing a mask is the right thing to do. I don't understand why people think wong of it.

wrong

Covidtracker.com

Hey morons, what did the numbers show early last Fall? How'd that turn out?

The pandemic is over. Some of you seem to have an ulterior motive in continuing to advocate for pointless social distancing and masks, and that is you're socially awkward/antisocial and you don't want to show your hideous faces to the world. Well, the rest of is want to live a quality life and interact with others. I'm sorry you're introverted and fugly, but stop ruining it for the rest of us!

I really can't believe people like you still exist, R251.

ahahahahh!! love it!! I'm guessing you're heading up to your 6th booster, right??

"I'm sorry you're introverted and fugly, but stop ruining it for the rest of us!"

Why should the loud and obnoxious get a free ride.

We're coming for you, bitch.

And we'll keep coming for you.

After all, we're introverted and fugly. We love fucking with loud obnoxious people

This shit continues as people are indoors again. The numbers are rising in Europe now, so it's coming. Fuck the dip sticks who think it's over, they are the reason it's not.

I got Covid about sept 1. It wasn't severe at all. I had the J&J vaccine and two Moderna boosters. I had an occasional cough, but no breathing problems. I had a slight fever but only 1oo one time and then 99. I got diarrhea which has been reported with those who had been vaccinated. Imodium stopped that. My dr gave me Paxlovid and after the 5 days, the test was only slightly pink. A few days later I again felt feverish and was back at 99. I retested and it was bright pink. I rebounded. I had about 24 hours where I stuffed up and sneezed a lot. After about 4 days I tested negative and it was over. I should now have natural immunity until the virus mutates significantly. I saw a recommendation to take the new booster if you have had the virus after about 2 months, which I will do. Over all it was no worse than a bad cold or mild flu.

You may be wearing your mask if you use public transportation in Bangkok. I saw a western couple denied boarding on a public ferry today for refusing to wear one.

OP - Hope you are recovering and feeling better. I am sorry to hear you were not able to get the lessons as planned. I travel a lot and besides all vaccines I keep wearing a mask during travel. Not just for COVID but I found out I never got the flu or got sick after flying since I’ve been wearing, but that’s just me.

Wishes for a speed recovery, keep us posted OP. Sending you love.

[quote]Asians have always loved masks, it's practically an obsession.

Using yesterday's Covid-19 dashboard, 1 in 315 Americans died of Covid. 1 in 2,758 people in Japan died of covid.

They wear masks because they value their lives and the lives of their fellow citizens.

^It’s worth noting that only 3.6% of Japanese have a BMI over 30, which is the international standard for obesity, whereas 32% percent of Americans do.

R247 = Donna Chang

Firstly, what kind of vaccine did people in Thailand get? Shitty vaccine from China that's supposedly only 50% good? you know they are lying about the 50%, it's probably only 20%. Like how the Russians said theirs were very good but turns out they lied about the %. These cunts are useless and therefore they gotta steal tech from great countries in Europe and USA. they are fucking thieves, don't trust the Chinese or Russians.

[R256] You and I had the same experience. I’ve had pneumonia and this was very mild compared to that. My temperature didn’t get above 99. The worst was the initial muscle aches and cough. By now everyone I know has had it and I’m kind of relieved to have gotten it over with.

R270. And Mr. Covid loves a big bitch with underlying health conditions

[quote]It’s worth noting that only 3.6% of Japanese have a BMI over 30, which is the international standard for obesity, whereas 32% percent of Americans do.

It's also worth noting that over 25% of Japan's population is 65+, which is the biggest risk factor for Covid deaths, while just 15% of Americans are 65 and older.

^You’re right, and 41% of Americans over 60 are obese.

Has OP croaked yet?

Florida's top doctor says men aged 18-39 should NOT get a COVID vaccine because it 'raises risk of cardiac death by 84%': Denmark and Norway have BANNED the shot for non-seniors

Flori-duh

Three vaccines for the prevention of COVID-⁠19 are currently authorised for use in Switzerland and Liechtenstein.

According to the vaccination recommendation of the FOPH/NITAG vaccination recommendation, to have full vaccine protection, two doses of the Moderna vaccine (Spikevax®) or Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (Comirnaty®) are required, or one dose following a documented recent SARS-⁠CoV-⁠2 infection. For Johnson & Johnson (Covid-⁠19 Vaccine Janssen®), a single dose of vaccine is required to be deemed fully vaccinated.

Those who are fully vaccinated against COVID-⁠19, but who have not yet had a booster vaccination are still deemed to be fully vaccinated.

The efficacy of the vaccines available in Switzerland is very high.

They provide effective protection against symptomatic infection, in particular severe forms of the disease, and they reduce the risk of transmission.

However, this does not mean that those who are fully vaccinated (with or without a booster vaccination) cannot become infected, as no vaccine provides 100% protection

Reports of suspected adverse reactions to COVID-19 vaccines in Switzerland – update 27

15,781 reports of suspected adverse reactions evaluated – the overall positive benefit-risk ratio of the vaccines remains

Up to 24 August 2022, Swissmedic evaluated 15,781 reports on suspected adverse drug reactions (ADRs).

9,775 (61.9 %) were reported to Swissmedic as “not serious”, while 6,006 suspected cases (38.1%) were classified as «serious».1 The majority of the reports involved more than one reaction. In total, 49, 395 reactions were reported, corresponding to an average of 3.13 reactions per report.

[quote]Florida's top doctor says men aged 18-39 should NOT get a COVID vaccine because it 'raises risk of cardiac death by 84%

"Florida's top doctor" is a certified idiot.

[quote]Denmark and Norway have BANNED the shot for non-seniors

Try getting your news from someplace other than your great aunt's Facebook feed.

Russian bot spreading covid misinformation, they are trying to get people killed

The FL surgeon general is a brave guy to speak the truth. I'm in that age range, and I don't want no heart attack, so I'm not getting the booster. LOL at all the stupid low-information sheeple running to get there shots. Honestly, how stupid can they be?!?!

Where's your link to your sources?

That is what I thought.

OP here and I didn't kick the bucket. I am pretty much back to normal and hope I will not have to repeat that experience again.

OP are you back to the US? Hope you’re well.

OP here. No to the return to the USA. I am on a journey which I hope lasts a year. Next stop is Delhi in a few weeks. I hope I was gotten covid out of the way for the season.

[quote] I have had five injections

Until the last two years a 𝑣𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑒 gave immunity.

It must be fun to fuck with the language. It would have saved me years of hard work if I could have pulled that trick.

[quote]Until the last two years a 𝑣𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑒 gave immunity.

Someone should have alerted you, Jonas, that your own flu vaccine hasn't guaranteed immunity since it was introduced to the public in 1945.

[quote]Until the last two years a 𝑣𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑒 gave immunity.

Are people truly this stupid or is it just trolling?

And, OP, why the hell would you choose to go on a year long journey to third world countries while the pandemic is still going, especially in third world countries? Of course you're going to get it again.

From the "people are scum" files:

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 40% of Americans were untruthful about whether they had the virus or were ignoring safety precautions.

Folks ignored quarantine rules, told someone they were about to see that they had been taking more precautions than they actually were, and didn't mention they might or did have COVID-19 when they entered a doctor's office. They were also untruthful about vaccination status, claiming they were vaccinated when they weren't or that they were unvaccinated when they had taken the jab.

I just tested positive for the second time in NYC. Have cold symptoms.

Be careful out there!

Because I could not stop for Covid,

He kindly stopped for me

Its obvious people lied about their vaccination status by how loudly they whined about wearing a face mask and deliberate flouting of social distancing recommendations.

One expert explained at home tests can't accurately test for the new variants.

We've all known that for about six months, R287. False negatives are the problem. If it shows positive, you've still got it even on the home tests.

Hi dear friends. I can’t believe I’m writing what I’m about to write. After being so careful and miraculously avoiding it for over 2.5 years, I came down with a bad case of Covid

I’m so sorry to everyone who bought tickets and was coming to see me in their town.

I have gone from feeling bad, to worse, to terrible. I’ve lost my voice. I am a bit delirious from fever, so in advance I apologize if this note isn’t too coherent

Feeling extremely jittery and worried about recent pandemic developments. New immune evasive variants. No safety measures. Denial. Germany under duress. Europe rising. Data being withdrawn. We have lost control of the pandemic. Once again. We are flying blind.

Ringo Starr just recovered from Covid, he's 82.

I'll be getting mine in the next couple of days but I'm very skeptical it will make any difference

Call me when they bring out the refrigerator trucks again.

Sorry 289, you can post all the shit you want to fit your narrative, but we AREN'T going back to lockdowns, sweetie.

I hope you and all your genetically linked relatives die, R294. The human race needs a evolutionary stupidity purge and you're just the place to start.

Anyone know if Regina Spektor, who tweeted about having a bad time with Covid, was vaccinated? She tells everyone to take their vitamins in the replies, so I'm guessing the answer is no.

Dr Elisa Perego is not a medical doctor, not by a long shot: “Elisa Perego is an Honorary Research Associate at University College London, UK and most of her work focuses on archaeology, social marginality, inequality and social change in the late prehistoric and early Roman central Mediterranean. Most of her recent research focuses on health and disability in relation to Long COVID and COVID-19.”

Unless you’re posting from mainland China, you haven’t actually undergone a Covid “lockdown”. Fucking whiny titty-baby language.

The ambulance took my wife away this afternoon, she has been vomiting for the past 24 hrs and has had body aches. I couldn’t get her blood sugar under control, despite my many attempts. Turns out, she has Covid. The doctors told me this new variant is really bad.

Regina Spektor is vaccinated.

R298, did that person have any medical issues?

seriously fuck this China virus! You know they fucking released it from that lab! or it came from eating all those disgusting animals!

It seems wifey is diabetic because he attempted to get his wife's blood sugar controlled before calling EMS.

Covid loves underlying conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure and asthma. LOVES.

Obesity is an underlying health condition.

My neighbor got covid on a trip, but apparently a very mild case (she's had her shots incl. boosters) that gave her one very rough night—she was up and about the next day. Various colleagues are out, though, and what's frustrating is that no one seems to be keeping or publishing data, so you can't tell exactly what's going on. Keeping my mask on and requesting it of other people, though not everyone is carrying a mask anymore—and then they're out sick, miss meetings and classes, etc.

Obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure and asthma.

This sounds like most Americans.

Covid is made for the US

The data is there but it is not front page news.

There is an uptick of infection and one of the variants includes disgusting gastrointestinal symptoms from both ends of the body.

It's definitely on the upswing again in NYC. The current case I have is milder than when I had it in May 2022. Definitely more of a cold - potentially because I had the omicron booster a few weeks ago. Was quite sick in May.

Uncontrolled puking and diarrhea= potential organ failure

[quote] no one seems to be keeping or publishing data, so you can't tell exactly what's going on

Don't worry Pony Soldier. For the second year in a row Joe declared the pandemic is over.

Another wave of COVID-19 infections may have begun in Europe as cases begin to tick up across the region.

"Although we are not where we were one year ago, it is clear that the COVID-19 pandemic is still not over," WHO's Europe director, Hans Kluge, and ECDC's director, Andrea Ammon, said in a joint statement.

Which is it, magat r307.

Over or still ongoing?

Maga tells you covid doesn't exist, it is just a flu.

Then maga tells you Governor Cuomo killed grandma and grandpa.

When you ask maga what is meant by this, they tell you Cuomo covered up nursing home deaths from covid.

How can a governor cover up deaths from an infection that doesn't exist?

14 people in my department called out yesterday saying they have the runs. I warned them not to eat Ginny in Billing’s tuna montezuma at the latest office potluck. It’s not covid. Ginny poisoned them.

Took my booster yesterday. Body aches since afternoon plus the injection soreness

Really R312? and your point is?

Do NOT get the vaccine!

Looks like it's waning, stop the madness and panic. Lowest since April and decreasing.

While long COVID’s impact on people is still being critically studied, new research found that the virus may increase the risk of developing memory problems and even Alzheimer’s in the year after initial infection.

“It’s really sobering,” says epidemiologist and researcher on the study Ziyad Al-Aly in an interview with WBUR. “COVID-19 is really not as benign as some people think it is.”

OP, Would you consider keeping your threads going as you travel the world? I'd be interested to learn about your time in India and probably the stop after that as well.

Plus, don't you owe us? Didn't DL save your life?

OP here. Yes, DL did come to my aid when needed. You guys even surprised me with all your kindness and tips. It is funny about Thailand. In many ways it is the best place to be in regards to Covid. 99 per cent of the locals wear a mask even when walking on the sidewalk. They did a better job managing the disease when it was still terrible to catch it. There was no resistance to mask wearing and taking the vaccine. I wish I had been here for the dark days of Covid. It was never made a political issue like in the USA. In many ways the USA is the ultimate shit hole.

Thais are obviously paranoid Asian sheep. Wearing a mask, even while walking outdoors is beyond ridiculous!

I just got the booster AND I wear a mask outdoors, an N95 to be exact. You can never be too careful! Omicron variants are incredibly contagious, and studies have shown that airborne transmission outdoors is definitely possible.

I finally got Covid after being extremely careful for two and half years last month, likely from the supermarket. I had one day where I felt like total 💩, but after that I recovered, though it took over a week before most of the symptoms went away. The only really annoying part is I have long Covid in the form of muscle weakness in my knees and have needed to wear a knee support sleeve for the last several weeks, since it has become hard to bend and walk long distances without it. Not fun.

Well R319, I haven't worn a mask once since the mandate was lifted locally back in March, not even when getting vaccinated or at the airport. Have never had Covid and don't give a second thought!

R322 there’s still time Mary 😈

They don't make you wear masks at the hospital but we wear them anyway.

But shelter in place you nervous Nellies, the flu is gonna be rough they say, but I think they said that last year and it wasn't.

[quote]They don't make you wear masks at the hospital but we wear them anyway.

The hospitals and other medical facilities in my city all still require masks.

I'm torn as to whether to get the booster because of the heart risks. I'm 59, but since I look 23, one could make an argument that a booster would increase my risk of cardiac issues.

I was doubly vaxxed and boosted and still caught COVID after a visit to the dentist's in July. I took Paxlovid right away (which gives you a terrible taste in your mouth) and wasn't any sicker than with a cold though a sore throat and cough dragged on for a month.

How many pills were you taking for covid, r327? I did read about the terrible aftertaste that medicine leaves behind.

You have to take 3 a day - I think, funny I can't exactly recall. The treatment last 5 days. Paxlovid is free of charge. After you stop taking it, the bad taste in your mouth goes away. Didn't notice any other side effects.

I don't think you can blame it on the dentist, COVID spreads very easily. Could it have been that asshole you had your tongue inserted?

The Covid restriction, mask lovers would like us to still be living like it's 2020 and are practically giddy when they hear about the slightest possibility of a surge this winter.

I never wear a mask.

Long Covid will cost the world a lot of money.

Not only are long Covid symptoms being experienced by a huge number of people, but the condition also affects younger people who will suffer from the condition through several decades of life – including later years when other illnesses could compound the illness. It’s tough to estimate the worldwide cost long Covid will have. But in the US alone, the condition will cost the economy about $2.6tn, according to Harvard researchers – about a tenth of the annual US GDP.

I think I have COVID. Paging Elderlez- what are you seeing out there?! I woke up with body/muscle aches that developed as the morning went on, a fever (99.9 - normal is 97.8). I have been feeling a little stiff all week, but I work out every day. I cycled and swam yesterday so at first I thought I was just sore. I had a massage on Wed so I shouldn't be that sore. Then it got much worse where I didn't want to move, than the feeling of chills coming on.

I took an Oxycodone 30 minutes ago from when I had my wisdom teeth taken out. 20 minutes ago I would not have been able to move, but I feel much better. I am starving right now as well. I don't have sore throat or cough, but did have a runny nose last night and this morning, but runny noses aren't uncommon for me due to allergies. Covid or the flu? I can't leave my place right now to get a test. This is my first potential go around w/ Covid. I might have had the the OG version in Dec 19/Jan 2020, but I'll never know for sure.

Did anyone else have muscle aches - like very tight legs especially? This is how I usually feel when I have had the flu in the past.

My on case of covid started the way you described. I felt a little off and then woke up one morning to a very sore lower back and leg pain. It went downhill from there. Get a covid test and if positive go on antivirals. That's the solution.

Might just be the flu:

“An early increase in seasonal flu activity has been reported in most of the United States, with the nation’s southeast and south-central areas reporting the highest levels of flu, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than a thousand patients have been hospitalized with flu this week, the agency said.”

I got my flu shot last week

[quote]An early increase in seasonal flu activity has been reported in most of the United States, with the nation’s southeast and south-central areas reporting the highest levels of flu...

That's strange, isn't it? Doesn't the flu usually hit the colder areas first? Hm, wonder what the difference is this year? Oh, that's right, the smart people in the northern half of the country, minus the morons in most of the Plains states, aren't antivaxxers. So, no masks and no flu vaccines for any of them! I hope the combination of Covid and flu sweeping across the Repug states actually affects the election. Die in ignorance, you stupid fuckers.

When I had COVID in may, my muscle ache was in the neck, shoulder area

Feel better r334

I'm 41, vaxxed and in good shape. Do you think antivirals are really necessary? Hopefully I'll be able to walk the 2 blocks to Walgreens tomorrow so I can get the test.

Well, only you can decide if you need antivirals I guess. I took them in order to make the illnesses a little easier to handle. I fucked up the dosage the first two days so really don't know if they helped or not.

I took them took coz I still had the fever after 4 days, it was 104 the first day, went down after I took Advil but it was in and off etc.

Thanks all - I'll see how things are tomorrow.

Dont get your panties all in a bunch, Covid is not a big deal anymore.

When my omicron symptoms were terrible in May, the paxlovid really helped me and I didn’t have any rebound covid.

Just got over covid again (tested positive last week) and it was much more mild, not bad at all - maybe because I had the omicron booster.

Elephant in this room: severity for those with HIV and not.

[quote]Elephant in this room: severity for those with HIV and not.

People with HIV who have moderate immune suppression appear to be at greater risk of severe COVID-19 "breakthrough" infection after vaccination, according to a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

These findings suggest that this group should be considered for additional vaccine dosages and other risk-reduction measures.

US average of 332 Covid deaths and, 3248 hospitalizations a day last month

R347, maybe you should, oh, I don't know, stop getting covid? Do you like playing Russian roulette with long Covid? Because the more times you are infected, the higher your chances of getting it.

Lol your tone r351. My god Mary! Hiss!!!!!

Point taken, I hear you, but it’s difficult when you live alone and need social interaction. I got covid both times from friends. I never go out to big parties or to bars - I’m way too introverted for that. But I do need to stay in touch with people and go to restaurants occasionally for dinner. If that is playing “Russian roulette,” then so be it. Covid isn’t going anywhere. This is our new reality. I stayed on lockdown in NYC for 2020 and most of 2021 and things got very, very dark mental health wise. I’ve been vaccinated with Moderna and boosted twice and I wear a mask indoors in stores and on public transit, but I can’t totally isolate myself again. If you are able to do that - more power to you.

[quote]I’ve been vaccinated with Moderna and boosted twice and I wear a mask indoors in stores and on public transit, but I can’t totally isolate myself again.

Seems like there's a lot of ground between "total isolation" and eating indoors at restaurants.

I think we have heard these dire warnings before and it didn't pan out, you nervous Nellie's need an edible. They really need to STFU unless they are 100% sure.

I have had covid symptoms since the beginning of Sept. and thought I had long covid about a week ago but It seems to be getting better. There was an article in the Atlantic called medium Covid. The author of the article is a doctor I believe if memory serves, and he said most of the long covid is lasting about 12 weeks but people are mostly recovering. My recovery is very slow but it is getting slowly better. I doubt it will last a lifetime.

"Covid deaths" (usually) means they had it in their system at death, not that it lead to their death in itself.

R356, go google "excess deaths", moron. I mean, would you stupid trolls at least get some new lines? Be creative. Maybe start saying things like, "The vaccine gives you a tail!" Or, "Nobody dies OF Covid or WITH Covid...they just die AROUND Covid." I mean, I know your minds are tiny but maybe there are a few sparks of creativity in there if you all rub your pointed heads together.

You can run but you can't hide from COVID!

You can run but you can't hide from COVID!

You can run but you can't hide from COVID!

You can run but you can't hide from COVID!

You can run but you can't hide from COVID!

Boston University CREATES a new Covid strain that has an 80% kill rate — echoing dangerous experiments feared to have started pandemic

US researchers have developed a new lethal Covid strain in a laboratory – echoing the type of experiments many fear started the pandemic.

The mutant variant — which is a hybrid of Omicron and the original Wuhan virus — killed 80 percent of mice infected with it at Boston University.

When a similar group of rodents were exposed to the standard Omicron strain, however, they all survived and only experienced 'mild' symptoms.

The scientists also infected human cells with the hybrid variant and found it was five times more infectious than Omicron. This suggests the man-made virus might be the most contagious form yet.

It will no doubt surprise many Americans that such experiments continue to go on in the US despite concerns similar studies may have led to the global Covid outbreak.

Covid first began spreading from a wet market in Wuhan, China, about eight miles from a similar high-security virology laboratory that manipulated bat coronaviruses.

Chinese scientists were found to have wiped crucial databases and stifled independent investigations into the facility's links to the pandemic.

[quote]Boston University CREATES a new Covid strain that has an 80% kill rate — echoing dangerous experiments feared to have started pandemicd

Charming.

New study finds the biggest risk factors for death and poor outcomes from covid are age, smoking and diabetes.

Even the New York Times has run articles mentioning that liberal Democrats have a skewed version of the danger from covid then what is realistically true.

The nervous nellies are truly a sorry lot. They cling to the slightest bit of bad news about Covid and act like the sky is falling. Their ideal would be to live like it's 2020, stay at home restrictions, mandatory masks etc. NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!

It's only the introverted 7's and below that desperately want shelter in place and masks to be mandatory until the end of time. Extroverted 8's, 9's, and 10's left their basements and burned their masks ages ago. Of course some of those 8's, 9's, and 10's may also have acquired monkeypox along the way, but that crisis over, so its back to business for those of us who are fuckable.

[quote] biggest risk factors for death and poor outcomes from covid are age, smoking and diabetes.

Which was plain by mid 2020 to anybody who read the news and bothered to look at the photos of the latest victims.

it's going around again. my dog walker got it.

Rising COVID-19 cases in Europe are setting off warnings that the U.S. could experience a new surge this winter.

Previous jumps in the U.S. have followed a pattern in which cases first rise in Europe, making officials nervous they could see a spike in U.S. cases as the weather turns.

Live your lives. Don't be afraid of a glorified cold. Whatever happens happens. Life is meant to be enjoyed and savored, not hidden behind a face diaper or locked in your mother's basement. Life's a banquet.

'Most vaccine-resistant Covid strain ever' sends case numbers soaring in Singapore and is already in the US — but it's 'killing just TWO people per day'

A new Covid variant that is feared to be the 'most vaccine-resistant yet' has sent case numbers soaring in Singapore — and it is already in the US.

The mutant strain — dubbed XBB — is another spin-off of the Omicron variant and has been blamed for Singapore's infection numbers doubling in the past fortnight.

It has accumulated mutations in its receptor binding domain, a key part of the spike protein where virus-fighting antibodies dock and block infections.

"You can start thinking about getting COVID as almost as an accelerant to aging. The viral infection accelerates the aging process in people."

I got it on Saturday - the main things were fever, strong muscle aches, especially back and legs, and fatigue. My fever peaked at 102 on Sunday night and a mild upper chest cough/sore throat. By Monday afternoon, my fever broke. It was at its worst for 2.5 days. Last night was my first really good night of sleep. I didn't take any antivirals or medications besides advil, but definitely if the fever and the worst of the symptoms had lasted more than 3-4 days, I would have been on the phone to my MD to get them.

I travelled during omicron through multiple countries, go out, ride public transportation and have been fine. I know what did me in. I have been horny lately and last week I hooked up with 2 dudes from Grindr/Scruff. I need deep, hot kissing to get turned on, so boom, there you go. This was just unpleasant enough that I think I'll be sticking to Pornhub for the next few weeks.

r375, if you deep kissed anonymous grindr whores, then COVID is the least of your health worries. I hope to god you're on PrEP. Go for a full STI panel asap.

Glad you’re feeling better r375

The nervous nellies can hardly contain themselves when they have some some bad news to post about Covid.

^It's like weathermen who become orgasmic over the possibility of a blizzard or hurricane. They can't help themselves. Same with these covid lovers. They get off on doomsday scenarios that are not never gonna happen.

Am going for a 5th Moderna shot on Friday. I thought 2 boosters would be enough. Oh well……

Friday is a good choice. I took mine mid-week and felt bad for close to two days.

^yeah, I am not looking forward to feeling bad for a couple of days after the shot.

OP here. I still suffer from the post Covid dry cough plus continue to have leg and back pain. The cough seems to be slowly getting better but I have been living on mint cough drops. This has been a real drag on my travel experience but I will continue.

[quote]Same with these covid lovers.

It's the antivaxxers and antimaskers who are the covid lovers. You are the ones who want to keep it going and going and going.

Op, did you lose your sense of taste and smell?

I teach, and have been teaching in person since fall 2020. I come into contact with dozens of people a day. I masked up until April of this year. I still have not caught covid. Have no idea how, but it hasn't happened. Maybe I am one of the super dodgers.

I don't know if I'm going to bother with the booster. I just feel really over it.

OP here. No, I didn't lose smell or taste. Odd about that. I actually thought I was immuned too from catching Covid. My live in partner had it twice and we were sleeping in the same bed until he was tested. And then....

I didn't lose smell or taste either. I think you may not with Omicron

Loss of taste and smell are much less common with the latest strains. A killer sore throat seems to be the #1 symptom.

Searing muscle pain has been identified as a problematic symptom

I had a migraine that lasted a week and was a bit sleepy. Had 4 pokes. That's it.

COVID for me was like a grindr trick. Worse than I expected when it arrived, thankfully didn't stay too long, and will probably wind up encountering it again.

Increase in NYC covid rates comes as two new COVID-19 variants that quietly emerged on the scene over the last few weeks -- ones that Dr. Anthony Fauci has described as "pretty troublesome" -- are becoming increasingly prevalent in the New York area and stoking fresh concerns as the nation braces for yet another potential winter surge.

This thing is neverending.

Tired of it and want to move on

Well, R393 are you cowering in the corner yet or are you just giddy with excitement?

R396, do you always have such a strange reaction to simple statements of fact?

I want to get back to hosting at 100% my gentleman callers.

Absolutely spiking in NYC but much milder hopefully. Seems more like a seasonal cold anecdotally based on coworkers and friends who have it now (and my experience). Annoying that the omicron booster doesn’t seem to be doing shit to prevent it but if the shot makes your symptoms more mild, then so be it.

It’s so contagious though that it’s hard to avoid unless you are somehow immune (which some people weirdly seem to be) or stay masked whenever indoors.

It’s absolutely never-ending.

Americans are skipping boosters, so you can’t really say that the omicron booster isn’t doing shit, r399.

Yes, fewer than 5% of eligible Americans have gotten the booster. Not good news as we enter the cold and flu season.

if we continue on this route, the US could be in for a tough winter, says Waleed Javaid, MD, hospital epidemiologist and director of infection prevention and control at Mount Sinai Downtown in New York City. Specifically, if a lot of people get sick at the same time, we could see disruptions in health care settings again, Dr. Javaid says.

“This year, the indications are that the flu could be much worse than last year,” he says. “Hospital overcrowding can occur for a variety of reasons—COVID, flu, or both—and we don’t want to see that.”

All this fuss over a minor cold/flu! How did you people function in a world full of germs before the pandemic hit? Go and out and live your lives! The days of hunkering down in your basement and/or wearing masks are over. Those mandates will NEVER be happening again, despite how much you want to keep those rules in place.

He hasn’t found me yet an hope he never will. Now that it’s flu season I’m paranoid of getting the flu masking as covid

flu=covid. I spoke to a nurse friend a mine, and she said she hasn't seen nobody with long covid after getting the omicron covid. She sees mild disease, hardly no hopsitalizations esp in her patients that got vaxxed. We need to put this in prespective and get on with our lives already and don't let the chinavirus rule our lives any longer.

Fuck, R404, do you even realize how illiterate you are? I thought you were doing it on purpose because you wanted to be the Illiterate Covid Troll but I'm starting to think you are just really, really stupid.

[quote] We need to put this in prespective and get on with our lives already

I'll 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 let go of you!

No one would have helped you, OP, even if you had been home.

So cheer up, fattie, and order room service!

R404, Russia is a shithole

I thought we weren't permitted to call other countries " shitholes"

OP, if you're still alive, the proper form is "Miss COVID," because few Mr's could manage being such a lethal, cold, bitchy cunt with a pool of bloody curds coagulating beneath them.

R402, I couldn't of said it better myself.

Of course you "couldn't of", R411...illiterate moron.

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky tests positive for COVID-19: Is experiencing 'mild symptoms' weeks after getting booster

OP- Too bad you didn't meet Mr. Right instead of Mr. Covid.

R413 this is one day after she advised people to wash their hands because the infection rate is increasing again. This infection is airborne. Terrible woman.

R416, hand to eye, mouth, nose transmission is common for all viral infections. Next idiotic statement from you that we can knock down in two seconds.

Who is "we," you and all the voices in that head of yours?

Go back and read the woman receive criticism and correction from others who are furious by the deliberate misinformation in her advice.

r416, seems your the idiot. Even your god Fauxchi has said that your pretty much not gonna get it by touching nothing. The main way to get it is via airborne, and that's been showed over and over again in the lab.

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky tests positive for COVID-19, experiencing "mild symptoms"

Correct info from Japan

Half the student body of a Virginia high school has fallen ill, leading the district to cancel athletics and activities for that school through Sunday.

U.S. COVID update: Number in hospital rises 4 days in a row

- New cases: 97,132

- Average: 43,917 (+3,362)

- Reporting today: 26/50

- In hospital: 27,001 (+63)

- In ICU: 3,240 (+45)

- New deaths: 846

- Average: 384 (+22)

Newer coronavirus subvariants ticking up in California amid concerns of winter wave

Walensky needs to go. Gosh, telling people to ignore an **AIRBORNE VIRUS** with hand washing didn’t work out well did it? ➡️ We need a new @CDCDirector .

So... The Who just release a report stating that we need to get out and exercise. I guess no more “stay home and stop the spread”

I’ll just do what I’ve been doing and live my life like normal.

But those that are still spending most waking hours inside, maybe it’s time you venture out and about.

CDC director tests positive for Covid-19

It makes zero sense that yesterday the CDC decided to include the vaccine in the immunization schedules for kids, yet today thrice boosted Rochelle tests positive.

Why put kids through the trauma of unnecessary needles when they are of the lowest risk, it doesn’t stop transmission and causes unnecessary side effects in some people?

[quote] Newer coronavirus subvariants ticking up in California amid concerns of winter wave

But ... but ... but ...

Oh I know, 𝑃𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑛

Where's the bleach?

You're on your own, bitches

SARS-CoV-2 is transmitted by exposure to infectious respiratory fluids

The principal mode by which people are infected with SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) is through exposure to respiratory fluids carrying infectious virus.

Exposure occurs in three principal ways:

(1) inhalation of very fine respiratory droplets and aerosol particles,

(2) deposition of respiratory droplets and particles on exposed mucous membranes in the mouth, nose, or eye by direct splashes and sprays, and

(3) touching mucous membranes with hands that have been soiled either directly by virus-containing respiratory fluids or indirectly by touching surfaces with virus on them.

People release respiratory fluids during exhalation (e.g., quiet breathing, speaking, singing, exercise, coughing, sneezing) in the form of droplets across a spectrum of sizes.1-9 These droplets carry virus and transmit infection.

The largest droplets settle out of the air rapidly, within seconds to minutes.

The smallest very fine droplets, and aerosol particles formed when these fine droplets rapidly dry, are small enough that they can remain suspended in the air for minutes to hours.

US gives nod to Novavax’s COVID-19 booster as alternative to mRNA shots

No matter how many scare posts the nervous nellies post about rising cases or someone just tested positive, I will not wear a mask ANYWHERE, unless it is absolutely required. As I have been doing during the ENTIRE pandemic and have NEVER tested positive!

Big chasers are irrelevant

This is very good news.

The XBB variant wave in Singapore is in descent

^Eric Topol is posting good news? Did someone hack into his account?

Horse paste eaters

I had the latest booster shot (Moderna #5) Friday. Reactive symptoms include some muscle aches, modest headache, very slight fever at times. I do my daily routines but rest more. The arm that took the shot isn’t very sore; only if I press on the injection site. I didn’t want to take another shot, but my physician urged me due to me having a high-risk category.

I’ve never had Covid as far as I know. I got tested a few times when feeling poorly. I was generally careful, using masks, and limited my traveling to essential endeavors.

Half of Virginia high school out sick due to flu-like, gastrointestinal symptoms in mystery outbreak

It is covid. This variant causes gastrointestinal distress from both ends of the body.

Pedialite has been sold out recently, I grabbed a few bottles when I saw it for sale and put it in the fridge.

I went to a concert last week, indoor arena. I'm fine, no covid.

You can buy pedialite in powder form, I keep them at home.

Biden got his booster today

my dog walker got it as I mentioned a few posts ago. this is her 10th day and she tested negative but she still feels like shit. This is the 2nd time infected with covid. She says this variant is worse. She had all the boosters as she has asthma

Does she have the gastrointestinal problem?

What a bunch a pussies you all are. Can't even handle no common cold. This country is in deep shit because you can't handle no sniffles. Pathetical.

Did she give it to your dog?

Russher wants you sick and dead.

Shocker!

But I thought that because of institutional racism, lack of education, and lack of access to adequate healthcare, minorities, who typically live in liberal big cities, are at highest risk for morbidity and mortality. Make up your mind!

R438, I keep reading that ivermectin is a veterinary medicine, but I assume people haven't researched it and are just repeating what they see on Twitter, because it's also a human medicine. Wikipedia:

[quote]Approved for human use in 1987, today it is used to treat infestations including head lice, scabies, river blindness (onchocerciasis), strongyloidiasis, trichuriasis, ascariasis and lymphatic filariasis. It works through many mechanisms to kill the targeted parasites, and can be taken orally, or applied to the skin for external infestations.

[quote]William Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for its discovery and applications. It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines.

I'm not suggesting anyone use an antiparasitic for Covid. I'm just always puzzled when people say it's "horse paste." It does exist as horse paste, and sheep dewormer, but it is also widely used to fight parasites in human beings.

Covid isn't a parasite. Its infuriates to read Dr's and nurses being abused because they aren't prescribed treatment that is not approved to treat a virus.

[post redacted because linking to dailymail.co.uk clearly indicates that the poster is either a troll or an idiot (probably both, honestly.) Our advice is that you just ignore this poster but whatever you do, don't click on any link to this putrid rag.]

R452, I think the horse paste thing is because you need a prescription to get it for human use but the MAGAt yokels were buying the horse paste version over the counter at the local tractor supply store and using it on themselves. So, they actually were using the horse paste because doctors wouldn't give them legitimate prescriptions. They also use fish antibiotics. They are fucking ignorant.

"The more times you get it, the more likely you are to be unlucky and end up with long COVID — which is the thing that none of us want because it can be so serious," David Nabarro, a WHO special envoy for COVID-19, told Sky News.

Ugh I just listened to a podcast with Dr. Peter Hotez, co-director of Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development.and it’s discouraging. There are so many new variants coming through now (plus they’re assigned gibberish names that no one can keep straight). He reckons that everyone over say, 50, should just plan on having a booster every 6 months.

The scary thing is , even keeping up with all the original shots and boosters, there’s only a 50% chance that you can avoid hospitalization now. So if you catch it, immediately take Paxlovid. He was interviewed on the New Abnormal podcast this week.

Drs don't prescribe a treatment created to treat parasitic infections for a viral infection.

COVID 'most likely' leaked from lab, explosive Senate report concludes, as lawmakers say China 'no longer deserves benefit of doubt' over animal transmission theory

[quote]The scary thing is , even keeping up with all the original shots and boosters, there’s only a 50% chance that you can avoid hospitalization now.

You're saying 50% of all people who get Covid are hospitalized? This month in the U.S. the Covid hospitalization rate is 0.0055%.

[quote] COVID 'most likely' leaked from lab, explosive Senate report concludes, as lawmakers say China 'no longer deserves benefit of doubt' over animal transmission theory

Any apologies from twitter and youtube to all those silenced and smeared as racists or saying that two years ago?

[quote]COVID 'most likely' leaked from lab, explosive Senate report concludes, as lawmakers say China 'no longer deserves benefit of doubt' over animal transmission theory

A leak wouldn't surprise me at all but this particular "explosive" report was apparently authored by GOP members of the Senate Committee on Health Education, Labor and Pensions, who I wouldn't trust to analyze a lipid panel, let alone the outbreak of a novel coronavirus half a world away.

And I say "apparently" because right now only the Daily Mail is reporting the story.

"apologies from Twitter"?

What did you that mean?

R461, I actually believe it was a lab leak and that the response should have been straightforward but Trump’s presidency was tainted by racism and China was not the first or only place to do dangerous research. There were people screaming to nuke China; China did not invent this kind of research. “In 1971 a bioweapons experiment in which aerosolized smallpox was blown out over the Aral Sea went tragically wrong when a young fisheries expert on a boat contracted the illness and spread it to nine other people. Three died, including two young children. The government claimed that the infections had spread naturally from Afghanistan, where pockets of smallpox infection still smoldered. But there were no intervening cases and the whole explanation seemed disingenuous. Only after the fall of the Soviet Union did the Russians admit what had actually happened. And this story, too, has been almost forgotten.“

Aww R257, dont get your panties all in a bunch now, it will ok. Try living your life instead of the getting all worked over the next variant.

Un-vaxxed and un-boostered here. Take vit D and zinc every day. Never had no covid since this damn thing begun. Got a supply of ivermectin in my house if I ever do get it. That plus my natural immunity will get me through it just fine.

“Mr COVID”?

What a Mary.

Why do you want Americans to be sickened from a preventable illness?

Were you naked?

Muh free-dumb, R468.

R457, either that doctor is a quack or you heard things wrong.

Yes r460, I phrased that wrongly. It used to be thought that if you were vaxxed and boostered that you would 100% be able to avoid being hospitalized in the event you got Covid. Now that assurance is down to 50%.

Ok, it was not ever 100% due to co-morbidities but knowing that your case was likely to be mild or at least not life-threatening was comforting and now… (this is for people over 50)

But I know a 9 month old baby who had it, not seriously I’ll and double vaxxed thank god. Remember when we thought kids had some kind of natural immunity against it?

Nobody is guaranteed a certain amount of time on this earth, some are here longer than others, but everyone will die of one thing or another at some point. So best to make the most of the time you are given. Worrying about Covid is NOT the way to live, otherwise, you might as well be dead.

I forgot to wash down my groceries today. It was just stupid of me. I figure I'll be on a ventilator six weeks from now. And I was so looking forward to Christmas this year.

^After you wash them down, you really should let them sit in your garage for 24 hours before bringing them into the house. And leave the shoes you wore to the grocery store in the garage, as well.

OP here. I landed in Delhi and what a vacation spot for anti maskers. I think I have seen about two people wearing them here. Such a big contrast from Bangkok where everyone wears them. I am hoping my 5 injections plus my recent bout with covid will protect me. Oh, and these Indians men are cute.

My husband and son have covid but I don’t because I got the bivalent. But I’m sicker than they are. I think I have RSV and since I have lung disease called bronchiectasis it’s lasting forever.

R34 I don't want your stuff because it's contaminated with COVID, thanks a lot.

R34 I don't want your stuff because it's contaminated with COVID, thanks a lot.

Well OP, nobody has ever said India is a very advanced country, but in the mask wearing or not wearing dept. they are obviously way ahead of Thailand.

I don't know why anyone would go to India for vacation. Are they still shitting in the streets?

Op here in pretty Rishikesh. Still no masks on the ride up yesterday on the bus. I guess they are turning it all over to Shiva. No public shitting that I have seen but I did note a guy peeing behind a tree. Like everywhere in this country Rishikesh seems to be full of people. All without masks

Well, if you were so obsessed with seeing people wearing masks, you should have stayed in Thailand.

Same, OP. I tested positive yesterday.

Will you take antivirals?

COVID is a Gain of Function bio weapon created in China and released by mistake, most likely, at Wuhan wet market. There is no way to stop it. Xi Jingping knows this. Best resign yourself to this in the future: It will always be with us.

Wear your masks.

If your supposition is true, R486, then it would appear XI Jinping also knows something about the long-term consequences of covid that we don't. His aggressive lockdowns are seriously damaging China's economy, but he keeps implementing them in province after province in a desperate attempt to minimize the number of Chinese citizens that get the virus. There must be a reason why keeps doing this long after the rest of the world has moved on.

Remember, China always plays the long game.

Fully vaccinated

1. Sore throat

2. Runny nose

3. Blocked nose

4. Persistent cough

5. Headache

One vaccine dose

1. Headache

2. Runny nose

3. Sore throat

4. Sneezing

5. Persistent cough

Unvaccinated

1. Headache

2. Sore throat

3. Runny nose

4. Fever

5. Persistent cough

^He can’t afford to have the inadequacies of their hospital system exposed. They have nowhere near the capacity they would need if large-scale outbreaks were allowed to spread. They have 3.6 ICU beds per 100,000 people. The U.S. has 29.

^Talking about China

CDC director tests positive for COVID again

NEW YORK (AP) — The head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has tested positive again for COVID-19.

Dr. Rochelle Walensky had mild symptoms Sunday and is isolating at her home in Massachusetts, the CDC said Monday.

Walensky, 53, first tested positive on Oct. 21. She took a course of the antiviral pill Paxlovid, and later tested negative. But the symptoms returned and Walensky is again in isolation, working and holding virtual meetings, the CDC said.

Paxlovid has proven effective at preventing serious disease and death among those at highest risk, including older people and those who are immune compromised. But the pill appears to provide little or no benefit for younger adults. Some who take the drug have experienced a return of symptoms after completing Paxlovid’s five-day regimen of pills.

CDC officials said Walensky is up to date on her vaccines.

Walensky took over the CDC in January 2021. She is one of several U.S. health officials who have gotten COVID-19.

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The Associated Press Health & Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education. The AP is solely responsible for all content.

Told ya, told ya! The vaxcinations don't do no good for anyone, and is probably harmful. People might has well be injecting sugar water, it's safer.

R487, I don’t think China knew what was going on, or they would have acted to prevent the spread of the virus when it first came out. Instead they waited for six days while the virus spread through China while people were traveling for New Year.

[quote]He can’t afford to have the inadequacies of their hospital system exposed. They have nowhere near the capacity they would need if large-scale outbreaks were allowed to spread.

You'd think he would have spent the last two years building hospital capacity, then. It would have been easier and cheaper than his constant lockdowns.