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where is this COVID thing?
mohawk600
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I am wondering............
I had hip replacement surgery in 2019..........just before COVID hit. Rehabbed during the first wave. The shutdown didn't affect me since I was getting over surgery.
I have worked every day since mid 2020.............in a major retail grocery store. With/without masks. Laughing all the way.........what is this COVID?
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Some of my family have caught it. All are well. Maybe I should have made arrangements for a COVID exchange party.......I would let them breathe all over me with COVID.......................................................
Congrats on not becoming sick. Just out of curiosity, have you ever been tested? A lot of folks catch it but show no symptoms but they can still pass it on. I haven't been tested and when people ask if I ever had covid, my answer is that I have no idea. This new version seems to have symptoms that are just like the common cold. With my allergies I have a lot of those symptoms year round so it'll be hard to tell. I do know some that have been real sick with Covid and a few that passed from catching it. Hopefully we stay lucky and on the healthy side. Bob
I hope you continue your good health. I had it and it kicked my a**
B careful what u wish for.
There is at least 3+ more Covid names coming.
Covid will be around forever just like the flu. The GOV. will not LET it go away until we are spent into OBLIVION! Let's move on, I never quit, if it nails me so be it. I am not stopping because GAUCHO FAUCHO says I can't let anyone in my house without doing a quick test for COVID. MERRY CHRISTMAS, I still have about a half tank of gas!
A salesman who sells parts to us had some family members over for Thanksgiving. 14 people total. Somebody had covid and he has 1 dead and 1 on ventilator. Its real, especially in larger cities. I had it in October but my symptoms were very mild. I didnt think it was covid until I ate jalapeno cheese dip and it tasted like paste.
The GOV. will not LET it go away until we are spent into OBLIVION!
the GOV. is helping it along very nicely, it fits their agenda to do so
Believe me it is around, Youngest son is 47, healthy as a horse, fighting for his life, Covid, pneumonia and some sort of infection.
He tried to doctor at home but it got away from him Sunday a week ago. Been in the hospital ICU for almost 8 days.
Worst suffering from depression, the bastages at the hospital will no let anyone but his wife see him for one hour daily and never on the weekend, it is for for public protection, Bull snot.
Front line paramedic. Don't tell me the bat flu is not real.
Jabbing is a choice but you non jabbers better get jabbed like it or not.
Friend of mines daughter is a RN, she chose not to get the jab. When this plague first came out she was a hero, now she is treated like low life crap, going to loose her job.
Mo, you either have a natural resistance or have never been exposed.
my wife , oldest son and I all had it wife was in out of the hospital 3 times , my son and I went to ER loaded up on drugs and suffered thru it at home it sucked big time hurt like no other flu or nasty cold I have ever had , my wife still does not have her sense of smell or tase back our family doc told her over a year and he still can not smell or tase any thing
no we never got the "shots " and no plans on getting any of them . as for the covid I am sure my wife carried it home from work as so many people there had it and still getting it lots of people off work due to it
just read here in Ohio last two days have set records for th emost cases reported in any 24 hour period
I hope you never get it or maybe like some who just get mild symptoms ( mine was some where in-between )
but lost family members on my wife's side to it
If you are fortunate enough to get the bat flu, find a doctor ASAP that will order the antibody infusion.
They are out there that will overlook the criteria.
A catch, the antibodies are getting scarce.
After long last it has hit me, my family and the store. I and my son had it last weekend/week, now two people are out from the store. We didn't really ever shutdown the store and didn't do any real precautions and never got. We did cancel Christmas at my mom's due to a few family members being sick right now.
They just said what the future brings and soon
I caught it September 1st, had a runny nose to start, thought it was my allergies, i woke up one morning with bloodshot eyes, next I had diarrhea, and I just got better, like a mild cold, but I gave it to my wife before I really knew I had it. Her lungs almost shut down after about 3 days, rushed her to emergency care and they took her to the ER. She got worse and was on 100% oxygen, doc left a message that if she didn't get better tomorrow, he'd have to put her in ICU on a vent......that's a death sentence. She got better the next day. and stayed 4 days as worse covid people were arriving, and they needed the bed. This week she finally got off oxygen after 3 1/2 months, went from 4 liters a day to .05 a day. I bought her a treadmill so she could build up her energy level. She would take an OX/pulse meter and shows her oxygen level, built it up from low 90's to 97-98, as anything 95 or lower still requires oxygen. She had a heavy clunky oxygen concentrator here in the house with a long air hose. If she came in early to the ER, they could have given her monclonal antibodies, but it doesn't do any good in later stages, and will not dispense ivermectin, which is a proven treatment. we still refuse the jabs as we are hearing about all the side effects, but since we've had it, we have natural immunity.
My brother in law died from it a couple weeks ago. I've had it, even though I was fully vaccinated. Got over it just fine, I think I was too ornery for it.
The new Omicron variant is a blessing in disguise. Its symptoms are reportedly those of a mild cold, but it gives you natural immunity. Hopefully we all get it, and put this thing to bed.
In the early days of the Chinese engineered virus, I was pretty arrogant about it, even wishing I could be exposed so as to build immunity, like with measles or chicken pox. I thought all the safety precautions were superfluous, and I was REALLY ticked off when my church closed its doors and went virtual.
But, Dawnie and I both caught the disease, at the same time. Tests were positive. We holed up at home. Fortunately, my symptoms were very minor. I had mild fever, cough, and I felt tired. Dawnie could not get out of bed except to go to the bathroom. I brought her food and drink, though she usually refused them. Moving from bed to living room couch was a monumental task, and she had to rest a while before going back to bed. Had I not been able to care for her, she would have had to go to a hospital. As it was, she did become dehydrated, and I took her to an ER for IV fluids.ha
Since then, we have both had the Moderna vaccine, two shots each, but no booster yet. The vaccines had their own ill effects, like a mini-dose of the illness, but we got over it. I still hear people talk about refusing the vaccine, and that's their choice, I reckon, and they will have to live with the consequences of that choice. I've seen otherwise healthy people, most younger than I, become very ill and nearly die in the hospital, and then come out with disabling after-effects to live with, maybe for life. I've seen other people go into the hospital and die within days.
I will not be arrogant about this disease anymore. I'm thankful to God that I apparently have a healthy immune system, but I won't take it for granted.
Your mileage may vary.
The vaccines will not stop the transmission of the disease. Period.
All the vaccines are for a variant that is extinct.
The variant could have gone to a highly deadly path, but the variant from Africa seems to
have taken a different path and is more infectious but less deadly than the annual flu.
Some people are susceptible to corvid, some are not. It sucks to be in the former group, but life is not fair.
Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Mark Twain
I had a tough couple of weeks during December 2019 after contracting 'something' from an employee who died of a 'strange unidentified illness' in late November 2019.
During the following 2020/2021(until 12/4/21), I didn't worry much about getting the disease. AND THEN I GOT REALLY SICK. After 3 weeks, I'm getting better but it will be months and months before I'm back to 'normal'. Even now, I don't believe a vaccine would have made the past 3 weeks easier or prevented the outcome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOQlwG2P32Y