Covid-19

[jlw1980]

Trash. People are bullying those whose family died of COVID. I really hope they get their comeuppance.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...m_npd_nn_fb_ma

[jlw1980]

So this isn't depressing at all.

Right now, the country has been walking down an interminable plateau of coronavirus cases and deaths—the latter stubbornly hovering just under 500, a number that the country has, by virtue of its behaviors or lack thereof, implicitly decided is just fine. “It’s much lower than we’ve been, but it’s not a trivial number,” Salemi told me. Held at this rate, the U.S.’s annual COVID death toll could be about 150,000—three times the mortality burden of the worst influenza season of the past decade. And the country has little guarantee that the current mortality average will even hold. Immunity provides a buffer against severe disease. But that protection may be impermanent, especially as the virus continues to shapeshift, abetted by unchecked international spread.

[jlw1980]

Me, too, but I suspect that has more to do with me being old and out of shape than anything to do with Covid.

Definitely old. 😛

[Maynerd]

I still suffer random bouts of fatigue.

Me, too, but I suspect that has more to do with me being old and out of shape than anything to do with Covid.

[RYMASTER or Ryan_Yankees]

So I definitely wouldn't want to get Covid, just a positive test and a week off.

That I completely understand and support. 👍

[DrNick]

Yeah, I know a bunch of people who got genuinely sick. A woman I work with has bad asthma, and the combination kept her out for a month. So I definitely wouldn't want to get Covid, just a positive test and a week off.

I caught Covid in November of 2020. Was out of work for a month, although actually sick for only 9 days.could not return to work til I tested negative...took 5 tests. But those 9 days royally sucked. I still suffer random bouts of fatigue.

[JL25and3]

A year ago at this moment, I was dealing with COVID while hospitalized for something else...I'd rather be among the "never had it" crowd (though sleeping 16+ hours a day was pretty nice).

Yeah, I know a bunch of people who got genuinely sick. A woman I work with has bad asthma, and the combination kept her out for a month. So I definitely wouldn't want to get Covid, just a positive test and a week off.

[RYMASTER or Ryan_Yankees]

A year ago at this moment, I was dealing with COVID while hospitalized for something else...I'd rather be among the "never had it" crowd (though sleeping 16+ hours a day was pretty nice).

[JL25and3]

Same here. I know it's bound to happen, but testing positive after this long without it would be like losing a video game on the final boss level with no save point.

I think I got a very mild case right at the beginning - back when tests were really hard to get - with a slight fever for about an hour and a cough for a ocuple of days. Since then, Everyone I work with has come down with it, or at least tested positive and had to take five days off. That's what I want - not to get sick, just to get a positive test - but no luck.

[Tyler Durden]

I've somehow dodged COVID. I know it's inevitable, but I've had so many close contacts and I either haven't caught it, or had an asymptomatic case.

Same here. I know it's bound to happen, but testing positive after this long without it would be like losing a video game on the final boss level with no save point.

[dannyyankou]

I've somehow dodged COVID. I know it's inevitable, but I've had so many close contacts and I either haven't caught it, or had an asymptomatic case.

[jlw1980]

The quickest way to be sure the government response will be inadequate. They'll only care once it starts spreading more widely in the general population.

Yep. Any LGBT, female, bipoc, disabled person... That pretty much means, "Sucks to be you." I do have hope that the Biden response will be light-years better than Reagan's was, however. Evil man.

[RYMASTER or Ryan_Yankees]

it mostly affects gay males.

The quickest way to be sure the government response will be inadequate. They'll only care once it starts spreading more widely in the general population.

[jlw1980]

I don't want to start a new thread, but WTF is up with monkeypox? Because we need another infectious disease running rampant. Blessedly this seems to be far less transmissible and less deadly than COVID. It seems to be like HIV in that it mostly affects gay males. I hope they get the vaccine more widely available soon, and to the most at-risk people first.

[jlw1980]

The new vaccine from Novavax is highly effective in protecting against severe disease. They tested on 30k people, 44% of whom were not white, which is a big deal to see how well it works in diverse populations.

https://www.science.org/content/arti...-worlds-supply