Covid comes to the SK household
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@andyd - were those cases (yours and the person who got long covid) a while back? I thought that the current variants tend to be far less serious, more along the lines of the average case of the flu.
@andyd - were those cases (yours and the person who got long covid) a while back? I thought that the current variants tend to be far less serious, more along the lines of the average case of the flu.
Yes, nowadays people seem to have effective herd immunity. A work colleague of my sister had covid confirmed and we then wondered if the latest cold we've had was covid.
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@shirokuro I'm sorry. I hope Mr. SK gets well soon. I hope you don't get sick.
@realplayer Efficacy of the vaccines has never been shown with data, actually. The head of Pfizer flat out admitted this in a speech to the EU a long time ago and nothing has changed.
People want to stone me in the public square when I say this but oh well.
This technology is radically different than what people think of as- "a vaccine".
Also, it can have debilitating, and even deady, side effects.
I choose not to get Covid "vaccinations".
I regret having ever done it, personally.
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@realplayer as @wtg already mentioned, the vaccines don’t offer protection from ever getting sick. While they do increase the chance of avoiding it completely, the important thing is that they offer protection from severe illness. So we’re happy with that, and very happy to have had our vaccines early enough that they should be in full effect. But not so far back that their efficacy is waning.
So Mr SK doesn’t seem to be getting worse. It’s like his symptoms got to the point where they are and now he’s just in a holding pattern. He’s on day four of active symptoms. My main concern at this point is that his cough not develop into something worse.
Well and the other concern is that neither of us have ever had Covid before. So although my understanding is that current variants are much less severe than earlier ones, it’s still uncharted territory for us.
Which brings me to @andyd ’s comment about herd immunity. My understanding of the term is that it means that there’s so much immunity that the disease no longer circulates. Like polio.
So there’s no herd immunity for Covid, the flu or the common cold. And it may be impossible for humans to achieve herd immunity for these viruses because they mutate so much.
I could be wrong about this, but that’s how I always thought herd immunity was defined.
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I used one of the OTC test kits on myself this morning. Negative.
This is my day four or five, depending on how we interpret MR SK's condition, since exposure, so in a way it's a little bit too early to test for a symptom-less person, but I have to teach today. I'll wear a mask of course, but if the result had been positive, I would have moved my classes to Zoom.
I will test again of course.
I still haven't decided what to do about my conference trip. I feel really trapped between professional obligations and moral/health obligations....
And I feel like almost no one else in my position would choose to not go to the conference.
I also feel like, if I don't go, I will stay negative and Mr SK will be fine, and I'll regret not going. But if I do go, I'll get sick and Mr SK will be worse and then I'll blame myself for having made the decision to go.
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SK, thanks for clarifying that bit about the vaccine only warding off serious illness. I’d heard that before, but had forgotten about it.
Hope Mr. SK is out of the woods soon, and you stay healthy.
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SK, thanks for clarifying that bit about the vaccine only warding off serious illness. I’d heard that before, but had forgotten about it.
Hope Mr. SK is out of the woods soon, and you stay healthy.
@RealPlayer thank you!
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Well, I'm officially sick. -_- Covid test is negative, but I have a sore throat, headache, a wimpy cough, chills (no actual fever though), and I just feel "off."
I was already pretty much decided I wouldn't go to my conference, but this just confirms that that was the right decision.
So both the SKs are no longer novids.
Ah well. 6 years. It was a good run.
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Darn. Sorry to hear it.
I did find that staying in bed and sleeping most of the day made it pass very quickly. Might work for you.
Hope you’re better soon!
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Darn. Sorry to hear it.
I did find that staying in bed and sleeping most of the day made it pass very quickly. Might work for you.
Hope you’re better soon!
I did find that staying in bed and sleeping most of the day made it pass very quickly.
Sadly, I need to finish prepping for the conference I was planning to attend, and then I'll present my part via Zoom.
Yuck. I hate Zoom.
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I did find that staying in bed and sleeping most of the day made it pass very quickly.
Sadly, I need to finish prepping for the conference I was planning to attend, and then I'll present my part via Zoom.
Yuck. I hate Zoom.
You sound like my wife, who accuses me of being a big baby when I get sick. She soldiers on, I go to bed and don’t come out until I’m not sick any more.
The world can get along without me for two days. I’m sick, dammit!
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I had it once, in 2023. I felt crummy for a couple of days. Mostly fatigue, sore throat, a fever for maybe a day. I followed the @steve-miller protocol and totally vegged while I was feeling poorly.
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This reminds me that I need to come up from the basement and get my shots. Not sure how many I can get at once but I want them all!
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Hope you're feeling better soon, @shirokuro . How is Mr sk doing? Has he recovered enough to take care of you?
totally vegged while I was feeling poorly.
I'll do my best to take it easy for the next several days. I'm really glad I'll just be at home. Plus, since my plan was to be out of town, I don't have other things on my calendar to juggle or cancel, so that's a relief!
Hope you're feeling better soon, @shirokuro . How is Mr sk doing? Has he recovered enough to take care of you?
thank you! Mr SK is doing ok-ish. His cough isn't worsening, which is really great because it seems like that's one area where complications arise. And he's fine being up and about in the house, which is good because that means he's not so exhausted that all he can do is lie in bed. I think he feels like he's starting on the upward trajectory now.
I'll try not to be too needy though, because he will take care of me if I need it.
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This reminds me that I need to come up from the basement and get my shots. Not sure how many I can get at once but I want them all!
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I did find that staying in bed and sleeping most of the day made it pass very quickly.
Sadly, I need to finish prepping for the conference I was planning to attend, and then I'll present my part via Zoom.
Yuck. I hate Zoom.
@ShiroKuro Are you going to watch more of the conference, or just do your Zoom presentation and go back to bed? Either way, I hope you feel better soon.
I did a Zoom presentation last night, and one this morning. It’s great for presenting from a different city!
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