What's up with this cold? Negative for cold and the flu, but I feel waves of covid like symptoms like incredible tiredness. My wife calls it a covid cold.
Covid cold
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I don't know about y'all, but I think COVID did some irreparable damage to my lungs, throat, and sinuses. Now every time I get a cold it lingers, especially the cough. Either that or I just keep getting COVID every winter.
This years is particularly unpleasant in the mucus department.
This years is particularly unpleasant in the mucus department.
Because Calvanists don’t ponder “what -ifs”
I have felt this way too. I can’t prove it, but since COVID I feel like I have seen a ton more people having cold symptoms that linger for weeks after upper respiratory infections. Have had to give a lot of them steroids to get them over it.
and this year has been REALLY bad in the cold and flu department in general
Had a 3 week upper respiratory and head cold in December.
Just wrapped up a 25 day upper respiratory and head cold.
This winter has suuuucked for health.
My fitness is basically non-existant at this point.
Just wrapped up a 25 day upper respiratory and head cold.
This winter has suuuucked for health.
My fitness is basically non-existant at this point.
My whole house tested positive Jan 1 after getting sick week of Christmas. Wild we were not sure if we got it then and texted positive later or two separate sicknesses, but we were all sick for all of January pretty much. And the cold kills me now. I can't be in it at all. Just kills my lungs.
My right ear has not been right in two and a half years. It’s a constant muff, then better then muff. Recently, I developed my first stye/cyst in my right eye, compounded with now my left ear ringing and stopped up…not wax.
I’m 10 days removed from omoxcylin cycle which did nothing to improve anything. I’ve recently seen improvements with shrinking the growth in my eye with warm/ hot compresses…which takes a toll on the surrounding skin of my right eye.
And just recently as today, I had a 24 hour shiit/puke session of just foam and water, which is currently subsided.
I’ll be going to the eye dr this week to treat whatever is growing and shrinking in my right eye….all of this to say, from 20-40, I caught the flu once. From 40-till 43, now, I’ve never felt sickness like I’ve felt over the last 3/4 years.
Not sure if it’s just my time for dying or what but something happened in mid 2020. And it’s not just me.
I’m 10 days removed from omoxcylin cycle which did nothing to improve anything. I’ve recently seen improvements with shrinking the growth in my eye with warm/ hot compresses…which takes a toll on the surrounding skin of my right eye.
And just recently as today, I had a 24 hour shiit/puke session of just foam and water, which is currently subsided.
I’ll be going to the eye dr this week to treat whatever is growing and shrinking in my right eye….all of this to say, from 20-40, I caught the flu once. From 40-till 43, now, I’ve never felt sickness like I’ve felt over the last 3/4 years.
Not sure if it’s just my time for dying or what but something happened in mid 2020. And it’s not just me.
Add to this that the **** in my babies diaper smells sweet like chocolate…and everything else like soap or deodorant …ax, old spice..all laundry detergents and air fresheners smell exactly the same to me.
I took one covid vax…after covid…then caught it again a year later. Something is off.
I took one covid vax…after covid…then caught it again a year later. Something is off.
Side note here. It still amazes me that the average American doesn't understand the concept of viral spit droplets from talking or coughing. Both the giver and the receiver. Every surgeon wears a mask during surgery. And it's not too prevent the unavoidable aerosols. Just the tremendous amounts of bacteria from droplets. Same for the millions of viral strands in a spit droplet.
Masks, like the vaccines, were never designed to keep you from getting COVID. Just to keep you and others from dying from being exposed to very large amounts of the virus that your immune system cannot fight all at once. You actually need to be exposed to a very small amount of it and hope that your immune system can figure it out.
By now everyone has gotten it thankfully. And most immune systems have a general idea of what the virus is. But what you're seeing is that the immune systems still are not perfect yet in fighting it. Good, better, but not perfect.
I don’t think that I’ve noticed more of that now that pre-COVID, but maybe I’m not paying attention. But I do remember people frequently getting “the crud” for weeks every winter. I worked with one guy well before COVID and every year he would get a 2-month cough in the Fall/Winter.
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I noticed back in October I was getting sick. Thought it was Covid since my sense of smell went bye bye. Got tested and it was negative. Finally got better with the cold symptoms but smell still gone.
I don’t think there’s an uptick in these long lasting colds after Covid, I think it’s just people being more aware of them because of Covid.
I had a “cold” for over 3 damn weeks in January. Usually it’s the usual 7-10 days but this one was different. Hell I’m still blowing my nose a few times a day.
I have a toddler. I'm basically always fighting off something or other. I should buy stock in Kleenex at this point.
Before this I was rarely sick, and I'm not some bastion of health.
What boggles my mind is, my son attends a private school. He has an extra chromosome, i.e. Down Syndrome, and this school is a mix of typical children and special needs ones, with a separate therapy wing. The school employs a full time nurse, affiliated with a local university hospital. If my son has a fever he MUST stay home until 24 hours after fever is gone. I mention all of this only to say, the school actually shuts down multiple times a year to sanitize everything. Yet, it seems it's still a petri dish.
Regular run-of-the-mil daycares and schools (which I attended) must really be cesspools.
Before this I was rarely sick, and I'm not some bastion of health.
What boggles my mind is, my son attends a private school. He has an extra chromosome, i.e. Down Syndrome, and this school is a mix of typical children and special needs ones, with a separate therapy wing. The school employs a full time nurse, affiliated with a local university hospital. If my son has a fever he MUST stay home until 24 hours after fever is gone. I mention all of this only to say, the school actually shuts down multiple times a year to sanitize everything. Yet, it seems it's still a petri dish.
Regular run-of-the-mil daycares and schools (which I attended) must really be cesspools.
It’s public places in general and not just schools. Our bodies are amazing things to fight off what all is out there every minute of the day.
So, did the masks work in stopping the spread?
I can't spit on somebody from 6 feet though. Sorry man that was my one smart *** comment for the day**
start taking a vitamin D supplement. You’re welcome. Signed, Never had Covid.
Good lord, its like we went back in time 6 years with this frustratingly simplistic question.
Below is an honest rundown of mask effectiveness, based on countless governmental and private health studies released this decade.
Fun fact- this information is readily available to you through your favorite search engine.
- High proper use of proper masks helped to measurably reduce infection in some instances.
- High proper use of proper masks did not measurably reduce infection in some instances.
- Low proper use of proper masks did not measurably reduce infection in some instances.
- Low improper use of proper masks did not measurably reduce infection in most instances.
- Low use of proper masks did not measurably reduce infection in most instances.
Lol what? This isnt a 1 + 1 = 2 thing. She just happened to to get those after covid.
Never had Covid that I know of. Never been tested. Never had the Covid shots. Never wore masks. Most of the people I hear of that keep getting sick or long covid or covid colds ect, are people who had those shots. Just my analysis through conversations with those people. I don’t know what to really think about it all.
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Calvinists don’t ponder “what-ifs,” but they sure do ponder “God ordained this sniffle for His glory” while quietly regretting every Pfizer jab they lined up for. Amen?
Unequivocally yes, they helped a lot. There's a ton of data on it. But if you're questioning this, then im sure you'll question the scientific research put into it
Can’t remember when she got diagnosed, but is definitely worse now. She can tell when it’s going to rain 3-4 days before it does. Couldn’t do that before. It seems to amplify everything. Again don’t know if it was the actual Covid virus or side effects from the vaccine.
If in the Starkville area, you should go see the Muff Doctor.
This will be my one statement on Covid and the Covid vaccine and long term side effects. I’m not trying to get in a debate. Doctors are not good at saying “I don’t know”. As a matter of fact we suck at it. Badly. It’s okay to not know something. I say it all the time and spend a long time explaining to patients why I don’t know and what we will do next, if there is anything to do. Since Covid there has been a real tendency when a patient t has something going on you can’t explain off hand to go “maybe it was Covid and/or the vaccine” with absolutely zero proof. This is extraordinarily irresponsible by physicians as it creates a narrative that in no way has been born out through evidence based medicine. And I am not trying to argue there may not be issues, I’m just saying as of now there is zero clinical evidence that there is for the things doctors are sometimes blaming on Covid / the vaccine. Trust me, there are thousands of research hungry people who live to get there names on studies that are analyzing this stuff all the freaking time. There was plenty of weird **** going on with my patients prior to COVID came along.
COVID was the worst time of my life, I pray we never see anything like it again. If we do I will be looking for another career.
COVID was the worst time of my life, I pray we never see anything like it again. If we do I will be looking for another career.
you've had it multiple times by now, you have been fortunate to be asymptomatic thus far
The answer is “masks had very little effect on the spread of COVID. Vaccines had very little effect on the spread of COVID but did help reduce the symptoms of COVID.”
sorry you can’t admit that even 6 years later.
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