Mostly Apolitical Thread for Discussing/Venting our Rational/Irrational COVID-19 Fears and Experiences in 2020

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"fuckin vaccine didn't work, i still went to the hospital"

ugh, my partner just tested positive. she had just gone out of town for a family emergency. i last saw her on wednesday morning, she took the test wednesday evening, and got the test result this morning. i'll be going to get my first test today, i guess.

i have about 4 hours until she gets back. one share a small one-bathroom apartment, but we do have a side-room that we use as an office. So I think she'll set up shop in there, I'll stay in the back, and we'll try to be as safe as we can with sharing the bathrooms.

sorry to hear that Karl.

my wife has been sick since Monday the 19th, she took a test on Sunday and it came back negative but it does really feel like it is COVID. she has a smorgasbord of the symptoms that have been reported in the media - headache, fever, aches, fatigued almost all the time, dry cough, sore throat, stomach problems, altered sense of taste, getting out of breath when walking (when she was still leaving the apartment last week) - and will feel better for a spell of like half a day before feeling worse that evening, or when she wakes up in the morning. I haven't been ill.

Aw, jeez, Karl. Best of luck to both of you.

:(, i'm sorry to hear that. one frustrating thing, in this first 30 minute or so of knowing, is that multiple people at work have expressed the thought that she'll be fine because she is young. also that after informing them of the situation, i was given more tasks to finish for today.

thinking of you Karl and jim.

i’m sure they think they’re being reassuring KM.

yeah, i don't blame them or anything, i know they're thinking positive things.

but yeah, it feels a little like playing roulette where 30% of the tiles are bad and 1% kills you, and everyone's like "you'll be fine, look at the 70% that's no big deal"

Crap, all manner of good thoughts to the Malones

Best to you both, KM and Jim <3

sorry to hear zs. she is asymptomatic?

best to your wife as well Jim

so far asymptomatic, yes

sorry to hear Jim and Karl, hope it turns out OK

yeah all the best karl and jim, hang in there

Sending good thoughts to you both KM and jim.

best wishes jim and karl

Good thoughts your way, Jim and Karl

best to y'all <3

<3 y’all

Sorry to hear, both of you.
Can Mrs Jim get tested again? Friend of a friend has had multiple negative tests but is similar.

oh man, hang in there guys

Just been down to the local supermarket and count me amazed that there is no sign whatsoever of panic buying ... yet. I can only assume people have given up following the news.

yeah, i got a delivery slot for tomorrow a.m. no probs

Panic because of covid or because of politics? I think by now a lot of people have got a system figured out, or at least calculated the risks they're willing to take, and the stores in turn have massively upped their capacity for stuff like curbside, delivery, etc.

Because there's been another 'leak' that we're due a full lockdown soon.
Massive queue outside my supermarket when I only wanted bread and milk.
You're probably right though, most people will be fine going to shops in lockdown for 'essentials', less so Christmas shopping I guess but I mostly do all mine online anyway.

I expect there to be new lockdowns in the U.S., finally...on November 4th

Lockdown meaning ... what?

“Lockdowns” as in back to what democratic states were implementing back in April and May, before all the backsliding.

Conservative states, I don’t expect them to do anything to protect their own people from dying, so they are exempt from my silly prediction

Panic because of covid or because of politics?

What politics?

I don't think Corbyn being suspended has had that much impact on the general public tbh.

xpost Sorry, forgot where you were. I was thinking of here, where the election automatically means at least the prospect of violence or unrest.

No, we're apparently on the verge of a nationwide lockdown and, as my neighbourhood is largely populated by nervous Nellies, I fully expected the toilet paper hostilities to have resumed.

Reading about a poor man in Wales who's just lost his wife and two sons to COVID over five days and I'm back to March levels of fear and anxiety.

How do you even begin to cope with your family all disappearing one by one like that?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-54828574

No use to go back to March levels of fear and anxiety. Go back to March levels of distancing and caution.

xp God that's awful. and to not know where you likely got it.

I think what happened in March was that there was a continual supply of goods coming in buit they were being greeted by panickers. I'm wondering if there wasa point at which it became clear taht there was supplies to go around if people were sensible.
Or am i having too much faith in the human race. I wasn't in the UK at the time and can't really remember what the story about timeline was here.
I didn't get into town very frequently, think it was mainly to get heels done on boots and things.

Stocked up on toilet rolls of various types when I found them over that initial period. Also noticed bran cereal disappeared which may been coincidental but did seem to take a while to return so wondered about supply channels and things.

was just thinking about the panicking thing cos one person on my FB feed was showing the shelves after people had been in there panicking which I know I saw a lot on there back in March

My March level anxiety is about about people I love dying, I'll somehow manage to wipe my arse.

yup. A friend was just coming out of cancer treatment, then their whole family got Covid, and he's got pneumonia on top too, and is in intensive care. Really quite scared for him. (Family members are key workers so most likely cause of infection). Just awful.

My husband works in the busiest and largest emergency department in Philadelphia, I get it...

I'm just saying, if you take precautions yourself, I found it does help with anxiety about others such as loved ones.

I had a horrible dream last night where they developed a vaccine and gave the first doses to doctors and first responders and then, after it was too late, they found out something was wrong with it and all the doctors and first responders died, and then we suddenly had no doctors and first responders in the middle of a worsening pandemic.

I'm just saying, if you take precautions yourself, I found it does help with anxiety about others such as loved ones.

I do and it does (though sometimes I get caught in the additional anxiety of my minor transgressions or the judging of others).
What also sometimes helps is venting in the venting thread.

Schools being back full time here caused some early anxiety where every snuffle was treated as the dreaded 'vid then it all settled down for a bit. Now it's becoming real again with over half of my daughter's year group isolating at home as contacts of positive cases.

know the feeling; really sorry to hear it

Absolutely. I'm just trying to offer advice, not shame anyone for feeling anxious or venting.

Sorry table, reacting to things that aren't there. Good week for it.

new covid cases in new york are now higher than they've been since the beginning of May and seemingly nobody gives a shit, which is fucking INFURIATING

It's insane. Our state is heading completely off the rails and I don't know if people are just numb, bored, distracted, tired of it or some combination of all the above, but the complete apathy is astounding.

well the vaccine is coming

Except, per the other thread, it's very likely that *best case* that vaccine is not distributed in a wide enough manner until September 2021. A lot more people can die between now and then if we all just quit thinking about.

and also people don't un-get sick once a vaccine arrives