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

Nice that he learned to cook I guess, could come in useful when society collapses and we're griddling each other

like, ok, I'm with you that many of us have found ways to endure and get closer to those around us, and obviously I know he's going to focus on the 'work' element of it, but this is an exec who often decides 3-star hotels are too boring for him and uses company funds to put himself in lodging much swankier than other employees are allowed to, because of his status.

so of course he'll lament all of the amazing white collar perks he's missing out on while a lot of his employees, even despite still being able to work, are dealing with deaths of family members and trying to work from home while watching their kid and dealing with shitty internet connections.

xpost lol exactly dude

McGriddles are made of PPL

i know this guy's wife, and I have to imagine she's facepalming rn. she's much more grounded and self-aware

in addition to it being on 77:

?? – this thread's on ILE, not 77.

pack up your belongings Neanderthal

I got confused temporarily. It's aight tho, p sure he's not a lurker.

.....or is he?

katherine would be able to clown on Don Jr's threads about "why are all my algorithms getting crushed?"

― huge rant (sic), Tuesday, December 22, 2020 3:34 PM (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I don't know who that is unless you mean donald trump jr.

― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Wednesday, December 23, 2020 7:54 AM (one week ago)

yep. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-jr-instagram-video-joe-biden-hunter-biden-b1159313.html

Did that exec really use 'introspect' like that

you know he did. it is too hard to achieve such a perfect parody that sounds so utterly sincere.

what is 77?

secret board for the cool kids. (not web searchable/indexed in google)

Request Access to 77 Borad

My wife, who works in health care, felt dizzy and short of breath at work on Thursday and tested positive. I became congested later that day and got tested on New Years morning. I'm still waiting for my test results; my symptoms were light enough that they didn't want to give me a rapid test. Right now just feel like I've got a moderate cold, although last night I had a weird tinnitus flare-up as well. Wish us luck!

oh no, good luck

good luck peace, man (and woman).

re: rapid test - beware, my wife has a client whose son tested positive. the client took a rapid test and tested negative, quarantined for a week, then started going back into work. After a few days the client started feeling bad and took a pcr test, testing positive this time, resulting in shutdown of her entire office. afaik, rapid test has higher rate of false (negative) results than the pcr.

Good luck peace man & fam

Yes, thinking of you an yours, p,m.

Yes, best of luck to you and yours, pm

I've talked about this on FB already, but I had a Covid scare this week. I was really sick for the last few days, but I did get the pcr test and it was negative. So, I'm going back to work tomorrow.

mom told me her brother, his wife, and three college-age kids all got diagnosed with covid last week. i asked her if shes seen them recently, she says she dropped off some food on the porch the day after they got their positive results. later she slips and reveals that "dropping off" the food involved her going into their house and commiserating with everyone about their diagnosis for 3 hours, but its ok because she was wearing three masks. she got a rapid test yesterday (neg), I bullied her into making an appt for a PCR today, which she thinks is ridiculous overkill since, again, she was wearing three masks the entire time, but she agreed to humor me.

my damn head, i am shaking it at this woman.

Ugh. Do you know how they caught it?

and peace, man, good luck.

going into their house and commiserating with everyone about their diagnosis for 3 hours

Noooooo

Sorry, hope she is OK. And CGLDI - how are you feeling?

thx. afaict its been 6 days since exposure and she feels fine so far, so fingers crossed. frustrating thing is my mom generally doesnt have The Brainworms, but for some reason despite my best efforts she is just completely steadfast in her belief that wearing multiple masks confers immunity.

no clue how any of my uncle's fam caught it but theyre all pretty trumpy so i can imagine theyve been fairly lax. our area is at that point where community spread is so hot that contact tracing is pretty pointless anyway.

My children and I are still doing well so far - just the sniffles and anosmia. My wife is extremely fatigued and has headaches and bodyaches and says she feels like she has a fever, although I've been taking her temp and she hasn't shown a fever yet. We've been monitoring her pulse ox as well, but she's ok so far.

Outwardly, I'm holding it all together and staying cheerful and taking care of everyone else and all the chores around the house, as well as continuing to wfh. Inside, I'm on the verge of losing my fucking mind with a whole stew of negative emotions. I've got a feeling that this is going to be the longest week of my life.

anosmia

*shout-out to former ilxor Abbbottt by the way.

abbbottt will always be an ilxor imo

thinking of you peace man, hang in there

hang in there, peace man! i think it's ok to let that negative stuff out sometimes, too (maybe in the shower, or the classic scream into a pillow) but everyone's got their own way of doing it. hoping the best for you and your fam

abbbottt will always be an ilxor imo

― Karl Malone, Monday, January 4, 2021 12:13 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Oh, for sure.

Just got over a nightmare 15 day period dealing with a parent in the hospital with COVID.

I had to beg her, send her every article explaining the potential dire complications, and basically threaten to disown her for her to finally check into the hospital (She had already tested positive for covid about 4 days before). Given her age (71), symptoms (severe), her doctor told me, on her 2nd day there, that she had a 1/3 chance to live over the next five days, based on everything that they know.

She was released today from the hospital. Her doctor told me that he wished every elderly person who has tested positive for covid with a fever, and an oximeter reading at or below 90 to check into the hospital asap, as that would cut the death rate so much. So many seniors wait until their symptoms progress to the state of almost no return.

wau. glad she made it!

Not that there's some miracle cure, by any means, but there are many combinations of therapies that they can try before you spiral out of control with that covid-related Pneumonia.

Thanks mookie!!

Please let me share a few of the articles that inspired my mom to go to the hospital:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-testing-pneumonia.html

https://blog.bcbsnc.com/2020/07/a-timeline-of-covid-19-symptoms/

If you have elderly people in your life testing positive, get them to the hospital early so they can unleash every therapy known to science. Most won't even be admitted (like my mom). But they'll know.

Last thing: you want to avoid acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) at all costs.

A friend sent me the article when I was describing things, but I would also mention that a quick change in symptoms is important to watch for, especially if things go south, fast:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7365923/

A couple family members, of different friends, had the situation where they went from barely symptomatic to complete fatigue leading to heart failure. I think it’s hard to make that call in any case, but any quick change — like complete fatigue when they were fine the prior day, or even hours before — means quick intervention is needed.

Good work mf

I feel very fortunate to know that all the elders in my life wouldn't hesitate to seek treatment. I'm glad you managed to convince your mom.

Update on my own condition, my wife and I are feeling a lot better. Still feeling waves of mild symptoms like headaches and tiredness, but so far (over a week later now) nothing major. I wonder how long they'll last. She took our daughter for a walk in the woods yesterday and got through it alright, whereas earlier in the week I had to help her up the stairs to bed. Feeling extremely fortunate that we haven't developed anything severe.

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One thing I didn't mention in my earlier post, but was eating hard at my mind, was that the day before my wife and I came down with symptoms, we had allowed our daughter to have a play-date with a friend who we considered "in our circle". These were more common in the summer when the cases had dropped significantly in Maryland. We had outdoor gatherings with a select group of her friends once or twice a month. But we had foresworn these gatherings entirely when the numbers started rising in the fall.

I argued a little with my wife about letting the play-date go on, but she kept repeating something that she knew was legitimately concerning to me: "our daughter has been having conversations with the television." She has had the option to facetime and message with her friends, but that hasn't really stuck for whatever reason. And we set up a bi-weekly online D&D game for her and a couple girls, where they have private chats on discord. But for the most part, her only pastime has been watching youtubers all day, and my inability to interest her in doing anything else has been deeply saddening to me.

Knowing that I was being stupid and absolutely doing the wrong thing, I took her over to their house and picked her up a few hours later. By all reports it was the most fun either girl had had in months.

That night, my wife came home from work feeling more fatigued than usual. Her job is high-stress and very physical and feeling fatigued is common when she gets home, so I didn't think anything of it. But back at work the next day, she felt faint and checked herself in. Her rapid test came back positive.

What I didn't know was that her friend had then had contact with her cousins and grandmother. Which in all respects negates the whole concept of pretending to have "a circle". So in addition to worrying about my own health and mortality and that of my family, I spent the first few days of my illness confronting the very real possibility that through my idiocy I had killed someone's family matriarch. It took them longer to get their PCR tests back than it did for us, probably because cases around here took a huge jump after New Years. Eventually, all of their family's tests came back negative.

I talked to the parents, and they don't blame us for the hubbub and the worries that they had to face. But I certainly blame myself for my part in allowing this irresponsibility to go on.

oh man. that "talking to the television" bit sounds awful too, i can see why you felt guilted into it

man that hurts my heart

I just need to vent that I am fed up with hearing anything about how Cuomo is any good at dealing with COVID. He's just a petty, vindictive control freak who likes pushing and pulling the levers.

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/136711326_10224574797379485_6269658185816724606_o.jpg?_nc_cat=105&ccb=2&_nc_sid=dbeb18&_nc_ohc=4eXuIY5WHosAX8EX6ES&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-1.xx&oh=5c1aca8a564df49df192be22113d507f&oe=601F824D

https://www.lohud.com/story/news/coronavirus/2021/01/08/montefiore-new-rochelle-sanctions-ineligible-vaccinations-covid-investigation/6593444002/?fbclid=IwAR14H9LxqAvbfhCU1rPfroWxUigE5j97K7V9RMPy5nt_T1eg34NmDzmWDxY

I hate Cuomo, but fuck jumping the line.

People getting vaccinated already who aren't in nursing homes or frontline healthcare workers enrage me.

As far as I'm concerned the NYPD can get fucked forever but I did see the point on Twitter that they interact w a lot of ppl, they are, as a demographic, reluctant to or refuse to wear masks, and it would probably be a good public health practice to vax them just to protect other ppl.

I hate Cuomo, but fuck jumping the line.

― Jimi Buffett (PBKR), Friday, January 8, 2021 12:47 PM (twelve minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

People getting vaccinated already who aren't in nursing homes or frontline healthcare workers enrage me.

― All cars are bad (Euler), Friday, January 8, 2021 12:51 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

You are both completely wrong, dangerously so. We need to be vaccinating as many people as we can as quickly as possible, and "the line" is not working. Vaccines are not getting administered because we are placing too many restrictions on how and to whom they can be administered.

Also, this wasn't billionaires, it was public workers!

Literally more people are going to die because people want to be hall monitors.

otm