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

I'm so sorry, DJP.

Sorry to hear Dan.

sorry DJP, best to you and your family

my condolences, DJP. :(

So sorry, Dan.

Sorry to hear that.

I'm sorry, DJP - keeping your family in my thoughts

Sorry for your loss, Dan.

Sorry and infuriated to hear, Dan.

That's grim, DJP. Thoughts.

Sorry, DJP.

Congrats to Boris on the UK on now having the highest death rate in the world, having successfully implemented so many active spreader policies in the weeks over the Christmas period.

Meanwhile, LA have had to suspend their air pollution policies due to excess smoke from crematoria.

You'd never know any of that from the British media. It's like living in Russia.

keep calm
and
die quietly

A family member told me he doesn't want to get the vaccine because of its link to abortion. Not sure how to respond to this. Thankfully he's in good health (for now) but it is concerning (he's in his 70s too). Hoping we can all talk sense into him.

the Pfizer mRNA vaccine owes its existence to knowledge gained through earlier stem cell research -- which is prob why yer family member confusedly links it to abortion. I'm not sure if the other vaccines have even a whiff of connection to abortion.

The Catholic Church issued a "pro vaccine don't mention the stem cells" statement just before vaccinating the Pope.

so the Pope is filled with dead babies, is basically what you're saying

I mean that was understood to be metaphorically and metaphysically the case anyway non

Dead babies can't make it on their own, from what I understand.

^Ice Cube lyrics in 2021

I know social distancing is challenging at "big events" but it didn't seem a very big thing in America today (to a Britisher).

supposedly they all had two tests a day for 5 days or something but yeah not the greatest 'message' to those viewing

It was making me shudder a bit even though it seemed very different from the Trump era. Everyone was wearing a face covering, I think. But, yeah, difficult to tell people to keep two metres away after that.

Like, I don't actually know that much about Bernie Sanders but I felt for him making his way to his chair.

i imagine everyone in that picture has been tested within the past two days.
but yeah the optics suck

It was gross. I was particularly mad at Garth and Gaga.

I hope they got vaccinated. I assume so.

Didn't watch it all but ... vaccination wouldn't necessarily protect them ... and the "quick tests" (lateral?) are reportedly unreliable.

(Sorry, not really getting into the spirit of things).

Well, given that this is almost exactly three weeks since we saw photos of the Senate folks getting the vaccine, I'm hopeful that a lot of the elected folks in attendance have even had their second round already - which would put them about as protected as one could be at this very moment in time. Obviously the family members are a different concern.

if garth gave w the vid, i wouldn't exactly be upset

He's got friends with COVID cases

Lol

Ugh. Hoping this is my usual awful cold, but I need to go get tested.

Good luck and hope that is all it is.

that's really one of the worst things about this shit - getting any kind of symptom and immediately having to worry that it's 'VID, getting tested, and then hoping the results show up quickly....all while temporarily modifying your behavior just in case.

good vibes and hoping it's just the seasonal sniffles!

Yes i hope its only a cold.

My hosp therapist partner got vax dose 2 yesterday and she is feeling pretty ill. I knew that could be a result but i guess it’s almost the usual?

She has been so exposed so long i can’t believe she did not get covid tho, and she is v glad to be vaxxed.

after I got vax dose 2 I had chills and a fairly decent fever for 24 hours. if that's what she has, that's pretty normal (for either Pfizer or Moderna, based on what's been reported)

i've had two sinus infections this season which is totally normal considering i'm stuck in a dry heated house but both have been high alert quarantine situations because of this shit.

I caught one shortly after I was vaccinated and I had to get antibiotics for it. was relieved to find out it wasn't VID cos I"d just visited my friend who was going through chemo to help him around the house

I remember that Neanderthal...and now it turns out you got the vaccine, and yr friend no longer lives near you. Whatta world.

my brother in law who is deep into serious Q stuff and also in the military (great combo) told us he got the vaccine because he was one of only two people on his miltary base to volunteer for it? i have so many questions that i dont actually want to bother asking, but part of me is imagining him getting some kind of weird pill or vitamin shot from some nuts friend of his. "this is the real vaccine! none of those other fools wanted it!"

it's Capri Sun

# of COVID deaths recorded in china in the last 24 hrs....

2

# recorded in China total:

4,635

Social credit ftw.

Woke up with a sore throat and a stuffed nose. Will go for a test today, it’s almost certainly just a cold, there hasn’t been a Covid case outside of hotel quarantine for over two weeks. But it’s also been a good 18 months since I last caught a cold. Noticeable that this week masks are no longer required in most indoor situations and people are noticeably lazier about hand hygiene, myself included. I’m annoyed I’ve let things slip. Meticulous hand hygiene is a habit worth holding on to.

My family and I all passed around a minor rhinovirus back in late November and it was shocking. It had been so long since any of us were sick. Before covid we were always passing something around, whether because my kids were in school, or I caught something on public transportation, or because my wife works in health care. So after 8 months of being very happy with not catching a damn thing, it was scary knowing that some germ had made its way past our defenses. We got tested and were negative. But then we came down with covid a month later and the initial symptoms were very much the same.

my dad keeps coughing all the time and it's wigging my mother out but he has been doing that ever since his first hospital stint last year as part of his difficulties with swallowing, he constantly swallows too much and 'coughs' afterward. aggravating that we constantly have to worry whether "this is your usual cough, or whether this is a different similar sounding cough".

his blood pressure is better than all of us though! I can barely get my Systolic under 130 with meds some days, he's constantly 100-110/70.

nerves go down after they get their next stab next Sat

Ever since I taught at a uni where there was a mumps outbreak while I was going through chemo, I've been just absolutely bananas about hand-washing and sanitizer.