rona moved in: ilx0rs with the bug report on their progress

y'all are the best!

still just feels like that kind of bad cold that overlaps with feeling generally run down. had a bit of a fever in the afternoon but it passed. if this is as bad as it gets, i'm definitely very lucky.

it's pretty crazy how many vaxxed people I know have gotten sick in the last week, noted ilxor Stevie D also got a posi test and one other person I know as well

I am super paranoid I have it with no symptoms.

you have been repeatedly posting about how many places you’ve gone unmasked, including enclosed spaces, across several states, for a couple of months iirc?

get well hopes and good wishes to doc c and stevie d and any other ilx0rs!

Don't be a dick. I could be wearing a mask 24-7 and still be worried I have it with no symptoms.

i believe that!

?! are you worried, or are you super paranoid?

can you not

wait JiC has posted while not in chicago!?

I got diagnosed with covid on Saturday and have been in bed since. I feel like shit to be right honest - throat, cough and exhaustion. I'm double vacced and can't help but wonder what it would have been like without it.

I'm a secondary school teacher. I've been in contact with so many people who've had it, it's kind of a miracle I lasted this long I guess?

<3 hang in there, get well soon

Damn, feel better Chinaski.

Shit. Feel better soon!

hang in there. keep us updated when you can!

ugh, I'm sorry to hear that. Hope you feel better soon.

Thanks everyone.

I've still got my senses of taste and smell, so that's something. Just utterly, utterly exhausted. Bleurgh. So far, my wife and kids are clear so that's good too.

I loved the government guidance: use a separate bathroom; sleep in a separate wing of the house; don't use the same butler. I'm only partially exaggerating.

Yesterday was the hardest day since the positive PCR on Saturday. Just utterly, utterly exhausted in a way I've not experienced before. I feel slightly better today and have actually made it outside. Assuming this is going to be around for a while. Ugh.

You’re at least halfway through it. Hang in there.

Get well soon Chinaski, my girlfriend is also going through a breakthrough infection. She got over the tiredness after a couple days but she lost her sense of taste and smell and has a lingering cough.

Get well soon, Chinaski

actually made it outside

sounds encouraging! but don't push yourself too hard.

Thanks for the kind wishes.

And you're right Aimless - I'm obviously legally housebound at the moment but liable to take off into the woods at the first opportunity and overdo it. Today, I just laid in a blanket and looked at the clouds.

By the by, I was thinking that my urge to move is so total most of the time, that I rarely reach that desireless baseline (bassline) of consciousness that simply is. Shame it needs a lethal virus to remind me, but there it is.

Feeling much better, finally. Still knackered but the constant headache has passed and coughing/sneezing minimal. One weird corollary: I've never had two weeks off in my working life (nothing more than a couple of days here and there) and I feel like a fraud and that I'm stitching up all my work colleagues who have to pick up the slack. Sure, what goes around comes around and all that but it's a horrible feeling.

?? You’ve had the novel coronavirus!!

I hope some of the experiences upthread were helpful. It must feel so good to be done with those headaches. They are really debilitating.

Yes, welcome to the club, Chinaski! Glad to hear to you are on the mend.

Somehow Tracer’s post reminded me of this use of the word “novel”: https://devrant.com/rants/69424/me-when-looking-at-the-c-template-error-message-novel

I've been reading back through the thread and it makes for an interesting document.

I wonder if I am marked somehow; if people will pass me in the street and, consciously or otherwise, prickle, shrink or bridle. I want some of the glasses from John Carpenter's They Live, just to see if there is a warp in the play of light around the fallen: the auratic equation, dazzled or dampened; a new sharpness in the penumbral glow... (This way to the new age thread ->)

Okay, it is confirmed: I'm carrying the Vid within me.

I had a leftover Abbott home test from an earlier scare (good to have on hand, though maybe not super reliable) which tested positive. I was not caught off guard as I was starting to feel pretty crummy. Went down to my HMO (Kaiser) on Saturday and got the real test (drive-up), the results came in this morning.
Pretty sure this is my second infection, I had something in March 2020 with the exact same symptoms, right as the Bay Area was becoming an epicenter (while I was riding public transport daily, and nobody had started wearing masks).

I've had/am having cough, chills, congestion, and a mild 'fever' which never got above 100.8*. I also have the weird sunburn feeling across my back and shoulders that some folks have reported. I don't have that great a sense of smell anyway, but I can smell fresh coffee, whisky, and not much else.

Fortunately, I'm pretty well stocked with groceries, but I wish I had bought more TP on my last trip out. My GF and friends have offered to drop stuff by, I'll be okay... just already bored stiff, I usually like to go for a long walk after work.

Oh, and I had a single dose J&J in April.. was starting to shop around for a booster, I guess I waited too long.

Sorry to hear it, Andy. Ugh.

Chinaski, how you feeling?

Take care of yourself, AndytG. Hoping you have a relatively mild dose.

I don't feel too bad thanks Alfred. Back to work today after two weeks off sick and a week of half-term break and feeling exhausted tonight but that's pretty standard. Will see from here if there are any particular long term effects.

So I've been hauled back into this shit. Started the early part of this week with a monstrous headache and I'm back off work, utterly exhausted. I've had blood tests and, aside from a mild Vitamin D deficiency, I'm in the clear for anything *worse* but honestly, I feel grim and fed up and fuck this.

Ugh, sorry

jesus, twice in two months? that's horrible. i'm so sorry

ugh, I'm so sorry.

I think it's just long covid or after effects as opposed to re-infection but no one seems to be entirely sure. Ugh.

that sounds hugely shit - hope you shake it off soon

got the rona.

started feeling bad Thursday last week, bed ridden with flu-like shit Saturday (Saturday was the apex, high fever, delirium etc.) to Monday. Tuesday I felt well enough to be out of bed, pondered getting tested but didn't really want to leave the apartment. then all of a sudden I realized I couldn't smell at all despite not being congested, for the first time in days. went and got tested, tested positive.

weird thing is that for weeks before this I had felt rundown and had intermittent coughing fits. I didn't get tested because my wife gave me that illness and tested negative. but it feels like this was a continuation of the same illness.

public health tells me I can go back to normal activities on Monday.

wife now has it, not quite as bad as I did but is pretty sick. I also think my cat has it, he has a case of the sneezes. but seems ok otherwise

oh, and my weird symptom. tingling semi-numbness in my left index finger.

hope you are on the mend, chinaski also

Ugh Jim, that sucks. Hope you're all feeling better, cat included.

I spent my birthday alone at home in early November with this shit... my smell & taste have mostly returned (somewhat dulled), but I had a weird hacking coughing fit the other night. Most mornings I'll cough a bit, and it's been over a month; I tested positive right before halloween.

(And a buddy that caught it at the same time that I did has reported extended coughing spells)

I still have the cough and smell isn't at 100% but otherwise pretty fine.

sorry to hear it :( hope your recovery is relatively straightforward

oof. sorry to hear that jim, wishing a swift recovery. and a more complete recovery to Andy, hopefully soon!

Welp, I had managed to keep myself and my family Corona-free since last March, up until this week. Started getting chills and muscle aches on Monday, got tested and result came back positive. No coughing/breathing issues, just lots of sneezing and nose blowing. Tuesday and Wednesday were the worst, but today's almost back to normal, except the complete lack of smell and taste is crazy-making.

I'm isolating in our downstairs family room to try to keep my wife and kid from getting it. So far, so good. Thank goodness for Criterion channel!

Best wishes for a return to health to anyone battling this.

Best wishes to all of you for a swift recovery!

ugh, love you guys.

Were you boostered?

I had not gotten my booster yet.

I've had a rough week but feeling better today.

All the best to you Jim and Dan.

I wasn't boostered yet but being in Canada I didn't get my second vaccination until late July so I'm not even at 6 months yet. probably be able to get one next month. think actually having the thing and then getting a booster will mean I'll be antibodied up the ying yang.

actually you will have superhero powers and thus will have to register as a result of the SHRA