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

good luck koogs btw

ugggh that sucks, Tracer. What are the mild symptoms?

we need a Dan progress report

Aw, thanks Alfred, I'm back to normal other than lack of taste and smell, which are improving daily. I consider myself extremely fortunate that symptoms were relatively mild and short-lived, and that my wife and kid tested negative.

good to hear Dan.

my symptoms are apparently classic Omicron - indistinguishable from a cold. sniffles, congestion, headaches, sore throat.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/15/londoners-with-cold-symptoms-more-likely-to-have-covid-expert-omicron

Thanks, Tracer. Glad to hear your symptoms appear mild as well, but man you've done everything right and still got it twice. I've had friends in the same predicament. Covid just sucks.

> 10 day isolation means you'll be free on christmas day?

yeah, this has been on my mind as well. especially living alone. i will run out of bread / milk a few days before the end of isolation and then when i can go out the shops'll be closed for another 2 days anyway! (maybe more given mon and tue are bank holidays).

i think the window for me getting negative pcr, being free(?), getting booster and making it home has already closed though. (vulnerable people at home, so i don't think unboosted is an option) ((not that he seems to care but...))

(thanks nick)

oh jeez, sorry to hear this tracer hand and koogs!

koogs, have you tried the weird hyper-fast grocery apps? they all seem to have intro promo codes so you could get essentials delivered by them (like Getir, Gorillas, and so on. I think there are at least 5 in London and all seem to constantly be running massive discounts that mean they aren't much more expensive than actual grocery stores. I don't like their business models for the long term, but this might be a time where they are useful)

oh, interesting, thanks colette. jiffy looks like it would do. semi-skimmed milk though, gak

i am hoping that i'll do the pcr tomorrow and it'll come back on friday and be negative (although it's not obvious from the website what to do in this case). and i'll worry about anything else when it happens.

laughably, i would be allowed out to post the pcr back to them using the post box that is outside the sainsburys i always use, but i couldn't *legally* go in.

Shit, Tracer, that blows. I just had what I assume was the delta last month - after the single-shot J&J

Got boosted with Pfizer last week, but i guess that won't matter when omicron comes to town.. I normally have a fairly strong immune system but not sure that matters either

But it will matter! If you get infected, you likely will avoid severe illness/hospitalization.

Oh, I agree with that 100%... I'm just saying there's no way to outrun this shit

It's also winter in the northern hemisphere... met some friends for drinks last night, and they didn't want to go to the bar with the outdoor seating because it was too cold

I’m anti-covid.

Otm

tbf, the bold stance here is pro-covid

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TousAntiCovid

3 different co-workers in NYC just tested positive. Has to be the first outbreaks at work in almost a year

Monitoring the rate of covid panic in NYC by keeping tabs on how quickly LCD Soundsystem ticket prices are dropping

— Lindsey Adler (@lindseyadler) December 16, 2021

In the past two days the most people I know personally (compared to the rest of the pandemic) have gotten covid

i got it again

thanks fizz :)

i think relying on royal mail for pcr delivery might be a flaw in the plan. (didn't arrive overnight. and if it's anything like my birthday cards i could be past my 10 days before it appears)

(that's assuming the porch junkies haven't stolen it and sold it on some pcr test kit black market)

(i got a text 2 hours later saying it's coming today)

((reader, it never arrived))

Yet…

my pcr that i took this morning came back negative, despite my sharing an apartment with my covid-positive wife. we have been separating and masking in the apartment, which seemingly has worked so far. i did spend a lot of time unmasked with her on tuesday, the day she tested positive, so idk if i'm 100% out of the woods yet. i am thinking, however, that she might not be contagious anymore, in which case it might be safe to stop separating in the apartment, tho prob still not safe to interact with others? who knows! we have three (3) binax tests, which as we know are now as valuable as gold, and we're debating how to use them. should she take a test tomorrow to see if she's still infected? should we save them until after our next pcr test (scheduled for tuesday) to see when it would be safe to visit family?

for now tho, i'm just relieved i didn't catch it and hopeful that she is through with it.

when do you think she caught it and when did she last have a positive test?

she tested negative pcr on friday, went to dinner with a group of our friends (i was out of town), where she likely caught it. she tested positive with an at-home test on tuesday night, and then with a pcr taken wednesday afternoon.

i would save two binax tests for right before the two of you see family.

she should be over it in the sense of non-infectious around this weekend. maybe she takes the other test on sunday if you want to satisfy curiousity? but if you're planning to run errands this weekend you should probably take it.

BTW when did the US get flowflex tests? I just noticed we had them

xp we'll hopefully know for sure about whether she's fully recovered when we get our pcr tests on tuesday. i was thinking we'd have her take one this weekend and then save the other two for me over the next couple weeks if i'm still negative by tues.

one of the fun things about covid is how it makes regular life things like going to the grocery store and seeing family feel like answering an lsat question

you don't know what happens between now and seeing your family, so i would definitely save one for you for immediately before family time. arguably not necessary to save one for her for then assuming she's all clear on tuesday.

caek i’m not sure that’s right about contagiousness only lasting a week? unless i’m misreading you.

right. it often last longer, and official advice is to isolate for longer out of an abundance of caution, but if you want to know if you're no longer *highly* infectious without wasting rapid tests, a week is a reasonable amount of time to wait.

(before you deploy one of your rapid tests.)

so just to be clear: i'm not saying you're all clear after a week and you should hit the clubs/cough on your in laws. i'm saying if you're curious and you have a spare rapid test, a week is the *first* time it wouldn't be a complete waste to take the test.

That's such bastard luck Tracer. How are the symptoms?

10 weeks after my positive test and I'm still really struggling with tiredness and crippling headaches. I've been back at work but I'm a bit of a shell. Ffs. Hoping Christmas and lots of sleep will see it off for good.

All the best to Voodoo and Koogs.

I'm feeling fine, thanks, but going through the motions anyway.

the pcr test turned up. i checked at 6 and it wasn't there, checked at 9 and it was, but too late to do anything about it today. my 10 days isolation will likely be up* before i find out i didn't need to. so it goes.

(* Christmas Eve. i hope nobody was expecting any Christmas presents)

appreciate the advice, caek (and thanks chinaski for the well-wishes). it seems to be somewhat of a moot point because my parents have tested positive, likely from attending a wedding on saturday night where many of the guests have tested positive (everyone is mild so far).

not much to do but wait things out.

oooof

Best of luck to all of your family, vc.

ah damn vc.

i'm really sorry to hear that Chinaski, that's shit. 10 weeks ago must have been delta, right? i suspect i've got omicron and the symptoms have been mild. like a cold. i really hope you start feeling right.

Currently quarantined awaiting test results (negative rapid). I don't think what I have is covid, but whatever it is was enough to keep my son home from school the past couple days and I called out of work sick for only the second time since this all began. Then, just after getting home from the doctor, I got called to my daughter's school to pick her up because she had been identified as a close contact of another kid who did test positive. So the fun waiting game begins.

Got our boosters on Monday, negative covid tests on Wednesday, wife was feeling under the weather, we assumed it was the effects of the booster. Boarded the plane to Portugal, got steadily worse, took a test when we got to our place - wife has covid. Christmas cancelled, families on both sides that were going to meet us have to cancel flights and we don't even get to spend christmas at home with our cats. Not great.

Really sorry to hear that Daniel

fuck that sucks Daniel :(

ahhh fucking fuck Daniel.

Fuck’s sake, I’m so sorry Daniel