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Seth Pecksniff posted:I got COVID for the sixth time and I'm currently working through it How many positive tests have you had?
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Salt Fish posted:I mean, what more specifically is panic behavior? Wearing a mask to the grocery store? Ordering out instead of eating in? I think most people taking the pandemic seriously from a personal responsibility standpoint are striking a pretty healthy balance in finding safe activities and minimizing risk Not loving and sucking in the communal orgy pit cum Denny's for one
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Jul 3, 2022 18:03
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Seth Pecksniff posted:I got COVID for the sixth time and I'm currently working through it Do you remember all the times and how you catched it each time?
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Jul 3, 2022 18:04
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Seth Pecksniff posted:I got COVID for the sixth time and I'm currently working through it What sort of job do you work?
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MarcusSA posted:How many positive tests have you had? Five, but I'm certain one was COVID due to unique symptoms but I added it anyway Turrurrurrurrrrrrr posted:Do you remember all the times and how you catched it each time? Yes: 1) OG COVID: December 2019, my ex had cleaned the apartment of a dude who literally flew back from Wuhan a couple days prior. He was sneezing and coughing something fierce and five days later she presented all the OG symptoms and was nearly hospitalized I know some may say that COVID hasn't arrived yet and it was the flu, but I believe COVID had entered way long before we knew and honestly looking at her when she was sick, it wasn't the flu 2-4) open air transmission in 2021 where I was stupid as hell and didn't wear a mask in crowded places 5) December 2021: my parents invited their friends over and lo and behold the guy started coughing and sneezing halfway through and welp  my dad tried to gaslight me saying it couldn't have been that. Thanks dad.6) indoor event this week: This was on me because I saw the woman wheezing from simple walking, coughing and sneezing and I texted my friend that I was sure she had COVID. Lo and behold an email comes out on Friday that there's an outbreak. The thing is up until now I have had very specific COVID symptoms, and they all match up with my vaccine and booster doses. They don't match any other virus I've ever had, so even if I had never tested there's a dang good bet I would have it That being said, I've pretty much been asking for it being unmasked, besides the og and 5th infection. I probably should have masked on five but I didn't want to hear my parents complaining I was being rude. I mask up on public transportation and grocery stores but everything else I've kind of slipped Feel free to roast me for being an idiot because honestly I deserve it Fuschia tude posted:What sort of job do you work? I do remote work so I rarely see people tbh
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Seth Pecksniff posted:Feel free to roast me for being an idiot because honestly I deserve it Nah, nobody deserves this poo poo its just a bad situation all around.
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Jul 3, 2022 18:19
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Anyone else have the side effect from paxlovid where your mouth tastes like grapefruit juice and vomit? Not sure I can finish the last two days. Is this like an antibiotic where I’m going to create a version of super covid by not finishing the dose?
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Salt Fish posted:I mean, what more specifically is panic behavior? Confidently making statements like this: quote:BA.4/BA.5 don't even confer immunity against themselves. You can get back-to-back infections within a month. Which was responded to with alarm by people in this thread Once again, despite what appears to be your hope that I'm doing so, i am not advocating for the reduction of safety measures nor am I minimizing the very real risks of covid. I'm just trying to prevent people from inflating those risks Riptor fucked around with this message at 19:04 on Jul 3, 2022 |
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Jul 3, 2022 19:00
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Seth Pecksniff posted:Feel free to roast me for being an idiot because honestly I deserve it Put a loving mask on before you leave your loving home you loving smoothbrain Six goddamn infections and you don't have at least 3 boxes of Auras lying around? What the gently caress is the matter with you Seth Pecksniff posted:That being said, I've pretty much been asking for it being unmasked, besides the og and 5th infection. I probably should have masked on five but I didn't want to hear my parents complaining I was being rude. I mask up on public transportation and grocery stores but everything else I've kind of slipped As a stupid parent haver myself, I can officially diagnose your parents with Weapons-Grade Stupid if they would give you poo poo about masking up. gently caress what they think. Protect yourself and others. FILTER THE AIR COMING INTO AND OUT OF YOUR DISGUSTING GOB olives black fucked around with this message at 19:46 on Jul 3, 2022 |
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Jul 3, 2022 19:35
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It’s hard to imagine getting infected 6 times. I’m on my first and I’ve been extremely careless - been to more than a dozen concerts both inside and outside, large family gatherings etc. I guess it’s very much luck of the draw? Or I’m just a lucky idiot.
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Jul 3, 2022 19:41
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rally posted:It’s hard to imagine getting infected 6 times. I’m on my first and I’ve been extremely careless - been to more than a dozen concerts both inside and outside, large family gatherings etc. I guess it’s very much luck of the draw? Or I’m just a lucky idiot. my uneducated feeling is that there's a perfect storm of booster effectiveness wearing off and new variants. i know about a dozen people with covid right now and I bet if at-home positive tests were counted we'd see one of the highest case counts of the pandemic.
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Jul 3, 2022 19:44
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olives black posted:Put a loving mask on before you leave your loving home you loving smoothbrain Trust man, I agree with the second part but that's why therapy exists I have a ton of masks, I've just been more lax about it in some situations. I still mask up for restaurants, transportation and most other things but I'll agree I've been really dumb and mostly lucky
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Jul 3, 2022 19:45
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Seth Pecksniff posted:I still mask up for restaurants What does this mean? Do you eat at the restaurants, or are you talking about masking up to pick up takeout? Because if you're still eating at indoor dining restaurants, I know why you keep getting covid.
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WampaLord posted:What does this mean? Do you eat at the restaurants, or are you talking about masking up to pick up takeout? Well I mean I do wear it inside if I do eat inside for sitdown but I guess that makes no sense if you're eating it. I try to eat outside when applicable I do absolutely mask up to pick up takeout 100%, that's no question
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Jul 3, 2022 19:51
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Seth Pecksniff posted:Well I mean I do wear it inside if I do eat inside for sitdown but I guess that makes no sense if you're eating it. quote:if I do eat inside for sitdown quote:eat inside 
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Jul 3, 2022 19:52
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I have had covid exactly 0 times, and I think it's probably because I wear a mask if I'm in an indoor space and I don't do stupid poo poo like eat inside restaurants, go to movie theaters or concerts, or hang around other crowded places. These aren't real sacrifices imo so they're easy to make.
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Jul 3, 2022 19:56
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Submarine Sandpaper posted:Your time will come Probably, but the point is for it to come as infrequently as possible. Medicine isn't just going to stand still, better therapies and vaccines will be available at some point. Seth Pecksniff posted:Trust man, I agree with the second part but that's why therapy exists Remember this feeling. You don't have to turn into a caver, but wearing a good N95 can help. Have you had any lingering symptoms from your last 5x that you can think of?
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Jul 3, 2022 20:08
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I've done exactly one risky thing in the last two year, a work conference, and I'm 99% sure that's where I caught it. Which makes me feel like every risky event is an absolute certainty of catching it.
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Hellblazer187 posted:I've done exactly one risky thing in the last two year, a work conference, and I'm 99% sure that's where I caught it. Which makes me feel like every risky event is an absolute certainty of catching it. Counterpoint: even among people who are taking few or no precautions, six infections is loving bananas
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Every day you don't get COVID is a victory, you want as many of those as possible. Also just so people know, its very possible to exercise quite hard in an elastomeric mask. If anything the "more hardcore" masks are better, mostly for comfort. Tulip posted:I ran today 3.66 miles. I went harder than usual - fastest mile was 8:03! It was also my first run since Dec 31 - I've been caveman moding pretty hard.
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Riptor posted:Counterpoint: even among people who are taking few or no precautions, six infections is loving bananas
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Jul 3, 2022 20:34
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Riptor posted:Confidently making statements like this: Why do you think that it's over confidence on the part of the previous poster, and that the alarm is unjustified? Do you have a working theory why BA.4/5 would not be similar to BA.2 in regard to nearly worthless induced immunity to further omicron infections? I mean, it's been pretty well established that the palette of mutations present in BA.5 (such as L452R for increased ACE2 binding, Q493 for evasion of conferred immunity - all features previously seen and analyzed in prior variants such as Delta, etc) have increased the BA.4/5 binding efficacy, and improved its immunity evasion . The number of mutations to the RBD and in general also make the risk of reinfection higher as Eric Topol put it recently - "The risk of reinfection with BA.5 has substantially increased because prior infections are far away (antigenically) from an aligned immune response." Public Health organizations like Public Heatlh Ontatio are making cautious assumptions about BA.4/5 based on the best available evidence and I think most people who are not medical professionals would better off erring on the side of caution and assuming these "inflated risks" are true until proven otherwise.
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Blitter posted:mutations present in BA.5 (such as L452R for increased ACE2 binding The Christmas Tree variant (Epsilon) had this. Amazing that it’s taken superstar Omicron so long to develop it.
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Riptor posted:Counterpoint: even among people who are taking few or no precautions, six infections is loving bananas It does seem pretty crazy, and an awful failure of public heath and worker protections imo. This UK healthcare worker is on her 5th. https://mobile.twitter.com/DrKerrySmith/status/1542770297409048579 The possibility of immunological dysfunction in combination with repeat infections seems concerning to me, but no specific peer reviewed evidence yet for BA.4/5 so I guess we just wait for the definitive data and papers we might have in the future! Blitter fucked around with this message at 21:11 on Jul 3, 2022 |
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:Remember this feeling. You don't have to turn into a caver, but wearing a good N95 can help. Yeah, my primary one is I randomly smell heavy cigarette smoke for a day. I thought this was a COVID symptom in itself, but I've tested during it and it was negative every time. It's like someone's blowing cigarette smoke directly into my nostrils. It's disgusting and I hate it. Lasts only a day thankfully
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Submarine Sandpaper posted:Your time will come I'm sure it will but even when it does I'll probably be thinking "at least this is my first and not sixth"
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QuarkJets posted:I have had covid exactly 0 times, and I think it's probably because I wear a mask if I'm in an indoor space and I don't do stupid poo poo like eat inside restaurants, go to movie theaters or concerts, or hang around other crowded places. These aren't real sacrifices imo so they're easy to make. Do you work from home, or not in a public facing position? Because if so, that is the #1 reason you haven't had covid yet.
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Puppy Galaxy posted:Do you work from home, or not in a public facing position? Because if so, that is the #1 reason you haven't had covid yet. I work in an office building around other people, this office building has had numerous outbreaks, and we're pretty certain that one happened in the room that I spend literally all day in, but I wore an N95 and my coworkers didn't
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Tulip posted:Also just so people know, its very possible to exercise quite hard in an elastomeric mask. If anything the "more hardcore" masks are better, mostly for comfort. Back pre-COVID I would bike to work pretty regularly, and during some of the wildfires the Bay Area had it bad enough that you'd be at a red light waiting and smoke would just be rolling across the road. I actually started cycling to work in a P100 to protect my lungs, and after an initial 15 minutes of "this is a nightmare! I can't breathe while exercising like this!" I just suddenly got used to it, and I've since read some people do it all the time in the hopes they can strengthen/exercise their lungs on top of the rest of their body. I've actually been using that same P100 mask when I've had to go into the office, for maximum protection. At some point I bought the little clipon exhaust filter 3M brought out during COVID that makes it medically "okay" as I felt a bit guilty even though nobody else cared.
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Charles Ford posted:I've since read some people do it all the time in the hopes they can strengthen/exercise their lungs on top of the rest of their body. This doesn’t really work in most cases, it limits the intensity of the workout and is counterproductive, but it is funny that people like Joe Rogan were interested in the idea prior to the pandemic, and then suddenly many of them went aggressively antimask.
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COVID doesn't use vampire rules, you can't defend against it by eating garlic.
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Iron Crowned posted:COVID doesn't use vampire rules, you can't defend against it by eating garlic. Garlic helps, you just need to eat enough of it to make people hold their breath and back off.
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Time to finally tell my miracle. I somehow managed to catch A COLD and not covid in Southern California about 9 days ago. Since I'm living with my brother who is terminal from colon cancer and currently undergoing the Folfox 6 chemotherapy regimen I was TERRIFIED when I first got sick. I did a pcr swab and then isolated completely in a small bedroom for a week. [ghastly, and I will appreciate fresh water more the rest of my life.] The pcr and all rapid tests all kept showing negative. I mask well and wonder how on earth I got so lucky. I came out today because symptoms gone except very slight residual cough. I hope he doesn't catch it, it should be ok. Those of us unlucky enough to be living with or are severely imunocompromised are nuked now. I cant work again until he dies.
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Riptor posted:I'm not saying anything about acting differently. I'm saying the degree of panic should be tempered I live in the US and let me assure you no one here appears to be panicking. In fact, over here it seems like there’s not really much awareness regarding BA.4, BA.5 or BA.2.75. Even wilder I don’t think most people, at least this is the case wrt people in my social circle are aware of BA.2.12.1. Most people seem to think BA.2 was the last variant and that the pandemic ended sometime last month or so. I’m not seeing anyone panicking or even expressing concern or even awareness outside of doctors and scientists and I guess covid threads.
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Yes I'm referring to the thread
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Spinz posted:Time to finally tell my miracle. I somehow managed to catch A COLD and not covid in Southern California about 9 days ago. Sorry for you and your brother. This is a poo poo way to spend your last days.
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