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OT: Coronavirus Resources - and other things to not worry about

MindzEye said:
Wife and I hopped a go train to head to Toronto this afternoon...about 30 people get on to our car, wife and I are the only ones who put masks on.

Public health system collapsing around us due to staff shortages and this is why.
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Yeah, think we’re totally fucking over medical professionals here. Recently boosted family member seems to have totally avoided catching this from me despite lots of contact but I’m guessing since we’ve sent out the this is over messaging few people will get the fourth shot.
 
hockeylover said:
Yeah, think we’re totally fucking over medical professionals here. Recently boosted family member seems to have totally avoided catching this from me despite lots of contact but I’m guessing since we’ve sent out the this is over messaging few people will get the fourth shot.
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I guess what gets me the most is the same unmasked people on this train will rage about how bad our Healthcare system is in a few years and then dutifully elect conservative politicians to fix the problem.
 
This is the wave that has frustrated me the most since the beginning of the pandemic. The OG omicron was pretty mild and it was supposed to give us a bunch of population immunity at least till the fall. But 2 waves since then and variants with increasing severity (for symptoms, maybe not as much death) and we're still going through this shit in the dead of summer after barely any transmission in the last two summers. Transmission is supposed to improve, not get dramatically worse.

It's shit. And there's no signs of it slowing. I don't get how this lifestyle is sustainable when you're expected to be sick as a dog for 1-2 months per year with unknown long-term consequences.
 
Science will figure it out tho. Solutions to complex shit like trying to curb transmission of a coronavirus was never gonna take a few years. Help is gonna arrive. Just hope it's not too late for most of us.
 
Preston said:
This is the wave that has frustrated me the most since the beginning of the pandemic. The OG omicron was pretty mild and it was supposed to give us a bunch of population immunity at least till the fall. But 2 waves since then and variants with increasing severity (for symptoms, maybe not as much death) and we're still going through this shit in the dead of summer after barely any transmission in the last two summers. Transmission is supposed to improve, not get dramatically worse.

It's shit. And there's no signs of it slowing. I don't get how this lifestyle is sustainable when you're expected to be sick as a dog for 1-2 months per year with unknown long-term consequences.
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Wife wasn't quite as covid serious as I am and took a lot of precautions mostly to humour me i think. Then she got it l, and had ended up having to shut down her business for 3 weeks. Getting this 2 times a year (which where we're heading if the nerds don't sort this out) just isn't sustainable for small business owners. At best you're taking what little real vacay time you wanted to put aside and turning into sick days instead.

And yeah, that's before we even consider the long term health implications that the nerds are slowly wrapping their heads around.
 
MindzEye said:
Wife wasn't quite as covid serious as I am and took a lot of precautions mostly to humour me i think. Then she got it l, and had ended up having to shut down her business for 3 weeks. Getting this 2 times a year (which where we're heading if the nerds don't sort this out) just isn't sustainable for small business owners. At best you're taking what little real vacay time you wanted to put aside and turning into sick days instead.

And yeah, that's before we even consider the long term health implications that the nerds are slowly wrapping their heads around.
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Mrs. Preston and I both know a lot of people who got fucked up good from this shit so we've thankfully been on the same page. Unfortunately knowing people who haven't been so lucky (or having it happen to you) is what it may take for people to take it a little more seriously I think.

I get and don't blame people for pretending that life is normal though. This has been a long road with no end in sight. I'm just not there yet personally. I think it's less normal than ever honestly, with this amount of transmission. This has been a very odd summer and the first for me that hasn't felt normal. We were nearly zero covid in the last two.
 
I went to see Joe List on Friday — saw two masks in the entire theatre. I rolled the dice like a MAGA asswipe; turned liberal cuck today and masked up on the TTC.
 
My good friend and his wife tested + for Covid while travelling in Turkey. They unwittingly passed it on to her 92 yr old mom. She kicked COVID’s ass in three days. Everyone testing negative again.

It really feels like Russian Roulette
 
Old people, anecdotally for me at least, seem to have milder symptoms than most even though they're clearly basically the only ones at risk of death anymore. Which sorta makes sense. Their immune system won't generate a response like it will for young people. So they won't have the high fevers, debilitating congestion, etc. that young people tend to get because the immune systems of young folks are kicked into high gear, which can be both a blessing and a curse at times.
 
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It's weird because average severity/mortality rate is higher in men than women, but for long covid it's significantly more common in women. Both are statistically significant differences. Plenty of theories on why this is but it's still mostly a mystery.

As for other factors, really hard to say. Could just be bad luck, could be something else. My mother in law didn't really take covid seriously, caught a mild softball infection pre vaccines, continued to not take it seriously as one would, and now in her second infection post-vax with a "milder" variant she is a disaster and is reconsidering moving forward with her nursing career.

I do think the variant has a lot to do with it though. Haven't heard of many super easy mild cases with this one other than fucking lgm. Fucking lgm.
 
Parents caught it a few months ago, and are fine. I'm lucky to have still not got it yet. Just a couple of colds here and there over the past couple of years.
 
hockeylover said:
I'm so curious for them to do more studies on what makes people more susceptible than others because alpha kicked my ass, this one's kicking my ass, and every covid vaccine kicks my ass. A lot of my friends have almost no post-vaccine symptoms.
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Yeah my vaxxes really didn't affect me, but this bout with COVID basically took me out for close to a week.
 
Deckie007 said:
Parents caught it a few months ago, and are fine. I'm lucky to have still not got it yet. Just a couple of colds here and there over the past couple of years.
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Yeah I've been lucky to never have had it either even though I travel. I think the diligence in boosters is helping greatly.
 
fergy57 said:
Yeah my vaxxes really didn't affect me, but this bout with COVID basically took me out for close to a week.
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The second & third dose side-effects were a far more miserable experience for me than actual Covid. Though the vaccine side-effects only lasted 24-36 hours or so, as opposed to 10-12 days for actual Covid.

I also didn’t get a throbbing migraine headache with Covid like I did with the 2nd or 3rd shots, which is part of the reason I initially didn’t think I had Covid.
 
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