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I got Covid booster and flu shot about a month ago and tested positive for Covid on Tuesday of this week
Well fuck. Hope you are doing ok.
thanks! It’s much more mild than my only other confirmed case of Covid so thankful for that. Have to miss a friends wedding on Saturday which is kind of the pits but c’est la vie
its really weird navigating the new social norm of covid where people take acknowledge it, act responsibly but then joke about it and im all triggered from dealing with severe symptoms from the og variety. suppose its the same with people who have cancer or have had heart attacks when people use those as idioms
I bought a well-reviewed (by Consumer Reports) HEPA air purifier. Not so much due to COVID (I live alone in a one-bedroom apartment), but mostly because there has been a lot of building renovation work going on, and more still to come, just outside my apartment in a neighboring unit and in common areas and it's an effective way to remove chemical odors, among other things, from the air.
The paradox is that air purification is most needed in public spaces, and that's where we don't have any control over ventilation and air purification.
I spoke with someone at AEG's Bowery Boston who told me that the recently opened Roadrunner ballroom was equipped with powerful air filtration, and the Wang Theater had a new air filtration system installed within the first year of the pandemic.
Came home not feeling great yesterday, with a low grade fever, chills and muckiness. Took medicine went to sleep. Woke up feeling a little better but heart rate is still high, last time I had that I had covid, so I tested this morning. NEGATIVE!!!
appears nursing homes/assisted livings are still taking covid/rsv/flu pretty seriously. my grandmother broke her neck (only cracked a vertebrae thank baby jesus) the week before xmas and her rehab hospital stint is up next thursday. she'll be moved to a rehab nursing place for a few months and she has to be isolated in her room the first 7 days. her therapists etc will come to her. tbh i'm glad they're being cautious and i don't think my gran cares that much b/c she is not a super social butterfly lol
Post by jorgeandthekraken on Jan 2, 2023 12:42:04 GMT -5
Andy Rooney voice: You know what's really annoying? This weird, nascent movement online/on social media to give new variants names. I mean, I get the general idea - Alpha/Delta/Omicron was a lot easier to parse than BQ.Q/BA.5/XBB.1.5 - but these people have decided to give each new subvariant a super-edgelord monster name. Centaurus. Minotaurus. And now, XBB.1.5 is "Kraken." It's so goddamn goofy.
Andy Rooney voice: You know what's really annoying? This weird, nascent movement online/on social media to give new variants names. I mean, I get the general idea - Alpha/Delta/Omicron was a lot easier to parse than BQ.Q/BA.5/XBB.1.5 - but these people have decided to give each new subvariant a super-edgelord monster name. Centaurus. Minotaurus. And now, XBB.1.5 is "Kraken." It's so goddamn goofy.
End rant.
got to change your name to jorgeandtheXBB.1.5 in solidarity
Andy Rooney voice: You know what's really annoying? This weird, nascent movement online/on social media to give new variants names. I mean, I get the general idea - Alpha/Delta/Omicron was a lot easier to parse than BQ.Q/BA.5/XBB.1.5 - but these people have decided to give each new subvariant a super-edgelord monster name. Centaurus. Minotaurus. And now, XBB.1.5 is "Kraken." It's so goddamn goofy.
End rant.
got to change your name to jorgeandtheXBB.1.5 in solidarity
Andy Rooney voice: You know what's really annoying? This weird, nascent movement online/on social media to give new variants names. I mean, I get the general idea - Alpha/Delta/Omicron was a lot easier to parse than BQ.Q/BA.5/XBB.1.5 - but these people have decided to give each new subvariant a super-edgelord monster name. Centaurus. Minotaurus. And now, XBB.1.5 is "Kraken." It's so goddamn goofy.
End rant.
I felt similar when the Weather Channel started giving winter storms names. Like, why?
WFSB in Hartford has been doing it for decades, but nobody else cared with that.
Andy Rooney voice: You know what's really annoying? This weird, nascent movement online/on social media to give new variants names. I mean, I get the general idea - Alpha/Delta/Omicron was a lot easier to parse than BQ.Q/BA.5/XBB.1.5 - but these people have decided to give each new subvariant a super-edgelord monster name. Centaurus. Minotaurus. And now, XBB.1.5 is "Kraken." It's so goddamn goofy.
End rant.
Only a matter of time until someone names it something problematic, though, so that could be funny.
Still have that sinus shit going on. Came home last night to find dog pee on clothing in the bathroom, only to discover that I couldn't smell it and therefore wasn't sure it if was actually pee. I could smell earlier in the day and just took a bunch of sinus meds to go to sleep on so I didn't think further.
Woke up this morning and STILL couldn't smell...at first. Made coffee could smell for about 10 mins and then nothing again. So I took ANOTHER covid test. Then my friend started freaking out that it is an older test, so I had to verify the expiration while waiting on the results (3/9/23). Still negative. Smell is so fucked, I know that it is never super great due to my allergies, but not being able to smell something pungent like dog pee is kinda terrifying.
TL;DR - can't smell, still covid negative after 4 tests since Thursday.
At this point, they’re ok. Sick a week ago but it was strep in both cases. Truthfully, I just assumed that what I had as well.
We’re both day three now so we’ll check them in a day or two if they don’t have symptoms.
I hope you guys have an easy time of it and the babies stay well.
Mines been pretty mild. Sniffy and sore but otherwise okay. I was literally shocked when she tested positive. Fingers crossed we can get through this without getting the kiddos sick.
We're all a mess of paradoxes. Believing in things we know can't be true. We walk around carrying feelings too complicated and contradictory to express. But when it all becomes too big, and words aren't enough to help get it all out, there's always music.
garageland
Bleary-Eyed Bonnawook Oldest living hipster
So, except for catching a half-hour of a band in a small no-cover bar in December, tonight I went to my first proper indoor venue show since late 2019 - MJ Lenderman & The Wind playing in the basement of an Elks Lodge.
It felt great to be rocking out tonight, and it'll feel even better in a week when I haven't come down with anything by then.
There weren't a lot of people wearing masks there tonight, but I wasn't the only one. I was definitely the oldest person there, though.
How do you guys know when you have symptoms that merit getting a Covid test? Ever since I had Covid in the summer, I’ve dealt with off and (mostly) on congestion as a long haul symptom. Makes it really difficult to tell when I should I get a Covid test, because I have a Covid symptom almost every single day and testing daily isn’t really practical.
Anyone else deal with this anxiety that they’re going out sick and infecting others? Anyone found a solution to it?
How do you guys know when you have symptoms that merit getting a Covid test? Ever since I had Covid in the summer, I’ve dealt with off and (mostly) on congestion as a long haul symptom. Makes it really difficult to tell when I should I get a Covid test, because I have a Covid symptom almost every single day and testing daily isn’t really practical.
Anyone else deal with this anxiety that they’re going out sick and infecting others? Anyone found a solution to it?
The wife and I have home kits still and will take them if we feel sick/have cold symptoms since COVID. It hasn't come up positive for either of us other than when we had it. I've worn a KN95 for regular colds like sinus infections, bronchitis, etc. Not really solutions, but just my experience.
I've tried to meditate daily and journal for about two years and it's really helped my anxiety, especially related to COVID and health stuff. Lifting 3x a week has helped for the last three years. Still going out and doing things and being active, although not as much as pre-covid times has helped. I work face-to-face with clients and had throughout COVID, so I also recognize my anxiety was lessened due to being in hospitals and now a university during the entirety of COVID. That's all helped me manage it, but I still have some worry that I'll get people sick every time I'm sick. COVID definitely worsened that. I also worry that I'll get sick at most shows and public spaces I go to including work, but at the end of the day I just tell myself that's part of life and try to still socially distance when possible and immerse myself in present experience and the five senses.
How do you guys know when you have symptoms that merit getting a Covid test? Ever since I had Covid in the summer, I’ve dealt with off and (mostly) on congestion as a long haul symptom. Makes it really difficult to tell when I should I get a Covid test, because I have a Covid symptom almost every single day and testing daily isn’t really practical.
Anyone else deal with this anxiety that they’re going out sick and infecting others? Anyone found a solution to it?
The wife and I have home kits still and will take them if we feel sick/have cold symptoms since COVID. It hasn't come up positive for either of us other than when we had it. I've worn a KN95 for regular colds like sinus infections, bronchitis, etc. Not really solutions, but just my experience.
I've tried to meditate daily and journal for about two years and it's really helped my anxiety, especially related to COVID and health stuff. Lifting 3x a week has helped for the last three years. Still going out and doing things and being active, although not as much as pre-covid times has helped. I work face-to-face with clients and had throughout COVID, so I also recognize my anxiety was lessened due to being in hospitals and now a university during the entirety of COVID. That's all helped me manage it, but I still have some worry that I'll get people sick every time I'm sick. COVID definitely worsened that. I also worry that I'll get sick at most shows and public spaces I go to including work, but at the end of the day I just tell myself that's part of life and try to still socially distance when possible and immerse myself in present experience and the five senses.
Appreciate the response. I’ve been working on forming a meditation and journaling habit this year + doing therapy. I want to get back into running because it’s good stress relief, just need to check with a doctor first because I’m overweight and running makes the congestion worse.
I deal with anxiety/obsessive fixations that I was largely able to live with before Covid. I had a relatively active social life and would regularly go to shows, study in public places, and just generally get out the house. But losing 2 years right out of college to the pandemic basically set back all the progress I had made. Fell out of my social circle, didn’t date, lost a lot of my social battery, etc…
Now it feels like every decision to leave the house is a risk management decision. I can justify stuff like going to work or studying for professional exams at coffee shops because those are things I need to do to be able to provide for myself, but I still really struggle to go to movies, concerts, bars, or anything strictly leisure. I’ve lost count of how many shows I’ve skipped due to feeling a little meh the day of and not having a Covid test around.
Solution is probably just better self care, keep tests around the house, and force myself to get out the house more to do fun things. Going to be a long-term battle, can’t undue 2-3 years of lost progress overnight.
Post by man1cpixiedreamgirl on Feb 20, 2023 15:05:17 GMT -5
Went to a new OBGYN today and when I got there I found they are way more OB than GYN (whoops). So…why were the doctors not masking up and the nurses half ass-ing masks?
And then they offered me a Covid booster / flu shot when my annual wrapped up. Bruh, but no mask? AT A DOCTOR’S OFFICE?!
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