on the upside, because i mask everywhere, i haven't got a cold in three years
My sister's family seems to be constantly sick, I think my nephews have had Covid at least 3-4 times.
Haven't had a cold but I'm pretty sure I just got Covid for the second time a couple weeks ago :doomer:
lately I have been told I have a sensitive nose because I can actually smell things. :(
Yes, but deep down they feel powerless against it so they just keep going. It's too awful for them to think about the truth.
I actually wear a fucking mask, so the only time I've gotten a bad cold was when a co-worker decided to take his own mask off and cough in my face because he doesn't like the feeling of the cough blowing back at him.
Sometimes I'm teaching and I get really embarrassed that I've sneeze near a student. And then I remember that I'm wearing this big ass N95 on my face.
:corona: outbreaks are news-proof this point. Consent was successfully manufactured, and the most I can expect from any friends at this point is the occasional, "we'll the rapid test was negative, so it's definitely not COVID, let's still hang out".
Brain damage, manufacturing consent, microplastics, elevated lead levels in water and food, the algorithms...
Love your name btw.
It's insane how people never talk about high CO2 levels, and only the secondary effects from them
There's literally been a 33% increase in air-CO2 since 1960 lmao. Imagine ignoring the fact that the LITERAL AIR YOU BREATHE is now 33% more suffocating
Lol, yep. If I remember correctly, bad air flow in office buildings can accumulate more than 1000ppm over the atmospheric baseline. Cognition starts getting affected around 600ppm.
Also PFAS, the "forever chemicals." Honestly that keeps me up more at night than microplastics.
My inner conspiracy theorist wonders if it was genetically engineered by the US to be the new 'lead poisoning' that makes people more psychopathic and selfish.
With how things are going I wouldn't rule it out immediately but :jesus-christ:
You don't need to conjure up magical theories to explain run-of-the-mill selfishness that's :astronaut-2: :astronaut-1:
I had the opposite experience. Didn't care about getting it at first, then I caught it in March 2020 and felt like I was gonna die
This is wild to me. THREE times?
Here in the UK I have thus far not had it at all and I have daily contact with someone that works in a hospital.
I just don't get it. Our population density is so much higher and I'm pretty sure I know a lot of people who have also managed to avoid it.
I feel like there must be some serious difference in the number of people washing hands and generally taking time off work when sick or something.
My nephews have had Covid at least 3 times just this last year, their school is basically a giant petri dish.
This is actually kind of worrying. Past COVID infections are a risk factor for a lot of other health issues, one of which recently claimed a close family member of mine. Can't really force someone to go to a different doctor or change their decisions—not when they're so identified with their delusional takes that changing their mind means changing themself. Good luck to you.
I literally just got over something that ran through most of my house. Two roommates went to a emo show, one got confirmed COVID (his third time confirmed, but maybe his fourth. Only defense he has for those early infections is that he worked retail at the time and couldn't prevent exposure). Other roommate got something else and spread it.
There's so much illness going around right now it's not surprising, what sucks is that I feel like it's unavoidable for me to not be exposed, even if I make choices to keep myself away from harm. Anyways, I ended up taking so much cold medicine I think it gave me a minor stomach ulcer and now it hurts to sleep except in like one position. 🙃
I got it once, not even sure from what. May have been from work, but also it could've been from a wedding I was basically forced to go to (or else risk ire from the bride, I literally didn't want to go for so many reasons). Put me out hard. I don't want it again in the same way I don't want the flu again (I got incredibly sick in about 2011, felt like I was going to die. Honestly it hit me harder than COVID did).
I don't know why people don't give as much a shit. Even having non-near fatal infections feels like ass beyond whatever longer term damage is done to you.
Anecdotes, as always, are very wishy-washy, waiting for real evidence.
the real evidence is the excess all-cause mortality
I don't think aging 2 years can really explain that tbh
Opposite happened to me but only because I started bothering to disinfect cuts and keep them bandaged until the skin closes.
I've almost never been sick since covid began. Like maybe 1 or 2 very short-lived head colds, if that. Guess I haven't caught it yet.
We mask whenever indoors in public spaces, which is almost never. My kids are homeschooled, I am unemployed, my spouse is an RN at a small hospital where masking is still required for staff (but notably not for patients—you will sometimes see these ridiculous FB photos of smiling unmasked octogenarians surrounded by double-masked medical workers). None of us has even had a cold for quite a long time, many months at least. We are all fully vaxxed.
AFAIK, the situation at the local school is okay? I see newsletter pictures where maybe 1% of the people are masked, and things appear to be normal (I mean, the kids look bored and depressed). I have to wonder if they're hiding and removing their masks to take the pictures, however.
A close lib friend of mine who lives on the West Coast told me he had covid pretty badly for a week about a month ago.
Going from the wastewater data alone, last year was the worst of the pandemic.
If libs admit that there is any kind of problem, they will blame Biden / Republicans and say we just need to vote more progressives into power. Conservatives will not admit that there is a problem. If they come to that point, they will find a way to blame Jews / Muslims / the Chinese / the globalhomo agenda.
A couple of wealthy boomer neighbors are about to vacation in Florida for a month, presumably unmasked. I'm kind of wondering if they're going to come back alive.
Somehow I've still managed to avoid getting it despite me being really un careful about not getting it at the start of the pandemic
The tripledemic is because covid has wrecked immune systems. Herd immunity requires the population to largely be healthy enough to slow the velocity of infections.
Somewhere, a couple years back in the comment archive, is me calling it. :deeper-sadness:
