• ButtBidet [he/him]M
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    3 months ago

    So I'm not the only one noticing this? Everyone around seems to need to cough every minute.

    • anarchoilluminati [comrade/them]
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      3 months ago

      I've always coughed after eating, I think it's a lung irritation thing, and Covid's made me really self conscious about it in public but it's not Covid.

      Maybe people also have irritated lungs.

  • chungusamonugs [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    I have a coworker who will violently sneeze cough every 2-3 minutes. Straight up dad sneezing. He's been like this since I started my job, so I doubt it's an active covid infection, but I do wonder if it's a prior medical condition or a complication of covid.

    • FishLake@lemmygrad.ml
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      3 months ago

      COVID fundamentally changed my sinuses and allergy response. Never had allergies before. Now it’s terrible. But I’m sure all the burning forests in California don’t help much.

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    3 months ago

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  • TheModerateTankie [any]
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    3 months ago

    At the start of the pandemic, and before they recommended masks, I became acutely aware of just how many people will go around openly coughing into the air. It's gone back to that but seems worse. Like they think it's a basic human duty to spread disease.

    • glingorfel [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      covid and post covid complications. I think I remember reading that one of the variants in the last year irritated the vagus nerve which lead to everyone just having the same shitty cough long after their infection