Sorry, I don't make the rules.
-Love,
An American
We're in fuckin 1320 motherfucker.
You are a serf. Bitch, you live in Alsace. You are a peasant. You need to give your fuckin' lord the grain. Your fucking children, you've had 15 children. You've never taken a bath. You've literally never. washed. your. penis. You've never used toilet paper. Motherfucker, you have worms. You are dying. You've had 40 children, 3 of them are alive. 2 of them are child soldiers in the Duke's army.
Bitch, the greatest thing you can hope for is to die at the old age of 36. You fucking can't read. You don't know what TV is. If you were transported into today, you would be the worst gamer of all time. You don't know shit. You literally probably don't even know what the direction 'left' is. I'm sure some Medieval guy is gonna get mad at me for this, bitch I've been to the Renaissance Fair. I've eaten a large turkey wing, which the Juggalos call 'bitch beaters', which I think is problematic but a funny thing to call them.
Motherfucker, you gotta recognize where you are, and then you gotta get past that. You gotta be unemotional. You can't sink into this hole. You live in the oubliette. Your job is to crawl up the ladder, motherfucker. You live in the HOLE. You're in the HOLE. You are a RAT. And the rat, when he's in the hole gets fucked. People only throw trash in the hole.
You need to eat a body. And you need to carry the plague. And you need to carry a plague around this whole world, that will change this whole fuckin world. And all your enemies will vomit black bile and will choke on blood and will grow boils and die. But only if you get together with your other RATS. And you come up with some kind of super plague, to fuckin end your enemies and...
End. This. Nightmare.
their podcast keeps me sane nowadays like i will relisten to the same eps over and over. really appreciate them
They are doing a great job. Idk if I’d say it’s keeping me sane though. The ep with the reporter on the California fires made me crazy. Heartbreaking
True, maybe less “keeping me sane” and more “enjoyable but slowly driving me more into doomerism.” yeah that episode was really horrible
I had it. It wasn't so bad but my lungs got all scarred up and I have asthma now.
The inhalers are expensive to. Death to America
Im in the same boat, bud. Liver and kidney issues mean certain death if my dad catches it.
watching cars 2 with nobody to laugh at you and your beans
later:
theres a new me coming out, and i just want to live, i have a virus to give
im covid positive
i think this time around, i am gonna spread it, like you never spread it, like you never knew it
thats how ill make it through
the time has come for me to break out of this hell
i have to shout that im coming out
:POG-19: nurgle worship intensifies
holding out hope for a vaccine. i don't care if i get it, but my moms in her 60s and smoked for 40 years that would be devastating.
capitalism sucks. a socialist society would have been able to ration out a months worth of food per household and actually locked down for a month or two.
I'm in the global south, got it and survived, so surely you guys can beat it with your freedom and can-do spirit
I'm not so worried about 2 weeks of coughing as I am the possibility of a lifetime of unknown debilitating factors. I don't worry about dying in the short term but I might end up with permeant shortness of breath or a compromised immune system or who knows what. The long term effects of COVID aren't understood and that honestly scares me more than anything
My feelings too. Long term cognitive and cardiovascular effects got me spooked
Yeah, this is 100% true, and it was also my fear once I got the positive test result. I exercise every single day, eat healthy, and I vape, which is arguably less worse for your lungs than smoking, so I felt relatively safe.
Nonetheless, like I said in the other comment, the two weeks of symptoms + dexamethasone were horrible. I didn't need ventilation or anything, it was a moderate case. Even so, a month later, I can still only do half as many pushups and pullups as I did before, I'm still weak even though I've made a full recovery. I also occasionally get some weird headaches, like the one I have right now.
There's also a strong inflammation aspect to it, which is what I think makes your body feel sore. I remember that I went for a walk in a local park the day after my quarantine was officially over, felt good while I was there, but spent the next two days in agony because everything from my waist down was just pain, like I'd climbed a goddamn mountain with a backpack full of rocks. I went to the doctor because I was afraid I had thrombosis or something like that, and he gave me some opioids for the pain. In my country, opioids are absolutely not commonly prescribed at all, so I guess I wasn't the first person in severe post-covid pain.
But, all in all, I'm okay now. I hope that, if anyone here gets it, they have milder symptoms than I did. Stay safe, comrade!
how old are you and how much did it suck?
I think i got it rn
early 30's, fucking sucked for two weeks, better now but I'm still weaker during my training routine
Nooo were all really fat and unhealthy and our arsenic has rice in it
the scariest part is it’d be like... okay, if i got it, i would (inshallah!!!!) survive because i am rather healthy. but the new ideas on the severe lasting side effects... that shit will be like a whole second pandemic years after this is “cured” (if it ever is)
I agree the scariest part for young people isn't dying. It's going to cause lasting damage to people that could shave 5, 10, 20 years off of a huge portion of the populations lives.
Yep. And it’s selfish I guess, but I hate that staying inside constantly is taking away my “fun younger” years AND that I could deal with lasting health issues for years to come too. Just lot of petty resentment towards older adults right now who got to live a fun life pre-covid whereas I hardly had been out on my own yet. But I try not to simmer in those thoughts
It really sucks to think that after all the sacrifices we have made we're just going to end up getting covid anyway. What a depressing thought. That sucks that this has started right when you got out on your own. It definitely has hurt some people disproportionately. However I still think we can make the most of it, even if it isn't how we imagined or wanted our lives to be right now.
I try not to complain cause people have it way worse, but yeah it really fucked up some life-changing plans I had. But you’re right. It isn’t easy but it helps to try to stay a bit positive.
Do you live near any sort of nature? Camping with one or two people has been my way of maintaining a semblance of "fun younger years"
sadly I’m away from college, so I don’t have peer-aged friends here :( i’m glad that’s working for you though!! it sounds fun
I hold out hope that someday it'll all be over and everyone will party for like a week straight
My friends and I didn’t do a lot of partying during our first year of college so now we’re like, if this ever ends, we WILL party nonstop for at least a month.
Me and my partner both just got over it. Knew it was only a matter of time since we have service based jobs and we live in a deep red state where people aren't taking it seriously. We're in our late 20s/early 30s.
Almost 2 weeks of not being able to breathe. Extreme fatigue and chest pain. Couldnt even say my partner's name without getting winded. We're both better now. Hoping my immunity lasts long enough for a vaccine because that shit was wack.
Hey, thanks. We're doing better now. Our stamina and endurance is almost back to normal!
Supposedly even if you get it the second time it's not as bad because you already have some immunity.
It seems it's not a clear cut thing but it's more likely to be milder the second time than not.
Seeing a lot of people (men, especially) in rural CHUDvilles not wearing masks makes me want to pull an Assassin's Creed (in Minecraft) on their asses. Just walk-up and Hidden Blade them in the gut and continue to walk past (in Minecraft).
I'm so paranoid at this point that it's basically affecting my health. Because it's like "well why should I apply to places when a bunch of unemployed will and why go out to interview when I'll have to walk past about 5-40 people not wearing a mask as if shit is normal." It's driving me insane.
Same here. Hard to care about my grades when there feels like no future lol.
There is a future. It's probably going to be really horrible and you can't escape it.
there's a future, and you won't be able to do much without learning farming or something
The real news is you're probably gonna get it again. I think there are cases of reinfection in California but I could be wrong, heard someone mention it here.
It looks like immunity lasts like nine months, however reinfection doesnt look like it is as bad.
However a new strain can restart that from square one, and with so many infections its getting lots of chances to mutate
I didn't know about the 9 months part. I was just thinking about the thing mutating and just going through this again but with people thinking it was no big deal because they recovered.
So yeah, there are two routes to that. Most other type corona viruses we have experience with have strong immunity on the order of nine months. So all the progress towards natural herd immunity will go away within an 18 month period as best we can tell.
Or, like you postulated. One good mutation, which is inevitable at some point, amd we get to do the dance again
So best case senario, when we get a vaccine set up and running, and widely distributed, it is an unknown and finite ammount of time before a new strain pops up. Just like how we get flu shots only without decades of instutional knowledge on how ro handle it.
This was really informative, thanks for explaining this. There is hope maybe.
There's already that Mink version. If it crosses over, we're back to square one I think.
Covid-19 will be endemic in the United States for at least the next decade without substantial intervention from the developed world.
Younger nephew asked how long before for covid is over I told him mostly likely it's not gonna end and go on for years. I feel bad for saying it like that and maybe there was a better way to say it but I really don't want to get his hopes up.
I might have already had it in the spring but I don't even know. My test was negative but I had around two weeks of not breathing and intense coughing which was weird for me because I never cough much even when I had pneumonia. I could barely walk around or talk because of the amount of air it took but the doctors wouldn't see me at the time because you couldn't come in with covid-like symptoms even if the test was negative so idfk what I had. Only thing that kept me from just going to the ER was that I had inhalers already bc I have mild asthma. :sadness:
I don't know whether to be nervous about getting it (again??). It's spreading so quickly and the vaccines won't be out for some time. :p
I got it in the spring and was sick for two weeks, but felt fine physically afterwards. The lasting part of it for me was mental. I had cognitive impairment, inability to focus, fatigue, mood swings, etc. for almost six weeks afterwards, like I was recovering from a concussion. My depression has been acutely worse over the last six months, and while I know that's not exactly unique in this day and age, I can't help but wonder if lasting neurological effects are a factor.
Living through a state collapsing in real time also tends to make depression worse, to be fair.
It was recently discovered that people who have had covid are at a higher risk of developing a psychiatric disorder. Hope you feel better soon comrade. :heart-sickle:
