for example:
- any rise in wastewater data where you live
- any sudden deluge of friends/family getting sick
- etc
its become a pain in the cock to get a fucking shot. past years we just rolled into the public health office, now its fully privatised and fenced off so the health tyrants can get their bags.
Lotta people sick, lotta people talking about running in to a lot of sick people. Me? I don't give a shit anymore. I made a deal with Nurgle and in exchange for hosting his fetid diseases I am immune to pain and hunger forever more.
Several of the undergrads in my lab have had covid recently, the grad students and staff have managed to avoid it though. One of my professors caught it from their kid who got it from school.
I have a box fan taped to a bunch of MERV13 air filters next to my desk to hopefully keep the amount of virus in the lab pretty low. I also use covixyl nasal spray and actually wear a mask in obvious situations like on the bus.
How effective are the nasal sprays, how often do you reapply it, and how long does it last?
Study I read said it reduces risk of infection by about 66%. Lasts 6 hours, I usually just do it before I go into work but I work strange hours, you’d probably want to reapply if you work a normal 8 hour day
Spouse is an RN and thinks she got covid at work a couple of weeks ago thanks to some unmasked pigs she was forced to spend a lot of time with. Many people around here seem sick but wastewater levels are still quite low.
Two weeks ago at my kids’ soccer game I overheard adults asking: “how are ya avoidin’ this terrible cold that’s goin’ around?” Hundreds of people were present and maybe five were masked (including my family). I’ve been avoiding people generally since the pandemic began but lately I’ve been forced back into society. It’s sometimes amazing to overhear people’s conversations. All of them are frequently discussing societal collapse without ever connecting the dots.
COVID shouldn't really present as a cold though, no? Runny nose is not a symptom
My impression is that covid can present as almost anything. For instance, a common symptom these days seems to be puking, which AFAIK was not a thing at the beginning of the pandemic.
Weird. I had some blood clotting this time around, which I never had before. I'm also type o which is very unlikely to clot
Wastewater seems to be trending up, but it has been hard to tell since they changed their charts to logaritmic and the testing method to something that is supposedly more sensitive. So it's no longer comparable to say last year.
But regardless of the minimizing efforts, there is an upward trend currently where I live.
Lots of people sick around me atm. But that seems to happen once a month now during the school year.
My school district has a lot of underreported sick kids. Again. And there's a faculty-wide unofficial "don't talk about it" policy where the implication is that if we bring it up then administration will find something unrelated to covid to write us up for.
Administration has an amazing ability to find something totally unrelated to you talking about kids having covid and it's your word against theirs when it comes to reprimands added to your record. If you're especially unlucky, they'll try to make you sign an acknowledgement paper with some blank sections they can scribble in later.
Tons of people I work with are sick and still coming in while claiming they feel like they're dying. It usually lasts 1-2 weeks.
Also we work in a virology lab and have masks available and half refuse to wear them when not doing lab work
None of the staff at my local hospital wears masks anymore. Haven't seen a single staff member wearing a mask in several recent visits.
We're in a rural area with low COVID numbers, but it's still incredibly frustrating having my doctor look at me as if I'm weird for wearing a mask.
We were literally in the radiation section of a major hospital to talk to the doctor about "my" brother's cancer and the doctor and nurses just let my adoptive parents not wear masks
One of my coworkers reads virology textbooks "for fun" in his spare time and didn't know covid increases your risk for stroke. Every one of my coworkers that I've told that to has been shocked which like it is because they aren't looking into covid but also shows just how shitty the dissemination of info about covid is
I know a bunch of people with COVID right now and one of them was in the hospital last week. So I know at least it's still happening
- Wastewater data collection ended in July so no clue.
Anecdotally:
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Seen a surge of cases mostly among folks in their 40's or older.
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Jesus Christ is it spreading 'round the pubs again.
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Buncha them got similar symptoms that I hadn't seen in COVID before this summer (like throwing up frequently and stomach pains).
I got Covid a couple weeks back and it did make me lose my appetite and I did throw up a couple times, which was unusual for sure
Buncha them got similar symptoms that I hadn't seen in COVID before this summer (like throwing up frequently and stomach pains).Interesting. I had new symptoms from it but no vomit or stomach issues. Just fatigue (normal) and microclotting (never had before)
Yes, I can tell I got it cause it invariably fucks with my hormones and makes me very horny, the flu doesn't do that
I've seen covid likened to aids in its functioning on this site. Part of covid has been bodies attacking themselves, lung tissue for instance. it could be that the covid is somehow targeting either the hormones themselves, or the receptors for them in the body. In which case the lab leak was almost certainly orchestrated by ron desantis.
yeah idk. usually it goes back to normal after a couple weeks but god damn im annoying to my bf till then
any sudden deluge of friends/family getting sick
yes, though they insist it's a cold/flu and refuse to get tested
Fuck. I was using biobot.io for wastewater monitoring. Apparently, that's no longer active as the contract expired.
As a fun bonus, Flu season should start kicking into the gear in the next weeks. Just gonna hermit mode, nasal spray, and n-95 for the rest of my days.
any sudden deluge of friends/family getting sick
Yes, several people I know got COVID within the past week.
Recently? No. I have friends and family that work in medicine and teaching, and COVID never really went away. Nobody masks anymore though, so yea
