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I feel like my life has been shortened by at least a decade, maybe 2. I find it incredibly hard to focus on any task, and haven't really be able to do anything productive since.
It's only the grace of being barely within retirement that has saved me and my family from going homeless, so far. If I can just make it to partial social security, at the end of 2025, we'll be ok.
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An N95 mask or better protects maybe. The other common masks are useless against Omicron. Maybe a respirator type mask? COVID is here with us just like the common cold/flu. It's never going away.
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First, it doesn’t seem like it is the same as the common cold. I’ve had it twice now. It sucked both times, hard. I’ve had plenty of colds, not one came close. The flu felt worse but for a much shorter time, the duration of the suckiness I think wins out with covid.
Second, why did “they” need to test a new drug or so rapidly? Why couldn’t they just go through the normal process and make tons of money off of it like other pharmaceuticals?
There are people who've only caught covid once? Everybody I know's had it multiple times.
October 2021 - Delta - 2 weeks of fewer without break, loss of apetite, first few days fatigue I could hardly move around apartment, though only relatively mild coughing, 3 weeks without smell. wife caught it from me just days later, she was quite the opposite, almost no symptoms besides pretty horrible cough for more than a month, we have both extremely healthy BMI, no chronic issues
~June 2022 and September 2022 - Omicron - I am fully unvaccinated and I'm grateful to my own immune system and mother nature for opportunity it provides for us to feel safe, if you take care of your body.
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An N95 mask or better protects maybe. The other common masks are useless against Omicron. Maybe a respirator type mask? COVID is here with us just like the common cold/flu. It's never going away.
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The common cold doesn't infect organs through the ACE2 receptor, including: heart, pancreas, brain and so on.
Not sure what you mean with "generally high intelligence states", to me it's almost a meaningless statement. Whatever high intelligence you mean with that they're wrong, we know that COVID isn't the normal cold and that it can wreck your body much more than the common rhinovirus...
> Luckily, those free-thinkers saw the plan early and stressed to the community to not get the vaccine.
Why do you value contrarians in such higher regard than the medical and scientific community? Is it a search for a truth that only you know and to be special or are you just generally a contrarian, cynical person that loves to go against the grain?
I have many reservations about how governments tackled the pandemic, that doesn't mean that it's a hoax, that doesn't mean it isn't dangerous. I had it twice and didn't suffer much more than the brain fog for a couple of weeks and losing my taste and smell the first time for 5 days, at the same time I know people who died from this.
I seriously cannot comprehend how people after 3 years into this can still believe it's all a hoax, it's mind-boggling and I've tried hard to empathise and understand where it stems from but it seems so far away from actual reality that I simply cannot comprehend. The depths of human stupidity are probably too deep for my simpleton mind to understand...
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> like flu/colds were prior to Covid; where it's an honor rule with no benefit of being honest and staying home when sick no benefit, except for your own health? If you have the flu, Covid or any other serious infection, you should definitely stay at home and get some rest - not for others, but for yourself.
Sure, but without mandated paid sick leave, people don't stay home. When it's the difference between going to work to scrape by, or stay home and have trouble making rent or buying food, most folks choose to go to work sick. We're a society that doesn't value collective health very much.
I simply do not understand how the USA doesn't provide sick leave for workers, does that stem from a lack of trust between employers and employees? It seems to me that the only reason to make it difficult for people to get paid leave when they're sick is that employers feel it'd be abused and hence treat their employees as children, perpetuating the cycle of mistrust. I cannot see another reason for such a basic need for the general health of society to be missing...
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Zero times here (: I make all of my own meals and always wear a mask out. I interact with old people so there's no room for me to act like a child about health anymore. I can't really fault the people who are vaxxed and choose not to mask up anymore. So many people are refusing vaccinations that we will never see the end of this disease.
I find people taking this strategy interesting, especially as we approach the 3 year mark. Do you plan on doing this forever? Is there something you expect to change that would lower your/the risk thus allowing you to live a more normal social life? ("Normal" for lack of better word) For context, I've been back in the office for more than a year at this point (haven't worn a mask in a year either). I'm pretty sure pe…
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Zero times here (: I make all of my own meals and always wear a mask out. I interact with old people so there's no room for me to act like a child about health anymore. I can't really fault the people who are vaxxed and choose not to mask up anymore. So many people are refusing vaccinations that we will never see the end of this disease.
>So many people are refusing vaccinations that we will never see the end of this disease. I'm one of those people. I didn't want the vaccine after having long covid, because I believed natural immunity was much better than training my immune system on an earlier version of the virus. I was right.[1] Not only that - but unvaccinated were shown to have the same viral load even if they did get infected.[2] So why are yo…
My family and I have been supremely careful Mar 2020. I read a lot of the research and preprints and am concerned about long term system impacts of repeat infections. Despite huge numbers of precautions, we all finally caught it about ten days ago. Still positive, still coughing, still tired. We can lower risk, but it seems that no level of caution is truly enough, given that others don't care. I'm really not sure wh…
And because of that I actually got some other health problem, related to the inactivities during isolation.
I think in the end we just need to think in terms of harm reduction. Mental health, as well as other health issues besides contracting COVID are also important. If we reduce the risk in one area too much, we increase the harm in other areas.
One thing that we need to be careful is not to swing to another extreme. Some would start giving up on mask. But to me having masks on us make me feel safer to go out which makes me goes out more. But we have teared down some extreme level of precaution that makes us very tired of getting outside (to be specific a small quarantine zone which is time consuming and troublesome.)