How is The Coronavirus affecting your life?

nivek

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My wife’s friend came down with the COVID virus this past week. At first she thought is was the flu. As the days progressed she went and got tested. She is now self isolating. Her husband is taking care of day to day affairs as she is alone in one of the spare bedrooms. The last we heard she had a 101.6 temperature.

My wife’s friend and her husband just moved into a new condominium. She thinks she got the virus from the man in charge of constructing these houses.

What about her husband, did he test negative?...

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Standingstones

Celestial
What about her husband, did he test negative?...

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Surprisingly, no. He has his own health issues but he didn’t pick up the COVID virus. They have two dogs that are also being isolated from my wife’s friend.

She is the first person to get infected among our family and friends.
 

Standingstones

Celestial
My wife finally heard from her friend who contracted the Covid virus. She is slowly getting better it seems. She ate somewhat of a meal and her fever has broken. She still has headaches and she is very tired. She never had a problem with taste. This is good news because this woman is 66 years old. She is in the age bracket that she should be worrying about recovering.
 

nivek

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Our first year in the Age of Covid is almost over going out with a bang of peaks in new cases and deaths...Seems almost magical the nations of the world pulling a vaccine out of their arses and call it salvation...We can't cure HIV nor the common cold but a novel coronavirus that's killing thousands a day, no problem, amazing we have the knowledge and technology for this but not for that...Sorry, I forgot, we aren't supposed to question such things, just take your shot and keep quiet, your government and big pharm knows best...

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nivek

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The local health department have begun administering the vaccine to those who qualify in the list below, Phase 1A and 1B...

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pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
Our first year in the Age of Covid is almost over going out with a bang of peaks in new cases and deaths...Seems almost magical the nations of the world pulling a vaccine out of their arses and call it salvation...We can't cure HIV nor the common cold but a novel coronavirus that's killing thousands a day, no problem, amazing we have the knowledge and technology for this but not for that...Sorry, I forgot, we aren't supposed to question such things, just take your shot and keep quiet, your government and big pharm knows best...

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I heard Jacques Vallee say something similar about ufology. It isn't that we can't it's that we lack the motivation to make the effort - whatever the topic.

Big pharma would rather you be sick and consume their products; think about all the ills the TV says you have and should ask your doctor about. Pounds and pounds of cure and not a fraction of an ounce of prevention.
 

nivek

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I'm not posting this to discourage getting the vaccine but for the sake of awareness, just be prepared when and if you do to get vaccinated for covid...

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Severe allergic reactions reported in the US after getting COVID-19 vaccine, but CDC says cases are rare

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said early safety monitoring has detected 21 cases of anaphylaxis, a severe allergic reaction, after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.

The cases were detected in a pool of 1,893,360 first doses administered from Dec. 14 to 23. This translates to 11.1 cases of anaphylaxis per 1 million doses, said Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, in a media briefing Wednesday.

This is higher than the flu vaccine, which has an average outcome rate of 1.3 cases per 1 million doses. However, Messonnier said the rate of anaphylaxis in the COVID-19 vaccine is still considered a rare outcome.

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In 86% of the cases, symptoms began within 30 minutes of vaccination, and 81% of them occurred in people with a history of allergies or allergic reactions, including anaphylaxis events. Most of the patients who reported having this severe allergic reaction – 90% – were women.

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Anaphylaxis is a serious, life-threatening allergic reaction and requires immediate medical attention, according to the American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology. Symptoms can include skin rash, nausea, vomiting, difficulty breathing and shock. The most common anaphylactic reactions are to foods, insect stings, medication and latex.

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nivek

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This morning my mother got the first vaccination for covid, she got the Pfizer one...They gave her a card showing she received it, she said her arm went numb for about 10 minutes and was very sore at the area of injection...Her doctor kept her for about 20 minutes before letting her go home making sure she was fine before leaving...

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pepe

Celestial
I'm cracking a bit, I've thrown a heap of weed at this and have set a few days up of just receiving gifts because I need it. I've made a few more purchases today but it's not the same as last night, where have I heard that before..lol..Bet I'm burning more than snoop dog on a big day round the pool.

I've began dancing around, worryingly akin to the behaviour seen in caged animals. So I'm breaching tomorrow with a coordinated essential shop and a coffee while moving. This for me is needed and the mate is a guy I've know since school days with a wicked sense of humour and a big mind.
 

nivek

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Lately I've been preparing for a more worse case scenario with this god-awful pandemic, I think it's only a matter of time and likely a short time, before the highly contagious covid variants become more dominant in my area and in every part of the country spreading like wildfire...The vaccination program is running at a snails pace, there won't be any vaccines available to me until late Spring to early Summer at best guess, but when I get that first injection it's a month or so of a process to get both shots and for the drug to kick-in fully...Until then it's time I severely restrict my movements and contact with people, especially going inside stores like the grocer, so I'm limiting that to once every three weeks and go early in the morning on a day when traffic is minimal to reduce contact with others and exposure...

I'm stocking up a one month supply of dog food in case of a shortage and have been ordering that online now, and I've begun using the pick up service at the local grocer and also at walmart for my groceries...I set up online accounts and tomorrow I'm trying out both shop's pick up service to see how it goes...I pay everything online and drive to a parking area at a prearranged time and they load my order in the trunk of the car, I don't have to get out of my car...There's some meats and other cold items and perishables that I prefer to get myself to pick a good expiration date, that's when I'll go inside the store once every three weeks if iI need to and freeze some food if needed to make it last...

I'm making my own bread again so no need to buy the grocers breads, I have a pasta maker and have made my own pasta before too, I can do that again and may try that soon...I'm planning a larger garden of more variety this coming Spring and purchasing a food dehydrator for things like peppers and onions and purchasing more mason jars for canning vegetables to preserve them longer...I have enough propane storage now to last me two months before refilling, I use a combination of propane fueled heat and a heat pump, of the two types of heat, the propane heaters are cheaper to run than the heat pump...A full tank of gasoline in my car will get me about 358 miles before I need to fill up again, so driving once every 3 weeks will definitely save on fuel...I may drive to places to hike with my dog randomly but it will be places where humans aren't around and there are plenty of woods and places like that to hike in my area...I've been home most of the time lately, my work has been almost non-existent currently but that's fine, I'm in good shape across the board and ready for the coming storm, and it looks like this pandemic is shaping up to be one hell of a storm...

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AD1184

Celestial
Our first year in the Age of Covid is almost over going out with a bang of peaks in new cases and deaths...Seems almost magical the nations of the world pulling a vaccine out of their arses and call it salvation...We can't cure HIV nor the common cold but a novel coronavirus that's killing thousands a day, no problem, amazing we have the knowledge and technology for this but not for that...Sorry, I forgot, we aren't supposed to question such things, just take your shot and keep quiet, your government and big pharm knows best...
From what I have been reading, there are apparently good reasons why SARS-CoV-2 is a much easier target for a vaccine than HIV, which remains highly elusive. HIV is the fastest mutating biological entity known to science. Whereas a particular Covid lineage might mutate at a rate of twice per year, HIV mutates around twice per day.

HIV is also a retro-virus. Meaning that it inserts itself into a cell's own DNA and remains there until the death of the cell. Therefore, after infection, the cell remains infected even in the absence of actual HIV particles in the cell. Covid does not do this.

A healthy human body can get over SARS-CoV-2 infection in a matter of days. HIV infection remains indefinitely, usually until the sufferer's death. This is because it is effectively able to evade the body's immune system, whereas SARS-CoV-2 is not. Just as it is effectively able to avoid the body's immune system, so is HIV able to avoid effective vaccines. A vaccine works by inducing the correct immune response in a person, but because people's immune responses cannot get over HIV infection, no matter how long they are given, no vaccine has yet succeeded.
 
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pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
Checked the local dashboard again. 147 beds filled of 772 available. Earlier maximum was 125. This is the price for holiday retail crapgasm. Bad but considering the numbers of people around here going about their business you would think be a lot worse.

And a year later they are dancing in the streets of Wuhan. Can't get that visual out of my mind. What's wrong with this picture?
 

nivek

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considering the numbers of people around here going about their business you would think be a lot worse.

The more contagious variants haven't spread out fully yet, it's coming and its going to be bad...

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Standingstones

Celestial
I heard Jacques Vallee say something similar about ufology. It isn't that we can't it's that we lack the motivation to make the effort - whatever the topic.

Big pharma would rather you be sick and consume their products; think about all the ills the TV says you have and should ask your doctor about. Pounds and pounds of cure and not a fraction of an ounce of prevention.
When I go to my family doctor these days, the first thing that happens is that my doctor’s nurse goes down a laundry list of shots. Have I had them and if not, do I want the shot. I assume those are big money makers for the practice. The office I go to was bought out a couple of years ago. Previously they never asked me anything, now they ask about a list of at least six shots. I love modern medicine!
 

pepe

Celestial
Lately I've been preparing for a more worse case scenario with this god-awful pandemic, I think it's only a matter of time and likely a short time, before the highly contagious covid variants become more dominant in my area and in every part of the country spreading like wildfire...The vaccination program is running at a snails pace, there won't be any vaccines available to me until late Spring to early Summer at best guess, but when I get that first injection it's a month or so of a process to get both shots and for the drug to kick-in fully...Until then it's time I severely restrict my movements and contact with people, especially going inside stores like the grocer, so I'm limiting that to once every three weeks and go early in the morning on a day when traffic is minimal to reduce contact with others and exposure...

I'm stocking up a one month supply of dog food in case of a shortage and have been ordering that online now, and I've begun using the pick up service at the local grocer and also at walmart for my groceries...I set up online accounts and tomorrow I'm trying out both shop's pick up service to see how it goes...I pay everything online and drive to a parking area at a prearranged time and they load my order in the trunk of the car, I don't have to get out of my car...There's some meats and other cold items and perishables that I prefer to get myself to pick a good expiration date, that's when I'll go inside the store once every three weeks if iI need to and freeze some food if needed to make it last...

I'm making my own bread again so no need to buy the grocers breads, I have a pasta maker and have made my own pasta before too, I can do that again and may try that soon...I'm planning a larger garden of more variety this coming Spring and purchasing a food dehydrator for things like peppers and onions and purchasing more mason jars for canning vegetables to preserve them longer...I have enough propane storage now to last me two months before refilling, I use a combination of propane fueled heat and a heat pump, of the two types of heat, the propane heaters are cheaper to run than the heat pump...A full tank of gasoline in my car will get me about 358 miles before I need to fill up again, so driving once every 3 weeks will definitely save on fuel...I may drive to places to hike with my dog randomly but it will be places where humans aren't around and there are plenty of woods and places like that to hike in my area...I've been home most of the time lately, my work has been almost non-existent currently but that's fine, I'm in good shape across the board and ready for the coming storm, and it looks like this pandemic is shaping up to be one hell of a storm...

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I know you are one for remote places and that's an awful good start and sign that you manage well Hans Solo. My jungle is concrete and full of dangerous creatures from all corners of the planet, why do I feel better about being around orientals during this, has a neurotic feel to the answer.

It's ok if you like yourself all this, I pity those who don't and to some degree those with people around the place. Nice to hear a seam of positivity, I'm in the eye of new variant with one in thirty around here. Going out yesterday was a shot in the arm for me and it will be great to say that quite literally.

I've used just eat once and it was cold so that's the last time also.

I'm going work again soon but all outdoors and remote.
 

nivek

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I found out today that my aunt who lives in Georgia tested positive for Covid and is showing symptoms...I don't know much more than that right now, my brother is trying to get in touch with her family and find out more details...

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