New covid varriant!
 

This new Covid19 varriant is now upon us. If your suddenly come down with that cough, congestion and chills you probably have it. Get tested asap so you can help others avoid it. Walgreens has the inside test for $19.00. You get results in less then one hour.
My wife and I got Covid on the plane trip back from Europe. Hit us hard once we got back home. We are fortunate we didn't get it when we were on our trip over there. Much easier to deal with it back in our own home! Take care.

We seem to have both caught it last day or so on cruise. My symptoms were very minor, wife got to go for ride in ambulance to ER. Paxlovid took care of her symptoms very quickly.

Covid will outlive us.

No stupid judgment, please. Just assume I look better with the mask on, and let it go at that. As for the vaccine, one of my hobbies is getting poked with needles. Acupuncture is fun! Gimme the shot.

You mean you are really wearing a mask? Fair enough, judgement of stupid withheld 😂😂😂

I made you laugh! Admit it!🙃

You are killing me with laughter…I just assume I look better with a mask on…lol…get vaccines is my hobby…lol!

I got this latest updated, whatever Covid vaccine and there was zero side-effect. I don’t know how they did it, I got Pfizer as always and expected a day of fever as usual. Nothing, this time, nada.

You win, I admit it

This Covid thing is awesome. I haven't heard of a case of the Flu, in over 3 years.

Got keep the billions rolling it.

Sorry to hear you had this but what makes you think you got it from the plane trip?

:BigApplause:

How about those Lions?!

[quote=lottoguy;2284007]this new covid19 varriant is now upon us. If your suddenly come down with that cough, congestion and chills you probably have it. Get tested asap so you can help others avoid it. Walgreens has the inside test for $19.00. You get results in less then one hour.
My wife and i got covid on the plane trip back from europe. Hit us hard once we got back home. We are fortunate we didn't get it when we were on our trip over there. Much easier to deal with it back i

The OP symptoms describe a cold. I got sick a week ago on a cruise with the symptoms like the OPs. I had a covid test kit and it was negative. Typical cold, now just have to wait it out

I'm completely lost on the folks insisting to get tested. I would hope if you are sick you will stay away from people regardless if it's Covid, flu, hepatitis, rhinovirus, whatever. Why keep giving money to the pharma companies for tests. If your sick you are sick.

If you are so sick you need a hospital they will test you.

I like pie.

Not seeing anything embarrassing about that post.

Yes, people died of covid, but let's look at data. As a percentage of pop, Covid deaths were .03% of US population. Under age 40, as a percent of pop under 40, covid deaths were 0%. Yet, we locked kids out of schools for months/years? Healthy pro0le, who obviously had immunity, lost their jobs? Yes, every life is precious, but it's important to look at facts vs hysteria.

COVID-19 deaths by age U.S. 2023 | Statista

Here's the general rule of medical testing: If you're not going to do anything different based on the results of a test, don't order it in the first place. So, yes, if you are going to self quarantine followed by a period of wearing a mask in public based on the recommendations du jour, don't test.

The only effect COVID has had upon the lives of my wife and myself was from the panicked overreaction of others. We both had it early on: for my part it wasn't fun but I've had much worse cases of the flu. For my wife it was even less: maybe a day or three of feeling puny but that was all. For both of us the major headache was the interruption in our golf.

We didn't buy into the chicken-little reactions of others, living precisely as we always had aside from the times that mask-wearing was mandatory, and those times when seating was hard to find at those half-filled restaurants.

Not buying into it this time either.

We both have Covid
 

My husband and I both have Covid right now. He's just about over it, I'm still struggling, I'm about 4 days behind him.

I read through all the comments and I hate how much covid has divided us. It's not the flu and it's not the common cold. Covid left me with diabetes 18 months ago. I am now dealing with it again and it most likely will attack my pancreas again, nothing anyone can do about it, it's just this new illness we have to deal with. I'm not saying this for sympathy but to point out that this isn't the flu or a cold.

We lost a dear friend to covid in 2022. I've never lost a friend to the flu or a cold. So please take it seriously enough that you respect other's health that you do quarantine from them if you're sick. If you had/have Covid and it was/is mild, be thankful.

Yea, then I guess I should get another shot so I can get another blood clot

And what about the young ones that didn't fare well with the vaccine.

Well said. If I could find the clapping smilies, you would have had at least 3 of them.

Only response I can come up with is who cares?

Absolutely, I believe they are BOGO :1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

Thanks Doc! I will remember your advice. If nothing will change based on the test results, then don't bother testing.

Does that site happen to give the percentage of Villagers under 40 years old? How about the statistics on deaths for those over 60? Yes, it's important to look at facts.

I have life long friends who have been heading a medical research in CA after a career heading a chicago hospital. They warned all their personal friends to walk out of a hospital at all cost if they tried to put you on a ventilator. They knew way ahead this was a deadly ending. My heart goes out to all that lost loved ones on ventilators. The medical leaders who knew were threatened with losing their funding and ruined careers if went public. I have never had a flu shot and will never get a vaccine. It’s been 20+ years since I’ve had the flu. Maybe I’m lucky and focus on my immune system? I had Covid once and quickly got on ivermectin before they made it impossible to get. All I can say is, for me, it worked like a charm and my symptoms were gone in 5 days. I feel strongly the world did more damage by shutting things down. Both economically, mentally, and all the people that died who were not allowed medical care for other things that were needed.

The purpose of the test is to not only discover whether you have Covid, but to also find out if you are still contagious. You can still be contagious after you are symptom free. This protects others from getting Covid. I know a number of people who have died from Covid as well as many who suffer debilitating long term effects that have seriously impacted their quality of life. Having survived both cancer and an autoimmune condition, I appreciate every day of good health!

It always puzzles me why some people feel the need to make such a comment. The people who do care will comment, the ones who don't care will scroll on by like they usually do. I guess condescension comes naturally to some people and feeds their tiny ego.

It’s not a lie that masks do NOTHING.

Same here. We have a relative who had covid 3 years ago and still has long term effects that have seriously impaired their quality of life. Like someone else said, it's NOT the flu, it's NOT a cold. The sooner you find out you have it, you can get treatment, and you can avoid giving it to someone else. I think it's called basic human consideration, which this country seems to find in short supply these days.

No, he’s pretty much summed it up…

Me either. Some have a hard time the truth though…

I was going to pass, but there is so much misinformation in that post that I feel compelled to set the record straight.

First of all, your "lifelong friends who have been heading medical research in CA after a career heading a Chicago hospital." cannot possibly believe what was posted about mechanical ventilation. Why invent it in the first place? And nobody's life was ever saved by ventilatory support? Everyone put on a respirator dies??? What a load of nonsense. Now, in all fairness, once a person is sick enough to require a ventilator, their prognosis has taken a nosedive anyway. End stage type 2 COPD (so called blue bloaters) often survive multiple intubations, type 1 (pink puffers) almost always succumb. Bottom line, survivability of a period of mechanical ventilation is highly dependent on the reason for intubation and the underlying condition of the patient. IT IS FAR FROM 100% FATAL.

Second, COVID symptoms that "were gone in 5 days" probably had nothing to do with the snake oil (I mean ivermectin) that was taken, they most likely would have resolved on their own like most cases of COVID.

Thirdly, go ahead and don't take any vaccines. But realize you are getting the same preventative medical care for infectious disease as the residents of Europe circa 1342.

Lastly, I have to agree that shutting down the world economies was detrimental and far from the solution. Let's hope our officials never lead us down that road again.

i got it yesterday totally fine

In case of interest - here's the currently circulating respiratory pathogens detected by a widely used infectious disease diagnostic system.

BIOFIRE(R) Syndromic Trends

But current guidance says to stay home for 5 days from symptom onset. It doesn’t say keep testing.

Unfortunately the purpose of that guidance was to keep the economy running and people working. It usually takes twice that length of time to not be contagious and the only way to know for sure is to test.