COVID-19 - On the Ground

[twocoach]

welp...I feel like a warmed over dog turd. Honestly can't remember the last time I was sick (outside of vaccine shot 2, day 2).

whole family is sick...cool. Hope its not....but if it is....come on vaccine its your time to shine! Ill be fine with a good night's sleep in sure...do worry about the kids though.

Same here. Felt awful Tuesday so got a covid test and a strep test to be sure. Both negative. Doc said there is just a lot of crud both viral and bacterial going around locally. With my oldest coming home for Fall Break and the little one in the house, I just wanted to be sure. Finally feeling more like myself today.

Hope you and your household are feeling better soon.

[sdoyel]

I had a sinus thing a few weeks ago that had me down. Now the wife and 2 kids are all on antibiotics. Negative Covid tests. Sinus infections… I think it’s the weather and changing of the seasons. Its been really dry down here in Texas. Dust, ragweed, etc.

[TDub]

welp...I feel like a warmed over dog turd. Honestly can't remember the last time I was sick (outside of vaccine shot 2, day 2).

whole family is sick...cool. Hope its not....but if it is....come on vaccine its your time to shine! Ill be fine with a good night's sleep in sure...do worry about the kids though.

Same here. Felt awful Tuesday so got a covid test and a strep test to be sure. Both negative. Doc said there is just a lot of crud both viral and bacterial going around locally. With my oldest coming home for Fall Break and the little one in the house, I just wanted to be sure. Finally feeling more like myself today.

Hope you and your household are feeling better soon.

its my daughters first year at school.....I have a feeling there's gonna be many weekends of sickness this year. I just normally don't get sick even when the rest of the family is.

weekend of sleep should heal us up. except.....me. I got too much shit to do. We'll see how motivated I am to get off the couch.

[twocoach]

welp...I feel like a warmed over dog turd. Honestly can't remember the last time I was sick (outside of vaccine shot 2, day 2).

whole family is sick...cool. Hope its not....but if it is....come on vaccine its your time to shine! Ill be fine with a good night's sleep in sure...do worry about the kids though.

Same here. Felt awful Tuesday so got a covid test and a strep test to be sure. Both negative. Doc said there is just a lot of crud both viral and bacterial going around locally. With my oldest coming home for Fall Break and the little one in the house, I just wanted to be sure. Finally feeling more like myself today.

Hope you and your household are feeling better soon.

its my daughters first year at school.....I have a feeling there's gonna be many weekends of sickness this year. I just normally don't get sick even when the rest of the family is.

weekend of sleep should heal us up. except.....me. I got too much shit to do. We'll see how motivated I am to get off the couch.

Elementary school kids normally bring home all the nasty stuff although the last two years being masked at school has been the healthiest our house has been in forever. All my girls are just battling allergies right now. Ragweed is currently insane here. I took a few good naps Wednesday and Thursday which I never normally do and woke up Friday morning feeling like I was headed back in the right direction.

Most "shit to do" can inevitably wait a day or two. I hate missing the few decent windows I have in a weekend to get errands and household stuff done but nothing on my list is ever truly a "must do". Get yourself right and good luck to you!

[Mjl]

Magic Johnson is in a huge arena full of unmasked people, sitting amongst them, also unmasked.

That seems like a poor decision.

[sdoyel]

[zsn]

I had a sinus thing a few weeks ago that had me down. Now the wife and 2 kids are all on antibiotics. Negative Covid tests. Sinus infections… I think it’s the weather and changing of the seasons. Its been really dry down here in Texas. Dust, ragweed, etc.

What a world we live in when we’re glad and/or hopeful that it’s just a sinus or other upper respiratory bacterial infection! I had a similar situation in early August that we had to test a couple of times to rule out Covid ( on successive days; once after a video video and once for in person visit). I have lost my sense of smell in the past without raising any concerns. No fever for a few days but then started hitting 102F. Who knows where I picked it up, they are not as diligent disinfecting the surfaces in the stores anymore, and after the isolation our immunity is way down anyway.

Hope you feel better soon, TDub

[sdoyel]

[PhDhawk]

It's just such a bad analogy, because it ignores the most important part, which is that you will transmit the virus to others.

And wearing a diaper every day is much more of a pain in the ass than taking 15 minutes out of one day to get a shot and doing that a total of 2-3 times.

The better way to look at it is, if you had a 0.3% chance of dying, and you could get two harmless shots that are proven safe, that make your chances of dying 0.003%, why in the hell would you not do it?

[pdub]

That's a better analogy.

[CrimsonNBlue]

It's just such a bad analogy, because it ignores the most important part, which is that you will transmit the virus to others.

And wearing a diaper every day is much more of a pain in the ass than taking 15 minutes out of one day to get a shot and doing that a total of 2-3 times.

The better way to look at it is, if you had a 0.3% chance of dying, and you could get two harmless shots that are proven safe, that make your chances of dying 0.003%, why in the hell would you not do it?

Because there is no difference between .3 and .003.

Zeros don't count if it is to the right of the decimal point.

[PhDhawk]

I just love the argument that something kills you 1 out of 50 times or 3 out of 1,000 times is no threat.

If 3 out of every 1,000 people who went to the grand canyon died, no one would go, who the fuck would take that risk?

btw about 6 million people visit the grand canyon every year. 12 die, so about 0.0002%. So that's basically the same as the 734,000 who've died of covid19 in the US, right?

[Deleted User 89]

seatbelts reduce the risk of death by ONLY 45%, and risk of injury by ONLY 50%

i wonder if the randy’s of this world bow down to the man’s control and wear their seatbelts?

[PhDhawk]

seatbelts reduce the risk of death by ONLY 45%, and risk of injury by ONLY 50%

i wonder if the randy’s of this world bow down to the man’s control and wear their seatbelts?

randy fequently points out that a lot of the covid19 victims are unhealthy, which is true, but does he know that exercising only reduces your risk of dying of a heart attack by 20-25%.

Only about 0.2% of the population dies of a heart attack per year, so reducing that to 0.15% is apparently nothing. So, stop exercising, according to randy.

[jfish26]

I just love the argument that something kills you 1 out of 50 times or 3 out of 1,000 times is no threat.

If 3 out of every 1,000 people who went to the grand canyon died, no one would go, who the fuck would take that risk?

btw about 6 million people visit the grand canyon every year. 12 die, so about 0.0002%. So that's basically the same as the 734,000 who've died of covid19 in the US, right?

The list of things that normal people willingly do at that risk level is pretty short, right?

It's probably comprised almost entirely of emergencies where that risk is a choice over something worse? Like jump out of a second story window because a building is on fire, or have complex surgery to fix/treat some other, worse, thing?

[PhDhawk]

I just love the argument that something kills you 1 out of 50 times or 3 out of 1,000 times is no threat.

If 3 out of every 1,000 people who went to the grand canyon died, no one would go, who the fuck would take that risk?

btw about 6 million people visit the grand canyon every year. 12 die, so about 0.0002%. So that's basically the same as the 734,000 who've died of covid19 in the US, right?

The list of things that normal people willingly do at that risk level is pretty short, right?

It's probably comprised almost entirely of emergencies where that risk is a choice over something worse? Like jump out of a second story window because a building is on fire, or have complex surgery to fix/treat some other, worse, thing?

yeah, I can't even come up with any examples.

Even dumb things that we all accept as dangerous, like drunken driving, which kills about 10,000 people a year in the US would come with a lethality rate of far less than 1% when you think about all the drunk drivers on the road per year, I'm assuming there are significantly more than a million instances of drunk driving per year.

Maybe something like stepping down in a flooded basement without shutting off the power?

[sdoyel]

Lulz

[TDub]

well I'm pretty sure this is the good ol Rona

day 4...not much improvement. Though I haven't had much in the way of respiratory distress.

the wife and daughter have been coughing and hacking and feverish.

my boy and me have had fevers but both of us have had more intestinal issues but without the respiratory issues. He seems to be pulling out of it other than just being a little more tired the usual. The rest of us are still dragging pretty hard.

[sdoyel]

Can you take a test to find out?

[TDub]

Can you take a test to find out?

been trying to .... the state is apparently out of the take home tests...and apparently they're only doing free testing on Fridays around here now. so...is what it is. I'm not gonna make and appointment and sit in an office and pay for them to tell me yes or no. ill just stay home until we feel better.