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[-] Aradina@lemmy.ml 69 points 2 months ago

"What could it beeee! Also why are you still masking?"

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 64 points 2 months ago

Folks were giving me grief for masking up when I caught it while visiting my grandma. Well, they can eat my ass, my 80 year old Grandma did not contract Covid because I took it seriously and masked and isolated.

[-] vegeta1@hexbear.net 66 points 2 months ago

Just seasonal. Ignore the excess deaths desolate

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 48 points 2 months ago

Deadly august flus are totally common right?

[-] vegeta1@hexbear.net 30 points 2 months ago

Thats summer right?

[-] rootsbreadandmakka@hexbear.net 57 points 2 months ago

Was supposed to video chat with my friend the other day.

he hits me up and goes "sorry man I can't talk today. I'm sick and can't get out of bed."

With a cold? A cold has so knocked you on your ass that you haven't been able to get out of bed for days? Of course he won't actually test so to him he just has a cold.

[-] SnowySkyes@hexbear.net 38 points 2 months ago

To be fair, I recently had an illness of some sort that fatigued the absolute fuck out of me. I tested 6 times for COVID and all of them came up negative. Still have no idea wtf it was.

[-] Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

the BEST covid tests have 80% accuracy on the BEST day to test

your shitty rapid test prob has 60% accuracy on that day, and declining every day afterwards

alternatively your immune system is fucked from covid and now colds and flus fuck you up

the best way to test for covid is stool tests but crackers are dumb so this doesn't happen

[-] SnowySkyes@hexbear.net 28 points 2 months ago

Or it could be the chronic fatigue I've been dealing with for almost 15 years now. I just haven't dealt with it in about a year so I had forgotten about it.

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[-] spectre@hexbear.net 22 points 2 months ago

A "common cold" can still knock you on your ass for sure

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[-] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The last couple of time I’ve thought I’ve been sick I used the tests I got from Biden but they always come back negative and so has my partners. I feel like/assume the tests don’t do a great job with the new strains

E: not saying people shouldn’t test this just reminded me about my frustration around testing

[-] rootsbreadandmakka@hexbear.net 27 points 2 months ago

Yeah the rapid tests can only really tell you if you have it, they can't really confirm a negative. The CDC recommendation is to test twice within 48 hours, thrice in 72 if you're having symptoms. Which sort of negates the usefulness of the free tests when you're only giving out like a couple per household. We need free and abundant PCR testing.

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

They also might have expired, and have a pretty bad false-negative rate.

[-] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 27 points 2 months ago

This actually is what happens to me every time I get a cold, the flu, RSV, anything other than just seasonal allergies.

A few years back I had a cold for like 6 weeks. Tested negative for Covid, Influenza, and RSV multiple times each during the illness but could barely even make it to the bathroom, drink, or eat.

[-] abc@hexbear.net 21 points 2 months ago

rat-salute-2 as someone whose body also goes "you must sleep for 18 hours straight anytime you feel bad" I get it.

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[-] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 43 points 2 months ago

FYI this seasons Flu and COVID boosters are now available. get vaxxed!

[-] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

i'm probably putting mine off til october or so to see if i can survive the holiday season without getting covid this year

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 23 points 2 months ago

Yeah, at $200 a pop, I gotta time it for my money's worth.

I wonder if novavax is any cheaper.🤔

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[-] QueerCommie@hexbear.net 37 points 2 months ago

Source so I can dunk on libs?

I’ve been diligently masking and handwashing and I feel a tingle in my throat like there’s an illness coming on :/. I’ve seen exactly two masked people in the entirety of the last year.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 32 points 2 months ago

I hope it's not the Rona. If you do test positive try to get Paxlovid if you can. It stopped my symptoms overnight.

[-] rootsbreadandmakka@hexbear.net 27 points 2 months ago
[-] edge@hexbear.net 51 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

My husband just spent five days in a Plano hospital. They took a chest xray and a chest CT, and tested him for flu and RSV. Refused - refused - to test him for Covid.
Which tells me cases are on the rise and the local hospitals don't want the numbers associated with them.
Same thing happend two years go at a different Plano hospital. He developed a fever and symptoms while in the hospital recovering from surgery. Hospital absolutely refused to discuss Covid, consider Covid or do a Covid test. Two days later I had Covid. (I had been masking everywhere except occasionally alone in the room with him.)
Then they tested him. And immediately sent him home so that I, so sick I could barely move, could continue his surgical recovery care at home. Those bastards.

wtf hospitals just straight up refusing to test for COVID.

[-] Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

pretty soon the all-cause general mortality rate will be doctored as well

all data will be even more fake than it already is and millions will die and their deaths will not even be registered in order to keep up the facade of normalcy

they are already banning masks and banning covid tests

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[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 27 points 2 months ago

That wastewater level spike in the askto thread wtf

[-] QueerCommie@hexbear.net 24 points 2 months ago

I knew everyone was sick here, but that’s impressive. I’m still curious about the death rate stat.

[-] rootsbreadandmakka@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago

haha I don't know what I was thinking about. For some reason I was focused on the "what is this stomach bug" part of the post and for some reason thought you were asking for a source on that lol

[-] QueerCommie@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

lol, that’s fine. Thank you either way :)

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[-] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 23 points 2 months ago
[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago

Which is obscene. Outside of a natural disaster, if you were to just randomly kill off millions of your elderly and immunocompromised population you would be running a negative excess mortality for years.

[-] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago

my personal favorite (not) is that traffic fatalities are up :(

[-] xapr@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 2 months ago

Possibly also related to COVID, since it affects people's brains.

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[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

"The Leftovers" was a show about how 2% of the population vanished into thin air simultaneously. The world goes fucking bananas trying to figure it out and come up with an explanation. It was aired from 2014 to 2017.

It's almost comical now that we're """post"""-covid. It's killed around 0.4% of the US population. Looking back at the show, the government was way too competent and people were way too rational. Zombie shows/movies have been the same way. Not only do people try to hide or ignore their symptoms, other people will deliberately risk infection to "own the libs" or whatever the fuck.

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[-] Edie@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Denmark, Dec 17 & 25, 2023

26% & 25%

agony-shivering

Don't worry though, "It's a disease that is here to stay and must eventually be normalised" [-Danish CDC: SSI]

[-] Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 2 months ago

ive also been masking in an area where no one else does it's so frustrating

[-] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 25 points 2 months ago
[-] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I was just in a stuffy auditorium with 1000 other students for an hour (I did not know in advance that I was going to be there), so I'm pretty sure I'll get sick. meow-tableflip

I need to start bringing a mask in my book bag, even if nobody else on campus wears one. I managed to make it all these years without the rona (until now?)

[-] abc@hexbear.net 20 points 2 months ago

REAL. I'm still testing negative on the covid tests I am still going through from the last time I got some free ones (and thus I am pretty sure they don't detect the new strain) but I am convinced this is what I have because charles-agony my entire body is sore, my throat is still raw from vomiting every other hour Tuesday night after bed, and I keep coughing.

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[-] SteamedHamberder@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago
[-] TheModerateTankie@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago
[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

Didn't finish the job though. disgost

[-] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago

Basically going to have a double to triple flu season every year now for the foreseeable future ...

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[-] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

Ok, seriously, what should be the approach on a societal level? The whole point of masks and isolation was to prevent spreading not in general for the sake of preventing it, but as a way to "flatten the curve" as a way to make people get vaccinated hopefully before catching it for the first time, and to prevent the overload and collapse of the sanitary system.

I'm asking from ignorance because I'm not an epidemiologist, whether it makes sense for individuals to wear masks to slow the spread during normal periods of healthcare not collapsing, and in a scenario where already the overwhelming majority of the population has been exposed to the virus and to vaccines; or whether it's best to let people get immunity through normal exposure to the virus as we've been doing with basically every other seasonal virus in existence (with vaccinations available for at-risk individuals)

[-] Owl@hexbear.net 21 points 2 months ago

Quarantines based on contact tracing, ample sick leave, culture of wearing a mask when feeling sick, easy access to tests, vaccines.

If every country did it, covid would still be around, but getting stuck in quarantine would become a less and less frequent annoyance. Eventually the spread would be low enough that the mutation rate would settle down, and vaccines would start being more effective.

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[-] fart@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

exposure to the virus does not grant immunity. notice how it's still raging

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[-] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

The ~~Gulf War~~ COVID-19 Pandemic Did Not Take Place brump corona-whitehouse

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

Never understood that. Since covid hit I have tested obsessively every time I get a stomach ache, a cough, clogged sinuses, anything that's even one covid symptom. Never had it (all tests returned negative) and am an N95 enjoyer, and I'm still worried as fuck.

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