Too late now for Paxlovid then, I think it should have been taken within the first 5 days to be effective. I wish you well - whatever political discussions we have, we are all humans and Rockets fans. (BTW, I also have all the symptoms, took my first Covid test in ages, was negative.)
Had a Truther at work come down with an illness about 5 weeks ago. He is still in bad shape, barely making it through the work day. He wont admit long Covid, but he knows.
The trigger for secondary autoimmune diseases has gone through the roof since covid (makes sense given how inflammatory it is) new onset type 1 diabetes and many other auto immune illnesses as well as severity (complications like DKA) through the roofX nasty nasty disease. It’s no nice that the Chinese want to continue there vertical breading grounds in their disgusting meat markets
Very well potentially, but the meat markets are still a risk and not ruled out, the kind of inhumane disgusting behavior there need to be ended permanently. The world has been too soft China imo
I'm curious on percent of population that never got covid. I either won lottery (probably not) or need to keep quiet. I had friends and some family get it bad w/ vaccine or without it. Some mild cses, but fortunately no family members w/ vent but a few friends that did. Fortunately family members that did get it had more of just regular cold symptoms. I am also not here to say it's not real blah blah or be an idiot. I just hope I either had mild non-existent case orrrrrr won the lottery. Obviously with the rate it mutates it's not going to last forever if someone did win lotto, I just would probably have rather had a mild case I'm unaware of (maybe?) vs immunity, because I know rare genetic immunity would most likely catch up at some point due to mutation rate (I'd think). I haven't read latest studies but sounds like one form basically let you have such mild symptoms that you didn't get the bad reactions/inflammation or ever lose smell/taste. I had a trash sinus infection 10 years ago and remember really losing taste/smell for few days while antibiotics helped it. I couldn't imagine dealing with that. I mean some people are dealing with an altered smell/taste or other long covid/brain fog and that sounds awful. I am also wondering if my wonderful central TX allergies played a role. Ie immune system wise I've been lucky/blessed vs others before covid but certain times of year immune system over acts on cedar/grass etc etc. Allergy shot training helped curb some of it but when it's bad part of year/sudden onset, I'm on regular regimen of flonase/azelastine and allergy pill, but I'll take that over alternative, so not complaining.
This is interesting, I meant to reply on Neanderthal thing too, I actually have 60% more vs population. I am wondering if certain genetic segment with Neanderthal makes more likely at risk vs just having % from 23andme.
Officially, my wife and I haven't had it. Isolated the first 18 months as best as we could, wore masks, got vaccinated--we just got the booster last week. Unofficially, we think we have had it. My oldest daughter was on a 3-week college class trip to Greece in January of 2020. She was sick when she came home and during the first week of Feb, Mrs. rimrocker got waylaid by a really bad bug. She said she was as sick as she had ever been. A week later I got it and was down for a three weeks with flu-like symptoms and no energy. We suspect but can't prove that we had COVID. Oldest daughter got diagnosed with it on a trip to Scotland in 2022 and as far as we can tell, our youngest has not had it--she's religious about wearing masks in public. At any rate, we continue basic public health actions and pay attention to trends in our area. It helps that I'm retired and don't have an office to report to and my wife only has to go in once a week for her job.
Had it in April 2020. Worst three days of my life with headaches and light sensitivity. I got past it. About five months later, I had prostate issues that led to dysuria and incontinence (guess that's my long-Covid side effects). Took many visits to specialists and urgent care to fix that issues. Pain I would only wish on my worst enemies.
When you have to sleep with pee pads (like a dog) and wear manpons to combat the incontinence, it is so awful.
Was at Oktoberfest last night, now one of my buddies who was there tested positive (saw him again today). Pretty sure we will all get it again lol.
COVID-19 Leaves Its Mark on the Brain. Significant Drops in IQ Scores Are Noted Research shows that even mild COVID-19 can lead to the equivalent of seven years of brain aging https://www.scientificamerican.com/...the-brain-significant-drops-in-iq-scores-are/
Thanks for the bright and cheery ****ing reminder, compadre. Covid is no ****ing joke. And the brain-aging-equivalent aspect on top of normal aging issues is why it's almost a death sentence to Boomers. They deny everything anyway so I guess it's a wash. Can't wait to see how it ****s Gen-X up in ~10 years. Maybe Mike Judge was even more prescient than we thought.
