Welp, it finally happened

My girlfriend tested positive for Covid last night, me this morning. It was nice while it lasted.

Hmm... you must have been very close to her for you to catch it too. Can you tell us what happened

I didn't know robots could get COVID

Damn_Underscore posted...

Hmm... you must have been very close to her for you to catch it too. Can you tell us what happened

I'm not one to cohabitate and tell.

Blightzkrieg posted...

I didn't know robots could get COVID

Of course they can. The name is short for 'COmputer VIrus D." Why wouldn't robots be able to get it?

i had a very bad cold a couple months ago. couldnt breathe right and caoughing hard. probably shouldve got tested but just got drunk on dayquil and powered through it

Blightzkrieg posted...

I didn't know robots could get COVID

I got it about a year ago.

Fortunately, it wound up being moderate flu symptoms for about two days and then cold symptoms for a little more than a week.

My best friend got it early though and nearly died.

As it stands now, it mostly just seems to be a sore throat, mild shortness of breath, and generally low stamina. But given that I tested negative last night and positive this morning, it's still early days. My girlfriend's skin hurts all over (which is a weird symptom, but happened with her second vaccine as well, so I guess it's just a personal quirk of her immune response to Covid), she's got a tickly cough, and she could barely stand up without fainting this morning until she'd had a tylenol, but otherwise she's also doing pretty well. We both have intermittent fevers, but they're responding well to tylenol. Fingers crossed it stays this mild, I guess.

RIP i enjoyed your posts while they lasted.

Don't worry, I've willed my account to a fellow PotDer whom I trust to keep up the illusion that I'm still around.

I had COVID about a month ago and it was pretty awful. I'm pretty sure I caught it last year as well, but that was a few months after I'd been vaccinated, so it wasn't honestly that bad; last month's bout was roughly seven months out from a vaccine and I'm told that with the new variants, anything more than six months from a vaccine is basically like you aren't vaccinated at all.

Started as just a scratchy throat for maybe two days, then it just knocked me flat on my ass. Fever, extreme fatigue (I was in bed for a solid 20 hours the first day it hit in earnest), aches, chills - it was as sick as I've been in a good 20 years. Strangely, the coughing didn't come until later, but about a week afterwards I had cough so bad I literally couldn't sleep.

Hopefully you have a better time of it than I did. COVID fucking sucks.

adjl posted...

willed my account

I have the most shrewd suspicion that you are being facetious.

i bet it's schmen

Adjl what's the term for an individual who deliberately dates or fetishises individuals that are seriously ill (like covid or cancer or a really bad tummy ache).

Emetophilia/emetophile

Cacciato posted...

Emetophilia/emetophile

Thanks! I have the opposite right now. Have never been less attracted to adjl as a person. It's like my tenders have permanently recoiled.

Cacciato posted...

Emetophilia/emetophile

That's specifically a fetish for vomit. I'm not sure what the term is for fetishizing illness in general, aside from more broadly getting into concepts like hero/saviour complexes.

darkknight109 posted...

last month's bout was roughly seven months out from a vaccine and I'm told that with the new variants, anything more than six months from a vaccine is basically like you aren't vaccinated at all.

My last booster was Oct 20th, since I don't believe my province has opened up the most recent booster to lower-risk people yet. I'm guessing being vaccinated still counts for something (though it's not like data is readily available with so many governments choosing to pretend the disease is gone now, so I'm a lot less informed now than when there was more open communication happening), but good to know I can't count on that. What a wonderful disease.

darkknight109 posted...

I'm pretty sure I caught it last year as well,

As far as I know, I've never had it, but I've had symptoms that seem an awful lot like Long Covid for the last year or so (chest pain, shortness of breath, and a crippling lack of stamina showing up for a day or two after I do anything physically demanding, none of which have had any apparent cause in the bloodwork, ECGs, stress test, and cardiac ultrasound I've had done). I'm fairly certain I hadn't had Covid to give me that, since both my girlfriend and I had been pretty good about testing regularly even while asymptomatic, but it's not impossible that we both managed to have asymptomatic cases that slipped through the cracks in our testing (I've operated under the assumption that if one of us has it, the other almost certainly will, because we're not exactly isolated from each other). That, or maybe the vaccines can also trigger Long Covid (or similar symptoms), which wouldn't surprise me, but as far as I know there's no body of research to credibly support that possibility yet.

It's all very mysterious and not much fun. Hopefully our current cases remain mild, since we're still in the early days.

EclairReturns posted...

I have the most shrewd suspicion that you are being facetious.

Facetious? I 'ardly know 'er!

i haven't ever gotten a booster and i'm one of the ones most at risk for serious complications from it

that being said i did end up with it at one point, and it very much did suck and i still don't taste right, but this was 2ish years ago at this point. it's also possible that getting it ended up making me more ''vaccinated'' against it just because that's how the immune system works (despite taking medications that are immunosuppressants)

I survived the entire pandemic working on the frontlines at places with people with covid and never once got sick. But earlier this year I had a light cold and tested positive. Only took four years for it to catch me. At this point it's just going to be another endemic disease we will live with.

CrusaderEsper posted...

I survived the entire pandemic working on the frontlines at places with people with covid and never once got sick. But earlier this year I had a light cold and tested positive. Only took four years for it to catch me. At this point it's just going to be another endemic disease we will live with.

correct, it is essentially just a slightly different flu at this point, both with variants and just severity due to herd immunity

it was very bad in the beginning, just because no one has any immunity of any sort, so it ran rampant. the same thing would have happened if influenza didn't exist and then suddenly sprung into existence.

and, much like one of the ways the black plague was defeated, quarantining was an extremely positive thing to do. unfortunately no one really did that.

adjl posted...

I'm guessing being vaccinated still counts for something (though it's not like data is readily available with so many governments choosing to pretend the disease is gone now, so I'm a lot less informed now than when there was more open communication happening), but good to know I can't count on that.

As I understand it, modern variants of COVID are a lot more contagious/better at evading immunity than the early, 2020-2021-era variants, but a lot less lethal, which is exactly what immunologists were predicting would eventually happen. Basically, it's a lot more like the flu these days.

Babynames

ConfusedTorchic posted...

and, much like one of the ways the black plague was defeated, quarantining was an extremely positive thing to do. unfortunately no one really did that.

Not a good comparison because the black plague was spread in an entirely different way. Rats and fleas don't quarantine, and even if people did, rats & fleas find their way in, regardless.

HYPERMECHA posted...

Not a good comparison because the black plague was spread in an entirely different way. Rats and fleas don't quarantine, and even if people did, rats & fleas find their way in, regardless.

quarantining was literally one of the most successful ways to avoid the black plague lmfao

HYPERMECHA posted...

Not a good comparison because the black plague was spread in an entirely different way. Rats and fleas don't quarantine, and even if people did, rats & fleas find their way in, regardless.

Quarantine during the black plague was less a matter of "stay home and don't go anywhere" and more a matter of "nobody leave this village." Rats and fleas are going to spread it locally regardless of local quarantine measures (though they can still slow things down), but they aren't going to travel to neighbouring villages.