Current Events > 1 year after getting covid, VA Gov Ralph Northam still can't taste or smell

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https://www.fox5dc.com/news/a-year-after-getting-covid-19-virginia-gov-ralph-northam-still-doesnt-have-sense-of-smell-taste

Both the Governor and his wife, Pam Northam, tested positive for COVID-19 in September 2020 after developing symptoms.
Northam said that he still is without his sense of smell and taste a year later. "We still have some lasting symptoms. I'm just fortunate that nothing worse happened."

I'm not sure how I would handle it if I just couldn't taste or smell anything forever. When I did lose my senses of taste and smell, it was weird AF.

• Couldn't taste hot sauce. My sinuses would still react like I was eating hot sauce, though
• Pineapples tasted like crunchy water
• Eggs tasted like nothing
• Bacon tasted like nothing
• Lemonade tasted like nothing
• Grapefruit tasted like nothing

0/10 Would not recommend

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It would suck, but I bet it would make dieting easier.

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Ive had that before, major health issues not Covid.

Lasted a few months.

Sucked total ass.

I hated eating meat the most.

Was just so wrong without any flavor.

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Old news. We already knew Northam didn't have any taste when he thought about doing the Moonwalk on the presser regarding his black face.

Seems like an effective weight loss tool but god it would be miserable.

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YigaClan posted...

Old news. We already knew Northam didn't have any taste when he thought about doing the Moonwalk on the presser regarding his black face.

Fair

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Least he still has his dick.

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My girlfriend got it around Thanksgiving of last year. I think it was July when she finally said things are starting to smell normal. Before, she said everything like her shampoo and my cologne had this same weird chemical smell to it.

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AldousIsDead posted...

Least he still has his dick.

It's his personality

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I got my taste back but now anything with peanuts tastes weird to me.

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Theres nothing wrong with no sense of taste or smell. I can guarantee its actually benificial.

kage_53 posted...

Theres nothing wrong with no sense of taste or smell. I can guarantee its actually benificial.

This is like saying the inability to feel pain is beneficial. You are wrong.

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kage_53 posted...

Theres nothing wrong with no sense of taste or smell. I can guarantee its actually benificial.

There are pretty big consequences of not being able to taste or smell, actually

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To be fair, egg whites taste like shit, so it's good you can't taste anything there.

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kage_53 posted...

Theres nothing wrong with no sense of taste or smell. I can guarantee its actually benificial.

Absolutely false.

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Sheiky-Baby posted...

To be fair, egg whites taste like shit, so it's good you can't taste anything there.

I didn't specify just the egg whites. I said eggs, bro. That includes the yolk.

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CableZL posted...

I didn't specify just the egg whites. I said eggs, bro. That includes the yolk.

Yolks too. And it stinks as well.

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Sheiky-Baby posted...

Yolks too. And it stinks as well.

Kindly exit the topic with your anti-egg nonsense.

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CableZL posted...

Kindly exit the topic with your anti-egg nonsense.

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kage_53 posted...

Theres nothing wrong with no sense of taste or smell. I can guarantee its actually benificial.

There are several fields of work where this is very very detrimental.

Such as a chef, A Researcher(Oh you cant smell the invisible but toxic/flammable gas leaking? R.I.P) perfume maker etc. You cant test your own products appeal at all and out yourself at a higher risk of injury or death.

Or the general inability to detect certain chemicals/gasses, increased likelihood of consuming food that has gone bad, not noticing certain kinda of chemical/gas leaks not smelling warning signs of certain conditions/infestations or even worse a fire. Imagine not smelling the smoke from burning food and completely losing your dinner or worse from a fire and losing precious time you couldve used to escape or put on the blaze.

Or the lack of pleasure from eating. Sure maybe you lose weight but you also may gain depression.

We have senses for a reason. Losing a sense is not a good thing. Its deeply distressing and limits what you can do. Long term or permanent either way.

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Sheiky-Baby posted...

To be fair, egg whites taste like shit, so it's good you can't taste anything there.

Egg whites are the best part of the egg.

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kage_53 posted...

Theres nothing wrong with no sense of taste or smell. I can guarantee its actually benificial.

No you can't

You know how dangerous that is? One fuck up and the guy is dead or in the ER. From rotten or undercooked food to a gas leak to anything.

He has no idea what he's putting in his body. How the fuck is that beneficial

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Sheiky-Baby posted...

LMAO

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itachi15243 posted...

No you can't

You know how dangerous that is? One fuck up and the guy is dead or in the ER. From rotten or undercooked food to a gas leak to anything.

He has no idea what he's putting in his body. How the fuck is that beneficial

You can eat food that smell terrible like kimchee and sauerkraut.

Check expiration date of food before eating it to avoid rotten food.

People could just a use a meat thermometer which they should already been doing to begin with unless they cook sous vide. Also with sous vide, you can never under cook because it will pasteurize the food.

Gas and smoke detectors exist. People could also listen to hissing noise to check for gas leak.

You can also go outside for a walk and not be bothered by whatever smells you may find disgusting like cigarette smoke or urine. Both of these are a major issue where I live.

Its not that bad tbh. Beats losing eye sight which is actually dangerous.

kage_53 posted...

You can eat food that smell terrible like kimchee and sauerkraut.

Check expiration date of food before eating it to avoid rotten food.

People could just a use a meat thermometer which they should already been doing to begin with unless they cook sous vide. Also with sous vide, you can never under cook because it will pasteurize the food.

Gas and smoke detectors exist. People could also listen to hissing noise to check for gas leak.

You can also go outside for a walk and not be bothered by whatever smells you may find disgusting like cigarette smoke or urine. Both of these are a major issue where I live.

Its not that bad tbh. Beats losing eye sight which is actually dangerous.

Gas and smoke detectors don't exist in cars, though. When a car catches on fire, it's often the burning smell you notice first that tells you there's a problem that needs to be addressed.

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kimchi smells great

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CableZL posted...

Gas and smoke detectors don't exist in cars, though. When a car catches on fire, it's often the burning smell you notice first that tells you there's a problem that needs to be addressed.

https://www.amazon.com/carbon-monoxide-detector-cars/s?k=carbon+monoxide+detector+for+cars

Turtlebread posted...

kimchi smells great

Does not. Its one of those food that smell terrible but the taste is tolerable.

I can't believe that someone in here is actually trying to argue that losing your smell and taste is actually beneficial.

We evolved and maintained both of those senses for a reason.

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Smell and taste can be retrained.

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super_clout posted...

Smell and taste can be retrained.

We aren't even 100% sure why covid causes loss of taste and smell, but the thinking right now is that it causes damage to the cells that assist olfactory neurons.

I'm not so sure that we can be confident that we can "retrain" smell and taste in the face of cell damage, depending on the extent of it. Especially when we don't fully understand it yet.

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