nick007
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Age: 41
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Location: was Louisiana but now Vermont in the police state called USA
05 Jan 2024, 4:36 pm
Covid is still in the news some here & some people in my area still wear masks but masks are optional & most people don't wear them. Masks might be required in hospitals & doc offices if your sick with Covid or certain other illnesses. Covid is still being used as an excuse for various things. Some corporations & political type people think Covid is their perfect scapegoat. I'm sure Covid really is still causing some problems & negatively impacting people & society in various ways but the worst is the way various people & groups have been reacting to Covid & some still are acting like it's dog eat dog & blaming & fighting instead of actually trying to work together & help each other 
As for as what I think about how much the OP or anyone should worry about Covid directly is a very situational thing. It should be taken a lot more seriously if you or someone in your household has very serious health issues that would make catching Covid a lot more dangerous or you live in an area with very restricted health care access & higher infection rates. that said I also strongly believe that people should be allowed the freedom of choice to make their own personal health decisions so if your really worried about getting sick I believe you should be allowed to wear masks & practice social distancing without being bullied for it but on the flipside you also should not bully others for choosing to socialise without wearing masks. AKA you should decide for yourself how you'll respond or not respond to Covid.
lostonearth35
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Location: Lost on Earth, waddya think?
05 Jan 2024, 5:03 pm
As far as the media is concerned, if you develop so much as a sniffle you should consult a mortician immediately. I'm so "sick" of their constant fear-mongering.
My nose often runs even when the rest of me feels normal, especially in the winter, so I should have died about 4 years ago. 
nick007
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06 Jan 2024, 1:59 am
My nose often runs even when the rest of me feels normal, especially in the winter, so I should have died about 4 years ago.
My nose runs a lot sometimes due to chronic allergy & sinus problems. Is that the cause for you? Going inside from outside during winter sometimes makes my nose run a bit too. I think that's kinda common but not sure why or what could be done other than the sinus & allergy treatments which do not help me enough. I weaned myself off of Prednisolone after being on it for years for skin eczema & it also helped my sinus allergy issues at first. However I built up a tolerance after a while & it quit helping. I'm trying to get Dupixent prescribed, doc is willing but insurance requires prior authorization due to the insane cost(if I owned a pharmacy company I'd be one f#ckin rich b@stard). If I cant get that I'll pursue the old-school immunosuppressants.
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02 Mar 2024, 11:02 am
Was that the medical advice that if they were to contract, they'd die?
02 Mar 2024, 11:03 am
I don't think many people understand unless they've experienced the fear of losing someone they love, or losing their own life, because of extenuating medical complications.
I'm sorry to hear that and, yes, I think there's truth what you're saying. I was lucky personally in that I wasn't diagnosed with my health issues until late 2021 when vaccines were available, even if they haven't turned out to be the panacea I think some people were hoping for. Throughout the worst parts of the pandemic I dated a frontline health care worker who was also helping to care for his father with late-stage cancer, though.
He was working 12 hour shifts in an Emergency Room taking x-rays of patients with Covid pneumonia one after the other, then would come home, go through a whole elaborate ritual of showering and disinfecting himself and then immediately head over to his parents' house to drive his dad to chemo. At that time, there was a shortage of PPE here in the US, too, so he had to be really meticulous about taking care of the equipment he was issued because if a strap on a mask broke or something, he would be out of luck until more was available. Looking back, I don't know how he dealt with that stress and the fear of infecting his dad, with whom he was very close, for over a year. He seemed to compartmentalize a lot of it and developed a fair amount of denial as a coping mechanism, I guess just to be able to keep going.
I try to think of that when I go to hospitals or doctors' offices now and find it hard to understand why none of the healthcare workers or caregivers accompanying patients are masking. Really, it's just hard to live that way for a long time and I think there's a lot of collective trauma driving decision-making at this stage of the pandemic. Not just decision-making by individuals, but by institutions also.
and now he's your husband hero!
02 Mar 2024, 11:06 am
03 Mar 2024, 10:25 am
COVID is definitely still at thing! I got COVID back in November 2023 (Northeast USA). I will say this time (I also had it back in early 2022) has given me a little bit long COVID with an increased heart rate and has made my memory a little worse. I do not recommend. I miss my caffeine drink. 
03 Mar 2024, 9:31 pm
I don't think many people understand unless they've experienced the fear of losing someone they love, or losing their own life, because of extenuating medical complications.
I'm sorry to hear that and, yes, I think there's truth what you're saying. I was lucky personally in that I wasn't diagnosed with my health issues until late 2021 when vaccines were available, even if they haven't turned out to be the panacea I think some people were hoping for. Throughout the worst parts of the pandemic I dated a frontline health care worker who was also helping to care for his father with late-stage cancer, though.
He was working 12 hour shifts in an Emergency Room taking x-rays of patients with Covid pneumonia one after the other, then would come home, go through a whole elaborate ritual of showering and disinfecting himself and then immediately head over to his parents' house to drive his dad to chemo. At that time, there was a shortage of PPE here in the US, too, so he had to be really meticulous about taking care of the equipment he was issued because if a strap on a mask broke or something, he would be out of luck until more was available. Looking back, I don't know how he dealt with that stress and the fear of infecting his dad, with whom he was very close, for over a year. He seemed to compartmentalize a lot of it and developed a fair amount of denial as a coping mechanism, I guess just to be able to keep going.
I try to think of that when I go to hospitals or doctors' offices now and find it hard to understand why none of the healthcare workers or caregivers accompanying patients are masking. Really, it's just hard to live that way for a long time and I think there's a lot of collective trauma driving decision-making at this stage of the pandemic. Not just decision-making by individuals, but by institutions also.
and now he's your husband hero!
If so, that's news to me.
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