The P&R Plague Thread (Covid-19)

[BigRedBuster]

1 minute ago, RedDenver said:

I've had covid the last week. Really sick and bed ridden for 3 days. Fortunately, I didn't have any problems with breathing. Still have headaches, sore throat, hacking cough, and loss of energy after another 4 days. It's tenacious and doesn't want to go away.

That sucks.  Hope you get better.

[knapplc]

2 minutes ago, RedDenver said:

I've had covid the last week. Really sick and bed ridden for 3 days. Fortunately, I didn't have any problems with breathing. Still have headaches, sore throat, hacking cough, and loss of energy after another 4 days. It's tenacious and doesn't want to go away.

 

I'm sorry to hear that. Hopefully you recover and have no long-term effects. I'm still dealing with some things more than a year after getting over it.

[knapplc]

Double Post. 

 

[knapplc]

And the rare but awesome TRIPLE post. Yikes.

 

[funhusker]

Just now, knapplc said:

 

I'm sorry to hear that. Hopefully you recover and have no long-term effects. I'm still dealing with some things more than a year after getting over it.

Short term memory loss?  

[knapplc]

1 minute ago, funhusker said:

Short term memory loss?  

 

I was on the previous page and hit the button, but it didn't do anything. So I hit it again, and again a bit later.

 

Usually it'll merge recent posts like that, so you can go back and delete them. Not sure what happened this time. 

[RedDenver]

2 minutes ago, knapplc said:

 

I was on the previous page and hit the button, but it didn't do anything. So I hit it again, and again a bit later.

 

Usually it'll merge recent posts like that, so you can go back and delete them. Not sure what happened this time. 

Dang, I thought you just really, really, really hoped I recovered with no long-term effects.

 

[knapplc]

2 minutes ago, RedDenver said:

Dang, I thought you just really, really, really hoped I recovered with no long-term effects.

 

 

Well, that too.

[JJ Husker]

2 hours ago, RedDenver said:

I've had covid the last week. Really sick and bed ridden for 3 days. Fortunately, I didn't have any problems with breathing. Still have headaches, sore throat, hacking cough, and loss of energy after another 4 days. It's tenacious and doesn't want to go away.

Hope you get to feeling better and have no long term effects.

 

Out of curiosity, did you have Covid prior? And how many vax shots had you received?

 

My wife’s taste is still screwed up. She now hates things with sour cream, butter, or ranch dip. She really liked those things before and pretty much can’t stand them now. I too have spells of things tasting very off. f#&%ing covid. 

[BigRedBuster]

6 minutes ago, JJ Husker said:

Hope you get to feeling better and have no long term effects.

 

Out of curiosity, did you have Covid prior? And how many vax shots had you received?

 

My wife’s taste is still screwed up. She now hates things with sour cream, butter, or ranch dip. She really liked those things before and pretty much can’t stand them now. I too have spells of things tasting very off. f#&%ing covid. 

My sister-in-law was recently in the hospital with COVID.  She had some hearing loss.  She had a friend who totally lost her hearing for a period of time then it finally came back.

 

Wondering if a new variant causes hearing loss instead of smell and taste loss.

[JJ Husker]

26 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

My sister-in-law was recently in the hospital with COVID.  She had some hearing loss.  She had a friend who totally lost her hearing for a period of time then it finally came back.

 

Wondering if a new variant causes hearing loss instead of smell and taste loss.

IDK, I hadn’t heard about the hearing loss thing but it doesn’t surprise me. Seems like the list of things attributable to it is never ending.

[RedDenver]

17 hours ago, JJ Husker said:

Hope you get to feeling better and have no long term effects.

 

Out of curiosity, did you have Covid prior? And how many vax shots had you received?

 

My wife’s taste is still screwed up. She now hates things with sour cream, butter, or ranch dip. She really liked those things before and pretty much can’t stand them now. I too have spells of things tasting very off. f#&%ing covid. 

It's the first time I've had covid. Fully vaxxed with a booster about 5 months ago. I may have some minor taste/smell issues, but I'm still too congested to know if it's just from my congestion or something more.

 

Looks like we're at the beginning of another wave as covid hospitalizations are going up:

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#new-hospital-admissions

 

And it coincides with the new BA.4 and BA.5 omicron variants:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01240-x

[BigRedBuster]

 

[knapplc]

Yuck.

 

 

[Jason Sitoke]

6 minutes ago, knapplc said:

Yuck.

 

 

It's pretty encouraging (for me anyways) that the number of positive cases has been high for a few weeks, and yet compared to the previous low point (last summer), we have less than half the number of COVID-related ICU admissions.