I seem to be completely immune. My mother has caught it multiple times, in spite of the vaccine and two boosters, but despite being in close proximity while taking care of her each time, I've never even had any symptoms. In D&D terms, I rolled a critical success on my health check!
the question was about covid, but i will answer about covid + lockdown, from my perspective.
Several young people in my extended family died in traumatic circumstances a few weeks before lockdown. Then a friend died of cancer a week later. Then an uncle died of cancer 1 week before lockdown.
Because of covid-19 and lockdown, nearly all of my colleagues were made redundant about 9 months after lockdown.
Some colleagues were happy because they had received furlough/lockdown money and redundancy money. Some were happy to be made redundant. Some begged for their jobs because they were scared for their futures. Work-wise, it was grim.
For me lockdown was a nightmare. I was in shock after what i had experienced just before it, and i had no chance to talk to my friends. I had no chance to exercise. Exercise makes me happy.
that was in 2020, 4 years ago. 3 cuddle professionals and 3 non-professional friends helped me through that time.
I sympathise with politicians who had to make such difficult decisions. I love medical workers who worked so hard during that period of time.
Hopefully as we learn from 2020, we can weigh in the balance the social impact of lockdowns.
Apologies if that's trauma dumping, maybe it is. But i could never have imagined those experiences beforehand, and i kind of feel relieved typing it now.
I love medical workers who worked so hard during that period of time.
Absolutely! And after all their sacrifice, it's unforgiveable that so many of them were later treated like criminals and had their jobs threatened, or were fired.
@friendlyhugging I'm so sorry you experienced so many losses, and in such a short timespan. That definitely sounds traumatic, and I hope you eventually see a counselor to unpack it all, emotionally. Cuddles and friends are great short-term resources, but are usually illequipped to help someone fully process such events. 🫂
Regarding working out, I fell in love with yoga because it could be done in the comfort of my bedroom - zero equipment needed. It can be as low-key as gentle stretches in bed, or as intense as ab-crunching yoga flows that leave you dripping in sweat. Calisthenics would be another thing you could do, at home. Push-ups, squats, and planks alone can do amazing things. 😊
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I woke up feeling pretty normal today. With all due respect to those who had a more difficult time, my first experience with Covid wasn’t all that bad.
I never got sick I just faked having covid so I could get time off since I was working the whole time lol.
I miss the stares from people when breaching the two feet distance rule. Priceless.
My “illness itinerary” was nearly identical to yours.
I miss the 6' rule. Getting run into with carts is overrated.
I never got it. But the vaccine made me sicker than any point in my life. Extreme weakness, and puking, sweats, chills, fever
I've had 6 shots of the COVID-19 vaccine and I'm looking forward to getting the new updated one in a few days that was just approved by the FDA. As far as I'm aware, I haven't had COVID yet - or if I have, I've been completely asymptomatic. In fact, I haven't gotten sick at all since the start of the pandemic, but I also combine surrounding myself with others who are up to date on their vaccines with strategic masking in crowded places, and that seems to be working really well for me. Pre-pandemic, I used to get a nasty cold about twice a year, usually around the time the seasons changed. So I'm going to keep up with what I'm doing, especially since I'll be giving birth to a newborn in a month.
Most of my family members are anti-vaxxers, and they've all had COVID at least once and said it was awful for them. My brother has had it a few times and seems to be suffering the effects of long-COVID now - something a few of my friends suffer from as well, which terrifies me.
What was Covid like for you?
For Me, it was a...
Though the "stimulus checks" were helpful, and caused another bite the ass later...
Still in the end, Covid was indeed a...
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If you truly understand how the system works, you realize that the stimulus checks were money taken from you, not given to you. Even if you were able to save that money, or use it to pay down cards, you are still paying that money back every day at the grocery store via the inflation they helped causing. We might have been better off today if they just wired that money to Amazon, Walmart, Costco and Home Depot.
@Katota
Yep. "Free" money always ends up being quite expensive. There's always an I.O.U. attached to it.
@Sooson @TxTom
Completely agree
There's always an I.O.U. attached to it.
@TxTom Yeah, there's always a catch in everything.😉
We might have been better off today if they just wired that money to Amazon, Walmart, Costco and Home Depot.
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@Sooson Should have done that, that would have been easier. But it was all about gaining election votes too, I think. 😉
the stimulus checks were money taken from you, not given to you
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@Sooson Lol! No poop right, by increasing more taxes, Social Security, Unemployment and whatever else the government officials can get their hands on to say:
"HERE YA GO! WE CARE ABOUT YOU!"
LOL! Bullpoop, you do.😄
But still I'm not gonna turn those "stimulus checks" down, I got bills to pay. I was also getting over the PT part of a car accident that I broke my wrist in during that time. 😔
I was "lucky" to keep on working throughout Covid in the next 2 years after, many folks around here wasn't they were "temp shutdown" from their jobs for a long while, without any unemployment coming their way.😏😌
It was rough, and don't me started on "toilet paper bullpoop". Lol! 😄 What the hell, did toilet paper have to do with Covid?!😄😄😄
I'm 70. I have zero health issues or comorbidities. I've had all 7 vaxxes and got it twice. It didn't affect me much at all.
I was trying to read up the effects of Covid, trying to see something like bloating, constipation or diarrhea mentioned. No! None of that was mentioned!😆😆😅
Total nuts back then!😄😆😄😆
Never took the vax even with my crappy health. My grandpop went in healthy and had the vax, on life support in 48 hours and dead in a week. No one in my family would ever take that mess after that.
I made it until early last year before I got it. The first symptom I had was at work. I suddenly got completely exhausted and achy. I couldn’t even lift my foot to walk up stairs. Made it home and started running a little fever. Slept until morning and went to the doctor with low grade fever and no symptoms. Tested positive. Felt fine by the afternoon and had to do the whole 7 days off from work, so I watched a lot of movies. So total downtime was maybe 24 hours with symptoms.
@TxTom Stop it...😆😆😆😆
The blue bathroom wall with toilet paper rolls all over it is kinda pretty, lol.
I’ve been a high risk demographic.
First time got just before Christmas 2022. Never been that sick in my life. The day after testing positive, I was in the ER. Was coughing so hard that displaced multiple ribs and my shoulder blade. Coughed up what looked like some sort of tissue with blood. Shortly after testing negative I had 2 UC visits within days. Developed infection of lung tissue. Between the active infection and antibiotics, I had to hold off for 3 weeks of two medications needed for a chronic condition, so that caused everything to flare as well. Once I got back to being functional back at home, had off the charts phases of fatigue and mental fog unlike anything had before. 20 months later I still can’t lay comfortably fully on that side with the rib/shoulder issues and still having phases of cognitive issues.
2nd time I was livid after getting from extended family gatherings. Had gotten a booster a couple weeks prior. Fortunately breezed through.
I do miss the days when corona was only associated with bad beer.