Mark Booth
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Yet another friend who reports fever, chills, body aches, congestion and cough. Symptoms started on Wednesday. He doesn't have any COVID tests at home.
Mark
Mark
Yet another friend who reports fever, chills, body aches, congestion and cough. Symptoms started on Wednesday. He doesn't have any COVID tests at home.
Mark
Common sense is incredibly rare in the times we're living in.It's just freakin' common sense to TEST yourself
Respiratory infections typically can get into your digestive system. That should be pretty well known. It usually doesn’t happen, but it definitely can. The tissue is basically the same, and vulnerable to to similar things.What I don't understand is the "denial" that some people have regarding the possibility they may have COVID. Take my most recently mentioned friend for example. He said that having diarrhea made him believe it couldn't be COVID because diarrhea isn't a "common" symptom of COVID. Yet, all of the other symptoms were classic COVID symptoms. Way back on Wednesday, when he first reported the symptoms via text message, I encouraged him to test ASAP. Yet, he didn't bother going to get any test kits until Saturday (because he started losing his sense of smell and taste).
The very moment I had any single one of those other symptoms (fever, chills, cough, congestion, body aches), I'd have started testing. Perhaps if he tested earlier he could have started taking Paxlovid sooner and maybe he wouldn't have ended up feeling nearly as bad?
It's just freakin' common sense to TEST yourself. Why do so many have such a problem grasping that concept?
Mark
The vaccine won't necessarily prevent you from contracting the virus, but hopefully will lessen the symptoms if you do.Since we both had the latest booster right at the end of last month, she was reasonably sure she didn't have Covid.
Sinuses clogged, sore throat, headache. She felt like she was coming down with a cold.
It's the cooties!There’s some non-Covid cold making the rounds in my kids’ school that’s giving the kids runny nose and ear infection symptoms and giving the adults something that feels 100x worse.
She should test again. Even if symptomatic, it can take 1-3 days to test positive. I hope the tests stay negative.Dodged a bullet.
My wife was out in California for a work thing this week (I was going to go with, but for reasons ended up not going). When she called Wednesday night, she mentioned feeling out of sorts. Sinuses clogged, sore throat, headache. She felt like she was coming down with a cold. Since we both had the latest booster right at the end of last month, she was reasonably sure she didn't have Covid. But, for the meeting she had on Thursday morning, before going to the airport to fly back home, she masked up. And stayed masked up on the plane. I picked her up after midnight, armed with a thermos of lemon-ginger tea. As soon as we got home, she pulled out a Covid test kit just to be sure. She tested negative, thankfully. But she's been snoozing on the sofa all day today.
What I don't understand is the "denial" that some people have regarding the possibility they may have COVID.
Because they don't want to have COVID. They want to think that the disease is over and that things have gone back to normal. It is more convenient for them to explain it away as something else than it is to have it, so they think they don't.It's just freakin' common sense to TEST yourself. Why do so many have such a problem grasping that concept?
She should test again. Even if symptomatic, it can take 1-3 days to test positive. I hope the tests stay negative.