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Covid--- its no joke

Sld1959 said:
My 90 yo mother had covid, unknowingly and came to Easter dinner. Now I tested positive and this is no joke, its not "just another cold" like some of the internet conspiracy experts think.

I have never been so weak and sick in my memory. And i have had full blown pnumonia several times. Aches all over , walking to the bathroom am panting and weak, cough, ears dizzy, but still, I am lucky I could be in hospital on a vent.

Luckily my mother is doing much better thsn I.
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I feel your pain brother. I have COPD and had it a couple of weeks before it shut down the country. That was before they even had a name for it and it damn near killed me. While awaiting the vaccine it rebounded and put me on my back gasping for breath again, I was that close to being put on a ventilator Since then I have been vaxed, and double boasted and have tested positive twice more. Those times were just a 24 hour feel lousy and achy ordeal, regardless spent the next 14 days masked and quarantined. Don't know if your a anti-vaxer but will tell you that the Covid vaccine probably saved my life. YMMV.
I wish you the best and pray for a quick recovery for you and your mother.
 
Glad you’re doing better and best wishes for your mother as well.
I had it a couple years ago… and this is just my personal experience. I’ve had worse colds.
I was a little tired, a little achy, my knees hurt a little walking up the stairs.
No fever, no trouble breathing, no other long term or short term issues. My minor symptoms lasted only 3 days.
My brother in law, whom I know I caught it from (drinking beer and watching football game) was much worse…as was his wife. A week plus of being down and out. Still doesn’t have 100% taste/smell a couple years later.
I’m by NO means a model of health. Overweight, previous smoker, social drinker…. It hits us all differently.
I have zero issues with the vaccine, booster, etc.
It’s your choice. I do have issues with it being forced on others…again, your choice.
 
dajogejr said:
Glad you’re doing better and best wishes for your mother as well.
I had it a couple years ago… and this is just my personal experience. I’ve had worse colds.
I was a little tired, a little achy, my knees hurt a little walking up the stairs.
No fever, no trouble breathing, no other long term or short term issues. My minor symptoms lasted only 3 days.
My brother in law, whom I know I caught it from (drinking beer and watching football game) was much worse…as was his wife. A week plus of being down and out. Still doesn’t have 100% taste/smell a couple years later.
I’m by NO means a model of health. Overweight, previous smoker, social drinker…. It hits us all differently.
I have zero issues with the vaccine, booster, etc.
It’s your choice. I do have issues with it being forced on others…again, your choice.
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My son is a type 1 diabetic and his family choose not to vaccinate. His under 1 year old daughter caught it at daycare and passed it on to her parents. They both reported that it was not much worse than a case of the flu and felt better within a few days although my daughter-in-law still hasn't completely regained her sense of taste or smell over 2 years later. Thankfully they came through it. He had a 36 year old friend that was the picture of health lose is life to it.
 
The common flu is no joke either for the millions it hospitalizes or kills per year to put things into perspective. For everyone else, it's a joke so to speak... Nothing but a cold or the flu to me. Everyone I know has had it, and it was the same for them whether they had the vax or not. I refuse to get a covid or flu vax.

Whether it's like the flu or common cold depends on the person's immune system. Most people who say the flu isn't as bad feel that way because they're body has been exposed to the flu type viruses since childhood. If they the reverse was true and they were exposed to covid since childhood, and the flu was new, then the flu would be worse than covid for them. Just like how when pilgrims bought new diseases to native Americans which killed a lot of them off, and how if any of us were to go to some secluded tribe in Africa or the Amazon, our common cold may be devastating to their elderly and weak. Covid isn't some super virus, but rather a plain jane virus that our bodies didn't have herd immunity for yet.

Either way only a teeny tiny percentage of people who were elderly thus didn't have a strong immune system were had the most complications. The resources should have been explicitly directed to that demographic, and not everyone in the entire country. The lock downs, forced vaccinations, and all that went on was ridiculous.
 
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WellArmed said:
Either way only a teeny tiny percentage of people who were elderly thus didn't have a strong immune system were had the most complications. The resources should have been explicitly directed to that demographic, and not everyone in the entire country. The lock downs, forced vaccinations, and all that went on was ridiculous.
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I agree, this is from our state. Population of Nebraska is just a scoosh under 2 million, Douglas county which includes the Omaha metro area is home to 25% of the total population with 500,000. Most of the deaths primarily affected the elderly.

Current Statistics - Thursday, April 6, 2023
Source: Douglas County Health Department

New Cases of COVID-19:pr153
Total Cases:183,021
Hospital Occupancy Rate:88%
Total Deaths1,322
COVID Patients hospitalized:94
COVID Patients on ventilators:2
% Receiving Initial Vaccine in Douglas County (age 12 and up)77.5%
Vaccines administered1,400,135
 
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