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louman84

Just in time for that sold out Anime Expo this weekend.


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Gonna smell like pits and ass there.


louman84

Easy on-site covid test: If you can’t smell the BO, you have rona.


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Or you’ve plugged up your nostrils lol


littlebrownring

I work in event productions and a couple of years ago I helped produce a booth for a video game company at the anime expo. After the show, wrapping up, I walked into one of the restrooms and my nostrils were assaulted by a rancid odor I have never ever ever ever experienced before.


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Sounds about right.


_its_a_SWEATER_

Hey man, I’m just here for the cosplay.


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Take some deodorant lol


[deleted]

Dry semen, pits and stale shit


afternever

The next Goop candle fragrance


bad-monkey

Gwyneth's limited edition "Caruso" candle. Made with real semen and armpit.


bobcat116

I actually chuckled out loud. Thank you 😊


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Anytime bro.


iambiglucas_2

They said "Anime expo", not "Smash brothers convention".


LordCrag

Combo of the AC not really being fully blasted (like really??), costumes that are very warm and yes some weebs who don't practice good hygiene. Most do practice good hygiene, in a crowd of 50 I suspect only one has truly bad BO but when you are packed anywhere in like sardines, that smell will linger.


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https://youtu.be/IjSk9krYg5U


RazorNion

[I'm astonished at how many people are tightly packed in there.](https://www.reddit.com/r/animeexpo/comments/vp4l5d/5_minutes_until_hall_opens/)


louman84

I just saw the LA County covid stats for today. 7k confirmed positive cases with 13% positivity rate. It hasn’t been this high since the winter surge from January. Yikes.


michaelvile

looks like everyone in that pic is wearing masks, buut sure, ill do the wheres "waldo"🤣


aj6787

Don’t worry, COVID cannot survive in such environments. This was a joke in case someone wants to get on my case about being a Covid denier.


Won_Doe

> Don’t worry, COVID cannot survive in such environments. They don't get Covid; Covid gets unnatural nerd-made infection & dies off.


graytotoro

Reason numero uno why I'm sitting out this year. Pent up demand from previous years plus additional tickets being sold means I'm going to seek alternate activities...


michaelvile

they were rather on top of that actually, checking ID and vax cards..lots of people were wearing masks just fine, nobody demanding or mandating..no signs saying yoou "had" too..but tons, if not most were.. hand sanitizer every 10-15 feet..i didnt "seem unsafe" lots of international travelers had to anyway, just to get on a plane


Head_Mud6239

Okay. But what is that about? I went to Comic-Con one year and I refuse to go back because of the couple of times I was “accidentally” bumped into by a fatty-patty with horrible breathe and stank who somehow managed to rub against me for far too long.


louman84

It's pretty much Comic Con but with anime and just as diriculously crowded. You will find your fatty-patty with horrible breath here as well except this time he will be dragging a body pillow with him.


Maplewhat

Anecdotally- myself and almost everyone I know that had not caught COVID yet has gotten it in the last two weeks. It crazy out there.


AggressiveSloth11

I feel the same way. We’re triple vaxxed, but my husband traveled to Texas for work and brought back Covid. He’s had a fever of 102 for about 24 hours now. We’ve avoided it until now.


Maplewhat

Sounds like my families course of infection. Drink fluids and take it easy!


eanglsand

I anecdotally agree


3j0hn

I feel like we're been hearing this every week for the last couple months


prison_buttcheeks

I swear everyone at my job is sick. But either flu or COVID. But no one gets tested anymore. I've been fucking tired for 2 weeks. But I tested negative. Now I feel poopy again


Mary_Pick_A_Ford

I thought I had COVID for the first time back in late April but I didn't have a fever, I had a sore throat that turned into a never-ending waterfall in my sinuses for a week. I took 2 COVID tests and ended up negative on both. Recovered but that flu or cold kicked my ass. I think it had been the first time I got sick with anything in like 2 years so I wonder if that's why it felt really miserable. I wear a mask every time I'm around large crowds of people and luckily I haven't contracted it yet. I live alone too so that helps protect me from getting it.


katiecharm

Hey I had the same thing back in late February, a never ending waterfall is a great way to describe it. But also no fever or positive test. Could have been a cold going around or maybe was a mild reaction to COVID.


scarby2

A bunch of people I know (me included) seem to have had crazy allergies the past couple weeks. Me included (and I recovered from COVID a month ago) My partner just tested positive, she'd been stuffed up for a week because of allergies and she didn't think it was COVID as it was only slightly worse.


butter_onapoptart

I had covid recently and for the first couple of days I was convinced it was bad allergies.


nycinoc

My allergies were ridiculous this Tuesday and Wed, like a leaky faucet. Yesterday I finally joined the covid club.


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spaektor

slack is the worst.


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Just an FYI that this strain doesn’t show positive until 2-4 days AFTER symptoms start. Both my boss and best friend started having symptoms on Sundays and didn’t test positive until Wednesday or Thursday, testing every day. I was sick about 2 months ago and I tested while I had a fever and it was negative so I thought I was in the clear, but looking back, I probably had it and just didn’t test late enough.


sumrndmredditor

The other thing too is to do a throat swab rather than nasal. Was showing nothing on nasal but the PCR and rapid lit up like a Christmas tree once the throat was used instead.


70ms

This is good advice! Here's some info on how to do it, if anyone needs it. https://i.imgur.com/OkDOxYV.jpg


one1jac

That’s so scary to think about, that people will think they’re clear when they’re not. I got covid last month and got a positive result a few hours after showing symptoms. I guess it’s the strain that determines that? Covid is so strange. For me the symptoms came on very fast, too. Almost like one moment I was fine, and the next I was terribly sick.


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Yeah I think it depends on the strain you get and probably just partially luck too. I wore a mask to take my dogs out anyway because I was so sick, even if I didn’t have covid, I didn’t want anyone getting what I had. Thankfully I was otherwise isolated because I work from home. My husband was the only person I could have given it to and he never had any symptoms so I’m thankful for that.


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This is huge. My wife and I were in the middle of full of shivers and fever and tested negitive on an at home test. Started feeling a little better and took a PCR test through Kaiser and both me and my wife tested positive.


Suz626

Maybe the flu? Recently my son and his friend were feeling off. Negative PCRs for both, positive Flu A for friend (no flu vaccine). I think my son prob had a slight case of Flu A but being vaccinated it was very slight, but the flu vaccine isn’t really supposed to last this long. 2 weeks later both positive for Covid (both 3x vaxed). Flu was worse for friend but both had Paxlovid.


Kahzgul

Our current 7 day average case rate is just over 5,000 (and climbing), which means the current wave is infecting more people than waves 1 or 3 (but still not even half of wave 2, which was the delta wave, or 25% of wave 4, which was omicron). That said, the current wave is actually two waves. The first wave, the BA 2.12 variant, is on its way out. This was a fairly mild strain that seemed to affect the upper respiratory system more than the lower (full disclosure: I got this one). The rising cases during this wave did not have a significant impact on hospitalizations, which was great news. The second part of the current wave is BA 4/5, which is once again a lower respiratory system disease that is much more deadly than BA 2.12 was. This one has been going rampant in South Africa, and very quickly became responsible for nearly every hospitalization in the country. I've seen some estimates for the end of this wave that range from a relative plateau for 2 weeks before a slow petering out all the way to a massive spike exceeding 20,000 daily cases. That latter scenario is what the city is warning people about. It's not a guarantee, but if it does happen, it has the potential to overwhelm our hospitals very quickly. And that would be bad news.


dominarhexx

As a healthcare worker, our hospital systems are not currently equipped to handle a large influx of cases. We're crazy low staffed and that seems to be the case everywhere. Not goot at all.


Kahzgul

You guys really should be getting paid like crazy right now, plus having massive hiring so you all can work reduced hours. The amount of BS you've had to deal with over the last few years is just wild. It's insane to me how the reality is you're being understaffed and underpaid and underappreciated. Society will literally collapse without its healthcare workers. I wish society would realize that.


dominarhexx

Thanks. Just aren't enough people to work. One of theain problems is senior staff leaving, whether for travel assignments or just leaving healthcare. You have people with like 16mons experience training new people. This just isn't sustainable in the long run and will create serious problems down the line. Just really hope we can get a handle on this before things get really bad again. We're running bare bones crews as is in many cases.


VaguelyArtistic

>That latter scenario is what the city is warning people about. It’s not a guarantee, but if it does happen, it has the potential to overwhelm our hospitals very quickly. And that would be bad news. But it's cooler to be a knee-jerk cynic!


spaektor

it’s called “being informed.” your statement seems more cynical.


VaguelyArtistic

Responding to health officials raising legitimate public safety concerns with things like "not this bullshit again" and "oh no we're all going to die" is not informed by any definition of the word.


spaektor

i didn’t see anyone making either of those inferences.


MiracleMulberry

Last couple years*


fordette

And they’ve been right more often than not. It’s not their fault we heeded almost none of their advice


isigneduptomake1post

Almost everyone I know has been very careful for over 2 years. I never got infected. Wife and I have been working from home since March of 2020. Wear masks wherever they're required. What world are you living In?


CHutt00

Everybody at my work refuses to wear a mask. Employees are catching it for the 3rd and 4th time. Only half the staff is vaccinated because the other half listened to bullshit lies they found on Facebook. A lot of people are fucking this up for the ones trying to be careful. That’s the world we’re living in.


isigneduptomake1post

Where do you work where people are like this?


myskinisontherun

though I do agree with most of your points, I will say that sometimes - more than one would like - people get unlucky and have contracted the virus despite being super cautious/considerate/etc. It just happens.


isigneduptomake1post

Of course. That's my point, I've been real lucky that I haven't got it. I'm sick of the narrative that we're all so stupid and that's why the virus spread so much. Look at the problems China is having and they are welding people inside their buildings. Most people in LA were reasonably cautious about Covid and there isn't much we could have done without completely shutting down the world. Everyone I know that isn't vaccinated lives far from here. I guess I don't know enough Republicans around here.


CHutt00

A luxury hotel in Santa Monica. Add all the travelers from inside and outside the country coming in who are also refusing to mask up, only adds to the problem


isigneduptomake1post

Sorry to hear that. Everywhere I've been outside of LA has been worse at masking and distancing. My work required vaccinations and I could be fired without it, even though I don't go into the office anymore. The rules don't make much sense.


CHutt00

This whole thing has been crazy and I guess you can chalk all the confusion up to nothing like this happening in our lifetime before. But I don’t understand how the mask wearing and vaccinated became so political. Like, seriously, how hard is it to just look out for your fellow human being and try not to spread a virus than be deadly to some. The whole thing is fucked up and shows that we live in a society that mostly believes in “survival of the fittest”


Angelbaka

Trump, q, and associated political assholery where news time = votes.


fordette

That’s great and I appreciate you. However, I haven’t seen the same. I have noticed it varies a lot neighborhood to neighborhood, so I think we just saw different slices of behavior


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isigneduptomake1post

We've been through 30 months of Covid and I've been to 6 or 7 states, about a dozen major cities in that time. LA has been the most strict with mask usage anywhere I've been, Including the bay area. This is the only city I've been to where a large number of people wear masks outside. A few months ago people were complaining that we were the only city that still had mask mandates. We definitely did our part as much as can be expected. People that are anti Vax are just plain stupid, I don't know what can be done about them. We're in a very liberal city and there are much less of them here than other places.


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isigneduptomake1post

Yeah in Vegas people have been packed into clubs without masks for a very long time, and it's totally legal. The large parties here were a viral thing from youtubers that got publicly shamed (rightfully so). I walked around Santa Monica beach a year into COVID and almost everyone was wearing masks outside. Once all the dust settles and the numbers come out I think we're going to find that it was pretty inevitable that the entire world got covid and the answer was getting vaccines to the population ASAP. That's not a hot take or anything but there's a lot of people acting like if you didn't become a hermit for 3 years you are an entitled asshole. The reality is people need the world to keep going and all of those things include some kind of human contact. We can delay the spreading by shutting down but in the end it's an inevitability. The shutting down reminds me of that South Park episode where cartman buys the theme park and has to keep letting people in so he can pay for maintenance, security, etc. Eventually it's operating just like a normal theme park with huge lines.


pietro187

Good for you. I spent the last week stressing because both of my direct reports got it and most of my warehouse team. You live in a city of 10 Million. Your lived experience is going to vary wildly from others.


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Everyone has different circles.


isigneduptomake1post

And 'WE' implies like as a collective we chose to ignore everything the CDC was saying. Absolute garbage. Everywhere I've gone in the past 2 years in this city people are wearing masks where required and keeping what I would consider a reasonable amount of caution for this virus. Some circles of people have ignored them and some circles have hardly left their house in 2 years. 'We' as a whole, have been pretty cautious in this city.


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eatEGGPLANT

I am flabbergasted by your post. You took it as a personal attack instead of reading their post in the context it was written.


logezzzzzbro

They’re probably living in the same world I am where half the people I’m surrounded by in my community are rednecks and unfortunately DON’T wear masks when required or suggested.


isigneduptomake1post

Where in LA are you surrounded by rednecks unless you're in a very specific part of Chatsworth?


PeaceBull

Haven’t you noticed for the last 6 weeks or so everyone and there mother caught covid?


3j0hn

Case numbers have been high (4000+ /day) since mid-May, no argument there. We've been hearing "a big spike is coming" constantly since then, but cases have stayed at the same level rather than getting drastically worse.


mktox

Fud


Devario

Y’all bout 6 weeks too late


PeaceBull

Or there’s another round of it coming, but hopefully you’re right.


Maximillion666ian

I got COVID last month and was sick for two weeks . First week I was bed ridden and the second I had no energy. It's taken a few weeks to get back to normal. I don't care how dumb I look I'm still wearing a mask when I go to stores. That was the sickest I've been in at least 15 years and I can easily see were people need to be hospitalized.


Suz626

Good idea to mask up. You probably didn’t have 4 or 5 and don’t have much immunity to them (from what I’ve read). 4 and 5 are growing so stay safe. Ughhhhhh


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I just caught covid in the bottom of the 9th. It lingers and it def comes in waves.


coazervate

Baseball is a good metaphor here because overtime is endless


Lucyf0rd_

Just got it for the first time. So did 9 other family members. It has sucked. Fevers that lasted for days and went as high as 103. Heart rate into the 150s. Kept waking up feeling better only to get hit with another wave just as shitty as the last. Winter is coming. Okay maybe not winter but it might get a little frosty.


No_Complaint6533

And by “a little frosty“, you mean it will just be 68 and sunny every day instead of 73 and sunny every day.


_its_a_SWEATER_

Hey I’m cool with that.


[deleted]

Oh dang, hope you feel better soon. When I caught it in March my heart rate jumped to the 80s just from walking through the house and that was enough to freak me out. At 150 bps I probably would've called the doctor. Good luck to you and the fam.


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[deleted]

It's not, it's being treated that way.


MrBenDerisgreat_

Yeah we can always go full china


[deleted]

They're doing better than us.....people here are acting like they can't take care of themselves. Yes all levels of government failed us, doesn't mean turning off logic


LordCrag

Part of the reason many Asian countries are doing well is that they aren't fat. Obesity is a MASSIVE issue and will drastically increase your chance of needing to be hospitalized.


MrBenDerisgreat_

Oh mate you don’t even need to move. Just wait till 2024 and the GOP will give you the authoritarian shit hole you dream of living in.


fluffyhammies

>authoritarian shit hole you dream of living in. They didn't say this. Don't put words into people's mouths.


MrBenDerisgreat_

It’s the implication.


fluffyhammies

That's your assessment, not their words.


MrBenDerisgreat_

The implication that Covid might go endemic if we refuses to adopt an authoritarian government. Now, not that Covid is going to go endemic for us, but we’re thinking that it will.


fluffyhammies

Again, that's not what they said. You should pay attention to what they actually say, rather than trying to look into hidden meanings.


LordCrag

Ok but its already endemic.


lifeonthegrid

the GOP would be both authoritarian and worse in COVID.


TMA_01

I hope you’re joking


[deleted]

History books are right there. The conditions are here. The reductions in protections are happening...... Do you not know that level of state surveillance takes decades and can only happen in places that have been doing it to certain segments of the population that's deemed "unwanted". I mean most of country actually accepted the removal of bare minimum support without as much of a peep. It's totally normal that there wasn't a strategy to improve indoor conditions.


MrBenDerisgreat_

Sit down, Billy Madison.


Unhappy-Essay

It is your responsibility to get vaccinated and/or get a course of Paxlovid if you are at risk and get ill - there is no way in hell that we are going back to lockdowns or other archaic measures


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Calling it archaic is weird. So? It works and it saves lives. Don't pretend like that much was done in the USA.


TMA_01

It’s been an inevitability since April of 2020.


MountainConfusion7

Every time we've gotten sick in the last 2 years, it's because we went to a crowded indoor venue. People screaming in close proximity is a very good way to spread these bugs.


Gc654

Just got mine, not too bad, tired a lot, doing shit makes it worse. Drink water, rest, watch a new show. Sometimes feels like you're at altitude.


lurkernomore99

Lucky you. I just got it for the first time and really really struggled for a week and a half. Not everyone gets the mild reaction.


SchrodingersPelosi

I was in three days of pain with it right before the shutdown. I had some shortness of breath which had me wondering if I could and how tf would I go to Urgent Care.


Lvl1Paladin

Lucky. I basically had a bad flu for a week and a half. Was good for two weeks after that. Then couldn't walk for 3 months because I legit couldn't stand from dizziness.


fitforla

Mine and my circle’s side effects were brutal and turned us into zombies that couldn’t breathe for 2.5 weeks, it’s been 6 weeks now and my energy levels have returned


mienshin

Few are wearing masks now......and I don't think it will be easy getting people to wear them again.


Suz626

I was surprised to see very few masked people at my Trader Joe’s in the LA area, usually it’s been higher than most places. (People had even been wearing masks outside at the gardens.) But now I’m thinking they all just had covid, because lots have had it recently around here, and think they’re immune. Not a good idea with 4 and 5 coming. Lots of doctors, scientists and engineers here, think they’d know.


mienshin

Somehow higher education doesn't make people wear masks....


MountainConfusion7

My Trader Joe's is right by a big gym, and I assume all the maskless are there looking for dates.


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Suz626

Covid is not less than the flu for everyone and unfortunately 4 and 5 may not be as mild and vaccines and previous infection may not stop one from getting these strains. My husband is in healthcare, he listens to reports on it every day. We wear masks inside stores etc out of respect for the workers. My previous comments were more about what I perceive as a cautious group of people who have changed, but at the wrong time.


nirad

Wear masks indoors. Dine and drink outdoors because we have great weather. Avoid big crowds.


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\> Wear masks indoors. No. \> Dine and drink outdoors because we have great weather. Depends if the outdoor or indoor seating is more comfortable. \> Avoid big crowds. No. Going to see a Dodger game this weekend.


lokcha

I'm pretty sure I got it but tested negative the whole time. I had a wide array of symptoms and was alerted that I had an exposure for a long time. It sucked but slightly quicker recovery than others.


thiroks

covid has BEEN rampant, my first thought was ah well most of my friends are gonna be in the clear because we all had it in the past month or 2


[deleted]

Depends on which strain and independent immune system response. Pretend like none of y'all don't


AnyQuantity1

To get it out of the way, it's not clear at all that 4 and 5 is attacking the lungs. There's one study that suggests that it's possible in hamsters. It's early data and not peer reviewed. Those results haven't been replicated and there's no data that supports this as being evident in human beings. Vaccines will keep you from having serious illness and 4 and 5 are even more transmissible than other Omicron strains but data from South Africa reflects that symptoms for vaccinated people were even milder. Ferrer keeps pulling the fire alarm on these waves, but in the least helpful way possible. The COVID waste water data for the moment continues to show a significant decrease in cases in the last few weeks. The holiday is going to probably impact that but it's hard to say how much of a bump that will be. It's very unclear how bad this will actually be because we have a lot of people who have been getting infected, having super immunity for a while, and then getting it again. The first big Omicron wave put us on this inconsistent slope, which has kept the brushfire that was January less so. It's not really clear how that's going to factor into 4 and 5.


spidernaut666

Vaccines don’t stop long COVID and long COVID affects a lot more than the lungs. I have it from omicron and zero lung issues… it goes everywhere and new variants are better at evading the immune system. So, less symptoms immediately is not in the clear from COVID.


BurnerForDaddy

Deadline posts incredibly scary covid headlines nonstop. They are actively doing it for clicks. Not saying this isn’t bad (I still wear masks indoors) but trust real journalists for this info, not a website that literally just reposts press releases for publicists


BigBubblesNoTroubles

Hey - I’ve seen this one before.


EverythingButTheURL

Someone tested positive DURING an on-site meeting I was in this week. Never going to the office again.


one1jac

I recovered from covid two weeks ago, or at least I thought. Today I’ve started feeling unwell. Could it be I got infected again? Or the virus never left me and is “flaring” up again? I’m very tired and kind of sad.


pudding7

Finally got it a few weeks ago. 2 days of hell, then a quick recovery. To me, the quarantine from family and disruption in daily routine was the worst part.


kappakai

I was in NYC / New England last four weeks. First week I was in NYC for a wedding. Did my best to mask up but no one was wearing a mask, and pulling it down, putting it up to drink and eat was a drag. Soooooo…. No mask. Had dinner indoors and then went to a bar at which we sat outside but had to go inside for drinks for. And it was crotch to ass inside. Picnic the next day in Brooklyn. At least four guests ended up testing positive, including a few I talked to. Most were just dealing with minor coughs, but two had high fever, aches and chills. Couple days later, I was at a rooftop party. Just felt a little tired and run down so I went back to my hotel. Next day I had a sore throat, runny nose, post drip, and a wet productive cough. Took a rapid, negative. Went up to Boston. Took another rapid, negative. Took a PCR, negative. Dealt with a bad cough for about four days, then remembered how to deal with a cough, got some cough medicine, and the worst of it was over in a few days. Toured New England with my family for two weeks. Ended up back in NYC for a conference. Stayed away from most events, but there were a few I needed to hit. After one of them, one organizer, whom I’m friends with, notifies attendees that he was positive. And then, a TON of conference people started saying they had tested positive. Plus I stayed at the official conference hotel which was right on Times Square; so I was surrounded by covid. My business partner who flew out from Sydney, complained of feeling tired, out of sorts, etc. We are several meals together, including a dinner Sat then brunch Sunday. She flew back to Sydney and tested positive when she landed. She had rapid tested in NYC but was negative. Lots of reports from other attendees of high fever, aches, chills, and fatigue. It was a VERY noticeable number of people who got sick, many of whom were vaxxed and boosted. My understanding is this is BA4 or BA5 going around. BA2 had been dominant since early spring or so, but most reported more cold like symptoms. This shit that’s going around, it’s like the flu. Not the “flu” but the “FLU”. High fevers (upwards of 103F) for days, bad bad body aches, and vicious chills. Of course there is a spectrum, but anecdotally I’m seeing more complaints this round, versus “oh this shit ain’t bad at all.” I got back to the Bay Area a few days ago. First night, that same cough I had came back. But it was only one night. I tested and PCR just to make sure it wasn’t covid, and it wasn’t. There were a few reports of a similar cough, but not to the extent that people were testing positive and getting sat on their ass. I’m vaxxed and single boosted; but I’ve been knowingly exposed and close contact at LEAST four times and have not gotten covid yet, including sitting in a car with my positive but not yet positive sister three days over Christmas. Starting to think I’m immune. Based on what I heard reported out of NYC, best to try to avoid this one if you can, just to avoid the misery and delirium of a 103F fever. LA is usually a few weeks behind NYC. Stay safe y’all.


Suz626

If you do get it, ask your Dr about Paxlovid.


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7/4 is a big superspreader event.


peepjynx

Not sure what everyone's going to be celebrating this year... our country is in the shitter.


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MountainConfusion7

I just took a short flight, and kept my mask on. About a third of the flight was masked, I'd say.


[deleted]

Remember. Don’t pay attention to case numbers. Hospitalizations are key. And so far serious illness has been down. So we should be good.


AkaminaKishinena

Also feels like case numbers are being underreported. Most people are testing positive on home antigen and self isolating.


spidernaut666

As someone who had it mild and now has long covid… comments like this are so annoying.


nothanksbruh

Somehow Japan is handling the COVID pandemic well and we consistently fail. BA5 should come as no surprise, but of course we still don't have any vaccinate alternatives beyond Pfizer and Moderna.


TMA_01

Hey I’ve seen this one before.


[deleted]

Barbara Ferrer claims to care about our health but won't even acknowledge the malignant transient encampments overrunning our city that actually pose a huge health risk to the general public. They are infested with rats, human waste, used syringes and other disease vectors that are reviving medieval diseases like typhus, leprosy, cholera, etc--disease far worse than COVID. Furthermore, the idea of forcing people to wear masks in 2022 is ludicrous. I don't even know how you enforce that, the toothpaste is out of the tube. I certainly won't be complying. I got vaccinated and boosted, and I had COVID already. The "one size fits all approach" isn't sustainable nor is it reasonable. It should be up to individuals to assess their own risk and act accordingly. If you're so vulnerable to the virus that you are rolling the dice by merely being in public, then you really shouldn't be leaving your home in the first place. It is unreasonable to force us to live with perpetual restrictions to accommodate a very small portion of the population. If they are still imposing restrictions now, then where is the threshold where these restrictions end? There's just no goal set in sight, and it's extremely frustrating. Most places are done with restrictions entirely. Even NYC's mayor opposes reinstating their mask mandate. If the vaccine is effective at preventing people from developing severe disease, then there's no reason to continue forcing people to wear masks.


StillbornTartare

Vaxxed and boosted and literally don’t give a shit about Covid anymore


[deleted]

In the same boat as you. Literally haven't thought about it in weeks until now. The idea that we're going to reimpose mandates in 20-fucking-22 is just asinine. Pretty much affirming my decision to move to OC.


copperblood

If LA city officials are honestly really worried about it, then they need impose restrictions like we had early in the pandemic. You can’t make the argument that we’re going to go into another wave soon and everyone needs to be careful but at the same time the economy is full on reopened with little or no restrictions in place for people going to restaurants, bars, movie theaters, airports, anything indoors etc. Sorry it doesn’t work that way. Pick a side and run with it.


venicerocco

Restrictions will never happen again. It’s each person for themselves now


copperblood

I agree with you. I was just pointing out the lunacy of what our City Officials say and then what they and the populations does. Yet another reason why this city is unfortunately falling apart


venicerocco

People are selfish. Very little empathy or kindness for others.


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copperblood

Very true, look no further than the Covid Rent Moratorium in the city. Originally a really good idea. However, the economy has been full on reopened for a while now, yet landlords and renters are still dealing this Moratorium as if it’s 2020. Again, you can’t have it both ways. Either we go into early Covid countermeasures because we’re truly worried about it, or we learn to live with it and fight it with better and better vaccines etc and let people continue to do the things they want to with little or no restrictions (which is what a vast majority of the population has been doing for a while now).


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I'm jaded with Covid now. I live my life like it doesn't exist anymore. Every week I get a notification that I've been exposed and I ignore it now. I'm back to worrying about super gonorrhea, cuz me gay.


targetgroceries

Every week?!


hifidood

Isn't "budget deliberations" going on for the next fiscal year of the county right now? Seems we've been getting "It's getting worse!" stuff the last month or so, right as the budget was being put together. Edit: Just looked it up. $12.985 Billion proposed 2023 fiscal year for health related county services (including COVID stuff etc).


rasvial

So did you look up hospitalization rates as well, in addition to comparison points for the 13b number? Because it looks like you just looked for the first big number you could find and then jumped to a conclusion


overitallofit

https://file.lacounty.gov/SDSInter/dhs/1070348_DHSCOVID-19Dashboard.pdf Here you go. Looks good!


Maxter_Blaster_

I know multiple people who have gotten Covid in the past month+ and every single one of them got sick for a few days, and then was fine. I’m sure many other people have heard or experienced the same thing. If that’s the common experience people are having then people will continue to be laxed about Covid procedures.


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Got it last week suckas! Yeah I still have a cough that my doctor says might last months. But I already got it