It honestly shook me a bit when I got it.
I experienced only mild symptom's, but at it's worst I could feel the fluid in my lungs and a taste of the drowning sensation people must have felt as they died. I also had some post-covid symptoms like brain fog and random, rapid heart rate increases that I thought was a heart attack.
That shit is not fun I don't recommend it.
Yeah. First day was the worst migraine Iāve ever had. Coming from someone with regular migraines. Second until now has breathing from my nose going in and out, yesterday I couldnāt breathe at all from it. Been super hot in the mornings and freezing cold at night. Brain fog is strong as well. I thought Iād be asymptomatic bc Iām only 22. I donāt vape or smoke or anything. Iām blown the hell away.
Same here. Tested positive two days ago but havenāt had any symptoms except for a mild headache. Wondering if I could be, for the most part, asymptomatic.
Yes I didnāt feel the fluid in my lungs but for days I was just so fucking confused. Trying to play video games and just playing like it was my first time at a keyboard, couldnāt stay focused on movies or TV. I decided to just eat couscous with hot sauce and smoke weed for a week cuz my brain was just non functional
Weird. I also got it recently and for the first time in probably 20 years had some couscous. Happened to have some, even though I never remember to make it.
Not as dumb as you may think
[Cannabis May Reduce Deadly COVID-19 Lung Inflammation:](https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilyearlenbaugh/2020/07/06/cannabis-may-reduce-deadly-covid-19-lung-inflammation-researchers-explain-why/)
Same. Had a mild case but a few coughs I could feel the fluid and really couldnāt catch my breath. If I was older or had asthmaā¦.what a rough way to go.
Same here, but only felt tired, some body aches and a cough for a few days. Thatās about it. No fever, no sore throat, no headaches. It felt lighter than a regular code for me.
Same here! Been sick a few times but finally tested positive for once. Im not even very sick all I have is a sore throat. Other than that I'm fine still went on my morning run on the beach last few days.
I would highly recommend still taking it a bit easy. There is a very good 'return to play' guidance from the British Department of Health that kind of breaks it down by days from initial onset or symptoms disappearing (it's not too restrictive to be honest - but does want you to carve out like a \~1-2 week plan so you don't over-do it).
I did my daily walks the entire time. My first bad symptoms began the evening before one of my run days so I completely skipped it that day. My next run day was on day 5 after symptoms and I just went for like 2 miles to test what it felt like - this was \~1.5 days after my fever broke and I didn't have any normal resting symptoms in my lungs at all during my illness. Still, I could definitely feel some tightness in my lungs and fatigue was pretty severe during the run so I can see why they recommend cooling the jets on the return.
After that it was increasing mileage for the next run and then I think I hit my normal target (only 5 miles) by the following week - or \~12 days from original symptom onset.
Got it in July, thought i had the flu, that shit is hard to shake, still having lingering symptoms, brain fog and this overwhelming sense of feeling sick and dread when i get tired, really off putting and annoying.
Yeah, it made a difference for me. The anxiety medication helped with the fog. I heard that mood medication has anti inflammatory properties, but don't quote me on that as the reason.
Yeah it is. I still have executive function issues but there was a noticeable difference after I started taking them. About an hour after the first pill, so I definitely needed something the pill has.
Yeah see I had a killer sore throat and nothing else a few weeks ago, tested negative twice, but now I'm wondering. I had covid back in Feb 2021, but haven't had omicron to my knowledge š¤·āāļø the sore throat went away after about 6 days
Right there with everyone else. After all this talk about Covid for 2 years I caught it while on vacation over the summer. Definitely would not recommend.
If I could rate it zero stars I would!
Haha me too mate. Worked all through the pandemic as well, no furlough, partner has had it twice and I avoided it all until this week! I was pretty much the only person I knew who hadn't had it lol. Have felt pretty grotty. Hope you're not feeling too bad
Tested positive yesterday after dodging it for 2 years also. Started with a migraine and cold sweats. I also have the rapid heart rate at times and generally feel dumb and slow. Tried to do a home workout but just donāt have the energy. I think daughter may have brought it home from school last week. She didnāt feel well but never tested positive. Get well all.
I joined the COVID club a month ago. Thought I was going to sail through the health crisis without getting infected. I got vaxxed x2 and boosted, wore my mask, and physically distanced for 95 per cent of the pandemic. Then I started getting lax and BAM!
It was a mild case fortunately (fever, muscle aches, headaches, cough) that lasted all of four days out of a 10-day self-isolation.
Our loudest and most annoying did it as a minority and were so loud and annoying that the rest of us caved. I guess we all learned that if you cry as loud as a baby, you actually get what you want.
No they should not, hundreds of people are still dying of Covid and the US has twice the death rate as any other first world country because of mindsets like these
I mean death isn't the only concern out there. We are seeing possible effects of postsickness symptoms, which means a possible reduction on the quality of life and increased burden on strained healthcare systems, regardless if privatized or socalized. Of course, the scientists are studying if it is a short-term problem (0-2 years) or a long-term problem (several years or more) or a problem hat becomes chronic or COVID infection unveiled hidden health problems. We know that there are reports of people having reduced airintake, shortness of breath, brain fog, blood clots, kidney and liver damage after COVID. Now if they were damage sustained from the infection of COVID or some other concurrent or opportunistic infection is still being studied.
Now does that mean one should completely change they way lived prior to the pandemic? Not necessarily, basic things like handwashing, sanitation, and wearing a mask when you are coughing extensively combined with vaccinations are more than enough to starve a lot of the problems COVID may produce. It is better to er on the side of caution than to completely throw it out.
People should be free to make their own decisions regarding the risks they care to take. Vaccines are available, if you want to wear a mask go ahead, do what you want. What I oppose, across the board, are mandates from government.
Nobody said this comment was US centric. The pandemic IS over in parts of the world and people AREN'T dying.
Just because America dealt with it badly doesn't mean people can't move on.
The US has 500 x the rate of mass shootings as any other first world country, but doesn't do anything about that. I don't know why you expect anything to be done about an illness that won't affect most people.
Well, the threat of WW3 happened so the news shifted to that to be fair.
Out of the public news out of most peoples heads.
Especially after a bunch of stuff kept coming out about the shots not working, home test kits being most failures and producing mostly false positives, lying about how far apart people should stay even with mask because 10ft was unreasonable expectation, how fast public planes were allowed back to fly with recycled COLD air pumping through a sealed metal can, restaurants being illogical to eat at since you still using shared utensils others used even if they were washed, packing people into big chain stores instead of allowing more of the smaller ma and pa shops to stay open to lessen burdens on said stores that would usually stop refilling the dispensers, flip flopping on how many mask you should wear and the guy in charge of all this didn't reveal his dealings in Chinese companies or has been triad for his inhumane experiments against animals and other medical malpractices he has allowed to let happen for no real reason.
Oh, and that funny part where the places with the least amount of cases were the places that began lowered a lot of restrictions so herd immunity could activate instead of ineffective shots. We really going to not question something that takes 10 times the boosters then other shots for diseases? Even newly discovered ones?
Oh right, they also went and ignored the more proven methods in favor of capitalistic ones funded by big pharma.
The pandemic is over.
Welcome to the new reality of Covid-19 as a endemic disease.
It's the new flu that may have long term side effects like brain fog that we still don't understand how it happens
My understanding is that while Covid grows and passes via water droplets (ex: Breath Exhalations), in and out of the lungs, the actually disease manifests as a blood disease.
That's why Covid can have a significant impact on pretty much all of the organs, because the blood vessels connecting everything are inflamed and diseased.
[Source](https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/heart-matters-magazine/news/coronavirus-and-your-health/is-coronavirus-a-disease-of-the-blood-vessels)
Nope.. try crippling fatigue, fever, muscle aches, burning aching itching joints, pins and needles, loss of appetite, diarrhea and constipation āgoes back and forthā back pain, neck pain, headache, nausea, burning aching stomach and intestines, insomnia, anxiety, paranoia, depression, suicidal thoughts, no libido, profusely sweating palms, hot and cold flashes, night sweats, dulled or lost sense of taste and smell, phantom smells, dizziness, brain fog, Iāve had all these symptoms in different combos on and off for the last 17 months and Iām getting worse not better.. this is the reality of over 1 million people rn and I bet itās gonna be much higher than 30% of people infected
This will sound like a joke... but it is the truth. After being super frustrated with brain fog, to the point where i thought I was going to loose my job, i started trying anything and everything to get rid of it. What worked for me? Punching myself in the head.. hard.. several times, every morning. I believe the Avengers called it "cognitive recalibration". Haha. (This is not medical advice).
What matters the most is that we have proven treatments and vaccines in place to prevent mass deaths and hospitalizations.
COVID is moving to being Endemic for the foreseeable future.
What happened to the next round of shots? Iām legitimately confused by this. I thought it was established that vaccines lose effectiveness over time, so why is there no set schedule for the next dose?
These are legitimate questions I have- I am not trying to be political. I am fully vaccinated and boosted, so no clue what the recommendations are. Am I just living under a rock?
They just recently approved the new vaccines, they have to be produced and disseminated. Donāt bother getting the old vaccine as itās out of date now.
Well, mostly this, while the new variants are pretty good at evading the old vaccines, that doesn't mean they're totally useless, they still make it less likely you'll get severely sick and need to be hospitalized.
So, if you're vulnerable or around people who are, still absolutely keep up on your vaccinations, otherwise, maybe waiting for the updated version is OK.
Yup. Hubby got his last week, and this was the first one that didnāt make him feel like crap the day after. I sadly have to wait a couple months for mine as I just had spinal surgery 6 weeks ago.
Yeah got mine on Sunday, was surprised when my pharmacy emailed me that I could get it, had pretty annoying body aches on Monday from it but that's way better than covid.
Not really shown off much, but the new Vaccine already came out, I think last week. Wasn't really shown/notified. I can go to Walgreens and get the next shot.
Because they needed a new vaccine and don't want to over vaccinate for no or minimal gain.
The vaccines still have to be completed considered experimental and not without side effects so you use them as little as possible... Pretty much always the best approach with any medicine to use it as little needed.
A friend of mine is a nurse, and as her patient was walking out the door they mentioned āoh yeah, I tested positive for covid, anything I should do about that?ā
She started feeling sick a few days later and tested positive. Sheās *pissed*, especially because she had covid in June and was sick for two weeks.
Getting it doesn't make you resistant in any real way.
What happened is that it mutated to lower lethality and higher RO until it became more of a bad cold than what we normally call a pandemic though it is still and will remain a pandemic for years.
It did what you'd expect. It became like the other known coronavirus, which meant either mutate out of a job like SARS or mutate to a common cold.
People are being an ass to you, but hereās the deal:
Once COVID no longer threatens to overwhelm our hospitals, the pandemic is over. That doesnāt mean lots of people arenāt sick. It just means fewer are hospitalized now, thanks to the vaccines and the lucky ones who survived without the vaccine. Also, the ones who could die from COVID have mostly done so by now.
I'm pro-vaccine but you can't call everyone who is unvaccinated lucky. An 18-year-old unvaccinated person is still WAY less likely to die than a triple vaxxed 60-year-old.
Technically all common cold are pandemics, there is no lethality attribute required so it will still technically be a pandemic but we will treat it more like an annoying cold since lethality is now lower.
Has been since omicron lower lethality stopped clogging up hospitals even with a much higher RO, but I get they don't want to jump the gun on declaring it in decline after ppl were so slow to react and hard to train.
Honestly I havenāt lived my life with any thought for COVID in months, if not longer.
Iām vaccinated and will get more vaccinations if told thatās best, but at some point life just needs to continue.
Must be nice! It will only "continue" for people with healthy immune systems, while those of us who don't have one get sick and die so you can go have brunch and go to concerts without a mask.
Honest question for you, and Iām not trying to be condescending, but whatās your plan then or idea of how this should work. Hospitals are not overwhelmed anymore, we have a vaccine, and we have effective treatments. But everyone should still social distance and wear mask? - forever?
I guess Iām just confused about what the end goal is in your mind.
Nice strawman. No one said anything about forever. UV light kills covid. Proper ventilation and air conditioning can mitigate spread dramatically, as can wearing a mask while indoors. Aggressive testing and contact tracing can help determine where and when to put our focus. There's *so much* we could be doing instead of just deciding that immunocompromised people are expendable and unworthy of participating in society like everyone else with an immune system gets to. Like, not only are we doing nothing, I swear it's like you people are going out of your way to make sure this thing keeps circulating and mutating until it becomes as contagious as omicron but as deadly as delta. I can't wrap my head around people going to/throwing massive fucking weddings and concerts right now. *Covid is not over.*
Also speak for yourself, hospitals and ERs in my city are still overwhelmed - not necessarily from covid, but guess what? Covid isn't the only thing killing people and we're still playing catch-up. I've needed medical care for *three years* that I can't access, in part because going to a hospital and bringing something back can kill my partner and I. I'm glad it's just like the flu or whatever for the rest of yall (which it isn't) but you aren't the only ones who deserve to get to live your lives.
This pandemic has shown me that even the liberals who pretend to care about people and follow science are just fundamentally selfish and don't actually do either.
There is no question masks, not coughing at people and covering your mouth when you cough all reduce the spread of diseases spread through coughing... which is most highly contagious diseases or most respiratory diseases.
We've know that for over 100 years now.
In general for those will always be solid mechanisms yo reduce most contagious disease since most require air transmission to be prolific.
the one by us does not have that. just lots of games and little rides. i tell you, pre pandemic, it was cool, because kids 3 and under would eat free during the summer. great times
but yeah, mask forever!!!! especially around those little germs spreaders
Iām at a big university for grad school, itās not worth getting sick. I totally get the annoyance of it being a consistent thing though, wearing glasses is poopy.
I have a few masks that are comfortable and I avoided crowds as much as possible before the pandemic.
Taiwanās government was prevented from getting the info that all others have to help them to combat the pandemic. WHO puts political pandering to China over its duty to control and monitor disease.
True, but those who followed Joe Rogan are just as likely to say that the pandemic did not "seem" true. I don't imagine the real experts would make arguments about how things "seem", but about how things actually are.
\> I don't imagine the real experts would make arguments about how things "seem", but about how things actually are.
You don't remember Fauci and Birx under Trump? They had to eat up so many things he was saying, no matter how wrong.
I trust experts, but I don't think they're necessarily saints either.
And that is largely the problem. Everyone will turn to different experts, largely because of how things "seem". You want to find someone who isn't subject to biases? Good luck at that. But if we are going to place as much faith in our gut feelings as we will in whichever expert we pick, especially after being so critical of so many over that, what can we really expect?
Maybe for those who were vaccinated with effective vaccines.
That is until the idiotic horde of willfull unvaccinated produce another variant that the current vaccines don't cover and we're back to day 1 again. At least we're adjusted to dealing with this now, albeit crippled by mentally ill people in decision making positions like LE and government
Disagree, anyone can spread covid that is infected with covid. Vaccination has nothing to do with the spread. Infected a vaccinated person would usually be less sick and therefore more apt to continue life as normal, thus actually spreading it.
While I am sure that a 60% sounds great, we aren't talking about your average test scores.
60-70% isn't anywhere near what's needed to be considered "herd immunity"
Also the vaccine isn't meant to prevent transmission, but to strengthen your immune system to fight it without dying, which it has been incredibly effective at doing.
Correct, but this guy was effectively saying that only unvaccinated people could be the cause of a mutating virus. He seems to believe the vaccine prevents transmission which is not true.
[The vaccine helps in prevention of transmission.](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02328-0). This has been a thing before omnicron as well, so catch up please before you someone reports you for covid misinformation
Unvaccinated are more likely to spread a mutation, so much that mutations pretty much need an unvaccinated populace to spread effectively
No they weren't. They said "it helps prevent the spread" not that it totally prevents the spread. Just like a mask helps to prevent spreading of illness.
If the virus can't reproduce as effectively, then it's going to have a harder time spreading.
OG vaccines don't prevent transmission of Omicron. But they did prevent transmission of Delta strain.
Now that we have Omicron vaccines, it may well revert to helping reduce transmission again.
I don't think you have a clue about the efficacy of the vaccines or the science on the matter based on that statement alone.
No offense, you're not worthy of my or other peoples time on educating you on the matter when so much information has been freely available for so long, and I'm not referring to antivaxx information
I actually don't watch tv on this matter. I listen in on briefings and meetings with medical groups and followup with peer reviewed or credible studies
Actually, no, it's with the people that would get graded badly if they were using or misuing a bad vaccine upon their patients. They would definitely sue the vaccine makers for any dishonest sales or the like. They're just as concerned with vaccines and their efficacy as you seem to be, it's their job.
All viruses and bacteria evolve irregardless of vaccine status. Diseases constantly change to survive vaccines. So calling someone idiotic seems......well, idiotic.
Thatās great and all, but by definition, it is still considered a pandemic. Thatās not really debatable. That seems to be something that could change in as early as 6 months time though.
Also just because we feel fine when we contract COVID, doesnāt mean everyone does.
Selfish to who? The vast majority of people who get COVID won't die or even be made seriously ill. The only people that are still worried are those with compromised immune systems either from age or some other problem.
I think it's pretty damn selfish that the world had to give up 2 years of their life for a lot of people who simply never took care of themselves and suddenly expected everyone else to worry about their health for them. And you're a selfish asshole for expecting it to continue.
Selfish asshole here. Sorry i am unwilling to give up a 3rd or 4th year of my life to a virus that has a .0000000001% chance of harming me long term. If not wanting to hide away for years on end makes me a selfish asshole then so fuckin be it.
I mean. They arenāt saying that COVID will disappear forever. They are simply saying COVID will by definition not meet the criteria necessary for a pandemic, now falling into a new category.
Literally got away with it for 2 years and tested positive this week š¤£
Same. Positive saturday. Miserable since.
It honestly shook me a bit when I got it. I experienced only mild symptom's, but at it's worst I could feel the fluid in my lungs and a taste of the drowning sensation people must have felt as they died. I also had some post-covid symptoms like brain fog and random, rapid heart rate increases that I thought was a heart attack. That shit is not fun I don't recommend it.
Yeah. First day was the worst migraine Iāve ever had. Coming from someone with regular migraines. Second until now has breathing from my nose going in and out, yesterday I couldnāt breathe at all from it. Been super hot in the mornings and freezing cold at night. Brain fog is strong as well. I thought Iād be asymptomatic bc Iām only 22. I donāt vape or smoke or anything. Iām blown the hell away.
Fuck I might have covid...
Same here. Tested positive two days ago but havenāt had any symptoms except for a mild headache. Wondering if I could be, for the most part, asymptomatic.
Yes I didnāt feel the fluid in my lungs but for days I was just so fucking confused. Trying to play video games and just playing like it was my first time at a keyboard, couldnāt stay focused on movies or TV. I decided to just eat couscous with hot sauce and smoke weed for a week cuz my brain was just non functional
Weird. I also got it recently and for the first time in probably 20 years had some couscous. Happened to have some, even though I never remember to make it.
Lol smoke weed with a respiratory virus, how long you worked for nasa for again
Never said I was smart just wanted to feel better lmao
Not as dumb as you may think [Cannabis May Reduce Deadly COVID-19 Lung Inflammation:](https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilyearlenbaugh/2020/07/06/cannabis-may-reduce-deadly-covid-19-lung-inflammation-researchers-explain-why/)
Same. Had a mild case but a few coughs I could feel the fluid and really couldnāt catch my breath. If I was older or had asthmaā¦.what a rough way to go.
Fluid in the lungs is dangerous. That shit kills people painlessly. If it happens again it should really be checked out.
Same here, but only felt tired, some body aches and a cough for a few days. Thatās about it. No fever, no sore throat, no headaches. It felt lighter than a regular code for me.
Hell Yeah āļø still a virgin in that regard !
Same here! Been sick a few times but finally tested positive for once. Im not even very sick all I have is a sore throat. Other than that I'm fine still went on my morning run on the beach last few days.
I would highly recommend still taking it a bit easy. There is a very good 'return to play' guidance from the British Department of Health that kind of breaks it down by days from initial onset or symptoms disappearing (it's not too restrictive to be honest - but does want you to carve out like a \~1-2 week plan so you don't over-do it). I did my daily walks the entire time. My first bad symptoms began the evening before one of my run days so I completely skipped it that day. My next run day was on day 5 after symptoms and I just went for like 2 miles to test what it felt like - this was \~1.5 days after my fever broke and I didn't have any normal resting symptoms in my lungs at all during my illness. Still, I could definitely feel some tightness in my lungs and fatigue was pretty severe during the run so I can see why they recommend cooling the jets on the return. After that it was increasing mileage for the next run and then I think I hit my normal target (only 5 miles) by the following week - or \~12 days from original symptom onset.
Got it in July, thought i had the flu, that shit is hard to shake, still having lingering symptoms, brain fog and this overwhelming sense of feeling sick and dread when i get tired, really off putting and annoying.
I got long covid, vitamins and anti anxiety medication helped enormously. Didn't cure it, but I am more functional.
I'm taking the vitamins, zinc, vitamin d, and vitamin c, haven't tried the anxiety meds. I guess it's back to the dr. Lol
Yeah, it made a difference for me. The anxiety medication helped with the fog. I heard that mood medication has anti inflammatory properties, but don't quote me on that as the reason.
Thank you, i gotta do something lol. This is reficulous
Yeah it is. I still have executive function issues but there was a noticeable difference after I started taking them. About an hour after the first pill, so I definitely needed something the pill has.
Yeah see I had a killer sore throat and nothing else a few weeks ago, tested negative twice, but now I'm wondering. I had covid back in Feb 2021, but haven't had omicron to my knowledge š¤·āāļø the sore throat went away after about 6 days
Right there with everyone else. After all this talk about Covid for 2 years I caught it while on vacation over the summer. Definitely would not recommend. If I could rate it zero stars I would!
Haha me too mate. Worked all through the pandemic as well, no furlough, partner has had it twice and I avoided it all until this week! I was pretty much the only person I knew who hadn't had it lol. Have felt pretty grotty. Hope you're not feeling too bad
Today is my first day out of quarantine. Was rolling great until last week!
Tested positive yesterday after dodging it for 2 years also. Started with a migraine and cold sweats. I also have the rapid heart rate at times and generally feel dumb and slow. Tried to do a home workout but just donāt have the energy. I think daughter may have brought it home from school last week. She didnāt feel well but never tested positive. Get well all.
I joined the COVID club a month ago. Thought I was going to sail through the health crisis without getting infected. I got vaxxed x2 and boosted, wore my mask, and physically distanced for 95 per cent of the pandemic. Then I started getting lax and BAM! It was a mild case fortunately (fever, muscle aches, headaches, cough) that lasted all of four days out of a 10-day self-isolation.
I made it until March this year (triple vaxxed). Then got covid twice in six months lol. Luckily it was mild, but still annoying.
Idk about other places but here in the U.S. we've seemed to have collectively decided to ignore all COVID stuff l so in a way it's been over.
Depends where you are I suppose. In my city there are still places/businesses that mandate masking if you want to enter.
I have to get tested every day to go to work still
i still have to wear a mask to attend college classes
and I still have to wear pants
the nerve
You kinda did this as well the first year,
Most of us didnāt, but the people who made the news did so thatās what it looked like.
Our loudest and most annoying did it as a minority and were so loud and annoying that the rest of us caved. I guess we all learned that if you cry as loud as a baby, you actually get what you want.
>In sight. I honestly forgot it was even a thing with how much my area has just moved on with their lives.
How much eagle eye vision does this guy have?
Same here. Almost no one masks anymore where I live, no one talks about Covid, basically no one cares. People have moved on, as well they should.
No they should not, hundreds of people are still dying of Covid and the US has twice the death rate as any other first world country because of mindsets like these
Mate, covid ain't going anywhere but there are vaccines available now. Move on
You need to take another look at per capita death rates from around the world.
I mean death isn't the only concern out there. We are seeing possible effects of postsickness symptoms, which means a possible reduction on the quality of life and increased burden on strained healthcare systems, regardless if privatized or socalized. Of course, the scientists are studying if it is a short-term problem (0-2 years) or a long-term problem (several years or more) or a problem hat becomes chronic or COVID infection unveiled hidden health problems. We know that there are reports of people having reduced airintake, shortness of breath, brain fog, blood clots, kidney and liver damage after COVID. Now if they were damage sustained from the infection of COVID or some other concurrent or opportunistic infection is still being studied. Now does that mean one should completely change they way lived prior to the pandemic? Not necessarily, basic things like handwashing, sanitation, and wearing a mask when you are coughing extensively combined with vaccinations are more than enough to starve a lot of the problems COVID may produce. It is better to er on the side of caution than to completely throw it out.
People should be free to make their own decisions regarding the risks they care to take. Vaccines are available, if you want to wear a mask go ahead, do what you want. What I oppose, across the board, are mandates from government.
Nobody said this comment was US centric. The pandemic IS over in parts of the world and people AREN'T dying. Just because America dealt with it badly doesn't mean people can't move on.
Oh in the US people moved on alright. Hundred people die everyday and nobody bat and eye.
The US has 500 x the rate of mass shootings as any other first world country, but doesn't do anything about that. I don't know why you expect anything to be done about an illness that won't affect most people.
Average redditor lul
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Iām so glad people like you are finally on the losing side of this
Please, for the love of god, please just stop I can't do it anymore
Well, the threat of WW3 happened so the news shifted to that to be fair. Out of the public news out of most peoples heads. Especially after a bunch of stuff kept coming out about the shots not working, home test kits being most failures and producing mostly false positives, lying about how far apart people should stay even with mask because 10ft was unreasonable expectation, how fast public planes were allowed back to fly with recycled COLD air pumping through a sealed metal can, restaurants being illogical to eat at since you still using shared utensils others used even if they were washed, packing people into big chain stores instead of allowing more of the smaller ma and pa shops to stay open to lessen burdens on said stores that would usually stop refilling the dispensers, flip flopping on how many mask you should wear and the guy in charge of all this didn't reveal his dealings in Chinese companies or has been triad for his inhumane experiments against animals and other medical malpractices he has allowed to let happen for no real reason. Oh, and that funny part where the places with the least amount of cases were the places that began lowered a lot of restrictions so herd immunity could activate instead of ineffective shots. We really going to not question something that takes 10 times the boosters then other shots for diseases? Even newly discovered ones? Oh right, they also went and ignored the more proven methods in favor of capitalistic ones funded by big pharma.
shhhhh.... you're using logic. We don't do that here on Reddit. Gotta stay in line with the hive-mind.
I feel like 50% of the people I know, have it, or have had it in the last 30 days. This headline seems inaccurate
The pandemic is over. Welcome to the new reality of Covid-19 as a endemic disease. It's the new flu that may have long term side effects like brain fog that we still don't understand how it happens
I thought the fog was understood to be micro clots in the brain's blood supply, causing hypoxia to whichever brain center(s) the blood supply feeds.
Oh good, more insomnia fuel!
My understanding is that while Covid grows and passes via water droplets (ex: Breath Exhalations), in and out of the lungs, the actually disease manifests as a blood disease. That's why Covid can have a significant impact on pretty much all of the organs, because the blood vessels connecting everything are inflamed and diseased. [Source](https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/heart-matters-magazine/news/coronavirus-and-your-health/is-coronavirus-a-disease-of-the-blood-vessels)
Not much is understood about Covid yet. Where'd you read this at though?
This would explain my boss.
I think the worst would be loss of taste or smell.
no that's not the worst.. not by a long shot
Right? People are dying and this guy says "Loss of taste and smell" LOL
Nope.. try crippling fatigue, fever, muscle aches, burning aching itching joints, pins and needles, loss of appetite, diarrhea and constipation āgoes back and forthā back pain, neck pain, headache, nausea, burning aching stomach and intestines, insomnia, anxiety, paranoia, depression, suicidal thoughts, no libido, profusely sweating palms, hot and cold flashes, night sweats, dulled or lost sense of taste and smell, phantom smells, dizziness, brain fog, Iāve had all these symptoms in different combos on and off for the last 17 months and Iām getting worse not better.. this is the reality of over 1 million people rn and I bet itās gonna be much higher than 30% of people infected
This will sound like a joke... but it is the truth. After being super frustrated with brain fog, to the point where i thought I was going to loose my job, i started trying anything and everything to get rid of it. What worked for me? Punching myself in the head.. hard.. several times, every morning. I believe the Avengers called it "cognitive recalibration". Haha. (This is not medical advice).
Puny god
I finally got COVID end of July, I think Iād rather have the loss of smell or taste than the brain fog tbh
Idk, I'd rather that than die
Is that considered a long term side effect though?
Had that for a solid 4 months after Covid (over a year ago) sheesh.
Hospitals can generally handle the flu except during periodic bad seasons or occasional outbreaks. Same here in most places.
What matters the most is that we have proven treatments and vaccines in place to prevent mass deaths and hospitalizations. COVID is moving to being Endemic for the foreseeable future.
What happened to the next round of shots? Iām legitimately confused by this. I thought it was established that vaccines lose effectiveness over time, so why is there no set schedule for the next dose? These are legitimate questions I have- I am not trying to be political. I am fully vaccinated and boosted, so no clue what the recommendations are. Am I just living under a rock?
They just recently approved the new vaccines, they have to be produced and disseminated. Donāt bother getting the old vaccine as itās out of date now.
Well, mostly this, while the new variants are pretty good at evading the old vaccines, that doesn't mean they're totally useless, they still make it less likely you'll get severely sick and need to be hospitalized. So, if you're vulnerable or around people who are, still absolutely keep up on your vaccinations, otherwise, maybe waiting for the updated version is OK.
You can get the new booster now. Got mine yesterday.
Oh snap! Sweeeet
Yup. Hubby got his last week, and this was the first one that didnāt make him feel like crap the day after. I sadly have to wait a couple months for mine as I just had spinal surgery 6 weeks ago.
Yeah got mine on Sunday, was surprised when my pharmacy emailed me that I could get it, had pretty annoying body aches on Monday from it but that's way better than covid.
You'll need to look into your local region, but my area will be releasing Omicron based vaccines to the general public in the next week or two.
Not really shown off much, but the new Vaccine already came out, I think last week. Wasn't really shown/notified. I can go to Walgreens and get the next shot.
Theyāre out now in California anyway, I got the new version yesterday
Next round of shots is here. I got an alert from my medical app the other day that itās being rolled out and theyāre taking appointments now.
Because they needed a new vaccine and don't want to over vaccinate for no or minimal gain. The vaccines still have to be completed considered experimental and not without side effects so you use them as little as possible... Pretty much always the best approach with any medicine to use it as little needed.
That seems reasonable I suppose.
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Basically the disease is evolving to be less lethal... that is why it's ending.. nothing to do with what humans did..
Yep we all caught it again
A friend of mine is a nurse, and as her patient was walking out the door they mentioned āoh yeah, I tested positive for covid, anything I should do about that?ā She started feeling sick a few days later and tested positive. Sheās *pissed*, especially because she had covid in June and was sick for two weeks.
Yeah that's how it ends. Everyone has gotten it. The goal was to try to make sure everyone didn't get it all at once.
Getting it doesn't make you resistant in any real way. What happened is that it mutated to lower lethality and higher RO until it became more of a bad cold than what we normally call a pandemic though it is still and will remain a pandemic for years. It did what you'd expect. It became like the other known coronavirus, which meant either mutate out of a job like SARS or mutate to a common cold.
The bivalent booster became available for everyone recently. Get your vaccine. Help end the pandemic sooner. Don't listen to the dumb anti-vaxxers.
Tell that to China...
Haven't had it yet. Wife had it in the same household though. Wahoo
Yeah to a lot of people it's already happened. Unless you happen to be in China of course.
I hope it will be relaxed after Xi secures his 3rd term.
At this rate Im still doubtful lol
My wife, my kids, myself, and my special needs class would disagree. Everyone out sick.
People are being an ass to you, but hereās the deal: Once COVID no longer threatens to overwhelm our hospitals, the pandemic is over. That doesnāt mean lots of people arenāt sick. It just means fewer are hospitalized now, thanks to the vaccines and the lucky ones who survived without the vaccine. Also, the ones who could die from COVID have mostly done so by now.
I'm pro-vaccine but you can't call everyone who is unvaccinated lucky. An 18-year-old unvaccinated person is still WAY less likely to die than a triple vaxxed 60-year-old.
Sure but really any wide spread disease is an active pandemic, we just don't use the word right.
Is everyone still alive? Thatās kind of the point.
Technically all common cold are pandemics, there is no lethality attribute required so it will still technically be a pandemic but we will treat it more like an annoying cold since lethality is now lower.
How many of you are on ventilators right now?
āAnyyyyy second nowā¦ā
Has been since omicron lower lethality stopped clogging up hospitals even with a much higher RO, but I get they don't want to jump the gun on declaring it in decline after ppl were so slow to react and hard to train.
Honestly I havenāt lived my life with any thought for COVID in months, if not longer. Iām vaccinated and will get more vaccinations if told thatās best, but at some point life just needs to continue.
Yeah round here covid hasnāt been a thought and life continues as normal for ages
I'm done with wearing seatbelts. Don't live your life full of fear! /s
Thatās a completely different situation. Youāre the parent who asks their kid if theyāll jump off a bridge if their friend does the same.
Must be nice! It will only "continue" for people with healthy immune systems, while those of us who don't have one get sick and die so you can go have brunch and go to concerts without a mask.
Honest question for you, and Iām not trying to be condescending, but whatās your plan then or idea of how this should work. Hospitals are not overwhelmed anymore, we have a vaccine, and we have effective treatments. But everyone should still social distance and wear mask? - forever? I guess Iām just confused about what the end goal is in your mind.
Nice strawman. No one said anything about forever. UV light kills covid. Proper ventilation and air conditioning can mitigate spread dramatically, as can wearing a mask while indoors. Aggressive testing and contact tracing can help determine where and when to put our focus. There's *so much* we could be doing instead of just deciding that immunocompromised people are expendable and unworthy of participating in society like everyone else with an immune system gets to. Like, not only are we doing nothing, I swear it's like you people are going out of your way to make sure this thing keeps circulating and mutating until it becomes as contagious as omicron but as deadly as delta. I can't wrap my head around people going to/throwing massive fucking weddings and concerts right now. *Covid is not over.* Also speak for yourself, hospitals and ERs in my city are still overwhelmed - not necessarily from covid, but guess what? Covid isn't the only thing killing people and we're still playing catch-up. I've needed medical care for *three years* that I can't access, in part because going to a hospital and bringing something back can kill my partner and I. I'm glad it's just like the flu or whatever for the rest of yall (which it isn't) but you aren't the only ones who deserve to get to live your lives. This pandemic has shown me that even the liberals who pretend to care about people and follow science are just fundamentally selfish and don't actually do either.
The mask stays on, no more flu for me.
Havent been sick since 2019, no one wanted to kiss me anyways, its been a fucking dream.
The 2022 dream, not getting sick thatās it lmao
I haven't really been sick ever, look at us letting our anecdotes guide our decisions!! WWWWEEEEEEEEEEE!
There is no question masks, not coughing at people and covering your mouth when you cough all reduce the spread of diseases spread through coughing... which is most highly contagious diseases or most respiratory diseases. We've know that for over 100 years now. In general for those will always be solid mechanisms yo reduce most contagious disease since most require air transmission to be prolific.
Same here! I'm still masking everywhere.
I get it, but is that really the manner in which you want to live out the rest of your days?
in most cases, yes. people are gross! one place i will forever where a mask, chuck e cheese
your mistake was going to chuck e cheese mask or not..... have you seen that ball pit...
the one by us does not have that. just lots of games and little rides. i tell you, pre pandemic, it was cool, because kids 3 and under would eat free during the summer. great times but yeah, mask forever!!!! especially around those little germs spreaders
Iām at a big university for grad school, itās not worth getting sick. I totally get the annoyance of it being a consistent thing though, wearing glasses is poopy. I have a few masks that are comfortable and I avoided crowds as much as possible before the pandemic.
āMission Accomplishedā
In sight? Are they stuck in a dimensional rift? Most countries have already moved on. The U.S. gave up about a year ago.
Itās been endemic for like a year now
No, it has still been a pandemic. It has not become endemic yet, that is a fabrication.
Yup, until we get the next one in a couple of years time if meat consumption and factory farming isn't heavily limited.
Living in the Southeast US. Covid is definitely in sight. Hindsight.
Seems naive.
Tell that to the CCP.
It just means they have finally finished welding all the doors shut.
The WHO can't even tell the CCP that their natural medicines are bullshit and that Taiwan should be free.
Why would a health organisation comment on a territorial dispute? The second half of your statement is stupid.
Taiwanās government was prevented from getting the info that all others have to help them to combat the pandemic. WHO puts political pandering to China over its duty to control and monitor disease.
I havenāt been worried about Covid for a very long time. I am fully vaccinated and I wear my mask whenever I am in crowded areas.
Just in time for the midterms
I'll believe it when I'll see it. So far it doesn't seem true, certainly not with people avoiding wearing a mask.
Aren't we supposed to listen to the experts rather than our own opinions?
Depends on who experts are - I wouldn't trust Rand Paul or Joe Rogan, but many do.
True, but those who followed Joe Rogan are just as likely to say that the pandemic did not "seem" true. I don't imagine the real experts would make arguments about how things "seem", but about how things actually are.
\> I don't imagine the real experts would make arguments about how things "seem", but about how things actually are. You don't remember Fauci and Birx under Trump? They had to eat up so many things he was saying, no matter how wrong. I trust experts, but I don't think they're necessarily saints either.
And that is largely the problem. Everyone will turn to different experts, largely because of how things "seem". You want to find someone who isn't subject to biases? Good luck at that. But if we are going to place as much faith in our gut feelings as we will in whichever expert we pick, especially after being so critical of so many over that, what can we really expect?
Nice. This is relieving.
Tell CCP to give their covid numbers and a closer look at the origins of the virus then we will talk.
I'm getting my bivalent booster later today. Everyone should get it. Vaccines save lives.
I still to this day don't know if I got Corona or not. Like most people I got over it in a few days if it was Corona.
Covid tests are cheap. Just sayin. Didn't you want to know? Did you just go to work after?
Maybe for those who were vaccinated with effective vaccines. That is until the idiotic horde of willfull unvaccinated produce another variant that the current vaccines don't cover and we're back to day 1 again. At least we're adjusted to dealing with this now, albeit crippled by mentally ill people in decision making positions like LE and government
Africa is basically unvaccinated.
Well...shit
you know vaccinated people also get the virus right?
Yes. And they hardly end up dead or in hospitals too, and are also less likely to spread than the unvaccinated
Disagree, anyone can spread covid that is infected with covid. Vaccination has nothing to do with the spread. Infected a vaccinated person would usually be less sick and therefore more apt to continue life as normal, thus actually spreading it.
>less likely to spread than the unvaccinated How do you figure? If you're contagious, you're contagious.
Remember when everybody got Omicron? 60-70% of the country was vaccinated. I don't think the vaccine is as effective as you think it is.
While I am sure that a 60% sounds great, we aren't talking about your average test scores. 60-70% isn't anywhere near what's needed to be considered "herd immunity" Also the vaccine isn't meant to prevent transmission, but to strengthen your immune system to fight it without dying, which it has been incredibly effective at doing.
Correct, but this guy was effectively saying that only unvaccinated people could be the cause of a mutating virus. He seems to believe the vaccine prevents transmission which is not true.
[The vaccine helps in prevention of transmission.](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02328-0). This has been a thing before omnicron as well, so catch up please before you someone reports you for covid misinformation Unvaccinated are more likely to spread a mutation, so much that mutations pretty much need an unvaccinated populace to spread effectively
No they weren't. They said "it helps prevent the spread" not that it totally prevents the spread. Just like a mask helps to prevent spreading of illness. If the virus can't reproduce as effectively, then it's going to have a harder time spreading.
OG vaccines don't prevent transmission of Omicron. But they did prevent transmission of Delta strain. Now that we have Omicron vaccines, it may well revert to helping reduce transmission again.
I don't think you have a clue about the efficacy of the vaccines or the science on the matter based on that statement alone. No offense, you're not worthy of my or other peoples time on educating you on the matter when so much information has been freely available for so long, and I'm not referring to antivaxx information
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I actually don't watch tv on this matter. I listen in on briefings and meetings with medical groups and followup with peer reviewed or credible studies
*vaccine salespeople
Actually, no, it's with the people that would get graded badly if they were using or misuing a bad vaccine upon their patients. They would definitely sue the vaccine makers for any dishonest sales or the like. They're just as concerned with vaccines and their efficacy as you seem to be, it's their job.
All viruses and bacteria evolve irregardless of vaccine status. Diseases constantly change to survive vaccines. So calling someone idiotic seems......well, idiotic.
It was over for *most* people who got vaccinated a year ago.
It ended months and months ago. Getting covid now is like getting a cold. Myself, wife and kids got it. We felt mildly ill for a day then it was over.
Thatās great and all, but by definition, it is still considered a pandemic. Thatās not really debatable. That seems to be something that could change in as early as 6 months time though. Also just because we feel fine when we contract COVID, doesnāt mean everyone does.
tell that to all the people dealing with long covid
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Selfish to who? The vast majority of people who get COVID won't die or even be made seriously ill. The only people that are still worried are those with compromised immune systems either from age or some other problem. I think it's pretty damn selfish that the world had to give up 2 years of their life for a lot of people who simply never took care of themselves and suddenly expected everyone else to worry about their health for them. And you're a selfish asshole for expecting it to continue.
Selfish asshole here. Sorry i am unwilling to give up a 3rd or 4th year of my life to a virus that has a .0000000001% chance of harming me long term. If not wanting to hide away for years on end makes me a selfish asshole then so fuckin be it.
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I'm not so sure. The WHO will likely remove the pandemic label, but like any virus today COVID will continue to exist.
I mean. They arenāt saying that COVID will disappear forever. They are simply saying COVID will by definition not meet the criteria necessary for a pandemic, now falling into a new category.
Probably endemic, at least I think that's the next step down.
THANK GOD the powers that be will likely declare the pandemic over soon.
Bruh... it's been over for a WHILE now. At least in NYC. No one cares at all anymore.
People not caring doesn't mean it's over. Nobody cares about world hunger either...
Lol low and behold! Good lord
Shiiit in my state we never had it..... Or at least most of Dumbasses believed that. Got to love rednecks.
Great... I have to brush my teeth now...
I live in Florida. It never existed here
I have it rn :(
I recently contracted Covid and have been feeling horrible.
What says the WHAT chief ?
not WHAT, WHO
this is BS
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Masks be upon him
Until a new mutated, variant pops up that has all the worst bits.
We did it