“What could it beeee! Also why are you still masking?”
Folks were giving me grief for masking up when I caught it while visiting my grandma. Well, they can eat my ass, my 80 year old Grandma did not contract Covid because I took it seriously and masked and isolated.
Just seasonal. Ignore the excess deaths
Was supposed to video chat with my friend the other day.
he hits me up and goes “sorry man I can’t talk today. I’m sick and can’t get out of bed.”
With a cold? A cold has so knocked you on your ass that you haven’t been able to get out of bed for days? Of course he won’t actually test so to him he just has a cold.
To be fair, I recently had an illness of some sort that fatigued the absolute fuck out of me. I tested 6 times for COVID and all of them came up negative. Still have no idea wtf it was.
the BEST covid tests have 80% accuracy on the BEST day to test
your shitty rapid test prob has 60% accuracy on that day, and declining every day afterwards
alternatively your immune system is fucked from covid and now colds and flus fuck you up
the best way to test for covid is stool tests but crackers are dumb so this doesn’t happen
The last couple of time I’ve thought I’ve been sick I used the tests I got from Biden but they always come back negative and so has my partners. I feel like/assume the tests don’t do a great job with the new strains
E: not saying people shouldn’t test this just reminded me about my frustration around testing
Yeah the rapid tests can only really tell you if you have it, they can’t really confirm a negative. The CDC recommendation is to test twice within 48 hours, thrice in 72 if you’re having symptoms. Which sort of negates the usefulness of the free tests when you’re only giving out like a couple per household. We need free and abundant PCR testing.
This actually is what happens to me every time I get a cold, the flu, RSV, anything other than just seasonal allergies.
A few years back I had a cold for like 6 weeks. Tested negative for Covid, Influenza, and RSV multiple times each during the illness but could barely even make it to the bathroom, drink, or eat.
huh maybe it’s a similar thing for him then. I still think he should test, but of course he’s more concerned with convincing me that covid is over than in taking care of himself.
Was it like that for you in 2018 and prior though?
If you test negative for COVID, you often still have COVID. the PCR tests are only 80% accurate in optimal scenario (only 80% of infected people actually test positive, on the peak viral count day of infection, so the practical accuracy is more like 60%)
so the rapid tests are prob 50% accurate if we’re very generous
covid also destroys your immune system so even if you’re getting knocked out by colds, as long as that reaction was post-2019, then it’s still caused by covid
not trying to dismiss your experiences, you may just have something else that was already there. But if colds and flus began knocking you out in the last 5 years, then yea that’s either literal covid or covid-induced
If you test negative for COVID, you often still have COVID. the PCR tests are only 80% accurate in optimal scenario (only 80% of infected people actually test positive, on the peak viral count day of infection, so the practical accuracy is more like 60%)
source on this? especially the numbers. My understanding was PCRs are typically very sensitive, and tend to stay positive for far longer than people are actively experiencing symptoms or contagious, which doesn’t line up with you saying “80%” on the peak viral count day of infection.
What I’m seeing is confirmed false negative rates somewhere below like 5%, though mostly studies from earlier in the pandemic.
Rapid tests are straight trash though
covid also destroys your immune system so even if you’re getting knocked out by colds, as long as that reaction was post-2019, then it’s still caused by covid
Source for the “destroys immune system” claim? This isn’t something I’ve heard before. Anecdotally, I’m not getting sick nearly as often as I did before COVID.
FYI this seasons Flu and COVID boosters are now available. get vaxxed!
i’m probably putting mine off til october or so to see if i can survive the holiday season without getting covid this year
Yeah, at $200 a pop, I gotta time it for my money’s worth.
I wonder if novavax is any cheaper.🤔
i am very lucky to be technically poor enough to get it free from the state
That’s what I’m doing! We can’t afford to take multiple days off for different things, so we’ve got everything for everyone in the family packed into one single Friday in October every year:
- Flu and COVID vaccines.
- Eye exams.
- Teeth cleaning.
Putting a finger up my ass for funCancer screening for bad-ass dads.Tiddy squeezerMammogram and gyno visit for mom.- Blood draws for labs.
- Pancakes for dinner!!!
Source so I can dunk on libs?
I’ve been diligently masking and handwashing and I feel a tingle in my throat like there’s an illness coming on :/. I’ve seen exactly two masked people in the entirety of the last year.
https://www.reddit.com/r/askTO/comments/1f543q5/is_everyone_getting_sick_lately/
https://www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comments/1dfaipb/what_is_the_reason_everyone_is_sick/
https://www.reddit.com/r/plano/comments/1dzj928/why_is_everyone_sick_right_now/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Adelaide/comments/1f9iayq/constantly_getting_sick/
https://www.reddit.com/r/sandiego/comments/1f7g88k/i_feel_like_everyone_is_sick_right_now_whats/
https://www.reddit.com/r/nova/comments/1f2trj9/i_am_seeing_a_lot_of_people_getting_sick_whats/
https://www.reddit.com/r/FortCollins/comments/1f77ahb/sickness/
My husband just spent five days in a Plano hospital. They took a chest xray and a chest CT, and tested him for flu and RSV. Refused - refused - to test him for Covid.
Which tells me cases are on the rise and the local hospitals don’t want the numbers associated with them.
Same thing happend two years go at a different Plano hospital. He developed a fever and symptoms while in the hospital recovering from surgery. Hospital absolutely refused to discuss Covid, consider Covid or do a Covid test. Two days later I had Covid. (I had been masking everywhere except occasionally alone in the room with him.)
Then they tested him. And immediately sent him home so that I, so sick I could barely move, could continue his surgical recovery care at home. Those bastards.
wtf hospitals just straight up refusing to test for COVID.
pretty soon the all-cause general mortality rate will be doctored as well
all data will be even more fake than it already is and millions will die and their deaths will not even be registered in order to keep up the facade of normalcy
they are already banning masks and banning covid tests
I knew everyone was sick here, but that’s impressive. I’m still curious about the death rate stat.
haha I don’t know what I was thinking about. For some reason I was focused on the “what is this stomach bug” part of the post and for some reason thought you were asking for a source on that lol
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looks like excess deaths in the USA as of June were <10%
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-p-scores-average-baseline?country=~USA
Which is obscene. Outside of a natural disaster, if you were to just randomly kill off millions of your elderly and immunocompromised population you would be running a negative excess mortality for years.
“The Leftovers” was a show about how 2% of the population vanished into thin air simultaneously. The world goes fucking bananas trying to figure it out and come up with an explanation. It was aired from 2014 to 2017.
It’s almost comical now that we’re “”“post”“”-covid. It’s killed around 0.4% of the US population. Looking back at the show, the government was way too competent and people were way too rational. Zombie shows/movies have been the same way. Not only do people try to hide or ignore their symptoms, other people will deliberately risk infection to “own the libs” or whatever the fuck.
Denmark, Dec 17 & 25, 2023
26% & 25%
Don’t worry though, “It’s a disease that is here to stay and must eventually be normalised” [-Danish CDC: SSI]
