posted by majorspark

My wife and I are at the tail end of a 2 week battle with this shit.  Both of us being vaccinated not at all what we were expecting when testing positive.  My wife brought the plague into our home so she was about 3 days ahead of me.  Started out with a raw feeling in the chest then dry cough.  Scratchy then sore throat.

Day 3-5 turrable.  My wife was ahead of me and was telling me she feels like she has swallowed broken glass and coughing fire.  Then my turn.  With my dry cough I felt like I huffed a bag of fiberglass insulation.  Like the blow in kind.  Bad coughing fits for the both of us. But I am shooting blanks.

My wife ended up developing pneumonia.  She was treated at home with antibiotics.  I have not been in the office for 2 weeks nor has my wife.  We still have coughing spells though far less frequent.  If you feel like it is settling into your lungs keep them exercised.  My wife and I blew into straws in a glass of water.  My wife ordered a lung exercising device off amazon that we dubbed the crack pipe.  Pretty much shaped like a crack pipe with a metal ball in a bowl on the end.  You take a deep breath and exhale into it getting the metal ball to vibrate.  It vibrates back into your lungs then a coughing fit.  Just like the real thing.  If you want to add a little more humor to a shitty situation take your other hand and act like you are flicking a lighter.

Not to scare you my wife is the activities director at an elder care facility.  When someone tests positive the residents are quarantined in their rooms.  When this happens my wife helps out the nurses and aids with their duties and getting food delivered to individual rooms.  That is how she got it.  None of the people she likely got it from had anything other than the initial mild symptoms.  Hopefully this is as bad as it gets for you.

I can attest to the "swallowing glass" pain --- worst sore threat ever.  Did not have the major cough stuff; mainly head cold symptoms. 

Damn, glad I don't live in Canada. I chose to get vaccinated but also respect others rights not to do so. Just saw where a father lost custody of his 3 kids because he refused vaccination, after presenting research to a judge believing the Pfizer vaccine was unsafe.

posted by BR1986FB

Just saw where a father lost custody of his 3 kids because he refused vaccination, after presenting research to a judge believing the Pfizer vaccine was unsafe.

That's messed up.  But also, shame on the father.  Unless he has Guillain-Barre syndrome or some other medical reason he can't be vaccinated.  Otherwise, if he's that stubborn and ignorant to the point of losing custody, maybe the kids are better off.  I mean, how many articles saying the complete opposite did he ignore while he was trying to gather evidence to support his view?

Just over 2000 new cases in Ohio today…..lowest 1 day total since August 16th

posted by Ironman92

Just over 2000 new cases in Ohio today…..lowest 1 day total since August 16th

Let's take a walk down memory lane...

[quote]posted by Ironman92

Predict what day will have the most new cases and then predict the largest number of cases Ohio will have.

i’ll take May 7th and 5182 cases[/quote]

I can't seem to find where my prediction is.  I think it was a lot worse than yours.

posted by gut

Let's take a walk down memory lane...

[quote]posted by Ironman92

Predict what day will have the most new cases and then predict the largest number of cases Ohio will have.

 

i’ll take May 7th and 5182 cases[/quote]

I can't seem to find where my prediction is.  I think it was a lot worse than yours.

2 weeks to flatten the curve 🤷🏻‍♂️

posted by gut

That's messed up.  But also, shame on the father.  Unless he has Guillain-Barre syndrome or some other medical reason he can't be vaccinated.  Otherwise, if he's that stubborn and ignorant to the point of losing custody, maybe the kids are better off.  I mean, how many articles saying the complete opposite did he ignore while he was trying to gather evidence to support his view?

Your kidding right?  "Shame on the father"????

posted by Fletch

Your kidding right?  "Shame on the father"????

Not kidding.  He lost his kids because he's a fucking idiot.  Parent of the year, right there.

posted by gut

Not kidding.  He lost his kids because he's a fucking idiot.  Parent of the year, right there.

You don't understand that being on the right side of the issue politically is more important than anything practical?

posted by queencitybuckeye

You don't understand that being on the right side of the issue politically is more important than anything practical?

I saw a video of a bunch of drunken truck drivers - part of the Freedom Caravan - slamming beers around a grill one night.  I thought to myself, “Now there are some true heroes.  God bless them all.”

posted by Fletch

Your kidding right?  "Shame on the father"????

Like the father who needed a heart transplant but won’t get one because the hospital requires him to be vaxxed.  For Christ Sake he’s got another kid on the way.  He’ll trust medicine to cut him open, replace his heart, sew him up, give him all kinds of drugs to heal (the ingredients of any one he likely cannot comprehend), but he won’t take a vaccine to improve his compromised immune system from fighting off a virus because he “doesn’t trust it” and “has principles”.  

posted by gut

That's messed up.  But also, shame on the father.  Unless he has Guillain-Barre syndrome or some other medical reason he can't be vaccinated.  Otherwise, if he's that stubborn and ignorant to the point of losing custody, maybe the kids are better off.  I mean, how many articles saying the complete opposite did he ignore while he was trying to gather evidence to support his view?

I don’t care what his reasoning is. There is no explaining or defending taking his kids away over a respiratory virus vaccine.

Survival rate of 99.98% for young kids .  When does some judge get to decide that a vaccine is needed ?

Survival rate of 99.98% for young kids .  When does some judge get to decide that a vaccine is needed ?

To be fair, one of his kids has a medical condition and is compromised.  I believe he shares custody with the ex-wife.  He presented his side of the case with his points, but the judge ruled against him.  I think it is a conditional ruling, not permanent, so it may change down the road.  The big issue would be, where is the line drawn, overall, going forward?  What if the guy smoked cigarettes, can a judge (someday) deny him access to his children?  and on and on and on ...............

Without a doubt, the tide has turned against all the bullshit mandates, lockdowns, and masks etc....... 

Reasonable people, when presented with all the facts will, over time, come to the right conclusions.  So despite the tyrannical edicts from government bureaucrats which have now proven to be ill-advised, it appears we are over the hump with respect to government attempts to, forever, wrest away the rights of The People. 

Bravo to the Canadian truckers doing their part up north as well.  Gotta love it.

posted by QuakerOats

Without a doubt, the tide has turned against all the bullshit mandates, lockdowns, and masks etc....... 

Reasonable people, when presented with all the facts will, over time, come to the right conclusions.  So despite the tyrannical edicts from government bureaucrats which have now proven to be ill-advised, it appears we are over the hump with respect to government attempts to, forever, wrest away the rights of The People. 

Bravo to the Canadian truckers doing their part up north as well.  Gotta love it.

Or its election season and people that have power want to keep it.  

Without a doubt they are reading the tea leaves

https://www.whio.com/news/trending/coronavirus-johnson-johnson-plant-pauses-production-covid-19-vaccine-report-says/75Y7C4EDFRBF7HIH645D4YDYFY/

For another virus??  Well that scary as hell.

Amazing how science changes as the wind blows.  My guess is that right before the November election, Biden is going to be walked out and he will declare that Covid is over.

posted by Fletch

Amazing how science changes as the wind blows.  My guess is that right before the November election, Biden is going to be walked out and he will declare that Covid is over.

i mean... you guess wrong about everything else... so why not. 

posted by kizer permanente

i mean... you guess wrong about everything else... so why not. 

It's the hospital metrics that have kept us from moving forward, and the irony is it's mostly the unvaccinated that are filling the hospitals and dying.

Yes, the vaccines are 100% ineffective if you never get them.

posted by gut

It's the hospital metrics that have kept us from moving forward, and the irony is it's mostly the unvaccinated that are filling the hospitals and dying.

Yes, the vaccines are 100% ineffective if you never get them.

No. fletch told us its the vaccinated getting sick and spreading it and filling up the hospitals. 

posted by QuakerOats

Without a doubt, the tide has turned against all the bullshit mandates, lockdowns, and masks etc....... 

Reasonable people, when presented with all the facts will, over time, come to the right conclusions.  So despite the tyrannical edicts from government bureaucrats which have now proven to be ill-advised, it appears we are over the hump with respect to government attempts to, forever, wrest away the rights of The People. 

Bravo to the Canadian truckers doing their part up north as well.  Gotta love it.

I thought you were against people blocking highways for protests?