• unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
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    4 months ago

    Is covid still a thing in the sense that its differentiable from other common viruses?

    I havent thought about or considered covid in any way for the last 1-2 years. I have gotten sick but i didnt seriously consider that to be connected to covid over anything else.

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      4 months ago

      Anecdotally: i fell sick with covid less than 2 years ago. I never got better.

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        I definitely had a huge decrease in lung capacity, and I definitely had my sense of taste permanently altered.

        And I consider my issues to be mild compared to most people who have ongoing issues.

        I know some people, like yourself, who are just in a perpetual state of “sick” and literally just stay locked in their houses all day. I can’t even imagine. Shit sucks, and that’s the understatement of the year.

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      Yes, it very much is a thing.Covid is more deadly than the flu, and has a big risk of postviral illness. We are still in a pandemic.

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      I know three people whose lung capacity seems to be permanently diminished from COVID, and one of them has chronic chest pain now. He was in his 20s when he caught it. I don’t know any other common virus that does that.

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    I have a cold virus at the moment. Home test confirmed it wasn’t Covid, influenza a/b or RSV. So just a bug. It’ll run its course and I’ll be ok soon.

    I feel pretty bloody ordinary but not as bad as I did when I got Covid when I couldn’t stand up for more than 45 min at a time due to fatigue. Or the only time I’ve had influenza A which absolutely rocked me and necessitated a hospital visit for fluids.

    I’ve not had cause to leave the house since I became symptomatic but I need to tomorrow. I’m going to wear a mask and keep my distance as much as possible. I was reflecting that a few years ago I would have gone to work in my office. I would have justified it as ok because I feel like I’m on the tail end of the illness and can probably handle going in, even if I feel like shit.

    And my workplace would have also expected that. So bizarre to think about.