Sadly I know so many sick right now. It’s preventable by wearing goggles and a mask. I personally am vaccinated with Novavax which has protected me. I had a total of 4 doses and get it every 6 months because as an RN I can’t trust those around me to stay free of infection. COVID isn’t mild. It destroys and damages and these mass reinfections just weaken everyone. Am so sorry to hear this news but am not surprised. One family went to get pavloxid at a cost of $1700 which the government is not going to fund anymore. All of this can be avoided by simply wearing PPE. ❤️
My friend in Los Angeles who was my only other novid friend got it over Christmas. Anecdotally, this strain seems to present as a cold, a whole bunch of people report getting better for two days, then they get slammed with the Covid symptoms. That’s how it went for her and a brief glance at Covid positive Reddit shows a whole bunch of other people reporting that same thing. There are a whole bunch of people talking about Covid rebound who never took Paxlovid and I think this one is just presenting this way. Some of the Reddit folks even tested negative in those couple days where they felt better. Not my friend though she didn’t test positive during the cold portion. It took a whole week for her positive test to show up.
(Edited because “paxlovid” cane out “paxil” and that’s a totally different med.)
Vaccination doesn't prevent infection nor Long Covid, unfortunately.
Symptoms will vary per person simply because it depends on so many other variables (symptom free to deadly ill). Rapid tests don't detect well so cannot be relied on.
I never suggested vaccine prevents infection because I know better, but thanks. Rapid tests are not great at detecting negatives or positives, but if you are positive on the test you are contagious. The problem is most people don’t stay home when they know they are contagious.
And yeah the vaccine only response is genocide Joe trying to kill off the largest marginalized group in America. I realize Nate is not American, and the UK is just as bad but this vaccine only response has been insane. The conspiracy theorists speculated that this mass infection policy is so everyone gets long Covid so nobody can blame the damage on vaccines. I don’t believe that, but it’s the only thing that actually makes sense if you understand vaccines don’t prevent infection or long Covid or really anything except for maybe hospitalization and death for 30 days. But we don’t even know that because genocide Joe decided to alter how we count everything.
Specifically, I live in New Hampshire. Right after we decided on vaccine only New Hampshire decided that you only count as a hospitalized Covid patient if you are currently in the hospital, currently testing positive, and taking one specific steroid or one specific monoclonal antibody. So if you went to the hospital and you are in the ICU for a month, and you are not testing positive anymore but you’ve never come off the ventilator, you are not counted in New Hampshire as being a hospitalized Covid patient.
So I don’t even know if I believe the vaccines prevent hospitalization because we simply changed how we count those people.
I’m not anti-vaccine, I had three of them, unfortunately I have MECFS and any kind of immune reaction crashes me for a month. It’s terrifying because it could become my new baseline. I’m unwilling to do that to myself when I’m still going to wear masks everywhere anyway because I don’t want to get infected at all.
Oh lol sorry I should be more caffeinated before doing anything and I might have realized that.
I think the main problem with the rapid tests is people are stupid and they don’t read instructions. They clearly say that if you have symptoms you should consider yourself positive and retest with the second test in the box 24 to 48 hours later. Now I know that some people get like six tests that say negative before they get a positive, but the instructions have always been if you are having symptoms even if the RAT says negative You need to be careful and consider yourself contagious.
Nobody wants anyone’s flu, or cold, or that pneumonia that starts with an M, or Covid. So if you are sick stay home. Regardless of what the Covid test says nobody wants whatever people have
Well I had a bad cased of covid, it killed my Dad and my son got it last Christmas and ended up with a stroke. I got covid before vaccines, same with my Dad. My son was not vaccinated. For me I was never so sick. I am an RN. I am not on any meds, thin, work out and am healthy and that covid made me so sick with bilateral pneumonia and I needed heavy duty drugs to get rid of it and then months to get my health back. To me forced mass reinfections are not an option.
In my case I have had 4 novavax and have been directly exposed so yes it prevented infection multiple times. My son was also hospitalized when I thankfully had a dose of Novavax on board never got it. I am an RN and get exposed and very sick. I do not want to be reinfected all the time.
So we are down to natural selection: those that adapt by wearing masks and employing other prophylactic measures avoid infection and the host of organ debilitating complication that those infections can confer. Nature afforded us the ability to think, too bad that most are not.
The behavior in all aspects of corporate communication which says falsely, "It's over!" is staggering in its malevolence. Study after study document the lasting damage these infections can confer, to not acknowledge this body of work is simply shameful and frankly deceitful. Yes, this paragraph makes a point repetitively, but the daily dose of misinformation is repeated over and over.
How those that deliberately misinform can subject children to their whims is beyond my comprehension.
Yeah the problem is that I can see a lot of Covid brain damage issues in my community, so those of us who survive are going to have to suffer dealing with brain damaged individuals running the world. The pharmacies here aren’t open on weekends anymore, they don’t actually carry medication they wait for your prescription to be sent then they order it, if they remember. I’ve gone rounds with Walgreens because I fill the same exact prescription every single month on the same exact day and they just frequently don’t have it. It’s ridiculous and it’s brain damage.
The cemetery buried my dad in the wrong spot, they were totally with it when they buried my brother 9 months before. It took a week to get them to acknowledge their mistake I had to send pictures with notations, then they offered to fix it, but how? I don’t want you to dig him up and re-bury him so he will forever be in the wrong spot.
Infection control collapsed here in the US too. I woke up to an email from Mass General in Boston explaining that because transmission levels are high doctors will finally start wearing masks in the room with people, but we don’t have to wear a mask. But if we choose to wear a mask we also have to put a facility issue mask on top of ours. Or we can go without a mask entirely. Oh, and also if you’ve had contact with someone who has Covid within 10 days they want to know but if you have Covid and it’s been more than five days they don’t care. Come on in. It’s absolutely insane and I’m so happy I don’t rely on Hospital for day-to-day healthcare because they are trying to kill the vulnerable.
Our medical systems and public health isn’t functioning it’s broken and I feel so sorry for human beings. Working on a better tomorrow which will be too late for so many. Keep in mind all of this is preventable if people wore a mask and eye protection but they view it as government control and maybe we as a society are too vane. I save lives. Trying my best here.
Yep as soon as I accepted that I would have to wear masks around people forever I felt a lot more peace. I’m unwilling to catch Covid so I’m unwilling to let people breathe on me. I’ve had to go to the emergency room probably three times in the past four years and my KN95 mask prevented me from picking up anything while I was there so I’ll keep using those because they work. I’ve made it this far without getting an infection because masks actually work if people aren’t taking them off to eat in restaurants.
Yes never be ashamed to stay healthy. I don’t like to feel sick. As an RN I try my best to warn because I care about saving lives but at this point blaming isn’t helping we have to own it and protect ourselves. I tried saving no one listens. So be it! I focus on enjoying my life and being around others but at a distant! ❤️❤️❤️ light and love 💕
My earlier comment received two thoughtful replies from Laura RN BSN and Maggie. Their other comments along Andy Lay's have added additional context to Nate's article.
What scares me most about COVID infection is its effect on cognitive function. Like Maggie, I have noticed people in occupations of trust just simply neglecting to perform what should be routine job practices.
But most worrisome is the uptick in aggressive driving. I am a former professional triathlete for whom cycling is still one of life's joys. I have switched from road to mountain to minimize the time spent interacting with massive mobile metal objects driven by those with far too frequent spells of inattention or rage at having to avoid my peddling self.
I truly hope that this article gets read widely and it aids people in recalibrating their daily routine.
We are not over the worst effects of the pandemic. We may be over the stage when the acute phase of infection kills millions each month (and not all the most vulnerable are yet dead but are living our lives in a state of constant shielding and segregation from society, possibly the biggest resegregation of disabled people from mainstream society in generations) but the worst effects are yet to come with the stark effects of a mass disabling event with millions, perhaps billions of people chronically disabled. We can see already see this in the response of the UK government which wants to force all disabled people into labouring on threat of our losing social security and/or disability payments, partly led by the large increase in people claiming disability payments due to the effects of COVID. https://dpac.uk.net/2023/11/press-release-disabled-people-not-coasting-on-benefits/ We also have to consider what the dead eyed response from capitalism will do if, perhaps when, SARS-CoV-2 mutates to a strain that almost totally evades vaccines and/or another pandemic of equal magnitude appears.
Sadly I know so many sick right now. It’s preventable by wearing goggles and a mask. I personally am vaccinated with Novavax which has protected me. I had a total of 4 doses and get it every 6 months because as an RN I can’t trust those around me to stay free of infection. COVID isn’t mild. It destroys and damages and these mass reinfections just weaken everyone. Am so sorry to hear this news but am not surprised. One family went to get pavloxid at a cost of $1700 which the government is not going to fund anymore. All of this can be avoided by simply wearing PPE. ❤️
My friend in Los Angeles who was my only other novid friend got it over Christmas. Anecdotally, this strain seems to present as a cold, a whole bunch of people report getting better for two days, then they get slammed with the Covid symptoms. That’s how it went for her and a brief glance at Covid positive Reddit shows a whole bunch of other people reporting that same thing. There are a whole bunch of people talking about Covid rebound who never took Paxlovid and I think this one is just presenting this way. Some of the Reddit folks even tested negative in those couple days where they felt better. Not my friend though she didn’t test positive during the cold portion. It took a whole week for her positive test to show up.
(Edited because “paxlovid” cane out “paxil” and that’s a totally different med.)
Vaccination doesn't prevent infection nor Long Covid, unfortunately.
Symptoms will vary per person simply because it depends on so many other variables (symptom free to deadly ill). Rapid tests don't detect well so cannot be relied on.
I never suggested vaccine prevents infection because I know better, but thanks. Rapid tests are not great at detecting negatives or positives, but if you are positive on the test you are contagious. The problem is most people don’t stay home when they know they are contagious.
I didn't bother writing two responses but tried to reply to vaccination, tests and symptoms in one lazy post. The vaccine bit was for Laura ;-)
And yeah the vaccine only response is genocide Joe trying to kill off the largest marginalized group in America. I realize Nate is not American, and the UK is just as bad but this vaccine only response has been insane. The conspiracy theorists speculated that this mass infection policy is so everyone gets long Covid so nobody can blame the damage on vaccines. I don’t believe that, but it’s the only thing that actually makes sense if you understand vaccines don’t prevent infection or long Covid or really anything except for maybe hospitalization and death for 30 days. But we don’t even know that because genocide Joe decided to alter how we count everything.
Specifically, I live in New Hampshire. Right after we decided on vaccine only New Hampshire decided that you only count as a hospitalized Covid patient if you are currently in the hospital, currently testing positive, and taking one specific steroid or one specific monoclonal antibody. So if you went to the hospital and you are in the ICU for a month, and you are not testing positive anymore but you’ve never come off the ventilator, you are not counted in New Hampshire as being a hospitalized Covid patient.
So I don’t even know if I believe the vaccines prevent hospitalization because we simply changed how we count those people.
I’m not anti-vaccine, I had three of them, unfortunately I have MECFS and any kind of immune reaction crashes me for a month. It’s terrifying because it could become my new baseline. I’m unwilling to do that to myself when I’m still going to wear masks everywhere anyway because I don’t want to get infected at all.
Oh lol sorry I should be more caffeinated before doing anything and I might have realized that.
I think the main problem with the rapid tests is people are stupid and they don’t read instructions. They clearly say that if you have symptoms you should consider yourself positive and retest with the second test in the box 24 to 48 hours later. Now I know that some people get like six tests that say negative before they get a positive, but the instructions have always been if you are having symptoms even if the RAT says negative You need to be careful and consider yourself contagious.
Nobody wants anyone’s flu, or cold, or that pneumonia that starts with an M, or Covid. So if you are sick stay home. Regardless of what the Covid test says nobody wants whatever people have
Well I had a bad cased of covid, it killed my Dad and my son got it last Christmas and ended up with a stroke. I got covid before vaccines, same with my Dad. My son was not vaccinated. For me I was never so sick. I am an RN. I am not on any meds, thin, work out and am healthy and that covid made me so sick with bilateral pneumonia and I needed heavy duty drugs to get rid of it and then months to get my health back. To me forced mass reinfections are not an option.
In my case I have had 4 novavax and have been directly exposed so yes it prevented infection multiple times. My son was also hospitalized when I thankfully had a dose of Novavax on board never got it. I am an RN and get exposed and very sick. I do not want to be reinfected all the time.
All the more reason to mask up and goggles too!
So we are down to natural selection: those that adapt by wearing masks and employing other prophylactic measures avoid infection and the host of organ debilitating complication that those infections can confer. Nature afforded us the ability to think, too bad that most are not.
The behavior in all aspects of corporate communication which says falsely, "It's over!" is staggering in its malevolence. Study after study document the lasting damage these infections can confer, to not acknowledge this body of work is simply shameful and frankly deceitful. Yes, this paragraph makes a point repetitively, but the daily dose of misinformation is repeated over and over.
How those that deliberately misinform can subject children to their whims is beyond my comprehension.
Yeah the problem is that I can see a lot of Covid brain damage issues in my community, so those of us who survive are going to have to suffer dealing with brain damaged individuals running the world. The pharmacies here aren’t open on weekends anymore, they don’t actually carry medication they wait for your prescription to be sent then they order it, if they remember. I’ve gone rounds with Walgreens because I fill the same exact prescription every single month on the same exact day and they just frequently don’t have it. It’s ridiculous and it’s brain damage.
The cemetery buried my dad in the wrong spot, they were totally with it when they buried my brother 9 months before. It took a week to get them to acknowledge their mistake I had to send pictures with notations, then they offered to fix it, but how? I don’t want you to dig him up and re-bury him so he will forever be in the wrong spot.
Agree I used to be upset but choose to be a light as I save lives. I chose hope over fear
Infection control collapsed here in the US too. I woke up to an email from Mass General in Boston explaining that because transmission levels are high doctors will finally start wearing masks in the room with people, but we don’t have to wear a mask. But if we choose to wear a mask we also have to put a facility issue mask on top of ours. Or we can go without a mask entirely. Oh, and also if you’ve had contact with someone who has Covid within 10 days they want to know but if you have Covid and it’s been more than five days they don’t care. Come on in. It’s absolutely insane and I’m so happy I don’t rely on Hospital for day-to-day healthcare because they are trying to kill the vulnerable.
Also profit driven leads to this place
Our medical systems and public health isn’t functioning it’s broken and I feel so sorry for human beings. Working on a better tomorrow which will be too late for so many. Keep in mind all of this is preventable if people wore a mask and eye protection but they view it as government control and maybe we as a society are too vane. I save lives. Trying my best here.
Yep as soon as I accepted that I would have to wear masks around people forever I felt a lot more peace. I’m unwilling to catch Covid so I’m unwilling to let people breathe on me. I’ve had to go to the emergency room probably three times in the past four years and my KN95 mask prevented me from picking up anything while I was there so I’ll keep using those because they work. I’ve made it this far without getting an infection because masks actually work if people aren’t taking them off to eat in restaurants.
Yes never be ashamed to stay healthy. I don’t like to feel sick. As an RN I try my best to warn because I care about saving lives but at this point blaming isn’t helping we have to own it and protect ourselves. I tried saving no one listens. So be it! I focus on enjoying my life and being around others but at a distant! ❤️❤️❤️ light and love 💕
My earlier comment received two thoughtful replies from Laura RN BSN and Maggie. Their other comments along Andy Lay's have added additional context to Nate's article.
What scares me most about COVID infection is its effect on cognitive function. Like Maggie, I have noticed people in occupations of trust just simply neglecting to perform what should be routine job practices.
But most worrisome is the uptick in aggressive driving. I am a former professional triathlete for whom cycling is still one of life's joys. I have switched from road to mountain to minimize the time spent interacting with massive mobile metal objects driven by those with far too frequent spells of inattention or rage at having to avoid my peddling self.
I truly hope that this article gets read widely and it aids people in recalibrating their daily routine.
We are not over the worst effects of the pandemic. We may be over the stage when the acute phase of infection kills millions each month (and not all the most vulnerable are yet dead but are living our lives in a state of constant shielding and segregation from society, possibly the biggest resegregation of disabled people from mainstream society in generations) but the worst effects are yet to come with the stark effects of a mass disabling event with millions, perhaps billions of people chronically disabled. We can see already see this in the response of the UK government which wants to force all disabled people into labouring on threat of our losing social security and/or disability payments, partly led by the large increase in people claiming disability payments due to the effects of COVID. https://dpac.uk.net/2023/11/press-release-disabled-people-not-coasting-on-benefits/ We also have to consider what the dead eyed response from capitalism will do if, perhaps when, SARS-CoV-2 mutates to a strain that almost totally evades vaccines and/or another pandemic of equal magnitude appears.
Very good. Fully agree.
Denial is huge, and I so much hope we will get collectively past this stage ASAP.