Last night she was coughing in a manner my asleep brain read as “gross”, so unconsciously noped the fuck out of there and slept on the sofa. I can’t believe my non-awake brain got it.
She tested positive a few hours ago, so now I just have 7 days to worry. I probably have it, I feel a bit off already.
I know that it’s more than most people, but she was wearing low quality masks, going to a non-safe dentist at peak times, and avoiding the booster. I’ve been nicely pushing her for years, and she brings this shit home. She’s also sorry, and I say it’s fine because I want her to feel better and recover, but secretly I’m fucking raging.
Sorry to rant. Better on Hexbear than out loud.
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Where are you getting this? My understanding is that it is basically the opposite, that people who have long COVID usually live with it for… an indefinitely long time
You don’t even have to end up with long COVID to not be permanently affected by COVID. People who have had COVID are at greater risk for all kinds of negative health outcomes
Literally COVID realism
Is the only practical solution to other mass harms unleashed on society by the capitalist-imperialist system also communes?
My own unique, and incredibly-expensive-to-replicate experience
I had really bad long-COVID for a year, with little improvement. Then I became a hermit, and stopped going to public places. After this I got completely cured and was able to maintain this for a year. Until my brother came to visit me (now I’m sick again)
well no shit, they’re constantly breathing in COVID. You can’t recover from long-COVID if you’re breathing in a new course of long-COVID every single day lmao
Well…yeah, I am being realistic. When I go outside I get sick and I stay low-grade sick for months. If I just stay in my house/room and my yard, I’m healthy and can work like an ox. And I can maintain that state for over a year as long as I’m not forced to be near anybody.
I can work in the dirt, soil, be around moldy food, all that shit doesn’t matter. If I set foot inside a grocery store I’m non-functional for 2 months minimum.
So logically, if you could get a bunch of people on board with that, and go buy some land and work out the financials, I think it could work. It’ll probably never happen though because of a combination of people not believing this/being too bedridden to even begin to take the first step. I’m very lucky to even be able to live this life, otherwise I might be dead by now from all the spike protein I would’ve breathed in
I’m sorry to hear you’re sick again :(
I meant “realism” in the sense of capitalist realism, that COVID is now an immutable part of our reality by this perspective. What we really need is some kind of mass political action by the people that this virus affects most: working class, marginalized people who might have/have had their lives completely derailed by being disabled by this virus. I don’t know if the potential is there yet but this situation is only going to get worse as it affects more and more people.
I’m glad staying isolated helps you with your long COVID but I just don’t think it’s feasible for a lot of people, if it would even help most people :(
But regardless I don’t understand the point of undermining COVID precautions like you did in your first post
Idk :/
I’m just fucking tired rn
thanks for the wellwishes
The people affected by it the most are those who have long-COVID. The ordinary working-class person doesn’t really have much skin in this game either, because huge swathes of ANY income bracket are just unaffected by COVID, for genetic or other biological reasons.
long-COVID is also not a discrete illness. Some milder levels of it can be handled if you drive to work or take the train and sit at an office job. But it really fucks your physical work output, and to some extent even mental work output (but of course, mental work output was never measured and never mattered on the job)
5-30% is the figure given for the prevalence of long-COVID, and I suspect the real bad cases are closer to 5%
Personally I dread having ANY semblance of long-COVID, even at the mildest moments I was out of breath from walking 20 yards. I would rather live in a shack if it meant I could work like an ox and think with 100% brain capacity.
There is a point and if you want you can DM me
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long covid is literally just a bunch of random symptoms from the massive body wide organ and vascular damage you just done took
some of it you can “get better” from and some you can’t
Okay, well my version of long-COVID was 100% curable
am I just a totally freak case? probably not
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what part of this do you disagree with?
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I wear glasses, and I prefer N95s because my glasses don’t fog up like they did when I wore KN95s. N95s are also don’t hurt my ears like KN95s do.
N95s are more likely to mess up your hair, though
I guess it depends a lot on your face and nose bridge geometry
I have fog issues with all masks, but N95s are painful to wear unless I take my glasses off
Maybe glasses shape, too. I don’t know which N95s you’ve tried, but @TheModerateTankie@hexbear.net said that Honeywell N95s fit their face better than other N95s they’ve tried
Yes, the 3m Auras I’ve tried tend to not stay on my face very well, unless I don’t move my face at all. The honeywells I use stay put, espcially on the nose bridge area, and are less expensive.
If your glasses fog up then the n95 is probably not fitting that tight. The good n95’s usually have an adjustable nose wire with foam padding that should help keep your breath from escaping through the top of the mask and fogging up glasses.
lessening the viral load is worth it. lessening the viral load is the difference between a “mild” case and landing in the ICU.
anything that you do to lessen the viral load is worth it, even if it’s just wearing the surgical mask you found in your jacket pocket when entering a store.
for sure
but it doesn’t stop you from getting a positive result on a COVID test, which is what OP is freaking out about
if you coat a thin layer of dish washing soap on the inside of the lens they will not fog up
it’s not about the fogging, it’s about the fit.
The traditional “rigid type” N95 naturally fits at the nose root/start of the nose bridge, which is exactly where eyeglasses pads are resting.
Because it’s rigid, it’s hard to make it fit at any other point along the nose
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