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Post by Introvertigroo on Oct 12, 2021 23:46:06 GMT
Still waiting to see of a J+J booster will be needed soon. In the meantime, I got my flu shot today. Now my left arm is sore. Ouch.
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Post by Mare on Oct 15, 2021 0:51:16 GMT
donavan, I now realize that you are correct-the new CoVID-19 pill is for those persons who contract CoVID-19 and meant to lessen symptoms and hospital stays. Where did your post go? Introvertigroo good job on the flu shot...I keep cruising by my local medical clinic, looking to see if the line of people going in there is still coming out the door. It is. I am behind schedule on getting the flu shot this year. Now, I hear I need a shingles inoculation and a pneumonia shot. I will be a pin cushion! I went somewhere I shouldn't have gone, without my mask. It was to dinner with my friend who no longer wears a mask unless told she must wear one to enter and who does not think vaccines are good for our immune systems. I wore my mask into the building, but once I sat down, I took it off and didn't put it back on, even when I hugged her goodbye. We have had some tense conversations where I tried to force my opinion on her and explain the hell out of mask wearing and vaccine getting theory when it was something she just plain didn't believe in. Things seemed to be getting better in Southern California. Well, I blew it. She texted me last night to let me know she had tested positive on a CoVID-19 test taken on Sunday, after a rapid test came out negative. The doctor who went to at Urgent Care thought in light of her presenting symptoms, they should go ahead and do the 48-72 hour test. I was supposed to meet my mom and her care giver at an Old Folks Home tomorrow morning. I was going to be active in my mom being assessed to go there to stay. She has been asking if she can go there to live. (Which she already did about a year and a quarter ago, right after her big stroke debacle-the one where she wasn't eating and refused to have a g-tube after my sister had moved her furniture in there. I can't do that knowing I may have CoVID-19. I I did go get a test which will grow in a tube somewhere for a couple days and then I will check online umpteen million times (OCD) for results. I have been feeling fatigued for a couple days, but I figured that was because of the crappy shape I am in. I had been hanging out with my Baby Grands half of Monday and Tuesday I did errands and pounded the concrete floor at CostCo. (The hardest work was reading the tiny writing on the vitamin & supplement bottles as I looked for replacements for the vitamins and supplements I already got at CostCo that had BOVINE and PORCINE crud in them. I had only scanned for krill and when I didn't see that, I didn't really look at Bovine cartilage. MISTAKE!!!) I actually thought I was legitimately tired until last night at 8:20pm. So I wait and watch until the coast is clear of all humans and animals to take my trash out or go to the mailboxes. I just feel tired. Maybe I should stop eating that delicious Wildflower honey I got at the Farmers' Market last weekend by the teaspoonful. Yesterday, I had a bright idea of making hot tea, adding the honey and putting it over ice. For me, it was novel to think of sweetening the tea. I haven't done that since 2000 or so.
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Post by donavan on Oct 15, 2021 3:40:16 GMT
donavan, I now realize that you are correct-the new CoVID-19 pill is for those persons who contract CoVID-19 and meant to lessen symptoms and hospital stays. Where did your post go?
I also put a link up to a very good film about how the elderly were left to die in care-homes in the early days of Covid. But there were no takers so I did a bit of early Spring cleaning. Don't beat yourself up about the mask thing. Remember masks are more to prevent you passing it on rather than catching it. And they make some but little difference.
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Post by miles on Oct 16, 2021 0:17:04 GMT
Hope you didn't get it Mare. Fingers crossed.
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Post by donavan on Oct 16, 2021 5:09:57 GMT
Infection rates are through the roof here. But deaths are stable and relatively low and hospitals are coping and not overwhelmed. Hospitals are busy though because GP's are still mostly refusing to see people face to face. With all restrictions now over, local doctors need to get back to normal. Of course they should put some safety measures in but getting an appointment were I live is near impossible. And this leads to undiagnosed non CoVID-19 illnesses. Which in turn can have serious, even deadly consequences.
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Post by miles on Oct 16, 2021 18:01:43 GMT
I know you have crazies over there too, but many local school boards here have anti-vax anti-mask fascists publicly and privately attacking them, threatening them and their families, if they approve mandates or require masking. It is a death cult. Nothing to do with "freedom", everything thing to do with raw power and intimidation. Do the most vocal even have their kids in these schools? It is performative thuggery that gets them on the news, and encourages sane people to quit their jobs out of legitimate fear.
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Post by donavan on Oct 16, 2021 20:53:09 GMT
I have no time for anti vax people. If you don't want it don't have it but leave those alone who do. I'm pro choice. I think 80% of people are double jabbed over here. The 20% who aren't can't for medical reasons or just don't want it. I'm cool with that. It's not going to make me more vulnerable. What I don't get is young kids over here being asked if they want the vax and parents having no say in it. That's just wrong. Until kids are adults parents as guardians should make that decision. Google what's going on in Australia. It's disgusting, a police state. We have lost the plot. All police arrests under Covid rules over here don't make it to court or get overturned. The mismanagement has been staggering. And our human rights and freedom of speech have been curtailed. These are scary days. It's as if this was planned all along.
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Post by Mare on Oct 17, 2021 14:25:23 GMT
These are scary days. It's as if this was planned all along. This may not have been your point, donavan, I recognize that the people suffering are those with medical conditions who can't get care because the hospitals are full of CoVID-19 patients. My own family members, even. Thoughts of the dominoes of the medical care system tipping each other over led me think that driving dissent seems to be a power move that is terrifying to me. Detaching from The Grid doesn't seem so nutty after all.
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Post by donavan on Oct 17, 2021 15:09:53 GMT
Over here the hospitals are not overloaded with Covid patients. There is just a reluctance to start regular treatments and operations. Oh unless you go private then they will see you tomorrow.
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Post by Mare on Oct 17, 2021 15:25:08 GMT
Over here the hospitals are not overloaded with Covid patients. There is just a reluctance to start regular treatments and operations. Oh unless you go private then they will see you tomorrow. I don't think we (at least in California) are overloaded at this time, but in the past year it got pretty bad.
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Post by donavan on Oct 17, 2021 16:58:39 GMT
Yep but we deal with the here and now. Project Fear is in top gear over here. They have got used to controlling us even more and us being submissive. This is worrying.
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Post by Mare on Oct 20, 2021 1:29:38 GMT
OMG. No test results, yet. Five days gone by, and frustrated as heck, am I.
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Post by donavan on Oct 20, 2021 4:13:04 GMT
You need to make a call and find out what's going on. Good luck.
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Post by Mare on Oct 20, 2021 23:51:17 GMT
I tried that with two different phone numbers.
I tried to log on to the website this morning, and all it said was "You have no appointments scheduled."
I was contemplating various subversive plots of the government and other groups that could be taking advantage of me. I realized there is no way out of here. Meanwhile, my phone, on silent in the next room, was busy taking phone calls and voicemail unbeknownst to me.
The crux of the matter was that there was a danged voicemail from the testing bot, claiming that there were no results posted for the testing appointment I had October 14th and sorry for any inconvenience. Please make another appointment.
Inconvenience? Humph. Grrr. I make the appointment and go to it. I did not blow my nose when I needed to, I just saved that snot up so there would be sure to be some for the old nasal probe.
After that, I went grocery shopping. Goddammit, I was hungry. I wore my mask and shopped as far away from people as I could. I don't have symptoms, I probably had an early variant of CoVID-19 in early 2020, I had two vaccines and for what it's worth...I am probably more dangerous when I'm really hungry than I ever was with a virus. Hell, I self quarantined for three weeks back in early 2020.
Anyway...am I creating my own insanity? Yep. I think so.
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Post by donavan on Oct 21, 2021 9:49:59 GMT
Just keep on keeping on. It's all any of us can do. 😷👍😉🙃
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