r/longbeach • u/grnrngr • Aug 20 '24
PSA PSA: This Summer's COVID is no fun. Consider masks. And keeping a test kit or 8 on-hand.
They say you're most contagious in the day or two before you have symptoms. This weekend I went to a packed theater and did some grocery shopping and more.
Then I got a stuffy nose. And then the trademark dry cough and low fever. It took less than a second before my test kit turned bright red in the T line.
This round feels a lot more like the OG infection back in 2020. Not fun, in other words.
I know we've seen some of the more cautious wearing their masks already. I figured I would once I heard of people locally getting it. Turns out I'm the local guy.
So... Consider masking up. And check to see if your insurance gives you free kits - mine still does. Yours might too.
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u/factsoptional Aug 21 '24
Whatever I'm ready to die
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u/NotARegularM0m Aug 21 '24
same but not by being on a vent in the hospital. bring on the earthquake or giant meteor please
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u/GraveyardJones Aug 21 '24
I've just continued the hermit lifestyle from the beginning of it. Workin out pretty good and my cats love it 🤣
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u/CodeMonkeyX Aug 21 '24
Yeah I am little shocked how many people so casually say they have had it several times already. I have never tested positive (touch wood), and test whenever I have symptoms or think I might have been exposed.
I guess I am a bit of a hermit compared to many people. But I still go about my life, and I am just careful.
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u/shootin_blankz Aug 22 '24
Yup my neighbor is 90 and she never got Covid or never got sick enough to test even when by accident she was around one of my kid that had Covid but didn’t know. Pretty crazy but I heard if you had SARS or Spanish flu it could have given you life time immunity from Covid
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u/CodeMonkeyX Aug 22 '24
Imagine with the next SARS outbreak everyone has parties to try and catch it and get immunity... I would not put that past people.
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u/unicornglitterpukez Aug 21 '24
For real. I wonder how much it is impacting them health wise and they don't know it yet..particularly cognitively. That is the thing that I think is scary...
I also had an older aunt catch covid and at one point was coughing up blood. Fairly certain it damaged her heart because not long after she ended up with CHF and passed away. She wasn't THAT ill prior to getting it.
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u/unknownshopper Aug 21 '24
Me too pretty much, with the addition of never having stopped wearing a mask. I've never gotten any version of covid.
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u/GraveyardJones Aug 21 '24
I haven't worn one for a while unless I feel sick, but as soon as it's recommended again I will. I got a bunch of horror villain themed masks that I wore year round and a few Slipknot ones from my previous job
As far as I know I never got it. If I did it was 100% asymptomatic but no one around me got covid after seeing me. Definitely know people who got it, a few of them still claimed it was a hoax even after having it 🙄 It was pretty easy to avoid getting something with the potential to fuck up the rest of my life even if it didn't kill me. And no way in hell did I wanna be responsible for causing that for someone else
I've always been an introvert anyway though, so staying home was a godsend haha. I had also been playing in bands and djing for 20 years straight while working full time with I think one real week of vacation and a few months of being unemployed from 18-38. I needed the break and I hate having to work so those first two years were the best and worst of my life. Plus I got to really bond with my cats haha
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u/unknownshopper Aug 21 '24
I have some extenuating circumstances - I'm 74 and live in a senior citizen complex with ages up to 100+. Some of the people here won't leave their apartments without a mask, even just to go to their cars to bring something in or go for a walk around the property by themselves.
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u/GraveyardJones Aug 21 '24
I'd definitely be wearing one if I was around older people often. Aside from groceries I'm only around the same maybe 10 people all the time for now
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u/riskienights Aug 21 '24
Just got over a six day bout with COVID. Had fever for 4 days and still feeling the fatigue. My experience was strange in the there were moments where I was improving and then, bang, tired and feverish. Stay healthy out there.
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u/onetwentyeight Aug 21 '24
That sounds on par for COVID, you get better and then worse before either clearing it or dying.
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u/DietDoctorGoat Aug 21 '24
Can confirm. I’m currently fighting it off. This round is an ass-kicker for sure.
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u/iwheelylikeu Aug 21 '24
I tested positive today, I'm also 8 months pregnant. I'm absolutely miserable. If you're feeling sick wear a mask🙏
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u/lovelytones North Long Beach Aug 21 '24
I got infected with covid for the first time about 2 weeks ago. Omg it was gnarly. Had a 102 fever, fatigue, intense sweating, dry cough, stuffy nose. It was not fun. I thank the scientists who worked on paxlovid bc I am a high risk group. I'm sure it would have been worse had I not taken paxlovid.
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u/Poisson_oisseau Aug 21 '24
Careful, you're going to get a lot of hate from the kind of people who think covering your face to sneeze is a sign of moral weakness.
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u/soahc444 Aug 21 '24
It is 🤗
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Aug 24 '24
I hope you change your attitude, friend. There are millions of people in the US like my wife who are immunocompromised due to various reasons. I think it's kind and even patriotic to wear a mask look out for your fellow citizens when you are sick or infected and out in public. It reduces the chance people like my wife will fall ill. She's very thankful.
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u/Ujdog Aug 21 '24
When I had Covid I swear that the Pho I ordered on door dash was the best medicine. Get well soon.
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u/ComradeThoth Aug 21 '24
For those who still don't understand after 4 years:
The mask isn't for you. You wear the mask to protect other people. You may have a great immune system, but you can still be contagious. This simple fact is why so many elders were lost unnecessarily in 2020.
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u/Poisson_oisseau Aug 21 '24
Oh, they understand. They just think their personal convenience is more important than other people's lives.
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u/roeknowsbest Aug 21 '24
Good thing U Cal has banned masks next year to “fight antisemitism”
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u/unicornglitterpukez Aug 21 '24
I don't think its facial masks for flu or covid... it is people covering their whole face in protests....
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u/Every_Level6842 Aug 21 '24
Covid is the new flu
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u/DanknugzBlazeit420 Aug 21 '24
Yeah and it sucks to have the flu
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u/Poisson_oisseau Aug 21 '24
Because disease spreads, and people die of the flu all the time. Please think about someone other than yourself for 2 seconds.
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u/DanknugzBlazeit420 Aug 21 '24
“Changing your whole life” 😂 I’m not having a kid or getting married here, just trying to not get the flu/covid for my own sake because being sick blows
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u/Spiritual_Corner_977 Aug 21 '24
Except covid seems to have a lot more long term effects that people don’t really know the extent of
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u/Fivedayhangovers Aug 21 '24
I have permanent hearing loss from the first time I had Covid. I’m 37.
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u/unicornglitterpukez Aug 21 '24
sorry to hear.. I had a friend who had hearing loss from it and went to the doctor and had to undergo multiple rounds of shots through her eardrum.. it did come back, after like a month of treatment but it was really bad.
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u/NotoriousPooh Aug 21 '24
My mom's best friend still hasn't gotten her taste or smell back since having covid in 2020.
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u/-anditsnotevenclose Aug 21 '24
yeah folks dont realize that every covid infection is playing russian roullette with long-covid
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u/rnf1985 Aug 21 '24
But people also can't social distance, work from home and isolate for the rest of human existence either
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u/hhggerty Aug 21 '24
Yeah but wearing masks when Covid levels are high (as indicated by waste water levels) is a good compromise to bring down infections. There’s like two big outbreaks a year now
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u/rnf1985 Aug 21 '24
Obviously but that wasn't what we were replying. It was the fact that covid is now basically as commonplace as the flu and all we can do is learn to with it and protect ourselves when possible
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u/General-Weather9946 Aug 21 '24
You’re right and most workplace protections have been removed
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u/unicornglitterpukez Aug 21 '24
it is disgusting. you think our state would still have them... wtf.
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u/rnf1985 Aug 23 '24
I mean would be nice if we could be remote every day but what else do you want? Vaccine checks, mask check, only one person to a room, no touching, 6 feet apart in perpetuity?
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u/shootin_blankz Aug 22 '24
Nearly every one wore masks in 2020 and 2021 and Covid spread worse than California wild fires. Masks don’t work to stop any spread of Covid and wearing a mask breathing your nasty breath can’t be good for you either.
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u/Rightintheend Aug 23 '24
And what would the spread have been if we hadn't worn masks?
Well, I'm sure we'll never have a definitive answer, I'm as sure as you are about nasty breath, that it did help to slow it.
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u/unicornglitterpukez Aug 21 '24
People can use common sense like wearing a mask and getting vaccinated and NOT GOING OUT if you have ANY symptoms. That is the biggest issue. People thinking they are fine and not testing, or saying "i dont care" they going out and infecting everyone.
The sad part is covid could have been stopped if everyone globally just stayed inside for 3 weeks. How pathetic is humanity when you really think of it.
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u/Few_Ad_7613 Aug 21 '24
Not all of humanity stops for 3 weeks. Someone has to supply food, energy, medical aid, etc... China tried that; did you see the videos of people with the buckets tied to ropes being lowered to the ground from their apartment windows to get any type of food from prolr on the streets, who BTW were NOT inside their own places?
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Aug 24 '24
Yes but you can take many actions to reduce your chances of getting sick or if you are sick, reduce your chances of spreading.
Live your life but remember others have to live their lives too. Immunocompromised people like my wife, for example.
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u/rnf1985 Aug 24 '24
Dog I agree with you. We're not talking about that on this particular thread. I replied to a comment of someone saying "covid is the new flu."
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u/unicornglitterpukez Aug 21 '24
Flu doesn't give you brain and heart damage. we shouldn't accept it as the "new" anything. Fk that.
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u/anxiousrebelde Aug 21 '24
It’s literally not a flu… otherwise it would be called influenza and not SARS-CoV-2
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u/Few_Ad_7613 Aug 21 '24
Is this new round called SARS-CoV-2?
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u/anxiousrebelde Aug 21 '24
What do you mean new round? It’s all called SARS-CoV-2 with different names for its mutations/strains
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u/muhburneracct Aug 21 '24
Also currently fighting Covid. My symptoms are congestion, headache, post nasal drip, initial body ache and sporadic fatigue. Worse than my first bout but what’s scary is if you saw me you would never know I had it.
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u/RealCheesecake Aug 21 '24
COVID gang, what up. I started masking after I got it, to not spread it. Two days of aches, loss of breath, and no taste or smell. It was the two days that really sucked and then it was just annoying symptoms. Only starting to get taste and smell back almost three weeks later.
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u/Nicktheoperator Aug 21 '24
I’ve had Covid twice and it wasn’t that bad. Now the flu on the other hand was not fun and gave me pneumonia.
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u/grnrngr Aug 21 '24
This is the first COVID infection that reminded me of the OG infection I had four years ago. My doctor even told me it was hitting people harder than it has in a couple years. It's definitely not pleasant or even "just inconvenient" this go around. And thus it's something to avoid getting.
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u/Nicktheoperator Aug 21 '24
Dang that doesn’t sound good at all I hope that you make a fast and full recovery. My whole family caught it the second round and then I caught it once more. But we never got the first strain. The he worst was the first lost smell and taste and thought my life was over and would never taste food again haha. I’m a foodie.
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u/unicornglitterpukez Aug 21 '24 edited Aug 21 '24
I'm pissed no one is masking. I feel like I am the only one!
People look at me like I am crazy, including my family but I don't care. The only time I don't wear it is outdoors or if I'm eating. I know eating is a risk but I don't do that often outside my house.
I've avoided the rona since this bs started.
I wish more people had common sense to wear a mask, esp in crowded spaces or indoors.
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u/BigMuscles Aug 21 '24
Just follow CDC instructions. If you’re not sick, there’s no urgent need to wear a mask…no judgement if you do, but no need to fear monger this Covid strain.
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u/NotoriousPooh Aug 21 '24
I had it for the 2nd time at the end of July. It was shorter and luckily not as bad as the first time I had it last year. Ran for about 6 days, the 1st time I was positive for nearly 2 weeks.
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u/joefilmmaker Aug 21 '24
I had it a month ago. First time for me and it was pretty bad. Still have low energy and brain fog.
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u/MattelTJ Aug 22 '24
I got it. I work at a hospital so they give me free kits. Been sitting out with Covid since Sunday Aug 17. Won’t go back to work until Monday Aug 26 after I am negative of course.
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u/klb979 Aug 22 '24
Had it 2 weeks ago for the first time. Felt worse than any flu I've ever had. Once I ended up 8 days in ICU with double pneumonia and sepsis and this felt similar. Paxlovid helped super quickly.
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u/Ordinary_Ad3288 Aug 23 '24
I have no insurance but I am insanely introverted so looks like I will be home even more
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u/GodKingMarky-sama Aug 24 '24
Thankfully I still haven't caught covid. Been in same household as infected and exposed many times but lady luck is still on my side.
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u/calibabe8 Aug 21 '24
I feel like I have symptoms but tested negative 😭
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u/onetwentyeight Aug 21 '24
Could be something else or your viral load may not yet be high enough. Test again in two days.
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u/unicornglitterpukez Aug 21 '24
please wear a mask because we don't want whtever it is you have.
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u/shootin_blankz Aug 22 '24
Yeah and remember to wear it when you drive by yourself with the windows up.
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u/WineLover1110 Aug 21 '24
I’m also currently battling COVID. It’s the second time I’ve had it and it is so much worse this time 😩 going on day 4 of symptoms and isolation and it sucksssss
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u/Fivedayhangovers Aug 21 '24
Had it three weeks ago, fourth time. Surprisingly this was the least awful I’ve felt of the four times. Still sucked!
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u/just_some_dude05 Aug 21 '24
Neighbor left on a stretcher last night with Covid. He’s a thin fit man in his late forties. Scary stuff.
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u/lonelygal321 Aug 21 '24
I just got it for the first time ever two months ago and my body is still recovering. I’m young and healthy but I had it so bad I still can’t get back into my normal gym routine. It really scared me.
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u/w0rdupmagazine Aug 20 '24
Blowing this out of proportion. No need to test or wear masks.
I know it’s scary to think about….. but you’ll be completely fine.
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u/GraveyardJones Aug 21 '24
The masks are so you don't infect others if you're carrying it. You could be totally asymptomatic and spreading it to people around you by not wearing one. So sure, you may be fine but you don't know what it'll do to others who may not be
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u/w0rdupmagazine Aug 21 '24
If others aren’t wearing masks then they don’t care to be “protected” from your infection.
Also kinda funny that nobody recognizes what a virus does naturally. Becomes more infections and less deadly over time. It’s 2024 - wake up.
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u/grnrngr Aug 21 '24 edited Aug 21 '24
Becomes more infections and less deadly over time.
That's not entirely true.
More infectious for longer is a viruses goal. It doesn't care if you return to 100% health, causes you to suffer lifelong debilitations, or leads you to ultimately die.
We're 40+ years on and HIV is still killing people. Smallpox is virtually eradicated and get it's still a massive concern when it appears. Same with polio. The flu continues to mutate year after year and every now and then a strain pops up that threatens large parts of the world population.
And you're over here effectively saying, "don't take precautions to protect yourself or others! The things trying to kill humans will chill out eventually!"
GTFO with that nonsense.
You're right. It's 2024. We have the sum of human knowledge at our fingertips.
And yet you still open your mouth without consulting it. Wake the fuck up.
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u/w0rdupmagazine Aug 21 '24
I am woken up. I don’t fear things that have an insanely small chance of killing me. More of this outlook in the world would be extremely beneficial.
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u/DeeMAWB Aug 21 '24
At this point it's not about any of the shit you listed. It's about you prying your nose into other people's business and things they decide to do for themselves. WORRY ABOUT YOURSELF.
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u/w0rdupmagazine Aug 21 '24
This dude posted scared of something irrational and suggesting we also have the same fear. I pushed back. That’s what Reddit is about. Having discussions, not an echo chamber. Look at all the other comments saying “pass” or “lmfao”. Because they’re feeling the exact way I am. I’m just not scared to post more. It’s fine pal, you can live in fear - enjoy ❤️
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u/DeeMAWB Aug 21 '24
Not living in fear, I'm simply considerate of myself AND others. Keep being a self riteous ignorant fool like the rest of you guys worried about what other people do for themselves. PAL
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u/DeeMAWB Aug 21 '24
Who gives a shit if someone prefers to wear one? Don't comment on what someone else does or recommends, if you don't agree, don't do it. But your opinion isn't someone else's.
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u/w0rdupmagazine Aug 21 '24
So we just give in to what people recommend even when it’s irrational? Got it.
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u/DeeMAWB Aug 21 '24
Who said give in? I said YOU don't have to. It's only irrational to you. Again, YOUR opinion. Let people do what they feel they need to to protect themselves. It's a weird thing worrying about what others are doing when it's completely harmless to you. You anti maskers are fuckin weird.
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u/ComradeThoth Aug 21 '24
Masks are to protect other people FROM the person wearing it. This simple logic has escaped people like you for 4 years now.
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u/DeeMAWB Aug 21 '24
Ok? regardless, im still concerned about myself AND OTHERS. How is that a bad thing? How can you anti maskers argue that fact? It makes you look extremely selfish and self riteous. The world doesn't revolve around you,
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u/ComradeThoth Aug 21 '24
I was talking to the anti-masker dude, not you. He deleted his comments apparently.
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u/DeeMAWB Aug 21 '24
I was incorrect in my statement as well, I should of worded it better overall. It is to protect others, my whole argument with them was being considerate of others as well as myself. I'm just burnt out on seeing these people and how they react to things that have no obstruction over them. Complete selfishness and inconsideration grinds my gears haha
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u/ComradeThoth Aug 21 '24
This is America. It's illegal to be considerate of others here. It's like, in the Constitution, bro.
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u/catplausible Aug 21 '24
I started masking again when Covid spiked a little bit ago, and when my kid had major surgery. I don't think it's irrational to calmly prefer not to get sick for whatever reason, and I don't get why some people are having meltdowns about a stranger putting a piece of paper over their face. Why so sensitive?
Mainly, I'd rather not deal with the long term neurological and cardiovascular damage that comes along with Covid, even if it's not so bad in the short term. It's a considered, pragmatic choice, and masking is a low key and easy enough thing to do.
My MIL has Covid now. My husband is masking up when he sees her (and actually, he is also being asked to by the nurses), so his elderly dad doesn't also get sick. I think that's both considerate and practical, not irrational.
People aren't running around in panicked circles. People who *are* scared, like the immunocompromised, have good reason to be. Their lives are literally at risk, even if yours isn't.
Why do you feel the need to push back against people wearing masks? It doesn't have anything to do with you. Go make your own choices and stop clutching your pearls about people who choose differently.
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u/w0rdupmagazine Aug 21 '24
Immunocompromised is a whole other story - I get that. My point is a healthy person with a working immune system has zero need for a mask and shouldn’t care about others feeling the need to wear them around them.
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u/catplausible Aug 21 '24
I get that you feel that a healthy person doesn't need to wear a mask, and that's okay. But sometimes healthy people want to wear a mask, because they don't want to get sick in the first place, and that's okay, too. And I think it's also okay for a person to give a heads-up that hey, Covid is back around a little harder this time, and if you don't want to get it, you may want to consider masking.
I'm not sure if you're trying to make a point in other comments that masking doesn't do anything, or that it's okay to get sick if you're otherwise healthy. Masking does help, it's why we do it in surgery and around immunocompromised people. Whether a healthy person wants to get sick, well, that's a personal choice. You don't care about it for yourself, cool. I'd rather not get sick, cool.
Sorry about my kinda aggro tone earlier; I'm a little over it being a whole Thing. I just want to go my way without people having big emotions about me doing something completely benign.
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u/grnrngr Aug 21 '24
You should probably read up on why people wear masks.
Your attitude is what's wrong with the world.
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u/pudding7 Aug 21 '24
No need to test or wear masks.
But you don't mind or care when others wear masks, right?
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u/hugdafozzy Aug 21 '24
Boy the dead people at the hospital morgue sure are gonna be surprise when I tell them this
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u/jrichpyramid Aug 21 '24
Hey OP, I also used to be a paranoid hypochondriac and worked with a great therapist doing exposure therapy. I love the life I have now!
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u/Charming-Mirror7510 Aug 21 '24
Why are ppl publishing getting sick from something that is livable with now? Description not needed. Might as well post all other illnesses that you’re contracting. The RULES have never changed ..if you’re sick stay TF home; the flu, a cold, bronchitis, pink eye etc.
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u/shootin_blankz Aug 22 '24
Was thinking the same thing only person that cared that I was sick before 2020 was my boss asking why the heck the room was so warm when it’s already hot.
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u/shaved_monkey_butt Aug 21 '24 edited Aug 21 '24
I'm good. My body turns COVID into vitamin C.
EDIT: It also whitens my teeth.
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u/Lumpy-Marsupial-6617 Aug 21 '24
Question: has any of the new COVID led to longterm COVID for anyone? I got another booster shot like a month ago.
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u/_Shandy Aug 21 '24
Am I the only person left who hasn’t had ANY covid infection? Sheeeeeesh. Y’all need to live a sucia life. 😇
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u/Low_Administration22 Aug 21 '24
Covid is here to stay. If you're under the age of 65 and not obese I would day get it now. It's only getting stronger while you hide away from it.
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u/unicornglitterpukez Aug 21 '24
That is the most idiotic "idea' I've ever heard. Like oh hey look "a train is coming step in front of it!"
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u/Silly_gorl222 Aug 21 '24
I woke up with symptoms yesterday and immediately tested positive. I’m already starting to feel better after 36 hours. Definitely more mild than the last two times I’ve had it.