I know I’ll get covid next week. How to prepare?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How did you used to prepare to come down with a cold? I’m serious.

For me, the problem is less the symptoms and more the “not being able to leave the house to buy food and cough drops”. Nothing wrong with anticipating all of your potential needs when you’re sick!

No delivery services where you live?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How did you used to prepare to come down with a cold? I’m serious.

For me, the problem is less the symptoms and more the “not being able to leave the house to buy food and cough drops”. Nothing wrong with anticipating all of your potential needs when you’re sick!

Really? You couldn’t survive 5 days in your house with the food you have? A friend couldn’t drop off some bread and milk if needed? This isn’t a big deal

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How did you used to prepare to come down with a cold? I’m serious.

For me, the problem is less the symptoms and more the “not being able to leave the house to buy food and cough drops”. Nothing wrong with anticipating all of your potential needs when you’re sick!

Really? You couldn’t survive 5 days in your house with the food you have? A friend couldn’t drop off some bread and milk if needed? This isn’t a big deal

And that is assuming all 5 of you get on same day. If your kids get it, you and spouse can still run errands masked since you are vaccinated. You don’t have to quarantine vaccinated unless you are positive. So, kid gets positive, one parent makes a big grocery trip.

[Anonymous]

Stock house with food, cough drops, Kleenex, and mucinex. Make sure to have soup and Gatorade (in our house that keeps my son hydrated). Think about now if you should even try to isolate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Eh. My DH had covid before Christmas. Four kids plus me and none of us even had a sniffle.

Same. He was coughing in bed next to me and I never tested positive, after multiple tests/days.

Kids (13 and 16) never did either.

Everyone in the DMV will have been exposed by mid January.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How did you used to prepare to come down with a cold? I’m serious.

For me, the problem is less the symptoms and more the “not being able to leave the house to buy food and cough drops”. Nothing wrong with anticipating all of your potential needs when you’re sick!

Really? You couldn’t survive 5 days in your house with the food you have? A friend couldn’t drop off some bread and milk if needed? This isn’t a big deal

And that is assuming all 5 of you get on same day. If your kids get it, you and spouse can still run errands masked since you are vaccinated. You don’t have to quarantine vaccinated unless you are positive. So, kid gets positive, one parent makes a big grocery trip.

Plus, the 5 day quarantine is for people with no symptoms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How did you used to prepare to come down with a cold? I’m serious.

In the fall I would have bought cough drops, and our preferred cold medicines, and made sure we had backups for tissues. I’d also buy Gatorades, and if we didn’t use them over the winter we’d use them for spring sports. It’s not crazy to be prepared, I also stock up on sunscreen and bug spray in there spring. No one wants to have to leave the house if they feel poorly, and the closest CVS is always out of my favorite cough drops and cold medicine in the dead of winter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eh. My DH had covid before Christmas. Four kids plus me and none of us even had a sniffle.

Same. He was coughing in bed next to me and I never tested positive, after multiple tests/days.

Kids (13 and 16) never did either.

Everyone in the DMV will have been exposed by mid January.

And the cough wasn’t bad and just sporadic. He didn’t feel any worse than mild allergies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unless one of you is high-risk, it's not worth the hassle to isolate some household members from others, given your house. So just lock down the house as soon as someone has symptoms. We're 4 in a tiny house, and that's what we plan on doing. I bought extra Tylenol in all doses and powders (for younger kids), recovery fluids in powder form for better hydration, and a pulse ox.

And Omicron is so highly contagious it wouldn’t work anyways.

Spouse got it we didn’t isolate him and none of us tested positive—even close contact with him all week. We continue to home test and still all negative.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eh. My DH had covid before Christmas. Four kids plus me and none of us even had a sniffle.

Same. He was coughing in bed next to me and I never tested positive, after multiple tests/days.

Kids (13 and 16) never did either.

Everyone in the DMV will have been exposed by mid January.

And the cough wasn’t bad and just sporadic. He didn’t feel any worse than mild allergies.

My husband wouldn’t sit still or stop cleaning when he tested positive. Business as usual—though didn’t go out in public.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All the young kids I know who got covid recently and were vaxxed barely had a sniffle.

Same with mine who weren’t vaxxed!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How did you used to prepare to come down with a cold? I’m serious.

For me, the problem is less the symptoms and more the “not being able to leave the house to buy food and cough drops”. Nothing wrong with anticipating all of your potential needs when you’re sick!

You can still leave the house. Haven’t you seen sick people at cvs?

If you tested positive for Covid, you shouldn’t be leaving your house.
OP…as others have suggested, stock up on groceries in the event that everyone in your household tests positive and should not be leaving the house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All the young kids I know who got covid recently and were vaxxed barely had a sniffle.

Same with mine who weren’t vaxxed!

Same in my house, pre-vax.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How did you used to prepare to come down with a cold? I’m serious.

For me, the problem is less the symptoms and more the “not being able to leave the house to buy food and cough drops”. Nothing wrong with anticipating all of your potential needs when you’re sick!

You can still leave the house. Haven’t you seen sick people at cvs?

If you tested positive for Covid, you shouldn’t be leaving your house.
OP…as others have suggested, stock up on groceries in the event that everyone in your household tests positive and should not be leaving the house.

Sure.

But if you are in a bind, you can run out and pick up meds. Cvs has a drive thru. So do plenty of fast food restaurants. Most things can be delivered.

[Anonymous]

My DH had pretty mild but me, DC pretty bad (worst sore throat and deep joint/muscle pain - and bouts of nausea. DC needed inhaler (usually just sports asthma.) If you don’t have suggest humidifiers for every bedroom, throat lozenges. I had brilliant idea for myself of thermos of v warm salt water for middle of night gargle to break cycle of coughing (instead of having to get up to make.) if you haven’t taken holiday stuff down yet - do it this weekend. I have zero energy so it might be up for weeks!!