We're sick

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:CAN ALL THE PEOPLE WITH "Just a cold" PLEASE GO GET COVID TESTED???

Seesh.

A runny or stuffy nose, in the absence of at least one of: cough, fever, chills, muscle pain, or shortness of breath, is highly unlikely to be Covid. There are still colds going around. And allergies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not sick, but our allergies were BRUTal this week and I’m normally not too bad.

Husband and I had sinus migraines and tiredness. My boys are sneezing. Mucinex helped tremendously.

Oh...and I turned 50 and had 2 Covid tests required for normal preventive screenings this month, colonoscopy, etc, so I definitely know it was not Covid.

[Anonymous]

Take an Allegra and then decide if you are sick. Seriously, it’s allergy season.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Take an Allegra and then decide if you are sick. Seriously, it’s allergy season.

+1. I’m amazed by how many parents complain their kid always has a cold but without having tried allergy medicines.

[Anonymous]

I get sick when the weather changes Like it has every time. Mild cold symptoms. The snap from hot to cold somehow triggers something.

[Anonymous]

Love this thread:

We are sick! We've been super careful! It's probably not COVID, but you can get COVID even if you are super careful!

Makes no f-ing sense. You don't have COVID OP. You probably don't have a virus. You and your family could have allergies, could have eaten something off, could be stressed. SOOO many things. You likely don't have COVID.

[Anonymous]

Or you killed off your immune system over the past 6 months and now you get sick over nothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think threads like this are designed to create hysteria and shame anyone who goes grocery shopping or walks through their suburban neighborhood (without a mask).

I think so too, PP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Or you killed off your immune system over the past 6 months and now you get sick over nothing.

It doesn't work that way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also could be allergies? or a virus hiding like strep?

NP
I don't understand what you mean by this. (?)

Strep isn’t a virus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also could be allergies? or a virus hiding like strep?

NP
I don't understand what you mean by this. (?)

We have one kid who is a carrier of strep - he gets it and then he has spread it to us before. . .

Do you mean a latent virus which has re-emerged?

[Anonymous]

Hope you feel better soon.

[Anonymous]

Hope you feel better. Very unlikely to be the jogger outside. More likely being inside a grocery got a while. Hopefully just a cold.

[Anonymous]

Well then your entire family should be calling your doctor and describing symptoms of each family member.

Follow medical advice as to who should get COVID tested, when and where.

[Anonymous]

Also OP, my college DC has also been "sick" enough to require a visit to the ER. Had atypical coronavirus symptoms of mostly abdominal pain, but doctor ran a COVID test to rule it out. Test was negative.


Not every illness these days is coronavirus.