This “mild” covid is the sickest I’ve ever been

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had moderate covid (no hospitalization required, but I did get a nebulizer to help open up my airways) for 14 days and it was terrible. I wish people would take this seriously, I was so worried I was going to have to go to the hospital and we all know what happens when someone goes to the hospital with Covid...

How? Can you just buy one? Where?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm sorry but when I have been really ill, and I mean REALLY ILL, I have not been able to look at a computer screen / type anything coherent.

You'll be fine.

Why are people so suspicious of each other, so angry, so hateful? It’s destroying this country.

One word: Fox

This used to be the case, but the tide is turning. Now FOX is "too liberal/moderate" (read: too not-batsh*t-crazy-arch-conservative) for many of these people. Now it's QAnon, Breitbart, Newsmax, Parler (although that one's fading, because they learned that screaming like loons and OWNING DA LIBZ isn't nearly as fun in an echo chamber where nobody's giving you negative attention) and honestly, many of them don't really watch or read any news at all. They get their "news" from reading debunked theories on social media, reposts from Right Wing propaganda sites and YouTube.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm sorry but when I have been really ill, and I mean REALLY ILL, I have not been able to look at a computer screen / type anything coherent.

You'll be fine.

Hint: this is not something you should say to someone who is ill with Covid. Because you just can't know, and severity of symptoms changes so quickly. Long-term effects are not well understood.

Hint, saying otherwise is not helpful bc at this point, she has covid.... and the statistics are on her side

Hint: Healthy people in their 30s and 40s are dying from this because their body produces a reaction to the virus and nobody knows why, so "statistics" don't mean a damn thing if you're that person, so SHOVE IT.

Sincerely,
a person who got a brain tumor that 1 in 900,000 people get, and which statistically *never* happens to teenagers, when I was a teenager. I can assure you that statistics were wildly irrelevant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had moderate covid (no hospitalization required, but I did get a nebulizer to help open up my airways) for 14 days and it was terrible. I wish people would take this seriously, I was so worried I was going to have to go to the hospital and we all know what happens when someone goes to the hospital with Covid...

How? Can you just buy one? Where?

Medical supply store; Amazon; etc.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, I know you're telling the truth. I'm sorry you're sick and hope you feel better quickly.

The rest you I assume are absolute gems the rest of the time. Perhaps the prolonged stress of COVID is wearing on you in ways you can't articulate. Whatever. The following three things are true:

1. With this much COVID in the community, there's no way to do the contact tracing that would allow us to know where people are getting it. Locations of transmission have changed before and may change again, so living in such denial that you insist on applying the wisdom of two months ago to the question of where people are getting COVID now--to the point that you are calling a sick person a lying troll--is asinine.

2. There is--as of today's news--a new and more transmissible strain of COVID all over the UK. Even if you don't follow the logic re: how our meager tracing capacities have been swamped by community spread, IDK why you would assume it could not be the same way here.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/19/uk/christmas-covid-strain-restrictions-intl-gbr/index.html

3. There are a wide range of illnesses in which "mild" disease is defined as organ-sparing. For example, someone with "mild" lupus has lupus that is not imperiling a kidney or other organs frequently attacked by lupus. Patients with "mild" lupus can be disabled by "mild" lupus, to the point of being SSI-eligible. They are quite sick, even if their organs aren't near failure. Same with "mild" COVID.

This is true and needs to be repeated.

I think people are responding to the “touched something and touched my eye” assertion. This is just not the primary way people get infected with Covid and if it were there would be an astronomical number of cases. I’ve been grocery shopping in a store throughout the pandemic and my kids are in school in person and no COVID yet.

That's nice. You know that past luck is irrelevant and does not predict what will happen in the future, or what has happened to others, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had moderate covid (no hospitalization required, but I did get a nebulizer to help open up my airways) for 14 days and it was terrible. I wish people would take this seriously, I was so worried I was going to have to go to the hospital and we all know what happens when someone goes to the hospital with Covid...

How? Can you just buy one? Where?

Nebulizers are medical devices and require a prescription. If you have COVID, as the person above did, your healthcare provider can prescribe both the machine itself and the medication to use with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, I know you're telling the truth. I'm sorry you're sick and hope you feel better quickly.

The rest you I assume are absolute gems the rest of the time. Perhaps the prolonged stress of COVID is wearing on you in ways you can't articulate. Whatever. The following three things are true:

1. With this much COVID in the community, there's no way to do the contact tracing that would allow us to know where people are getting it. Locations of transmission have changed before and may change again, so living in such denial that you insist on applying the wisdom of two months ago to the question of where people are getting COVID now--to the point that you are calling a sick person a lying troll--is asinine.

2. There is--as of today's news--a new and more transmissible strain of COVID all over the UK. Even if you don't follow the logic re: how our meager tracing capacities have been swamped by community spread, IDK why you would assume it could not be the same way here.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/19/uk/christmas-covid-strain-restrictions-intl-gbr/index.html

3. There are a wide range of illnesses in which "mild" disease is defined as organ-sparing. For example, someone with "mild" lupus has lupus that is not imperiling a kidney or other organs frequently attacked by lupus. Patients with "mild" lupus can be disabled by "mild" lupus, to the point of being SSI-eligible. They are quite sick, even if their organs aren't near failure. Same with "mild" COVID.

This is true and needs to be repeated.

I think people are responding to the “touched something and touched my eye” assertion. This is just not the primary way people get infected with Covid and if it were there would be an astronomical number of cases. I’ve been grocery shopping in a store throughout the pandemic and my kids are in school in person and no COVID yet.

+1

All the people freaking out can take a breath.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand the anger on this thread. OP is sharing her experience and you're all accusing her of lying. Why? Why do you care? She's sick and she's telling you it sucks. Why do you even care how she got it? Why are you accusing her of lying about how sick she is or isn't? It's so bizarre.

NP here. I don't understand either. I feel very badly for OP. I am scared to pieces of Covid, even a "mild case."

Get well soon OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm sorry but when I have been really ill, and I mean REALLY ILL, I have not been able to look at a computer screen / type anything coherent.

You'll be fine.

Hint: this is not something you should say to someone who is ill with Covid. Because you just can't know, and severity of symptoms changes so quickly. Long-term effects are not well understood.

Hint, saying otherwise is not helpful bc at this point, she has covid.... and the statistics are on her side

Hint: Healthy people in their 30s and 40s are dying from this because their body produces a reaction to the virus and nobody knows why, so "statistics" don't mean a damn thing if you're that person, so SHOVE IT.

Sincerely,
a person who got a brain tumor that 1 in 900,000 people get, and which statistically *never* happens to teenagers, when I was a teenager. I can assure you that statistics were wildly irrelevant.

I’m very sorry for your experience and truly hope you’ve recovered, but you you cannot live life in fear of things that happen but are indeed rare? If we lived that way, we wouldn’t be really living at all. So while I understand that yes young people have died of COVID, telling someone on this post who has covid that they may NOT be fine is not actually helpful. How we words of encouragement and support could actually be helpful. Mentality and mindset have a ton to do with health. Not everyone, but a lot. So yes I will still tell OP that I believe she will be fine

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The reason this is a pandemic is that the virus is extremely transferable. There are numerous cases of doctors wearing full PPE in Wuhan, for example, that got sick when they took their PPE off. If you wear a mask, and someone coughs or sneezes on you from the side, it's entirely possible that you will get sick.

There are two measures of illnesses - how deadly it is and how transferable it is. Ebola, for instance, is very deadly but only transferable through direct contact with infected blood. The common cold is highly transferable but not very deadly. Covid is both.

And in fact this statement is true, the statistics are still on her side.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had moderate covid (no hospitalization required, but I did get a nebulizer to help open up my airways) for 14 days and it was terrible. I wish people would take this seriously, I was so worried I was going to have to go to the hospital and we all know what happens when someone goes to the hospital with Covid...

How? Can you just buy one? Where?

Nebulizers are medical devices and require a prescription. If you have COVID, as the person above did, your healthcare provider can prescribe both the machine itself and the medication to use with it.

You don’t need a prescription for the machine, but you do for the medicine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What you describe does not sound mild. I know people who had mild cases and they likened it to a minor cold. I’ve heard of it ranging from asymptotic, to similar to a cold, to cases like yours, which would like a bad flu, to, well, death. That’s what’s so scary about it- you don’t know how what you’ll end up with.

The definition of "mild" in regards to Covid is not what most people would think of as mild. This has been explained. It's not OP'S personal feeling, it's a more precise term.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm sorry but when I have been really ill, and I mean REALLY ILL, I have not been able to look at a computer screen / type anything coherent.

You'll be fine.

Hint: this is not something you should say to someone who is ill with Covid. Because you just can't know, and severity of symptoms changes so quickly. Long-term effects are not well understood.

Hint, saying otherwise is not helpful bc at this point, she has covid.... and the statistics are on her side

Hint: Healthy people in their 30s and 40s are dying from this because their body produces a reaction to the virus and nobody knows why, so "statistics" don't mean a damn thing if you're that person, so SHOVE IT.

Sincerely,
a person who got a brain tumor that 1 in 900,000 people get, and which statistically *never* happens to teenagers, when I was a teenager. I can assure you that statistics were wildly irrelevant.

We are talking about shutting down an entire country though, so statistics DO matter

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whatever you’re doing to avoid the virus, keep doing it.

I’ve been miserable for 10 days now with incredible fatigue, nausea, a fever that won’t go away, a splitting headache, chills. Fortunately my breathing is fine and pulse ox is 99. And I still feel absolutely awful.

Well considering that most people with Covid, only get a fever or nausea for a few days, what you are experiencing is more than a “mild” case, which is what most people experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, I know you're telling the truth. I'm sorry you're sick and hope you feel better quickly.

The rest you I assume are absolute gems the rest of the time. Perhaps the prolonged stress of COVID is wearing on you in ways you can't articulate. Whatever. The following three things are true:

1. With this much COVID in the community, there's no way to do the contact tracing that would allow us to know where people are getting it. Locations of transmission have changed before and may change again, so living in such denial that you insist on applying the wisdom of two months ago to the question of where people are getting COVID now--to the point that you are calling a sick person a lying troll--is asinine.

2. There is--as of today's news--a new and more transmissible strain of COVID all over the UK. Even if you don't follow the logic re: how our meager tracing capacities have been swamped by community spread, IDK why you would assume it could not be the same way here.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/19/uk/christmas-covid-strain-restrictions-intl-gbr/index.html

3. There are a wide range of illnesses in which "mild" disease is defined as organ-sparing. For example, someone with "mild" lupus has lupus that is not imperiling a kidney or other organs frequently attacked by lupus. Patients with "mild" lupus can be disabled by "mild" lupus, to the point of being SSI-eligible. They are quite sick, even if their organs aren't near failure. Same with "mild" COVID.

This is true and needs to be repeated.

I think people are responding to the “touched something and touched my eye” assertion. This is just not the primary way people get infected with Covid and if it were there would be an astronomical number of cases. I’ve been grocery shopping in a store throughout the pandemic and my kids are in school in person and no COVID yet.

+1

All the people freaking out can take a breath.

No, they love to live that way and want others to do the same. However, not everyone is privileged enough to stay home and order groceries, etc. But they keep forgetting their privilege.