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

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My boostered sister and family had the sniffles and some fatigue. More mild than most colds.

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The one thing I would recommend that hasn't been mentioned yet is melatonin. For some reason (maybe it was the headache that was my only covid symptom, maybe it was hearing my one child who was feverish toss and turn) I had insomnia the first few nights. Once I started taking melatonin (and giving 1 mg to the feverish kid) we both slept great-- which is so important to healing. As a side benefit, search "covid melatonin" on pubmed and you will see there are some promising studies.

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

We’re not in a pandemic of a cold. Grow up.

Vaxed kids and and boostered adults are getting very minor illnesses.

Not true for the majority of vaxxed and boostered adults and vaxxed kids I know over the last couple of weeks. Much more like the flu than a cold, so it makes sense to prepare. Not devastating but not at all fun in my family’s experience and among my friend group.

Most people I know were asymptomatic or had runny noses.

Good for you. Most patients I treated - even the boosted ones - were very sick.

Well doctors/nurses usually only see people who are quite sick so their perspective is distorted

This is a ridiculous statement. Doctors and nurses are telling us that vaccinated and boosted people are still getting very sick. Why isn't that important to listen to?

I'm so tired of Covidiots who think it's no big deal. Typically it's because it's just their experience and they were lucky or they don't want to stop going out to restaurants or God forbid - have kids home from school. They somehow think downplaying it will . Stop pretending this ensure nothing closes and they can live their lives ignoring the pandemic. It is not just a cold. It has killed millions of people, caused long term and maybe life long health problems for at least thousands but likely more and caused misery even in the short term. Let's also remember the people who are sick from non Covid related illnesses who aren't getting treatment because the system is overwhelmed. We should not treat this as inevitable and we should not assume it's just a cold. Studies showing brain damage - even in very mild cases should be enough for us to be worried.

If you aren't worried - you aren't paying attention.

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

We’re not in a pandemic of a cold. Grow up.

Vaxed kids and and boostered adults are getting very minor illnesses.

Not true for the majority of vaxxed and boostered adults and vaxxed kids I know over the last couple of weeks. Much more like the flu than a cold, so it makes sense to prepare. Not devastating but not at all fun in my family’s experience and among my friend group.

Most people I know were asymptomatic or had runny noses.

Good for you. Most patients I treated - even the boosted ones - were very sick.

Well doctors/nurses usually only see people who are quite sick so their perspective is distorted

This is a ridiculous statement. Doctors and nurses are telling us that vaccinated and boosted people are still getting very sick. Why isn't that important to listen to?

I'm so tired of Covidiots who think it's no big deal. Typically it's because it's just their experience and they were lucky or they don't want to stop going out to restaurants or God forbid - have kids home from school. They somehow think downplaying it will . Stop pretending this ensure nothing closes and they can live their lives ignoring the pandemic. It is not just a cold. It has killed millions of people, caused long term and maybe life long health problems for at least thousands but likely more and caused misery even in the short term. Let's also remember the people who are sick from non Covid related illnesses who aren't getting treatment because the system is overwhelmed. We should not treat this as inevitable and we should not assume it's just a cold. Studies showing brain damage - even in very mild cases should be enough for us to be worried.

If you aren't worried - you aren't paying attention.

The new kind of COVID denier is so dumb. People change their views like the weather. This 2 years has proven we ARE living the movie Idiocracy. Social media was just saying electrolytes are good for crops so grab Gatorade for your gardens.

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Tom Brady diet and fitness training.

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Anonymous wrote:Get a couple of jugs of cranberry juice and gingerale which are always good for illness.
You can order any groceries or take out meals, I wouldn't worry.

we get it.

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Don't worry so much about types of food. If smell and taste go, as they did for me, just keep it simple. A few months later and taste has only barely returned. So I'm wary of the muh sniffles crowd. This jank can be rough. Basically, you're just sitting there hoping that the fax does its thing.

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Anonymous wrote:Don't worry so much about types of food. If smell and taste go, as they did for me, just keep it simple. A few months later and taste has only barely returned. So I'm wary of the muh sniffles crowd. This jank can be rough. Basically, you're just sitting there hoping that the fax does its thing.

^ vax

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Anonymous wrote:I just did this as I’m in the exact same boat. I stocked up on cold supplies (cough drops, Tylenol/Ibuprofen, Vicks, pedialyte popsicles) and made sure I had a ton of easy food to cook (cans of soup, stuff for burritos/quesadillas, eggs, bread, peanut butter, etc). We have a healthy 9 month old but otherwise everyone in our family is low risk, and once someone gets it we’ll just suck it up for the next 10-12 days, chicken pox style.

It may not be as bad as the chicken pox.

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

We’re not in a pandemic of a cold. Grow up.

Vaxed kids and and boostered adults are getting very minor illnesses.

Not true for the majority of vaxxed and boostered adults and vaxxed kids I know over the last couple of weeks. Much more like the flu than a cold, so it makes sense to prepare. Not devastating but not at all fun in my family’s experience and among my friend group.

Most people I know were asymptomatic or had runny noses.

If they were sick a few weeks ago, it was delta, not omicron.

They were sick for a day or two in the last 10 days. Many had fully asymptomatic family members (who tested positive.)

I’m the poster who said it was more flu-like for us. Started about 10-12 days ago in DMV, so we are assuming Omicron, but no way to know. Of the 4 in our immediate family, college aged kid (vaxxed but not boosted) had the mildest symptoms. DH and I (vaxxed and boosted) had hard-core flu type symptoms that lasted 4-5 days, and vaxxed 12 year old was in between with several days of fever and congestion. I know plenty of people who have it right now with mild or asymptotic cases, but I also know many who are having symptoms like mine or worse. Not sure why folks are invested in saying it’s very mild for everyone.

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

We’re not in a pandemic of a cold. Grow up.

Vaxed kids and and boostered adults are getting very minor illnesses.

Not true for the majority of vaxxed and boostered adults and vaxxed kids I know over the last couple of weeks. Much more like the flu than a cold, so it makes sense to prepare. Not devastating but not at all fun in my family’s experience and among my friend group.

Most people I know were asymptomatic or had runny noses.

If they were sick a few weeks ago, it was delta, not omicron.

They were sick for a day or two in the last 10 days. Many had fully asymptomatic family members (who tested positive.)

I’m the poster who said it was more flu-like for us. Started about 10-12 days ago in DMV, so we are assuming Omicron, but no way to know. Of the 4 in our immediate family, college aged kid (vaxxed but not boosted) had the mildest symptoms. DH and I (vaxxed and boosted) had hard-core flu type symptoms that lasted 4-5 days, and vaxxed 12 year old was in between with several days of fever and congestion. I know plenty of people who have it right now with mild or asymptotic cases, but I also know many who are having symptoms like mine or worse. Not sure why folks are invested in saying it’s very mild for everyone.

Because that’s what they tell themselves and how they justify their trips to Disney this winter break. I know dozens of people with covid right now. All vaccinated. Their symptoms vary from sniffles to very sick in bed with flu like symptoms.

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

We’re not in a pandemic of a cold. Grow up.

Vaxed kids and and boostered adults are getting very minor illnesses.

Not true for the majority of vaxxed and boostered adults and vaxxed kids I know over the last couple of weeks. Much more like the flu than a cold, so it makes sense to prepare. Not devastating but not at all fun in my family’s experience and among my friend group.

Most people I know were asymptomatic or had runny noses.

Good for you. Most patients I treated - even the boosted ones - were very sick.

Well doctors/nurses usually only see people who are quite sick so their perspective is distorted

Your limited personal experience counts for more?

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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!

Sure you can. Just go through self-checkout.

Congratulations on being part of the problem. We know you don’t care, so don’t bother clapping back with “HURR DURR I DON’T CARE!!! OMG!!!!”

Don’t you get exhausted with your constant, paralyzing anxiety?

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

We’re not in a pandemic of a cold. Grow up.

Vaxed kids and and boostered adults are getting very minor illnesses.

Not true for the majority of vaxxed and boostered adults and vaxxed kids I know over the last couple of weeks. Much more like the flu than a cold, so it makes sense to prepare. Not devastating but not at all fun in my family’s experience and among my friend group.

Most people I know were asymptomatic or had runny noses.

Good for you. Most patients I treated - even the boosted ones - were very sick.

Well doctors/nurses usually only see people who are quite sick so their perspective is distorted

Your limited personal experience counts for more?

DP. An observation that hospitalized patients are quite sick isn’t a very interesting or useful statement. Of course they’re going to be quite sick if they’re hospitalized for covid.

Though, since we’re having fun with anecdotes, I’ll note my wife treats patients at the hospital every day with COVId, too. She’s in a specialty area that has little to do with covid symptoms, so these patients aren’t actually being treated for covid. In many cases, she doesn’t even find out they have covid until an hour/day/week later (the last of which does, quite unfortunately, imply in-hospital transmissions are occurring at a troubling rate). Even her geriatric patients are usually free of non-trivial symptoms if they've been boosted.