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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have covid right now. I'm a healthy person in their 30s with no underlying conditions, I exercise regularly and am a healthy weight. I am fully vaccinated and boosted (booster was @6 months ago). I currently feel like crap. Yes, "statistically" i'm probably going to be fine but my 78yo MIL who I saw on Sunday before I knew I was sick may not be if I inadvertently passed it to her. I went from feeling fine on Sunday to feeling yucky yesterday and pretty damn miserable today. [/quote]

You really have no way of predicting what will happen in an individual case. My son inadvertently gave Covid to my 76 year old MIL and she was sicker than the rest of us for longer but nowhere near needing to go to the ER or anything.

P.S. If you're here posting, you are better off than I was 2 weeks ago with a non Covid virus. I couldn't get out of bed for 2 days. Sending emails to work to tell them I'd be out literally took all the energy I had. I could barely type on my phone and slept most of the day. We are going to get sick throughout our lifetime. Some illnesses will be very mild others will completely take us out for a few days or more. Covid isn't the only thing can make us really sick and for many people it is not any different from other times they've been sick. There is just so much focus on it and everyone wants to pick apart every little symptom. With your age and health history the odds are overwhelming that this will be just another one of those illness that suck for a few days. Covid isn't going away. All of this talk about it isn't helping anyone and doesn't change that reality. I agree with PP that we need to start normalizing it. Not because we want people to get Covid, but because it is really going to be very hard to avoid it if you live anything resembling a normal life where you visit with family, share meals with others, go to school and work, etc. Those who haven't gotten it yet are fooling themselves that they will avoid it forever or will be able to avoid it until some day in the future where we have treatments that guarantee no one gets super sick or dies from it. That day isn't coming anytime soon. It is a coronavirus that mutates constantly. There will always be some segment of the population that is vulnerable to its worst possible effects. [/quote]

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