Be well soon, DD. Damn, it’s gotta be all over the neighborhood. Hope your lady feels better than you do.
She is on the better side of it, I think as a teacher at a local elementary it might be where we caught it. DD
I’m wondering what I’ll get first...COVID or Colonel Sanders chicken. I’ve had the chicken before but it’s been many years and it’s like a thing I want again at some point. I blame Cartman on South Park per the KFC medicinal mar1juana episode. I tried microwaving my balls but it didn’t work.
Not fun. Not bad, but not fun. Gummies help, and I've been rewatching Ted Lasso, because if that doesn't brighten your spirits nothing will. Have a full test scheduled in a couple of hours to see if I'm still a spreader. Real talk: those who have had it at some point, did you do anything special to disinfect your house? What?
Nah, it doesn't spread on surfaces. I just opened up windows everywhere I could. I'm sure an air purifier couldn't hurt.
My wife had a very mild case. I never caught it from her. We did nothing to the house except normal cleaning.
On my flight back from Ireland on Monday was feeling like crap with very tired and chest congestion. Sure enough tested positive for COVID yesterday. this is my second time having it but feel worse this time. In both cases it was 8-9 months after getting a boosters I’m going to plan on getting a booster a few weeks before I travel internationally from now on.
An Irishman goes to the doctor, who after examining him says, "You have COVID, but if you take these tablets I think it will be okay." So the doctor gives the man the tablets and the patient asks, "Do I have to take them every day?" "No," replies the doctor, "take one on the Monday, skip the Tuesday, take one on the Wednesday, skip the Thursday and go on like that." Two weeks later the doctor is walking down the street and he sees the patient's wife. "Hello Mrs Murphy," he says, "how's your husband?" "Oh he died of COVID," says Mrs Murphy. "I'm very sorry to hear that," says the doctor, "I thought if he took those tablets he would be all right." "Oh the tablets were fine," says Mrs Murphy, "it was all the bloody skipping that killed him!"
My two bouts with Covid were also after international travel. My father in law actually passed away from Covid after coming back from an international trip. He was boosted, but like you, probably outside of the window of efficacy. Is there any reliable info out there regarding how long a booster is good for? In your case, if 8-9 months was too long then are we expected to get boosted every 3 months? I'm not trying to go D&D on it, but it's hard to find information showing an effective jab timeline. If you're walking into a high risk situation (like international travel), I can see the logic of getting boosted a few weeks before for max protection. But even with that, I feel like nobody really knows. I think it's just unlucky for the people that get it severely enough to be life threatening, and it seems the researchers still do not know what makes it severe for one person versus another. Of the two people I personally know that got severe cases, one of them was in his 30s and healthy (survived, but barely, was on ECMO for 8 weeks), and the other was in his late 50s, healthy, died.
