Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Like we have a choice? <rueful grin>

Thanks, though.

 

The turning point for me was not getting it myself. It wasn’t my wife getting it. It wasn’t my kids getting it. We’re all fully vaxxed and boosted.

It was my completely unvaccinated 70-something mother-in-law, a lifelong smoker and one of the most spectacularly unhealthy people I’ve ever met (can’t walk 30 feet from her bedroom to the kitchen without getting winded), getting it and being fine after a few days. Heck, my wife got sicker than MIL did.

My great aunt (103 years old) and my neighbor (97) both got it and recovered within two weeks. OTOH, it killed a friend of mine, a police captain in his mid-40s, in short order.

I realize there’s no rhyme or rhythm to predicting how it will affect any given person. I’d never mock anyone for taking precautions in perpetuity. I’m just trying to spell out why so many people aren’t scared of it anymore. And people have a great ability to rationalize everything they see in a way that allows them to assure themselves it’ll never happen to them.

 

I ate ice cream every day with a caregiver who was dead of the disease six weeks later. Refused to get vaccinated.

 

Seven days in now, if you count last Monday as Day 0. All told, I was down 16 pounds on Saturday morning, though most of that (I think) was water, as I'm still pushing fluids and have regained six pounds. I'm feeling better, though completely exhausted, and don't really remember much of what happened between Monday and Friday of last week despite that I was awake for a lot of it. I took a three hour nap this afternoon, and still haven't been eating much - just simple carbs, a bagel here, some chips there. Neither coffee nor beer has passed my lips since last Sunday. I was scheduled to referee nine hockey games this coming weekend, and I have turned them back to the assignor. There's no chance I'll be able to work those games, and I'm fine with that. Hopefully, I'll be back to 100 percent soon, though it may be a climb...

 

I lost 30 pounds. I'm down to my college weight.

I like the wear of it better, but I miss eating a fulsome meal. I know from talking to other covid initiates that you just don't ever seem to want to clean a plate again. I feel that way, anyhow.

 

COVID Data Tracker

oof, etc

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/01/16/long-covid-fatigue-pacing/

Experts say the extreme fatigue experienced by many long covid patients has a name: myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS), a condition previously known as chronic fatigue syndrome. Researchers estimate that about half of people with long covid have developed ME/CFS.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/01/16/pregnant-covid-infection-death-hospitalization/

Pregnant people infected with the coronavirus have a seven times higher risk of dying compared with pregnant individuals who are not infected, a finding that arrives amid renewed calls for vaccination of those who are expecting a baby.

Researchers, whose findings were published Monday in the journal BMJ Global Health, pooled patient data from more than 13,000 pregnant individuals included in 12 studies from 12 countries, including the United States. Along with a higher death rate, infected pregnant people had a greater risk of being admitted to an intensive care unit, needing a ventilator or developing pneumonia if they have a coronavirus infection.

 

https://www.rollingstone.com/cultur...covid-genetic-mutation-contagious-1234661757/

There’s a new, more contagious form of the novel-coronavirus. It’s got a greater ability to evade our antibodies. And it’s spreading easier than ever.

You’ve read these words before, and you’ll almost certainly read them again as the Covid pandemic grinds into its fourth calendar year. But pay attention, because there’s something new about XBB.1.5, also known as Kraken, the latest Omicron subvariant that’s quickly becoming the dominant form of SARS-CoV-2 across much of the world. XBB.1.5 evolved after a couple of big genetic twists and turns.

 

oof, etc.

 

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