Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Damn. This is heartbreaking.
Take care of yourself. First and foremost. Don’t be afraid to seek counseling.

 

Thoughts and prayers, Amy. I am sorry about your mom and hope the rest of your family recovers.

 

Ho. LEE. Crap.
60 Minutes had a piece tonight about "Post COVID Acute Syndrome" and watching it gave me PTSD.
It was about a gajillion percent spot on with what I've been experiencing.
Shit ain't good, y'all.

 

This is why Trumpists talk about the mortality rate, which is going to be 10x the rate of the flu. They refuse to acknowledge the true impact of this thing.

 

My friend, “long hauler” COVID is nothing to trifle with.

I send my best!

 

How so?

 

Lingering effects that come out of nowhere: fatigue, headaches, shortness of breathe, unexplained pains, brain fog.
The fatigue is the biggie. I go to work and come home totally wiped out. It's not like I'm stacking boxes in a warehouse, either.
Yesterday morning, I walked 3.5 miles with no issues. Yesterday afternoon, my wife cut back our rose bushes for the winter. I got the wheelbarrow to haul off the clippings, and when I got done, I was literally on the ground. We're not talking a wheelbarrow load of rocks. It might as well been weightless, but out of the blue, I had to lay on the ground to rest.
Every person they talked to had similar experiences.

 

I used to lift for hours a day. I work a physically demanding job on an assembly line. I can do backbreaking labor for hours on end. I was a machine.

The first time I lifted weights three months after getting Covid-19, I thought I’d finally recovered. I felt great and thought I’d paced myself using pretty modest amounts of weight and abbreviated sets. The next morningI felt like I was back at football two-a-days. I couldn’t put my arms above my head or wash my hair without assistance for two weeks.

Every two months or so I now get a numbness up under my rib cage and severe back pain. Once in a great while I’ll get shortness of breath.

I’m most scared of what my 22-month old son’s lungs will be like for the rest of his life. What kind of health problems he might face that we have no idea about yet. I’ve accepted this might take years off my life. I can’t bear what it might do to him. I try not to think about it or blame myself too much that I might’ve brought it into our house. But it’s hard not to.

 

Headline is misleading but here's the latest vaccine effectiveness news

Oxford AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine is 70% effective on average, data shows - CNN

This looks like it was a trial of two separate dosings over the course of a month. I think the article says it's single dose is still 90 precent.

 

Covid-19: Oxford University vaccine is highly effective

Also the story says vaccine is more transportable (I assume that means no extreme refrigeration), so it would be easier to vaccinate people in warmer, developing nations.

The Oxford vaccine was the first in development, so it has that going for it.