COVID-19: OhMyCronus!

Oh. Yes. Definitely

 

I have many thoughts about how we handled COVID but it has never occurred to me to treat these lab leak people with anything less than sneering disdain.

I want to lead by example on this. Follow me and life becomes much easier.

 

Like the Black Death and Spanish Flu. They couldn't possibly have developed naturally.

 

But let's say it was a lab leak and scientists did hide it. They tried to atone by implementing public health measures to keep everyone safe. What "conspiracy" is actually out there??? What endgame do Silver and the whackjobs see? Just a stupid conversation.

 

All 8.8 million scientists (UNESCO estimate) are implanted with a chip when they graduate by the Global SmithKline Beecham Corporation (GSK).

They are sworn to secrecy about Covid, Global Warming, the Moon Landing and the age of the Earth.

The chip is operated by the Super Secret Secretaries of GSK which have included Arthur C. Clark, Karl Sagan, David Attenborough and Neil DeGrasse Tyson.

Stanley Kubrick tried to blow the whistle in his version of the Shining and was murdered in his sleep 19 years later.

 

Oh dear. Seems like China is going through an illness spike like we had last year. Hopefully this one isn’t as communicable as Covid.

WHO questions China about a mystery illness linked to pneumonia as hospitals fill with sick children

 

Nothing to see here according to China.

 

We have billion people!Some of them sick! China good!

 

I'm always reminded of the line from Lethal Weapon 4: 3 dead Chinese? Billion more where that came from!

 

My SIL in NZ has COVID for the second time. He’s had his shots but a client who came to see him had tested positive ….. and still managed to keep his appointment.

Nice guy.

 

It's such a crap shoot with exposures.

The week before last, I was in an all day board meeting. The person who sat next to me for the entire meeting called me the next day. She was COVID positive and symptomatic. I tested myself 3 days later. Then 5 days later. Never had any symptoms. Tested negative both times.

To my knowledge, I've still never had COVID.

 

That's really good. I'm still hearing terrible numbers about long-COVID sufferers.

 

The bastard illness that's going around here is a simple viral cold where you get really sick for one day, and then you don't get better for two weeks is a complete bastard.

I've finally polished off the 20 boxes of Tylenol my wife bought in March 2020 and I'm working on my second bottle of Robitussin.

 

Pretty sure my wife has long covid.

While she was never a high energy person to begin with, she has zero energy after about 5pm. And I mean zero energy. She goes to bed by 7pm most nights to the point where we celebrate if she can make it to 8pm.

One thing about covid, it did knock her out of menopause. She was menopausal for like five years until the covid hit. There, that was one weird silver lining from the pandemic.

 

I already whined to @Kazuma about this but a friend wanted to meet yesterday. He got off the plane from Chicago to DC, but said he was coughing too much. After a few back-and-forth texts, he admitted it was COVID and we told him to stay home. He contracted COVID, still got on a plane full of people, and was willing to go to a public gym and expose everyone.

This is his 4th bout with COVID. He might have had it a 5th time but refused to go to a doctor. One of those times we were in close proximity with each other when he was sick and he told me.....months after it happened. It just slipped his mind that he was sick and should have quarantined. He is definitely the type to go to work sick and gets everyone else sick. AFAIK he has never quarantined.

 

I think you need to reconsider the value of this friendship. Does he steal your Pyrex Tupperware too?

 

Hopefully, the next infection will finally take down this dangerous moron.

 

Earlier this month my brother recently flew round trip from Costa Rica to Albuquerque via Houston. He said basically everyone on the plane from Houston to ABQ was coughing and he was the only one he could see wearing a mask. He caught Covid - his first known time with it.

My sister recently flew Albuquerque to Seattle round trip. She said many people on the plane were coughing but not wearing a mask (my sister was). She caught Covid (her first time) and quarantined at my place - we took precautions and I didn't catch it (I've only had it once, when I caught it on a plane from Vancouver to Auckland - the "gentleman" in the seat behind me was coughing the entire flight, and not wearing a mask, of course).

I head back to New Zealand next week. I've organized my trip around the expectation that I will catch Covid on the flight.

 

November 2021, well after I got vaccinated I caught something that knocked me out for a week. Stuffed up, aches, fever, and worst of all, waking up at 4 A.M. in a sweat that had me soaked for three days straight, and hardly being able to sleep, I think I knocked back enough Sudafed to be decongested for a year. I tested for COVID with an at home kit and went to an urgent care clinic. Both tests showed negative. Started feeling better after a week or so.

I asked my doctor about it, she suspected flu. But I never got tested for it. Will say it was scary waking up for three days straight at 4 in the morning with sweat soaking you.

 

Anybody here got the Flu...here's some advice.

Lord Marbury: You know, there are some marvelous flu remedies known in the certain remote parts of the subcontinent. Licorice root, for instance, combined with bamboo sap and a strong shot of whiskey. Ginger root, also, mixed with, uh, citrus peel.
Bartlett: And a strong shot of whiskey?
Lord Marbury: Actually, you can leave everything out except the shot of whiskey and be well on your way.