The Covid-19 Thread: News, Preparation Tips, Etc

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Shula

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kupenda said:
Awww! Thank you!!!!! And thanks for reminding me. I gotta find a way to upload that picture to the ring thread.

Sorry for the derail! Let me get into these vitamins and supplements you’re taking because I JUST finished taking Rifampin for latent tuberculosis. Idk why I thought we had eradicated that foolishness decades ago. I got that diagnosis and then turned around and caught Covid for the first time a week later. I’ve been looking into magnesium and couldn’t decide on one but apparently you have all the info!
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I do not consider this a derail and I should know. It’s what I do when my ADHD is running rampant. Waves at vaccine. This is important info and I pray you’re feeling better and on the way to complete recovery. That cannot have possibly felt not scary. I’m so glad you’re on the other side of it.

I have been seeing TB creep back in, too. Basically, public health is not a public concern and it‘s allowing a lot of this stuff that was eradicated or barely seen to come back. The syphilis rates in babies in Mississippi is another thing. Measles. Between folks being afraid of vaccines now, migrants, our own homeless situation, and healthcare struggling to keep up, it’s a perfect storm. “Germ warfare” is an ongoing theme of this joint. And Covid makes everyone more susceptible to infections.
 
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Everything Zen

Everything Zen

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^^^^ I don’t have a dry mouth but I used those products since some of my antidepressants caused dry mouth. I’m just more thirsty. I’m also a non-recovering lush and this here Covid and the whole move and the disorder and dysfunction it has brought to my life is not helping my anxiety and depression so there’s that :drunk:
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Shula

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No need for attention or alarm, but I am now developing psoriasis. 3 different types of skin rashes plus “alopecia areata” was already in play. New regimen adjustment incoming. Last vax was in 2021. This is so wild to me. But onward and
upwards as always and forever. :boxing:

So I googled and of course. :laugh:


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ScorpioBeauty09

ScorpioBeauty09

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Shula said:
*I have plenty of friends and family who were vaccinated and seem to be completely fine. One couple just both turned 80 and survived Covid a time or two. It’s just some of us aren’t as fortunate.

I just realized that I never even told you all that one of my brothers had a stroke right after vaccination. Military man. Exercised and ate well his entire life. On my life, only drank water or coffee and coffee was black, nothing added. Permanent damage on one side. VA fitted some kind of boot that was supposed to improve his gait. Rubbed a foot ulcer to life. He ended up actually catching Covid, and was at the hospital for an appointment for his foot. Swung by the Covid spot there before his appointment and said he thought he had it. Man told him if he didn‘t have a fever; he didn’t have Covid. Except he did and became septic. Almost died at home, we urged him to get care. Made it back to the hospital by driving himself and we hear nothing and can’t find him. Left his phone dead in his car because he was so out of it from the infection in his bloodstream. One bro in Chicago and I in Florida were trying to find him but we were afraid to call the cops. He is in a southern state working without family. We thought of a way to find him without notifying cops because we knew he was probably delirious from fever. We finally locate him in the hospital. Chi bro literally flew into his state THAT DAY and located him in the hospital stayed overnight a few hours and made sure he was fine and they knew he had family and flew back home literally 6-8 hours later. Work responsibilities.

He kept his diabetes in check. In fact, when we met up in Chicago when my mom passed many years ago, we stayed in her apartment and cracked up because we both eat the same diet. Cleaner than clean. I was amazed because he would go cycling at the gym at 4:30 every single morning and come home covered in sweat, but he didn’t smell bad at all. I was shocked. But he had literally spent his entire adulthood from 18 in Europe in the military. That’s when I really started paying more attention to our food supply. It still blows my mind that you can be that sweaty and not smell bad at all. Anyway, it’s a well over year and a half later and his foot is still not healed, blood sugar won’t stabilize, and he still eats healthy, lost a toe, did a bypass to save his foot and leg which failed, and they are “trying” to avoid another bypass. The wound specialists are not specialists. Guy came to his apartment no gloves, using hand sanitizer to treat a wound like that. I told my brother that was unacceptable. I just found out (and I spoke with him every day on FaceTime so I could monitor his progress) that they are not giving him anything to manage the pain. After an amputation that won’t heal, that they caused!

I kept “scheduling“ lunch together to make sure he was eating; I was covertly making sure he ate and decently. They either would forget to feed him or bring foods not fit for a diabetic with kool-aid full of sugar and the woman always had a finger inside of his glass. He was in there for about 3 months and he had a really active life so this was driving him crazy but he never complained. Y’all, I was instacarting food to him REGULARLY. I was screenshotting him the whole time. The most egregious thing out of all of this for me? In the beginning when he was in ICU, they asked him if he wanted to be vaccinated!!! I just happened to be on the phone and I said absolutely not while sick with the virus and fighting sepsis. That made no sense to me. Don’t they say to avoid vaccinations if you’re not feeling well? He was literally dying.

His entire life is different and he is stuck mostly at home disabled now. Still a ”company man” teleworking and MISERABLE. If I put a side by side photo of him at the start vs him now, I can’t believe that’s my brother. He said the VA sent him to the rehab place, which rehabbed nothing, with all his meds and they were stolen immediately. One night he was insisting on something for pain because he couldn’t sleep and the nurse literally went and grabbed a pill from another patient. Unmarked and not sterile. He didn’t take it. I shipped in a care package from Amazon. He didn’t even have basics like toothpaste. Giant care package and I sent a ton of masks because I couldn’t figure out why a government hospital was behaving as if a dangerous virus didn’t even exist and walking around maskless while telling him that Covid was killing much younger vets than he at the time in the same hospital. The level of care seemed like people pretending to know healthcare; it was that bad. Food was so disgusting and carb and sugar filled that he just wouldn’t eat. When he finally survived that place, I sent him photos of himself throughout. He hadn’t even realized it was as horrific as it was. I don’t even know how he survived that. I’m sitting on the other side of the video smiling and pretending all is well as we ate lunch together. I curated his entire menu around his health needs and had it delivered. He didn’t realize what I was doing because he wouldn’t have allowed it. But he was alone and I also wanted them to see he had people that cared. I even would chat with some of the regular caregivers. Procedure after procedure and they act like there’s no pain and no problem. And I see the cognitive decline coming in and all of his family is back in Europe. Yay, economy!

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OMG I am so sorry @Shula. :nono:

That is horrible. I'd be livid if one of my siblings was being treated like that. I currently have gestational diabetes so I know all about adjusting my diet for health needs to avoid high starch and sugar. Though for me it's mostly starch, I've got good control of my sweet tooth. I'm sure I'm driving DH crazy because every time he mentions eating somewhere out of our routine, I'm like "I'm not agreeing until I check out the menu to make sure there's something I can eat without driving my blood sugar up." :look: I too spent a lot of time in Europe in college/grad school, studying and interning and the difference between their food and ours is stark. Pretty much once you leave the US the food quality is so different. We put such poison in our food that Europe and other countries don't allow. It's insane.

Yeah if you're sick with COVID-19, it's too late for the vaccine. I've seen doctors talk about how patients really going through it asking for the vaccine and it's like "Too late." I also remember seeing a story about a woman who got COVID-19 three times, nearly died and when she recovered after the third time was asked if she'll get the vaccine and she's like "Maybe." :angry2: It's crazy.

I really hope your brother feels better.
 
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yamilee21

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Last week on NPR, there was this bogus report where whoever they were interviewing was trying to claim that the CDC just meant to “standardize” recommendations for all respiratory diseases, because people were isolating for Covid, but not regular colds, RSV, or the flu… that by changing the guidance, more people will be willing to test for which respiratory illness they have, instead of pretending they have “allergies,” etc. :rolleyes:
 
Black Ambrosia

Black Ambrosia

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There are 3 different measles outbreaks in Michigan. 2 are in the metro Detroit area. I got the titer test yesterday at CVS. Results should be back in 48 hours. I was told that I was the second person getting the test for peace of mind. Apparently most people get the test to satisfy school requirements.
 
Peppermynt

Peppermynt

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Black Ambrosia said:
There are 3 different measles outbreaks in Michigan. 2 are in the metro Detroit area. I got the titer test yesterday at CVS. Results should be back in 48 hours. I was told that I was the second person getting the test for peace of mind. Apparently most people get the test to satisfy school requirements.
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Did you call and make an appointment for this titer test at CVS? I checked their website a couple days ago and couldn't find any info on it in their vaccine area. I wonder if I'd need a booster ... I double checked and I received both Measles vaccines ("Live attenuated WITHOUT ISG" it says on my old vaccine card - thank you mommy!) - one in 1971 and the 2nd in 1976. Yeah I'm old lol. :look:
 
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