rona moved in: ilx0rs with the bug report on their progress

Good luck & get well soon, Tracer & stet & families and any other ilxors with bugs to report!

and thanks for the symptoms diary, it's interesting to have an idea what to expect (or not)...

take care TH (and stet, and yr respective households), good to hear you've been able to function on some level during the day

Matt: bingo

tbh the thing i’m almost dreading more than contracting the ‘rona is trying to look after a 21-month-old while feeling like hammered shit for a week or more

Get well, this is riveting 'rona-blogging

from what i understand stet is much further along in this. would be interesting to see to what extent our experiences line up.

Ilxor stevie had it too iirc, but I think he's out the other side now

!!! i did not know

Get well sooon, tracer.

Very best wishes to both of you.

i hope you all get well soon xx

the most alarming symptom i’ve heard about so far tbh

― a struggle to make meat-snacking fit (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, March 31, 2020 8:17 AM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Well loss of taste is a common symptom

roasted

lol

a+

I mention this just to cheer you up, Tracer Hand (hoping you find humour in such things): I was going to post on that first-ILX-mention thread, so I looked up "coronavirus," and, well, I'm sure you can guess the rest.

rona moved in: ilx0rs with the bug report on their progress

Huh? Wrong link.

'Professor Wickramasinghe admits there is no hard evidence for his theory; and researchers who have been working on Sars reacted with a mixture of disbelief and ridicule.
There is nothing strange about the Sars coronavirus, they said; it certainly evolved from other known viruses.

One leading expert said Professor Wickramasinghe's letter "must be a joke"; another said it is simply ridiculous.'

surely it is the Professor's name that is the joke here?!@@

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, May 23, 2003 11:59 AM (sixteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

http://www.asiantribune.com/files/images/Chandra1%20-%20Chandra%20Wickramasinghe_0.jpg

Wow!

I am ashamed of making fun of what at this remove I now consider a rather brilliant, grand and gnarly name. :/

Also if that be he, he is clearly A Dude

And he is claiming extraterrestrial origins of coronaviruses to this day.

Unfortunate joke. I was reminded of how, 25-30 years ago, when my friends and I came across someone with an unwieldy name we would exclaim "Gesundheit!" As kids this just seemed silly, but now I have to wonder if it ever came across as racist.

pigs! in! space!

Wednesday 1 April
Best night yet. I didn’t need my emergency paracetemol.

Two massive naps today. Worryingly, Paul comes down with a 103F fever and sleeps for hours as well.

Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation on the teevee with the kids. Goodness me what a movie. The opera scene. The ‘water torus’ scene. The car chase in Morocco. Kidnaping the Prime Minister. The final cat-and-mouse shootout / knife fight among the foggy alleyways of Tower Hill. The delicious conclusion. Best MI hands down imo.

Appetite still good (though still no sense of smell) and breathing still fine.

Thursday 2 April
Rocky night. However Paul has woken up in a great mood, and no fever.

Went for a longish walk today with the lovaly Emma B. Made avologmeno for lunch and was then attacked by a headache the ferocity of which I have probably never felt before in my life. It wasn’t all-encompassing like a migraine but it somehow felt worse - it was sudden, implacable, vice-like, a heavy boot holding me down. Utterly defenseless. Slept three hours in the afternoon and the boot was still there when I woke up.

Managed to rouse myself for dinner, read to the kids before bed.

In some ways this is maybe the worst day so far. Just flattened. Currently watching Pitch Perfect, which is exactly my speed. Head still throbbing. I’ve heard that people can really take a nose-dive in the second week and I hope this isn’t the beginning of that.

fingers crosse tracer, i hadnt seen migraine as a common symptom but i have where possible just been avoiding too much of that reporting tbh

heartened that yr MI taste is back, that is indeed the best of them

Sorry you’re going through this!

Thanks for keeping everyone informed, I'm sure it's a struggle.

best wishes to you both

Best wishes to you both.

<3 <3 <3 <3

<<<<3333

Damn Tracer, hang in there.

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fuck, tracer. get well soon. and thanks for keeping us updated here - this sort of thing really helpful (and dare i say it interesting)

Get well soon. Hope it does mean you can't get it again at least.

<3 Tracer all the best to you and family. thanks for posting your updates. what fizzles just said.

Hold tight Tracer. Honestly this sounds like a real motherfucker, something especially cruel about the way it seems to trick everyone into thinking they're improving for a bit before finding new and more horrific ways to brutalise them.

following, and wishing both of you the best

Thanks all. Feeling much better today. 8-y-o’s fever came back in the middle of the night. When I went down for my pee he was calling out that he couldn’t go back to sleep. So I calpol’ed him up and today he’s.... fine. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

sending love; fight through.

Friday 3 April
Last night decided to watch 'View From The Top' (Paltrow, Ruffalo, 2003). A more hallucinatorily bad movie I may have never seen. Everything is so airless and off about it, it's just bananas.

The Lovely Emma B's sleep anxiety has decided to return, which is unhelpful. Paul's fever came back in the night. Some Calpol took care of it.

For the first time in a long time none of us went outside at all. It just felt like too much.

Something I haven't noted yet, but which has ben a feature of the last week, is a ringing in my ears. It's not overwhelming but it's pretty much always there. I notice it particularly in the mornings. Which throws another log on the fire of the feeling that every day I'm somehow paying for Hunter S Thompson's sins. Head pains, metallic taste, burnt out lungs, just a general charred aspect to life. And ringing ears like I've been to a thrash metal show.

Felt pretty okay today. Didn't take any naps. Like an idiot checked work email and found out I'd been taken off a project "indefinitely" that I'd been looking forward to for a long time, and which is one of the main things motivating me to get back in the saddle. Started boiling inside. Instantly fired off about 4 pissed off texts and was reassured pretty much straight away that no, it's a misunderstanding - I'm still on the project. Sometimes you have to throw a strategic stink. I've been watching Larry Sanders. I know how this shit goes. The second your back is turned the fucking jackals come out.

My sister keeps texting me ancient newspaper clippings of distant ancestors who died of the the Spanish flu. i.e. 'This was your great-uncle Carl'. Thanks?

Another texting buddy warns of a 'spike on day 10' so i guess I've got that to look forward to.

Ordered pizza and watched Major League. Kids and wife all now asleep. The latter will surely wake at some point soon, at which point I am armed with what have become the most precious objects in my household bar none: 2x 500mg paracetemol tablets.

<3

My sister keeps texting me ancient newspaper clippings of distant ancestors who died of the the Spanish flu. i.e. 'This was your great-uncle Carl'. Thanks?

LOL

thank u ulysses

hugs tracer and thx for writing this up :)

thinking of u tracer & the whole hand family
i have avoided reading most firsthand accounts of this scourge aside from this one

Maybe the ringing ears is just coincidental arrival of tinnitus? There's a thread on that. Great choice with Larry Sanders. A show filled mostly with venal characters seems perfect.

I have mild tinnitus which I mostly don't notice unless I think about it, but sometimes when I have a cold it gets a lot worse/harder to ignore, and stays that way for a week or two after all the other symptoms have gone

obv the 'rona is not just a cold, but maybe something similar going on physiologically? not that I know what that is, exactly

thanks for your updates - glad you felt a bit better today and fought for your place on the project! hope you get better soon, and your kid too; it's good that he's mostly not been too bothered by symptoms so I hope it stays that way

this sounds proper shit, tracer. hope you and your family are on the mend soon

thanks for your reports tracer

had this recently, pretty certain picked up on a train in spain. i felt pretty average and quite tired but the main problem was that i got an infected ear at the same time. which of course *really* doesn’t let you sleep. so a combination of being v tired and not able to get any sleep was not good and although i got over the covid relatively quickly im still managing the overall knock on effects a couple of weeks later.

people have asked how i knew to test and i’m “idk it just felt like covid?” crackly throat, generally run down, sniffling etc. this is my third go round (none of them servere in themselves) and im getting to know the drill.

Wonder if the strain in Spain spreads mainly on the train

ok damn

lol

roffles

My fair covid

ROFLs all the way to Hereford, Hartford and Hampshire

I could have hacked all night

I think he's got it

*checks COVID test*

By jove he's got it

(sympathies to all affected. was just reading about a friend from Cali whose entire U.K. summer vacay was wrecked by COVID, spent most of it in isolation. preparing for my own U.K. vacay in a month, fingers crossed)

there doesn’t seem to be a *lot* of it about here. maybe one or two people per month in my wider work/professional community. i think you’re good. obv hoping you have a great holiday here!

fwiw the isolation guidelines (for all respiratory illnesses) in the US are now "do what you like as long as you haven't had a fever for 24 hours"

Where are ya going, Tipsy?

I think it might be less about the virus being particularly strong in certain countries and more that long flights are an easy way to catch bugs in general. I got a pretty bad flu from my flight to Japan (not covid).

that’s got to be right.

anecdotally tho i’m getting three or four reports of covid a month from spain over the last two months from a smaller network.

might just be some sort of information skew. certainly not statistically robust!

Where are ya going, Tipsy?

Devon and Cornwall — which I understand is typically quite quiet during the summer ...

(I have read somewhat hopeful sounding accounts that the domestic tourist trade is down just a bit there this summer, because of competition from cheap continental destinations)

The second time I caught COVID was on a plane, thinking I'll go ahead and mask up on the flight over just to give us a better chance.

It seems the current strain is less catchy?

Which of the three dominant / rising strains do you mean?

xp hope you get decent sun. it's nice but muggy right now. I'll be down in Cornwall again late August, was there a month ago and totally lucked out with the weather.

Thx! Honestly coming from the baking heat we’re having here, cloudy and even a bit rainy would be fine.

also visiting Devon from the US this summer and also hoping for cold and damp tbqh.

It’s been pretty warm in East Devon this week so the chances of cold + damp are enhanced. No covid reports from my Devon-based colleagues.

btw Tim thanks for that pub rec (at Ide), worked out beautifully!

In Ireland now and covid has hit several of my travel companions. Two of them were down for the count for a bit. Apparently I've remained clear of it. But I've been strategic in my indoor socializing. Lots of outdoor drinking and have avoided crowded pubs for the most part. Though there was that one night in Dingle...

The amount of coughing I hear when out and about is somewhat alarming.

I've had a couple of colleagues complain about being "knocked out" by brief coughing spells and runny noses and when I suggest it might be COVID they look at me as if I'd asked them to join a synth pop band -- and these were some of the most COVID-conscious people in my office two years ago. It's as if a mindwipe has happened.

I'm no paragon -- I go out all the time and only mask when on planes and when I feel crowded or unsafe indoors -- but at least I know what the risk is.

Yeah some people I know aren't even testing anymore when they get sick. Which is super weird to me, because if I can know what I'm sick with, I would like to!

A friend's baby just got the covid, and is pretty sick... I don't remember any children in the first wave, maybe it's mutated in a way that'll make kids more vulnerable

I just had four flight between San Francisco>Copenhagen>Stockholm and I think I saw two people on the planes with masks on (clearly American) though a few masks in the airports.. but not that many

No one in Sweden appears to wear a mask anymore, anywhere

I noticed in Dublin and Galway last summer -- not one mask worn by a local. Is it because most European countries had real lockdowns instead of our ersatz ones and the memory's raw?

I honestly think thats the case in Aus. We were locked down so hard for so long with such strict masking laws, that when they lifted it all people went "oh thank FUCK".

I've seen it said that it'd be nice if what had come out of this, is a cultural shift where we're all like they are in SEA - everyone just wears a mask when they have a cold/flu. But nooooo.

I live in Wisconsin. Nobody* masks in Wisconsin.

*Not nobody, but so few that I either figure they are currently sick or they care for someone at high risk.

I've had a couple of colleagues complain about being "knocked out" by brief coughing spells and runny noses and when I suggest it might be COVID they look at me as if I'd asked them to join a synth pop band -- and these were some of the most COVID-conscious people in my office two years ago. It's as if a mindwipe has happened.

No one in Sweden appears to wear a mask anymore

It would be pretty sweet if they developed an at-home test that covered COVID, flu, etc all in one. per tipsy it’s very nice to know what you’ve got

I think you need to cough on different cards or whatever but isn't this exactly what they developed at Pluslife?

Yeah some people I know aren't even testing anymore when they get sick. Which is super weird to me, because if I can know what I'm sick with, I would like to!

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 26 June 2024 23:55 (yesterday) link

I don't bother anymore, because it's not going to change my behavior. If I'm sick, I stay home, stay away from others and sleep in the spare room so I don't get my wife sick.

I mean, there's a public health benefit is you test positive and report it online (I did once a couple months ago), but I think they're able to glean all the data they need via wastewater samples now