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

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.

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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.

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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

you're welcome! thank you all for the good wishes. i hope this doesn't feel indulgent. obviously many have it worse than me so far.

It's not indulgent at all. We all really want to read this. Thank you for doing it.

^^ agreed, this is really helpful and (so far) relatively reassuring info.

hoping we hear from stet soon as well.

I take it you're in Australia Tracer Hand, so you wouldn't know CNN's Chris Cuomo. (If you're in, like, Hoboken, New Jersey, just pretend I didn't say that.) Similar to your posts, he's still going on and doing his show every night from his basement. First-hand accounts are enormously helpful to people like me who are living in perpetual fear of this.

tracer is an American who lives in London

according to my xls

The grand ILX tapestry is a mystery to me. I piece it together as best I can.

Trayce is in Australia.

my wife’s had an elevated temp since Friday and generally been feeling duff - felt a little worse today, called 111 and the doc said ‘yeah, probably a touch of the ‘rona, what are you gonna do 🤷‍♂️, call back if your symptoms get more severe’

if only there was some type of, like, test or something that could tell you if you had it

fingers x-ed for the best bg :(

oh shit, good luck to you both

Good luck Mr and Mrs Gazzara.

best to you BG.

Has Tracer posted anywhere recently?

good luck to your wife and of course yourself and the whole family! not fun to have when you have a young'un to attend to :(

(er, unless my .xlsx is faulty)

tracer posted here earlier today (phones and kids) and on one of my whatsapps

Good luck bg

yeah, we’ve got a 21-month-old - challenging enough keeping her entertained without the possibility of a visit from the ‘rona

my eyes have been super-itchy today and i’m knackered but that could just as easily be the start of hay fever season and being run down from being cooped up for three weeks

time will tell i guess - if my wife has been ill with it since the end of last week it’s been pretty mild so far, thankfully

This is a good thread. am wishing all the rona-touched a recovery and some solace thru what sounds like a lot of frightening misery.

Best to youse BG <3

Sorry to hear that bg, hope it fucks off asap!

i maledict...the virus

hay fever season is wretchedly bad here. I opened up the house yesterday during beautiful weather and I feel fatigued today

99% sure it's allergies and the quick bike ride I took yesterday around the block

Best to you all bg. And best to everyone fighting this right now.

hang in there bg.

Sorry I stopped my little narrative. It was starting to get repetitive. My sorry now is that for myself and my kids I think it’s firmly in the rear view mirror. Unfortunately the Lovely Emma B still has a fever, which is not ideal. Day 12 for her.

Emma Brexit?

I had two confirmed cases (i.e. with testing) but also a curious illness in March 2020 that was very likely covid. I was taking CalTrain a lot on the SFBay Peninsula and I think U.S. Patient Zero was in Santa Clara or somewhere like that... the symptoms were the same as the later confirmed cases, with explosive D being the "Hey! I'm here!" calling card

I think now they know that it may have been in the U.S. as early as Dec 2019 but was misdiagnosed as other things

As far as I can tell this is my third confirmed case. I, too, probably had it March 2020 - lost sense of smell for a couple of days, before anyone knew it was a symptom, and later tested positive for antibodies when I donated blood. I had it again maybe some time in 2022 as well. That is, I know I had it, tested positive for it, but can't remember exactly when. I feel like the second time was the only time with a fever (briefly), though still only mild symptoms; I also took a dose of Paxlovid then. This time, I think I started getting stuffy around Friday? The test line was pretty dramatically present this morning, but if I've been sick for 4-5 days I assume it is already waning. Sudafed and Tylenol this AM knocked out any symptoms. If I didn't know I had covid right now I would have no reason to suspect I had covid.

Can't describe it exactly but there's a sharp nasal feeling I associate with having COVID (never lost my sense of smell thankfully...3x for me too, all pretty mild).

I did have the 'flavor dysphoria' thing in one of my cases... things tasting weird & gross, like garbage

I managed to pass through the peak of COVID without ever catching it, or indeed any other flu or cold-like illnesses at all, despite having to submit periodic swabs as part of my job which would presumably have picked up an asymptomatic infection. As far as I can tell I still haven't caught it, or if I did catch it the symptoms were undetectable.

As mentioned passim I visited Hong Kong and Shenzhen in October 2019. I sailed off to a couple of islands, did a bit of hiking, browsed the huge multi-story shop just across the Hong Kong / Shenzhen border, visited a theme park in Shenzhen, even a wet market. But so did lots of other people, and Shenzhen is five hundred miles away from Wuhan. I remember feeling strangely woozy after coming back, but that was probably just jet lag.

Perhaps I picked up something vaguely related to COVID that helped. But if that was the case Hong Kong would have sailed through the COVID pandemic unscathed. And yet it did do exceptionally well with the first wave - by the end of April 2020 Hong Kong had had just over 1,000 cases vs 171,253 in the UK, although obviously they're very different sizes (it would be more relevant to compare Hong Kong with London, but I can't find separate data for London). And yet that was because Hong Kong was managed more firmly than the UK, so who knows.

I'm reminded that Boris Johnson was in intensive care after catching COVID during the early phase. For a brief moment it was possible to imagine that he might have learned something from it and become more humble. It was as if God gave him a learning experience, and he totally ignored it.

Same with Trump! I remember it was announced that he had it and I was going on a three day camping trip in a remote part of the Catskills— it was a sweet few days off grid, imagining Trump dead

took a test: negative... a friend offered me a ticket to see Múm tomorrow night so I figured I better confirm I'm okay

But the line was very faint and the liquid was more like a foam, it was hard to drop into the test strip.. but I don't have any real symptoms, I feel as crap as normal.. GF took some paxlovid which she said kinda kicked her ass, almost more than the covid

its crazy that any cold or allergies appear and my first thought is, fuck is this Covid again? At one point I think I had done like 8 negative tests in a 2 year period. But for me, there's a fatigue level and an odd food-tastes-like-nothing feeling that are the tells. A little embarrassing but I have to admit I never got shots beyond the first three, and part of that is the guarantee I'd be sicker the next day than most of the days I actually had Covid....

I get a free flu jab though my job (UK). went to the pharmacy to get it and saw a sign saying private covid jabs are available for £85! I've long thought private covid jabs should be available but did not expect them to be that much.

I think older and more (even mildly) vulnerable people still get them free which is probably worthwhile.

that's 15 less than a friend paid.

i got my traditional birthday flu jab recently and it was £25, up 5 quid from last year. (the two years before that were free)

and yes my parents, uncles are forever at the doctor's this time of year for free jabs, flu, COVID, shingles or that other generic sounding respiratory disease (respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)).

I tested negative yesterday morning, Friday. Never had any symptoms really worse than a stuffy nose. Maybe that's because I am up to date with my vaccines.