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It is what it is and perhaps catching it was inevitable (I mean, I was literally the last person in my office to still wear a mask), but the timing sucks. It would have been our first mostly "normal" holidays since 2019 but... welp. Just thankful mine has been mild and hoping my wife's is the same.

Ugh, so sorry, jon. That sucks hard. Admittedly, once my gf tested positive after Thanksgiving, I made zero effort to distance from her, assuming I would catch it eventually anyway and hoping I would do so before Christmas. A rare gamble that paid off.

I hope it stays mild and you can have a cosy time regardless.

Thanks!

Yeah, I tested negative for the first time last night, which was a relief. Wife is feeling pretty rough today though.

Has your wife taken Paxlovid, as well? It seems to really be doing the trick. My gf's mom took it and turned around quickly, whereas my gf and I opted out and the 'VID just sank its claws in. I really only started feeling 100% in the last day or so, nearly three weeks after initially testing positive.

Ugh, sore subject at the moment. She called her doctor immediately after getting the positive test result and the doctor prescribed it, but something got fucked up in sending it over to our pharmacy and she wasn't able to get it yesterday. Hoping to remedy that today.

I'm certain Paxlovid really made a huge difference for me.

side effects?

Terrible taste in mouth! But it cleared up quickly when I finished my round.

Absolutely terrible, bitted taste in the mouth and (sorry) some diarrhea, which are two of the most commonly reported side effects.

"bitter"

did it help to eat afterward? That's what my buddy who took it in October did; he even chewed gum.

Temporarily, I guess. But the taste always kind of hung there, even shortly after brushing my teeth. It was annoying for sure.

That said, it's been more than 24 hours since my last Paxlovid course and the taste is gone now.

good to know. i had heard horror stories about the flavor but not how quickly that faded.

Actually as an update to my wife's Paxlovid thing and the sore subject I alluded to - she called the doctor's office yesterday and spoke to a different doctor in the office, because her usual doctor was off. That doctor prescribed her Paxlovid, but the prescription never came through to the pharmacy. Find out this morning finally that her actual doctor said she wasn't high-rick enough to warrant it. Huh.

So I feel kinda guilty. Not sure if being four years older or having had a history of high blood pressure kicked me up a category, but feels weird to have something that really helped me not be available to her.

We had avoided it for years but my husband now has it. Looks like it was from a family get-together we were all at - us, our two kids, three other adults and kid. The three other adults are all positive, me and our kids negative and no symptoms yet. Wondering how much to bother 'isolating' him from the rest of us as we have all been at the 'spreader event' and in the same rooms for the past 3 days.
Family member with cancer decided not to come to the gathering so that's a bullet dodged at least.

Ugh, sorry. I know what you mean about isolating, in some ways it was a relief when my wife tested positive 2 days after me because at least we didn't have to try to isolate. otoh I know several people in households where one person's gotten it and the rest didn't, so it's not a given that you'll get it. Either way, sympathies.

Sorry to hear that kinder. Yeah, it’s wild how it works. Amazingly, our son never caught it despite us both having it. I mean, we all wore masks and distanced the best we could, but with both parents having it, true isolation from both of us the whole time was impossible.

Yeah, from my friends that have had it I think it's almost more common that both/everyone doesn't get than they do! Thanks all - good to know a 2-day lag is possible too!

We can just file that under "Vaccines work", right?

My other half who has it had a booster recently - my last one was Dec 2021!

My husband came down with it about five or six days ago. Thankfully we have a basement rec room for him to sequester himself in; so far I’m remaining clear and pretty amazed as for the few days prior to his diagnosis we were joined at the hip

Hope you stay clear! <3

Hope you do too! <3

second time around the covid block, also much worse this time, lol

Sorry to hear that Brad, and get well soon all of youse!

it finally got me. I've had the worst sore throat of my life for the last day or so and mild other symptoms but until this morning had tested negative (but assumed I had it). that's almost a week from initial exposure and I guess further exposure from my husband.

trying to gauge which of us is less infected to deal with the kids!

paxlovid pretty miraculous btw, feeling 80 percent this morning compared to hovering around oh let’s say 10 on friday

I wonder if the increasing lack of anxiety among friends who've gotten COVID has a lot to do with whether they get prescribed Paxlovid.

My best to all of youse!

my personal experience getting prescribed paxlovid, in the hopes it helps anyone else: there's a telehealth service in new york that i contacted. i told them i had asthma, and immediately after i had a prescription delivered to me (asthma is not known to increase the potential mortality of covid but no one in the medical community seems to have absorbed this knowledge. also did they do any kind of due diligence to check if i actually had asthma? no. (i do.))

New York apparently has very liberal standards for giving out Paxlovid. Anyway there isn’t a shortage of Paxlovid so it’s not like you have to worry you took it away from someone else, Brad.

Meanwhile in Minnesota, based on my family’s experience, they apparently give Paxlovid to nobody.

Lotsa doctors worried about interference with other drugs, even though it's been well established for some of these competing drugs you can lower/miss dose temporarily to avoid that

My sis and parents took Molnupiravir and it had the same miraculous effects.

sister getting it for the third time is making me wonder if people don't have certain unconscious habits (nail-biting and eye rubbing, not washing hands after going on public transit, etc) that lead to contracting this more easily/often? but don't want to suggest it's a moral/ethical issue. just can't help but wonder how i keep dodging the bullets. imagine it's still a matter of time and will straight up kill me when we dance.

I’m a disgusting person and have never gotten it. Dumb luck I guess.

i don’t think it has anything to do with any of those things

Not anymore.

Also not a moral judgment, but everyone that I know who has gotten it recently was in an enclosed space with other people, unmasked, often for some duration. This is certainly how I got it in May.

But we just had 12 people together in the Catskills over the New Year, and we all tested assiduously beforehand, and poof! Everyone is still clear a week later.

I went to California in November and wore a mask even while eating, really, tho there were some lax moments. I thought that I was going to get it for sure, but nope!

Vaccines and masks work, the latter being especially important I think. I don’t go indoors (other than my
own house) without one clasped to
my face.

I also just don’t really eat out or go out that much tho lmfao

I've been using the decent filter masks to go in shops but our big pharmacy chains have stopped even selling them. You can get them online but it is another 'we're all back to normal, nothing to see here!' while 1 in 20 people in the UK have covid...

My throat is awful, it's only day 3 but it's not improving. I can't eat or sleep very well so it's all a bit miserable. Wouldn't be too bad apart from that.

i assume i got it from seeing puss and boots (i was masked, but when you’re drinking or eating inside while masked, you’re not really masked, imo), the small nye party i attended everyone seemed to get out unscathed

but also i know plenty of ppl who got it recently who’ve remained as careful as ever and have no fucking clue how they got it

(assuming this has something to do with how everyone else has abandoned ppe but who knows)

well i fuckin got it again.

Ugh. Sorry. Thankful I had a was a weeklong monster cold.

sorry, Tracer -- how does it compare with the last time?

extremely mild. blocked/runny nose, mild headaches. i’m on day 2 and i doubt it’s going to get worse. (he said, jinxing it)

i’m going to see my immunocompromised mother in two weeks and my last booster was in october so this is actually the most perfect timing i could have

FFS, is it my imagination or is this the 4th time you've had it? Hope you recover quickly.

Yeah, I couldn't remember, like Peter Puma, if it was three or four times now.

third time, i think? i can't even remember anymore.

my friend just tested positive for the third or fourth time. also has an immunocompromised mother! i chatted with her for ages the day before she got symptoms so now I'm on high alert... altho got it in Jan so hopefully recently enough?