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

maybe sick people are hording their faeces

One more Paxlovid data point for ya…

Got Covid for the second time in December, immediately was very sick, but decided to ride it out.

On morning of day four I was still incredibly sick, getting sicker, and because my first round of Covid resulted in about 4 months of scary long Covid kind stuff I broke down and started taking the pax.

By the evening I felt 80% better and the next morning barely felt sick at all. Tested negative two days after the initial pax, no rebound. I know there have been vastly different paxlovid outcomes for most folks, but it absolutely felt like a miracle drug for me.

oh hi covid

:(

oh no! is this your second time?

third, first time since last january. so far significantly less horrible than it was last year. likely caught it from my guitarist, who caught it from his students. sometimes outdoor spaces such as a bar/restaurant backyard are not really "outdoor"

feel much better on day two than i ever have when i’ve had this horrible disease. almost more like i got a booster shot. still very sleepy and sneezy but

symptoms abruptly stopped today. so grateful this was a much less intense experience than the last time

were you on Paxlovid?

i couldn’t get it!!! i got a prescription but my pharmacy was out of stock and couldn’t order it (????)

i did not investigate further bc i was so tired

My covid was quite mild this time round - no fever, only sick for about 5 days, most of which was just malaise and cough.
This time though Ive really struggled with fatigue since.

i had the fever for the first day but i always get the fever, every time, even every booster shot. this time i kept falling asleep while trying to watch the og mad max and had intense fever dreams about trying to build these dense impassable almost steampunkish road blockades. i woke up every hour and every time i went back to sleep it was the same dream. the only comparable sequences of dreams i've had to the covid fever ones have usually preceded food poisoning

my album came out *and* i'm covid-free.... best friday ever

Man, the turnaround these days is remarkable.

A few days ago I got back from a work trip in Singapore, a convention attended by people from all over the world. Feeling relieved that I did not come down with COVID despite the fact that several of my coworkers did.

I have the novel coronavirus

:(

at what point will this coronavirus no longer be ‘novel’

https://criticalflame.org/the-novel-is-dead-long-live-the-novel/

covid-19 died when the first epidemiologist said ‘covid’s still novel, covid’s still novel’

this is worse than last time!

I got it on Tuesday, had a fever for a day and a nasty headache that lasted Tuesday night through Thursday, but once I got a decent night’s sleep on Thursday night I felt way better, basically just have mild fatigue at this point.

all clear. amazingly, only one other person in the house got it, and they got it long enough after I was all clear that it's not even clear they got it from me.

definitely in the middle of a national wave in the US, both anecdotally and https://data.wastewaterscan.org/tracker?charts=&selectedChartId=8e7ddf.

It seems the current strain is less catchy? At my wedding last year my best man was the only one who got COVID despite all the time I spent with him. This year I was at a wedding that had only a few cases despite proximity

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.