Have you had Covid?

[Cherry_Brandy]

I've had it 3 times. The last time after 2 vaccinations. The first 3 days were pretty awful, bed required but after that it was just general bad cold symptoms and tiredness.

My taste buds have been continuously confused though. And it's interesting how it works, or doesn't. If it's a new taste, I taste nothing. Familiar tastes I can still taste but I think it's linked to what I see. And the taste of onions (which I hate) can appear from nowhere, cake, coffee, anything can momentarily taste of onion.

 

[Polranny]

I've had it 3 times. The last time after 2 vaccinations. The first 3 days were pretty awful, bed required but after that it was just general bad cold symptoms and tiredness.

My taste buds have been continuously confused though. And it's interesting how it works, or doesn't. If it's a new taste, I taste nothing. Familiar tastes I can still taste but I think it's linked to what I see. And the taste of onions (which I hate) can appear from nowhere, cake, coffee, anything can momentarily taste of onion.

I have had it only once, very recently. I am classified as extremely vulnerable so I've been vaccinated to the hilt. No problems except for fatigue, some mornings I still don't want to put one foot in front of the other but have to thanks to a demanding dog!

 

[mixhali55]

I saw something the other day in a news item that basically said most people have had Covid at least once by now.

Have you had Covid? What was it like?

I had it beginning of June, headache, very tired, was prescribed medicine by dr. because of Diabetes. It took about 10 days .

 

[2tallpaul]

I had in 2019 as we were just hearing about it. I suffered weight loss, brain fog for over a year. I could travel a road i had been on hundreds of times and get lost for thirty seconds. Found drinking coffee heavily over a eight week period got rid of most of the brain fog. I took a physically demanding outdoor job where I didn't need a mask and that helped. Plenty of sleep and fought low oxygen for two years.

Had it again recently and it ran its course like a head cold, tired, cough and loss of appetite. 5 days off and a slow rebound for a week. Feeling good and about 95% in a two week period. Nothing like the first round.

 

[Lakeprincess1]

I have not gotten it (not that I know of at least).

 

[Cdn_Couple]

I have not gotten it (not that I know of at least).

Same for us. No covid as far as we know

 

[maybe_iwill]

My wife and i had it in march of 2020. It was kinda rough the first few days. But lost my sense of smells for a longtime. Mostly all back now

 

[Ingenue844]

Oh I've just remembered that weird tequila worm scene in Poltergeist 2. Praps not.

I forgot all about that! Ugh

 

[daystate]

I cant afford to catch covid now

 

[daystate]

Good point. All the government assistance has left the system.

I think that’s part of the current economy’s hangover.

That and the blaggers who claimed to have it but didnt.

 

[sandybrooke]

Wife and I had it fall of this year (2022). Down for 4 days and very tired, all we did was sleep. Wasn't that bad.

 

[QueequegsHead]

Yeah, I had it. I was unimpressed, it sure wasn't the panic scenario that we were being sold.

I might be a conspiracy nut, but I think our government(s) were experimenting with how much control they could exercise without us revolting...

 

[QueequegsHead]

Some times even the paranoid have enemies...

 

[QueequegsHead]

Steven Kruiser at PJMedia writes:

"It’s obvious that they all knew that the puppet president was full of crap. The reason that the government couldn’t be honest about it is because of something else I’ve been writing about for the last couple of years: the government’s response was never about public health, it was always just about control.

"Fauci and Friends couldn’t keep up the bully act if honesty entered the picture. We’re only being treated to some of it now because Birx isn’t really in the fold anymore and Little Lord Fauci has one foot out the door.

"This has been a very good lesson not only how power-mad the big government progressives are, but also in how much the enemy of the people media will lie for them."

 

[QueequegsHead]

Matt Margolis writes:

Former White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx says she knew that the COVID-19 vaccines would not protect against infection.

“I knew these vaccines were not going to protect against infection. And I think we overplayed the vaccines, and it made people then worry that it’s not going to protect against severe disease and hospitalization,” she told Fox News. “It will. But let’s be very clear: 50% of the people who died from the Omicron surge were older, vaccinated. So that’s why I’m saying even if you’re vaccinated and boosted, if you’re unvaccinated right now, the key is testing and Paxlovid. It’s effective. It’s a great antiviral. And really, that is what’s going to save your lives right now if you’re over 70, which if you look at the hospitalizations, hospitalizations are rising steadily with new admissions, particularly in those over 70. And so if you live in the South — I know people keep talking about the fall — I’m worried about the South.”


We were sold a bill of good, a pig in a poke, in the name of government control.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Nope. And I haven't had the flu since 1974 after I was vaccinated while in the Air Force. About the only thing I have ever had was a cold or strep throat.

I also haven't worn a mask unless I had to to shop or see my doctor. I just shake my head at those people who still wear them and get tested often. What other disease is out there that you have to get tested to know that you have it that is no worse than the flu?

And no, I haven't been vaccinated. I don't think I want something that will not only load me up with poisons, but then modify my DNA and also compromise my immune system. I have enough problems with my health as it is. And yet I'm over 70 years old and still able to walk without a cane for extended periods of time. Nor do I need a respirator.

 

[ohverbatum7]

To trot out conspiracy theories is a disservice to those whose loved ones died in hospitals and they were denied comforting them before they died, and to the hospital staff who have worked tirelessly and risked their own lives those last few years.

 

[HampshireBoy]

Try and say it is no worse than flu to frontline medical staff. A couple of my friends worked in the high dependency wards treating covid patients, it was a very traumatic period.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

I got it just as the first lockdown started. Six weeks in bed, like a particularly bad ongoing flu, then it just took forever to improve. Managed some work after 4 months but couldn't reliably sit up for as long as needed. Took nearly a year to be able to go up a flight of stairs without resting at the top. Got better, had a couple relapses since. Still not right.

Spouse and sons and daughter-in-law also had it at the same time. Spouse and sons got better faster, though - but still had to take a couple months off work and glad they didn't have physical jobs.

Very glad that recent waves are much less nasty, but some are as infectious as measles (ie very), which is not good for anyone vulnerable to infections.

 

[girlsmiley]

No Covid, no. I had the flu about a month ago. Worst flu I’ve had in years. Really crook but still no Covid. My brother hasn’t had it either. Which is kinda funny considering his whole family had it. Tested every few days since Covid began pretty much. Was every day for a while there.

 

[BrokenBarbie]

The symptoms apparently vary widely so without being tested I can only say “not to the best of my knowledge”.

 

[girlsmiley]

The flu will be back, better than ever, after 2 years of people not sneezing touching and coughing on each other.

How was cold season this year?

It’s been very cold. Cold and wet. It’s been a colder winter this year than most years. Sometimes colder temperatures than New Zealand which is quite extraordinary. I sometimes sleep with a blanket during winter. This year, I’ve had to use two blankets. I put the heat on when I come home. The cats don’t want to play outside for very long. The sun goes down at around 5pm and the temperature just plummets. Bring on spring. I hate to think what summer is going to be like.

 

[QueequegsHead]

To trot out conspiracy theories is a disservice to those whose loved ones died in hospitals and they were denied comforting them before they died, and to the hospital staff who have worked tirelessly and risked their own lives those last few years.

Try and say it is no worse than flu to frontline medical staff. A couple of my friends worked in the high dependency wards treating covid patients, it was a very traumatic period.

To offer up an opinion based upon personal experience does no one a disservice and if it was only, in your and your family's experience, no worse than the flu then it is just a fact. That it does not validate your experience or narrative does not make it an invalid fact.

In short, the people who suffered the very worst did so for a reason, some underlying cause or genetics whereas those of us who did not nearly die (or die, but then we wouldn't be posting) or suffer from protracted symptoms just probably lacked those underlying conditions or genetic vulnerabilities.

It seems to have culled a lot of the elderly, but you would have to prove a negative to say that they might have been taken by the flu too, but it is not an unreasonable conjecture.

 

[QueequegsHead]

I prefer the uncommon cold; I'm into all the exotics...

 

[silver gurl]

I know 5 people that died from Covid.
I know 0 that have died from the flu. Of course people can die from the flu but I have never known any.