I hope you get well soon. Based on my mother’s previous experience with COVID-19 diagnosis, I think you can go to Asian pharmacies and buy some Chinese cough syrup, they may reduce the cough. And masks can’t guarantee you won’t get infected again, but 3M gas masks (like 6502)with N95 or P100 filters can work.
@Das_Amigos assuming my tests were correct, I was positive all last week and negative from Sunday onwards, so I’m very much hoping I don’t get any worse!
@Daftsoul319 nobody round here wears masks any more, so not much point, but thanks for the suggestion anyway. As for cough syrup, I prefer my own blend - hot water, lemon juice, a spoonful of honey and a big shot of whisky. Kill or cure
It’s gonna one of those no bar… And there’s a lot of no bars around the internet
For me, alcohol only make things worse, syrup with warm water is a good opinion. As for mask, maybe now people only think covid is a bigger fever, so they don’t wear it anymore.
It’s because there are vaccinations in place to build up antibodies for people so it is no longer as life threatening as it was. It is a little bit similar to the flu. The flu would kill a lot of people. The difference with the flu, is that it has been with us for so long that the body has already built up anti bodies for it naturally, and there are vaccinations of the flu for people with weakened immune systems. The covid thing, however, was completely new, and the body didn’t recognise it, so the body couldn’t build up anti-bodies for it. It has now been sorted out though, that’s why people don’t wear maks anymore. Also, due to the major risk being solved, the media doesn’t report it as often, or as scarily as they used to. They’ve moved on which let people forget about it pretty much.
It’s not vaccination. Old covid got replaced by Omicron, which is way more infectious and milder.
Omicron either evolved in someone with HIV by pure luck, or someone took an early sample of covid, kept tinkering with it in a lab to make it even more infectious. See here.
I cannot stress how implausible the genetics of Omicron are. Something like a highly infectious virus, that’s in a spotlight, evolving without detection is just unheard of.
Omicron was something like 10x less lethal than the strain it outcompeted, and reduced covid to a status of norma flu.
I lean towards the lab origin, because why would a virus evolve to be vastly, vastly more infectious inside one person. It doesn’t need to do that, it’s already inside the person…
We’ll probably never learn the name of this hero or heroes. Maybe after he or they die.
I haven’t had symptomatic covid since delta back around christmas of …'21. Neither did anyone in the family, no one’s taken any boosters either.
Well, enough of covid…
It’s Halloween! Spooky season! And I was hoping to post a spooky mini-story over on Patreon, but due to covid and me doing my usual trick of adding way too much stuff, it’s nowhere near ready So I posted a few Becca images instead and the Halloween mini-story (not that it’s very mini, by far the largest yet) will be up at some point in the near future.
I’d normally post a spoiler or two here, but as it’s not ready, I’ll just post one of the Halloween pics from last year instead. Who doesn’t like a stuckage pic, right?