I work for a large multi-national Big Law firm as an executive assistant. I am the only person in my office of 150 who is not going back to work in the office in September because I told them categorically I will not get vaxxed. So they are "making" me stay virtual! Up until now, I believed people when they said Covid was no worse than a cold or flu. But that has changed. My son got it last Saturday. He is 37. He said he was in so much pain from his toes to his head that he wished he could die. Said it was by far the most sick he has ever been in his life. He absolutely begged me to get the vaccine, which of course I won't do. Today, our pest control guy stopped by and said he had it so bad a month ago he almost went to the hospital. Had really horrendous pain and 102 fever for four days. Age 40. Still has no sense of smell or taste one month later. My daughter has a friend who is an ER doctor. He says Atlanta hospitals are full of Covid patients. He doesn't strike me as the type of person who would lie. This is my anecdotal evidence that Covid is far from over, and it's also very far from nothing. Just my two cents for people who are downplaying it, as I did up until this week.
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Things that contribute to a much more severe COVID-19 infection.
#1. Actually having COVID-19 and not just being told you had it by a false PCR at 40 cycles positive.
#2. Having blood type A and being male.
#3. Being classified as obese or worse.
#4. Having low or low average Vitamin-D levels when you get ill.
#5. Having asthma or other respiratory conditions involving chronic inflammation.
#6. Having as your first exposure to COVID-19, an adult family member whom you live with (higher initial viral load upon exposure means your body had further to catch up once the immune system recognizes the illness as invasive and mounts the defense against it. -- seriously if your spouse finds out they were exposed to COVID-19, and you have risk factors in #1-#5, then maybe consider going and getting exposed yourself from the same source for 15 minutes. That way your body will have a lower vital load to start with.
#7. Going to an ER or to your PCP (when they are trying to avoid covid patients) and seeking treatment there instead of finding out which local urgent care in your area is prescribing HCQ and Ivermectin and zinc.
I was hospitalized just under a year ago with COVID-19. If I had to do it over againback then, I would have contacted America's Frontline Doctors. My suspicion is even though I brow beat my PCP into giving me HCQ, I did not get a proper therapeutic dose. This lead to me running out of medication and experiencing a significant downturn shortly thereafter. Which all coincided with labor day and I was unable to get more meds before things were getting out of control. I found out that if this illness starts to get away from you, then you won't be able to catch up with only a steroid (also prednisone is useless, you will need dexamethasone for any real effect).
So Bottom line, it's a real thing, it's very survivable with proper treatment. It's likely to be very mild for you if you don't have any risk factors. There is a 1-- 2-- punch on this disease.
Punch #1 is a joke and you will believe the illness is harmless but annoying.
Should punch #2 hit you, you will find yourself having trouble drinking water without gagging, being unable to eat more than half a bowl of chicken noodle soup, running high fevers (102+) that Advil and Tylenol won't touch, barely able to hold your head up, dizzy and unsteady on your feet, having great difficulty thinking clearly or recognizing what is happening and how severely ill you are, having great difficulty remembering much of anything, and completely exhausted by just trying to breathe.
Yup. It's real. Similar to me, except I didn't get hospitalized. Nor had a fever, although I felt feverish.