so got covid again from my son who died, i then subsequently died, came back to post this 'warning'
My nonGMO son was at a wholesome summer camp and came home with the sniffles. died. jk recovered same day. Two days after that, being two days ago, I developed a sore throat. Next day headache and worse sore throat, low fever. hard to swallow, so didn't want to eat. soreness mostly went away that evening. Was a bit harder to smell the homestead homemade garlic hummus we had this morning, but not impossible.
Today, i'm on the mend working and shit, but since we have a lifetime supply of covid rapid tests (aside: because my local martial arts gym was cool and let me flaunt the testing rules in Canada and just self-test before coming since enforcing the provincial sanctioned testing app would have ended his business, at least half were going to walk. So I bought a cheap box before they were out of stock everywhere. Non-tracked-and-databased testing was cool by me at the time (2021 fall) because you shouldn't work out sick with anything worse than a cold anyway — yes covid is slightly worse than a cold for me, but not as bad as flu when i catch it)
umm, oh yea, since i have a lifetime supply fixing to expire, i tested today for the lolzs, and yep, instant strong positive. Now, I have choices:
- I can milk this for two weeks of sick days from work and brag on twitter about how i'm thankful for my previous inoculation (a previous infection that was also mild)
- Keep working tomorrow. I mostly work remote, so I won't spread this deadly disease. but i don't get that sweet sick time. Got shit to do on the homestead before winter!
Of course i'm just going to roll with it and clock in, unlike my fully vaxxed coworker who just got back after taking 2.5 weeks of covid time and is still hacking up a lung on calls (mute?).
I'm so glad my virologist wife talked me out of getting these shots early on. I might have wavered otherwise in the early days. I don't know how someone without some inside track managed to stay out of the mess unfolding now with side effects.
Moral is, find good people and hold on. And put your kids in summer camp! covid will encounter real herd immunity that way, so this awful plague will finally not kill us all.
(aside: also, want to post here so i can filter out some more crappy subs. hopefully the ban bots get to work. I hear it's a quick way to clean things up)
Posted Aug 15, 2022, 5:29 AM UTC
I know it'll get asked. we used to live in toronto and she worked at UHN on retroviruses and stuff. When my son was born we cashed out our place and moved to a farm. Her pay was not that great anywy, coming out of pure research grants instead of pharma cash. All the pharma-paid people had latest and greatest equipment on each bench, her lab had to struggle just to find the basic reagents and glassware.
This is how the problem we're in began. research funding got shifted from the basics to drug discovery. prestigious labs were those with teh pharma cash. don't want to find a drug to slightly mitigate cancer to make it more livable? get out of here, go work for 1/3 the salary on finding the fundamental truths of biology.
her opinion of mRNA was that it's "a cool tech but not probably ready for human trials, look at these papers where a previous iteration killed almost all the animals i read about in school."
Same story for early SARS spike protein vaccine attempts in the early 2000s. Slightly shortened the recovery time, but didn't prevent infection or transmission and then also gave the animals other serious long term problems. This was well known and even vaccine shills were publicly saying "uh, are you sure about this" in 2020 before the vaccines were released
Your wife seems like a smart lady. I have come across those same papers with no background in medicine and no one close to me with one either. It's been out there for anyone who cared to find it. It baffles me how people think pharmaceutical companies are altruistic saviours of humanity.