#Corona virus test

[kkatastrophic]

If you guys need to get out of something here

[sailoreuterpe]

I'm so tired of being sick. No one but me wears a mask at work, I literally have customers come in and fucking joke about being sick, this fucking country doesn't have any safety net for people who get sick (no paid time off, no universal healthcare). I hate it here.

[mariamegale]

ALRIGTH SO I GOT COVID, APPARENTLY

THAT EXPLAINS MY MENTAL STATE THE LAST FEW DAYS OOOPS WOMP WOMP

[brosis-medical]

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[julochka365]

4/7.2024 - I made it all this time without ever catching covid, but the new variant got me. Flirt, my ass. So much for my theory that I was immune thanks to my B negative blood type.

[plantsucc]

wtf I got sick

voice hurty

[mundrakan]

Prompt: Modern AU

@wolfstarmicrofic - 179 words

CW: Corona virus

Sirius felt horrible. He was so cold he was shivering, even with his warmest clothing on, or under his thickest blanket, and of course that test was positive, although he had barely stuck it in and still sneezed like crazy. To top it all off his fridge was empty. Entirely. Severe case of bad planning. But how was he supposed to live now? He couldn't go out and buy something. He couldn't stay in and starve and besides, his mind was all fuzzy.

Just then Remus called. “You've what?”

“The virus-shit. It's...”

“I'll come over...”

Sirius tried to convince him not to. It was contagious, and... he was really not good company.

But Remus decided: “I'll wear a mask.” Even if they both knew that was far from 100 percent safe.

But later, with a heated sheet in his blanket and a hot soup in his hands, with a bunch of tissues by the bed and some soft music playing, Sirius was incredibly grateful.

And if Remus caught it, he would just do the same for him.

[unscharf-an-den-raendern]

Leider sind wir schon lange an dem Punkt, an dem es mehr Reinfektionen als Erstinfektionen gibt. Fast niemand hatte noch nie Covid. Es ist davon auszugehen (weil, es gab ja Welle um Welle um Welle, auch wenn es leider nicht von Seiten der Politik so kommuniziert wurde und die meisten Menschen es nicht geglaubt oder ignoriert haben) dass sich der average Mensch in den letzten Jahren wieder und wieder angesteckt hat. Viele Ansteckungen verlaufen asymptomatisch, und wenn Symptome auftreten, werden diese oft nicht als Covid wahrgenommen. Covid-Symptome sind vielfältig (da das Virus mehr oder weniger Gewebe im ganzen Körper angreifen kann) und werden nicht alle als solche erkannt. Und wenn jemand vermutet, Covid zu haben, und einen negativen Schnelltest macht, ist das leider auch nicht sehr aussagekräftig, weil die nur bei sehr hohen Virenlasten eine gute Präzision haben. Es müssten 3-4 Tests im Abstand von 2 Tagen durchgeführt werden, und selbst dann ist es eher meh zuverlässig. Nur molekulare Tests (also PCR oder NAAT) können Covid relativ gut ausschließen. Das ist halt das, was passiert, wenn es ein extrem ansteckendes und schnell mutierendes Virus gibt, und wir als Gesellschaft so tun, als wäre es plötzlich gar nicht mehr da. Es wird nach wie vor da sein, und nach wie vor extrem ansteckend sein, und Leute werden sich immer wieder anstecken, aber wir hören nichts mehr davon. Ist leider scheiße.

Und dabei sind gerade diese Reinfektionen das perfide an Corona: Sie erhöhen das Sterberisiko und das Risiko für Long Covid und können bei bereits an Long Covid erkrankten die Krankheit verschlimmern.

Und deswegen dürfen wir "endemisch" auch nicht als Synonym für "ist harmlos und wir müssen nichts mehr machen" verstehen. Erkältungen sind endemisch, Malaria, Cholera und die Pocken (vor ihrer weltweiten Ausrottung) aber auch. Und Malaria bleibt uns literally (bis auf ein paar eingeschleppte Fälle) nur erspart, weil wir das Glück haben, dass es hier zu kalt ist.

[tinydefector]

Update for y'all:

so currently still Sick, turns out I have a fucking Virus was in hospital for it yesterday, currently home and in bed, waiting on blood work and swab test to figure out what Virus it is only one that has been marked off is Corona. But yea 5 days in and still feel like hell, I'll update again once the Virus has finally left my system but until them going to be sleeping a fucking lot.

So that's pretty much all I've got atm due to how drained my body is and how much everything aches.

[bopinion]

2024 / 33

Aperçu of the week

“All we have to do is call our opponent a communist or a socialist or someone who will destroy our country.”

(Donald Trump. We'll see about that...)

Bad News of the Week

Since the end of the coronavirus pandemic - although there hasn't actually been one - I've been waiting for its successor in a slightly anxious mood. Another rapidly infecting virus that spreads worldwide, is potentially deadly and, above all, restricts all our lives again. Now it's here: Mpox. For the first time since Corona, the WHO (World Health Organization of the United Nations) has declared the highest alert level, a “public health emergency of international concern”. Because of the virus that was previously called “Monkey Pox”. Discovered in Congo at the end of 2023, it has now also broken out in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Kenya.

The initial figures spoke of 14,000 suspected cases. Based on the usual 50% rate and the reported 500 deaths, this means that one in twelve people who become infected will die. That's a lot. So it's certainly a virus that should be taken seriously. One day later, it was reported that the first case in Europe had emerged in Sweden. Then the first three in Asia in Pakistan. It's the usual pattern: on the one hand, every infectious disease spreads faster and more uncontrollably in times of international travel. On the other hand, specific cases are only discovered when they are specifically sought or tested for. So the numbers will now quickly go through the roof. Because the spread is already more advanced than we know.

What will happen now? What will the states do? How will society react this time? And above all: what have we learned? There is a lot of talk in Germany about the need to come to terms with everything that has happened around COVID. Also to learn from the mistakes. There is a lot of need for clarification - for example with regard to the procurement of masks, the closure of schools, compulsory vaccination, curfews and unequal treatment in the retail sector. And what has happened since (drum roll please!): Nothing. What applies to politics also applies in private life. Some friends turned out to be conspiracy theorists, others were law and order hardliners, most were simply irritated and unsettled. There were even rifts right through families. Rifts that still exist.

And now we could all be facing the same situation, just as ill-prepared. And if Mpox doesn't develop into a pandemic, perhaps swine fever will spread to humans. Or bird flu. Or something else entirely, be it from the South American jungle or from the secret laboratory of some deep state. Or a revenant from the past spreads again - cholera still exists after all and first cases of polio are reported from Gaza. No, I'm not panicking. But I do have one or two worries. After all, humanity has shown itself more than once to be incapable of learning from the past. I would love to be wrong about that.

Good News of the Week

Venezuela is not giving up. It is wonderful to see how the people are fighting for democracy, no longer wanting to put up with the corruption of their “elites” and finally wanting to have a perspective worth living in. Just under a month ago, elections were held in the Latin American country, which could actually live in prosperity and peace but is suffering from dramatic economic decline, inflation and poverty since years. Or as investigative journalist Sebastiana Barráez says in the news magazine Der Spiegel: “Maduro has couped!”

Initially, the state electoral authority declared President Nicolás Maduro Moro, who has been clinging to power since 2013, the winner without providing any evidence - as is actually required by the constitution. The opposition has now had access to more than 80 percent of the printed protocols of the individual polling stations and has made them public. According to these, their candidate Edmundo González won with around 67 percent of the vote - compared to 30 percent for the incumbent head of government. So did Maduro commit electoral fraud? It looks like it.

The United Nations and the Carter Center had sent election observers to Venezuela. They have now criticized the election authority's actions and declared that the official result was not achieved democratically. The panel of experts speaks of an “unprecedented process in recent electoral history”. No wonder that most Latin American countries as well as the USA and Europe did not recognize the “official result”. And Maduro? He doesn't give a damn. The despot has further intensified the repression against the population with the help of the military, the National Guard and other state organs loyal to him. According to the independent rights organization Foro Penal, over 2,000 people have been arrested since the election. These include opposition politicians. And journalists. That speaks a clear language.

According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, the US government has now offered Maduro and close associates of the regime an amnesty if they relinquish power. I wish the Venezuelans would keep up the pressure. And the international stage too. Until Madura and his clan really abdicate. Because then the country, which has already been abandoned by 20% of its population in recent years, could return to better times. In a survey conducted by the Gallup polling institute in December 2012, the country's inhabitants were among the happiest people on earth. It would be nice if this vague memory could become reality again.

Personal happy moment of the week

“Your application for an Electronic Travel Authorization (eTA) has been approved. You are now authorized to travel to Canada by air.” Nothing more to add here. Taking off this sunday. Boy am I excited...

I couldn't care less...

...about the discussion that Germany “only” came 10th in the medal table at the Summer Olympics in Paris - behind hosts France and Great Britain, even though their populations are smaller. “What does it take for more medals?” asks the Tagesschau news channel. That is of little interest to me. Much more important is the charisma of athletes as figures of identification for a nation, the role model function for children, the motivation to surpass oneself. After all, it's not for nothing that the Olympic motto is “Taking part is everything”. In that sense, Eddie the Eagle really did fly.

It's fine with me...

...that the Democrats' party conference is now turning into a coronation mass. Because the most important decisions have been made: Presidential candidate and his (better in this case “her”) running mate. Normally, I would now say that political program content should not be completely secondary. But I don't care about that at the moment. The main thing is momentum. The main thing is optimism. The main thing is not to go back. The main thing is that Donald Jessica Trump doesn't triumph in November. Harris Walz!

As I write this...

...we're trying to catch a mouse. Apparently it was raining too hard outside and it wanted to get out into the dry. Now she's hiding behind a bookshelf and is afraid of us - even though we want to rescue her and set her free. Update: we've got her and she's fine. Second update: there seems to be another one...

Post Scriptum

It's good when someone doesn't look away but points. Even if it's about Israel committing an injustice. After all, you are then almost reflexively vilified as an Anti-Semite. In this respect, I am pleased that the European Union is showing more and more backbone in this regard. In this case, I am not referring to the maltreated Gaza Strip, but to the West Bank, where the Palestinian population is suffering more and more from brutal attacks by militant Israeli settlers - who can be sure of the backing of Benjamin Netanyahu's increasingly right-wing extremist government.

Once again, there have been attacks by extremist Israeli settlers on the population of the West Bank. And now EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has had enough. He will “present a proposal for EU sanctions against the supporters of the violent settlers, including some members of the Israeli government”. Including the government! That's a bombshell. I very much hope that he finds the necessary support for this. Because this massive problem is currently all too easily overlooked in the great shadow of Gaza.

[nitelines]

Please help Jerry!

After 3 months of vet visits and different tests, my cat has been diagnosed with Corona (FCoV) and anemia.

While usually cats can recover fairly easily from anemia, since he also has corona it can lead to FIP, which isn’t as easy to recover from and can lead to death.

Because I’ve had to cover medical bills for the last 3 months I’m having difficulty paying for what’s to come. He’s going to need an ultrasound and x-rays done to see if he has fluid in his abdomen or chest. The treatment for corona isn’t even available in my city so we’re going to have to find a doctor somewhere else and have tests and treatment done if possible.

Right now he’s only getting supplements to get his red blood cells up.

Today we only had a blood test and virus tests done and it cost me 170 euros.

I hate to do this but if any kind soul can help me cover his medical bills I’d be forever grateful. Anything helps. 🙏🥺

Since my country isn’t supported on gofundme i’ll add my paypal. If you're not able to donate please reblog this!

[thenerdyindividual]

Going off the Darryl walking by with his case of Corona symbolizes COVID theory, that means upon rewatch you can tell exactly who in Glass Onion is going to test positive for COVID/Corona Virus when they get home.

In the pool scene there is a shot where Whiskey and Miles are sitting together. Both of them are drinking Coronas. Helen bursts into Darryl’s room where he still has a case of Corona and is drinking one. Then in the denouement Blanc is sitting next to Darryl in the garden outside.

That makes 4 infections: Miles (our infection point), Whiskey, Helen, and Blanc.

There’s also something so clever about Darryl carrying a case of Corona when “case numbers” and “cases” are the terminology we’ve been using since the start of the pandemic.

[originalistideas]

1989 the science was pretty clear that Corona virus was the common cold… it still is. The only difference is the way they packaged it and replaced the common cold with the flu. All because a flawed PCR test told them so.

[thefisherqueen]

I've caught covid for the first time, after somehow managing to avoid it for almost 4 years, and it thoroughly sucks. I'm far from the only one at the moment (I'm writing this on 8 december 2023) - testing fascilities are all done away with in the Netherlands so the view of the current situation I have is very limited, but I do know that numbers like virus load in our sewers and people in hospital with covid are rapidly going up right now once again.

I'm having a lot of thoughts about it all now, and even though they are far from coherent, I still would like to share them.

In the Netherlands, so far there's been a staggering lack of reflection on anything to do with corona. We have no official moment of rememberance, no monument, no time and place for collective grief. Research into long covid is severely underfunded. There's also been an astounding lack of evaluation into our pandamic response. I've only seen one report so far, and it had a limited scope, pretty much the only conclusion was that the goverment's strategy was 'too fixated on intensive care capacity'. If another new illness will emerge, which of course is only a matter of time, I believe we will make all the same mistakes again.

In summary, I just feel sad and kind of hopeless by it all. The lack of care for the lives of eldery and otherwise vulnerable people, and just for public health in general, displayed during the past years, and all for the sake of corporate interest and personal freedom, is staggering. It all started quite promising, back in March 2020, once it dawned on our government that COVID-19 was a serious illness and that immediate action was required. I myself had basically no knowledge on pandemics yet and the lockdown blew my mind. We were taking action to save lives. I remember feeling hopeful.

But pretty much from the moment we emerged from the first lockdown, our government has each time waited with taking measures until the last possible moment. In comparison to the rest of the world, response was not the worst (at least no outright corona denial or 'drink bleach' here), but it was not good either. The Dutch government basically went 'this is fine' meme until hospitals overflowed (long term health care facilites were barely even considered) and then they panicked, putting lockdowns into place again while those are only really meant as an emergency measure when all else fails. Coherent, preventive measures like testing, masks, clear information, ventilation, contact tracing and isolation were never properly put into place.

And now we've lost tens of thousands of lives prematurely, hospital patients with covid still vastly outnumber those with influenca even in bad years, many still report pandemic-related mental health issues, and an estimated 90.000 people in the Netherlands currently have long covid, including a good friend of me.

I feel like all were in a traumatic event that isn't even over yet, and we're barely even talking about the impact, and the next one will inevitably come and likely just be as bad. It's just a lot.

[sinister--potato]

!!! HELP ZIGGY SURVIVE !!!

I don’t have much hope for this but I have to try.

Most of you know I found a sick baby cat last year and nursed him back to health (or so we thought). I couldn’t find anyone to adopt him so I basically did, though I already have three cats and a terminally ill dog.

He had corona virus when I found him, but he got over it and things were looking up until about ten days ago, when his fever suddenly spiked and he stopped eating. We went to the vet the same day but instead of helping him they made matters infinitely worse by giving him ibuprofen for his fever. A week later he got worse, I took him to another clinic today and sadly he was diagnosed with FIP. For those who don’t know FIP (feline infectious peritonitis) is a 100% deadly and is only treated with an extremely expensive drug for 84 days during which you can’t miss or postpone a single injection.

The vets I took him to today are worried that he won’t be able to handle the drug due to his kidney condition, so he’s gonna need support therapy for his kidneys and liver, which will make the treatment even more expensive.

I’m starting a new job tomorrow and I’ll get paid at the end of next month AT THE EARLIEST. I can barely scrape money together for his first dosage which will last for no more than three days. Each dose costs about 100$ and will increase as he gains weight.

I realize there’s a lot of schemes about sick pets circulating which really sucks for the ones that are actually ill and in need of help and trusting strangers online is hard but PLEASE, I’m begging you, help me keep this poor baby alive, he’s been through so much!

I’m willing to do commissions, craft projects and pretty much anything! I just have to get him through this first month, then I’ll use every cent I earn to finish the treatment even if it means starving!

I’m uploading his tests, I’ll be uploading his progress and daily vet visits, I’m willing to answer any questions you might have.

Even if you can’t donate, PLEASE, spread this, anything helps!

My PayPal 

I’m adding his tests under the cut ↓