#covid talk

[briarpatch-kids]

The new Futurama is so dated in a bad way. It's supposed to be "the future as imagined in 1999" we don't need amazon, streaming, and a covid episode.

[clockworkotter]

welp i appear to have finally caught covid after all this time so at least my streak was pretty high i guess

[magiccarpetman]

Cw for weight talk in this one.

So I have covid. Nasty cough, fevers, the works. I’m ambulatory and on the mend but not having fun.

This evening, an acquaintance from class visited and tried to cheer us all up by assuring us that covid makes you lose a bunch of weight.

Reader, I did not leap six feet forward to bite her head off. Because it would have exposed her, and that would be wrong.

“Well,” I said instead of biting her or going off about what a ridiculous line of bullshit she was spouting, “that would be a definite negative.”

One of my friends brought the mood back up by cracking a joke about how skinny I am, and the conversation meandered on, but I’m going to be stuck on this all night.

When you make that kind of comment, you never know the medical history of the people you’re addressing (not that it would be cool if you did). I spent most of my teens trying to gain enough weight that I would stop PASSING THE FUCK OUT all the time because, among other reasons, people who correlated weight and health were STARVING ME. So NO, I am not excited to find that I might lose some of the health I’ve managed to claw back for myself.

There were ten of us standing there, and I was the only one who said anything. I’m angry. I’m tried. I’m sick. Fatphobia poisons everything.

Goodnight.

[lotus-tower]

it blows my mind that we're just letting covid happen like.... not even the economic impact is enough to motivate people in positions of power to act because short term incentives will always win out. rich people have the tools to protect themselves so what do they really have to fear? but this is just insane. we don't even have a single antiviral capable of getting rid of covid in your body--paxlovid can only temporarily stop replication. it's unbelievable.

[elkian]

One incredibly frustrating thing about COVID in the USA is the constant, pervasive, Murica Fuck Yeah! culture could have been leveraged to end that shit quick. When described to my coworker, he bequeathed the phrase "winning COVID" which... yeah.

If we'd just slanted it as "don't you want to WIN COVID? Don't you want to prove the US is the best?? USA! USA! USA!" we could have had a chance, I think.

[alexandenigtscreations]

For my first personal post of the year I am, once again, complaining about long haul covid. Got reinfected in November and it's been kicking my butt inchworm style ever since.

Even though I know that it can take a month or more for covid to add things (cuz was still dealing with round 1), it's different to realize that you are getting the #extra symptoms.

Like fatigue, chronic stomach ache and a damned cough that is explosively loud but never reaches a where it needs to. There are other things to but sleeping for 16+ hours on my off days ticks me off.

I'm an athletic 28 year old with ADHD. I don't know how to be tired.

Okay whining over, hope you all are fairing well. You have all been such dears.

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

being a student during peak pandemic was so fucking surreal like. "it's not an excuse to fall behind" I cannot stress enough to you how much A Worldwide Plague Upending Life As We Know It is literally one of The Top Three Reasons to fall behind

[no-one-should-have]

every dream that u can't remember is a prophecy

[screaming-weevil]

Actively losing respect for some of my friends who, despite getting covid not even a month ago and/or having exposures THIS WEEK, are not wearing masks in public. kill

[wherestoriescomefrom]

rian johnson took all that time, put in all that effort to make glass onion a fantastic period piece to the first four months of pandemic, a prescient narrative that anticipates the stupidity of rich billionaires, and then pulled the rug from under us because the world of benoit blanc just straight up doesn't have the mona lisa anymore

[thehallstara]

anyways happy pride to all my high risk queers out there, to all my disabled queers for whom events aren't accessible to, to my immunocompromised folks who can't risk attending events where people aren't masked or taking covid precautions! happy pride to my fellow cripqueers that want to be out there fighting and celebrating with their friends and family and can't because it's not safe for them to do so– you're not alone and you deserve to celebrate too. we all do.

[briarpatch-kids]

Man, there really is a lot of privilege involved in who gets sick and who doesn't. I've been the same amount careful as my friend who works at a college and parents school age kids and all that but this is my first major exposure and this is her third infection because she can't stay home all the time and her husband's ex is irresponsible and keeps getting the kids sick.

[clockworkotter]

i realize this will be shocking, and something no one has ever heard before, but having covid fucking sucks.

Dumb "humor" aside, as someone who already deals with some lousy health issues, it's very unsettling and scary to feel like this. It's not entirely new, I've had the flu to the point I should have been hospitalized in the past (but wasn't! Thanks mom and dad!) and god knows how many colds and respiratory illnesses but it's freaky how different this is. The fatigue I have going on today is unlike any I've ever experienced, it's very bizarre and I don't really have the brain power to put it into words. I've dealt with various types of fatigue my whole life (most notably being chronically anemic for just..... YEARS AND YEARS) and this is just so different.

Doctor got me on paxlovid, so I'm hoping with that plus all my boosters this is gonna be about as bad as it gets.

[morganbritton132]

Modern Day Steddie where Steve becomes somewhat of a shut in after the kids go off to college and the highlight of his day is watching his heavy metal mailman on his ring camera.

[housecow]

trying to reconnect w old friends is so weird. i’m 70lbs heavier than when i saw them last but im more myself than ever?? like. i have stuff figured out now. yes i get out of breath walking places and sometimes even talking but. i shouldn’t feel that weird about it bc of my weight right??

[mantisbreath]

My kink is *check notes* when people mask consistently and actually care about my safety without me having to ask