#i have a cold or the flu or covid or whatever

[longowatchrepair]

[minervadashwood]

y'all a huge staple I see in my fics is that Daryl rescues reader a lot.

I'm aware this is habit could indicate that my readers always need saving.

But I'm realizing it's because I've not really had anyone rescue me? Like there's not been anyone in my corner, coming to my defense or anything. I don't need that rescue now, but many, many, many times I could have used it.

Anyway, for me this trope is wish fulfillment that someone would have rescued me back then

[britneyshakespeare]

I actually feel so sick and miserable

[ratcandy]

groaning out in agony while muttering “strongest soldier, toughest battles” and sneezing three more times

[sharkieboi]

left early from work cause everything hurts and I feel like garbage and I’m just praying it’s not covid again

[passiveagreeable]

It’s funny when worries bubble to the surface for like objectively no reason.

I forgot to enroll in health insurance through my job. Whether I qualify is debatable because I don’t work full time hours, though I’m supposed to. And it was gonna be really expensive, so I was thinking to waive coverage anyway but the documents were due yesterday. And no matter how many times I put into my calendar to alert me over the past five days. I somehow still forgot. And here we are.

To be clear. I have been completely uninsured for more than a couple years, and prior to that I had non insurance that paid for an annual physical and nothing else. And that’s going back like at least five more years. I haven’t had what could legally be called health insurance since literally I was in high school.

And for the most part, I’ve been fine about it. Not in like an ‘I’m invincible’ kind of way but you just have to shrug your shoulders about some of these things. And while I can pinpoint parts of my daily life that a doctor might call a medical issue, I’ve dealt with them for years and I just ignore them.

So why now? I ask myself that.

I don’t really know. Maybe it was the rattlesnake anti venom debacle? Or earlier in the summer when I got what seemed like conjunctivitis but probably wasn’t because eventually it went away on its own. Or when my mom’s finger got shut in the car window and she had to get four stitches. Perhaps it’s that my job involves hours inside a moving vehicle, which probably is a more likely location to experience bodily harm than just being in a store or office.

Anyway. Cheers to another year of being uninsured. Let’s hope I don’t get the flu or idk, melanoma.

[poetryofyouth]

boss went to the office sick last week, on a call she joked about how "she's gonna give it to all of us haha" now i am sick, most likely from her and joke's on her if I don't feel well tomorrow morning then I'll not work as is my legal right and she will have to deal with me not being there

[transgaysex]

im going to force health onto myself if its the last thing i do. mark my fucking words. i will not allow myself to get sick right now. im two weeks away from. hanging out.with my friends. i will not get sick i straight up refuse to.

[yuulettte]

"𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐟𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫?!"

𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐉𝐮𝐣𝐮𝐭𝐬𝐮 𝐊𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐥𝐥 ✧ദ്ദി( ˶^ᗜ^˶ )

✰ Tags: gn!reader x various JJK men, fluff, reader has a cold oh NOOOO!!, sfw, just sugary sweet

✰Characters: Gojo, Yuta, Yuji, Geto, Megumi, Nanami

✰ A/N: I tested positive for covid so I decided to be self indulgent.. First time writing hcs for most of these boys ( ´ ▽ ` ) I apologize in advance

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𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐮 𝐆𝐨𝐣𝐨 °❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･

You tell him not to come near you out of habit, but he reminds you about his limitless technique! Can germs touch him? Who knows~

Long movie watching sessions, he'll buy you whatever you want to eat. Shoko told him to make sure you're hydrated, so he might force you to drink. Good luck!

Still manages to make you laugh with his antics. He'll wave his hands over you, using that eccentric tone, "Get better~ get better~!" as if it'll magically heal you

One time you catch him reading articles online on how to take care of a sick partner. The expression on his face is that of pure focus

He eventually gets fed up and says something about how 'the strongest never gets sick!' And thus turns off his technique to cuddle with you. He catches your cold the next day LOL

Guess even the strongest isn't immune to flu season

𝐘𝐮𝐭𝐚 𝐎𝐤𝐤𝐨𝐭𝐬𝐮 °❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･

Attentive in every way. Is absolutely unafraid of getting sick. He always ends up catching whatever bug you have because he takes care of you no matter what

Runs you warm baths. He'll help you wash, dry your hair, and get dressed.

Rubs your back if you're feeling unwell, even when you're not sick ( ´ ▽ ` )

"What do you need? I'll go get it for you. Is there a dish you'd like for me to cook?"

He's an insanely good care taker (no surprise)

Has a habit of buying you plushies whenever you get sick, so your bed is over taken by them after a few years of dating. It's an army.. Or so you call it!

Will give you that sad puppy look if you refuse to let him hold you, even if it's out of love. He just wants to make you feel better

Doesn't let anyone else enter the house unless it's your family, he's your boyfriend and so it's his responsibility to take care of you! (he's protective)

𝐘𝐮𝐣𝐢 𝐈𝐭𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐫𝐢 °❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･

Will show up at your place with a bag full of medicine and goodies

Also doesn't care about catching whatever you have.

"I've got a super good immune system, so it's no problem!"

It's true too, what takes you a week to get over he'll tank in two days. It's actually kinda scary

He'll do whatever he can to make you laugh. And if you can't, then he'll comfort you

You'll have video game tournaments in your bed, and by the end he's always curled around you like a guard dog. The both of you fall asleep like that often

He'll wipe the sweat from your forehead and give you a cooling pad when you wake up as an apology :'D

𝐒𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐫𝐮 𝐆𝐞𝐭𝐨 °❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･

He's not very good with germs, so he might keep his distance if you have a nasty virus

He still really cares! Just may approach you with a mask and some anti bacterial

Lots of praise. Reminds you that it'll be okay, you'll feel better soon and he'll make sure of it

"You'll feel better soon my love, don't worry. Just drink this,"

He'll sooth you with his voice to help you fall asleep.

Like Satoru, he'll ask Shoko for advice on how to care for you. He takes to it more naturally, though. It's the dad vibes! Care taking is in his DNA

You find yourself getting sick way less often when spending tons of time with him. He just has that sort of aura?

𝐌𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐦𝐢 𝐅𝐮𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐮𝐫𝐨 °❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･

Not the most emotionally attentive, but he'll come over and bring magazines/books for you to read and some medicine

Will sit with you in silence. He doesn't want you to hurt your throat from forcing yourself to talk

If you'd like, he'll summon his shadow dogs for you to cuddle with. He'd do it himself but he doesn't want you to feel sweaty

He's surprisingly strict about what you eat. It has to be homemade and full of nutrients

He cooks recipes that Tsumiki taught him for you ✧ദ്ദി( ˶^ᗜ^˶ ) they're delicious!

Even if he doesn't show it outwardly, he's honestly extremely worried. He wants you to get better as soon as possible!

𝐊𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐍𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐢 °❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･

He takes time off work, you're his number one priority. He WILL be the one nursing you back to health

Husband material. He knows all of your favorite sick foods and most effective medications

Firm about you getting rest. "Please, allow me honey," and it's you literally reaching for a cup of water

He cooks meals that are easy on your stomach. Took the time to educate himself on what vitamins to give you

Will likely also catch your sicky, but he honestly doesn't mind because that means more time off with you.

The two of you will be wrapped around each other in bed while he reads to you, both with wet towels on your foreheads <3

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[dragonanon]

Good morning everyone, I currently feel like shit and would like to formally request that one of you PLEASE throw me into the sun. 🙃

[briarpatch-kids]

Am I being unreasonable because I won’t go to my extended family’s Christmas because I’m worried about catching something?

I can’t cough productively because of my cerebral palsy so the common cold or the flu are more likely to turn into pneumonia, let alone Covid.

They’re saying I’m being paranoid. I said that I would go if they would wear a mask but that suggestion was immediately rejected.

I don't think you're being unreasonable at ALL. It sucks to miss events due to disability, but they need to remember that a little chest cold isn't a little chest cold for you. Respiratory weakness is a SCARY thing when it comes to getting whatever crud is going around and people who aren't there to see how fast things get dangerous when you have it, they just don't get it. Its not just like... "have a cough drop." you could be hospitalized or worse.

[ladyshinga]

Putting on my mask to answer the door for the lawn guy made me realize I've finally kinda Pavlov'd myself with masks. Putting one on gets me immediately cheerful and excited because I'M ABOUT TO TALK TO PEOPLE! 😃 😃 I'm about to be able to interact with some one!! Yay!

I hate where masks ended up socially speaking. I hate that only disabled people wear them now and get mocked and mistreated for it. I hate that we, AS A WHOLE, didn't see masks as the thing they could have been: access. Safety. When everyone was wearing them, it wasn't just covid it helped. Flu numbers were wildly affected by it, people stopped having constant reliable seasonal colds, immunocompromised people felt safe around people.

But no. The politics of the mask was immediately co-opted by bad actors who decided temporary physical discomfort was too much to ask an able-bodied person to do for others. That having to adapt to a mask-heavy lifestyle to get us to a new safe normal just wasn't acceptable.

And here we are. Covid still raging, everyone with a weak immune system left to die or rot in isolation, all so Betty and Jim can go to weekly square dance night without masks because masks make you a cuck or whatever buzzword the political right was clinging to that week. Masks are woke! Masks are marxism! Masks are communism! Whatever

[radioactive-metal]

little funny fic

was reminded of the pandemic today (nearly 5 years since the first recorded case… good lord how time flies) and the election has me a bit (very) jittery, so I figured might as well make some fanfic, it might get my mind off of kt

so without further ado, my really dumb idea that I might expand upon later

what if the squad were stuck on deployment when future covid struck?

written in my notes app so far styling and spelling and stuff are probably terrible but I’m tired

AL:150, 16th of December 2380

Semperternity:

AL SIGINT division camera 725:

A gremp in a grubby coat wanders into frame, he locks eyes with a portly Terran and they swap paper bags. The human looks inside and walks off.

The gremp opens the bag, removes a cut of raw meat, and yawns. It then rubs its eyes.

18th of December 2380:

Aurora Legion Field hospital patient report 726437:

Species: Gremp

Ailment: unknown 

Symptoms: Persistent cough, fever, nausea, loss of taste and smell.

Treatment: Painkillers (Tylenol 100mg).

Mucus samples sent to lab for testing.

19th of December 2380:

AL neutral zone primary medical laboratory report:

Sample number 283636:

Common cold: negative

Influenza: negative 

Lystergia: negative 

Other respiratory viruses: negative

Notes: I ran these tests multiple times. Whatever this thing is I haven’t seen it before. Tests indicate it can infect at least 10 different species of sentients.

Quarantine the subject immediately.

January 4th 2381: 

Current semperternity case count: 284.

Tyler: My fancy new cybernetic eye really saves me so much trouble sometimes. I can sit in my dorm and read the news while sipping my coffee, saves me from having to get the physical copies from down in the cafeteria.

The legion is bumping up resources being sent to semperternity, I heard some whispers about a new virus or something? I have mission with the squad to deliver some medtech out that way later today.

March 12 2381:

Current total case count: 1,002,933

Current cases in the legion: 726

Scar:

My first thought when they sent us out to a listening post for an easier mission was “this will suck”. Imagine my surprise when our deployment is extended from 20 days to 20 weeks at the earliest because of this new virus, Covid-80 or something. Came out of semperternity and theirs big worry it’s some kinda of Rahaam offshoot, cause ya know, of course, once in a century pandemic just after a once in an aeon weed uprising. Just what we needed.

The one benefit is that I get to room with fin for the foreseeable future…. I hope the walls are thick.

Auri:

Time is once again laughing at me. The memories of the last pandemic I had to live through are still fresh. I never got over seeing New York that empty… such a freaky sight. Now I’m stuck in another one… yay? They kept the old naming scheme though, I had Covid-53 but now we have Covid-80. Very futuristic. But now me and the rest of the squad are stuck out in the boondocks on a rinky dink station for the next looooooooooooong while.

Maybe I can finally get everyone to watch the Lord of the Rings movies…

March 21 2381:

Current total cases: 1,103,833,936

Cases in the legion: 2,026

Tyler:

I enjoy reading about history, and I have nothing but free time given my… current situation.. so I’ve started reading the histories of pandemics in the past. I read about the crippling effects of the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1919, of the far reaching social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Of the political change from the Ghentpox. I’ve called in a favor with an old friend currently working in the labs, and I’m seeing the numbers: I don’t think this will let up any time soon.

I might have to call in some favors, or some company, or both. I fiddle with the Syldrathi Blade on the table, and I make a call.

Finian:

Don’t get me wrong, sharing a bunk with Scarlett jones is quite possible the 2nd best thing to ever happen to me, the only thing better being dating her in the first place, but between her and the lack of zero G I’m barely able to walk. I might have to convince her to share my quarters on the Zero.

Anyways, I’m bored out of my skull, I’m only here for emergency repairs, so I have nothing to do on the average day beyond screwing around with whatever scrap electronics I can find. My Exosuit now has: a second bottom opener, an emergency oxygen system, a gremlin and the EM hardening to resist it in a special power mode, Solar charging, a Maker Damned Cupholder. I and genuinely running out of things to do. Maybe I should make something for Scarlett….

April 2nd 2381: 

Total cases: 1,356,736,378

Cases in the legion: 7362

Kal: 

I have come to understand why my culture emphasizes time to be alone and time being away from one’s Besh’mai. Without that, we would all spend all our days simply lying in bed with our beloveds. I have had amble opportunity to do so, and my heart aches when I think of when this will all be over.

I wake up with my Besh’mai next to me, we eat breakfast together, we play the card games Scar organizes together, we watch the pirated holovid movies finian has together. My heart is full to bursting with joy. Even my words here cannot describe it, for how does one describe a rainbow to a blind man? How does one describe an orchestra to a deaf man?. I can say this much, it is true peace to have her here, and I thank the ghosts of syldra for smiling at me so.

Saedii:

My shuttle was the last vessel to leave new syldra. I received special admission to travel from the Galactic Health organization. Gone are the days where my mighty ship sailed the void with no care for such organizations, but such things must be put aside to rebuild a culture.

I arrived at the backwater station after 16 hours of folding. Tyler Jones had personally invited me here, and though I loathed to admit it, I missed his company. I guide my personal shuttle into the docking bay, next to that hideous ship that I had planted a tracker on what was only months ago. And what long months they were. From officially organizing the reintegration (NOT surrender) treaty of the unbroken into sydrathi society to reorganizing the warbreed away back into a part of the whole, I had scarce time to catch my breath

Part two coming sometime maybe

[impossiblesuitcase]

hii, how are you? I was wondering if you could write something like Cinder being sick or in pain and Kai taking care of her, I've had this in my head for so long!

Drowning. She's back in the water, thrashing her arms for leverage, her ears filling and throwing her balance into a blender. The iciness covers her arms, her legs, her spine. She gasps and splutters, hoping to fill her lungs with whatever she can. Something insidious enters her throat; not water, but noxious smoke. It incinerates the water in its heat.

The lake empties out beneath her. She screams as she plummets but doesn't feel the impact. Her fall is cushioned by the fire that rises up to catch her.

Cinder gasps, limbs clawing to get out of this hell pit when they are pushed back down firmly.

"It's okay, you're okay."

She doesn't know where the voice comes from. Her mind is still coiled to attack, but her body becomes limp. It trusts the voice. Against her will, she allows the elements to overtake her. Somehow, the assuring voice has snuffed out the flames and dried up the riptides.

Cinder wakes in a haze. A hand is pushing hair off her brow and a damp cloth is pressed against her temple.

She instinctively tries to sit up.

"Hey, easy there," says the same voice. "Lie back. You're okay."

His face is hovering above hers when she opens her eyes. "Kai?" she croaks out, almost inaudibly.

"Hi, my love," he murmurs, smiling down at her. "You gave me a good fright today."

She weakly removes his hand from her forehead. It's hot and clammy, and she wants it cupping her cheek instead. When he allows her to move it and her forehead is still burning, she realises that perhaps it's not his hand that's feverish.

"Where am I?" she asks.

He adjusts her blankets and she shivers. "On your ship. I didn't want to move you just yet. Once you're better I'll get you inside the palace."

Vaguely, she collects her bearings. The room is dimly lit and yet still too bright for even her bionic eyes to handle. She forces them to focus. They are in her quarters on the personal ship used for Lunar's Earthen ambassador.

"You've been working too much," Kai reprimands gently. "Going from one climate to another when you're already fighting a cold is a recipe for a fever. It used to happen to me when I was travelling with my parents on diplomatic missions."

A fever. That's what the freezing and burning was. Cinder had felt run-down the past couple of days, and today was going to be her rest day. But she must have collapsed, because her last memory was half-consciously telling the pilot to take her home.

Her crew must know her well enough to know that her home was no longer Luna.

Kai gets some water into her, teasing, "Thank you, by the way, for getting me out of a tedious meeting. Taking care of my sick fiancée is a great excuse."

Right. Kai hadn't known she was coming. He was probably busy. But a muddled Cinder is a selfish one. "Stay with me, please," she begs incoherently, grasping for his hands, "don't go back to the meeting."

She feels a kiss on her fiery skin. "I'm not leaving you, love."

She drifts off again. When she wakes, she will recall how Adri had been so attentive to Peony when she had the flu. Feeding her soup, ensuring she took all her medicines, tucking her into bed with a kiss. Later that week when Cinder caught the same bug, she was confined to her room with an unempathetic "get over it".

Now, cared for and loved and treasured for the first time in her life, Cinder almost wants to stay sick for longer.

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This is directly inspired by me having covid right now. Which is also the reason it's probably word vomit. I have a fic coming up eventually which delves more into this theme but here's a short fic for the moment.

After writing this I actually thought, sure, Kai taking care of Cinder while she's sick is sweet, but what about Iko taking care of her? Or Cress? Or Thorne? Now that I want to read.

[queenofsquids]

Had a long pause there on Fluppy because every single mouth I mocked up to draw on didn't look right. So I finally got brave enough to cut a mouth hole today.

Plan to make a mouth piece inside with teeth and tongue like on the right. Not sure when because we all have hideous colds in the house right now. Tested negative for flu/strep/covid but whatever is kicking our asses. Just standing for long enough to sand the mouth under the sink exhausted me.

I also moved the nose pompom even higher. Somehow that is helping the proportions.

I'm so glad I actually didn't go through with spraying the head and trying to draw a mouth on Sunday. Not so glad it was because I was taking care of sick kids and myself, but whatever it got the job done. Or not done.

Anyway now I have the other problem of my apoxie being ancient and hard as a rock. Hmmmm

Yeah I'm really pleased with this mockup, after the previous fifty just didn't do it for me! Wow one works

[ceasarslegion]

There was a poll I just saw that was like "do you still wear masks/what kind" and 45% said "I dont wear masks anymore" and of course the notes were nothing but guilt-trippy "WOW I GUESS NONE OF YOU CARE ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE AND WANT ME TO DIE AND DENY COVID STILL EXISTS" shit

Do you guys think that's going to change anybodys mind or make them listen to you or that the ONLY possible reason people would stop wearing masks after 4 years is because they must be antivax conservatives who hate disabled people?

Most people stopped because everybody else did. That's it, it's not actually that deep. Some of us stopped because we live in hyper-conservative areas where wearing a mask signals to everyone around us that we are "other, most likely a libtard" and we would rather not be at higher risk of getting jumped when we arent even sick. For most people our habits have in fact changed where if we are sick will cold and flu symptoms we'll test and mask and stay home if we can, but most employers have stopped caring and went right back to "you get 2 days max if we allow you anything at all." You are in fact being shitty if you demand people lose their jobs and potentially become homeless just to prove a point. The concrete I'd be sleeping on won't care that I stuck it to my boss.

I don't actually think every single person who stopped masking is some huge shithead who wants you to die, I think maybe there's some other factors at play here. Maybe stop assuming everybodys out to get you and realize that in the vast majority of cases we are just 4 years into it and after covid became endemic (which means it's not gonna go away anymore no matter how much we isolate) we were faced with a choice of either living in isolation forever or gradually getting our lives back. It's a harsh reality, but it is reality.

And no, saying that does not mean I think all disabled and immunicompromised and elderly people should die so I can go to the waterpark, nor does it mean I think masking and isolation and social distancing are libtard scams to control our minds or whatever. I'm saying that those tactics DO work when a pandemic CAN be stamped out, but after we cross the endemic line, living like that forever is only going to make everybody miserable and tank our quality of life. There is in fact some nuance between "don't get vaccinated don't mask don't social distance don't do anything" and "you have to stay inside forever and never talk to anyone or go anywhere you'd be within 6 feet of others and if you go outside to get ice cream when it's not necessary you think all disabled people should die" at this point