#novid

[capitalism-is-parasitism]

This is sick

And if your doctor prescribes Paxlovid to reduce severity of symptoms, which Dr. Schaffner hopes is the case if you are older or have underlying health conditions that increase your risk for severe disease if you get COVID-19, your health insurer may charge a copay. Previously the federal government provided the drug for free regardless of insurance status.

If you need assistance to afford Paxlovid, you might want to contact Pfizer’s assistance program or call Pfizer at 877-219-7225.

[whoopjamboreehoo]

the last time I saw Stevie Nicks on my own it was 2016 and I also had a floor seat. this time I'm using an N95 and Enovid trying to "live my life" without getting covid. it feels like Climate Pledge Arena has good ventilation and I checked beforehand into their ventilation system. fingers crossed.

[pandemic-info]

My colleagues and I reviewed Long Covid in-depth earlier this year, but there have been new reports that firm up evidence for 4 ways to reduce the likelihood of chronic sequelae from a Covid infection (or re-infection).

...

OK, But What About Treatment?

It’s good that we now are seeing multiple ways to reduce the likelihood of developing Long Covid. But there has been no substantive progress for treating it.

[xtrablak674]

I Have Questions.

Why are people so concerned about?

how I look

how I speak

how I walk

how I wear my hair

how I throw a ball

what clothes I wear

the timber of my voice

what my gender is

who I sleep with

who I don't sleep with

where am I from really

How do any of those things impact anybody else except me?

Why is it anybody's business?

In my formative years as an adult it seemed everyone from random strangers on the street to my grandparents were concerned with some external element about my body. Even today I am not sure how any of this is relevant to them. Maybe they wanted me to be something other than what I was.

I can clearly recall a conversation with my father who had said I was too pretty, I think at the time I was somewhere between fourteen and sixteen, and quite frankly I didn't see anything wrong with being pretty. In all my relationships I always wanted to be the pretty one. But then he said something about prison to a young teen who hadn't even had as much as a suspension. Miss me with your failing gym ass.

Was there an assumption about my future that I was unaware of? I think these kinds of judgements about the physical is something all queer young people and anyone who doesn't conform to societal norms continue to face. What is it anyone's business who I go to bed with or as?

As a person with intersectional identities, I think this is something the dominant group will always do, because I also didn't talk Black enough, but at the same was too dark-skinned and not all my interest were Black approved. I am sure if I was fucking with anyone, they would wonder why I don't fuck with anyone. Why can't I just be, as I am, unadulterated, with out any conditions?

How does it benefit you molding me into something I am not? I thought Mr. Rodgers said I was special just the way I am, when did this become no longer true? I am one of those people who have never really found their tribe, there is usually something about my personality that alienates me from the group. I literally lost a friend as an adult because I enjoyed the use of the word nigger, soft R.

Once again I am not suicidal, but when it comes time for this journey to end I am more than happy to leave as frictionless as possible, you won't find me begging for more time, wish I had done this differently or wanting to see this person one more time. I am like deuces, fuck all this! The things we say, and the things we want are always so damned incongruent it makes navigating this world all but impossible with out coming out scarred and traumatized in someway.

I don't want to come across as bitter, but disappointed. I had such high expectations for this life and was repeatedly let down by how folks always wanted you to be a part of something, even if it made no god-damned sense to you. I remember my grandmother being so adamant about me joining her church, which I never did, because it seemed like Christianity just didn't encourage critical thinking, and I had genuine questions in Sunday School that would always be brushed off, because I needed to have some blind faith, miss me with that bullshit.

Let's be clear I am no Baldwin, but I am also not dim-witted, when the math ain't mathing I am not going to partake. I am also not going to go along to get along, that has never been me. If something doesn't feel right I am going to challenge it. Maybe I set the bar too high, or maybe other people just settle for less, I have never been one to settle. If I want the best than I am going to have the best, full stop.

I am just so done with the hypocrisy of this world, what folks want in the streets doesn't line up with what they do in the sheets. Furthermore I am beyond adapting myself to someone else's ideals of who or what I should be. I think this is why I had trouble finding employment because I refused to dim my light, adjust my tone, make myself less threatening to whyte folks. If I am qualified, friendly and professional that should be all I need to work, I shouldn't have to navigate inappropriate touching, comments or constantly being othered.

What is this entry about, I am not sure, really. Its just so sad for me to see the young people today still have to put up with the bullshit I did when I was their age. When are we going to progress as a society and not be caught up in these very regressive patterns that aren't really serving us? I just want to do my time and keep it moving. I really wish this had been better. I guess there is a reason I am so attracted to science fiction, shows, books and stories that take us away from this world, that explore different ways of being and existing I guess I never really accepted that this was all there is, I always wanted more, better.

As I did my yoga something I heard on my playlist kept resonating in my head, 'we all had a bad time in twenty-twenty'. That didn't feel at all true to me, albeit I was taking care of a grandparent I never really liked, I was also working for the first time in six years, even with all the challenges it was exciting to have so many balls in the air. I think I am figuring out what truly may be my issue, I naturally thrive in a catastrophe, and most of my life has been not apocalyptic. I know I have my head a little too much into those fantasy-worlds, but I think I would be perfectly suited to a post-apocalyptic world.

The characters in these stories that resonate the most with me are usually average people who are good at thinking creatively to solve their solutions and I think that is something I am perfectly apt to do. Even with all the tragedies and challenges throughout my life I was always able to keep a calm head and navigate complicated situations, making sensible and logical decisions. There's a reason I am NOVID, a person who never got the Rona. I was able to maintain practicality throughout all the adversity of a global pandemic to a point that I was barely phased by it all.

This is something I think is true of all of us misfit toys on this island called earth, I think we were born into a place not ready or appropriate for us, maybe some of us belonged on indigenous lands, as a tribal oracle or conflict resolver. Or maybe in a side-universe where everyone was fabulous all the time. Perhaps somewhere deep in outer-space where basic survival was more of a priority than any of these other extraneous things that us earthbound folks seem to think are so damned important.

If there was one thing I could do I would wish that there was indeed next-lives and all the people disappointed or treated harshly in this one for attempting to live their truth openly and proudly, that they have a life where all the things they are are overtly and publicly accepted, appreciated and valued. I saw something where there were a bunch of babies waiting to be born, waiting to choose their parents and their new lives. Bump that, I would have told all my fellow babies who weren't ever going to fit in to miss me with all that being born ish and lets get the fuck up out of here and do our own thing. Because we shouldn't have to live in a world where we are questioned for who or what we are, but we should be the answer the world was always waiting and hoping for.

[Photo by Brown Estate]

[dream-cake]

so I woke up with covid this morning 🙃🙃 I was planning to go to the store today, but the fever is making me shaky and being hungry definitely isn't helping that 🫠

would anyone like to send me a lil money for a lunch delivery? I don't wanna go out and infect anyone else, but I'm so hungry!!!!! I'm happy to send a folder of content for any amount if you DM me a screenshot of payment, and thank you in advance 💖💖

ca$happ: $dreamcake87

venm0: dreamcake

paypa1: dreamcake87

[dicapiito]

Took the updated Covid vaccine shot and the flu shot

Now to pass out until November 😭

[nerdgirljen]

At present, I’m still a NoVid;

I still mask up in indoor places and crowded outdoor spaces. I still social distance when and where I can. I still do grocery/Target pickup and shopping online instead of going into stores. And I try to refrain from being in indoor locations for longer than 10-20 minutes. (And I use hand sanitizer religiously.) I am vaxxed and boosted.

I live and work for individuals who would probably die if I happened to give it to them, and it’s not worth the risk. I haven’t fully given up everything: there’s a drive-in movie theater near me I frequently visit, I’ve been to Disney World and DragonCon twice 2021 and 2022, and I still hang with my friends when I can.

I had H1N1 when it went around in 2009, and almost died from it. I definitely don’t want to catch a virus that’s worse than that and can have harsher repercussions.

People who caught it put in the tags what year it was and how bad it was and if you had any side effects

[jbluphin]

Skyping with my bf between rooms of the apartment so I don't give him covid.

Thought I was done with this shit when he moved in with me. Long-distance relationship flashbacks...

[jrwiyuri]

I’m gonna throw up his voice going so normal

[suchananewsblog]

NOVIDS: Do Some Have the Genes to Dodge COVID?

NOVIDS is the term some use to describe those who haven’t gotten COVID. But researchers are not overly fond of the word. They’re looking for the possible genetic underpinnings to a group of people they prefer to call “resisters.” . .

[siofae]

I'm "avoid Covid" as much as possible, but not everyone can 100% isolate which is why masking is so important. Yeah, I know every time I go out is a risk because I'm the only one masking most of the time. I also invested in a flomask to try and get the best protection I can. I haven't ever tested positive for Covid but I'm sure I've probably had it asymptomatically. I can't afford to test constantly, I'm on disability which pays pennies. You aren't superior for being a novid and thinking less of people for not 100% isolating is ableist, frankly. Would I survive without a lot of my treatment? Probably, but I would have no quality of life. People are allowed to take risks that improve their quality of life. That doesn't make us plague rats.

[covid-safer-hotties]

California COVID surge is surprisingly stronger, longer-lasting than experts had expected - Published Aug 5, 2024

California's summer COVID surge has proved to be particularly strong and enduring, surprising experts with its tenacity as it storms into a third month. The strength of this summer's COVID surge probably is largely related to the ever-more infectious subvariants that continue to emerge as the coronavirus evolves, said Dr. Elizabeth Hudson, regional chief of infectious disease at Kaiser Permanente Southern California. A dizzying number of related subvariants — collectively dubbed FLiRT — have emerged in recent months. One in particular, KP.3.1.1, has been picking up steam at a startling pace and has become the most common strain nationwide. \"KP.3.1.1 seems to be the most adept at transmission,\" said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious diseases expert at UC San Francisco. \"And it's the one that people think will continue to take over, not only in the United States, but ... around the world.\"

Coronavirus levels in California wastewater have surpassed the peaks seen in each of the last two summers, according to data estimates released Friday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which run through the week ending July 27. Coronavirus levels in sewage have been \"high\" or \"very high\" for eight consecutive weeks. \"This particular surge ... is fairly robust and long-lasting, lasting a little longer than I thought that it would. It's certainly very different from last summer,\" Hudson said. California is one of 43 states, as well as the District of Columbia, with \"high\" or \"very high\" coronavirus levels in wastewater. While hospitalizations overall remain a fraction of those seen during earlier COVID summertime spikes, hospitalizations and emergency room visits have been ticking up, and clinics are seeing high numbers of infected patients.

\"This is not a benign wave,\" wrote Dr. Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute in La Jolla, in a blog post published Saturday. \"It's a major wave now ... we haven't yet reached the plateau.\"

In Los Angeles County, there were an average of 389 coronavirus-positive hospitalized patients per day for the week that ended July 27, roughly twice as high as a month ago. The latest number is about two-thirds of the peak from last summer and one-third the peak from the summer of 2022. \"We are seeing a lot of outpatient cases — it's been a much higher uptick over the last week, actually,\" Hudson said Friday. For the week that ended Saturday, the CDC estimated that KP.3.1.1 comprised 27.8% of coronavirus samples nationwide, an astonishing jump from its 7.2% share a month ago. Because the FLiRT subvariants are related, it's likely that being infected with one will provide some protection against the others — at least for a time. But if you're further removed from a brush with COVID, the rise of KP.3.1.1 heightens the risk of infection, as it has evolved to be even more contagious, Chin-Hong said.

Amid this ever-more-infectious backdrop, the number of people who have never had COVID-19 — the \"Novids\" — is dwindling. \"The proportion of 'Novids' is getting smaller and smaller,\" Chin-Hong said. \"I've heard so many stories in the last few weeks of people who didn't get any [COVID illness] until this point, now in our fifth year\" since COVID emerged. Though the newer subvariants are more easily spread, there are, generally speaking, no indications that they are more likely to put someone in the hospital. But some people have nevertheless expressed surprise at how awful they feel from their latest COVID-19 illness, complaining of sore throats so intense they feel as if they're swallowing razors or broken glass, and bouts of severe coughing that leave them winded. It may be that some people are years removed from their last infection or vaccine dose, making this summer's sickness feel especially terrible, doctors say.

If you can't jump the paywall, read the rest at the CovidSafeHotties link! I jumped it for you!

[riderofthemist]

I'm seeing quite a lot of articles currently (in my country's newspapers) about people who never caught Covid even if they don't wear a mask nor have been vaccinated ("novid"). And I kinda feel like those articles are here to reassure people and diminish the risk people take by not wearing a mask. The only times we hear someone talking about Covid in the media, it's when a minister says that Covid is not a threat, we have to live with it and wash our hands, or to say that some people don't catch Covid. Or to say that it's something that happens in other countries but us... naaah, we're too smart for that... Darn, the Olympic games are such a great way to forget about every problem in the world and in the country... That's handy.

[njbellydancingbysoraya]

With the unfortunate ongoing #pandemic 😷 situation m 2024 as #Covid gets wiser fighting for survival as each new variant causes more severe disease 🦠 not to mention the importance of avoiding #longcovid, this Gothic Barbie says it all rn 🖤 Stay a big Novid to COVID! #MaskUp

[typingtess]

Bad cold this week. Head full of junk, coughing up a lung. First real bad cold since COVID started (still NOVID right now). Planned on writing something Thursday morning. Woke up at 11:30AM so no real Thursday morning (and I'm not a sleep-in sort of person). Feeling better but no story today. Lots of used tissues but no story.

[meret118]

Currently, the federal government is not distributing free tests. A test costs about $7.50 each online and in stores. If you have any in your COVID supply stash, check this FDA website to see if the expiration date has been extended.

But this fall will bring a return of government-supplied freebies. The federal government has just announced that by the end of September people will be able to order up to four free COVID tests from the website COVIDtest.gov