A friend of mine has Covid
He's a 39 year old ultra marathon runner. He's run a trail 50k (at over 6,500 ft of elevation with 4,000 feet of vertical climbing) as recently as April of this year.
He's currently on supplemental oxygen (despite a near super human cardio system) and has lost 22 pounds (no ultra runner carries 22 lbs of fat).
He'll probably live, but the recovery will be brutal. Hopeful there is no permanent lung scarring as that could derail much of his lifestyle.
If this thing can take down a relatively young guy in amazing health, it can take you down.
This thing is serious shit. Please, please be careful.
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I had it in March. Pray he makes it through. I didn’t wear a mask at every BLM march I attended. I
Was careful though.
Is that supposed to be funny? It isn't.
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Hope he gets better
Co-worker just got through having COVID thanks to his older sister who wouldn't stay home. He is in his mid 20s, not in shape at all, and only got tested because he lost his sense of taste and smell and it is required by work if you have symptoms. But I've also heard of some people who have passed away from it as well.
The impact of the infection varies, it sucks that your friend had such a bad reaction to it, he is younger than me and in better shape, but I'm not scared of getting it, I feel like I already have honestly but there was no testing at the time.
On that note, I do wear a mask, I do still remain primarily at home even though things are opening up, and I practice social distancing, because it is not that hard to do those little things. Considering the sacrifices that our country was able to endure during World War II, I think I can wear a mask in public without feeling like my "rights" are being stomped on.
Thanks
If you think you previously had it you might want to get an antibody test. I was really sick in early March, but there were no covid tests available then. I got an antibody test when available, but it was negative. It's definitely made me more vigilant knowing that I actually didn't get it.
Conversely, a friend that was only mildly sick around the same time got a positive antibody test. He recently travelled to see his elderly parents since he was pretty sure he couldn't spread it to them.
Research obviously ongoing, but there seem to be some genetic components that impact severity.
Hope your friend recovers well and as soon as possible.
Agree completely with this. The severity of illness with people is so random, it is almost
certainly something genetically related. If we could only figure out what genetic markers are the key.
I have a family friend that is 92 years old, admitted to the hospital with a confirmed positive, stayed in the hospital for 8 or 9 days, and then discharged home. Never had to be put on a vent.
Best wishes for your friend
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To balance this out, 23 friends/family/co-workers of mine had this.
None went to the hospital. 3 had "flu-sick" symptoms for 10 days, instead of the usual 4-5 that the flu would have you down for. The remainder had either no symptoms or some cough/fatigue.
This certainly goes against the narrative. Let the name calling commence
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Not really, not if they are younger people without risk factors.
Question though is who did they then infect?
It goes against Dro's narrative, and BTW, do you know if jakers crew
where wearing masks or not?
How would I know that? I have an office with over 30 workers and
no one has gotten it yet, and we have outside people here all the time.
They mask though and SD. That proves as much as his tale does.
Neither tale goes against DRO’s story.
Dro narrative was his friend was super athlete with very low risk, jakers was
Opposite, so it went against Dro narrative. Pretty simple, got it?
That isn’t simple. It’s simplistic. Many people have limited symptoms. Some don’t and
have very serious ones. For every twenty of the former there are several of the latter. Now, times that by the population of the U.S. Both are fully consistent with the disease model.
I would listen to WCIF, and Tampa. Just go live your life with no SD or masking.
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It’s about time you start to listen. You’ve listen to Fauci all this time and look how things are
Going. That guy is a god in your eyes and he has been wrong all along. Again, your judge of people is terrible.
Frank's judge of people is terrible? You support Donald who is a cheat, liar, whore monger, coward,
money grubber, and one who has zero redeeming characteristics. Can anyone other than possibly another Donald supporter be a worse judge of people (character) than you?
Pretty fair list of his attributes.
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Right, like everyone is listening to Fauci and Birx by the way who is saying the same thing.
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I’ll send you a pair of Biden goggles. It will go good with your mask.
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Biden goggles?
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They make for easier reading in the basement.
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Okay snowflake. Keep infecting your neighbors.
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Snowflake now? You’re too funny my little sheep. Just continue to do what you’re told.
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It’s not funny. It’s sad that there are people like you around who won’t even do the simplest
things to help prevent this thing from spreading. No inconvenience is too small to bitch about.
What is your solution? You think everyone should just continue to live like before and let this thing spread?
c’mon snowflake what should be done? Everybody get chloroquine?
Wow. I pushed you to sound like Chris. Hysterical.
Yes, I would like to go back to life as normal. But it’s an election year and Orange man bad. Now, get back to your herd before someone rats on you.
You didn’t push anything and I’m waiting for your answer.
Are you advocating for life as normal, no restrictions, no masking?
Let’s hear your plan.
My plan means about as much as yours. You may think you know
Everything but you don’t. Yes, let’s get back to life as normal. That is my plan. Call it a purge or cleansing. The strong will survive. There, feel better?
No, don’t feel better. That’s just BS that’s gonna kill a lot of people.
Sad.
Ok. Then you’re lucky I don’t have say over the US.
Your selective outrage can stay with Orange. As funny as that is.
Did he wear a mask?
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Every time I saw him...yes
But not everyone in our town is wearing one, particularly out-of-state tourists from Texas and Arizona. As everyone knows, the mask protects others more than it protects yourself. Doesn't do much good to wear one if others aren't.
I wear an N95 mask.
Sure, it protects others from me, but more importantly, it protects me from others...not perfectly, mind you, but 1000 times better than a piece of cloth or the common surgical mask.
I wear my sunglasses at night.
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