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I'm moving into day 3 of Covid, somehow avoided it until now. It came on in a matter of hours and has been really awful. I'm vaccinated and boosted so I'm confident I'll be better soon, but I'm telling ya, you don't want this shit. Do yourself a favor and mask up this winter (and get your booster now if you haven't already.)
I was looking for a text of this story and ran across this from NBC a month ago...
XBB variant's arrival won't cause a new deadly COVID surge ...
Nov 25, 2022
You're not going to find anyone from either political party, and certainly not the business community to state the obvious. The longer the virus hangs around, the greater opportunity for strains to develop. >

The virus isn't ever going away. Your children, and your children's children, will all catch some covid strain, and we will all be vaccinated yearly for new variants. The hope of "stopping it" died after the omicron surge. >

It died in May 2020 when half of America gave up on any restrictions, sparking other countries full of different selfish assholes to also start acting like Covid never mattered. We fucked this up from day 1 >

60% of people surveyed in 2020 said they wouldn't cancel any plans due to being covid positive. >

That’s a bonkers statistic.  Meanwhile, the only people I was indoors with that year were immediate family members. >

XBB has been around for a while. XBB.1.5 is the nasty one that looks like it has a major growth advantage that may cause problems soon. >

Are those that are testing positive using the home test kits? I wonder about the viability of those as the virus mutates? Are they still useful in determining if you have Covid at the earlier stages or testing after exposure for asymptomatic cases? >

I had Covid starting last Thursday. At home test showed positive in seconds. I thought “besides a tickle in my throat I feel fine”, and within a couple of hours I felt like I was about to die! Body/joint aches, horrible fever, and vomiting. I’ve been feeling better everyday since, but those test kept showing positive in seconds. Finally, yesterday I had one that took about 10 minutes to show a faint positive. I’m feeling much better but I’ll keep masking around my wife and kids until I get a negative. >

Anyone have any more than a paragraph’s worth of news on this? >

So several different strains of covid fucked each other in what I can only assume was a massive microscopic orgy inside some sick bloke and now their mutated offspring is heading out to explore the world. Super. >

Pretty much, just hotter if you're microscopic I guess. >

I work from home now.
Fuck all y'all sick motherfuckers. >

Work from home too, it's been fabulous! >

We keep going eventually Musk may start naming kids after these variants. >

Can we not drag that dip shit into literally every thing? >

"But, I've never been booed!"
"Nah, bud. You have, just not in person."
On a serious note, at least reddit isn't on his dick anymore. lol >

No he’s never been booed period, those people were saying Boom usk >

China is going to go through a second huge wave once their tourists bring this variant back home. >

I got it for the first time a few days ago, I was quad boosted, I work in a place where hundreds of people entered a day and I never got it untill this week, something is brewing. >

How did the booster  hold up for you? How sick did you get from it? >

Still got it now, it's kicking my ass
Tried to call my doctor to inform them I was sick and a nurse told me to go to the er because my chest was sore, you know from the coughing.
Er Doc said I should be fine in a few days since I was quad vaxed and just gave me codine cough syrup
No improvement after a few days so I called my doctor again and was able to get a phone appointment, she was surprised Er Doc didn't seem to look at my risk factors and got me on Paxlovid right before it would have been too long for me to start and thats where I'm at now. >

Neighbors were both quad vaxxed, got it mid-November, got on paxlovid within the threshold. Didn't seem to matter. Both were very ill, both lost taste & sense of smell and tested positive for over two weeks with high fevers (were not admitted to hospital but she developed pneumonia). She now has multiple long COVID symptoms including brain fog. Don't think genetic sequencing was done (we live in Hooterville) but I'm suspicious it was XBB...
Good luck and I hope you feel better very soon. This isn't just a cold... >

I can’t believe there are still anti-maskers out there. It’s really frustrating. >

Unfortunately there’s now pervasive anti-maskers and done-with-it’s in hot spots, so we’re gonna just go and mutate the shit out of it “season” by season, which seems to act more like colds do with family units who have kids or high access to socializing - now we all again have to consider how healthy we are when we have social structures that branch out more than others. It’ll be this way for a long while for those who head towards older age, or are immune compromised, or seem to get sick more than those around us. >

Yeah but let’s hear and pay attention to that billionaire fuckstick founder of Home Despot who wants to bitch about “people not wanting to work anymore.”
Another million will die. Millions - MILLIONS - more will develop long Covid issues. 
People need to answer:
What is worse, dying from Covid or ending up with PERMANENT health ailments like heart problems, etc. what are we going to end up with? A society of brain-fog fuckwits who all have serious heart problems and serious fatigue? Great job clowns that’s a wonderful goal. >

Yup I was flat our bedridden from long Covid lung and exertion problems from it last year for 10 months, I could hardly do anything. The only saving grace was I worked remote so I laid in bed working with my laptop, oh and now have heart disease. Hardest thing I’ve ever gone thru and I have rheumatoid arthritis >

When is BRB variant coming out ?