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I got Covid again. This is probably my 4th time. The worst part is that it’s the weekend and I also have Monday off (work policy) but of course I won’t enjoy any of that time. Also I really wanted to work on some builds but I feel like s&@t.

Rant over. Now go build something!
 
I’m feeling a bit better now. Joint pain is much less. The first time I had Covid was march 2020 and it was awful. I had a high fever for 5 days. No respiratory symptoms tho, so much so that the doctor didn’t think it was Covid! Antibody test a few months later confirmed it tho.
 
Big Monk said:
The first time I got it was the worst, but...

I went almost 2 years (January 2022) without getting it so my immune system was trash, i.e. I was fully remote from work, wearing masks, etc. and had not had a cold or the flu for almost 2 years as well.

I wonder what effect isolation had on people’s immune systems, i.e. how not getting ANY sickness hindered is.

Not that I would have done anything different in the moment.
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AFAIK it doesn't really work like that, as in the immune system is not a muscle you need to constantly train or it will wither. https://www.theguardian.com/science...iruses-weaken-or-strengthen-the-immune-system

However, in a normal situation people would keep getting colds or the flu every now and then, and gain some immunity for them for a short while, and a resistance for a longer while. That part probably did wear off in the quarantine/stay at home period, so people were getting sicker from colds/the flu than before.

The end result does look similar, but the mechanism is more "if you encounter similar pathogens constantly you gain a resistance for a while" and quarantining sort of reset that back to a base level.
 
Sorry to hear @giovanni
I just got my double whammy flu shot and latest greatest Moderna vaccine last week.
I have an immunodeficiency condition and don't have the luxury of debating whether to get the vax.
But so far I haven't gotten COVID since this whole thing began, despite a number of international travel trips and exposure to lots of people.
 
MichaelW said:
Sorry to hear @giovanni
I just got my double whammy flu shot and latest greatest Moderna vaccine last week.
I have an immunodeficiency condition and don't have the luxury of debating whether to get the vax.
But so far I haven't gotten COVID since this whole thing began, despite a number of international travel trips and exposure to lots of people.
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We just got our covid boosters and flu jabs too. Because of Jessica's MS we need to be really careful around anything that can affect her immune system. It's bad enough having a 5 year old bringing home every germ you can imagine from school.
 
SillyOctpuss said:
We just got our covid boosters and flu jabs too. Because of Jessica's MS we need to be really careful around anything that can affect her immune system. It's bad enough having a 5 year old bringing home every germ you can imagine from school.
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My son is a Pharmacy Tech at Publix (large grocery store chain here (who still lives at home....sigh) and my daughter works in the bakery as a cake decorator in the same grocery store chain. Between them both they bring home every germ imaginable.
 
I've had Covid twice, Vikki my better half has never had it once, and she's had no Vaccines or flu shots, just good Genes I reckon.
 
People around the office have been getting VERY sick from standard colds and flu. I've always thought the old standard applies that "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" and all the masking, I think, got us through the initial wave and is a good minimalist approach to prevention. I agree that being in a semi-sterilized environment feels like it increases the severity of common stuff though. At least from what I've observed.

Most of the current Covid cases I've seen have run the gamut from mild to VERY sick. Mostly people that are getting it for the second or third time.

This year I got the old fart variant of the flu shot (quadrivalent?) and the latest and greatest Covid. I plan on getting RSV and I'm of the age that it makes sense to get the shingles vax as well.

Better living thru modern pharma....(sigh).
 
Covid has affected me long term. My sense of smell has never fully recovered since March 2020. And I think my immune system has gotten weaker because of Covid not because of masking. Back in September I started experiencing this annoying cough that lasted for over two months. And this happened last year too. I’m gonna ask my doctor if I can do a cycle of antivirals to see if that’s in fact what’s going on.
 
My wife and I were extremely careful through the pandemic (on account of pregnancies). Got it in 2022 for the first time. I was laid out for a week followed by six weeks of brutal coughing fits and a big decrease in lung capacity. Cycling is my other main hobby and I track my efforts in an app. You can see this massive drop in fitness in my tracking, it's pretty stark. The week before getting sick I had done a 50km mountain bike ride. Two weeks later I couldn't walk up a gentle hill.

By contrast, I think covid went though my household again a few weeks ago (kid started daycare). I had a light cough for a week. It's wild how differently the strains are effecting people. Hope everyone going through it right now is having as easy a time as possible.
 
giovanni said:
I got Covid again. This is probably my 4th time. The worst part is that it’s the weekend and I also have Monday off (work policy) but of course I won’t enjoy any of that time. Also I really wanted to work on some builds but I feel like s&@t.

Rant over. Now go build something!
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I got it two days before Thanksgiving. Talk about lousy timing, I WAS going to smoke the turkey but had Stoffers instead. fwiw, Banquet is way better and half the price. Not that I could actually TASTE it. grumble. The good news is that I've always suffered from long covid for months after a bout, and this time I'M SYMPTOM FREE after only 6 days. Woot!!!!

This old body has gotten used to the bug. The bad news is two cats died from it. They were both 14 years old or 98 in human years. Their father is STILL ALIVE at 19 or 133 in human years!
 
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