y'know the early twitter and tumblr days when social media was for venting and posting pets, memes and food? that's my vibe. if u like queers venting and posting whatever, follow me
I'm 24, bisexual lesbian and I don't like terfs. I can post some depressive or angry things but I'm mostly good vibes. Also I'm a radical leftist.
God I wish COVID had a distinctive symptom. Like it turns your nose green or something. This whole "yeah so you can be asymptomatic and test negative on an antigen test and be contagious anyway" thing is such bullshit. Give us a fuckin' chance here, virus.
after I learned vaccinated ppl can sneeze with covid, I've been going paranoid every time someone sneezes
It drives me mad. Every time I wake up with the sniffles (a thing that happens to me routinely in the winter, of course) it feels like I should isolate & do daily tests for a week out of paranoia.
I almost feel lucky that the two times I tested positive for covid I had the same symptom: a feeling that my nostrils were full of dryer lint. I don't think I've experienced that with anything else. But that doesn't take anything away from your main point.
Same actually - the two most distinctive symptoms I had were being extremely sleepy, and having my nose completely blocked. But I've also seen lots of patients who had different symptoms the second time they had COVID so it's not something you can count on.
Yeah, it sucks. In order to combine 2 high-risk households for the holidays (elderly household plus disabled household), we have to isolate a week before (curbside pickup with n95 masks only) and test with expensive tests (Metrix, a molecular one) in an effort to give us the biggest chance at detecting COVID. Gotta give potential infections time to incubate and then bring out the mini home lab.
And that's just me and my parents. My partner is traveling to see family who can't travel themselves, and I may end up staying with my parents longer so they can get home and isolate alone.
It's exhausting.
I remember at the start of COVID I saw a chart comparing COVID, flu, and cold symptoms and I wished that every respiratory illness didn't have nearly identical symptoms, followed by the thought that it's a good thing I don't have a monkey's paw.
Yeah, any such chart is bound to be misleading because honestly there's so much overlap, plus "flu" is actually like four different viruses, plus "cold" is actually like... ten thousand different viruses
Just seems messed up that there's a virus that can cause permanent damage in an asymptomatic infection and also be contagious.
A distinctive, CONSISTENT symptom. I got it in September (breakthrough omicron a month before the latest boosters got here, boooooo) and I didn't lose my sense of smell or taste!
Which is probably for the best recovery-wise, but I only knew that was what I had and not some other moderately severe respiratory illness because I tested positive.
saaame
Just had a christmas gathering, and I just wish wish there was any way I could have made sure it was safe when I couldn't make everyone else there isolate for like a week before
also unvaccinated people! nasal congestion is a common symptom but like everything else with COVID there's no truly reliable pattern to it
