Coronavirus Thread IV: Legends, Laments and Lockdowns

[Kyapo]

Having a great day. Looks like the virus not only fucked up my lungs and bowl it seems I may have kidney damage too. So to all the hero's who think it's fun or 'just the flu' guess what, it's the fun that keeps on giving. 2 months on and I'm still in pain and feeling crap.

Hope you enjoy your pool parties and pointless trips to the shops in the name of 'Freedom'.

Sorry to hear. That’s sadly a very real consequence of getting CoVID19. A lot of people only talk about lung damage, but this virus can affect so many organs and systems... I’m really sorry you’re this affected and I do hope you can recover. :/

Thanks. i think the fall out of this will be with us for many many years.

[Valrifell]

Sorry to hear. That’s sadly a very real consequence of getting CoVID19. A lot of people only talk about lung damage, but this virus can affect so many organs and systems... I’m really sorry you’re this affected and I do hope you can recover. :/

My friend who was on a ventilator in march, still cant run.

He's lucky to have gotten off a ventilator at all.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

Sorry to hear. That’s sadly a very real consequence of getting CoVID19. A lot of people only talk about lung damage, but this virus can affect so many organs and systems... I’m really sorry you’re this affected and I do hope you can recover. :/

My friend who was a ventilator in march, still cant run.

I read that it will take the lung damage experienced while sick a while to heal. Some doctors claim it can be years.

[Salandriagado]

So, carrying on with the good news theme: it seems that SARS (v1) patients not only still have memory T-cells to SARS at this point (17 years later), but those memory T-cells also give them immunity to SARS-CoV-2. Apart from the obvious good news for those people in particular, the T-cells seem to be very similar between SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2, in a way that's very different to the common cold coronaviruses. That is: it's likely that SARS-CoV-2 behaves more similarly to SARS-CoV-1 than to other coronaviruses, immunologically speaking, so it's very likely that SARS-CoV-2 immunity will be long-lasting in much the same way as SARS-CoV-1 immunity. There's also hints of significant amounts of these betacoronavirus T-cells in people with no contact with either SARS-CoV-1, strongly suggesting that there are unknown zoonotic coronaviruses in circulation making people immune (but presumably, without killing them, or we'd have noticed).

Does that mean that a SARS vaccine would work against Covid?

If we had one, probably (depending on the type of vaccine). Sadly, the funding for research rather dried up once SARS went away.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

Sorry to hear. That’s sadly a very real consequence of getting CoVID19. A lot of people only talk about lung damage, but this virus can affect so many organs and systems... I’m really sorry you’re this affected and I do hope you can recover. :/

Thanks. i think the fall out of this will be with us for many many years.

Oh, no doubt. We’ll be finding more about that and how much as time goes by.

[Ethel mermania]

My friend who was on a ventilator in march, still cant run.

He's lucky to have gotten off a ventilator at all.

Agreed, he still wants to run, and he cant

[Kyapo]

My friend who was on a ventilator in march, still cant run.

He's lucky to have gotten off a ventilator at all.

Yep, my mate who's a paramedic called when I was ill, he was keen to keep me out of hospital if there was a chance to do so. At the time only 66% or so came out once they went in .

[Cannot think of a name]

Why is Rosie Perez part of Cuomo's press conference?

EDIT And Chris Rock?

[Salandriagado]

Why is Rosie Perez part of Cuomo's press conference?

EDIT And Chris Rock?

More to the point, why are those two on (our) left sitting so close to each other?

[San Lumen]

Why is Rosie Perez part of Cuomo's press conference?

EDIT And Chris Rock?

More to the point, why are those two on (our) left sitting so close to each other?

Who cares?

[Blakk Metal]

Why is Rosie Perez part of Cuomo's press conference?

EDIT And Chris Rock?

Because Cuomo is one of them, a useless celebrity.

[San Lumen]

Why is Rosie Perez part of Cuomo's press conference?

EDIT And Chris Rock?

Because Cuomo is one of them, a useless celebrity.

I called my state legislator and left a message about where the authority for all his regulations came from a week ago and they have yet to call me back. I think that's very telling.

[Aureumterra]

I’m surprised the majority of the poll answers are for the first choice

[Salandriagado]

More to the point, why are those two on (our) left sitting so close to each other?

Who cares?

... what the actual fuck?

[Pilipinas and Malaya]

Thanks. i think the fall out of this will be with us for many many years.

Oh, no doubt. We’ll be finding more about that and how much as time goes by.

Seems like the consequences have already hit quite a few places. One hit pretty close to home. I don’t want to discuss it for personal reasons, but it’s a pretty big thing.

[San Lumen]

Thanks. i think the fall out of this will be with us for many many years.

Oh, no doubt. We’ll be finding more about that and how much as time goes by.

It almost certainly will. The economic effects will last years. There is a decent chance as a result of this I leave New York. I know others who will likely do the same

[Ethel mermania]

Why is Rosie Perez part of Cuomo's press conference?

EDIT And Chris Rock?

Because Cuomo is one of them, a useless celebrity.

Rosie Perez is a wonderful actress.

[Ethel mermania]

I’m surprised the majority of the poll answers are for the first choice

NYC metropolitan area has about 40% of the nations cases. Many areas have not been hit hard at all..... for now.

[Juristonia]

I called my state legislator and left a message about where the authority for all his regulations came from a week ago and they have yet to call me back. I think that's very telling.

The people dealing with a pandemic in the hardest hit part of the country didn't find the time to call you back to answer easily googleable questions?
Yeah, that's super telling alright.

[Snakeden]

I read that it will take the lung damage experienced while sick a while to heal. Some doctors claim it can be years.

Caught plain old pneumonia a couple years ago. Antibiotics stopped it pretty quick (after I got knocked on my ass by a high fever and mild delirium) but It took me several months just to get back to where I had been beforehand. Lost some 15-20 pounds in the two weeks I was sick, too. With that in mind, I have no problem trusting claims that recovering from the stuff this virus can/will do may be a years-long process. Just one of many reasons I'm terrified of it.

By the way: High fevers not at all a recommended experience. It's about what I imagine trying to walk while borderline blackout drunk is like... combined with sound constantly fading in and out, the occasional thing you're not sure you really saw or not, trouble understanding what others are saying, a sense of being doomed but unable to gather your mind well enough to freak out about it until much later, and feeling like you just came out of a swimming pool and decided to try air drying.

[Rojava Free State]

I read that it will take the lung damage experienced while sick a while to heal. Some doctors claim it can be years.

Caught plain old pneumonia a couple years ago. Antibiotics stopped it pretty quick (after I got knocked on my ass by a high fever and mild delirium) but It took me several months just to get back to where I had been beforehand. Lost some 15-20 pounds in the two weeks I was sick, too. With that in mind, I have no problem trusting claims that recovering from the stuff this virus can/will do may be a years-long process. Just one of many reasons I'm terrified of it.

By the way: High fevers not at all a recommended experience. It's about what I imagine trying to walk while borderline blackout drunk is like... combined with sound constantly fading in and out, the occasional thing you're not sure you really saw or not, trouble understanding what others are saying, a sense of being doomed but unable to gather your mind well enough to freak out about it until much later, and feeling like you just came out of a swimming pool and decided to try air drying.

Had a really bad disease in 2018 that almost killed me in my apartment. I couldn't go out for a whole day, was bed bound, suffered horrible delirium and hallucinations, had a fever of 104 and threw up when I got out of bed. Not a fun experience. I'm guessing that's what COVID is like for those with weekend immunity.

[Valrifell]

Caught plain old pneumonia a couple years ago. Antibiotics stopped it pretty quick (after I got knocked on my ass by a high fever and mild delirium) but It took me several months just to get back to where I had been beforehand. Lost some 15-20 pounds in the two weeks I was sick, too. With that in mind, I have no problem trusting claims that recovering from the stuff this virus can/will do may be a years-long process. Just one of many reasons I'm terrified of it.

By the way: High fevers not at all a recommended experience. It's about what I imagine trying to walk while borderline blackout drunk is like... combined with sound constantly fading in and out, the occasional thing you're not sure you really saw or not, trouble understanding what others are saying, a sense of being doomed but unable to gather your mind well enough to freak out about it until much later, and feeling like you just came out of a swimming pool and decided to try air drying.

Had a really bad disease in 2018 that almost killed me in my apartment. I couldn't go out for a whole day, was bed bound, suffered horrible delirium and hallucinations, had a fever of 104 and threw up when I got out of bed. Not a fun experience. I'm guessing that's what COVID is like for those with weekend immunity.

Honestly sounds like you just had a particularly nasty flu. COVID-19 is probably worse than that.

[Rojava Free State]

Had a really bad disease in 2018 that almost killed me in my apartment. I couldn't go out for a whole day, was bed bound, suffered horrible delirium and hallucinations, had a fever of 104 and threw up when I got out of bed. Not a fun experience. I'm guessing that's what COVID is like for those with weekend immunity.

Honestly sounds like you just had a particularly nasty flu. COVID-19 is probably worse than that.

I really don't think anything could be worse than that without being deadly. I'm pretty certain I narrowly dodged death, because it was hellish, and my body was so weak.

[New Visayan Islands]

Had a really bad disease in 2018 that almost killed me in my apartment. I couldn't go out for a whole day, was bed bound, suffered horrible delirium and hallucinations, had a fever of 104 and threw up when I got out of bed. Not a fun experience. I'm guessing that's what COVID is like for those with weekend immunity.

Honestly sounds like you just had a particularly nasty flu. COVID-19 is probably worse than that.

I'm pretty sure we have some COVID patients here in the thread, they might be able to enlighten you.

[Kyapo]

Caught plain old pneumonia a couple years ago. Antibiotics stopped it pretty quick (after I got knocked on my ass by a high fever and mild delirium) but It took me several months just to get back to where I had been beforehand. Lost some 15-20 pounds in the two weeks I was sick, too. With that in mind, I have no problem trusting claims that recovering from the stuff this virus can/will do may be a years-long process. Just one of many reasons I'm terrified of it.

By the way: High fevers not at all a recommended experience. It's about what I imagine trying to walk while borderline blackout drunk is like... combined with sound constantly fading in and out, the occasional thing you're not sure you really saw or not, trouble understanding what others are saying, a sense of being doomed but unable to gather your mind well enough to freak out about it until much later, and feeling like you just came out of a swimming pool and decided to try air drying.

Had a really bad disease in 2018 that almost killed me in my apartment. I couldn't go out for a whole day, was bed bound, suffered horrible delirium and hallucinations, had a fever of 104 and threw up when I got out of bed. Not a fun experience. I'm guessing that's what COVID is like for those with weekend immunity.

Sounds nasty, glad you got better. I am worried that your immunity only lasted the weekend though. (couldn't resist, sorry )