Anybody want a Corona?

[4/5]

I'm sure it's nothing a little bit of lockdown can't solve.

I don’t think there’s the political will nor the hope of community left to try this at the national level, or in many parts of America.

Heck, things would have to get so bad before they’d go back to remote learning at this point that lockdowns would be a moot point. It would have already saturated the community by the time they consider it.

If this or another variant ever emerges as indifferent to existing vaccines, it seems unlikely that we will achieve even the tepid amount of communal protective response or the vaccination rates that we managed with the first go round.

I guess we'll see. I'd imagine that we'll largely see similar responses in different places like we've seen before.

[Bi_3]

Trust the science… but our lawyers don’t really wanna spend too much time at work around the holidays and we want people to keep spending so let’s do a strategic pause

[B]

[spike]

Trust the science… but our lawyers don’t really wanna spend too much time at work around the holidays and we want people to keep spending so let’s do a strategic pause

Wasn’t it announced a month again that the deadline was pushed to Jan 4?

[McParadigm]

Announced November 4th.

[spike]

[B]

Five days after the discovery of the Omicron variant.

[4/5]

Five days after the discovery of the Omicron variant.

I agree it's too early to say that, but I hope he ends up being right. Early reports are suggesting it may be mild, right?

[B]

Five days after the discovery of the Omicron variant.

I agree it's too early to say that, but I hope he ends up being right. Early reports are suggesting it may be mild, right?

Yes. Of course, that's cold comfort to those suffering from "long COVID" following mild illnesses. Vaccinate. Vaccinate. Vaccinate.

[simple schoolboy]

Five days after the discovery of the Omicron variant.

I agree it's too early to say that, but I hope he ends up being right. Early reports are suggesting it may be mild, right?

Yes. Of course, that's cold comfort to those suffering from "long COVID" following mild illnesses. Vaccinate. Vaccinate. Vaccinate.

Do we have compelling reasons to believe that long Covid is more of a thing than chronic Lyme?

[B]

Five days after the discovery of the Omicron variant.

I agree it's too early to say that, but I hope he ends up being right. Early reports are suggesting it may be mild, right?

Yes. Of course, that's cold comfort to those suffering from "long COVID" following mild illnesses. Vaccinate. Vaccinate. Vaccinate.

Do we have compelling reasons to believe that long Covid is more of a thing than chronic Lyme?

Not that I know, but I'm not sure what your point is. We also lack compelling reasons to believe that long COVID is more of a thing than nuclear war, but the two are unrelated.

[simple schoolboy]

Five days after the discovery of the Omicron variant.

I agree it's too early to say that, but I hope he ends up being right. Early reports are suggesting it may be mild, right?

Yes. Of course, that's cold comfort to those suffering from "long COVID" following mild illnesses. Vaccinate. Vaccinate. Vaccinate.

Do we have compelling reasons to believe that long Covid is more of a thing than chronic Lyme?

Not that I know, but I'm not sure what your point is.

No point, my understanding is there is significant disagreement over whether either condition is a valid diagnosis, and there aren't any particularly reliable diagnostic tools available for either.

Maybe I missed some new developments on Long Covid, you are more plugged in on this sort of stuff.

[B]

I don't really follow long-COVID. I know it's a thing making a not insignificant amount of people miserable. But I'm also the kind of person who thinks most people are whiny.

Apparently long term damage to lungs is a thing even with mild cases. And brain fog, whatever the fuck that is. I have brain fog, and I never even had COVID. I think it's just from thinking about COVID all the fucking time.

[Bi_3]

Counterpoint:

[spike]

Huh?

[Monkey_Driven]

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/29/10580634 ... iding-star

[4/5]

Five days after the discovery of the Omicron variant.

I agree it's too early to say that, but I hope he ends up being right. Early reports are suggesting it may be mild, right?

Yes. Of course, that's cold comfort to those suffering from "long COVID" following mild illnesses. Vaccinate. Vaccinate. Vaccinate.

Are taste issues considered long covid? I was fully vaxxed, had a very mild case of covid but food has tasted BAD for the past two months. It sucks. (Realizing of course that many, many people have had it far worse.) Hopefully as variants become progressively more mild these sorts of issues also become milder.

[wease]

Five days after the discovery of the Omicron variant.

I agree it's too early to say that, but I hope he ends up being right. Early reports are suggesting it may be mild, right?

Yes. Of course, that's cold comfort to those suffering from "long COVID" following mild illnesses. Vaccinate. Vaccinate. Vaccinate.

Are taste issues considered long covid? I was fully vaxxed, had a very mild case of covid but food has tasted BAD for the past two months. It sucks. (Realizing of course that many, many people have had it far worse.) Hopefully as variants become progressively more mild these sorts of issues also become milder.

According to the CDC, yes. You would be categorized as suffering from Long Covid.

[Peeps]

maybe your wife is just making really bland food?

[4/5]

maybe your wife is just making really bland food?

It's not a loss of taste, it's that things taste bad. I had the no taste thing for maybe 2 or 3 weeks right after I had it. Then like almost two months later stuff started tasting bad. It's actually smell but it makes stuff taste bad.

It's tough to describe but it's the same bad smell/taste for everything. Foul, rotten, and chemical are words I use to try do describe it. But it's not a smell I'd ever smelled before. Strong smells or smells that are pervasive like coffee and popcorn are the worst. If I walk into a room and there's no context clues I have no idea what the smell is because it all smells the same, I just know that it's bad.

Sweets/sugar seems to be the only thing that tastes good and the more bland something is, the less bad it seems to taste for the most part. I try to get as much rice into a bite as possible to cover up the bad taste from the chicken or pork or fish. I drown steak in A1 sauce. Or put enough cayenne pepper on chicken that it numbs my tongue. Making sure I don't breathe in through my nose as food is coming towards my mouth seems to help. *shrug*