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My sister (the one with whom I live) got a COVID test (PCR, not rapid) on Friday, and the results came back today: "detected." As such, this means that it's around 99.999% certain that I also have COVID, since I've been sick for almost as long as she has been. I won't say it has been "mild," because it has sucked some serious asshole, so far, but it hasn't been completely debilitating either. As such, I guess compared to how bad it could be, it actually is pretty "mild," so far. I.e., I feel at least okay enough, for instance, to sit here at the computer, rather than, say, just lay in bed all day. Same is the case for my sister, who has been up and about pretty much the whole time, since telling me she was feeling sick last week. Granted, neither of us feel like running a marathon or anything right now, but then, it's not like I'd be doing that anyway, even if I was at full 100% health. ¬_¬ Neither of us feel even remotely bad enough to have a need to go to the hospital or anything like that, which is nice, and I hope that remains the case.
Symptoms for me have been moderate headache, sore/scratchy throat, lots of coughing, increasingly stopped up nose (today is about as bad as yesterday, which was worse than any previous day since it all started last week), and just a general, full-body malaise, which sucks shit. I can still taste food or whatever, at least so far, though, so there is that. For the most part, it has "just" felt like a relatively bad case of flu. Honestly, from what I recall of it back then, this here doesn't feel too different from when I was sick back in December, 2020. (I'll never know for sure if that was original recipe COVID.) That stuck around around two weeks, at least. Hope this one passes more quickly. It's been around four or five days for me, at this point.
My sister and I both had the vaccine (Pfizer version), but neither of us had a booster yet. For me, I won't be eligible for the six-month booster until February 23, since I got my second dose of the original vaccine on August 23, 2021. I'll be getting it as soon as possible, though.
Symptoms for me have been moderate headache, sore/scratchy throat, lots of coughing, increasingly stopped up nose (today is about as bad as yesterday, which was worse than any previous day since it all started last week), and just a general, full-body malaise, which sucks shit. I can still taste food or whatever, at least so far, though, so there is that. For the most part, it has "just" felt like a relatively bad case of flu. Honestly, from what I recall of it back then, this here doesn't feel too different from when I was sick back in December, 2020. (I'll never know for sure if that was original recipe COVID.) That stuck around around two weeks, at least. Hope this one passes more quickly. It's been around four or five days for me, at this point.
My sister and I both had the vaccine (Pfizer version), but neither of us had a booster yet. For me, I won't be eligible for the six-month booster until February 23, since I got my second dose of the original vaccine on August 23, 2021. I'll be getting it as soon as possible, though.
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Date: 2022-01-18 06:29 pm (UTC)From:I'll be getting a booster hopefully soon, although cut back the 6 month wait to 5 months - then made everyone 18+ eligible for it instead of their originally planned age capped roll out. (ie it was at everyone 50+, then was going to to 40+ mid january - but then they skipped all that and made everyone eligible but didn't ramp up capacity.
Have to admit I'm actually afraid a bit of going to get the booster though - not because of the booster, but because the province has seriously cocked up the covid situation to the point where only 50+ people (And some special groups) can get a PCR test to confirm they have covid. The rest of us have to use rapid tests and treat the result as confirmation - but we can't go pick up a rapid test kit without making an appointment AND ALREADY HAVING SYMPTOMS. This means ALL asymptomatic cases are unknown. You know, the type that will accidentally go get a booster and infect everyone around them... It also means going for a rapid test kit is probably going to be running you into stray covid if everyone picking up a test already has covid symptoms.
Back when I originally bitched about this shit back at the end of September when the Delta variant was causing problems I said "As of today, the pandemic in the province is at 580 active cases. 32 are in the hospital, with 13 of them stuck in the ICU. Our total deaths for the entire pandemic is now at 53. A couple months ago it was barely cracking 40. Remember our active cases was only in the teens at best on the 22nd of July. It took barely 7 weeks from opening to fuck up the covid fight this badly."
Compare that today when we have 4913 active cases, 113 in the hospital, 16 of those in the icu, 5 of those on ventilators, seeing 1-4 deaths daily (189 as of yesterday), and 1286 new cases confirmed. Only 405 of those via pcr tests. The rest by self-reported rapid test results. They fully expect we have probably close to double of that due to unaccounted asymptomatic spread + people not testing or not reporting their positive test cases. And there is NO contact tracing done for virtually any of it. 'there are too many cases to trace, so we aren't going to bother' essentially.
All this happened in the last 3 weeks.
Still, going to have to steel myself for this as it's only going to get worse for the next few months.
... oh yeah, hope you feel better soon. ^^;;
(update) Looks like they updated the covid dashboard while I was typing. Add another 303 pcr confirmed cases and 1,623 rapid test cases to the stats mentioned above. Looks like we'll hit the provinces expected 5,500 new cases/day metric by the end of the month right on time.
At least they finally moved us to "level 3" which is a fake lockdown. IE: Retail is still open but 'asked' to do curbside pickup. But not required. Guess what nobody's doing. All that aside, it will probably have an effect unlike the weaker 'level 2' since level 3 prevents people from dining in restaurants/pubs. Until last saturday everyone was allowed to dine out -maskless- so long as they had their vaccines... despite the government knowing since december that omicron freely infects vaccinated people. 9_9
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Date: 2022-01-18 07:05 pm (UTC)From:In my case, I was with my sister when she got her COVID test last Friday (drive-through test at some place out in Greensboro), and I could have gotten one then, too, and probably should have, since I was already feeling kind of throat-scratchy even then, but I didn't. And now, it would just be a case of confirming what I basically already know, but I don't feel like riding all the way out to Greensboro again just to get a swab jabbed up my nose for that. :/
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Date: 2022-01-18 07:59 pm (UTC)From:Oh, another point I should make about the florida level covid number fuckery my province is going through, when I said above there was only 4500 odd cases active in the province, it's important to point out that that active number case ONLY includes the very few pcr test results. They don't add any of the rapid test results to that total. I know this is the case since we've had 600-900 rapid test positives every day this month. And today after the update of an extra 1600 rapid tests, the active case number is still hovering at 4500ish.