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shadowsword87 posted...

I'm mostly having a good time because my allergies are in full swing, so every 5-10 minutes is a sneeze, including fever temperatures because my body's great.

On the plus side, having allergies supposedly builds the strength of your immune system, so you're more likely to resist actual virus symptoms. Unless it's something that involves a cytokine storm, in which case, you're kind of fucked.

Though if you've got bad allergies/sinuses, that's just more proof that I'm secretly your real dad. I've had bad sinus allergies since I was a child. Any time barometric pressure shifts significantly I tend to get bad headaches, and I've got low-grade hayfever sort of reactions to things like mowed grass and honeysuckle.



Korruptor posted...

****, have you been in contact with him the last week?

Nah. The irony of me is, I was basically self-isolating two weeks before everyone else anyway. Like I mentioned a while back I had minor surgery, so I didn't really want to leave the house while I was recovering, so I spent most of the month of March laying low (only really went out in public twice - to get my stitches removed, and to go shopping once).

I have almost no fear of getting infected right now. To be honest, I'm not overly concerned that it would be a major problem even if I do. My main worry is that I'm basically the sole support network for my 73-year old mother, so if I do get sick I might wind up infecting her, and she's got a much higher chance of having a problem with it than I would.



CyborgSage00x0 posted...

To be in the hospital is interesting, though-I didn't think they were sending people to the hospital for it, unless you were at risk/had really bad symptoms.

Probably depends on where you are, what your symptoms are, and what the current situation is like in terms of stress on the system.

We actually have a lot of different hospitals local to where I live, and he mentioned that the hospital he went to wasn't all that much more crowded than any given hospital usually is, so they're not necessarily overwhelmed with cases (which probably makes them more inclined to take patients even if they're not desperate), in spite of us being in an infection hot zone. But I could see if the number of cases get a lot worse, and hospitals start getting flooded, they might start restricting who they're willing to take in and who they have to turn away. So he might actually have lucked out by getting it now and not, say, in a few weeks/months when things might be worse.

Also, in his case, he had occasional trouble breathing (and his blood oxygen levels were low when they tested him), but he's not at full "needs to be on a ventilator" level, so I mostly assume they're just keeping him under observation and generally giving him antivirals and the like. So they might just have decided he's severe enough to keep even if he wasn't full-on ICU-worthy.

I also know some places are refusing to test/treat unless you have evidence that you were directly exposed to the virus by someone else who had it, or were in a high risk area before you started showing symptoms, or you have a compromised immune system to begin with, so that could result in people getting turned away, though in his case he knows how he got exposed (someone he works with tested positive) so he fits that criteria.

He's definitely not at death's door or anything - he just watched WrestleMania on his phone yesterday and texted me to mention how ridiculous it was. And he doesn't seem to be getting worse, so I assume he's about as bad as he's going to get, so that's good.
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