COVID-19 Discussion (No Politics)

[AbsoluteUte]

@Greginslc

VA is busy with the creeping crud (flu) right now. Got a generic email from them to remind me to get the pneumonia vaccine since I am over 50 and have certain chronic conditions.

I got my pneumonia series in 2019. As I have had more than a few friends get the flu and have it morph into a case of pneumonia - the kind you never really get over; if you have gotten vaccinated for pneumonia, please go get it. The vaccine didn’t exist when my friends got it, and they were healthy. Most ended up dying within 10 years due to complications caused by the case of pneumonia.

Thanks

I got it a few years ago hoping it might help to avoid inevitable Covid from progressing to pneumonia

[Daedalus]

Well, crap. I let my guard down and caught the 'vid.

Manifesting as a really, really irritating cold. I actually thought I was just fighting a cold off and on for six weeks, and maybe I was because the home test was negative then. Yesterday I lost my sense of taste and smell so had to test again.

Necroing this thread to go full circle in the process of me being done with the pandemic while the pandemic is not done with me.

[Greginslc]

Sorry the creeping crud caught up with you. Hope you get better soon.

[AbsoluteUte]

@Daedalus

Well, crap. I let my guard down and caught the 'vid.

Manifesting as a really, really irritating cold. I actually thought I was just fighting a cold off and on for six weeks, and maybe I was because the home test was negative then. Yesterday I lost my sense of taste and smell so had to test again.

Necroing this thread to go full circle in the process of me being done with the pandemic while the pandemic is not done with me.

Heal up Daedalus. Hope your feel better soon without long-term symptoms.