for example:
- any rise in wastewater data where you live
- any sudden deluge of friends/family getting sick
- etc
- Wastewater data collection ended in July so no clue.
Anecdotally:
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Seen a surge of cases mostly among folks in their 40’s or older.
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Jesus Christ is it spreading 'round the pubs again.
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Buncha them got similar symptoms that I hadn’t seen in COVID before this summer (like throwing up frequently and stomach pains).
I got Covid a couple weeks back and it did make me lose my appetite and I did throw up a couple times, which was unusual for sure
Buncha them got similar symptoms that I hadn't seen in COVID before this summer (like throwing up frequently and stomach pains).Interesting. I had new symptoms from it but no vomit or stomach issues. Just fatigue (normal) and microclotting (never had before)
Yes. Wastewater at a local peak in my area and I’ve heard of multiple people in my social group getting sick.
Yes, I can tell I got it cause it invariably fucks with my hormones and makes me very horny, the flu doesn’t do that
Lmao why is being trans so weird
Recently? No. I have friends and family that work in medicine and teaching, and COVID never really went away. Nobody masks anymore though, so yea
Tons of people I work with are sick and still coming in while claiming they feel like they’re dying. It usually lasts 1-2 weeks.
Also we work in a virology lab and have masks available and half refuse to wear them when not doing lab work
This is the most jokerfying thing ive read all day
One of my coworkers reads virology textbooks “for fun” in his spare time and didn’t know covid increases your risk for stroke. Every one of my coworkers that I’ve told that to has been shocked which like it is because they aren’t looking into covid but also shows just how shitty the dissemination of info about covid is
None of the staff at my local hospital wears masks anymore. Haven’t seen a single staff member wearing a mask in several recent visits.
We’re in a rural area with low COVID numbers, but it’s still incredibly frustrating having my doctor look at me as if I’m weird for wearing a mask.
We were literally in the radiation section of a major hospital to talk to the doctor about “my” brother’s cancer and the doctor and nurses just let my adoptive parents not wear masks
what are their symptoms?
Cough, chest pain, congestion, headaches, and fatigue
Yeah, I am very sick rn lol
Lotta people sick, lotta people talking about running in to a lot of sick people. Me? I don’t give a shit anymore. I made a deal with Nurgle and in exchange for hosting his fetid diseases I am immune to pain and hunger forever more.
any sudden deluge of friends/family getting sick
yes, though they insist it’s a cold/flu and refuse to get tested
Yeah, loads of my friends in different places and their friendship groups have had it recently. I’ve also had it. There’s definitely a lot going around rn
There is a spike in COVID in the wastewater here in Houston. Luckily I WFH and most of my hobbies involve touching grass, so I believe I have either avoided it or been asymptomatic so far.
Seems to be a duo-demic around me, Covid19 and the flu. Most workplaces out here treat covid19 like a mild tummyache, with a catch that if you are positive you must stay away, so if you catch it and are positive you’re penalized, since no such thing as sick days and x amount of days missed is an auto-termination. So, people lie about their test results/don’t test and take a ton of OTC medicine to mask symptoms best they can, and go in.
Obviously everyone is starting to get sick out here (from strangers I see around town to people at work) and who knows with what, I haven’t caught anything yet (knock on every surface) , but it took like 3 weeks for my mail-in covid tests to get here. Next to no one wears masks since its rural, not even doctors, probably since wearing a mask is the fastest way to piss off an angry unhinged chud and there’s plenty of those out here (mask related shootings is one of this state’s claims to fame and its still a thing). The state lags in tracking and has for the past year or so.
its become a pain in the cock to get a fucking shot. past years we just rolled into the public health office, now its fully privatised and fenced off so the health tyrants can get their bags.
Spouse is an RN and thinks she got covid at work a couple of weeks ago thanks to some unmasked pigs she was forced to spend a lot of time with. Many people around here seem sick but wastewater levels are still quite low.
Two weeks ago at my kids’ soccer game I overheard adults asking: “how are ya avoidin’ this terrible cold that’s goin’ around?” Hundreds of people were present and maybe five were masked (including my family). I’ve been avoiding people generally since the pandemic began but lately I’ve been forced back into society. It’s sometimes amazing to overhear people’s conversations. All of them are frequently discussing societal collapse without ever connecting the dots.
COVID shouldn’t really present as a cold though, no? Runny nose is not a symptom
My impression is that covid can present as almost anything. For instance, a common symptom these days seems to be puking, which AFAIK was not a thing at the beginning of the pandemic.
Weird. I had some blood clotting this time around, which I never had before. I’m also type o which is very unlikely to clot
Fuck. I was using biobot.io for wastewater monitoring. Apparently, that’s no longer active as the contract expired.
As a fun bonus, Flu season should start kicking into the gear in the next weeks. Just gonna hermit mode, nasal spray, and n-95 for the rest of my days.
Haven’t been tracking it where I am in detail, but you definitely see a lot more people wearing masks (esp older folks), and the line for the vaccine in my cvs was longer than I’ve ever seen it (not that long, but they don’t have that many people working in the pharmacy).
