Coronavirus thread

[DavidW]

All types of flu are different. They can be classified and grouped according to different principles.

That was literally the only point I was making with the graph I posted! I thought you were denying basic high school biology. I'm glad to see that you do understand.

[DavidW]

Ugh. It's time for bed rather than dealing with my 2 least favourite people on this forum.

I doubt you hurt their feelings, but please remember that these are two posters that are reading and arguing in good faith about your posts and are not embracing personal animus.

[steve ridgway]

I'll bite. How do you think you did that?

Mainly vitamins C & D. My wife's research found the recommended dose of D though is far too low.

[SimonNZ]

I doubt you hurt their feelings, but please remember that these are two posters that are reading and arguing in good faith about your posts and are not embracing personal animus.

I don't believe Todd is arguing in good faith.

[DavidW]

Oh, BTW, I feel much better today. Yesterday I put in a full day of work, and I did not need the cough syrup last night. Besides lingering congestion and an occasional cough, I feel like I have this beat.

[ritter]

Oh, BTW, I feel much better today. Yesterday I put in a full day of work, and I did not need the cough syrup last night. Besides lingering congestion and an occasional cough, I feel like I have this beat.

Good to learn that you're on the mend, David! Take care....

[steve ridgway]

Yes, glad to hear you're feeling better.

[Karl Henning]

Oh, BTW, I feel much better today. Yesterday I put in a full day of work, and I did not need the cough syrup last night. Besides lingering congestion and an occasional cough, I feel like I have this beat.

Excellent! I would typically experience ca. a week before shaking symptoms completely, but you're younger, so hopefully you'll clear more rapidly. 

[Brian]

I began by thinking I was having hay fever because my symptoms started after I mowed the lawn. The grass and ragweed pollen are high right now, and I'm highly allergic.

Our body tends to react in much the same way to colds, flu, hay fever, covid (at least at first). It's a good thing I could go to urgent care and be tested, and mask up and social distance to avoid casually infecting others.

The allergies are why we've been talking all summer long here about whether or not we ever got covid. Allergies have been brutal nonstop, every kind of pollen, hay fever, ragweed...we have been taking loads of pills and sucking it up. But to be honest: if it was covid, we wouldn't know. I never took any tests and my partner didn't either. We are young, healthy, and fully vaccinated so it would make sense for our symptoms to blend in.

Super glad your case is looking to be so mild. My boss died of covid last month at age 50. It can definitely still be dangerous (contra the people here who think "can be dangerous" means "is not dangerous").

We traveled this weekend and wore our N95s on the plane. It's not about covid, really. Before the pandemic, I always caught a cold on any flight. Once caught a viral infection on the plane and spent a whole vacation barfing. Since covid/N95s, I think I've only caught one cold? It's good travel insurance and also (I guess due to airflow) makes it so, so much easier to fall asleep on the plane.

[DavidW]

We traveled this weekend and wore our N95s on the plane. It's not about covid, really. Before the pandemic, I always caught a cold on any flight. Once caught a viral infection on the plane and spent a whole vacation barfing. Since covid/N95s, I think I've only caught one cold? It's good travel insurance and also (I guess due to airflow) makes it so, so much easier to fall asleep on the plane.

I now think, why haven't we always done it this way? Now, in school, we wear masks or stay at home and not nearly as many people get sick, which in a boarding school is a godsend. Flu, cold, COVID... just a mask, and maybe taking it easy at home is just smarter for everyone, including yourself.

[Brian]

I now think, why haven't we always done it this way? Now, in school, we wear masks or stay at home and not nearly as many people get sick, which in a boarding school is a godsend. Flu, cold, COVID... just a mask, and maybe taking it easy at home is just smarter for everyone, including yourself.

That too, the move toward actually taking sick time when you're sick. I remember in January 2020 I had something, likely seasonal flu, and went to work and told people "don't worry, I'll just stay in my office!" So dumb.

By the way, boarding school? Now I am imagining you as Paul Giamatti in "The Holdovers" 

[Karl Henning]

I now think, why haven't we always done it this way? Now, in school, we wear masks or stay at home and not nearly as many people get sick, which in a boarding school is a godsend. Flu, cold, COVID... just a mask, and maybe taking it easy at home is just smarter for everyone, including yourself.

Yes!

[krummholz]

I now think, why haven't we always done it this way? Now, in school, we wear masks or stay at home and not nearly as many people get sick, which in a boarding school is a godsend. Flu, cold, COVID... just a mask, and maybe taking it easy at home is just smarter for everyone, including yourself.

Unfortunately, where I teach, which is at a residential college, myself and two other colleagues are the only ones who mask in the classroom. And last semester, I received an awful course evaluation from a student who falsely claimed that no one could understand me because of the mask and that therefore I was the worst professor anyone had ever had at this institution. It was news to me, as students had been asking questions throughout the course that showed they (at least) understood the words I was speaking.

[Karl Henning]

Separately: guy in the rideshare and the driver sharing their mask and vaccine denialism. I ain't getting into it. 

[DavidW]

Separately: guy in the rideshare and the driver sharing their mask and vaccine denialism. I ain't getting into it.

You must never forget to gently kiss your Uber driver before leaving a five-star rating. It is just etiquette these days.

[DavidW]

By the way, boarding school? Now I am imagining you as Paul Giamatti in "The Holdovers" 

Oh wait, that is on Prime; I'll have to watch that. I did have a time in which some students were stranded on campus due to a snow storm and I was one of the few faculty members to come in and teach them anyway. Living in South Carolina, that was an infrequent event.

[Madiel]

I doubt you hurt their feelings, but please remember that these are two posters that are reading and arguing in good faith about your posts and are not embracing personal animus.

Good faith?

If I believed that, my attitude would be entirely different.

As for not embracing personal animus, I suggest you read Todd's posts a little more carefully. Let's see, other countries are backwards when it comes to freedom of speech, that's just the one that pops into my head right now, but Todd basically gets away with being nasty to ALMOST THE ENTIRE FORUM on a regular basis, but maybe it's not "personal" enough when he doesn't name names. Very skilful of him. I regret that I only have contempt for 2 people on the forum, maybe I should try Todd's approach of NOT having contempt for only a couple of people and I'd be more successful.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Unfortunately, where I teach, which is at a residential college, myself and two other colleagues are the only ones who mask in the classroom. And last semester, I received an awful course evaluation from a student who falsely claimed that no one could understand me because of the mask and that therefore I was the worst professor anyone had ever had at this institution. It was news to me, as students had been asking questions throughout the course that showed they (at least) understood the words I was speaking.

Wow! 

PD

[Madiel]

Mainly vitamins C & D. My wife's research found the recommended dose of D though is far too low.

You're wasting your money. There is simply no evidence that popping vitamin pills does anything for people who are already getting micronutrients from their food.

[Karl Henning]

You're More Likely to Get Heart Issues From COVID-19 Than the Vaccine