Can we talk COVID and how it affected you financially, emotionally, physically, etc?

[myrdale]

My mother claims to have a shellfish allergy. She says it makes her nauseous, and vomit. She got sick once, thirty years ago from some shrimp my father bought on the side of the road. I am really dubious if her concerns are legit or not, but I can not convince her to try shrimp again.

[disneysteve]

My mother claims to have a shellfish allergy. She says it makes her nauseous, and vomit. She got sick once, thirty years ago from some shrimp my father bought on the side of the road. I am really dubious if her concerns are legit or not, but I can not convince her to try shrimp again.

That's not uncommon at all. People often use the word "allergy" when what they really mean is "reaction" or "side effect". And food reactions are really powerful triggers for people. Once you get sick from a bad oyster, you'll probably never want to touch another oyster. It's not actually an allergy but is an understandable reason to avoid them.

[kork13]

That's not uncommon at all. People often use the word "allergy" when what they really mean is "reaction" or "side effect". And food reactions are really powerful triggers for people. Once you get sick from a bad oyster, you'll probably never want to touch another oyster. It's not actually an allergy but is an understandable reason to avoid them.

Lol sounds like my refusal to ever have Taco Bell again... One meal full of maggots & it's never been the same.

[QuarterMillionMan]

More foods that affect me now is milk which causes big time gas so I can only drink lactose free. Too much celery if juicing or blending gives my headaches. Del Taco’s .99 cent Tuesday three tacos gave me a headache then the following week got another headache from it again so stopped getting it. There are more but I cannot recall at this moment. At the border about to cross.

[disneysteve]

Lol sounds like my refusal to ever have Taco Bell again... One meal full of maggots & it's never been the same.

Yeah, I would say that is a good example. Ick.

One thing we see in medicine all the time is people who say they are "allergic" to a medication but when we ask what type of reaction they had, they say it upset their stomach or it made them tired. Those are side effects, not allergic reactions, and are not a contraindication to taking the medication if you really need it. No reason to take it if there is a better alternative, but sometimes there just isn't.

[QuarterMillionMan]

Diabetes is scary one but with COVID it becomes a double whammy. My grandmother had diabetes and died from it in the 1980's. She loved her sweets and often asked me to fix her ice cream & cookies or other sweets. I reminded her that it was not good for her but she'd insist she'd be fine. She'd also tell me not to tell my mom about it, her daughter. Her toe became black which needed to be amputated. It then spread to her foot, then knee had to be amputated. Then the other leg had to be amputated. Her sight became very bad and needed Coke glasses. In the end diabetes ravaged her body. It runs in the family so I watch my intake and I hope I don't get it.

[QuarterMillionMan]

[QuarterMillionMan]

Los Angeles public health director Barbara Ferrere came on the news today saying the numbers are not as high as expected from the triple-demic this winter. In the fall she was warning that if the numbers kept increasing that masks would be mandated again indoors. On the news she was wearing her mask in her office (for show) as she was giving the news briefing. I wish she would stop the charades already.

[ua_guy]

I’m still amazed how many people down here in the desert wear masks in grocery stores and enclosed buildings. January 2023. Way to go, Riverside County, California!! This is kind of what “flu” season should look like- the older and more vulnerable or infected should probably wear a mask around other people, and not by legislation, but because it’s a good idea.

Infections were lower than anticipated out here but that doesn’t mean infections were low. They are still quite high—just not on the completely overwhelming level that it could have been.

[disneysteve]

Los Angeles public health director Barbara Ferrere came on the news today saying the numbers are not as high as expected from the triple-demic this winter. In the fall she was warning that if the numbers kept increasing that masks would be mandated again indoors. On the news she was wearing her mask in her office (for show) as she was giving the news briefing.

I'm sure there were staff members and a film crew present in the office so why do you think her wearing a mask was "for show"? Unless she was in there by herself, like on a Zoom call, wearing a mask was completely appropriate.

I still see plenty of masks when I'm out and about. I've said all along that hopefully the one good thing that will come out of the pandemic is normalizing wearing a mask in public.

At work, we are still seeing plenty of flu and COVID. My last shift was on Sunday and 4 of the 10 patients I saw had COVID, 2 had the flu, and 1 had strep. And that's just the rapid testing. I don't know if any of the PCRs came back positive (we don't rapid test everyone).

[Snydley]

I wish what would be normalized would be to wear a mask in public if you are sick; it's a totally reasonable thing for everyone to wrap their head around (and not just a COVID preventative, so not so politically charged). The CDC should have some commericials promoting this (not that they would...sigh).

[disneysteve]

I wish what would be normalized would be to wear a mask in public if you are sick; it's a totally reasonable thing for everyone to wrap their head around (and not just a COVID preventative, so not so politically charged). The CDC should have some commericials promoting this (not that they would...sigh).

Yep, but since far too many people don’t care about anyone but themselves, that’s not going to happen.

I’ll just keep wearing one. I don’t think we’ll ever stop masking at work at this point.

[QuarterMillionMan]

Dr. Leana Wen writes that COVID deaths are being overcounted (nypost.com)

The death count from COVID was possibly exaggerated to make the numbers exceptionally high. For instance, a car accident trauma patient who also tested positive for COVID died from his car injuries but cause of death was probably listed as a COVID death. It's common sense that he died from the car injuries but hey never let a crisis go to waste. Makes for a good conspiracy theory.

[kork13]

Dr. Leana Wen writes that COVID deaths are being overcounted (nypost.com)

The death count from COVID was possibly exaggerated to make the numbers exceptionally high. For instance, a car accident trauma patient who also tested positive for COVID died from his car injuries but cause of death was probably listed as a COVID death. It's common sense that he died from the car injuries but hey never let a crisis go to waste. Makes for a good conspiracy theory.

::yawn:: This argument/complaint is not new, and is well known. The fact that "anyone who dies while COVID positive gets reported as a COVID death (along with all other conditions, such as car wreck/blood loss/trauma/etc.)" could be true. But without any hard evidence one way or the other, extrapolating that fact to say the reason it's being done is little more than pearl-clutching, if not political grandstanding.

But really.... NY Post? That's a rag... 2 steps away from being a tabloid. Not a reliable source of news & current events. Sourcing matters, and one should always critically assess the legitimacy of claims, as well as the source of those claims. This is a huge problem at least in the US, in not the world.

[disneysteve]

No doctor anywhere would list COVID as the cause of death for a car accident victim. Can we stop with the conspiracy theories?