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Here is a poll about your personal experience.
I meant to write "Maybe, was sick but before testing available" - but I don't know how to edit a poll to remove the word "not".
Here is a poll about your personal experience.
I meant to write "Maybe, was sick but before testing available" - but I don't know how to edit a poll to remove the word "not".I fixed it for you.
What is the point of this poll?
happystuff
5-17-21, 11:43am
What is the point of this poll?
My guess is Yppej is trying to justify her beliefs and behaviors concerning ALL of COVID related issues based on the extremely limited population of this forum.
My guess is that the Russian Trolls and their uncritical followers are still having a fine time.
No, I am being forced to conclude that Yppej still thinks the world is flat because she has not traveled to the edge and didn't fall off. All the planets must still rotate around the earth because she personally has not gone out into space to see.
She does not believe any scientists, epidemiologists, caregivers around the world are smart or honest or capable of telling and knowing the truth about covid. Everyone in the world of science around the world has been and is lying.
Since I refuse to enable this kind of foolishness any longer and because this has been tolerated for too long on this Simple Living forum, it is time to refuse to respond. I will simply add an emoji like this ->8) - to posts in every thread that persists in this nonsense.
ApatheticNoMore
5-17-21, 1:21pm
How would anyone even know for certain if they had or did not have covid without testing, given there are asymptomatic cases, especially before they started taking precautions.
Now maybe if it took till the second does to produce a strong vaccine response rather than the first shot that would tend to point to not having covid, that it was novel to the immune system. The first dose was nothing for me, just some arm pain, the second produced all body muscle aches. Maybe the fact that it was likely not widespread at that point would tend to point to not having covid early on. Bf was sick with something very early on 2020, he was taking forever to recover, and I was like "dude you need to improve your immune system", but I avoided him when he was sick because I don't like the common cold. I hate colds!! Ha, funny if he had the rona and I was all like "colds should not take so long to recover from, work on your health" back then. LOL. But we'll never know now will we.
But yea I'm a good example of prevalence of covid, worked from home the ENTIRE time until vaccinated except for a day or two. Went almost nowhere but the supermarket once a week, and then with an N95 on, nor do I even live in a hard hit poor area, it's all pretty middle class. I did see bf who worked in the office where people kept getting sick. So yea there's your representative sample. >8) NOT
From the results so far we are a healthy bunch, as I suspected, likely without many of the underlying conditions that make a person susceptible to covid. What I didn't expect was that no one would have lost elderly parents to the pandemic (another thread). Maybe frugality plays a role too - as many of us don't spend much on health vices that could damage our immune systems.
From the results so far we are a healthy bunch, as I suspected, likely without many of the underlying conditions that make a person susceptible to covid. What I didn't expect was that no one would have lost elderly parents to the pandemic (another thread). Maybe frugality plays a role too - as many of us don't spend much on health vices that could damage our immune systems.
Well, except for the people who dropped off the forum because of frustration with this topic, like Tammy, who is a long-hauler.
And because we skew older, many of us no longer have elderly parents.
As far as health vices, I wasn't aware that some of us are to blame for contact with a deadly virus.
Jeppy, I'm with happystuff. I love you, but I have to back off this topic. I'm doing fine, despite being an "elderly" person who no one would miss if I died (other than my four kids and four grandkids and a wide circle of friends) thanks to strong State leadership, social distancing, and my mask-wearing diligence. YMMV.
As far as health vices, I wasn't aware that some of us are to blame for contact with a deadly virus.
If no one is to blame for contact with a deadly virus, people who don't wear masks aren't to blame that they were in contact with it. People who didn't socially distance aren't to blame for coming into contact with it. People who went to big house parties and pool parties with hundreds of strangers aren't to blame. I kind of doubt that is what you meant to say.
Does smoking impact your respiratory system and make you more susceptible to covid which resides in the respiratory system? Yes. That's one example of a vice correlated with bad covid outcomes.
ApatheticNoMore
5-17-21, 1:52pm
As for elderly parents, my dad died when I was in my 30s. So for my mom and stuff I was always giving outright apocalyptical warnings, of "stay home, stay home!!" especially when covid was bad and it got VERY bad in SoCal in winter, 20k cases a day and so on and yes hospitals did indeed get overwhelmed. They relaxed air quality standards to cremate people. And even though all of this was in the newspaper anyway, I made it a point of pointing it all out again: if you get sick maybe you won't get care, stay home!
But they insisted on going to the grocery anyway and would not let me shop for them though I'd occasionally pick up and item or two when asked (oh they'd let me pick up an item just not do all the grocery shopping), but maybe my apocalyptical warnings and that did some good. AND I bought high quality masks and shared my mask hoard generously with my inner circle. I only visited outside AND distanced at like 10 feet. I drove my mom to the dentist once for surgery, masked the whole 40 mile round trip with all windows open. Etc..
ApatheticNoMore
5-17-21, 2:15pm
As far as health vices, I wasn't aware that some of us are to blame for contact with a deadly virus.
those who have a need to believe in a just world theory (perhaps as a form of terror management, because anything else is scary and unpredictable, or perhaps just as a form of passing judgement) will insist it's all vices, because there are some things one can do and should of course. And never acknowledge everything else, that it may be linked to smoking, but it may also be linked to "societal-smoking" (aka pollution) though of course smoking is worse. That it may be linked to not distancing in close contact situations (although it's an aerosol virus and if one is somewhere for a long period of time, ventilation not distancing is what matters) but it is also linked to not distancing as a life style (ie having to live in crowded conditions by which I mean far too many people packed in a single apartment or house).
Teacher Terry
5-18-21, 12:29am
I also lost my dad in my 30’s. My mom and all my in laws all wonderful people long gone. My friend that died left behind 4 kids in their 30’s and many grandkids that all loved him plus his wife and friends. I am probably wasting my breath unfortunately. Real people died and are also long haulers whose lives were changed forever.
happystuff
5-18-21, 9:50am
If no one is to blame for contact with a deadly virus, people who don't wear masks aren't to blame that they were in contact with it. People who didn't socially distance aren't to blame for coming into contact with it. People who went to big house parties and pool parties with hundreds of strangers aren't to blame. I kind of doubt that is what you meant to say.
Does smoking impact your respiratory system and make you more susceptible to covid which resides in the respiratory system? Yes. That's one example of a vice correlated with bad covid outcomes.
>8)
I like your idea, razz.
Dad died when I was just 33 and Mom when I was 46. So I don't know anything about elderly parents. But since only old people die of covid I don't need to understand anything and I should just quit giving vaccines.
Seriously, you never cease to amaze me Y:confused:
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