SARS II: Respiratory Boogaloo

Why does Long Covid sound like low blood pressure issues from sitting around on your ass watching Netflix for a year? Have these doctors tried things like having fat ass lazy bitches do some exercise?

If I go to a doctor and ask why I am tired, Out of breath, can't walk a mile, gaining weight, dizzy when I stand up, and the doctor tells me I have a super unknown vague thing called Long Covid and not out of shape I am leaving and never coming back to the obvious quack. I might even take to reporting his con man ass to the insurance carrier and the medical board.

What the fuck is wrong with people? You do not have long COVID, you have a need to do a little exercise. Can't you tell when your doctor is a lying ass con man looking for a few extra bucks selling dick pills and brain pills? Is it any wonder why we have an opiod problem when idiots all took oxy pretending it wasn't heroin?

Long Covid is as big of a joke as taking horsey paste to cure covid. You do not have long COVID, you are a fucking couch lump with tiny brain syndrome.

Don't get me wrong @tucker. I have no doubt a disease that rips shit through tissues of the lungs, blood transport, digestive, and neurological tissues will have long term effects, some of which may never heal in all people, or maybe even in most. What I do know is that in recovery for most lazy assholes in the world the lack of physical activity is not something called long covid. It is called being a lazy ass and not doing the required physical therapy.

Giving those people an excuse that they will not recover because they have long covid is not helping the problem we know exists with most people in recovery from massive system hits. It gives them a defeatist attitude that leads to them not doing exercise because they have this mysterious recovery problem that is really just them doing the minimal of exercise to keep blood flowing and the system able to recover. I have long covid so I am just going to give the fuck up on more exercise than walking to the fridge for a fucking donut.

Don't get me wrong, if that is all you want then enjoy because some donuts are an awesome way to die. Let us just not pretend Covid did that shit, because it was coming with or without covid to most americans. Unless long covid is coming from the bottom of boxes of cinnamon toast crunch or mountain dew I think they are blaming the wrong thing.

It is interesting how my long ass covid seems to be going away now that I am making sure to get at least 30 minutes a day of basic exercise. Just the fucking doctors trying to make money off of treatment rather than free fucking cures. 30 minutes of fucking exercise is free, but that also means I need to go to the doctor less and take less pills. Maybe we should try that first instead of paying for the doctor's overpriced mid life crisis mobile. Along with that maybe we can put aside the really expensive leg sonograms and start doing a simple blood sugar test to see what my problems might be. Fucking american doctors always looking for the most expensive treatment because cheap ass shit doesn't pay their home, car, and med school payments.

for the TLDR people I am saying so called long covid is actually the american obesity and out of shape epidemic, and covid was the trigger of worsening effects. renaming it and blaming covid does not address the cause and help cure it.

I may faint from the shock of you gleefully imposing your will on others.

Can UA's form of control be Ronda Rousy in a pink wig beating him to within an inch of his life, and then pegging him once he can't move anymore?
...or would he like that?

You keep your freaky fantasies to yourself.

I think that is a confirmation projection.

I am not for forcing rowsey to beat albert off even if it does mean beating the fuck out of him. Why don't we dress FF up in a bikini and have him do it. At least when Albert nuts nothing of value was lost.

‘Extremely frustrating': Millions of COVID patients living without sense of taste and smell

TOP NIH OFFICIAL ADVISED COVID SCIENTISTS THAT HE USES PERSONAL EMAIL TO EVADE FOIA

Cue all the people who think Trump did nothing wrong by keeping classified documents rushing in to demand that this guy get punished by the full-force of the law.

Just think about other people in government who do this.

You mean like the email lady that Trump had two years of complete Republican support in Congress, but chose to do nothing to?

https://twitter.com/sabivm/status/1675462445391831040?s=46&t=iYW3foyqIA6Tn8VWwn3nwQ

Dick Durbin tests positive for the third time this year.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate...tive-for-covid-19-for-third-time-in-one-year/

Mysterious goings on in an unlicensed lab the CDC investigated.

CDC Finds Coronavirus and Other Infectious Agents in Unlicensed California Lab

You know, what's really interesting, is that a couple of years before the pandemic hit, there were all kinds of news stories about folks, in the US and elsewhere, buying up all kinds of really sophisticated biomedical gear used for things like gene editing for next to nothing. If a lab was going to leak something dangerous, I can easily see an unlicensed lab being top on the list.

How else are we supposed to get mutant super powers?

Nuclear power plant, duh.

Sucks to be a German trying to get super powers though

https://twitter.com/afp/status/1690364052868853760?s=46&t=iYW3foyqIA6Tn8VWwn3nwQ

Acrocyanosis, a rare and shocking symptom of long COVID

Here's an oddball thing ...

Last night, I started to feel a slight tickle in my throat. That's the symptom that, for my entire life up until 2020, always meant the arrival of the really bad cold that I got at least once a year. This always involved being completely stuffed up to the point of inability to breathe through my nose for four or five days, going through two or three boxes of Kleenex, and just generally being miserable for most of a week.

This morning, I woke up with what would, in the past, have been Day 1 congestion and a headache. The headache was gone a few hours later, and the congestion has cleared up over the course of the day, and now -- 24 hours after starting to feel weird, and 12 hours after starting to actually feel bad in any way -- it feels roughly like what Day 4 or 5 used to. Oh, and basically no cough at all.

Thinking back, I don't think I've had a single bad cold since 2019.

Possibility #1: Changed habits. Everyone I interact with regularly has embraced COVID-era attitudes of "stay away from other people when you're sick, wear a mask if you're coughing regardless of the reason, and if you stay home from work when you feel crappy, the world probably won't end."

Possibility #2: Vaccination. There is some evidence that COVID vaccinations can help against other coronaviruses, so could my vaccinations be keeping colds away or lessening their symptoms? (The main argument against this is that while some colds are caused by coronaviruses, the vast majority are caused by rhinoviruses.)

Possibility #3: It's just part of getting older. The COVID years coincided with my early 40s, a time period when lots of stuff changes anyway. I just went to the optometrist and found out that the "top line" numbers on my nearsightedness prescription actually got slightly smaller for the first time in my life, but my astigmatism got worse, and she's now recommending that I get lenses with a slight variation in curvature from top to bottom -- basically a precursor to the bifocals that I'll probably need in a handful more years. She said something happens around 40 where generally nearsightedness stops getting worse, but other funky things start to happen. So is it just one of the rare physical perks of hitting middle age? There are some articles saying that while colds and flue can be dangerous for very old people because of their overall frailty, many people do get less susceptible to colds as they age. (Similarly, I used to get really bad cold sores starting in high school and lasting until my mid-20s; now I hardly ever get them, and when I do they aren't that bad.)

Possibility #4: It's mostly just coincidence. Can't rule that out either.

Anybody else experience this?

#3, at least as far as prescriptions are concerned.

Around my late 30s/early 40s my prescription for nearsightedness leveled off and actually improved slightly, though I still need glasses to see things clearly at distance.

I still don't need glasses to read a book or anything up close, but a few years ago I did admit defeat and got some computer glasses since monitors are too far away to see clearly without glasses and too close for my far-vision glasses to work.

Related: starting around 40 I could no longer use my far vision glasses to see things up close like I could when I was younger. My optometrist told me around that age most people's eyes lose the ability to do that, so now I have to look over/under my lenses or tilt my glasses on top of my head to see things up close.

I've worn glasses since third grade, and my vision without them is so bad that one time, when I fell asleep on the sofa and accidentally knocked them off of the arm and onto a folded-up tripod that was a similar color, it took me an entire morning to find them. So it was a surprise to hear that my vision had gotten better, at least in one metric.

I have definitely found myself looking at close-up things without them a lot more, although in my case that tends to mean holding the item about three inches away.

I've considered Lasik, but since it would fix my vision toward the far end, I'd end up needing readers, which aren't necessary right now. For as much up close work as I do with all the buttons and controls on my camera, it's easier for me to just tilt my glasses on top of my head than it would be to dig out a pair of readers every time I needed to make an adjustment.

Yeah, Lasik is one of those things that really isn't all that it's hyped up to be. I know people who've had good luck with it, and I've also known people who basically wound up in the same place they were before, some years later. And when I heard about what happens if you don't opt for bladeless Lasik, it just wasn't something I wanted. (Two words: Eyeball guillotine.)

I had the same problem starting about 4-5 years ago, maybe more? It could be longer than that. I wear contacts almost all the time, about 99.9% of the time. I'm typing this on my phone, and wearing reading glasses. Without them I can still read and write, barely. Without wearing contacts, I can read and make out the individual pixels on my phone's screen. So yeah, I have a couple of pairs of reading glasses here at home, and keep a couple at my sister's house, my mom's house, and keep a couple of pairs on my car. I keep the glasses in my car so I can menus or other things when I'm out and about.

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/08/san-antonio-police-arrest-father-after

Now do the horse paste peddlers.

Colloidal silver.... ask this guy.

Nah, this guy.

Papa Smurf?