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I appreciate why we’re all calling this a mild illness in the grand scheme of things, but I am a healthy individual (vaxed and boosted) who got absolutely cream

I appreciate why we’re all calling this a mild illness in the grand scheme of things, but I am a healthy individual (vaxed and boosted) who got absolutely creamed by Covid earlier this month for about a week. I was completely useless around the house and am still having trouble getting my breath under me. To be fair I was never worried about having to go to the hospital but this is the sickest I’ve been in at least 10 years.

throwaway1777 5y ago
Getting sick for a week with the flu is common too but we didn’t shut society down for it.
- EricE 5y ago
  No kidding! Got COVID and it sucked. Worth ruining millions of people's lives like we have over the last two years, and are continuing to do? Absolutely not!
  - xadhominemx 5y ago
    Who is “we”? Who’s lives are being ruined? There are essentially no restrictions remaining in the United States for vaccinated individual besides mask mandates in public transit and schools, and those are at worst a minor inconvenience.
    - EricE 5y ago
      Masking, especially with children, is far from a "minor" inconvenience. Especially since kids are the LEAST affected by the virus and the least likely to spread it. Any restrictions on kids or vaccine mandates on them is beyond child abuse at this point. Masking (with cloth) does NOTHING to prevent or even slow the spread of an airborne virus. What it does do is provide a nice physiological equivalent to a baby's pacifier. Tricking people into believing they have some control, when they don't. And why should there be any restrictions for unvaccinated, especially if they have already had the virus? Vaccinated people can get and spread the virus - there is zero scientific basis for treating vaccinated and unvaccinated any differently, especially unvaccinated that have already had COVID - they have better immunity than the "vaccinated". It's all politics; zero science. What's the most disgusting about all of this is blatantly irrational people like you are burning any societal credibility that will be needed if there ever is an event that is really deserving of this kind of a response. Much like the vast overuse of calling people you don't like an -ist or -phobe; those words loose their meaning and significance and make it harder for people really experiencing that stuff to get attention or help. And people wonder why trust in our institutions is at an all time low? Seriously?!?

throwaway1777 5y ago

Getting sick for a week with the flu is common too but we didn’t shut society down for it.

EricE 5y ago
No kidding! Got COVID and it sucked. Worth ruining millions of people's lives like we have over the last two years, and are continuing to do? Absolutely not!
- xadhominemx 5y ago
  Who is “we”? Who’s lives are being ruined? There are essentially no restrictions remaining in the United States for vaccinated individual besides mask mandates in public transit and schools, and those are at worst a minor inconvenience.
  - EricE 5y ago
    Masking, especially with children, is far from a "minor" inconvenience. Especially since kids are the LEAST affected by the virus and the least likely to spread it. Any restrictions on kids or vaccine mandates on them is beyond child abuse at this point. Masking (with cloth) does NOTHING to prevent or even slow the spread of an airborne virus. What it does do is provide a nice physiological equivalent to a baby's pacifier. Tricking people into believing they have some control, when they don't. And why should there be any restrictions for unvaccinated, especially if they have already had the virus? Vaccinated people can get and spread the virus - there is zero scientific basis for treating vaccinated and unvaccinated any differently, especially unvaccinated that have already had COVID - they have better immunity than the "vaccinated". It's all politics; zero science. What's the most disgusting about all of this is blatantly irrational people like you are burning any societal credibility that will be needed if there ever is an event that is really deserving of this kind of a response. Much like the vast overuse of calling people you don't like an -ist or -phobe; those words loose their meaning and significance and make it harder for people really experiencing that stuff to get attention or help. And people wonder why trust in our institutions is at an all time low? Seriously?!?