Coming in with the anecdotes, but I’ve done a public facing job with often just the carrageenan spray as prevention in small unventilated spaces face to face with clients for 6 months now and never got sick from work.

I did get covid, but from family via my partner at home.

The last time I had to spend an hour with a visibly sick person was at the start of this week and so far so good. Might be immunity too from having just had covid a little over a month ago though. I wish masking was ok in my work, but it’s not.

But considering how high risk my work is and how all my co-workers sure are sick all the time and I’m not, it makes me think the spray might at least be helping. I also avoid gatherings and have an air purifier on my desk, I also don’t people on my freetime. So there are many reasons for this as well.

It affects mine and makes them more painful and heavy, have heard of many other folks as well who have had it affect theirs. Either prolonging or causing them to be early or delayed. And affecting them otherwise too. All infections can do this, but it seems very common with covid.

Lol yes, I considered televisions a scary thing a long time after if I was home alone.

Superstition by Stevie Wonder has to be up there, was the first that came to mind.

Every time. I also open public toilet doors with a paper towel now on exit, never going to stop. I have real Niles Crane energy these days and am proud of it.

And just generally avoid touching stuff that is shared with my hands, I have become so good at navigating public spaces with my elbows and feet.

I had no idea, but the last time I was in a long public toilet line I paid attention to this and so many of the ladies just walked straight out the toilet as I stood there! I assumed it’s the “pandemic is over” brainrot, but it was always like this? Ewwwwwwwwwwwww…

Talking about horror films with my kid yesterday and The Ring came up, realized I can’t really explain the scary of it to him.

I have lived a big part of my life in Soviet style concrete apartment buildings (khrushchevka) that are brutal architecture inspired afaik. Essentially various kinds of concrete blocks. When they are in the middle of a lot of greenery, trees and parks and the area is a bit older, they are pretty much what a suburb is understood as where I live. If they are kept well and maintained I think they are very cool.

Thanks for the tip. I tried the NAC and didn’t notice much, but antihistamines, kefir and probiotics helped me last time. Might have to try the combo. I’ve done everything from lactoferrin to natto and from quercetin to vagal nerve breathing to compression socks.

Not loving this age of DIY healtcare tbh. But doctors have been useless so here we are.

Oh fuck I am sorry, I had the sleep problems and spent months with horrible bedtime anxiety, but thankfully they aren’t bad this time. Really hope it eases for you.

I agree, the covid “experts” all deserve the wall. Here in the nordic countries they really revealed the eugenist roots of their public health policy with covid. I knew it was bad because I know what Finnish public health historically did to pathologize Karelian folks responses to poverty and oppression, but oh my god they didn’t even try to hide the same ideologies today. Every day a talking head was on the news reassuring the normos not to worry because covid only kills those already weak/frail. Disgusting.

Thank you.

It fucking sucks. The first time I had it after covid it was so bad I had a sick bag with me in public transport, because I was afraid I will throw up in the bus. This is when I had the violent coughing fits that also made me gag and throw up. These days the gag most often comes after I start walking.

There is also so much burbing after any food and then my belly just randomly bloats from all the things. The first time it happened with og covid it freaked me out so bad because my stomach turned into a balloon even from just eating a small piece of bread and almost all food made me throw up, I had to eat standing up and in the smallest possible bites to prevent my body from returning the food to the sender. I lost 10kg of weight in just a few weeks that time. Doctors were like “sucks to be you, eat more fiber”.

Have looked into histamine, SIBO, probiotics, all the things. Only time seems to really help, but it never fully goes away. It did get a lot better again just before we got this shit again.😭

It does and it causes so much grief. My biggest thing has been the loss of strenght and just the way my body no longer “works”.

I used to lift a lot and do different high intensity workouts for my dopamine, after the first round of this I noticed I lost my all of my bounce and speed and those never came back no matter how much I tried, but we still managed to get back to light running, hiking and lifting in 2021.

After the omicron one and the leg pains however I no longer can run at all, walk too fast or too long or my leg pain or back pain just gets so severe that I can’t go on. I have to pace everything I do. In 2021 we still did long hikes in the woods and bogs, it used to be my lifeline mentsl health wise.

It really takes a lot from us, and seems like it takes a bit more everytime we get it. My sense of smell and taste also seems to be a bit diminished forever and for a huge food enjoyer that just sucks, although it isn’t life threatening. But it’s just this overall loss of life quality that was preventable and that is really hard to come to terms with.

Honestly I’m just waiting where I will get the covid caused cancer and if it kills me at this point.

Oh I am so sorry. Shit just sucks.

Thank you.

Reading the comments there sure was a hell of a peek into the brains of these people. They genuinely say that everyone pro Palestine is a terrorist. I will admit that I haven’t bothered to look at comments on Reddit, but it’s pretty unsettling to read tbh.

It’s interesting how on the internet we almost always can tell something is off in some posters, but then have to wait and see for the whatever it is to become visible to be sure.

Been following this anarchist for some time on mastodon and always felt she was a bit sus, today she went into her tankie bashing/bully arch and it kind of feels disappointing. Not sure why, I suppose I was exited leftist thought was getting some visibility. But once again not all leftists are welcome.

I reuse them. I use one per for example travel and put the mask in a box on our balcony to chill out for a few days. My kid was at school at the start of this and I had this whole system of numbered weekly paper bags for him for one mask per bag and a chill out box for the ffp2 masks where we circulated them from. Afaik good masks can easily be reused for quite a while and any masking is better than none.

Edit. To answer your question I think I’ve spent maybe 100€ on masks during the entire pandemic, but then again we have dropped all unnecessary socializing for good. A box of 20 is 5,90€ and these days a box will last me for months.

Edit. 2 I do work and travel to meet clients in public transport sometimes several times/day and study at uni. I do remote work as much as I can, but there is still plenty of mask use. They still last me for months. The total cost is for a family of 3, two working adults and a kid in school.