I’m beginning to hope we’re turning the Covid Corner, personally and for my family, as well as nationally. Heck, maybe even for the rest of the world. I’m just now starting to feel alive again after a late January go round with the Omicron virus. While my experience included cold symptoms that really weren’t “much worse than having a cold”, it was creepily different. And the wariness and fear of not knowing what was coming next, how my body might respond, or what else might compromise my survival, vibrated strongly through-out, similar to the fear that accompanies a tornado alert. It’s still rumbling in the background like distant thunder following a storm, as I wonder if I’ve survived the worst or there is more to come?
Apparently some people contending with the Omicron version can develop serious lung crud eight days out that’s not as deadly as it was with Delta but hard to shake. Other odd symptoms can include “Covid toes” (see Google images) which I didn’t have, and an itchy rash on the torso below the arms that was with me for a week. Although my first thought regarding the rash was that I might be getting shingles, I was surprised to later learn that a rash in that area can be another one of the odd symptoms of Covid. Also found out after the fact that breakthrough bleeding in pre and post menopausal females is another symptom and how strange is that, affecting tissue in female reproductive organs? All of which paints a creepy picture of that humanly tweaked little red brushy thing rolling around inside looking for places to land and wreak havoc, with our bodies responding by doing all they humanly can to fight it off and subdue it. Another form of war, in my book; a serious and “more evolved” form of foreign invasion.
On Wednesday, I ventured out to go swimming at an indoor hotel/motel pool in our area. I’d purchased a pass two years ago prior to the shutdown and was finally able to use it. It felt wonderful and weird to be out again around people, seeing families playing and interacting with their children in the pool, while I was free to float and exercise. When I went back to swim again the next day, I was enjoying my freedom when the older woman who was water walking next to me decided it was necessary to determine my vaccination status with a questioning pronouncement of “You’ve had the vaccine, of course?!?" To which I pleasantly responded with a “No. I've had Covid and survived and now have natural immunity'' only to have her come back with an equally confident, “Ooooh, but that doesn’t last!” reply. Following my “Neither do the vaccines” response, she let me know she’d had two shots and a booster, which she’s apparently banking on to keep her safe. Good luck and smooth sailing was my unspoken thought before deciding to announce I’d also “used the controversial Ivermectin to help get me through and had avoided hospitalization; and was grateful for that” Well, that ended the quizzing and water pleasantries for a time But not without her later working in how much she really wished there weren’t so many lies allowed to be told in the media and I refrained from asking which were most irritating. She also informed me that she swims everyday around 1pm (which I was grateful to know) and carries a pool thermometer with her to measure how warm the water is, because "it's supposed to be kept between 80 and 86 degrees”. The most peculiar part of our time together involved her pulling a large floating pool thermometer the size of a small birdhouse out of her gym bag when she got out to leave, to measure the temp and let me know it was 84 degrees. Why she finds it necessary to tote that around with the rest of her swimming paraphernalia (including a large portable radio playing loudly in the cavernous, echoing pool room (because she needs music to exercise–so everyone else swimming also gets to partake of those vibes banging around the room) is anyone’s guess, making me wonder if I’d encountered another one of those “vivid people” TY mentioned in an earlier post? Maybe she thought I was just as odd, abusing my freedom by not following the program and spreading germs around like unwanted radio waves. All in all, I had another lovely swim, feeling alive and part of life again, sprung from the trap, at least until my natural immunity fades.
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and how strange is that, affecting tissue in female reproductive organs?
You just hit the jackpot, honey lamb.
Consider the CDC's glad tidings on pregnancy
People who are pregnant or recently pregnant are at an increased risk for severe illness from COVID-19 when compared to people who are not pregnant.
People who have COVID-19 during pregnancy are also at increased risk for preterm birth (delivering the baby earlier than 37 weeks) and stillbirth and might be at increased risk for other pregnancy complications.
Oh, and if you're not pregnant? Well, we have the same phony reassurances about social distancing and masks.
There is no evidence to support the stories appearing online, which falsely link COVID-19 vaccines to infertility. Official guidance suggests there is no reason to delay getting pregnant following all required doses of a COVID-19 vaccination. And all that stuff about athletes dropping dead is coinkydink, right? The "evidence" they mention are studies with a sample size of 60 or so. Out of a male population having passed puberty of ~110 million.
So now we know why all the apparatchiks want us to take the shot.
There is evidence to suggest that infection with SARS-CoV-2 has the potential to impact both male fertility, female fertility, and certainly the health of a pregnancy of someone infected, according to researchers.
So maybe it's good news only the old and Leftist part of the population is doing all the things that will make them sick or sicker.
You read this stuff and realize how much we know about how we've been lied to and, for one, the phrase, act of war, keeps rolling through my nasty little mind.
So, did you invite Karen to go to lunch after your swim?
As Covid touches our lives in so many different ways, we discover how uniquely it affects different people. My in-laws came down with it (they're in their mid-80s), and since I had already caught it and survived, I was able to (fearlessly) go down and help them. My m-i-l basically had an asymptomatic case, but it gave my f-i-l dementia. Thank God it was temporary, but for almost a week he was out of it. He couldn't answer a question like "Are you cold?" or he would answer with "I don't know." My m-i-l was about out of her mind trying to deal with it. He got the anti-body treatment and within two hours was playing with the dog, but then slipped away again. He caught pneumonia and was hospitalized for two nights, then within an hour of being released was almost back to his normal self.
Thalidomide resulted in horrific birth defects worldwide. Released in 1954, it wasn't until 1961 that it was proven to be the cause. Heaven only knows what we'll discover down the road with these untested jabs. Maybe something good? Maybe it cures baldness and wrinkles? And maybe I'll hit the winning home run in the 2085 World Series?
Glad to hear that you and yours are doing well, MamaM.
windbag said...
Thalidomide resulted in horrific birth defects worldwide. Released in 1954, it wasn't until 1961 that it was proven to be the cause
That's why the FDA set tougher standards for length of trials before release to the public.
And why so many doctors and nurses don't trust the shot.
Heaven only knows what we'll discover down the road with these untested jabs. Maybe something good? Maybe it cures baldness and wrinkles?
The word Viagra ring a bell?
A post at the motherblog went up yesterday on the use of the term "natural immunity", with this from a commenter as clarifying:
It should be "natural immunity" and "synthetic symptom reducer" - that way it is clear that the "vaccine" is of no benefit, vaccine-wise.
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