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[ChairmanPoo]

I'm getting a Pfizer booster today to complete the trifecta! It's been nine months since my last booster and I've got some important dates coming up soon here. With no word on when newer coverage on the omicron variants comes around, I figured I'd best at least be fresh up. Gonna be a miserable weekend, though...

There is word. They are coming in September. The US has paid 1.7bn  USD to Moderna alone. Europe has its own deals likewise.

https://www.biopharmadive.com/news/moderna-FDA-covid-boosters-deal-pfizer/628463/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Issue:%202022-07-29%20BioPharma%20Dive%20%5Bissue:43466%5D&utm_term=BioPharma%20Dive

There are a few other updated boosters pending approval  like HIPRA's

[None]

Oh, cool! I'll have to see if they still put me on the four-month intermediary period for those or not, but with that many doses, I'd hope that we won't see supply issues.

Yeah, I'm hoping it's lighter too- both JnJ and Moderna left me pretty good and wrecked for a day and a half. Wanted to make sure I have the weekend to recuperate, given that I didn't want to go straight from recovering from the vaccine to recuperating from wisdom teeth removal- I'm already burning sick days for that, ahaha. Maybe I'll go buy me some extra treats to weather the weekend with.

edit: haha yes never mind Epic says I don't get one since I've completed the sequence

see you in september

[Rolan7]

Welp I finally tested positive... probably?  This is the fourth day I've woke up sick with pretty rough cold symptoms, and I tested negative twice.  It's not bad during the day, but sleeping is difficult with all the coughing.  Still, I feel strongly that I'm through the worst of it.

My dad wants me to go get Paxlovid.  I've heard nothing but good things, but it seems almost wasteful at this point.  I don't know.  I don't need it for my remaining symptoms, and I don't feel anything *close* to the brain fog I experienced early in the pandemic.  I'd rather just keep drinking tea and soup.
Edit:  What really worries me is that I must have picked this up (even if it's just a cold) from a damn family reunion on Saturday.  There were a lot of vulnerable people there.  I've passed word along just in case, but I'm testing myself a fourth time tomorrow in case this was a false positive.
Edit2:
Dad:  I checked with my pharmacist and you'll have to go to an ER and lie a little to get Paxlovid, but you really should!  I'll pay whatever!  Even if you stash it for later it's a good idea
Mom, a nurse: Oh this variant isn't even killing people like it used to, the CDC says things everything's back to normal.  Let's chat for a bit and no I don't have a mask

Me:  I don't know crap but both those positions seem extreme

Nice them to each bring me a care package though... glad they didn't quite intercept each other
I could use a beer right now.  Specifically, I wish I wasn't sick so I could reasonably drink some of my beer.

[TD1]

I misread 'beer' as 'bear'

No Rolan

Don't get a bear

You have so much to live for.
....

Unless it's a Teddy Bear in which case yes get one or five of those.

[Frumple]

It could also be the friskier variant of bear, but that should probably wait until after the plague's run it's course.

[Rolan7]

Yeah, big comfy man hugs will have to wait until I've tested negative for 3 days or whatever   And conferred with my SO, and figured out these newfangled hookup "apps"

In the meantime I have all the tea I care to brew, both herbal and black, and that's helping a lot~

[heydude6]

And conferred with my SO, and figured out these newfangled hookup "apps"

I don't think your SO is supposed to be around hookup apps.

[Rolan7]

Nah we have an arrangement, it just involves honesty.  But uh sorry for the tangent.

[Grim Portent]

And conferred with my SO, and figured out these newfangled hookup "apps"

I don't think your SO is supposed to be around hookup apps.

I actually know of a few couples in my area who use hookup apps, both together and separately. For some it's a kink, for others just a sort of matter of fact thing.


@Rolan have you been using any simple remedies, cough lozenges, cold & flu pills and such? My COVID was on the mild side, but I was finding that the congestion and cough I developed in the later period was helped by the basic stuff. I absolutely reeked of menthol for a few days, but it was helping me sleep.

[Rolan7]

During the day I haven't had much trouble, between hot soup and tea, but at night I've been waking up with frustrating and painful dry coughing.  Even though my muscles feel much better, I feel like that will happen again...  So tonight I've taken a Mucinex which ought to help!

I also have a nice hot potato-chicken stew that... just finished pressure cooking!  Starting each morning with some hot soup (particularly inhaling the vapor) has been relieving my throat pain a great deal.

[Frumple]

welp, momma done caught the plague, hopefully wasn't contagious the last time we were near each other, hopefully isn't killed or crippled by it

[Vector]

My housemate came back from Europe + the East Coast yesterday . . . and as thanks for taking care of her pets for more than two months, came back although she knew as of a few days before that she had a positive COVID test.

Motherfucker son o f a b i t c h !! She owns three houses! She's not poor!

[dragdeler]

I feel you, we got a collegekid for a month, and he sneezed like 20 times today but doesnt put his hand up when he does.

[Il Palazzo]

Have you considered going medieval on such people's arses? I hear violence solves everything and is very satisfying.

[hector13]

It also requires getting into infection range