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Just saw my first "long Covid" commercial
Mar 12, 2022, 7:45 AM
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Looks like the Leftists found a way to keep playing that card FOREVER now!
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Re: Just saw my first "long Covid" commercial
Mar 12, 2022, 8:08 AM
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The disappointing thing about COVID is how quickly we submitted to the edicts of Governors and Mayors across the country without actual laws being passed.
Our own Guv--McMaster early on closed boat landings and beaches, arbitrarily assigned closing hours to bars, restaurants, etc.
It should never happen again that churches in certain states were essentially closed but liquor stores left open. Capricious and arbitrary decisions were made without debate.
It's nice that we're getting a break from COVID, but the bad news amidst all the news being Ukraine 24/7 is that COVID is alive and well elsewhere. Many undeveloped countries have not vaccinated as many people as need to be in order to tamp down the emergence of a new potentially virulent variant that can perhaps evade immunity whether acquired or from the vaccine. I hope I'm wrong, but I don't think we're done.
Long COVID is a deal and a lot of money will be lost economically and spent in medicine.
However, going forward COVID must be addressed in a legal fashion and truth must always be first.
The messaging from politicians, Fauci, the CDC has been erratic and very few will be willing to hear what these folks have to say.
It is extremely unfortunate that both the Right and the Left have certainly politicized a nonpolitical issue.
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Re: Just saw my first "long Covid" commercial
Mar 12, 2022, 8:12 AM
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Yep. Couldn’t take my boat out and be around no one, but could go to Walmart and be around thousands.
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You havent been in Greens or Boharon lately:
Mar 12, 2022, 10:25 AM
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all the population density one would want, to name just two. We know its not about population density. The application of forced lockdowns was as partisan as anything we've seen, not to mention Gavin et al not living by their own rules. The left loved that aspect of it. Its the individual choice thing the left doesnt like, which is the real similarity between churches and liquor stores.
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Sure have. Also been to church too
Mar 14, 2022, 11:16 AM
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So my church also stopped in-person services for a while, and required masks far longer than most other public places. I'm located in Republican led South Carolina. But it's the Democrats that caused it?
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And yet our state governemnt still forces every liquor store
Mar 12, 2022, 9:58 AM
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in the state to close on Sundays, denying the proprietors the freedom to make more money on Sundays. And lord knows we used force ALL businesses to close on Sundays. I had a 104 temp back when I was a student at Clemson. Drove around and COULD NOT BUY a thermometer in Clemson, SC on a Sunday afternoon.
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Re: And yet our state governemnt still forces every liquor store
Mar 12, 2022, 10:17 AM
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A) how’d you know your temp was 104 if you couldn’t buy a thermometer?
B) all day blue laws ended in the 80’s. You must have been shopping before noon.
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104 was the next day.
Mar 12, 2022, 11:35 AM
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May have been higher the day before.
Was a Sunday afternoon. Clemson still closed shop on Sunday after blue laws stopped. Would not have been an issue in Columbia/Greenville /Seneca (evidently). I promise in 1994 there was no way to purchase a thermometer, IN CLEMSON, on a Sunday afternoon (5pmish). They still hung on mightily to the blue laws back then, plus only a few places you could get one, all closed.
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I was there then. Not saying you’re wrong,
Mar 12, 2022, 11:57 AM
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I just don’t remember it that way. More likely it’s because Clemson Drug was a mom and pop place that closed on Sunday anyway, and if you wanted a major chain, you had to go to Seneca to K-Mart. It was small businesses choosing to take the day off more so than blue laws forcing them to.
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Re: And yet our state governemnt still forces every liquor store
Mar 12, 2022, 11:10 AM
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Yep. If it’s legal Monday through Saturday, it should be legal on Sunday. No one forces anyone to shop on Sunday, but people should not be inhibited from doing so.
Only in the last few years can folks hunt on Sunday in SC and only on private land. Fishing, golf, marathon running, etc has been ok on Sunday. Hunting in the National Forests or WMA’s apparently is still a diversion of the Devil?
The old blue laws were dumb as could be.
Let freedom ring.
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Re: Just saw my first "long Covid" commercial
Mar 12, 2022, 9:14 AM
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i know covid screwed me up pretty good
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I came out of it with diminished lung capacity and more
Mar 12, 2022, 11:03 AM
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"brain fog" than I had going in...
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Yup. No lung issues but cognitive impairment for about a
Mar 12, 2022, 11:09 AM
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Year. It sucked. Also my sense of smell is still jacked 18 months later.
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My Doc predicted "The Fog" would lift after 12-18 months
Mar 12, 2022, 11:13 AM
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After 13 months - I do think it's improving. But my inability to multi-task is still very discernable
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Did you get vaccinated? My gf had Covid and had brain fog
Mar 12, 2022, 2:14 PM
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until she got vaccinated. As soon as she was vaccinated, it stopped.
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Yeah - the same Doc recommended that I wait 4 months after
Mar 13, 2022, 10:12 PM
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having COVID to get the vaccine, so I did.
I got sick with both shots (for a day) - but my existing symptoms got no better or worse.
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Re: My Doc predicted "The Fog" would lift after 12-18 months
Mar 12, 2022, 9:59 PM
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I was in your boat. I had severe brain fog, to the point I couldn't drive. I'd forget where I was, what I was doing, get confused when I was driving. I had a move right at the beginning of this and almost put my U-haul into a storage unit. I'd start a sentence and forget what I was saying in the middle of it. I forgot how to spell even simple words. I'd stare at them and they literally made no sense and I had to google everything. I literally faked every social interaction and basically spent six months trying to hide how bad I was glitching. I felt like I was running around with half my normal IQ.
Worse, I didn't know what was happening to me...and I had no idea if I would ever get back to "normal". They didn't really have "long COVID" in the literature yet and the doctors were still figuring it out. It was so severe I literally wondered if I'd had an early stroke or extremely early onset dementia. CAT scans came back negative, and I spent months shuttling between specialists until an ENT finally said "what the eff" and tried a cocktail that basically consisted of running steroids through a neti pot...and for a few hours a day, anyhow, I could function.
I was out of work for five months. It took me a year before I really felt like my brain was firing at close to 100% again...but thankfully, I got there. It scared the crap out of me and told me I wanted no part of COVID ever again.
People who haven't dealt with long COVID have no idea. I've seen plenty of others who had a laundry list of symptoms, some of which are very different than ours. This bug really tore people up, especially the early versions when we had no immunity whatsoever.
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Yup, 10 day steroid regimen made a huge diff for me too.***
Mar 13, 2022, 10:42 AM
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Glad you came out of it. My Fog wasn't quite that bad -
Mar 13, 2022, 10:20 PM
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though I would really have to concentrate to remember how to get to places I'd been to a million times.
I've tried to fake it through work, but I know people noticed. I did a lot of "I'll get back to you on that" when asked questions that I was supposed to be the subject matter expert.
The multi-tasking thing is scary. When I'm thinking about something, I CANNOT shift gears and think about something else.
Folks liked to quote stats about the mortality rate of COVID - but there's other reasons to not want it...
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Re: My Doc predicted "The Fog" - - - also hits via the VAX
Mar 14, 2022, 11:52 AM
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Hello joeyb®, very sorry to read about your neurological problems from getting Covid.
From a vax denier, I've never had Covid-19. But I had taken the Moderna shots (last one in late April 2021). The near-term future after getting the vax was not good.
By early May, my wife noticed that I was 'smacking my lips' (a subconscious behavior) ... kind of like what you see when tossing a fish on the grass. By early June I was having peculiar memory loss episodes. By late June these memory losses were becoming more frequent and more intense.
(BTW, the subconscious 'smacking of lips' is an early sign of seizure activity.)
I had also become a moron ... couldn't remember a 3 digit sequence 5 seconds after reading the sequence. Figured that I'd lost ~ 20 IQ points.
After having a routine physical in early July, I had another of these memory-loss episodes. My wife (as only a wife can do) ordered me to go the emergency room. 2.5 days in the ICU. At discharge, the hospital's diagnosis was a TIA (even though there was no data from multiple CAT scans and multiple MRIs to support that diagnosis ... and I'm blessed with a very blood profiles, low heart rate, and low BP). Of course, the hospital got paid by my insurance by using the TIA diagnosis. (Crooked hospital codings are a topic for another day.) Never had any neurological problems prior to this.
BTW, ~ half of the nurses and medical orderlies bravely admitted to having 'brain fog' shortly after getting the Covid-19 vaccines; these hospital workers also reported having had their Covid-19 vaccines in Q2-2021. These hospital workers did not get Covid-19; they had only taken the jab.
Neurologist next for me ... turns out that I'd been having seizures in the area of the Amigdala and hippocampus (temporal lobe area). Didn't drive an automobile for 6 months (state law for anyone who had a seizure). Fortunately for me, the anti-seizure medicine (old / off-patent stuff) has worked, and I'm thinking more clearly and better able to perform my job / family business matters.
For those who berate the 'vax deniers' as idiots and fools, think again. There are many of us who do a lot of research about the vax's, and this 'question the vaccine' work requires much more work because the search engines Google and Internet Explorer censor the 'anti-vax' articles and papers. Much of what is published is from EU or APAC sources.
But PLEASE ... with Covid-19 being a minimal risk for healthy kids under 12 ... do your work to identify the reward vs. risk for subjecting them to the Covid-19 vaccines.
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RTD - sorry to hear of your tough bout. I was not afraid to
Mar 14, 2022, 3:56 PM
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get the VAX - but I can see how someone could easily doubt the "it's totally safe" line. So, I have respect for vax deniers, if they've done their research. (I know some vax deniers who deny it because "Let's Go Brandon")
Hopefully you're coming out of it and can stop being a moron soon! 
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Re: RTD - sorry to hear of your tough bout. I was not afraid to
Mar 14, 2022, 11:37 PM
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Good evening joeyb®.
Thanks for the well wishes. I can still function in my job, but I must work longer ... it takes more time to effectively re-read and re-edit my reports before submitting them.
Back at you ... keep after it and with luck (and maybe some different specialists) your 'Covid fog' will continue to dissipate.
My only wishes are that the medical authorities would put a LOT more focus on therapeutics (and not just newly-minted anti-virals that, like the vaccines, are not tested for safety thoroughly enough).
Also, with healthy young people almost never having severe side effects from getting Covid-19 ... but with far too high statistics as far as myocarditis and pericarditis ... that the kids never take this current iteration of Covid-19 vaccines.
The risk vs reward for adults is still open to debate (although the belief that getting the vax makes it less likely to spread Covid-19 is a myth).
But the risk vs reward for the Covid-19 vax for kids is pretty clear ... too much risk and not enough reward.
Note that Sweden nixed the vax for the 5 and younger crowd. More of this will be coming from the honest countries who care more about the health of their people than we do.
Again, all the best to you JoeyB.
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Re: Just saw my first "long Covid" commercial
Mar 12, 2022, 11:19 AM
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Man…long Covid is no joke. My wife had a really mild case of Covid back over Christmas. A few weeks later she was seemingly better but then the symptoms started…She can still barely walk a few hundred feet without having to sit down…and forget about more than one flight of stairs. And this is someone who prior could walk 5 miles at a good clip with no issues at all.
Normal BP prior to Covid and now BP’s regularly of 160/100…medicated. She’s had X-rays, a CT (checking for PE), an overnight stay in the hospital to test and rule out heart/blockage issues, a few rounds of steroids, numerous blood tests, etc.
She has missed at least 10%-15% of work in the past couple of months and collapses on the couch when she gets home, exhausted.
Doc says to expect at least a few more months of this…
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Re: Just saw my first "long Covid" commercial
Mar 12, 2022, 12:06 PM
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LOL at leftists with their “viruses” and “doctors” and “modern medicine”
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To you who have experience with "long Covid" symptoms...
Mar 13, 2022, 9:51 AM
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... were you vaccinated or not?
Did you get vaccinated again after experiencing continuing symptoms?
Do you feel the vaccination/boosters helped relieve the symptoms?
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Re: To you who have experience with "long Covid" symptoms...
Mar 13, 2022, 10:49 PM
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i have blood sugar issues after covid and two spots on my lungs
sugar seems to be getting better though, find out about the spots in May
thanks china
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Thanks for answering
Mar 13, 2022, 10:58 PM
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And wish you well in May.
In the commercial, they recommended taking a shot for the long Covid...is there a reason you didn't at that point?
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Re: Thanks for answering
Mar 13, 2022, 11:09 PM
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doctor said that i didnt need it, said it is just going to take time
i am not sure that i had/have long covid, was pretty sick, 90% recovered now
i think my doctor was afraid to treat me in fear of his medical license, told me to try the next county over for help at a hospital that was not part of his circle
strange days
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Re: Thanks for answering
Mar 13, 2022, 11:18 PM
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Strange days indeed. Prayers up brother!
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