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GuitarBilly wrote:

itchyfingers wrote:It has begun.
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronaviru ... s-pandemic

this is 100% posturing though. I doubt this lawsuit will even move forward but let's say it does and the state "wins". How do you suggest they collect the payment?

Missouri: "Hey China, court says you owe us 100 billion for sending rona, so pay the fuck up"

China: "Lol, no"

Then what?


It does make they look "tough" to ignorant voters, which is the real goal here...

Telephant wrote:Speaking of conspiracy theories... I have a hard time believing the lab in Wuhan set up to study Coronaviruses is purely coincidental. I don't think it was purposeful bioterrorism, but I could definitely see an inept Communist government employee fucking up safety protocols. Then again I don't have a hard time believing that only a Chinese wet market could find the reservoir/activator link between a fucking pangolin (or whatever it is) and a bat.

Telephant wrote:Speaking of conspiracy theories... I have a hard time believing the lab in Wuhan set up to study Coronaviruses is purely coincidental. I don't think it was purposeful bioterrorism, but I could definitely see an inept Communist government employee fucking up safety protocols. Then again I don't have a hard time believing that only a Chinese wet market could find the reservoir/activator link between a fucking pangolin (or whatever it is) and a bat.

TraumaRN wrote:Holy Shit Billy. this entire thread has been railroaded with Political shit and endless innuendos. Stick to the Topic please or shut it down.

linthat22 wrote: nothing has been proven false, so what's wrong with following Qanon

CptCyanide wrote:

Telephant wrote:Speaking of conspiracy theories... I have a hard time believing the lab in Wuhan set up to study Coronaviruses is purely coincidental. I don't think it was purposeful bioterrorism, but I could definitely see an inept Communist government employee fucking up safety protocols. Then again I don't have a hard time believing that only a Chinese wet market could find the reservoir/activator link between a fucking pangolin (or whatever it is) and a bat.

Would you think differently if it was some inept capitalist employee in a Western country who fucked up protocols? Cause that has happened... and not just once. I know it’s easy to blame this on some foreign country and act like it’s a big conspiracy, but if this is the case it’s more likely just due to humans being inept in general, not cause they’re Chinese.

Anthrax:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa- ... TJ20140621

Avian Flu:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/201 ... /95972126/

skybluegary wrote:

EndTime wrote:A little update on my situation. Since my whole household has had the old Corona...

First let me say I’m not a Bill Gates conspirator, but if you ask me, he might be a Wolf in sheep’s clothing. At the least, I’m keeping my eyes on what happens with his involvement. He hasn’t been an “on the level” guy from the beginning if we are being honest. He’s stolen many ideas to make his dough. But whatver, I’m just saying I don’t fully trust his intentions, but I also don’t think he’s got some global elite level “politics” he’s enacting either. But he isn’t Mr. nice guy trying to help the world either. I don’t believe anyway. There is sumthin shady. Pure gut feel at this point. So innocent until proven guilty!

But back to the health issues that at this point we have to assume is Covid related. Since it’s being shared by more than one person in my house. But quickly let me back up, I may have singled out a more likely case of when we got infected. I thought it was daughter bf who is staying with us and his father had it and he also tested positive. But before that, our mechanic, who’s now been on a respirator for almost a month!! He was a great mechanic, honest prices, but for being only 7-8 years older than me he looked in his 60s.. so not a healthy guy. My wife was in there one time where he was coughing like a diseased mule! Don’t know what that means but my wife was in there during this time and she said he was coughing like crazy the entire time she was In there. This was right before he was hospitalized and even said he thought he might have it. So I believe prolly she brought it in from him. He’s actually been transferred to one of the bigger hospitals in the City for further care. So this got him pretty good.

Anywho, lately BOTH my wife and I have been experience fairly severe low back pain. Which I’ve now seem to center on what would likely be sciatic nerve type pain. A few days ago, I was in so much pain where my legs were hurting so bad. I couldn’t even bend over to touch my toes without that nerve pain shooting thru the roof! My old lady has been complaining of the same low back pain for weeks, and it’s in the exact same spot. And idk, as soon as my pain came on, I could tell this wasn’t actually a physical back pain, but just something unusual.

Also we both have some sort of rash. Not bad, not super itchy, but some definitely tender spots. My daughter bf has been complaining of feeling hot, and my wife said he is super hot to the touch but has no fever.. So yeah, idk. Just weird stuff.

I’ve seen that they are kinda linking recovered patients with this nerve type pain and for ME my guess is it’s the sciatic nerve that got really flared up for some reason.

First off mojo for you, and your family's suffering.

This is a mad virus, it seems to be affecting different people in different ways.

I'm now at day 33, on Monday the covid centre doctor said I'm clear of the virus, and other possible complications, yet last weekend was probably the worst I've felt, struggling with breathing, and pissing with sweat even though I no longer have a temperature. Fortunately, my breathing is good again, and I'm not burning up anymore, but I've still got the headache and dizziness that's lasted over a month. The staff told me they'd had several people reporting similar issues.

On the docs advice, I'm currently doing 3 days of co-codamol and ibuprofen, rather than just the regular advised paracetamol, we'll see how that goes. All of this seems strange considering that I only had mild symptoms of the virus initially, it would appear that it's a sneaky bastard, the aftermath has been worse than the actual illness felt.

Hang in there dude.

EndTime wrote:

Thanks man. Same to you. Truth be told, I’m kinda one of these guys who even tho I had it, I think everything is so overblown. Maybe I’m lucky? But I think I’m way more than norm than not..

Anyway, I do agree with you there seems to be some post issues that are a little more worrisome than when I had it. As I mentioned before I have a lung disease and have some shortness of breath anyway. And that really didn’t get flared up much, but there have been a few times in my sleep where I’m dreaming I can’t breath and I can’t wake up. And gonna be honest that has scared me recently the most. Because I don’t believe it’s simply a dream but I’m dreaming it because I’m struggling with my breath during my sleep. And yesterday was the 3rd time that I sorta recognize I’m dreaming and I’m struggling with breathing but I can’t wake up. Man I hate that. I can’t say I’ve experienced that sorta sleep paralysis at any other time in my life. And it’s making me slightly scared to sleep.

GuitarBilly wrote:

EndTime wrote:

Thanks man. Same to you. Truth be told, I’m kinda one of these guys who even tho I had it, I think everything is so overblown. Maybe I’m lucky? But I think I’m way more than norm than not..

Anyway, I do agree with you there seems to be some post issues that are a little more worrisome than when I had it. As I mentioned before I have a lung disease and have some shortness of breath anyway. And that really didn’t get flared up much, but there have been a few times in my sleep where I’m dreaming I can’t breath and I can’t wake up. And gonna be honest that has scared me recently the most. Because I don’t believe it’s simply a dream but I’m dreaming it because I’m struggling with my breath during my sleep. And yesterday was the 3rd time that I sorta recognize I’m dreaming and I’m struggling with breathing but I can’t wake up. Man I hate that. I can’t say I’ve experienced that sorta sleep paralysis at any other time in my life. And it’s making me slightly scared to sleep.

I had epilepsy when I was a child, which I treated and eventually outgrew but as a side effect I've been dealing with sleep paralysis my entire life. I actually just woke up from an episode now.

Sleep paralysis is usually not really related to a respiratory condition. It's more like a seizure while you're asleep. Yes it does feel like you can't breath but it's not in fact affecting your breathing.

Now you could be dealing with sleep apnea, which is a different condition and I can see like something like coronavirus could cause it or make it worse


What else are you feeling when you have these episodes?

EndTime wrote:But that sounds terrible to have anything like what I have had on any kind of regular basis... It is scary. I’ve only had it 3 times, but those 3 times have all been in the last month since I was sick. I can’t recall ever that happening before

Telephant wrote:

CptCyanide wrote:

Telephant wrote:Speaking of conspiracy theories... I have a hard time believing the lab in Wuhan set up to study Coronaviruses is purely coincidental. I don't think it was purposeful bioterrorism, but I could definitely see an inept Communist government employee fucking up safety protocols. Then again I don't have a hard time believing that only a Chinese wet market could find the reservoir/activator link between a fucking pangolin (or whatever it is) and a bat.

Would you think differently if it was some inept capitalist employee in a Western country who fucked up protocols? Cause that has happened... and not just once. I know it’s easy to blame this on some foreign country and act like it’s a big conspiracy, but if this is the case it’s more likely just due to humans being inept in general, not cause they’re Chinese.

Anthrax:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa- ... TJ20140621

Avian Flu:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/201 ... /95972126/

I have two thoughts about this post:

1. The fact you thought it was necessary to type out that last sentence disgusts me.

2. It sounds like some shit I might have said in my 20’s.

EndTime wrote:

skybluegary wrote:

EndTime wrote:A little update on my situation. Since my whole household has had the old Corona...

First let me say I’m not a Bill Gates conspirator, but if you ask me, he might be a Wolf in sheep’s clothing. At the least, I’m keeping my eyes on what happens with his involvement. He hasn’t been an “on the level” guy from the beginning if we are being honest. He’s stolen many ideas to make his dough. But whatver, I’m just saying I don’t fully trust his intentions, but I also don’t think he’s got some global elite level “politics” he’s enacting either. But he isn’t Mr. nice guy trying to help the world either. I don’t believe anyway. There is sumthin shady. Pure gut feel at this point. So innocent until proven guilty!

But back to the health issues that at this point we have to assume is Covid related. Since it’s being shared by more than one person in my house. But quickly let me back up, I may have singled out a more likely case of when we got infected. I thought it was daughter bf who is staying with us and his father had it and he also tested positive. But before that, our mechanic, who’s now been on a respirator for almost a month!! He was a great mechanic, honest prices, but for being only 7-8 years older than me he looked in his 60s.. so not a healthy guy. My wife was in there one time where he was coughing like a diseased mule! Don’t know what that means but my wife was in there during this time and she said he was coughing like crazy the entire time she was In there. This was right before he was hospitalized and even said he thought he might have it. So I believe prolly she brought it in from him. He’s actually been transferred to one of the bigger hospitals in the City for further care. So this got him pretty good.

Anywho, lately BOTH my wife and I have been experience fairly severe low back pain. Which I’ve now seem to center on what would likely be sciatic nerve type pain. A few days ago, I was in so much pain where my legs were hurting so bad. I couldn’t even bend over to touch my toes without that nerve pain shooting thru the roof! My old lady has been complaining of the same low back pain for weeks, and it’s in the exact same spot. And idk, as soon as my pain came on, I could tell this wasn’t actually a physical back pain, but just something unusual.

Also we both have some sort of rash. Not bad, not super itchy, but some definitely tender spots. My daughter bf has been complaining of feeling hot, and my wife said he is super hot to the touch but has no fever.. So yeah, idk. Just weird stuff.

I’ve seen that they are kinda linking recovered patients with this nerve type pain and for ME my guess is it’s the sciatic nerve that got really flared up for some reason.

First off mojo for you, and your family's suffering.

This is a mad virus, it seems to be affecting different people in different ways.

I'm now at day 33, on Monday the covid centre doctor said I'm clear of the virus, and other possible complications, yet last weekend was probably the worst I've felt, struggling with breathing, and pissing with sweat even though I no longer have a temperature. Fortunately, my breathing is good again, and I'm not burning up anymore, but I've still got the headache and dizziness that's lasted over a month. The staff told me they'd had several people reporting similar issues.

On the docs advice, I'm currently doing 3 days of co-codamol and ibuprofen, rather than just the regular advised paracetamol, we'll see how that goes. All of this seems strange considering that I only had mild symptoms of the virus initially, it would appear that it's a sneaky bastard, the aftermath has been worse than the actual illness felt.

Hang in there dude.

Thanks man. Same to you. Truth be told, I’m kinda one of these guys who even tho I had it, I think everything is so overblown. Maybe I’m lucky? But I think I’m way more than norm than not..

Anyway, I do agree with you there seems to be some post issues that are a little more worrisome than when I had it. As I mentioned before I have a lung disease and have some shortness of breath anyway. And that really didn’t get flared up much, but there have been a few times in my sleep where I’m dreaming I can’t breath and I can’t wake up. And gonna be honest that has scared me recently the most. Because I don’t believe it’s simply a dream but I’m dreaming it because I’m struggling with my breath during my sleep. And yesterday was the 3rd time that I sorta recognize I’m dreaming and I’m struggling with breathing but I can’t wake up. Man I hate that. I can’t say I’ve experienced that sorta sleep paralysis at any other time in my life. And it’s making me slightly scared to sleep.

IndyWS6 wrote:^ That's why I'll be glad when reliable and cost-effective tests for the virus (both current infections and "antibody") are readily available. As previously mentioned, I have had all of the common symptoms, excluding a known fever. I continue to lack any real energy and I have a dry hack/cough. I don't want to make assumptions and I would really like to know for "peace of mind" and future reaction planning if it resurges. I honestly think it's a gamble to open up anything large-scale without adequate testing. Seems incredibly risky.

On a related note, I got an email from my boss. When we do go back to work (timing still unknown), it will be in phases and I'm in "Phase 3" (the last phase). Essentially, if you can work effectively from home three or more days a week, you go back last. I'm pretty sure that "Phase 3" is code for "Shows signs of insanity - maintain isolation"

GuitarBilly wrote:Yeah testing needs to be widely available asap. There's no moving past this without proper testing.
My county is doing well as far ad that goes and they had rapid test available for all county residents that wanted one. Really surprised me actually. But there are not a whole lot of cases here to begin with and people are doing really well with social distancing, masks etc around here.