I have covid - ask me anything

adductor_injured wrote:

carmine9 wrote:

I made a statement. Giving my experience with Covid. As the OP has done.

Not sure why you find that confusing.

An AMA doesn't mean you get sensible answers. And why anyone would want to ask someone who is unquestionably a failure is just not sensible. I would rather have an AMA from people like you and me. Unvaxxed and never had the damn thing. There are literally millions of us. Seems like that would be more useful.

You're welcome to start your own AMA post.

Noyankee wrote:

Of course, you can’t get Ivermectin (in liberal States) because that ends the narrative and doesn’t make Big Pharna any long term $ by destroying your immune systems.

This is the dumbest take of this whole deal.

What is actually happening, of course, is that a few industrious right-wing scammers are selling rubes ivermectin at inflated prices.

They have a few scammy docs giving online assessments for what $100, or so?

Then you get a script for Ivm which they suggest you get filled at Pharmacy X (who has jacked up the price).

Then they pay a small army of online trolls (and get free help from the russians) to perpetuate the scam.

Ultimately it will:

Make these scammers a few bucks

Do nothing for patients and probably result in loss of life via failure to vaccinate/belief in snake-oil.

Prolong the pandemic.

Muad'''dib wrote:

adductor_injured wrote:

An AMA doesn't mean you get sensible answers. And why anyone would want to ask someone who is unquestionably a failure is just not sensible. I would rather have an AMA from people like you and me. Unvaxxed and never had the damn thing. There are literally millions of us. Seems like that would be more useful.

You're welcome to start your own AMA post.

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carmine9 wrote:

Muad'''dib wrote:

You're welcome to start your own AMA post.

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... If you ask me a question!

I agree

Thanks for the answers. Hopefully you can resume proper training well before the end of the year.

Is your wife's knee problem chronic or acute?

How big is xc in Ireland?

What team are you on that you had a teammate give you training advice?

What is your view of the USA collegiate system in terms of athlete development?

Is Mark Carroll respected and revered in Ireland (I ask b/c I met him without knowing anything about him and was impresed with his range and had a nice conversation with him)?

Assuming you have command of the Irish-English dialect and accent - how do you pronounce the name Ger? There is an important guy working for my employer's customer whose name is Ger Galvin. I've emailed with him but want to pronounce it correctly when the time comes. He's coming to the US in early December and I'll be meeting him so I'll probably try to break the ice by telling the story of how my grandma grew up in Dun Laoghaire and liked to watch the ships come into port and how her father was the honorary doctor to the king of England despite being Catholic. Do you have any subtle Ireland tidbits or anecdotes you can pass to me?

87tgpuih wrote:

Noyankee wrote:

Of course, you can’t get Ivermectin (in liberal States) because that ends the narrative and doesn’t make Big Pharna any long term $ by destroying your immune systems.

This is the dumbest take of this whole deal.

What is actually happening, of course, is that a few industrious right-wing scammers are selling rubes ivermectin at inflated prices.

They have a few scammy docs giving online assessments for what $100, or so?

Then you get a script for Ivm which they suggest you get filled at Pharmacy X (who has jacked up the price).

Then they pay a small army of online trolls (and get free help from the russians) to perpetuate the scam.

Ultimately it will:

Make these scammers a few bucks

Do nothing for patients and probably result in loss of life via failure to vaccinate/belief in snake-oil.

Prolong the pandemic.

I will prescribe anyone IVM for $50. Hit me up.

Gramps, you are destroying your immune system. Your jabs will “hopefully give you an easier course”? Wow. You are so brainwashed. You must love your TV. Enjoy your next illness , pops. Good luck getting to 85, You and your wife sound like lunatics who bought all the lies. Go get more boosters !! Yeah!!👍🏻[/quote]

Well, probably not covid. Saw my pulmonologist today - visit scheduled before symptoms. He checked me out thoroughly. No recommendation of even a test.

If I am destroying my immune system with vaccines, how did I survive to 84 considering all the vaccines I had when young? My half brother spent his short adult life in an iron lung. No Salk vaccine when he was young. George Washington's army survived Valley Forge because he ordered them to get small pox vaccinations.

I scored 1420 on my GREs - if you even got far enough with your education to know what those are. And my wife went to Johns Hopkins nursing school. But you say we are lunatics because we listen to doctors and scientists. Tell me: If you were in an accident, seriously hurt, and two men offered help, would you go for the doctor in his hospital garb or the guy in civvies who said he got all his knowledge online?

For what it's worth, when I was teaching I had a sign on my bulletin board: Question Authority. That is my automatic reaction with everything I hear and read.

"Gramps"? "Pop"? A couple of years ago, when visiting my career Army stepson and his family, something led me to drop to the floor and do 40 push-ups. They knew I had been a very competitive runner, but that was years ago. Without any prompting from me, each of them also did 40. But from my perhaps biased perspective, they struggled more than I.

Muad'dib wrote:

Just turned 45.

Feels like a cold, with mostly congestion, headache, and runny nose. Symptoms started wednesday with just mild congestion.

Ran the day before the test (friday), a short xc workout tune up with mile /1000m /400m, in prep for a 5k I was due to run this week end. Workout went fine. Felt a little tired during cool down, but heart rate wasn't particularly high.

I had a similar situation in June 2020. Unvaxxed and no antigen test available at the time. The first symptoms were mild and transitory... a headache in a spot I've never had a headache before, congestion, diarrhea, mild fever, fatigue, burning eyes. None of these symptoms lasted more than a few hours. They all appeared over the course of a couple of days. The fever showed up on a test in the morning and disappeared in the afternoon. The only lingering symptom (which didn't appear initially) was severe shortness of breath. I literally would be out of breath after running for 2 minutes. It lasted about 3 months and then rapidly went away in the course of a couple of weeks. I have no long-term effects.

A test for antigens in July 2020 came back negative, but I was told at the time that this particular test was only about 50% accurate.

Have you had any shortness of breath? For me, it didn't start until a couple of weeks after the first signs.

Sorry, I meant to say that no At Home Covid Test was available at the time.

If I am destroying my immune system with vaccines, how did I survive to 84 considering all the vaccines I had when young?

What vaccines did you take when you were young?

I am over 15 years younger than you and we got only 2 as kids in the 50s and 60s.

Do you think these new drugs are safe because other vaccines you took were?

Just ten more posts unkle comrade and your wonthly bonus of 20 beets, a liter of wodka, and 10 rubble will be yours!

Another Former Repub wrote:

Just ten more posts unkle comrade and your wonthly bonus of 20 beets, a liter of wodka, and 10 rubble will be yours!

One more post from you that actually discusses the issue will be your first.

Does it not bother you that the establishment lies and fear campaigns have you seeing Russians everywhere?

I think we can assume now that there's a chronic aspect to her injury. She injured her knee and ACL while snowboarding in Colorado in her late teens. Was fine for the next 20+ years but maybe father time is catching up with uncared issues..

XC is important in an irish club runner's calendar. It's subdivided into three classes: novice, intermediate, and senior (which means "open" here). Geographically, there's official events at county, region and national levels. Plenty of races in short. Compared to the US where i did XC (bay area/northern CA), the courses are much tougher - lots of mud, rain, hail, tall & uneven grass. Distances are 10k for senior, except nationals (12k).

As far as i know, there's nothing like NCAA in Europe, let alone Ireland. I wish there was. Obviously it comes with huge budgets... What always amazes me though is that despite the pool of incredible talents in D1 and the semi-professionnal training regimen, the US is not all that strong in distance running on a global scale. Do students just burn out, get bored or pursue other interests?

Mark Carroll is known in the running world, but the most famous distance athletes would be Eamon Coghlan , John Treacy, Jerry Kiernan (sadly passed away recently).

I see Eamon Coghlan regularly, he likes a pint of guinness in a pub next door to me. A true gentleman, very humble. He was senator but never got into the politician game.

Ger is easy to pronounce, it's just like "Jer". You spelled Dun Laoghaire better than 99% of Irish people! Here's an anecdote: Dun Laoghaire used to be the main ferry port between the east of Ireland and the UK and France. Now, the only regular passenger boat to/from Dun Laoghaire takes you to .... Dublin! I took it last summer, it's a slow and quiet cruise through Dublin's port and industrial past. Somewhat interesting!

I believe antigen tests are most effective when you are contagious. They are more reliable this year than last. I recall reading that truckloads of test kits were destroyed in the summer of 2020 as their reluability was below 60%.

I've had no issue breathing, lungs feel clear. At the same time i haven't really exercised. Just a few push ups every day.

I've had no fever as well.

In other good news, i was able to smell coffee and oranges very faintly this morning.

carmine9 wrote:

If I am destroying my immune system with vaccines, how did I survive to 84 considering all the vaccines I had when young?

What vaccines did you take when you were young?

I am over 15 years younger than you and we got only 2 as kids in the 50s and 60s.

Do you think these new drugs are safe because other vaccines you took were?

Diphteria, tetanus, polio, measles, mumps, TB, rubella. As far as i can remember.

My opinion is that the covid vaccines are generally safe. They're not perfect, not a cure-all, and can have side effects. I believe serious side effects are very rare, and while you don't get 100% protection from covid and its latest variants, it's a nice weapon to have in our arsenal.

But given my experience, i think we need more weapons: better or updated vaccines, and antiviral treatments. Preventative measures will only work temporarily because it's in our nature to mix, socialise, touch things etc ....

Have you begun your funeral planning? Or like a jerk, are you going to leave that your wife?

Most diseases that we are vaccinated against as kids have been reduced 95+ percent. Measles, mumps, rubella, DPT, polio, Hib, etc DPT is 5 shots I think?

Get a grip.

Did you have any side effects from the vaccine? Especially the second time? Or were you comfortable after both vaccines? Also, are you a type 2 or do you have zero underlying health problems?