Covid-19 Discussion (moderated)

Careful pleasedontsing, btickler will block you 🚫 📢

Can't say I didn't warn you. If you had made any actual points, I would not be blocking you. It's really not a hard guideline to follow...

For everyone else...read the OP and follow the guidelines. Informally, I use a "3 and out" rule of thumb, but you can avoid this extremely easily by posting literally *anything* reasonable about Covid that you can back up with a simple link.

Note how several posters have made "sorry to hear that" style posts, and I haven't said a word. Why? Because they all have prior histories here posting contributions.

If you come in here just barking about whatever, and you do not make any attempt to contribute anything cogent and useful, you will end up posting elsewhere.

I think we have a new variant.....well, its new to me... https://www.yahoo.com/news/arcturus-covid-19-variant-spreading-184833692.html

A vaccine for pancreatic cancer is showing good signs in the early stages. https://www.yahoo.com/news/pancreatic-cancer-vaccine-shows-promise-181909301.html

sorry to temporarily hijack this topic. apologies to @diogenesdue.

thanks for everyone's wishes. my dad's back home now. he's physically fine but mentally much worse. this happens with every hospital visit and he never gets back to his previous level. owing to the violence towards the help and my mom, we've pretty much decided to put him in a nursing home.

back to on topic:

didn't know if i already said, but this time my covid symptoms were really minimal. 2 days of body ache and 4 days of sore throat. but with each infection, my aerobic capacity goes down and never really fully recovers. and my immunity to common cold or urti.

also it seems we're allowed to travel while being infected as the local 'Disease Outbreak Response System Condition' dorscon is at level green now.

Does your dad have altzheimers? If so, only certain nursing homes have a ward for that. Good luck finding a good one. I went throught that with my dad some yrs back.

not afaik. just dementia.

Does your dad have altzheimers?

Alzheimers, no. But this was just asked and answered. I'd be worried 😉

Maybe my dad's high as well explaining the alt.

Not a problem. My father was 6'5", a little bigger than me, and it definitely becomes impossible to handle care at home at some point. If your dad was a vet you might be able to get him into a VA home. I will warn you, though, I had to go through 160 pages of legal documents in the "contract " (my siblings are not quite as thorough as I am ...). Then my father passed away a week before having to go into the home, so that was a blessing in many ways.

My dad's slightly smaller than I am but larger than my mom and her helper put together. And physically strong. And obstinate. Add the confusion and frustration of dementia to it and it's a deadly combo.

We get great subsidies for what they call the pioneer generation here. A hospital bed and mattress arrive tomorrow from healthcare at a 90% discount tomorrow.

I'm breaking a rule by posting here but I'll risk the mute.

I'm sorry to hear about your dad's troubles. I hope things go as well as possible. That can't be an easy situation to be in.

Thanks man. But what's life without it's challenges? 😉

Glad you're doing better, Idilis. Hang in there. Eat your vitamins. There's research about various post Covid therapies and after wading through all the BioSpeak on one paper it comes down to eating your vegetables. There's a suggestion that eating Sulforaphane supplements may help, but it's usually cheaper to go straight to the source. Throw some broccoli on the Idli.

"Sulforaphane is a chemical that is made when chewing cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower, and broccoli sprouts. A chemical in these vegetables called glucoraphanin mixes with an enzyme in humans called myrosinase, which produces sulforaphane."

Why would they mute you, Eldred? Have you been a naughty boy?

Thanks man.

I do love my broccoli and spinach. I normally consume a huge salad in the morning to ensure I get it out of the way for the day.

It's the sentence structure that makes it all the more painful.

Not to mention they blamed China

covid is pretty much nearly gone. Or it is just that nobody talks about it