Just realized I don't think I've been sick since I had COVID three and a half years ago.
PUNY HUMANS, I HAVE BECOME IMMORTAL !!!
this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2025
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I think Ive gotten sick twice in the last 2 years. One seemed like it could've been covid but the test failed so technically I'm still covid free π, but the other was just because I went out without proper warm clothes on a rainy night and caught a cold.
7-10 days? I can't remember the last time I was sick for more than 2...
still sick right now. it's been three weeks.
not even covid either.
been off my antibiotics for about one week . at this point.
I swear these new "colds/flus" are either shady government developed superbugs that lost containment, or shady pharmaceutical superbugs introduced to the public to increase profits.
I really feel this comic.
I was sick beginning of December, mostly recovered after a week and I went back to work, but my throat still hurts when speaking - had 3 weeks off around Christmas, rested my voice, visited doctor for meds, but itβs still not gone. Doctors are still not sure what it is, but similar thing happens a lot with covid, so maybe itβs that.
Such a small thing, but lasts so long and doesnβt improve, I have zero control over it, and it makes me hopeless. I feel like it broke me, a successful manager, a married man in my 30s, I was crying yesterday when walking my dog.
Not sure how long can I go on working this way - I could of course go on sick leave, but doing that just after returning from a long holiday and kicking off a new project, will not make me too popular, and would guarantee that I miss the promotion Iβm working for.
Not sure how long can I go on working this way - I could of course go on sick leave, but doing that just after returning from a long holiday and kicking off a new project, will not make me too popular, and would guarantee that I miss the promotion Iβm working for.
Capitalism~^TM
Stuff like this is why everybody who says shit like "it's just a cold, move on" is a cunt.
Most of those ppl are too smoothbrain to realise the difference between a symptom and a disease.
Also, most of those are also the ones coming to work with a cold and cough and spreading it to others by coughing on shared-use equipment like keyboards and sometimes even coughing right at other's faces.
Every single other voice assistant should absolutely say that in response to hearing βHey, Siri.β
They won't, because adding more wake words makes it much more likely to be triggered accidentally.
My samsung phone regularly wakes to people talking in videos on my computer. They don't even say anything that sounds to me like hey google or Bixby. THEN it never seems to want to work when I try to use it.
"Hey, err, Alexa...
_How fucking dare you."
maybe in 10 years when we train an ai to know when to respond
There are tips and tricks to help ease the symptoms.
For example, if you eat out out some gingers, you'll die happy.
I am so confused by this comment, and further confused as to all the upvotes.
There is clearly an inside joke that I'm not getting, or people are really hot for gingers.
Guilty as charged, I'd for sure eat out a Ginger right now if there's a chance she'll break my fever, hell even if she can't!
Ginger tea is actually amazing when you have a cold. Especially if you make it with fresh ginger. Burns away all your snot and some of the pain in my experience.
Drink liquids to stay hydrated, use lotion-impregnated tissues to avoid drying out your nose when you blow it, take a DayQuil.
Can confirm, am sick and many cocktails have made me feel much better.
lotion-impregnated tissues
I make those myself.
Stop making too many of those when you are sick. It takes too many nutrients, which would otherwise go into replenishing WBCs.
...I am a degenerate.
I'm just gonna share this here and leave it up to people as to whether not to believe me, but when I moved to Canada I had gotten a really bad cold. An old lady I worked with asked me if I had ever taken Echenacia. Hadn't heard of it. She said to start taking it at the first sign of cold symptoms and continue 3x daily like an antibiotic until the symptoms have cleared. No joke, every cold I've had since then (2017) has only lasted 4 days or less, and the symptoms are very manageable and mild.
It's honestly the single most effective supplement I've ever entertained, and it's relatively inexpensive to pick up in any pharmacy or supplement aisle.
Hmm would love if this was true, but checking on Google scholar it looks like most studies say using this as a treatment for the cold doesn't conclusively show any link to a shorter duration of sickness, etc.
Back before COVID every cold I had lasted a day or two. Now my immune system is fucked up.
Relevant Futurama: https://youtube.com/watch?v=tza7ymPVqD4 (bad recording, volume up)
Placebos are so effective, we've just started selling them explicitly (Zeebo). If it's cheap and doesn't have any negative effects, I don't care if it's a placebo or more; it works.
It's wild if it is purely placebo, because I've given so many anecdotal cure supplements an honest shot throughout my life, and have ruled every last one of them out as either ineffective, or total horseshit. But the results I experience (as well as my wife, who is officially onboard with Echenacia now) are astounding.
Getting sick used to be a nightmare for me. I would always end up with a horrible sore throat and sinus infection that would inevitably go to my lungs and/or ears, and it would persist up to two weeks. Now I just shrug it off in a few days.
I fucking feel this. Every time I start to get a cold Im like βFUCK THE NEXT WEEKβ
Am I not supposed to continue smashing cones? Because cold, flu, covid... has always been improved in me with an enormous intake of THC.
I've found a chemically induced coma has fixed up my (light viral) illnesses right quick and painlessly! π
Day 6 here. :( First 3 days I crawled into a bottle of NyQuill.
Buh, no fair!
I always go for tylenol complete, the nighttime ones knocks you out at night, and the daytime ones make you feel like a god who can do anything. This is not a paid advertisement but if youβre listening Tylenol, then it could be!