Topic: Coronavirus outbreak

@Tyranexx hey thats great news! Glad to hear it 😁

@Tyranexx Ah that's great news! I'm glad for them. I really am.

The family friend I talked about before sadly couldn't make it, she passed away on Sunday. Mostly due to complications from her diabetes, from what I hear. She spent over a week in the hospital, but even then it was such a sudden thing, it doesn't feel real. I suppose that's just how it usually is.

@Snatcher, @Losermagnet Thank you to you both!

Edit: @Eel Thank you as well. I do wish your news was better though. My sympathies.

@Eel i'm so sorry to hear that

Thanks... Everybody expected her to recover, but it seems even before covid, she had been hiding symptoms of anemia and kidney problems. So it was a bit of a rolling snowball that got bigger and bigger and then collided with covid.

@Eel I'm really sorry to hear that, My best regards.

So I got my second shot today so far I dont feel to bad but we shall see tomorrow.

Also found out yesterday that a friend of the family passed from COVID. I didn't know them that well so I don't know if he had other health problems or what all I know is he was in ICU for a few weeks and passed away yesterday. He wasn't that old I want to say in his 40s/50s. Just amazes me with so many people dieing yet some think COVID is a big hoax.

@Tasuki People are in denial because they don't want live a life with mandates in effect. Nobody does but to keep people from dying and out of hospitals, we have to live with social distancing, facial masks and vaccinations. However, some people don't get off their high horse to realize they are a danger to society when they actually think they are not.

I feel like I'm well and truly on the opposite end of the global experience living in Perth. We have had a total of 1215 cases of COVID, total, since the start of the pandemic. Not per day, total. ~470 cases per million. We are currently in our worst outbreak since the start of the pandemic so there's a mask mandate, but worst for us was like, 50 cases all up? For perspective the global death rate is ~700/million.

For the vast majority of the pandemic the only restriction we've had is that if you come into WA you have to isolate for 14 days. Occasionally we've had mask mandates, a couple of times we've had 2-5 day lockdowns. But really it's been basically normal here.

.... but now we have an arbitrary date set of Feb 5th where we will drop that one restriction. At a point in time when the Eastern part of Australia is close to the worst place in the world in terms of case numbers. Australia as a whole has overtaken the US for new cases per day per million.

At least I've had my booster shot now and our state has a pretty high vaccination rate in general. Still, I feel like we're a couple of weeks away from the floodgates opening. Could be a fun year......

@MortalKombat2007 No one is wearing mask where I i'm, at all, like there acting like everything is fine all of a sudden and no! they got the shot and now they think the don't need mask, no you need mask, walk into a store a shop and you will see (Where I live) All sorts of people not wearing there mask, like what the hell?

I wish I was as good as the Americans at haggling. When I was offered a shot I just said yes like a sucka but I see the Americans saying no to their free shots and then still saying no to free shots plus savings bonds, Krispy Kreme and all sorts of goodies on the second/third/fourth offer. They must be holding out until they start getting offered something really big to take the shots like a diamond encrusted skateboard or a cameo appearance on Keeping Up with the Kardashians!

Well been 14 hours now and I am starting to feel the side effects. It's honestly not to bad. The only symptoms I am feelings is I feel cold, achey and tired oh and a sore arm. To be honest the cold I had two weeks ago felt alot worst. Still we will see what tomorrow brings.

@Tasuki Well, good, that's your immune system kicking in, so you know for certain it's working. That's exactly how I felt after my first shot. It wasn't too bad though. I'm getting the booster shot this Sunday.

@jump
Not worth holding out over here. First dose I got a juice box and an entry into a million dollar lottery draw, second dose I got water, booster I got a card telling me when I could leave the pharmacy

I suppose I got COVID antibodies which will allow me to do my part in suppressing community spread when it comes here. Which is nice. But those Americans got burgers, cash and all sorts!

@Snatcher No mandates may not be in place in your area, or they are not enforced. Most stores in my area require facial masks but it is not enforced so customers can come and go with no protection whatsoever. I recieved both shots (intend to get a booster soon) and still wear my mask when I go to the mall but I often feel like I am the only customer who does this.

So 24 hours in and besides having a monster headache and being thirsty all the time I don't feel to bad. I am weak though as this morning I tried to pour me some orange juice and ended up dropping the whole jug and spilling it everywhere.

I am really hoping I continue to feel better cause I have work tomorrow.

Well, I am feeling fine this morning which is good cause I have work today. Overall wasn't as bad as I expected but glad I took the day off from work.

Well found out that both my roommate and a friend of mine have the rona. Luckily I haven't seen either of them in a while. Both were vaccinated so they both said it wasn't all that bad. They both said it was more like a cold then anything else. My roommate said the worst thing about it was not being able to taste or smell which made eating very interesting to say the least.

In fact my roommate just thought she has a bad headcold. It wasn't till her husband came home from work and was hit by the fumes of paint, she was painting minitures that she noticed she couldn't smell the fumes at all.

@Tasuki Dang thats crazy, to figure out by getting paint to the face, I'm glade to hear everyone is doing well.

@Snatcher Yeah usually she paints with a window open to avoid the fumes but she was so into it that she didn't even noticed that she didn't have any windows open.