<div dir="ltr"><div>My younger brother (in his early forties) got Covid, and was sick as a dog for a week, but is much better now. His young sons never got it. But he complains of occasional brain fog, which is scary and will hopefully fade soon. A good friend of mine has an aunt (late sixties) who is in the hospital with it, and struggling. At the state owned retirement home where my mother lives in Alaska, the facility is in a very smart lockdown. They are not taking chances with the lives of the seniors who live there. Food is dropped off at the doors of the residents. There will be no Christmas party, but frequent visitors speak through the doors to bring holiday cheer. My Filipina significant other and her employer take the pandemic seriously, and she looks ready for surgery when she goes out the door. She is afraid of getting me infected, since I am about a decade older than her. But when we went shopping the other day, I noticed about twenty percent of the people when outside, using their face mask as a chin diaper. <br></div><div><br></div><div>John<br> </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 12:52 PM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">Hoping you get well soon.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Everyone else: please be extra careful. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Regards,</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Dan</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Dec 23, 2020, at 8:13 PM, Henry Rivera via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span>Friends,</span><br><span></span><br><span>I was surprised to learn yesterday while at work that I’m positive for covid-19. This could put a damper in my life extension plans :-/ </span><br><span></span><br><span>I had worked only a partial day the prior day which was Monday due to recovering from what I thought was a cold that had me in bed most of Saturday and Sunday. From what I can figure out, I likely caught it Tuesday and became symptomatic on Thursday. I didn’t feel great but was able to telework Friday while taking long breaks to lie down. </span><br><span></span><br><span>I have to screen my many direct reports daily for covid at work and am thus familiar with the symptoms. I didn’t think I had it because I never had a fever, never had loss of smell, and never had gastrointestinal symptoms. </span><br><span></span><br><span>If my timing is right, even 9 days after catching it, I still have fatigue, headaches, congestion, and body aches. A sore throat ended over the weekend. My partner who has it too is experiencing a sore throat, congestion, and aches. No fevers for her either. </span><br><span></span><br><span>I’m taking extra vitamin D and NAIDs. I just read about fen</span>ofibrate being potentially helpful today <a href="https://h5.newsbreakapp.com/mp/0Y5mrPI7" target="_blank">https://h5.newsbreakapp.com/mp/0Y5mrPI7 </a>I’d love to avoid some lung damage. I welcome any other suggestions for damage control. I feel like I’m getting better. But I’m definitely still sick. I’m grateful I don’t seem to have too severe a case or complications... yet. I do have risk factors for complications. I’m not in the clear yet. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">My two sons don’t have their test results back. They stay at their mother’s part of the time too. I think one of them has it. Depending on those results, it may be an even more isolated xmas now for me. Damn covid! </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">-Henry</div></div></div></blockquote></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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