Mostly Apolitical Thread for Discussing/Venting our Rational/Irrational COVID-19 Fears and Experiences in 2020

I don't wanna jinx myself, but aside from an asymptomatic infection in September 2022 (not so much a sniffle, detectable only b/c my doctor gave me an antibody test a month later) I haven't gotten sick after seven jabs.

one concern w/covid is the possibility that multiple infections can fuck you up over time. anecdotally the people i know who have had it a few times have been increasingly sick w/not-covid illnesses as well, just really knocked flat by various viruses.

meanwhile on my local next door someone is claiming they'll never get a vax because they know five(!) people who died right after they got a shot. i have my doubts about that tale.

i'm really fortunate to WFH, i feel terrible that my poor kid is on the front lines, especially with the new Cali guidelines which give full permission for covid-positive but asymptomatic kids to be sent to school.

A good friend of mine's son, after catching covid some three years go, lost a lot of his sense of smell and taste, and when it came back there were certain things he mysteriously could no longer stomach, like eggs and meat. Well, three years later and his taste for eggs and meat has returned ... after he got back from a semester in China! Maybe they engineered a new counter-virus?