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I know that COVID isn’t regarded to be a serious disease if you’re vaccinated and reasonably healthy, but I had mental fogginess for about 2 months after my infection.
I mostly seemed outwardly okay during that time, but it was a tremendous effort to just do the bare minimum.
I hope he ducks out if there’s even a fraction of those types of symptoms.
A roommate of mine was down for almost two months. He still has some mental lapses and foggy moments. That was over three years ago.
That sounds completely awful. He has my sympathy.
Same happened to my wife. Had long haul covid and now has a very hard time learning new things and retaining information for short periods. It’s been hard but she has learned to use better note Tekkno and task management apps to help.
It is serious long term for 1/5 people.
COVID being no big deal is just a lie society agreed on for convenience.
I know that COVID isn’t regarded to be a serious disease if you’re vaccinated and reasonably healthy
Bruh...
At 81 years old, life is a serious medical condition.
People of that age die of "little" shit all the time.
And remember he's saying he just tested positive, it's not why he's been like this for at least the last year it's that he's going to be even worse through the election.
This is the thing with old age that I think most people won't understand until it happens to them. The body's ability to deal with those things severely deteriorates with age. You can be peppy and active one day, and on death's door the next. COVID has proven to be particularly bad for the elderly, but every "minor" ailment or injury is much more serious, and possibly life threatening given the wrong mix of complications. Biden has probably the best chance being in the position he is, and testing positive isn't the same as being symptomatic, but he's by no means free and clear. It'll be interesting to see how this turns out.
I have two young, vaccinated and otherwise healthy family members who lost their ability to work or even walk for more than 100m outside their house for 6+ months. Covid can be extremely serious even now.
I didn't get the mental fogginess but even so, I really haven't ever felt that I fully recovered. I used to be an Ironman when it came to getting sick but now it's like I get knocked down every few weeks with some flu-like symptoms.
I couldn't finish sentences or remember common words when I needed them for about 9 months.
80 year Olds tend to die from covid. Of the things to be concerned about, his mental sharpness is obviously not even a requirement.
They're going to shove the entire nation's supply of steroids and antivirals down his throat
more than likely he is going to get the antivrals and such they would only used for hospitalized right off the bat. like paxlovid.
You don't need to be hospitalized to get all the antivirals. In fact, that's the whole thing paxlovid is supposed to prevent. Anyone with risk factors can take paxlovid, and it's very effective at preventing severe covid. It should be started as soon as possible, not waiting until someone's already hospitalized. Even in unvaccinated people, if taken early in the course, is 90% effective at preventing severe disease.
Remdesivir is the one that's generally only for hospitalized patients, though even that can be used pre hospital too.
Anyways point is, if you get covid, and have risk factors for severe covid, call your doctor or urgent care to get paxlovid to take if you can, especially if you're unvaccinated.
And yeah between getting diagnosed quickly, getting paxlovid I'm sure, and being immunized, Biden will very likely be fine.
Edit: yes he started paxlovid https://www.npr.org/2024/07/17/nx-s1-5043814/biden-covid
Paxlovid isn't just for hospitals, and for a time it was available for free with any insurance and the barest "medical need." I got COVID in 2023 and got Paxlovid just by asking the doctor nicely.
(And despite that, my symptoms were awful and it took two months to fully recover. )
I know that COVID isn’t regarded to be a serious disease
Generally by capitalists who want their workforce to keep making them money.
By the millions who actually get it and are left chronically ill (or who don't survive at all), many who aren't "reasonably healthy" yet don't deserve any less consideration - not so much.
Just to make things worse, aphasia is one of the most common type of long covid neurological effects
I’m guessing you didn’t watch the debate.
Exit strategy?
[T]he President will be self-isolating in accordance with CDC guidance for symptomatic individuals
Is that still the guideline? I know several people who have gotten COVID recently and just went about like normal, like people used to do when they were sick pre-pandemic. I told one of them they were morons, but they claimed you don't have to isolate any more since the CDC changed their guidelines.
You're supposed to isolate until you don't have symptoms,however long that takes.
It's actually worse than that. You're supposed to isolate until you're not feverish and your symptoms are improving. Which is not really at all related to when you can spread it.
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2024/p0301-respiratory-virus.html
When people get sick with a respiratory virus, the updated guidance recommends that they stay home and away from others. For people with COVID-19 and influenza, treatment is available and can lessen symptoms and lower the risk of severe illness. The recommendations suggest returning to normal activities when, for at least 24 hours, symptoms are improving overall, and if a fever was present, it has been gone without use of a fever-reducing medication.
So yes, the guidance is that you isolate until you are fever free and other symptoms are at least improving. The major change is that they don't recommend a fixed length of isolation anymore.
Girlfriend had it couple weeks ago. She stayed at home. Missed some important events too. But she rather do that than risk spreading it even more or infecting someone at risk.
His job is to meet many important people throughout the day - day after day. It’s probably applicable here.
It would be pretty funny if Trump survived a bullet, but Biden dies from turbo flu.
Well that may be it since he said he'd step aside for a medical condition.
But since COVID isn't all that threatening in most cases I doubt he'll consider that a condition.
I don't know man.
I had COVID like 7 months ago, and that headache was so god damn bad, I thought my head was gonna explode.
Imagine the worst tension headache you've ever had in your life and it won't go away even with a thousand milligrams of Tylenol. I couldn't imagine going through that at eighty one years old
This was the most memorable thing about covid for me besides the fatigue. I rarely get headaches but it gave me the worst headache of my life for a solid week.
He is gonna get the same or better treatment as Trump when he got it. You know, the stuff that wasn’t available for us regular people.
You mean Paxlovid? That's widely available, although it may not have been when Trump got it.
This spring, i had once a bit fever, nauseous, a little collapse too. After a day it was over, then a rebellious belly for a week. I was often sooner tired, less energy for a while after that. My sis, living with her husband, had the same. That was the new covid, right?