Posted on 04/21/2023 7:53:54 AM PDT by george76
Yet....they STILL keep using the d@#$ thing!
Yes, me too. My sister wasn’t in the best of health, but I would say just average for her age. She had a hip problem a few years ago that made her have real pain, so she prefers to sit or lay down. She does walk, but not much. I would call her sedentary. Once her hip problem was fixed, I’ve encouraged her to just get up and walk more, but she doesn’t.
She is a germaphobe, was before this, and this has made it even worse. She cleans her counters and surfaces often but I think she overdoes that. It’s sad. I can’t get through to her at all. She listens to her kids who have no scientific training whatsoever. To me she does it all backwards. It is ok to be around other people so that our immune systems get used to little amounts of germs. I think somehow she has become immune-compromised.
She’s only 70 but acts like she’s 85 or older. I think in many ways she has given up on life, but she has so much to live for. She has 3 great kids, an especially understanding husband, and two beautiful grandchildren that she lives near, so gets to see them every week (now that her daughter allows her to come by, which didn’t happen at all through lockdowns. Oh, and they all live in the free state of Florida that had the least restrictive lockdown policies of most states. She didn’t have to wear a mask everywhere; she chooses to. I think that the masks are bad for our health and our society at large. They make us not trust each other. I could go on, but won’t. It’s a sore subject between the two of us. She won’t be around forever, so I try not to let it interfere in our relationship.
We are the opposite. It hit my husband a little harder than it did me. One thing I can say is that he has to sit at a desk all day long and work, while my work is keeping the house clean and orderly, and the yard, too. I’m outside nearly every day tending to something out there, and in the winter months that can be snow or ice or gathering kindling from the fallen branches, chopping wood into a manageable size. So every day I get some sort of work out in. We both walk for about 3 or so miles every day, which has been wonderful for both of us. We cherish that time together.
I hated Paxlovid and if I ever do get CoVid again, I won’t take it. It’s been almost a year since we had it. For us, it was very mild. I have had other viruses that have knocked me on my butt more so than CoVid did. I realize that’s not everyone’s experience.
Ping and I never got that stupid vaxxxxxx. I do take loads of Vitamin D and K2
What I have bought this year
https://www.amazon.com/Ingredients-Vitamin-Softgels-Vitamins-Supplement/dp/B087DZKHVW
AND
You lose your smell and taste? And if so have you gotten it back?
No, had smell and taste the whole time. That Paxlovid was the nastiest stuff I’ve ever had. Horrible metallic aftertaste that started 30 minutes after taking eat, and lasted right until the next dose. I sucked on hard candy and ate potato chips or salty stuff to get rid of it, which didn’t work, but I was desperate. I guess it lessened it some though.
My symptoms were a headache, a fever for a day and a half, some chills at one point, didn’t last long, and I didn’t feel like exerting myself outside for 3 days. I was never “in bed”. Still did all the laundry, cooking, and necessary chores like washing dishes as usual. I read a little more those days, and was only “sick” for 3 days.
Broke the fever on day 2. Coughed a lot those first two days, especially at night when I laid down. On the third day I felt about 75% normal, then day 4, I was 95%. By day 5 I had every bit of energy back, and a very tiny cough that hung on for another week maybe. Husband got it first on a work trip. When he got sick, about 20 people in the facility he went to got it that same time. There are hundreds of people who work at that place, maybe even 1000.
We’ve been taking a strong regimen of vitamins and supplements daily since the pandemic hit. Among those are D3, C, zinc, quercetin, NAC, K2, but that’s not everything. It’s a long list and most people don’t go to this effort. I just don’t want us to ever have to go on prescription medicines where we can avoid it. So we eat fresh foods, not processed, and get exercise every day.
I think consuming garlic and onions is good for health. They have a good antioxidant. If one consumes them, one might not need to take antioxidant supplements or take less.
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