Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 110

[ecosophia]

We are now in the third year of these open posts. As the phrase "died suddenly" repeats in the mass media like a mantra, statistics for work days lost to illness and all-cause mortality mount up in heavily vaccinated nations, and more and more ugly facts about the official response to Covid spill out into public, we are entering what may well turn out to be the most difficult period of the Covid disaster -- the phase in which denial rises in lockstep with the death rate, and a great many people try not to admit what has been done to them by the people and institutions they trusted. It could get ugly, folks.

So it's time for another open post. The rules are the same as before: 

1. If you plan on parroting the party line of the medical industry and its paid shills, please go away. This is a place for people to talk openly, honestly, and freely about their concerns that the party line in question is dangerously flawed and that actions being pushed by the medical industry et al. are causing injury and death. It is not a place for you to dismiss those concerns. Anyone who wants to hear the official story and the arguments in favor of it can find those on hundreds of thousands of websites.

2. If you plan on insisting that the current situation is the result of a deliberate plot by some villainous group of people or other, please go away. There are tens of thousands of websites currently rehashing various conspiracy theories about the Covid-19 outbreak and the vaccines. This is not one of them. What we're exploring is the likelihood that what's going on is the product of the same arrogance, incompetence, and corruption that the medical industry and its tame politicians have displayed so abundantly in recent decades. That possibility deserves a space of its own for discussion, and that's what we're doing here. 
 
3. If you plan on using rent-a-troll derailing or disruption tactics, please go away. I'm quite familiar with the standard tactics used by troll farms to disrupt online forums, and am ready, willing, and able -- and in fact quite eager -- to ban people permanently for engaging in them here. Oh, and I also lurk on other Covid-19 vaccine skeptic blogs, so I'm likely to notice when the same posts are showing up on more than one venue. 

4. If you don't believe in treating people with common courtesy, please go away. I have, and enforce, a strict courtesy policy on my blogs and online forums, and this is no exception. The sort of schoolyard bullying that takes place on so many other internet forums will get you deleted and banned here. Also, please don't drag in current quarrels about sex, race, religions, etc. No, I don't care if you disagree with that: my journal, my rules. 

With that said, the floor is open for discussion.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Unvaxxed here...
I got what I believe to be COVID a few weeks ago, and was down for three days, exhausted for maybe three more. A week and a half after I got over it, I had rebound symptoms that resolved within 24 hours, although now a couple of days out I am still feel off. My wife has been left with a cough that won't go away. We can control it with quercetin and bromelain and omega 3, but once the supplements wear off it is still there somewhat. I'll probably have to take her in for some prednisone and/or a steroidal inhaler soon. As with the first round of COVID two years ago, my kids barely got it, one day or less of feeling bad and they bounced back.
I say all this to say that the current variant is rotten. Especially if you are older.

[(Anonymous)]

Also unjabbed, got covid in 22, no biggie, but the congestion and cough lingered. When I finally took some of the apple-flavored horse paste, bingo. I've been fine ever since. I am not a doctor, this is my personal story.

You can get the non-apple-flavored without a prescription in New Hampshire and also in Vermont, I believe. Maybe Tennesseee, not sure.

Mocha Amphibious Earthwormosaurus

[(Anonymous)]

And another remedy for congestion-- super easy and super cheap:
apple cider vinegar and a paper towel

(appox 3 min video shows how)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_Y0dvMmN6M

[(Anonymous)]

my very young son had this persistent, not too bad, but unshakeable cough, too. what finally (3 months later) worked for him was nebulized colloidal silver. 6 times a day, 15 minutes minimum, 3 days, did the trick.

[(Anonymous)]

We can get IVM from Mexico, we are a stone's throw from the border. May try that.

[(Anonymous)]

CS user here. i tried vitamin I on my son, too; didn't get rid of the cough. i tried lots of different things, the only thing that helped was the nebulized CS. it's very straightforward to make, there's a website called "the art of making colloidal silver" that shows you how to make better CS (using a resistor is key) than most of the stuff you can buy.

[(Anonymous)]

After I caught the coof back in 2021, I had lingering fatigue. Pine needle tea seemed to help me. (YMMV)

[escorcher]

You have my sympathies, unvaxxed.

I'm running at the same kind of timeframe - 3 days out, 3 days pretty useless and now not too bad but have noticed my sense of smell slipping away to virtually nothing and tinnitus is about doubled. Small inconveniences in the grand scheme of things though, especially as my partner is still knocked out by it. At least it's not 2020 style I'd say.

[(Anonymous)]

I've had a throat-clearing, public-alarming, old-timer hacking for a year.
Sometimes my nose does gymnastics (internally).

I thought maybe mold in my apartment as I seem to be fine.
So the guy came and said it's not much. I can deal with it.
I got a lot of dust in my apartment. Yeah well if there was a possiblitiy
of something romantic I'd get right on it.

So I dont know. Now somebody doesn't want me to be around their child
because I've had the mildest of sore throats on and off. Gonna drink apple cider vinegar
and gargle this weekend.

Yeah I'm old. Not V. Quite sure i had covid earlier than anybody said it was around.
Because it was deeply 'chemical-war-ish' compared to previous flus.

So