Comment on Is it still seasonal allergies if they last all four seasons?

• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Luckily (less luck an more a nigh religious isolation and mask use habit) I missed getting covid. The timing of me quitting and covid starting was a wonderful thing though. I can’t imagine trying to maintain that addiction with all the risks being increased and supplies of the cigarettes being lower.

  I had started chantix well before the first reports started making it into my awareness, and by the time the first waves of deaths here in the US were puckering buttholes, I was done smoking, and had moved over to zero nicotine vape pens to handle the habits of having something to do with my hands and mouth (other than trying to suck cock at glory holes, which didn’t seem wise with covid raging anyway).

  The masks originally muted the allergies when out in the world, but this house is old as a Neanderthal dick, and at least twice as dusty, so I was often tempted to just wear a mask at home too lol.

  Fuck, that was a wild couple of years. Covid was fucking traumatic even though I never caught it. My anxiety spiked just now remembering how bad it was.

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  • starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Unless you tested every day, you don’t know if you had Covid. Many people don’t have symptoms or don’t recognise them, which is why it spreads so easily.

    Covid is still around, it’s killing more people than it was at the start of the pandemic, and also giving millions of people long covid, heart disease, allergies, etc.

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    • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Dude. Don’t be a dick.

      First, you don’t have to test every day, just frequently. And I was because two people in my household are immune compromised. Since my kid did get covid, there was a span where I was testing every day, as were the two adults with immune system compromisement.

      Second, I’m disabled and was dealing with my own medical issues which necessitated regular trips to the doctor, so it wasn’t just home testing being done.

      Third, I’m not a fucking moron, and I was in the medical field back when I could still work.

      So, I know I didn’t fucking have covid, or I wouldn’t have fucking said so.

      Maybe not starting from a place of condescension would be a good thing for you in the future@

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