Coronavirus, Covid 19 Discussion and How It Has Affected Your Daily Life Chat Thread

[SnapdragonQ]

First friend is at an apparent 100 % according to cardiac doctor. Fingers crossed. 2nd friend is more of a long hauler - improving but very slowly. He still has fatigue and is slow to regain lung function. His 3 family members are apparently at 100 % recovery. It is a truly strange virus in the way that it acts differently in different people.

Glad to hear the positive and I agree...it's mind boggling how some are fine, some get a little sick only, and some just get bombarded!

..and now a mutation coming our way? C'mon! Enough already!

I saw that!
Did see a snippet this morning that some doctors think the current vaccines *should be able to handle that strain, but we won't know for some time.

 

[MROO]

First friend is at an apparent 100 % according to cardiac doctor. Fingers crossed. 2nd friend is more of a long hauler - improving but very slowly. He still has fatigue and is slow to regain lung function. His 3 family members are apparently at 100 % recovery. It is a truly strange virus in the way that it acts differently in different people.

That's good news! DS is still having issues with the fatigue, too. He likens it to when he had a bad flu a few years ago. It took him almost two months to fully recuperate and rebuild his strength. Based on how he feels, now, he figures it will be about the same with Covid.

And you're right about how everyone is different, with different reactions and sequences. There doesn't seem to be a "normal course" for this beast. My own experience left me with a lovely carousel of symptoms. All of them were present for two solid weeks, it's just that one would rotate to the forefront before stepping back a bit. That left me with a new irritating and uncomfortable issue every few days. Over a month later, I still get days where one of the symptoms briefly, but pointedly, reminds me that it was here. I DO hope that fades over time ... this is one virus I'd like to forget, at least in that immediate a sense!

 

[ChocolateMouse]

 

[Molpet]

Thank you, same to you

 

[IamRainey]

The NYT recommends knitting as a remedy to the stresses of potential illness and the claustrophobia of being housebound. They also say that if you plan to make something for someone else, you tend to think of them as you knit and that helps resolve feelings of loneliness and isolation.

I can do a lot of crafty things. I've never mastered knitting and my few attempts have been rather awful. But, ironically, when I was out at a craft store this morning I saw some very fluffy yard that looked like it was begging to be around and tickling someone's neck.

Merry Yule and Happy Solstice to you, CM and all who celebrate it. And don't forget about the celestial event tonight! Hope we all get a good chance to see it.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Anybody gonna be watching these tonight!?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiec...rs-on-the-solstice-this-week/?sh=49d805fb5348

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Yes. I won't be around for the next one. The great conjunction from my side yard past all the trees. We are luckily having a perfectly clear sky tonight. Best such event in 800 years.

Yesterday morning I had a great view of the space station from my front yard. It went directly overhead flying from southwest to northeast for six minutes.

All this combined with winter solstice. Ours was at 4:02 AM this morning, today is the shortest day of the year and tonight is the longest night of the year.
We can look forward to pullets/hens being photo stimulated soon.

At my latitude, tomorrow will be 3 seconds longer than today.
January 1st will be almost 4 minutes longer.
February 1st will be 49 minutes longer and by then each day will be 2 minutes longer than the day before and chickens in natural light should be detecting the change.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Yes. I won't be around for the next one. The great conjunction from my side yard past all the trees. We are luckily having a perfectly clear sky tonight.
Yesterday morning I had a great view of the space station from my front yard. It went directly overhead flying from southwest to northeast for six minutes.
All this combined with winter solstice. Ours was at 4:02 AM this morning, today is the shortest day of the year and tonight is the longest night of the year.
We can look forward to pullets/hens being photo stimulated soon.

Oh wow that’s amazing!!! I wonder if we could have seen the space station! I didn’t look for it or notice. we are, unfortunately, having a very cloudy day today so I hope it clears up in time

And my birds have already begun to lay again this week

 

[IamRainey]

It's supposed to remain visible, if less spectacular, until Christmas, so don't give up!

 

[aart]

We can look forward to pullets/hens being photo stimulated soon.

YES!!