by jadegil6 » Sat Jul 10, 2021 4:42 pm
I had covid when it first started, before anyone knew it was spreading around the US.
I was sick for about 2 weeks with high fever, cough and body aches.
I treated myself at home with fever reducer (Tylenol) and I also bought some decongestant cough syrup that I took at night.
I would wake up numerous times during the night with coughing attacks. I had a pan close to my bed where I could spit out the phlegm. I tried to sleep on my side instead of on my back. That seemed to help.
I did get up and stayed up all day. I did not lay down during the day. I felt pretty bad at times, but I got through it without medical treatment. Since then, my daughter and her husband had it. He did not get sick, but she did for about 10 days. He took care of her.
I have had some elderly cousins who got covid, and they were sick, but they did not go to the hospital.
I have some friends in the Philippines right now who have covid and who are quarantined by the government in hotels.
There is a new variant of covid called, delta.
It is spreading around the world rapidly. It is 10x more infectious than the original covid. Many counties that were not severely affected during the first covid are now being severely affected by the delta variety.
I am fortunate that I live in the US, and I was able to get the Moderna vaccine (2 shots) through the Veterans Health System. Many places in the US are reopening without social distancing or facemasks. Some areas in the US where the population is mostly Republicans and Trump supporters, they are not getting vaccinated, and in those areas, covid is getting worse. Stats say of the last 2000 deaths from covid in the US, 150 were previously vaccinated, and 1750 were not vaccinated. This indicates that one has a much better chance of living when they are vaccinated.
Nobody knows what is going to happen in the future. I think it may take a very long time for the world to get past this virus.
God bless us all.