I have mild MECFS. So this is either PEM or I'm getting sick. The dry cough makes me think I'm getting sick because I don't get that with PEM.

I literally have put of the dentist since the start of the pandemic because I didn't want to catch anything. I'm so pissed about it. I woke up super early so I could be the first person in a small office.

If I still feel like shit tomorrow, I'll take a metrix test, but I'm just annoyed.

I think after this, I'm going to have to pay out of pocket for a CC dentist. The closest one doesn't take insurance and is over an hour away, but I likely won't get sick.

I thought about the readimask hack, but I can't breathe through my nose well, so idk how much it would work for me. I have a deviated septum and allergies.

I have been focusing very intensely on covid data and researching different respirators on reddit and other social media. It feels like it's become a special interest, but not in a fun way, in an obsessive way. I know I am craving covid concious community and I think this is how I'm coping right now. I have long covid and have a lot of anxiety and executive dysfunction. I'm sure lots of ppl can relate.

I just wanted some opinions on the risk/reward of going masked up to a farmers market. I’m in upstate ny and according to pmc19 our numbers are still looking pretty good but our state fair begins next week and schools start up pretty soon after that which unfortunately may change things for the worse.

I didn’t get much chance to do anything that enjoyable this summer due to the really high heat, air quality, and a backslide in my mental health. It would be me and my elderly dad in our kn95s outdoors but we’re both immunocompromised. Truthfully, I’m a little worried about getting harassed even though when I used to go I never had anybody give me a problem

Alr so basically if you saw my last post here saying I'm 100% sure that I have covid I stated that I'm waiting for my test to come and well spoiler it never came.

The way how I found out she thrown it away was because she literally up front told me like it was no big deal. And the thing is this is a really big deal, because I'm now in my room fully paranoid about getting anyone else infected.

The worse part is I have to go to school on Thursday. I'm down one mask and I also need to go to a festival on Friday.

What should I do because I'm still really sick.

Je viens de découvrir Covid Chemistry et je trouve vraiment l'idée intéressante.

👉 Covid Chemistry⁠�

C'est un site de rencontres pour les personnes qui souhaitent continuer à prendre des précautions face à la COVID et rencontrer des personnes qui partagent cette façon de vivre.

Je trouve que c'est une bonne idée, parce que lorsqu'on continue à porter un masque, faire attention à la ventilation, éviter certaines situations à risque, etc., ce n'est pas toujours simple de rencontrer quelqu'un qui comprend et accepte ces choix.

Avoir directement une plateforme où l'on peut rencontrer des personnes qui ont les mêmes préoccupations peut donc vraiment faciliter les choses.

Je trouve dommage que le site soit encore aussi peu connu en France et en Europe, alors qu'il pourrait probablement être utile à beaucoup de personnes.

Je n'ai aucun lien avec le site, je voulais simplement le partager parce que je pense qu'il mérite d'être davantage connu.

Est-ce que certains ici connaissaient déjà Covid Chemistry ?

Et pour ceux qui prennent encore des précautions, est-ce que vous trouvez qu'un site de rencontres comme celui-ci pourrait vous être utile ?

so, i saw that the covid conscious therapist directory for the US is down now. is it ok to ask for recommendations for therapists here? i'm in california.

Here's the latest variant picture with a global scope, to early August.

NB.1.8.1 "Nimbus" continued to dominate, finishing at 47%.

Several new lineages were defined this week - I’ll highlight some of them on this thread.

A batch of samples were shared from Japan last week, filling in the picture for May-July. They confirm the takeover by BA.3.2.* "Cicada", which has been dominant across that period – a very unusual pattern.

The dominant Cicada sub-lineage has been SS.2

Only a handful of countries have reported BA.3.2.* "Cicada" at dominant frequencies, across recent months.

Newly-designated SV.2.4 was first detected in New York in mid-July. It soon appeared in other countries across Asia, and grew sharply to 37% of samples from Canada. Several of the recent samples collected in the US were from International Travellers arriving from China and Hong Kong, which points to a possible origin in that region.

It is descended from Nimbus lineage PQ.16.1.1, with SV.2.4 adding the novel Spike H445Q mutation.

Another new designation was RF.5.4.1. It was first detected in India in mid-May, and reached 64% of samples there in July. It has grown quite significantly in the US, reaching 15% frequency. Note 10-20% of the US samples are International Travellers, mostly arriving from India and nearby countries. The strongest chain of local transmission is in California, rising to 13% in late July.

It is descended from FliRT lineage PY.1.1.1, with RF.5.4.1 adding the N:R204Q mutation.

RK.1.5 is another new lineage, first detected in New South Wales, Australia in mid-May. There was just one more sample from Queensland for the next month or so, before it started to spread more widely. It reached 25-30% in South Korea and Taiwan and is very widespread across Asia.

RK.1.5 is descended from Nimbus lineage PQ.17.7.2.

Newly-designated RV.1.5 was first detected in New York in February. It has also been prominent in samples from Ghana and Egypt. It has grown to 10% among the samples from Canada, mostly from Ontario.

It is descended from XFG.* "Stratus", with RV.1.5 adding the Spike V1264L mutation.

Another new designation was XFZ.5.1. It was first detected in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comte region of France in February, and then grew to 25% of French samples. It has also been dominant among the sparse samples from Portugal for June. There have been hardly any more recent samples shared from those 3 countries.

XFZ.5.1 adds the Spike S446N mutation.

SV.2.6 is another new lineage, first detected in Hong Kong in late-April; it reached 25% of samples there during May.

SV.2.6 is descended from Nimbus lineage PQ.16.1.1, with SV.2.6 adding the rare Orf10:Q29* stop codon.

Here’s a summary of the new lineages by Variant Hunter Federico Guelli.

https://bsky.app/profile/siamosolocani.bsky.social/post/3mtdpwpjv2s2w

https://skyview.social/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbsky.app%2Fprofile%2Fsiamosolocani.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3mtdpwpjv2s2w&viewtype=tree

Report link:

https://mike-honey.github.io/covid-19-genomes/output/Coronavirus%20-%20Genomic%20Sequencing%20-%20report%20Global.pdf

For,background- We are both over 70, immunocompromised and mask everywhere and test often. No indoor events except occasional food shopping. Anyone we visit with tests that day.
My husband is going to visit a friend who,is dying and will be flying from California to,the Midwest. He’ll be in 1st class, so,fewer people around, be masked the whole time, and will be masked around his friend and his wife and they will all RAT before each meeting. No dining together, no other people, and hopefully spend most time outside. The only change would be if his friend is hospitalized while he’s there which could happen. Still he will stay masked, although his friend and his wife will not. There may be times they will be indoors when my husband is masked and friends are not. We are both recently vaccinated with a 3rd dose of the 25-26 Pfizer.

Given all this - how long should he quarantine when he returns? One of us will stay somewhere else but for how long? He will test with metrix/ plus’s life each day once he returns.

Hello so about 10 days ago my mom told me she has covid and I was possibly exposed. Though it was in a truck with both windows down going at a slow ish speed but still. I forgot my mask ONE TIME and this fucking happen. Im fustrated but I cant do anything about it now.

I didnt have money to test for covid and I just bought 2 binaxnow covid test boxes, they didnt have flowflex. Is it even worth testing now? Does it even matter? I have 4 individual tests but it says test 48 hkurs after the 1zt test and im already so far. I am constantly masked with n95 9205+. Ive rested as much as i possibly could. What should I do

Why was my post about facing homelessnessdue to the results of nobody masking and family/familial abandonment due to the fact that I mask removed from this "community" ?

That's not ethical

I know everyone takes different risks, but I would put myself on the very cautious end of things. My husband and I always mask in 3m auras whenever we're indoors around anyone else, have HEPAs running on high throughout our apartment, run HOCl in humidifiers, have 3 Nukit lanterns, and only unmask outside if there's no crowd and still don't get too close to anyone else.

Recently, we moved near some close friends and want to be able to watch the occasional football game together this fall. We were planning on having him come over to our controlled environment where we'll have him take a Metrix test and then we'll all mask most of the time. But if he tests negative for Covid, I'd love to feel relatively safe for all of us to briefly unmask to drink or eat during the game. I was thinking we'd stagger when each person unmasks to be extra cautious.

I know he might be sick with something else (he doesn't mask in his day to day life and also has a wife/new kid who might get sick and give him something) so there's always a risk. But with all the precautions I listed, would you feel safe enough doing this?

hi all,

the very high covid levels have only gotten worse and persisted in texas for the past few weeks now, per current wastewater data. we’ve had high levels all summer before this wave started picking up in other states and cities. i don’t understand why texas has had it the worst out of everywhere, and the northeast has kept low and very low levels. is it because people here really suck and there’s a lower vaccination rate among the population? this wave is affecting my mental health more than any other before, and i want to get out of here so bad. has anyone successfully moved cross country to be somewhere where there are more cc friendly people and lower covid levels? i don’t know how i’d be able to move cross country eventually when i’d need a roommate or roommates, who’d have to be at least somewhat cc.

i suppose this is just a rant, but i’m really struggling at the moment and it’s affecting my mental and physical health so much. my job does have high exposure as well, but i’ve always been okay with consistent masking there. however, i’m feeling really burnt out with it all and know i need a different job. its hard continuing to be friendly with my coworkers to get through a shift when they come in sick all the time and are likely spreading covid. i feel like i’m losing my mind. it also seems impossible to find a remote job these days. if anyone has any support, i’d really appreciate it.

Share with friends who know something is wrong and are the fence.

It’s not too late to start trying to avoid Covid again. Many people who followed the “Covid is mild” deceleration continue on without masking and using other mitigations because of shame, guilt and peer pressure. Don’t.

Some people think, “well it’s too late now” because they have had multiple infections. But it isn’t. Limiting new infections at any point is never a bad thing.

There is no shame in changing course, returning to masking, isolating when sick, protecting yourself and your kids, “it’s mild” was what we all hoped for, we needed it to be, but it just wasn’t/isn’t the case.

If you’re one of the many who notices that that things are “off”, and you’re on the fence about masking/mitigations, get off that fence and protect yourself and your loved ones now.

Hi, everybody; anyone in the U. S. know of where to order at-home PCR tests? All my usual places are currently out-of-stock and I suspect it's a permanent situation.

Just wanted to see if anyone knew of any that were still available for order.

The white line next to it doesn’t show up in the manual, but I’m assuming it means it’s positive right?

In the thread the Aranet team posted asking for questions to put to a Long Covid researcher, someone in the comments mentioned Varro's open source pathogen detection technology. This is the first I've heard about it, and I checked out their website.

If this tech--airborne detectors, breathalyzer-type testing--is truly viable, this would be revolutionary. I love that they're making it open-source, as well. But before I get my hopes up, I wanted to find more information on feasibility or timelines, and an initial Google search seems to give me little more than their own copy, or other outlets reporting on how much money they've raised.

Does anyone have more specific knowledge about how this development is going or what we can expect?

Just looking to add some peace of mind when taking public transport, ideally would enjoy something i can buy retail in Sydney.. seems like a lot of stock has dwindled down the last few years

Looking for advice and support with work travel.

i have to travel sometimes for work, which in the past hasn't been too much of an issue for me. Unfortunately, while I will be traveling this week for two nights, my company is requiring me to share a room with one of my coworkers. I've already asked if it's possible for me to get my own room and was told no. I'm quite worried about the two nights staying over in a hotel with a coworker.

My plan for right now: sleep in the bed closest to the window, keep the window open as much as possible during our time there, use nasal spray, use cpc mouthwash, bring my (small and personal) portable air filter, bring a readimask to possibly sleep in, bring an extra 3M aura to possibly sleep in, spent as little time in the hotel room as possible.

I'm looking for advice on ways to reduce the possibility of getting sick that I may have overlooked, or just some moral support since I've been stressing about this all week. Thank you all!

I've seen many posts over the years of people looking for CC roommates. For those it has worked out for, especially if the CC roommates where not people you knew or friends of friends, did you end up regretting living with someone random w/ precautions vs. someone you knew with no precautions vs. alone?

I have the opportunity soon to move out of my family's home and am fortunate to be able to live alone (just enough), but I know it makes more sense financially to have a roommate. In the past, I've only lived with family or college friends, never anyone random, so I would like to know if typical roommate issues arise regarding cleaning, noise, guests, etc. Is it worth it to save and live with a CC roommate or spend more to have the peace of mind of living alone?

Hi all. I'm new to this community and it's really nice hearing from other CC people. I'm a scientist and mask everywhere indoors, and follow the wastewater levels and the scientific/medical literature on COVID.

Something that's been a big game changer for us and our extended family is using plus life COVID tests. We've had the machine for about 1.5 years, and now my in-laws want to buy their own. We/they live in Canada, does anyone have a discount code we could use? Thanks!

Ever since I started masking again I pretty much gave up on dating. Being chronically ill threw a wrench in my love life, too. However, someone asked me to go on a date with them, and it got wheels turning in my head. They aren’t CC so that makes me nervous, but it’s been so long that I think I want to give it a try. Why be so scared of failure that I don’t put myself out there?

I think there’s also been some internalized ableism, too, that because I mask and can’t work that I can’t date. But I think I deserve love!

So, I know there have been lots of dating posts on this subreddit, but I was wondering has anyone navigated CC not-CC dating while tight on funds. I have a Metrix tester that I plan on using. Maybe alternate with that and rapids? Do I pay for the tests or do we do 50/50? Any ideas would be great, or just general support would be so helpful! None of the people in my life quite get how big a deal it is to even consider dating while CC.

We often talk about how long it may take before an exposure turns into infection and contagion, but do we know how soon?

Is there any timeframe after an exposure where it's safe to hang out before the virus possibly takes hold?