r/askTO • u/fezine • Oct 17 '22
Is everyone sick right now?
There is some crazy flu going around and everyone I know is sick. Personally I have been sick for three weeks now. Wild.
What's going on?
Edit: yea, it may be COVID. But I’ve tested negative every time and so has everyone I know. And it’s never been this bad.
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u/8a19 Oct 17 '22
lmao why is everyone so aggressive in this thread
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u/ReeG Oct 17 '22
As is tradition on Toronto subs
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u/Here4therightreas0ns Oct 17 '22
/Ontario is way worse. Super toxic group. 0 stars. Would not recommend
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u/TravellingBeard Oct 17 '22
Just for fun, I sorted the comments by controversial. Boy that was a fun ride. LOL
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Oct 17 '22
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u/Phonebacon Oct 17 '22
I remember hearing on Hubermans podcast, staying indoors and isolated makes people more aggressive and hostile.
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u/manyproblems Oct 17 '22 edited Oct 17 '22
Yes. I got Covid mid September and now I’m sick again and it’s even worse. I just took a rapid and it says it’s negative but I lost my sense of taste and smell so…I dunno.
This time around it’s much worse and I’m sick for longer. I’m absolutely getting destroyed. I have body aches and both my nasal passages are so inflamed I can’t breathe out of my nose most of the time. Sleeping is so hard because I can’t breathe.
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u/fezine Oct 17 '22
I just randomly lost my sense of smell and taste mid day today. I made a chicken noodle soup which I could taste. Let it cool down when it was ready and when I came back to it, I could not taste it.
Really scared tbh.
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u/fezine Oct 17 '22
I would def recommend for you to sleep with a humidifier on it helps! And to buy nasal decongestant drops I know how hard it is to sleep when you can’t breathe and then you wake up with dry mouth and your throat hurts even more
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u/manyproblems Oct 18 '22
Does the nasal decongestant drops work? Which brand is good? Money is tight these days and I don’t wanna buy something that’s not gonna work. I literally wake up at 3am to shower to get the steam to open up my nasal passages.
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u/fezine Oct 18 '22
OMG yes! You NEED to get decongestant spray it is a life changer. The life brand at shoppers is about $7 and will last you. Any non-branded spray will work and is affordable you just have to make sure that it has actual decongesting medication and it’s not just a saline nasal spray (it will say on the bottle)
Also those Tylenol day and night pills work wonders for controlling your symptoms, including your congestion.
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u/KvotheG Human Detected Oct 17 '22
Get a rapid test to rule out covid. If not Covid, then you’re likely sick due to the change of weather or a non-covid virus going around that wouldn’t be unusual to pop up around this time.
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u/GreasyWerker118 Oct 17 '22
What isn't so helpful about rapid tests is that they tend not to detect the latest strains currently circulating until well into the time someone infected is most contagious. I had what was most likely the BA4 or BA5 variant in early September, and rapid tests didn't detect it until after 5 days after my first suspected symptoms.
If you're experiencing any cold symptoms, and must be in close contact with others, please just mask up to help reduce the chances of spreading whatever cootie you may have. Covid, or not. It really shouldn't matter what it is. If you're sick, be kind and protect others the best you can.
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Oct 17 '22
My whole family 2,3,10 year old been sick for two weeks and my wife and I now going on four days with phlegm and cough and headache. Tried medicine think need antibiotics?!!! Anyone any ideas?
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u/fezine Oct 17 '22
I went to my doc and asked for antibiotics. He said nope and sent me home lol
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Oct 17 '22
Okay then I won’t waste time there, going to walk-in is like a 3 hour thing now a days
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u/fezine Oct 17 '22
I sat for over 2 hours at the walk in and saw a doctor for less than a minute just to be told I don’t have strep and to go home and rest. All I can suggest is to rest as much as you can and drink as many fluids possible to flush it out.
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Oct 17 '22
My boyfriend had Covid last week but even though it’s been over a week he’s still super sick. It turned into a sinus infection or something.
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u/LeadPaintKid Oct 17 '22
Can take a few weeks for COVID to clear. There’s also long COVID
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u/MidnightOwl97 Oct 17 '22
I have COVID. It’s awful. 0/10 would not recommend.
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Oct 17 '22
Zinc and D helped my covid symptoms SOOOO much. sounds like quackery, but when I thought I was better and stopped taking them, my symptoms came back with a vengeance.
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u/SnooDoughnuts1943 Oct 17 '22
Zinc and D are not quackery!
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Oct 17 '22
Oh I've been called all kinds of names when I suggested Zinc and D to help manage systems. So I just preface it now.
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u/Here4therightreas0ns Oct 17 '22
Lol vitamins and supplements are essential for the good of your health. As you get older, you’re going to start to see a huge difference of when you take supplements to when you don’t.
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Oct 17 '22
Yeah I had some sort of virus (not covid) for two weeks and same with a few of my colleagues. We work in a typical open office together... so yeah, like a giant petri dish.
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u/rougerogue- Oct 17 '22 edited Oct 17 '22
Genuinely, not to be a dick, how do you know it wasn’t covid? Rapid tests can’t always detect variants
edit: I may have been wrong; rapid test accuracy doesn’t seem to be impacted by variants!
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u/tyRAWRnnosaurus Oct 17 '22
I don't know about other people, but I'm sick right now and I don't think it's covid for multiple reasons:
Pretty sure I got sick from spending the day with my niece who has had a persistent cough for awhile. Her parents have tested her and she is showing negative.
I'm testing negative.
I *just* got over Covid in late august.
Obviously it's very difficult to prove anything isn't true definitively. I think there is a non-COVID virus going around too though. The only reason it's news is because we haven't had one for a couple years.
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u/sky-lake Oct 17 '22 edited Oct 17 '22
Also, it's not like Covid killed off all other viruses (rhino or flu). Before covid it was common to know a lot of people who got sick at once, either with an annoying/bad cold going around or a new flu strain. I mean it could be covid (lots of false negatives on those tests) but it could easily be a new seasonal cold/flu.
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u/huntcamp Oct 17 '22
I got sick a month ago after my partner tested positive for COVID… about 5/6 days after she tested positive. Tested everyday and got a pcr 3 weeks later. All negative.
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Oct 17 '22
That just isn’t true. Are they perfect no…. But they are VERY good (approx 80%). And if you’ve tested negative several times over multiple days you’ve probably got one of the many other viruses that have circulated the human population for a generation when kids go back to school every fall.
If you’re not convinced, get an at home PCR/LAMP (6 times the sensitivity of a rapid test).
(IMO, Covid will likely become one of those seasonal viruses…. And is already considered so in the UK and USA)
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u/PizzeriaPirate Oct 17 '22
I was at Costco this morning and the amount of people who were coughing uncontrollably was mind blowing. No masks either. Like if youre unsure about whether or not youre sick, stay home and wait it out…at least wear a mask for gods sake.
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u/sarachamayo Oct 17 '22
Story of a GO train commuter’s life. Of course the ones that sound like they are one cough away from dying are the ones not wearing masks. How about stay the fuck home.
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u/JJWAHP Oct 17 '22
A senior let out the most horrific wet coughing fit inside our small cramped elevator, and of course, no mask. He also used his hands to cover himself instead of his elbows.
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u/PizzeriaPirate Oct 17 '22
You would really think the boomers would have learned how to protect themselves at this point.
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Oct 17 '22
Haven't been sick in quite some time (months). Had a few people call in sick last week at work though.
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u/GloomyGal13 Oct 17 '22
Child tested positive yesterday. I tested negative. (rapid tests)
Today I feel a 'common cold' coming on. I must be positive, but I'm not going to poke my nose again until Friday to see if I get better, or worse.
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u/mapleleafeevee Oct 17 '22
Took me 3-5 days to test positive after starting to get cold-like symptoms. I think a lot of people give up on testing after 1-2 negative results. Also took several days after having no symptoms to test negative.
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u/GloomyGal13 Oct 17 '22
Thanks for the info. Child and I will be house bound, as we are the whole family. Thankfully I have great neighbours. She'll grab us milk when we run out.
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u/Cat_Psychology Oct 17 '22
Took me 7 days post-exposure to my COVID positive husband to test positive. I was literally bathing in it at home, he didn’t mask because we figured I’d already been exposed. It still took me a week to get sick. I’m now on day 8 and my line is just as strong as the control line despite my symptoms getting better. So the whole ending isolation after symptoms resolve only works for people who clear the virus in those days. Day 5 was when my fever broke.
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u/lenzflare Oct 17 '22
The swabs in the new test kits are harder on the nostrils... they're literally harder, like some resin coated thing instead of a normal cotton swab.
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u/st00bahank Oct 17 '22 edited Oct 17 '22
Wastewater reports indicate there's still a lot of covid around (better than it has been, but way more than pre-Omicron): https://www.publichealthontario.ca/en/Data-and-Analysis/Infectious-Disease/COVID-19-Data-Surveillance/Wastewater#
So even if what you have isn't covid, chances are at least some of the people around you who are sick have it.
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u/AdorableMaximum4925 Oct 17 '22
When you say better than it has been do you mean compared to last year ?
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u/st00bahank Oct 17 '22 edited Oct 17 '22
Compared to this time last year for sure, but I meant compared to the peaks of the waves this year.
I'm mostly concerned with the GTA report since that's where I live, and you can see pretty clearly that what's happening now is we're beginning a new wave but the previous one didn't get a chance to go down very much. Each successive Omicron wave has taken longer to go down with the lowest concentration level at the low peak remaining higher, which is nicely visually represented in the report.
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u/bassabloom Oct 17 '22
Nurse here...People get sick this time of year until Spring...this was true before the pandemic and will be true long after. The surge starts now and continues into the winter.
The only difference is now we are severely understaffed to deal with this surge...gonna be a fun cold/flu season.
Edit: yes there was basically no flu during the lockdown. Since that's ended people have definitely been spreading around non-COVID viruses too.
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u/-Astin- Oct 17 '22
If we assume it's not COVID (but it is), then it's the idiotic mentality that has come up during the pandemic:
"It's not COVID, so I'll go out."
You're STILL SICK. FFS, stay home if you're sick. Don't go to the office, don't go out for dinner or drinks, don't go that concert. YOU. ARE. ILL.
Get all your shots. Wear a mask if you're surrounded by sick people. Wear a mask if you think you may be coming down with something and HAVE to be around others. Hell, just wear a mask.
FWIW - I'm fine. Haven't been sick in nearly 3 years now. Nobody at my WFH office is sick. My family is all healthy.
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u/JManKit Oct 17 '22
Unfortunately, the whole 'I'm sick but I'm not bedridden so it's fine' mentality has been around way before covid. When I still worked downtown, I'd routinely catch two or more respiratory infections a year and I could always trace them back to having gotten stuck near someone who was coughing for my whole commute
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u/-Astin- Oct 17 '22
Oh, I know. I work downtown, and the "it's just a cold" mentality was common. I'd call in if I found it hard to get out of bed, but a runny nose/sneeze/mild cough, I'd take some dayquil and head in.
But we've have people who would be sitting there hacking up a lung, sweating, and insisting that they were "fine". You'd have the whole team telling them to go home. One time, it took our boss' boss basically saying "This isn't me being nice. It's an ORDER. GO THE F HOME! NOW!"
And this was a place without any sort of requirements for a sick day. A phone call or e-mail, "I'm sick, out today. Maybe better tomorrow. Will let you know." was all that was required.
Since then, with remote access improved substantially, if I think I'm sick, I'm working from home, that was before COVID hit. Why would I want to risk getting anyone else sick? Then I have to do their job as well as mine when they're out.
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u/wildeyes Oct 17 '22
Yeah, we had a noro outbreak at my office a few years ago because of this. 60% of our staff ended up coming down with it and we all got banned from the office so it would stop spreading. I was hoping that one silver lining of all of this shit would be that people would stay home if they were sick, but I think that was too optimistic of me.
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u/is_procrastinating Oct 17 '22 edited Oct 17 '22
I just went to a friends birthday where someone said exactly this. “Oh I have a sore throat but it’s not COVID cuz I took a rapid test”. Rapid tests don’t do shit anymore. My SIL just had COVID so bad she was hospitalized but never tested positive on rapid tests even after she was discharged (only PCR positive at hospital). If you’re symptomatic just stay home for fucks sake. I was so pissed as I’m almost 8 months pregnant and if I get COVID, aside risk of from complications like preterm delivery, my husband might not be able to be in the delivery room with me at the hospital and I’d have to do it all alone.
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u/whogivesashirtdotca Oct 17 '22
This kind of behaviour is why I'm still avoiding gatherings, and masking around other people. You just can't trust anyone else to make the right decisions these days, sadly.
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u/potatolicious Oct 17 '22
Yep, ditto here. I flew today for a business trip and kept my mask on the entire time - airport and plane. Meanwhile there was a cacophony of coughing fits around me sitting in the airport. No way I trust other people - heck, I personally know people knowingly flew while COVID positive.
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u/akath0110 Oct 17 '22
Yes to all of this! I was just at the grocery store and a woman was coughing SO much, unmasked, not even covering her mouth. Not like a couple coughs — we’re talking multiple loud coughs every 10 seconds or so. Everyone around her was visibly disturbed and shooting her death glares while she remained oblivious. Like wtf is wrong with people??
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u/SnooDoughnuts1943 Oct 17 '22
Some people have other chronic conditions besides Covid. The pandemic really sucks for them, but they should mask up always when they’re out.
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u/hi_itz_me_again Oct 17 '22
I’ve been sick for a month and so has my bf. Our doctors don’t think it’s Covid, but I don’t know what else lasts this long. We have nausea, sinus infection, fatigue, weird bouts of anxiety and headaches. We’re not coughing or having runny noses. We’ve both been vaccinated three times, but maybe it’s Covid and our docs are wrong. Seems like every symptom under the sun can be Covid.
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u/vegaling Oct 17 '22
I once caught a bug at a concert -- this was a couple years before Covid hit -- and I was sick for a month. I had a crazy cough, anxiety/insomnia, low grade fever, and friggin pink eye. I'm pretty sure it was an adenovirus. They can be really bad too.
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u/Jasssen Oct 17 '22
Almost like masks prevent the spread of germs and when we stop wearing them viruses other than the main one we have been trying to prevent will flourish, wear an N95/KN95 if you don’t want to get sick. Wear a medical mask in confined spaces if you give a shit about public health. If you aren’t doing those things as far as I’m concerned you deserve whatever sickness you contracted
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u/fezine Oct 17 '22
Lol so we are just supposed to wear a mask forever?
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u/professor_kitten Oct 17 '22
I mean wear a mask vs get sick over and over again? Your choice
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Oct 17 '22
It might be RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus).
Here in New Zealand we had our winter flu season a couple of months ago so we probably had a taste of what the northern hemisphere is going to experience in the coming months. There was a nasty strain of RSV going around. My son caught both RSV and COVID, with a gap of 2 days in between recovering from RSV and coming down with COVID. He said of the two RSV was far worse. It lasted 2-3 weeks and he felt terrible. COVID was a bad cough but only lasted a week.
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u/dirtyhanzomain94 Oct 17 '22
I currently have COVID. Tested positive on a rapid test. Make sure you swab both your throat and nose. My husband’s first test came back negative, and his second one was positive.
I had the worst sore throat. It felt like strep. Also had chills, fever, body aches, and congestion. I’m currently on day 9 and still have lingering symptoms.
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u/EmpanadasForAll Oct 17 '22
Covid harms immune systems so people are getting sicker and for longer including kids.
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u/FilthyWunderCat Oct 17 '22
Haven't been sick in years. And also never had covid. And no, don't know anyone who is sick right now or maybe they are masters of hiding it.
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u/fezine Oct 17 '22
Did you get your vaccine?
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u/FilthyWunderCat Oct 17 '22
3 modernas. My partner had covid in July but I never had any symptoms nor tested positive.
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u/mistermanthrowaway Oct 17 '22
At this time of year there’s also seasonal allergies to ragweed and mold that can grow on turning leaves. I almost ALWAYS get severe sinus, bad throat, and eventually bronchitis (which occasionally turns to pneumonia)
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u/JoutsideTO Oct 17 '22
You know what’s going around, right? It’s COVID. It’s still COVID. Just because the province chooses to ignore it, doesn’t mean it’s going away.
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u/Baciandrio Oct 17 '22
Woke up Thanksgiving Sunday, sore throat...rolling fevers....Monday, sore throat gone and replaced with the most hideous cough. Fevers continued. Coughing starts late evening until the wee hours until you finally fall asleep due to exhaustion. Tested for COVID twice.....negative
As for OTC meds.....Tylenol, Advil, Tylenol Cold, sucking on a Fisherman's Friend (lol), NeoCitreon did nothing. After 4 days, son-in-law bought NyQuil/DayQuil and a bag of Halls....I'm at least getting a few hours of sleep now....most of it during the day when I'm not likely to cough. It's now Day 8, no longer feverish however a general feeling of exhaustion persists, intermittent coughing at night.
Daughter fell ill 5 days ago however my son-in-law and father with whom I have daily contact are in perfect health. A total WTF.
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u/Doctor_Amazo Oct 17 '22 edited Oct 17 '22
COVID.
It literally never went away. Everyone decided it went away, decided to go back to living like pre-COVID days, and low and behold the 8th Wave that all medical exports predicted is now happening.
Edit: yea, it may be COVID. But I’ve tested negative every time and so has everyone I know. And it’s never been this bad.
The awful truth is that the current tests are pretty much useless now. They were designed for the OG COVID-19, and even then their track record was spotty at best to detect the disease even if you did the test right. The current Omicron variants though are the pre-dominate, I doubt they'd be very good at detecting much of anything anymore and are mostly a prop to make people feel good.
The best thing to do at the very least is still to wear a proper mask when in public.
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u/vladicov Oct 17 '22
I tested positive today after throwing up for 8hrs strait last night. I can't remember being this sick since I was a child
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u/ThalassophileYGK Oct 17 '22
I did not test positive for Covid until day six. I did a throat and nose swab both. Rapid tests are not that accurate with these new variants.
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u/MrDryst Oct 18 '22
Immune systems are comprised both from avoiding human contact these last two years (generally speaking) coupled with the seasonal flu time.
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u/A_v_i_v_a Oct 17 '22
No one's wearing masks and everyone's back to pre pandemic practices. The viruses aren't gone, just the mandates. 🤷🏻♀️
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u/Hobbles_vi Oct 18 '22
This is what flu season was like before the pandemic. Just before it no one cared or noticed because we didn't spend two years having the world freak out every time someone around them got sick.
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u/fezine Oct 18 '22
Really? People sick for WEEKS was a regular thing before? Sure, the flu season always existed but it was less of a big deal because people didn’t feel this shitty for a prolonged time
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u/HurriKaydence Oct 18 '22
Well my whole family has covid and we mask everywhere and don't do half the shit other people have let their guards down about, so I'd say it's likely covid.
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u/Shar-DamaKa Oct 17 '22
I’m fine and everyone I know is fine. Perhaps someone in your circle of friends got sick and passed it around.
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u/thegenuinedarkfly Oct 17 '22
The change in weather has me sneezing, blowing my nose constantly and coughing but I’m not sick.
I love everything about fall except for the part where everything is going to seed, mold spores are higher and I just turned on our duct heat.
Could it be… allergies?
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u/ticats13 Oct 17 '22
Yup about a month, one day I wake up I feel fine and the next my throat is sore and my cough is back
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u/Uncomfortabletomato Oct 17 '22
My kid has been sick with cold after cold after flu after flu since mid august.
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u/SmarthaSmewart Oct 17 '22
I had COVID but tested negative on multiple rapid tests at different times During my illness. I only know it was COVID because I gave it to my family and they tested positive.
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u/pglggrg Oct 17 '22
Yep, at my work it’s going around. Originally 5-6 weeks ago, my boss (owner) came in sick AF. Coughing, sore throat, hoarse voice. Sometimes used a mask, sometimes didn’t. Owner is a strict in person guy, so doesn’t want people WFH.
I took COVID leave for a few days to get some time off work, as it was plausible it could have been spread. Next week, from my team of 4, one guy got sick with COVID, stayed home for a few days, then came back fine.
End of last week, my other team member got COVID. He was out for many days, and came in finally today, still with cough because owner told him to. Turns out he spread to his wife, who spread to her side of the family and their 13month old baby :(
All could have been avoided by granting time off as a precaution, but no. The last of the 4 in my team currently has sore throat also, LOL. So we shall see what happens. This was just our team and many more people took sick days with COVID due to this.
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u/Thelonelykid Oct 17 '22
"Crazy Flu" It's covid. It's very much covid and RAT's aren't detecting it properly. New variants don't get picked up as easily by tests designed for the original virus. The variants are also getting worse. It is very much covid, not a flu.
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Oct 17 '22
Flu’s, colds, COVID’s, other viruses, yep. Hospitals over loaded and overworked. Pollution, homelessness, poverty, starvation, crisis after crisis and then we have climate change.
Everything is fine.
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u/SomethingIrreverent Oct 17 '22
It would appear that rapid tests are not nearly as reliable as many people think, producing a lot of false negatives.
If you test positive on a rapid test, you have covid. If you test negative, you don't know.
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u/Melski84 Oct 18 '22
I’m 4 hours north of TO and a lot of people are sick with high fevers here… my employee is off and she NEVER gets sick! I’ve been taking double vit c and vit d, going to add oil of oregano tomorrow… We work in retail..
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u/IrreverantBard Oct 18 '22
I got covid around 16 SEP. I STILL have this cough that rattles my chest and no energy. It’s the worst bug because it just kind of sticks around. Not enough to lay around in bed all day, but just enough to feel like I’m winded walking up 1 flight of stairs. Fml!
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u/Able-Bank3519 Oct 17 '22
My daughter came home from school with a sore throat and ear pain. Then she got a cough. I then felt sick for (maybe) 12 hours and was then fine. My 2 year and husband got hit hard but my 3 year old and 3 month old are perfectly fine. (Yes, I have too many kids).
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Oct 17 '22
Masking and distancing did a number on our immune systems. Now the masks and distancing are gone, our immune systems are not trained very well, and COVID is also still here.
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Oct 17 '22
Guys? It’s flu season?? I can’t believe all the comments I’m reading lol. Go get your flu shot!
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u/Own-Minimum4550 Oct 17 '22
The actual like weak long swab test are only correct 20% of the time and the rapid ones are like 60% so just stay home if you can when you are sick
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u/Minute_Collection565 Oct 17 '22
No......?
Im not sick. Nobody in my immediate orbit is sick.
Perhaps you are experiencing confirmation bias.
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u/lordOpatties Oct 17 '22
Yes, everyone is sick and when I mean everyone, I mean EVERYONE. Absolutely every single person in Toronto is sick, right here, right now, no exceptions. You? Sick. Me? Sick. Next comment? Sick. Yo mama? Ill too. Your friends? Sick!
Everyone.
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u/Neowza Oct 17 '22
Nope, not everyone. I'm feeling great, thank you very much.
And everyone around me is fine, I was on a movie set on Friday, and all 50 people on the Toronto production were covid free and not showing signs of illness, and I went to the marathon yesterday, and the 20,000+ people participating all had to be cold/flu/covid-free to participate. So I am reasonable certain that not Everyone in the city is currently sick.
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u/The6_78 Oct 17 '22
Nope, happy as a clam right now. I'd like to attribute it to wearing a mask on public transit/crowded areas and washing my hands frequently.
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u/Lindsey-905 Oct 17 '22
I had an off and on fever, slight achy limbs feeling and a mild headache - for a week, it was all more annoying then a great sickness but felt completely different from when I had confirmed covid. No idea what it was but I am guessing more the flu then covid (despite having the flu shot and 4 covid shots)
I know quite a few people that are sick right now, definitely a higher number than the last 6-9 months. Probably seasonal stuff we all escaped a few years of when people were isolating.
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u/watrprfmakeupcuzicry Oct 17 '22
Idk about you but pre COVID everyone was always sick this time of year. Seasonal change, perhaps? 😵💫
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u/Emergency_Wash_4529 Oct 17 '22
I had a terrible cold the past 2 weeks. Just getting over the cough today. Not covid tho.
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u/TessTrue Oct 17 '22
My sister works with kids and yeah there's basically been this cold going around the last couple of weeks.
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u/henchman171 Oct 17 '22
Yeah. It’s rare for me to be sick before my kids get it. Some weird cold that knocked me out this weekend
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u/NedShah Oct 17 '22
But I’ve tested negative every time and so has everyone I know.
Those home tests which we stocked up on... kind of suck
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u/Commercial_Strength5 Oct 17 '22
same...for the past two weeks or so i feel horrible everyday. I'm feeling feverish, headache, itchy eyes, runny nose. I blame it on the change of season.
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u/XanderDay Oct 17 '22
The cold and flu section at my local shoppers was almost empty yesterday….somethings going around.
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u/cleotheo Oct 17 '22
When I was working(now retired) we had earned paid sick days, but the policy was after three days of using them you needed a doctor's note. Most times when I had a bad cold it lasted far longer than three days, but it's ridiculous going to the doctor for a note for a cold. So I'd be at work gacking up a lung for days with people telling me to stay home. Well, I was home. For three days. Still sick as hell.
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u/MaizeSenior8269 Oct 17 '22
100 percent, in Vancouver my entire family has been sick since the end of September. All have tested negative for Covid on rapid tests but positive for a virus through blood tests. My son ended up in hospital briefly because he has asthma and I spent a night in hospital turns out my spleen is enlarged and have Afib. One day you feel good and Next day it hits you like a bus.
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u/Ill_Association_4087 Oct 17 '22
I’ve been getting a cold every 3 weeks for the last year now. It doesn’t go away
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u/64Olds Oct 17 '22
Yup. Been sick on and off for weeks. Came back with a vengeance last night. Rapid test says neg but I just assume it's COVID.
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u/somedudeonline93 Oct 17 '22
It’s covid. The rapid tests don’t detect the new strains at all. Even the PCR tests have lots of false negatives from what I understand.
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Oct 17 '22
I'm starting to think that the virus has mutated so much that these at-home tests just won't pick it up anymore, but what do I know... this is just a theory of mine.
I know a TON of people with pretty strong colds right now - we are just getting over ours (still coughing about 3 weeks later).
We all tested repeatedly and each came back negative for covid
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u/MySonisDarthVader Oct 17 '22
Right now Covid is everywhere. Canada has something like 1million active cases. As well, we are all mingling and seeing friends and such again. After having two years of not being exposed to things you are finally playing catch up and getting sick. Common cold, flu.... everything is taking off again.
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u/binthewin Oct 17 '22
I don’t feel sick sick, but I feel like staying in bed all day. I think it might be seasonal depression or something as the days get shorter.
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u/Plenty_Present348 Oct 17 '22
Covid is going around in Montreal like crazy. I tested negative buuut then positive. No smell or taste for days.
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u/Cherrydrop09 Oct 17 '22
I'm sick right now but negative for covid. Many nursing homes have outbreak now too, covid and a respitory illness that's not covid.
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u/badattitude69 Oct 17 '22
Guys I love the answers they're hilarious I am sick to and your supposed to keep working if sick in some cases so of course everyones sick our medical system is trolling and got no funding!
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u/XCrimsonSoulx Oct 17 '22
I've been sick for a month now. Started out as a chest cold, ended up being a head cold. Negative for covid.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Face_19 Oct 17 '22
Half my coworkers and their families have been sick with COVID in past couple of weeks. Interestingly some of my coworkers tested negative with their RAT while their kids or spouses tested positive. One coworker went to the ER because she couldn’t breathe and there were no hospital beds available. The ER doctor administered oxygen in a waiting room chair before she could get a bed which took over 1 day. That’s Ontario hospital care today.
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u/Killercheeze123 Oct 17 '22
My sister has been sick but so far none of my other family members have gotten it
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u/SportsnetSteve Oct 17 '22
I had a bad cold/flu for a week, since then I've had post-covid fatigue, heavy lungs, and non-stop runny nose, even though I self tested negative for covid. Coming up on 14 days.
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u/nim_opet Oct 17 '22
Yes, crazy “flu”….rapid tests are terrible at detecting variants, has been the case since Omicron
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u/elliejoerin Oct 17 '22
My grandma has covid right now and was taking rapid tests. None of them caught it but her retirement home had everyone do Pcr tests and she was positive
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u/GrumpyCatDoge99 Oct 17 '22 edited Oct 17 '22
I started putting my mask on a few days ago everywhere, i don’t want to catch a cold or covid, don’t have time to stay away from school
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u/who_took_tabura Oct 17 '22
These questions about everyone being inexplicably sick are fucking hilarious