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Capella
Dark Cat of the Sith
 
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Rochester, NY
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2020-07-09, 23:16

So it appears as though I had it in late April. Negative nasal swab at the time, positive blood antibody test last week. Some of you were around for that when I was complaining on twitter. Heavy fatigue and muscle ache, difficulty breathing and shortness of breath severe even when I walked up stairs, diarrhea and nausea, cough, loss of appetite and metallic tastes. No fever, though! I had hot sweats and flashes and I was barely sleeping, managing like 2-3 hours at a time, being awake for 6-8 hours, then another 2-3 hours of sleep. I never got hospitalized but I did get to hang out in urgent care on supplemental oxygen masking. Twice.

So I knew that COVID was real, and that COVID was shitty to have.

You can imagine me getting pissed off watching my mother's slow conversion into a FOX News watching, Trump-supporting, "there is no pandemic, this is a mainstream media lie", "the president is doing everything correctly" kind of person. The kind of person who says there is no virus threat and even if there is a virus it won't really hurt or kill anyone and the numbers are fakes and all precautions are overblown and overhyped. As she's someone who is immunocompromised and high risk. But she won't wear a mask, because that would be buying into the lies. Last week she posted on her Facebook that it's a shame in 6 months we've become sheep following the will of authorities who want us to be giving up all freedoms as Americans and become obedient socialist slaves like those people in other countries and she doesn't understant how more of us aren't rising up and how the whole world has been taken over by a hoax and...

and I finally had to cut all contact and decide I don't have a single living relative. There's no way to reasonably contradict this. There's only walking away and saying, "I can't". I cannot comprehend how you can believe that half the US and a bunch of the rest of the world is all locking down international travel for fun as part of a conspiracy to take away Your Personal Freedoms as part of some one world order shit.

"A blind, deaf, comatose, lobotomy patient could feel my anger!" - Darth Baras
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