Teen daughter tested positive for Covid today & is very sick - throwing up, feverish, horrible muscle pain, sore throat. I fear my teen son & I are next. We're feeling tired & headachy.
We avoided it for so long! All of us are vaxxed & boosted. How long do symptoms usually last?
We tested her, btw, using the free Covid tests mailed to us. So that was a good thing to have.
This may be the second time she's had Covid, but 1st time with symptoms. She's had a rough year with serious memory issues that may be long Covid from a bout early in the pandemic (we didn't test then). She was just starting to get memory back, so I hope this won't be a setback
Update - those who predicted 3 horrible days w/ "mild" Covid were right. Day 4 today & daughter begins to feel better. Still weak, exhausted & overall crappy, but past 3 days were hell. Son & I managed (we think) to not get infected.
Can't imagine what it'd be like with no vax.
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TX wants to ban "White Bird," a graphic novel about a Jewish teen living in France after Nazis seized power, because it's "biased" & could lead to the "skewing of a young child's mind."
"Biased" against Nazis and genocide.
"New Kid," a graphic novel about a Black seventh grader at a mostly white school, must be banned because it is "about critical race theory, which is forbidden by Texas law."
* Fit, healthy friend in 30s has "mild" case, recovers, has stroke month later
* Aunt can't smell or taste right a year later. Food tastes wrong/sour - no joy in eating
* Daughter suffers brain fog, memory loss. Has to withdraw from college
Covid is no mere "cold" that you recover from & nothing is changed. It's causing significant long-term symptoms in even mild or asymptomatic cases. My daughter's neurological symptoms are profound.
I can't imagine how bad it will be when we discover millions of us are messed up.
I read recently many scientists believe Covid should be reclassified - that it's more a vascular disease (causing long-term damage to blood vessels) than a respiratory disease. Others note that Covid is also causing significant neurological harm.
When they heard about a school shooting, the Crumbleys knew IMMEDIATELY it was their son. They had been told the day before he had searched for ammunition online in school. His mother's reaction - she sent him a text saying "LOL...Learn not to get caught."
Day of the shooting, kid drew a picture of gun w/ words "blood everywhere" & "the thoughts won't stop. Help me." Parents were called in, shown the pic & told he needed counseling. They refused to take him home & didn't tell school he'd been given a gun for Xmas & might have it.
The kid was crying out for help - screaming out for it. Note also had “my life is useless” & “the world is dead” scrawled on it.
Parents knew he was suffering & DID NOTHING. Worse - THEY BOUGHT HIM A GUN. The fact they knew instantly it was him means they knew he was capable.
As abortion rights are poised to be taken away, it's a good time to remind you all about the genesis of the anti-abortion movement and what it was really about - racial segregation.
Yup. You heard right.
Once upon a time many Protestant Christians had no problem with abortion.
The Bible says life begins with breath and - for many Evangelical Christians - abortion was a "Catholic issue." They largely ignored the topic or, in the case of the Southern Baptists and the highly-influential magazine "Christianity Today," actually supported it in some cases.
Famous fundamentalist W.A. Criswell said: “I have always felt that it was only after a child was born and had a life separate from its mother that it became an individual person and it has always seemed to me that what is best for the mother and for the future should be allowed.”
Once Roe v. Wade is overturned, you're going to see multiple cases of women on trial for murder following miscarriage. This is how it goes in countries that make abortion a crime.
Did you express reservations about being pregnant? Did you keep going to the gym? Did you drink alcohol when you shouldn't have? Did you refuse to quit work even tho your conservative doctor told you to? Did you drink too much coffee? Did you miss prenatal appts? Murder.
I mean, it's already happening. But after Roe v. Wade is gone, expect a huge uptick in fetal murder trials in red states. Personally, if I or my daughter were in a red state, I'd get the hell out now. bbc.com/news/world-us-…
A government and its citizens' religions should be separated, Jefferson said. The power of government should only extend to acts that hurt others.
Madison said govt sanction of a religion is a threat to religion: “Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects?”