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rossihunter2

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I was going to say that "don't worry" is a naive at best response. Your mind can easily be your own worst enemy and it's not as easy as choosing to shut it off. I remember how spooked I was when I found out I'd been exposed to someone who'd been exposed to the virus (then started getting a mild fever shortly after...) so I can only imagine how scary it must be for you and your wife. I'm not an American, but thank you for both of your service. The word "hero" gets thrown around way too much, but the medical profession (as well as the supporting players) fits the bill, especially these days.

A time like this shows a lot of people's true colours. I'm a landlord in NZ and a lot of people in a group I'm in have left me disgusted with landlords in general. I've seen people trying to find ways to kick their tenants out, advice that people should tell outgoing tenants to "self-isolate in a car", and weasel their way into being an essential service so they can get around certain quarantine rules and make a few thousand dollars extra. I know it's not everyone (people calling them out in that group is good for the soul), but it's honestly shameful. And the sad thing is that there won't be any kind of account for them, nor the bosses who do similarly shady things. If you're relying on people to do the right thing against their own rational best interests, you know something's fucked.

you probably arent but as a general rule landlords are the worst of humanity lol - this crisis really has brought out the worst in people and landlords have shown their colours a lot - its not just in NZ, in UK it's daily that some random landlord's posts get shared on twitter for being horrifically out of touch, irresponsible and vulture-like

but that same lack of community responsibility (without being demanded by law or government etc) is exactly why official lockdowns are important and why their lateness in Europe all over is going to ultimately be responsible for exponentially more deaths than we could have had
 

ravenslord

Ravens Ring of Honor
Sports withdrawal is the worst. And watching the news is out with the gloom and doom. My wife has even resorted to watching old episodes of Gunsmoke!!

I wish everyone well and be safe . I actually think i had the Coronavirus the very end of February coming back from a ski trip in Colorado. I did use a mask on the trip home so I hope I didn't infect anyone.

I will take the antibody test when it becomes available to confirm what i think happened. I did have a flu shot in October 2019 so it was either a really bad cold or the Coronavirus
 

RavensMania

Staff Member
Administrator
Sports withdrawal is the worst. And watching the news is out with the gloom and doom. My wife has even resorted to watching old episodes of Gunsmoke!!

I wish everyone well and be safe . I actually think i had the Coronavirus the very end of February coming back from a ski trip in Colorado. I did use a mask on the trip home so I hope I didn't infect anyone.

I will take the antibody test when it becomes available to confirm what i think happened. I did have a flu shot in October 2019 so it was either a really bad cold or the Coronavirus
I have a friend that thinks she had it in December and will do the same thing.
 

JoeyFlex5

Hall of Famer
I have a friend that thinks she had it in December and will do the same thing.
My wife thinks we had it back in January, I’m not buying it, the lack of contagion in a time where most were completely oblivious just doesn’t add up, also the speculative posts out there are all talking about this upper respiratory infection that doctors couldn’t diagnose all winter, but the coronavirus is strictly lower respiratory and less than 10% of patients report any nose or sinus symptoms at all.

I have seen these posts all over, not a single one of them has offered a shred of credible evidence and frankly I think it’s reckless for this kind of talk to go viral. All these what-ifs have led to millions taking this thing lightly, and have led to more millions telling those doing right, to stop doing right because it’s all “promoting panic”, which has in turn made this exponentially worse every step of the way.

it’s wild, and I mean WILD speculation, me and my family and my entire in law family, all had a terrible virus that caused sustained lung damage for 2 months, but every one of us(except for me actually) all had upper respiratory illnesses to accompany it, and they are now all lying about those symptoms to convince themselves and others that they already had it and have nothing to worry about, but I was there, I saw their illness, not one of their illnesses lined up with the coronavirus, and at their age and poor health, if they contracted it and showed symptoms they would almost certainly be goners based on the history of this virus, but they didn’t even have to see a doctor. but to hell with all that if you ask them they’re 100% convinced they had it already.
 

RavensMania

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Administrator
My wife thinks we had it back in January, I’m not buying it, the lack of contagion in a time where most were completely oblivious just doesn’t add up, also the speculative posts out there are all talking about this upper respiratory infection that doctors couldn’t diagnose all winter, but the coronavirus is strictly lower respiratory and less than 10% of patients report any nose or sinus symptoms at all.

I have seen these posts all over, not a single one of them has offered a shred of credible evidence and frankly I think it’s reckless for this kind of talk to go viral. All these what-ifs have led to millions taking this thing lightly, and have led to more millions telling those doing right, to stop doing right because it’s all “promoting panic”, which has in turn made this exponentially worse every step of the way.

it’s wild, and I mean WILD speculation, me and my family and my entire in law family, all had a terrible virus that caused sustained lung damage for 2 months, but every one of us(except for me actually) all had upper respiratory illnesses to accompany it, and they are now all lying about those symptoms to convince themselves and others that they already had it and have nothing to worry about, but I was there, I saw their illness, not one of their illnesses lined up with the coronavirus, and at their age and poor health, if they contracted it and showed symptoms they would almost certainly be goners based on the history of this virus, but they didn’t even have to see a doctor. but to hell with all that if you ask them they’re 100% convinced they had it already.
yeah, I agree and knowing this person who says she thinks she may have had it. It probably was just a call for attention, but who knows.
 

allblackraven

Hall of Famer
My wife thinks we had it back in January, I’m not buying it, the lack of contagion in a time where most were completely oblivious just doesn’t add up, also the speculative posts out there are all talking about this upper respiratory infection that doctors couldn’t diagnose all winter, but the coronavirus is strictly lower respiratory and less than 10% of patients report any nose or sinus symptoms at all.

I have seen these posts all over, not a single one of them has offered a shred of credible evidence and frankly I think it’s reckless for this kind of talk to go viral. All these what-ifs have led to millions taking this thing lightly, and have led to more millions telling those doing right, to stop doing right because it’s all “promoting panic”, which has in turn made this exponentially worse every step of the way.

it’s wild, and I mean WILD speculation, me and my family and my entire in law family, all had a terrible virus that caused sustained lung damage for 2 months, but every one of us(except for me actually) all had upper respiratory illnesses to accompany it, and they are now all lying about those symptoms to convince themselves and others that they already had it and have nothing to worry about, but I was there, I saw their illness, not one of their illnesses lined up with the coronavirus, and at their age and poor health, if they contracted it and showed symptoms they would almost certainly be goners based on the history of this virus, but they didn’t even have to see a doctor. but to hell with all that if you ask them they’re 100% convinced they had it already.
My wife and I are convinced we fought through the original SARS several years back, when it was doing rounds. I never felt anything like it before or after that. Never confirmed it though.

There's interview in today's NZ paper (paid content, so I didn't read it full) with a man who caught corona and is out of the woods now. Same guy had a swine flu in 2009. Says this one smashes you completely. Incidentally, he lives in a small town north of Wellington, to which @Inqui moved few years back.
 

JoeyFlex5

Hall of Famer
My wife and I are convinced we fought through the original SARS several years back, when it was doing rounds. I never felt anything like it before or after that. Never confirmed it though.

There's interview in today's NZ paper (paid content, so I didn't read it full) with a man who caught corona and is out of the woods now. Same guy had a swine flu in 2009. Says this one smashes you completely. Incidentally, he lives in a small town north of Wellington, to which @Inqui moved few years back.
I can say that whatever I had, man it kicked my ass, like no virus I ever had before. It came on 100 miles per hour, hit me like a truck, and lasted for a week with another week of lingering illness, me and my wife had fevers around 104, I lost 14 pounds, and I had moments where I legit thought I might not wake up if I fell asleep, it was bad. and then another month and a half of horrible lung and bronchial pain, but out of like 6 people I was the only one who didn’t have sinus problems, everyone else had noses running like a faucet and sinus infections afterwards, which is a telltale that it’s not Covid. And I chalk my lack of sinus infection up to being super vigilant about keeping my sinuses clear, when I’m getting sick I do lots of hocking and Neti pot use and it keeps my congestion very low, none of these other people properly take care of themselves.
 

RavensMania

Staff Member
Administrator
This is a paragraph in Jeff Zrebiec's from the Atheletic today "Could the Ravens Trade Back"

In 2014, they tried to pull off a trade with the Oakland Raiders to get the No. 5 overall selection and Khalil Mack, offering a package of picks that included their first picks in 2014 and 2015. The Raiders said no. In 2016, they tried to leapfrog the Jacksonville Jaguars and go from sixth to fourth to select Jalen Ramsey, but the Dallas Cowboys wanted a third-round pick and the Ravens were only willing to part with a fourth. When Marshon Lattimore fell out of the top-10 in 2017, the Ravens tried to convince the New Orleans Saints to part with the 11th overall pick. The Saints declined because they couldn’t resist taking Lattimore.
 
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OriolesMagicPlease

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@JoeyFlex5 have you looked into supplements? There are some that can make a difference.

As far as the virus, I believe it was here before February. My very healthy husband (who hasn't had a cold or anything in 10 years) and most of his office got very sick at the end of January. Several of them were tested for influenza and those tests came back negative. At the time I thought it was so weird that he had a high fever, cough and he was so tired for two weeks, but no congestion or runny nose. Of course there is no proof, really wish there was an antibody test available, we still worry as he is essential.

I hope everyone stays healthy.
 

Ludy51

Hall of Famer
This is a paragraph in Jeff Zrebiec's from the Atheletic today "Could the Ravens Trade Back"

In 2014, they tried to pull off a trade with the Oakland Raiders to get the No. 5 overall selection and Khalil Mack, offering a package of picks that included their first picks in 2014 and 2015. The Raiders said no. In 2016, they tried to leapfrog the Jacksonville Jaguars and go from sixth to fourth to select Jalen Ramsey, but the Dallas Cowboys wanted a third-round pick and the Ravens were only willing to part with a fourth. When Marshon Lattimore fell out of the top-10 in 2017, the Ravens tried to convince the New Orleans Saints to part with the 11th overall pick. The Saints declined because they couldn’t resist taking Lattimore.
THe rAVenS DOnT TrY foR hIgH End tALeNt
 

Deebo813

Hall of Famer
Off topic but... I drink aloe vera maybe like 2x week like a 16 ounce bottle.. not talking the ones you get from the store but the literally out the plant, into some coconut water and a lilttle baking soda.. not saying its some type of cure and shit but i promise its really good for the body. Flushes out all the mucus and everything. Its gets your body on track... however, its probably the nastiest shit you will ever taste in your life..
 
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OriolesMagicPlease

Guest
Off topic but... I drink aloe vera maybe like 2x week like a 16 ounce bottle.. not talking the ones you get from the store but the literally out the plant, into some coconut water and a lilttle baking soda.. not saying its some type of cure and shit but i promise its really good for the body. Flushes out all the mucus and everything. Its gets your body on track... however, its probably the nastiest shit you will ever taste in your life..

This is so interesting, thanks for sharing! But I challenge you on the taste, I drink wheat grass every morning. Tough stuff. :p
 

JAAM

Hall of Famer
This is a paragraph in Jeff Zrebiec's from the Atheletic today "Could the Ravens Trade Back"

In 2014, they tried to pull off a trade with the Oakland Raiders to get the No. 5 overall selection and Khalil Mack, offering a package of picks that included their first picks in 2014 and 2015. The Raiders said no. In 2016, they tried to leapfrog the Jacksonville Jaguars and go from sixth to fourth to select Jalen Ramsey, but the Dallas Cowboys wanted a third-round pick and the Ravens were only willing to part with a fourth. When Marshon Lattimore fell out of the top-10 in 2017, the Ravens tried to convince the New Orleans Saints to part with the 11th overall pick. The Saints declined because they couldn’t resist taking Lattimore.
We tried to get Khalil? Well my day just got worse knowing we could’ve had him. Can we call the Bears, please?
 
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