CoVid 2 Boogaloo?
 

Rumors say there's yet another new strain and TPTB are gonna try to use that to bring back all the masks and restrictions and whatever else this October.

Oh god, I ****ing hope not. We're just about back to normalcy, spare a few people still too scared to let the masks go, let's NOT start this **** again. Another 2-3 years of 'hopefully all the unvaccinated drop dead' crap again.

Lmao couldn’t agree more my friend

If you're in Canada (and not just a screen name), I feel for ya bud. They went full on authoritarian in Canada during the lockdowns.

I doubt anything will happen. Every time a "new variant" shows up the Media makes a big stink about it than you stop hearing about it like a week later

If they give me free money and let me work from home again I'm all for it. The best thing about the covid scare is I got to work from home for 2 years straight and I got all that free money they handed out if you got the shots. I literally made out like a bandit. Saved so much money on travel fare too, I barely ever had to leave my home.

Back then not a single ray of sunshine touched my skin for weeks if not months at a time. I almost forgot what the outside world was like.

In my case, they flat out got rid of the building. Now we all work from home cause it's more cost efficient.

The only reason we even had the building was to fix or replace equipment. it just makes things a lot more complicated when you do need your stuff replaced.

Yeah, but it sounds like this time they're gonna try and make the new variant sound like CoVid 2.0, as in the original strain all over again.

Let's hope not. If they went crazy over a flu with a 99.9% mortality rate, just imagine if it's now 99.8% or god forbid, 99.7%.

People have wisen up since 2020. Well, not all of them obviously, but enough of them do remember the lies and hypocrisy and will refuse to comply a second time. And the public schools that are bent on teaching CRT and gender ideology don’t want the parents to watch their online classes again.

But maybe I shouldn’t be giving humanity the benefit of a doubt.

They wouldn't do that going into an election year. It would make it pretty easy for republicans to run on, "You like these lockdowns and mandates? They're the ones doing it!"

You underestimate how stupid people are nowadays. All you gotta say is 'it's either lockdowns or Trump/DeSantis' or spin it as 'Biden says so, so it's the right thing to do' and you'll see a bunch of people gladly bend over for the government.

Cases are on the rise, haven’t read anything specific here about why yet though.

Yeah, but are they serious cases, or just cases in general? Remember the Omnicrom variant had a bunch of cases too, but at that point it was pretty much a slight annoyance more than anything, but the news was still trying to put the fear of god in people, and Biden was advertising the winter of death and all that nonsense.

I probably have it now. Feels exactly the same. Sinus headache and a lot of sneezing and a general weakness.

I caught the Delta back in the day and it was terrible, but only lasted 3 days. Since Omicron is weaker, that woulda been a walk in the park in comparison.

Pretty sure Omicron is what I had, but who knows. It was never debilitating and it was only annoying in how long it hung around. But I'd had far worse colds and flus over the previous years where I'd be hacking my lungs out with lung butter, far, far worse.

My throat was a mess, and if my job didn't consist me of me talking non-stop for 8 hours or so, I would have still gone to work. I never felt weak or anything. If anything I was stocking up on OJ and meds and bracing myself for some super crazy high fever, but it never happened. Worst I had were hallucinations.

And meantime the FBI is releasing info that the original COVID strain appears to have come from a Chinese lab.

But now there are crickets about that because the peasants of America aren't rallying to call Donald Trump a "RRRAAASSsssss-CIST!" over saying it anymore.

Just two weeks ago I was really sick for 4 days, and then later I found out it was covid. Somehow I never caught it from 2020-2023 until just 3 weeks ago. If it was, I really was sick. For one day I had to rest on the couch/bed and couldn't move much, I threw up a few times during the day and felt weak in the legs. The next day I was a little better, but felt weak. Then the 2 days after I was back to normal but had a sore throat.

While I got back to normal 100% in just 4 days, it really did knock me out. That first day was the worst.

So pretty much, going from rest on the couch/bed and couldn't move much, to rest on the couch/bed and able to move much.

Your description of your worse cold/flu is how my second COVID infection developed, I was hacking for a week, nose wouldn’t stop running, and when it subsided, I developed a sinus infection (luminous green snot!) that I needed antibiotics for. Plus quite severe lethargy and non energy. Not easy to handle with a four year old! Thankfully she didn’t get it, just us adults.

I know cases are going up here, and certainly I’ve had more people I know report being infected last month or so, but no news about whether deaths are going up. Leave that for the colder months and the people who are immuno suppressed or more susceptible to start keeling over in higher numbers than usual and we shall know…