WyoDoug
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I am beginning to wonder which is worse, COVID or the flu.
I just got released from quarantine today, not for COVID but for the flu. They were not specific on which variant of the flu virus it was, but while I was sent home and asked to self-quarantine, they did not order lab tests to determine which type. They did to the nasopharyngeal swab which was not fun, but that test come back negative. They kept me overnight because of fluid in my lungs but I was breathing and problem was still mild enough that they didn't prescribe diuretics or anything like they would if it was more severe. Went home with advice to take Tamiflu which seemed to work. My wife was in a panic with the way it affected me but you know how wives worry. Usually for the good though.
Way back in February 2020, I was likely exposed to COVID and so was my wife through her work at the hospital but both of us tested negative. The antibodies testing they tried a year later after it became available to us showed both of us positive but I experienced no symptoms and wife only had mild symptoms more like a bad cold except wife had the no smell or taste symptoms. I had no symptoms.
Later, I had to give up my elk hunt because my wife was exposed while I was gone and was going into the hospital. Wife was again exposed during my elk hunt but did not have symptoms and tested negative. Because of her issues, risk factors and experiences she was having, I had to leave elk hunt rather suddenly. I didn't have time to make sure @Wildabeast cabin was properly closed, properly cleaned and shut and left that to my friends I left behind and there were bumps. Still was a really nice way to celebrate my retirement. That cabin is not a cabin, it's a mansion in a compound.
So now I am wondering which is the worse experience. I have heard war stories and everyone's experience is different in this regard. I am just glad to receive the release from the doctor so I can venture back out and get stuff mailed I sold on here and finally get some of the bird houses I made out of reclaimed lumber to the people that bought them.
Interested in hearing experiences others have had and how it affected everything around them. With me, the flu experience I just got out of was more severe. That is without the politicized explanation, just real life experiences.
I just got released from quarantine today, not for COVID but for the flu. They were not specific on which variant of the flu virus it was, but while I was sent home and asked to self-quarantine, they did not order lab tests to determine which type. They did to the nasopharyngeal swab which was not fun, but that test come back negative. They kept me overnight because of fluid in my lungs but I was breathing and problem was still mild enough that they didn't prescribe diuretics or anything like they would if it was more severe. Went home with advice to take Tamiflu which seemed to work. My wife was in a panic with the way it affected me but you know how wives worry. Usually for the good though.
Way back in February 2020, I was likely exposed to COVID and so was my wife through her work at the hospital but both of us tested negative. The antibodies testing they tried a year later after it became available to us showed both of us positive but I experienced no symptoms and wife only had mild symptoms more like a bad cold except wife had the no smell or taste symptoms. I had no symptoms.
Later, I had to give up my elk hunt because my wife was exposed while I was gone and was going into the hospital. Wife was again exposed during my elk hunt but did not have symptoms and tested negative. Because of her issues, risk factors and experiences she was having, I had to leave elk hunt rather suddenly. I didn't have time to make sure @Wildabeast cabin was properly closed, properly cleaned and shut and left that to my friends I left behind and there were bumps. Still was a really nice way to celebrate my retirement. That cabin is not a cabin, it's a mansion in a compound.
So now I am wondering which is the worse experience. I have heard war stories and everyone's experience is different in this regard. I am just glad to receive the release from the doctor so I can venture back out and get stuff mailed I sold on here and finally get some of the bird houses I made out of reclaimed lumber to the people that bought them.
Interested in hearing experiences others have had and how it affected everything around them. With me, the flu experience I just got out of was more severe. That is without the politicized explanation, just real life experiences.
