Thank you for this wealth of information! Lord knows our public health authorities are not forthcoming with any useful information. I have used several of these methods after a recent exposure incident (mouthwash & neti-pot). Do remember to read the instructions for the neti-pot and use the appropriate type of water or you can actually cause more harm than good.
I had COVID about a year ago and in hindsight I would say it was actually a good experience for me. I'm not much of a stickler for the public health recommendations. I spent most of April - June 2020 gardening & raising chicken (outside, digging in dirt - all great for the immune system). I also avoid hand sanitizer like the plague and would never describe myself as a germ-o-phobe. Unless you suffer from SCIDs the excessive sterilization we inflict on ourselves really isn't good for your immune system. Back to my COVID experience - I went to another state (TN - my goodness, they aren't super crazy with the mandates down there) for the holidays (even though it was greatly discouraged) and low and behold we came home with the coof. It was a bit chaotic to say the least, BUT I did get to spend time with my dad (who was likely the source of our infection - turns out several of his care-givers had it - like basically everyone had it down there) who passed away a few weeks later. If I hadn't of gone I wouldn't of seen him just before he died and I am grateful for that opportunity. We weren't given the opportunity to see my father-in-law before he died in April 2020 as he was locked away in a nursing home. That is my source of shame. We blindly followed public health protocols and he died from loneliness/abandonment (he was there because my mother-in-law could not care for him as he required). We should have taken him out and cared for him ourselves - if I would have known I wasn't going to be back to work full-time until July we probably would have done that. It's ironic that COVID has nothing to do with his death, yet our response to COVID had everything to do with his death.
Nobody should ever feel shame for coming down with a respiratory sickness. We all gotta breath air! For those trusting the public health authorities (vaccines, boosters, social & familial distancing & N95 masks) I am sure they could feel shame as they thought they were doing all the right things and still got sick.
The only ones who should be feeling shame are those who inflicted so much emotional and psychological damage on children, young adults, people who have lost their jobs, people who are deathly afraid to see family members... Yet, they seem to have no shame whatsoever. This farce has gone on long enough. When it is over ... they need to be held accountable for all this collateral damage.
Thank you for the great information! I am recovering from Covid that I got twice in 5 months and this time I didn’t tell anyone and neither did my mom who got it from me. So the part you mention about shame is so true and I haven’t heard anyone else bring that up. I was embarrassed when I got it the first time and was frustrated and embarrassed the second time. I have not had the vaccine so I was hoping that my natural immunity would have protected me from getting it again and so quickly at that. As you said, everyone is going to get it and we need to just accept it and deal with it just as we do colds and flu and move on from this madness. Thanks for the great article!
Thank you for this wealth of information! Lord knows our public health authorities are not forthcoming with any useful information. I have used several of these methods after a recent exposure incident (mouthwash & neti-pot). Do remember to read the instructions for the neti-pot and use the appropriate type of water or you can actually cause more harm than good.
I had COVID about a year ago and in hindsight I would say it was actually a good experience for me. I'm not much of a stickler for the public health recommendations. I spent most of April - June 2020 gardening & raising chicken (outside, digging in dirt - all great for the immune system). I also avoid hand sanitizer like the plague and would never describe myself as a germ-o-phobe. Unless you suffer from SCIDs the excessive sterilization we inflict on ourselves really isn't good for your immune system. Back to my COVID experience - I went to another state (TN - my goodness, they aren't super crazy with the mandates down there) for the holidays (even though it was greatly discouraged) and low and behold we came home with the coof. It was a bit chaotic to say the least, BUT I did get to spend time with my dad (who was likely the source of our infection - turns out several of his care-givers had it - like basically everyone had it down there) who passed away a few weeks later. If I hadn't of gone I wouldn't of seen him just before he died and I am grateful for that opportunity. We weren't given the opportunity to see my father-in-law before he died in April 2020 as he was locked away in a nursing home. That is my source of shame. We blindly followed public health protocols and he died from loneliness/abandonment (he was there because my mother-in-law could not care for him as he required). We should have taken him out and cared for him ourselves - if I would have known I wasn't going to be back to work full-time until July we probably would have done that. It's ironic that COVID has nothing to do with his death, yet our response to COVID had everything to do with his death.
Nobody should ever feel shame for coming down with a respiratory sickness. We all gotta breath air! For those trusting the public health authorities (vaccines, boosters, social & familial distancing & N95 masks) I am sure they could feel shame as they thought they were doing all the right things and still got sick.
The only ones who should be feeling shame are those who inflicted so much emotional and psychological damage on children, young adults, people who have lost their jobs, people who are deathly afraid to see family members... Yet, they seem to have no shame whatsoever. This farce has gone on long enough. When it is over ... they need to be held accountable for all this collateral damage.
Thank you for the great information! I am recovering from Covid that I got twice in 5 months and this time I didn’t tell anyone and neither did my mom who got it from me. So the part you mention about shame is so true and I haven’t heard anyone else bring that up. I was embarrassed when I got it the first time and was frustrated and embarrassed the second time. I have not had the vaccine so I was hoping that my natural immunity would have protected me from getting it again and so quickly at that. As you said, everyone is going to get it and we need to just accept it and deal with it just as we do colds and flu and move on from this madness. Thanks for the great article!