Is flu worse than Covid? Yes!!!

[fdcg27]

Just now going through my first case of flu in a good twenty years and it is nothing nice. I still vividly remember the last one and it was pretty bad as well and I was of course much younger then. I'm over the hump now, but today I still feel very weak. Went to the doctor yesterday and she prescribed some palliatives which did seem to help my sleeping last night. I am vaccinated of course, lot of good that did.
Two years ago I had Covid and it was bad, but not as bad, although more persistent. Doctor prescribed similar palliatives, since it is a similar respiratory infection of a different class of virus with similar symptoms. Vaccinated with a number of boosters, which did a lot of good.

 

[Pew]

Something is going around. Whatever the lady friend and I had is going around her work too and some of the school districts went remote for last week.

 

[buster]

I read there is a severe strain of flu going around.

 

[PandaBear]

Influzenza A was what Spanish Flu was and killed way more people than Covid. They just evoluted into a less dangerous more wide spread strain now, that will happen to Covid as well.

 

[JeffKeryk]

Get better soon @fdcg27. People die from the flu every year, and a bad case makes you feel like you are dying.
My 1st round with COVID felt like the flu, but only for the 1st night. After that, Tylenol made it manageable.

My 2nd bout with COVID was very very mild. And yes, I'm all vaxed up for flu and COVID.

 

[Pew]

My 2nd bout with COVID was very very mild. And yes, I'm all vaxed up for flu and COVID.

Watch out, the gov is gonna control you and make you move your stocks from tesla to kmart

 

[fdcg27]

Influzenza A was what Spanish Flu was and killed way more people than Covid. They just evoluted into a less dangerous more wide spread strain now, that will happen to Covid as well.

It's more a matter of a population being very susceptible to a virus it is naive to.
This was certainly true for Covid.

 

[buster]

I had a terrible reaction with the Covid vaccine (Pfizer) so I only got boosted once. I think my last covid vaccine was 2021 or 2022. I was sicker from the vaccine than when I eventually caught covid. Not anti-vaccine, but in my case, I didn't see the point after getting so sick.

I had severe flue/headache from the Covid vaccine for 3.5 days after the vaccine.

 

[02SE]

I've had the flu many times, and Covid at least once. For me, Covid was much worse. But so far I've survived both.

On the other hand, my neighbor growing up, who was like a second mom to me, got Covid from her son and daughter-in-law, and died in the hospital a few days before Christmas, four years ago.

 

[nickaluch]

I work at a elementary school we had kids dropping like flies from a stomach virus and a few flu case's. I grabbed overtime time today went in and disinfected the whole building with a sprayer I had from the COVID days. Had to order new disinfectant for it what I had expired.. I had the flu shot hopefully it keeps me safe I haven't had the flu in decades

 

[Hall]

Covid is just a flu variant.... The flu (whatever variant it is) affects every person different and even the same person differently at different times. I've gotten "the flu" plenty of times, sometimes very mild, sometimes pretty bad. Worst one ever was Covid though. Another time I had very mild flu symptoms but for a month or so afterwards, any type of medium-level physical activity winded me.

In before the lock too !

 

[GSCJR]

@nickaluch, aren't the schools closed now?

 

[The_Jeff]

For me flu was longer lasting, 3-4 days of medium misery before degrading to a "manageable cold." Covid was 36 hours of even worse misery but otherwise similar. I've had the shots against both.

 

[Hall]

@nickaluch, aren't the schools closed now?

Based on what he described doing, sounds like he's on the maintenance side of things there.

 

[JohnnyG]

Isn't this thread closed now? I thought that was a forbidden subject.

 

[buster]

90 kids in our middle school were out last week from norovirus. Brutal.

 

[GSCJR]

True @Hall, staff could be still in the building.

 

[Hall]

True @Hall, staff could be still in the building.

Most districts here aren't year-round, but maintenance will work all year, including during Christmas breaks, etc. He mentions making OT pay too and teachers definitely don't get that.

 

[ecotourist]

Covid is just a flu variant....

Actually it isn't. It's a completely different virus.

That's kind of like saying a Chevy is just a Toyota variant. I don't think so.

The symptoms of Influenza and Covid may be similar, but the virus is different.

 

[mrsilv04]

I've never lost my sense of smell of taste for a month with any case of the flu.... but I did with covid.