This past week should've demonstrated how a "fake plandemic" like Covid is still strong enough to knock an Olympic-level athlete flat on their ass. Not that I much sympathy for the asshole expelling his COVID breath all over that track in other people's faces.
The guy won TWO OLYMPIC MEDALS, including a gold with it. Won the gold, test positive the next day (would have had it during the gold run), still medaled when he was positive, negative by Friday, out partying in Paris Sunday. I really don’t think this is a good example as you think it is.
Yeah, we've come a long way from the early days, when some people were being arrested for violating quarantine.
You're forgetting him having to be literally wheeled and gurneyed off the track after that second medal. That he made it to the end of the race at all is thanks to him already being Olympic caliber fit. Also that he was favored to win gold and with all his elite athleticism he couldn't do better than 3rd place. The question of "is COVID still real?" has been answered satisfactorily to those willing to hear it.
COVID just affects people differently -- I honestly think people are looking too much into this singular case and wanting to use it one way or the other to make a larger example of it, in order to fit the narrative they wish to be true. In regard to your first point, watch a marathon on tv when the pros finish. Some will collapse onto the ground and need immediate medical attention, be taken off in a wheelchair, vomiting, etc. while others who finish faster than them will stand around happily cheering on the rest of the elite field as they come through. This polarity happens all the way through the field, to the middle packers where I am, to the back of the pack people who take 7+ hours. So I wouldn't take getting post-race medical attention to mean anything one way or the other. Regarding placing, the margin between first and last for the elites can be as simple as bad footstep or slightly mis-timing the gun. All the finishers cross the line EXTREMELY close, in the 200m final case it was within 1.07 seconds of each other, and only 0.24 seconds separated bronze from gold. The average human reaction time is 0.25 seconds.... "Couldn't do better than 3rd place" is severely under-stating how incredible his performance was regardless. Back when they had a single starting gun rather than a horn behind each block, that placing difference could have come down to the delay in time it took the sound of the gun to travel from the winning lane to his. So to even stay within sniffing distance of gold means that he was at the top of his game. Again, there is an argument that covid severely hampered him, or that it's not a big deal, depending on how you spin it. It's unfortunate that an ongoing global health issue is getting caught up in an Olympic event many don't understand, and members of certain media outlets and conspiracists are using a world class athlete's performance to justify ignorance of something which continues to be deadly.
Not saying it isn’t real but trying to make it this boogeyman out of this situation is silly. The hospitalizations and deaths have never been lower. Trying to act like this is the same virus we were dealing with 4 years ago because an Olympian finished a hundredth’s of a second slower than he “should have” is nonsense. Wheeled off only to be covid free and partying days later. Talk down to me all you want you look silly trying to make this case.
Two things can be true. It's a night and day difference (at least in countries with modern healthcare) between what we were dealing with at the start. It's also still a HUGE deal for those with certain underlying conditions and within certain demographics. Personal opinion: I still wear my mask on airplanes, and I will still stay up to date on my covid boosters. I also don't give a shit if you (the general you) do or not. That's not my dice to roll. Everyone has all the information now so make an informed decision, or don't. Regarding Lyles, dude had asthma, which in combination with covid could have easily killed him. He was also in the position to win a medal at the Olympics. He chose to go for it. Only he can be the judge be the judge of what's "too much" for him. I see this same calculus all the time at marathons and half marathons, especially during this insane heat. I'm not gonna judge someone else's personal choice or priorities. He's at the peak and seeing his dream come true. Personally, I would have gone for it as well.
Second day with Covid. Yesterday sucked ass, but today is…. Meh. Like if I had to run a HM or something I could do it. It would suck, but I could make it around. I’m in marathon training right now, so I’ll probably take tomorrow off as well just because I can but then back at it. Rotating Benadryl and Sudafed. I’m eternally grateful that this is what it’s become now.
Just got an email from preschool that kiddo was exposed yesterday. If one kid tested positive and told school, it seems like there are more dominos to fall. Not surprising but annoying since we’re supposed to be leaving town tomorrow for vacation with family, some of whom are immunocompromised. Now comes the annoying dance of figuring out if we can go.
My brother and his family got it last week. He's still a little congested and gets winded very easily. Did anyone think we'd still be dealing with this four years later?
Yes, but I thought it would become seasonal like the flu. It doesn't look like it's ever going to at this point.
went through most of my family last week as well. I figured this would stick around for a long time, but I thought it would be a good bit worse. If what I'm feeling is all there is though.... yeah, it's whatever. I'll get another booster around thanksgiving because I have my first marathon in december, another in feb, and then an ultra in March and I would hate to have it hit hard during one of those.
I had some nasal congestion a few weeks ago but wasn't going anywhere so I didn't feel the need to test. It didn't feel like the other 2 times I had it though so might've been something else.
No, it sucks. I get home from a work trip to a sick household. Oh well, at least my wife is a nurse by trade (formerly) and keeps shit together. I'm done with the boosters in general. They make me feel as sick as I do when I get Covid, and if I get it for a 5th time, I'm just going to ride it out.
This will be my first booster, and I figured it would be a good thing seeing as I'm going travelling.