well i didn't get covid but i did get the flu! geh

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posted by exodus on september 26, 2023 at 07:38:02 est in reply to i'm in japan and nobody is wearing a mask anymore, but the trains are packed again and a lot of people are getting covid, so we'll see how this shakes out. (n/t) from exodus.

well i didn't get covid but i did get the flu! geh

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i meant "geh" like a sound effect... i'm now remembering internet weirdos used to use it as a slur (n/t) (exodus) (07:38:42 09/26/23 est)

dang. didn't people wear masks on the commute in japan pre-covid? (n/t) (paleface) (14:40:41 09/30/23 est)

when sick they did (n/t) (exodus) (14:40:38 10/03/23 est)

oh i see; i'd always thought it was more generally. (also this is a post-migration check. if this posts we no longer in the host's "legacy" account ghetto and everything's shiny and new.) (n/t) (paleface) (03:55:59 10/15/23 est)

(cool i copy-pasted that everywhere with a word missing ; ) (n/t) (paleface) (03:58:09 10/15/23 est)

(blasted) (n/t) (exodus) (00:45:37 10/17/23 est)

how did you know it wasn't covid but just not testing positive? (aerisdead) (17:58:15 10/24/23 est)

i didn't know, really, but had no way to find out! i didn't test positive when i got home either, with a different test, so i suspect it wasn't covid. also the symptoms were so flu-like. fever, runny nose, dizziness, sinus stuff. of course, i have never knowingly had covid, so maybe all those symptoms are there, but my sense is covid has more stuff than that. (n/t) (exodus) (19:19:22 10/26/23 est)

i did find out that they don't call it covid at all over there and call it the corona virus 100% of the time. learned this while in a drug store asking for a test and the pharmacist was like i have no idea what you're talking about, and a fellow patron had to be like "it's the corona virus." also i just learned you can't type japanese characters here. (n/t) (exodus) (19:21:12 10/26/23 est)

if you've been vaccinated, it can be like that! (n/t) (aerisdead) (17:02:17 12/10/23 est)

i suppose it's possible! but i felt like it was the flu because: 1) i was vaccinated for covid 2) i didn't have the 2023 flu vaccine yet 3) the flu was "going around" tokyo and knocking folks out left and right and covid wasn't in a spike there 4) i didn't test positive once with 3 tests 5) symptoms were familiar and manageable with flu medicine 6) nobody else that i met with during that time got covid. it's of course totally possible it was still covid, but with all those factors the flu feels the most likely. (n/t) (exodus) (14:53:18 12/11/23 est)

it was me (covid) (18:58:55 12/14/23 est)

you guys got me (n/t) (exodus) (13:31:21 12/18/23 est)

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