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Hang in there bro!

Over here I get angry on a daily basis about how many people don't bother about the basic -obligatory- rules: Keep Your Distance (great song btw by Richard Thompson), wash your hands till they bleed and wear a face mask in the supermarket.

Greetings from (dark red) The Netherlands,

Hans

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Thanks, Hans! Yep, hopefully more people keep taking basic precautions seriously and get the vaccine. I'm just grateful I didn't get this before I had mine, could have been a lot worse. (Or it could be that omicron is just more mild, who knows?)

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Thanks for taking the time to let us know what you've been dealing with lately. The upside to Covid, (I had it just before Christmas for 10 days- it was not the best), is how great is feels on the first day you can really say you aren't sick anymore- just being "normal" again is an amazing feeling. "The secret to happiness is: Things suck. When they suck less, you feel happy."

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Ouch, 10 days sounds awful. And yes, just being normal is a great feeling. Breathing normal feels so good! I'm also grateful I don't have these crazy lingering symptoms like loss of taste!

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As gamers said, git gud. Or better. Better is a good start. Take care.

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Haha, git gud indeed. Appreciate it.

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Get well soon brother 💪🏼

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Thanks good sir.

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Thank you for sharing your experience. My husband and his daughter, now in her late 20s, have panic attacks. I appreciate your insights and perhaps it can help me when one of them has a similar experience.

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I don't have panic attacks much these days. Had them a lot more in college. But they're really not fun at all! Exercise definitely helps but sometimes you just can't help it...it's just a spiral out of control.

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Oh, awfully sorry to hear. This sounds really unpleasant, but thankfully you're better. Still, I admire the creativity of solving the issue by playing some rounds of CoD!

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Ha, thanks. Guess CoD really has become a kind of therapy for me!

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Hope things get better all around, dude.

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Oh, that is truly scary. I hope you fully recover soon. Thanks for sharing your experience.

I feel like where I live (Sydney), it's not If, but When now. Despite being triple vaxxed and pretty careful...

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I hope you're doing better man. I had it through the holidays (thank you company X-mas party) and had the opposite of your experience, I didn't have any of the respiratory symptoms but pretty much all of the other ones. I was double vaxxed but not boosted at the time so it cleared up in a few days but the lingering symptoms are not fun. When my sense of smell/taste started to return everything started to smell like rotten milk and 2 weeks later it still does. I think there's still a lot about this virus that's not fully understood so you're right to say nobody should take this lightly or like it's "just a cold"

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