The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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I hoped to make it to 2024 before my first case, but I finally got COVID.
I have been extremely happy to see my assumptions confirmed about how mild it is and how little these vaccine boosters matter. I went on 1,000 calorie workouts the first two days, was laid pretty low the third day with chills and sleeping, then did woodworking/construction/mild workouts the next 2 days. I am planning to get back in the proverbial saddle today, though I still have a dry cough.
Being in a crowded house with a contagious disease sucks. Even with how mild it was, I feel bad for probably having spread it, not to mention having to cancel visits to other family.
Related: my brother has got COVID right now. He is having a worse time of it than you are, and I'm pretty sure that that's because he's a big fat lazy man who has not exercised since the Bush II presidency. I am really hoping that this wakes him up and makes him take his diet and overall health more seriously; if it doesn't, I don't know what would.
Fwiw the 1-2 days of the peak were intense. Napped two times in a day which is unheard of. Eating 2 Advil Cold + Sinus at a time.
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