Thinking more about it, it’s standard enough to be Hollywood standard. The part where everyone lines up and takes their turn at the casket? That’s not dramatic license, that’s what a lot of us do.
I know three people who have died from it. A former co-worker, a childhood acquaintance , and a good friend I’ve known since I was 13.
My daughter had it. Had to go into the hospital.
Luckily, her problem was dehydration (she doesn’t like to drink water on an empty stomach, so wasn’t getting enough). Some IV fluids fixed that and she was out in a few hours (though it was extremely worrisome when we heard she was there). She’s over it now.
A high school classmate lost her husband to it. I may have met him at a reunion.
I took a test yesterday, a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test; arguably the gold standard for testing, and tested positive. I was surprised by this, as I am entirely asymptomatic and I am at this time fully vaccinated, although it had only been 8 days since my second shot of the Moderna vaccine so full immunity may not have kicked in yet, but even the first shot at >28 days gives better than 85% protection.
There’s a precedent for false positives, this site states that in actual tests the false positive rate is between 0.2% and 0.9%. It’s a small chance, but it happens. The people who did the first test will run the test again using the retained sample, and I had a test run myself, but both the retested sample and the fresh test won’t give me results until Monday or Tuesday, so I’m isolating.
I tested for my background actor job, my fourth test of the week. PCR on Monday, COVID-19 Rapid on Tuesday, PCR on Wednesday, all negative, then bang, Friday PCR was positive. I’m really good about both masking and social distancing so I’m hoping it turns out to be a rare case of a false positive. That’s why I had a fresh test run, I know that many testing errors occur right at the point of sampling.
My daughter in-law and granddaughter tested positive for covid-19. Neither got very ill though.
Could the test be right because you were vaccinated?
I have no idea what any test actually tests for when it comes to Covid19.
The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test looks for the genetic material produced by the virus itself and should not be affected by the vaccination that I got. An antibody test might show antibodies as a result of the vaccination.
Replying to my own post with an update. Saturday’s test was a negative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test. I’ve got five tests between Monday and Saturday
Monday Negative PCR
Tuesday Negative Rapid COVID-19
Wednesday Negative PCR
Friday Positive PCR
Saturday Negative PCR.
The retained sample from Friday’s positive test has not had the results come back yet, that lab may not operate on the weekends so it may be tomorrow for those results, but I’m leaning more and more to a false positive.
I was always totally asymptomatic, and I’m in the 65-74 cohort that is 5 times more likely to be hospitalized and 13 times more likely to die, so I’d have expected at least a fever or a cough, and the positive result came eight days after my second dose of the Moderna vaccine.
Yep. Raised Catholic, and open casket was the norm. Not that I went to that many funerals growing up, but the few I did, were open casket.
Friends of ours lost their infant son to SIDS. It was open casket. I made a point of collaring several other friends on the way in to warn them.
He’d have just finished high school this past year. Aaaand, back to happier topics like COVID 
Which hopefully shows the vaccine is doing its job.
I was feeling a bit washed out over the last few days, yesterday then yesterday started to get shivers and a bit of difficulty swallowing, then my resting pulse rate in the evening was 95, and it’s usually 50 followed by some epic shivers when getting out of bed over night. Off for a rapid test and a PCR later today. All very irritating as I have been living like a monk on the mountain top, although two of the kids are at school.
Rapid was negative along with a flu and strep test, waiting on pcr results and generally feeling like crap.
Good luck and hope you start feeling better! whatever you’ve got doesn’t sound like fun.
Pcr negative, still have chills, headache, lethargy, and some gastric issues, pulse and blood ox is back to normal. Other weird issue is brain , trying to think about things and just get to a wall of "meh that’s too much effort "
Anyway we are carrying on as if I have it and will see what another pcr brings on Sunday if i still feel crappy.
My son has just tested positive.
He’s 16 and they closed down his school last Thursday because a teacher tested positive (stupid sumbitch only wore a face shied, not a mask). My son started exhibiting symptoms yesterday: runny nose, mild fever, mild headache. So I took him in today for testing, never thinking in a million years that he’d be positive. Why the fuck are we so conceited like that?
I was at work for 10 minutes Monday morning, I told my boss that my son had been sent home due to a contact and he sent me home, ordered to quarantine for 14 days. Guess he made the right call.
My son has been mostly quarantining in his room since Thursday, only coming out to grab food and use the bathroom. but it’s a small ranch house, and all the bedrooms are next to each other. Now, of course, I’m terrified that my wife, my other son, or I will get it. I’m overweight, diabetic, high BP, the works. My wife is overweight and anemic but otherwise healthy. I have no idea what the chances are that one of the rest of us will get it. I have the doors and windows open to air the place out because I have no idea what else to do.
This is a great thing to do! Keep doing it, even if it costs extra in heating. Your son wearing a mask when he is not in his room with the door closed is good also.
Just got word today that a long-time acquaintance died of Covid yesterday. Her husband died of it two days ago. They are my age – 72 – went to school with them. I have no idea of their vaccination status or underlying health conditions. I haven’t had any personal contact with either of them for several months.
This is (very) small town rural Pennsylvania.
My daughter came home from Uni for a week to see us and go to our doctor. We were going to take her back tomorrow (Sun.) but her room mate called. He’d been exposed to someone who tested positive and has to quarantine. So rather than force him to be in some dinky room* she’s going to stay home until they get the all clear.
She has 1 in-person class on Tuesday and can get vaxxed on Thursday. I’ll be driving her both days which I hate (to drive, to drive in a big city) but I’m putting on my big girl panties and doing it.
*When she went back this Spring session there were 4 rooms set up as quarantine rooms in her building. One of the students in quarantine posted a story about how crappy the room was. As in non-working sink, gross flooring and feeling so isolated. That hall was “closed” so no traffic.
I and my aunt both had it in January it but i went into the er and came back positive for covid and pneumonia and come to find out i had it for about a week or two before I went in… most of my immediate family drank the right-wing Koolaid so i wasn’t too surprised
it was miserable though … and even after i took all the meds they gave me it made me tired as hell and i didn’t actually feel better until the end of March ,
Update to say I found out the first person I know to die of covid. She was the adult daughter of one of my old karate buddies, a few years younger than me. Double whammy, her older son had just died from cancer.