Doctor thinks I have Covid19

How are you doing Turbo? Hopefully well on your way to fully recovered.

Good to hear from you will have to watch The Expanse...lol, I have nothing else to do....NOT!   I have tons to get to just waiting for better weather.

Albert wrote: Is Turbo MIA now and intubated?  It's been 12 hours and no reports.   hmmm

Sorry, The Expanse has been monopolizing all my time, by Jove this is a good show! I'm three quarters through the second season already.

I feel substantially better, cough mucous is... still... hanging... around. I am *SO* tired of coughing, however at this point I am a well oiled coughing machine. 

At my job it seems that they're putting people who are in training status, as in not at their "Full Progression Level" into telework, nothing else, just work from home. I missed that boat by about a month. I have heard some wild stuff out of the FAA, like they have closed multiple towers. One of which, Midway IL, had multiple controllers fall ill with Covid19, one after the other, until everyone just up and left. Later the tech ops manager and a couple other technicians came down with it too, which is unsurprising considering that they all work closely with each other. 

I am surprised that they haven't shut down passenger flight, though they have curtailed it significantly. That has had teh consequence of hurting the big package movers like UPS/Fedex because they would move packages on passenger planes too, and since that's not happening as much as it used to, I have heard that they're (FEDEX/UPS) going to start pushing more shifts and flights to make up for the shortfall.

I don't remember the other facilities that have closed, but nothing at any job of mine is going anywhere.

YES, Turbo has posted!!!! Turbo you scared us we would be sending out the troops if we knew where you were!!!  Don't go for 12 hours without posting...we are worried!

Does anyone know exactly where he's at? Like actual physical location so we could have someone check in on him?

Prayers for Turbo too!

Is Turbo MIA now and intubated?  It's been 12 hours and no reports.   hmmm

Keep the crap coming up and keep taking the Mucinex, keep drinking water/juice, and keep taking your meds!!!  This too shall pass as my 97 yr old mother still tells me...LOL!   Keep posting and I hope your family knows where you are exactly located so they can send someone if you get more ill!  If you don't have family tell Albert exactly where you are, so we can send the troops if we don't hear from you.   This is MOM talking!

How are you doing today Turbo? Did the Zpack kick in and give you any relief?

AI wrote: Turboguy wrote: AI wrote: Turboguy wrote: AI wrote: How are you holding up Turbo? Hopefully you are feeling better. I bought some mucinex at Target while picking up my prescription and although the stuff tastes like Albert's rotten ass feet ;) wow does it work. What's the dosage of your ZPack? How many milligrams, how often, for how long? You know in case someones fish gets sick and can't make it to the hospital errr I mean Vet. 250 mg per pill.  5 days worth. Day 1: 500 mg all at once then one 250 mg per day for 5 days. 6 pills total. You might get the shits. Great right when there is a TP shortage lol. Well I hope you get to feeling better and it helps.

lol... come on man... they're not that bad.  Don't be a hater lol. 

On another note, was wondering about a zpack.  Wonder why they are suspecting bacterial pneumonia.  Hope it works.

Although the I.P says Los Angeles, in China they have to use proxy servers to post anywhere in the U.S.  If he is in China, he could have some good information for us, or at the very least he may have relatives or friends in China (Wuhan).  

Google translate on Manba's posts:

Be careful

I still want to protect myself. I have some resources here. I don't know if it is available. 

Turboguy wrote: AI wrote: Turboguy wrote: AI wrote: How are you holding up Turbo? Hopefully you are feeling better. I took a little of Mom's advice and boogied back to the hospital. They decided I was at risk of pneumonia so gave me a zpack.  I bought some mucinex at Target while picking up my prescription and although the stuff tastes like Albert's rotten ass feet ;) wow does it work.  I went in there wearing a mask. Although it was almost totally empty, if you walk around with a mask on people tend to get the heck out of your way. I went through the self checkout aisle and the attendant there kept getting close to me. I told him that I was trying to stay away because i am sick. He said, "It's all good, bro!" and kept screwing around until I said, "Dude, I have a version of coronavirus, I'm not f***ing with you, please stay away from me." Then he got the message and backed up with an "Oh s***" look on his face. What's the dosage of your ZPack? How many milligrams, how often, for how long? You know in case someones fish gets sick and can't make it to the hospital errr I mean Vet. 250 mg per pill.  5 days worth. Day 1: 500 mg all at once then one 250 mg per day for 5 days.  You might get the shits.

That's the standard Z-pack dose.  Hope you feel better soon!!! 

AI wrote: Turboguy wrote: AI wrote: How are you holding up Turbo? Hopefully you are feeling better. I took a little of Mom's advice and boogied back to the hospital. They decided I was at risk of pneumonia so gave me a zpack.  I bought some mucinex at Target while picking up my prescription and although the stuff tastes like Albert's rotten ass feet ;) wow does it work.  I went in there wearing a mask. Although it was almost totally empty, if you walk around with a mask on people tend to get the heck out of your way. I went through the self checkout aisle and the attendant there kept getting close to me. I told him that I was trying to stay away because i am sick. He said, "It's all good, bro!" and kept screwing around until I said, "Dude, I have a version of coronavirus, I'm not f***ing with you, please stay away from me." Then he got the message and backed up with an "Oh s***" look on his face. What's the dosage of your ZPack? How many milligrams, how often, for how long? You know in case someones fish gets sick and can't make it to the hospital errr I mean Vet.

250 mg per pill. 

5 days worth. Day 1: 500 mg all at once then one 250 mg per day for 5 days. 6 pills total.

You might get the shits.

Turbo, glad you took Mom's advice, mom is all knowing and all seeing...listen to Mom.  My son knows that and will tell you that!  LOL!

Be sure you drink a lot with mucinex.   Do not drink milk it creates phlegm!!    Stay well keep us up to date!   If you can use a cold vaporizer. 

Must have book for preparing for fish and bird purchase of antibiotics 

AI wrote: Turboguy wrote: AI wrote: How are you holding up Turbo? Hopefully you are feeling better. I took a little of Mom's advice and boogied back to the hospital. They decided I was at risk of pneumonia so gave me a zpack.  I bought some mucinex at Target while picking up my prescription and although the stuff tastes like Albert's rotten ass feet ;) wow does it work.  I went in there wearing a mask. Although it was almost totally empty, if you walk around with a mask on people tend to get the heck out of your way. I went through the self checkout aisle and the attendant there kept getting close to me. I told him that I was trying to stay away because i am sick. He said, "It's all good, bro!" and kept screwing around until I said, "Dude, I have a version of coronavirus, I'm not f***ing with you, please stay away from me." Then he got the message and backed up with an "Oh s***" look on his face. What's the dosage of your ZPack? How many milligrams, how often, for how long? You know in case someones fish gets sick and can't make it to the hospital errr I mean Vet.

You meant your BIRD, not your fish. Right?  ;-)  

AI wrote: How are you holding up Turbo? Hopefully you are feeling better.

I took a little of Mom's advice and boogied back to the hospital. They decided I was at risk of pneumonia so gave me a zpack. 

I bought some mucinex at Target while picking up my prescription and although the stuff tastes like Albert's rotten ass feet ;) wow does it work. 

I went in there wearing a mask. Although it was almost totally empty, if you walk around with a mask on people tend to get the heck out of your way. I went through the self checkout aisle and the attendant there kept getting close to me. I told him that I was trying to stay away because i am sick. He said, "It's all good, bro!" and kept screwing around until I said, "Dude, I have a version of coronavirus, I'm not f***ing with you, please stay away from me." Then he got the message and backed up with an "Oh s***" look on his face.

AI wrote: Seems they should be able to diagnose exactly which coronavirus you have. After all the sample did go to the CDC. It should have been identified and diagnosed.

Right, but they did not tell me which strain. 

From CDC site

Common human coronaviruses

1. 229E (alpha coronavirus)
2. NL63 (alpha coronavirus)
3. OC43 (beta coronavirus)
4. HKU1 (beta coronavirus)

You need to be careful the coughing could be the start of pneumonia.  If you don't get better by tomorrow I would call the doc and see if you need to go in to hospital and get an xray.

What I am confused about is if you don't have "the coronavirus", does that mean you have a known coronavirus, as opposed to the novel version, or do you have an as yet unknown variant of covid19, one of the 49 variants?

KiminNM wrote: So.... first, glad it's not "the" CV. And that you got groceries. And hoping you feel better soon!!! That said - what's up with the initial test being kind of positive? Does this identify a testing issue? Asking because I just read this on Facebook:  One was about a nurse practitioner who went to Hawaii for vacation and came back with the sniffles. After two weeks at work with the sniffles, she tested positive for COVID-19. She never had a fever - never had a cough - nothing but sniffles. Then xxx said that she has been looking but has not been able to find anything to confirm that the test they use specifically tests for the COVD-19 strain and not just "coronavirus".   xxx  is looking at things through the lens of a couple of decades in animal and vet science.

No idea. Is the first test to see if it is a coronavirus and the second at CDC says whether or not it is the real deal? 

The thing I think we are all really missing is that this thing is an escaped weapon of war. Why the blue F*** is China developing biological weapons? And if they are developing this shit, why isn't the rest of the planet slapping crippling embargoes on them?