Last night she was coughing in a manner my asleep brain read as “gross”, so unconsciously noped the fuck out of there and slept on the sofa. I can’t believe my non-awake brain got it.

She tested positive a few hours ago, so now I just have 7 days to worry. I probably have it, I feel a bit off already.

I know that it’s more than most people, but she was wearing low quality masks, going to a non-safe dentist at peak times, and avoiding the booster. I’ve been nicely pushing her for years, and she brings this shit home. She’s also sorry, and I say it’s fine because I want her to feel better and recover, but secretly I’m fucking raging.

Sorry to rant. Better on Hexbear than out loud.

  • EmergMemeHologramEnglish
    32·
    9 months ago

    I think it’s okay to be upset initially, but you shouldn’t blame your partner.

    It’s been 4 years and you didn’t get it until now, that’s much much longer than the majority of people. Even wearing high quality masks and getting boosters and being careful my wife caught it.

    You can do everything right, but it’s a game of probabilities. 99% effective procedures over a long enough period will still fail.

    It’s more mild now than ever, it spreads easier now than ever, and it sounds like you’ve been getting your boosters so you’ve probably got decent immunity.

    If you’re already feeling gross then you probably got it around the same time as her and your body just has a different time to showing symptoms than hers. Or it could be psychosomatic and you’re so worried about symptoms that you’re convincing yourself you have them.

    And even though she has it, there’s still a chance you can mask indoors and keep separate and not get it.

      • wopazoo [he/him]@hexbear.netMEnglish
        5·
        9 months ago

        this is true, pirola is more severe than omicron

        https://fortune.com/well/2024/01/08/covid-omicron-variants-pirola-ba286-jn1-more-severe-disease-lung-gi-tract-symptoms/

        Highly mutated COVID variant BA.2.86—close ancestor of globally dominant “Pirola” JN.1—may lead to more severe disease than other Omicron variants, according to two new studies published Monday in the journal Cell.

        In one study, researchers from Ohio State University performed a variety of experiments using a BA.2.86 pseudovirus—a lab-created version that isn’t infectious. They found that BA.2.86 can fuse to human cells more efficiently and infect cells that line the lower lung—traits that may make it more similar to initial, pre-Omicron strains that were more deadly.

        In the other study, researchers in Germany and France came to the same conclusion. “BA.2.86 has regained a trait characteristic of early SARS-CoV-2 lineages: robust lung cell entry,” the authors wrote. The variant “might constitute an elevated health threat as compared to previous Omicron sublineages,” they added.