my boss’s kid was outside doing yardwork and got sweaty, was sneezing. called doc and they told him to quarantine for 2 weeks. maybe i should go do some of their yardwork & i can get some time off, too!
As soon as you have suspicious symptoms, check your oxygen level on that nifty little pulse oximeter you have or are going to get at any drugstore, no prescription needed, ASAP. People are presenting showing very mild symptoms and roaring silent pneumonia with oxygen levels at 50% when normal is 95% or better and anything below 90% is low. See https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/opinion/coronavirus-testing-pneumonia.html for more.
Everybody coughs, but you have those people who have like a constant hacking a lung out cough and those are the ones that you don’t wanna be around anyways.
I have had to go out a few times since all this started and until the other day didn’t have a mask. I have allergies and tend to cough fairly often. I’ve been taking Lyft rather than public transportation, so I when I get into the car I alert the driver that I have a chronic cough. One driver from a former USSR country told me he wasn’t worried about the coronavirus because it was a hoax. He listens to a Serbian radio station and they assured their listeners that fewer than 100 people worldwide have it.
Husband is just like this – every time I cough I have to explain – tea dries my throat, food hit back of my throat etc. He takes his temperature – it is 98.1 instead of normal 97.6 he panics.
Tyge over 4 years ago
Don’t scare me like that!!!
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace over 4 years ago
I would often cough and say, “Man, this coronavirus is rough.”
(the joke was not well received, go figure)
mddshubby2005 over 4 years ago
My favorite is “Nope, still can’t breathe water.”
drogers30 over 4 years ago
I hate that when that happens.
whahoppened over 4 years ago
Arlo, the least you could do is put your drink down before you do your coughing fit.
electricshadow Premium Member over 4 years ago
That was scary for one hot second (gulp of tea).
nosirrom over 4 years ago
I’ve done that with my snot.
Ontman over 4 years ago
Don’t worry Arlo, there are a lot of accusatory looks from people when they hear someone cough these days.
jr1234 over 4 years ago
Who hasn’t learned to sneeze or cough into their elbow?
Michael G. over 4 years ago
Hey, Janis? Er, where do you live? Sleep? Eat? “Recreate”?
Going Nuts over 4 years ago
I find the older I get, the more that happens.
ScullyUFO over 4 years ago
Situationally unaware humanoids dumbwittingly blocking the aisle at the Costco? I find a few well-rehearsed hacking sounds parts the waves.
Pohka over 4 years ago
Try going grocery shopping with mild allergies and a little post-nasal drip. Desire to scratch face and the occasional cough.
wes tnt over 4 years ago
my boss’s kid was outside doing yardwork and got sweaty, was sneezing. called doc and they told him to quarantine for 2 weeks. maybe i should go do some of their yardwork & i can get some time off, too!
hfelder7219 over 4 years ago
It’s bad that the virus is here in the middle of pollen season!
j.l.farmer over 4 years ago
she acts like it never happened to her.
rugeirn over 4 years ago
As soon as you have suspicious symptoms, check your oxygen level on that nifty little pulse oximeter you have or are going to get at any drugstore, no prescription needed, ASAP. People are presenting showing very mild symptoms and roaring silent pneumonia with oxygen levels at 50% when normal is 95% or better and anything below 90% is low. See https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/opinion/coronavirus-testing-pneumonia.html for more.
mclukk over 4 years ago
Coffin-g
33Angel over 4 years ago
My sweetie freaks out every time I cough like Arlo above. My standard reply is, “If I got it, you’ve ALREADY got it too!!!”
Cincoflex over 4 years ago
Man, it was an accident; from Janis’ face you’d think he’d done it on purpose. Lighten up, Jan!
micromos over 4 years ago
As long as you are coughing, you are breathing.
cuzinron47 over 4 years ago
Coughing happens, don’t get paranoid. Course that’s easy for me to say, I cringed when somebody coughed coming toward me the other day.
CynthiaLeigh over 4 years ago
What’s the difference between a “cough” and a “coff”?
tb40001 over 4 years ago
Everybody coughs, but you have those people who have like a constant hacking a lung out cough and those are the ones that you don’t wanna be around anyways.
dv1093 over 4 years ago
Without making any assumptions – someone want to explain the “joke” to me? As usual here, I don’t get it.
ccbellucci over 4 years ago
He should have coughed into his elbow
jimbagger58 over 4 years ago
The term now is a “productive” cough, meaning phlegmy…so that’s a good cough to have as well as “down the wrong pipe” been there done that..
bevgreyjones over 4 years ago
I have had to go out a few times since all this started and until the other day didn’t have a mask. I have allergies and tend to cough fairly often. I’ve been taking Lyft rather than public transportation, so I when I get into the car I alert the driver that I have a chronic cough. One driver from a former USSR country told me he wasn’t worried about the coronavirus because it was a hoax. He listens to a Serbian radio station and they assured their listeners that fewer than 100 people worldwide have it.
mafastore over 4 years ago
Husband is just like this – every time I cough I have to explain – tea dries my throat, food hit back of my throat etc. He takes his temperature – it is 98.1 instead of normal 97.6 he panics.
shapmandoo almost 4 years ago
Here I am November 2020 and hoping all these people are still alive and hopefully well. It’s worse than ever use your head stay safe.