El El Frijoles in Sargentville and Vazquez Mexican Takeout in Milbridge are two that I can personally vouch for.

I grew up in CO and spent many years in the southwest for whatever that’s worth.

Curious where. That was always one type of food i found lacking

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You give directions that include the phrase, “When the paved road ends…”

I couldnt find Grime, but Sun Tiki looks right!

And your in Maine

We dodged COVID until Christmas day '22. I got paxlovid but my husband didn't. I had much milder symptoms and was better in a week. He was down for two full weeks and it went into his chest. He coughed for a month. Sucked but we lived.

If it's not too late, ask your doctor about paxlovid.

I got Covid over Labor Day weekend. Symptoms were pretty mild, I was fully up to date on the vax and boosters, and as soon as I showed symptoms and tested positive, I called my doctor and they put me on paxlovid (I also have underlying medical issues that put me at a higher risk for a more severe case).

Honestly, for me, with the above, the worst thing was the cold/flu like symptoms making it hard to sleep. Nyquill became my friend. I was already off work that week for planned PTO, I was able to return to work via telecommuting only by the second day I was supposed to be back at work. I think I wound up taking only two sick days, not in a row.

And my employer's Employee Health people banned me from the office for three weeks instead of their normal two due to my underlying medical issues and relevant medications.

And, it's apparently not uncommon to get a "bounce" of symptoms a couple weeks later, and to test false-positive for up to three months after the infection. They told me to not bother testing until at least three months had gone by.

Navage

I had it. And I barely noticed. If I did not test for work I would not have known I even had COVID.

Same timeline, no vax. Same symptoms and dealing with a loss of smell for over a year now. Generally healthy and 41yo. Felt some vertigo-ish at different times, but all post-symptoms. Kinda makes me wonder what wasn’t thrown in to the lab soup??

My husband had Covid. He was home for twelve weeks. My mum tested positive today. She is in Florida. 😦

Cloth baby diapers to blow your nose and rest. It was the sickest I've been in years (I didn't qualify for an updated vaccination at the point). The cloth diapers saved my nose and face from being insanely chapped

He sounds like a wannabe gangster trying to act tough when in reality his toughness level is as small as his sausage. Lmfao.

Vitamin D!!!!! Lots of it keep in the healthy range don’t over dose on the D also just drink water lots and lots of water. Hot showers and rest

Even after banging on all the doors and oblivious to the fact that there are no cars in the parking lot

Jfc. That is just fucking insane.

they said 8 feet of snow in 6 days. plows haven’t even hit parts of the town yet. it’s a crazy scene

Had it in the fall. Vaxxed and boosted. It was real bad for me. Basically 4 days of fever, sweats and a lack of anything like coherent memories. There are 103 episodes of Cougartown somewhere in that void. Long term, I noticed from my fitness tracker that my resting heart rate went from the low-mid fifties to the mid-high sixties and stayed like that for months. Back to normal now. Never really moved into my chest or sinuses so that’s a plus. Never lost taste or smell. I feel like I had it a lot worse than most people I know in terms of hitting hard.

you stop at a house with a front yard full of junk and realize they're not having a yard sale.

Priorities.

Is that where 12 feet of snow fell in a couple weeks?

My partner got COVID for the first time in the Fall. Fortunately, she was asymptomatic, and I somehow never caught it from her.

Isolation tips: I don't know what your home layout is like, but, if there's a guest bedroom, camp out in there for the duration. Try to minimize your time in common areas, and wear a mask when you leave your quarantine room. Ventilation is hard in the winter, but if you can air out the common areas once in a while that can help. Try a Corsi-Rosenthal box, they're inexpensive and do a great job at cleaning the air. (Our house has a lot of airborne particulates from our pets -- setting up a box in the living area cut down that down almost entirely, and MERV 13 or higher filters will do the same for virus particles.)

My understanding is that vaccination protects against those side effects, although lack of good studies means we can't say definitively how good that protection is. There's definitely an effect, but the studies don't entirely agree on how strong it is. I think the best studies put the case rate at something like 1-2% of vaccinated people who get COVID experiencing Long COVID symptoms in general. (I don't think enough data exists to say how prevalent any specific Long COVID symptom is.)

So assuming you were vaccinated, try not to worry about it. The odds that you have Long COVID at all are pretty low, and the odds that you specifically get stuck with brain fog are even lower.

That's very strange. What're you supposed to do, keep testing yourself?

If you don't have symptoms, are you really sick?