/baw/ - General Discussion

how do i gains

>>404440
In order of importance:
>Eat a lot (or just already be fat and eat a regular amount)
>Sleep a lot
>Lift heavy
All 3 are required though.

>>404440
OATS
N
SQUATS

WOW OLYMPIC WEIGHTLIFTING IS REALLY HARD I'M GOING TO DIE

Giving 5/3/1 a try, it's a very barebones minimalist program. If anyone wants a copy of the book, lemme know, I've got the pdf.
My current version of it
>Monday (Overhead Press day)
>OHP 5/3/1
>Lat Pulldowns 5x10 (will become chinups as I get better at chinups, right now I'm heavier than I am strong)
>Dips 5x10

>Tuesday (Deadlift day)
>Deadlift 5/3/1
>Bulgarian Split Squats 5x10 (these are absolutely brutal, highly recommend)
>DB Side Bends 4x20

>Thursday (Bench day)
>Bench Press 5/3/1
>Kroc Rows 3x20-30
>Dips 5x10

>Friday (Squat day)
>Squats 5/3/1
>Romanian Deadlifts 4x15
>Weighted Situps 3x10-20

Kroc Rows, btw, are a gosh darn manmaker. Good Lord, approaching the end of your set, your grip's been failing for the last 6 reps, you've got 3 more to go, your lats feel like they're gonna just blow clean off, it's a beautiful lift.

Dips twice a week is pretty brutal too, I'd never really done them before, but they give a really nice pump.

Using this thread as my personal journal i guess.

Having really really sore abs feels like you constantly have to explosively poop. Exact same feeling.
It's unpleasant.

>>405399
Same as getting stung in the abdomen by a bluebottle, I suppose? It also feels like you constantly need to use the bathroom but stings as well.

>>405582
Also I completely crushed that pen moments later by accidentally dropping the weight on it.
I really liked that pen.
;_;

>>405582
Don't feel bad about using 'baby' weight when doing Olympic lifting. That shit is intense and baby steps is how you get better, you should already know that.

>>405584
it was deadlifts

Underside of upper arm flab: How to get rid of? I'm asking for a friend who is too young and attractive and vain to have bingo wings.

>>405880
Spot-reduction is a myth, your genetics dictate where your flab ends up and what order you lose it in. I have very lean, defined arms and legs, a slight gut, and then huge disgusting love handles. Sucks brah.

But yeah, if you've got fat in an area you don't like, only way to lose it is to lose fat. Eat less or move more.

>>405885
This is correct.

(how did I fail making this comment three times?)

Bump.

>>406593
thanks, I couldn't see it on any page. My browser a shit.

Going to the gym at night is almost makes me forget that I'm fatigued and would rather be home on my computer.

>>408335
I had to pop in for a minute at like midnight because my elbow cancer was seriously flaring up from all the pressing i do and i skipped curls earlier.
Really nice. Very quiet.

I hold a weird simultaneous state of self-deprecation and self-confidence, so I feel I really need a reality check or two. After exams, I think I'll make a post in /soc/'s "rate" threads. Any other suggestions?

Also, been skipping the gym for over a month due to exams (I tell myself) and probably lost a kg or two due to mild stress. Fug.

>>409038
Finally want to gym for first time in months. I hope my legs hurt tomorrow.

Starting two weeks from today, I begin BUILDING
THE
MONOLITH
https://jimwendler.com/blogs/jimwendler-com/101078918-building-the-monolith-5-3-1-for-size
Including the diet plan (at least 1.5 lbs of beef + 12 whole eggs per day).
Probably gonna get fat. Probably gonna get some serious tendinitis from all that volume. Definitely gonna get stronker.
I'm so excited.

>>409038
True confidence can only come from within. Exercise might be helpful in building confidence only in the positive effect it will have on your mental state--external validation from things like /soc/ won't make you feel any better other than for a short and ultimately hollow moment. Exercise and eat right because they make you feel better, or to look the way you want to look, not to become "attractive" which is a nonsensical and subjective thing anyway. Learning to love yourself will do far more to make you attractive than getting rid of your love handles.

If you can't find internal validation from self-improvement and becoming the person you want to be, you might want to talk to a psychiatrist about your confidence issues as well, since they could be indicative of depression or anxieties that should be treated with drugs. But keep in mind that you'll generally feel an overall improvement of mental state from healthier lifestyle, too.

>>411970
Same, same

Starting a loose diet, more of just meal planning. I under-eat, so I've planned out times to have meals and a few choices of things to have for those meals.

I've lost like 5kg during finals last year.

My appetite has decreased to a point that I eat only 1 or 2 meals a day now. I still don't have the energy to get back to the gym to work on my cardio.

One black pooping isn't a sign of impending critical health issues is it (Just something you should watch out for continuing)?

Been sick the past weak with a kidney/bladder infection or something and on the antibiotics, not been eating so much so I wasn't pooping, only a couple of tiny lumps put out like twice (which were the normal brown color) during that period.

Today, its the end of my course of antibiotics, not totally 100% but feelings much better than back then, has an actual meal and everything to herald my return to health.
Had a proper lengthy shit this afternoon and just had another one tonight which not overly painful but a bit of a strain after so long without, and I look down noticing the water is too clouded/dark to see the leaving but you think maybe that's partly the urine as well.
I wipe and take a look at the paper and the smear on the paper is a really dark brown-black which is worrying.

Black poop is sign of blood in it right, but is it possible to just have this sort of thing as a one-off without a serious cause? Like maybe its just something that happened from all that illness and now my body is starting up again its the dross getting worked out of the system?

30 years old if that matters overall.

>>416086
Well shit, I wouldn't know.

>>416086
>Black poop is sign of blood in it right, but is it possible to just have this sort of thing as a one-off without a serious cause? Like maybe its just something that happened from all that illness and now my body is starting up again its the dross getting worked out of the system?

It is entirely possible for poop to be black without being full of dried blood. For example, pepto bismol will turn poop black.

The water should probably be turning a little red if the poop is full of blood, even if the poop itself is black.

That said, the age doesn't matter much--ulcers are one of the number one killers of young men, but on the other hand, antibiotics would be the prescription for curing an ulcer, so if you were on antibiotics you don't need to be as concerned.

But talk to your doc if you're concerned. Also, if your urine is so dark it's making the water hard to see, you should probably be drinking more water--diarrhea and other stomach bugs often get you dehydrated quick, so if you haven't been drinking extra water to compensate, you're probably low.

Randomly looked up the common side-effects of contraceptive implant. Amongst others (some pretty serious sounding) there is-

>loss of interest in sex

That just seems like the universe taking the piss.

Need to share this pain

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/10/doctors-discover-four-live-bees-feeding-on-tears-inside-womans-eye

Humans need to seal up all their orifices

I've lost 6 pounds over two weeks.

>>418501
Congratulations!
On the other hand, I'm here trying not to lose weight..

>>418501
>>418422

>>418501
>I've lost 6 pounds over two weeks.

Congratulations on giving birth, but how did it take 2 weeks?

The winter months fuck me up now.

Every time in the later year now I get tired, my lower back gets discomforted and I'm so much more sensitive to the cold.

Its a struggle just to stay awake the whole day.

>>419062
You need more vitamins. Also, if you spend a lot of time sitting, consider investing in a more comfortable chair.

>>419063
Does cheese have vitamins? Real cheese, not that stuff you Americans eat.

>>419070
Cheese is made out of milk, so it should have some A, D, and B12 vitamins, plus calcium. It should be healthy for your bones. However I do not recommend too much of it, since cows are fed a lot of estrogen to make them produce more milk, and this filters down the food chain - if you drink a lot of milk or eat a lot of cheese while your body is developing, it will give you a more womanly figure. It's one of the reasons why Japanese women went from flat as a board to being titty monsters in the last generation, since estrogen was introduced into cows' diet sometime in the 80s I believe.

Either way if your problem is struggling to stay awake and feeling tired and irritable, then I'm guessing you need more C vitamins. It is most commonly found in citruses, so eat more oranges, orange/lemon juice, etc. Also, around here early winter is tangerine season, which I personally really like (they are mini oranges, like a snack version of them, and the Clementine variant is seedless and very sweet too).
B6 and B7 vitamin also helps, for that you just need to eat more meat.

>>419071
>It's one of the reasons why Japanese women went from flat as a board to being titty monsters
God Bless Dairy Products

>>419072
It's also why all of their men became effeminate looking sissies. And this also affects males in all first world countries.

>>419073
Japan is effeminate sissies because they got fucked in the ass so hard by AMERICA, which is still an improvement over being cannibalistic imperial gremlins.

>>419074
I would blame hentai instead. And plastic surgery for titty monsters.

>>419076
I thought it was South Koreans that had the stereotype for plastic surgery.

>>419074
>>419076
I'm talking about body types, not politics or tendency to be neets. They can barely grow moustaches and beards nowadays.

>>419090
People in the west can grow mustaches and beards and they eat way more of the stuff, I don't think you can blame chemicals in the food that turn the freakin frogs gay.

Its more likely connected to them being manlets.

>>419181
Probably
t. researched for 20 seconds

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-insulin-prices-rise-canada-border-cost-a8909921.html
https://www.tgdaily.com/buying-insulin-from-canada-why-its-cheaper/

>>419181
Perhaps the FUCKING WEIRDO what is Richard Stallman was right about copyWRONG, all along......

>>419260
I wouldn't be surprised, some people are simply allergic to wheat.

>>419260
Gay frog water is also turning more and more children hyper allergic to fucking everything. Instead of making everything glutten-free, solve the actual problem. That being what the FUCK causes all this sickness in people for no reason.

>>419274
Don't take it too srsly, I mean you cannot have more and more hyper allergic children being born for not reason at all. It has to be the food.

>>419276
...or genetic mutations coupled with increasing population and communication

I feel scared reading stories about family members feeding kids food they are allergic to because they think the kid is just delusional.

>>419276
Or maybe it's just poor upbringing and an unhealthy diet? I mean I had eczema for years as a child, and it turned out to be an allergy as well - I was allowed to eat so much cocoa products that I got allergic to it. It took years to diagnose. I grew out of it eventually, and in the mean time developed a taste for white chocolate (it was cocoa free).

>>419278
White chocolate is BASED. Not as based as regular milk chocolate though.

Exercise is bullshit

I happened to walk 4.5 miles back from the main city from a mental health appointment (because I was frustrated and confused by buses) and apparently even if you do that daily it isn't worth shit.

I don't even like leaving the house.

>>419591
Walking is not an exercise.

>>419593
Why not

>>419659
Cure-chan for laifu

>>419659
>Kung Flu
kek

seriously though, the coronavirus is insanely overblown by the media. It's an epidemic in china because it's an incredibly overpopulated place where they eat the dogs off the streets they shit on. Anywhere else, it's not worse than a seasonal flu outbreak.

Italian residents hug Chinese people to encourage them in coronavirus fight
Italy now has the most Coronavirus infected people in Europe.

>>419726
FIRST YOU TAKE NOODLES AND THEN YOU TAKE VIRUS
GIVE BACK OUR CULTURE ITALY PIG

>>419726
Well thats just not a very practical solution at all.

>>419730
Your logic is offensive.

>>419726
Apparently even the pope might have it, thought that could just be scare-mongering in the media.

>>419750
The scaremongering is indeed real. The news site I frequently read had something like 5 pages worth of coronavirus related news only, on the front page. It's a left-wing "liberal" portal, though. The conservative ones only had 2-3 articles out of 10-20. Truth is that so far this virus only killed about as many people as regular flu does every year.

Getting everyone freaked about cities getting quarantined is a way to make people buy excess food and supplies. So in the end fucking nothing will happen, but the supermarkets will make a killing after the panicking people clean them out.

The bad part about that is that you only need a handful of crazies buying up everything; other people will follow suit out of necessity once the aisles go empty (once food goes scarce, you'll have no other choice than to stock up, due to the shortage). This is a self-feeding cycle that does the market good.

>>419752
Well newspapers/outlets do it for the same reason clickbait exists, sensationalism about a thing gets people to buy newspapers or click links and draw attention rather than more light-handed coverage.

Your personal feelings about it seem rather American tribal

Hey, remember SARS?

>>419806
Remember bird flu?
Remember swine flu?
Remember mad cow disease?

>>419807
Remember ebola?

SARS is a bit more relevant in that it is also a Coronavirus from China.

>>419810
Sure. Not sure why anon got pissy.
I knew SARS existed, but remember would be the wrong word.

>>419810
>>419811
The important bit isn't that both are from china, it's that coronavirus is a strain of SARS. It's why China handled it so fast and brutally, because they have experience with it.

>>419815
The people who buy cartons of loo paper are hilarious. Why would you even do that?

>>419816
Who know, I can understand people who are buying lots of hand sanitizer or antibiotic soap but...

Maybe its just part of general hoarding? Maybe they are also buying alot of non-perishable food and bottled water thus expecting not to leave the house at all for a lengthy period of time.

Shopping sprees seem to have started over here, but I go to a slightly more expensive store and that one is practically untouched. The cheaper stores have more empty racks than I've ever seen - they are not COMPLETELY empty, but you can notice that one or two spaces are cleared out, which is something I haven't seen ever.

>>419835
Things are quite similar to that over here.

The slightly more expensive supermarket doesn't have any loaves of bread or other specific items but the cheaper one has way way more empty shelves.
Newsagents still have day-to-day essentials on the shelves despite being so much smaller.

>>419835
Grab an extra item or two every trip. Panic is irrational, you're lucky you still have the expensive stores untouched.
t. i just want to cook some pasta, man

My mum was going to visit today but I e-mailed her last night asking if we should put put it off, just got in contact with her and she had been thinking the same thing.

Left the house this morning and there was a crowd of people at the big store across the road all clustered together waiting for it to open, twits, if they are so scared they are panic-buying to stock up they should at least realize they shouldn't all be standing together should-to-shoulder in a group of strangers.

I don't get the panic spending. The fuck are you gonna do with 20 kilos of flour? It'll go bad before you have the chance to use it, unless you plan on cooking stuff every single day, and in that case you need a lot of other stuff that will go bad even sooner.

And it's not like stores will suddenly close or go empty.

>>419839
People of the 1st world have not seen a real epidemic for a while.

>>419838
>twits, if they are so scared they are panic-buying to stock up they should at least realize they shouldn't all be standing together should-to-shoulder in a group of strangers.
Literally this.
>>419839
>And it's not like stores will [...] go empty.
Parts of it can, the panic spending creates a feedback loop. Probably not 'going empty', but creating a perceived shortage, prompting more hoarding from those who didn't buy earlier.

plus a few fuckwits.

I'm buying more myself day to day so I have a surplus but not to the point I'm leaving stores with my arms full of stuff.

Usually only buy food for the same day and the next, eat alot of takeaway.

>>419842
The British government has ordered the closing of pubs and restaurants to combat the spread (not sure who was dumb enough to still be going to them). Presume that also includes small takeaway places? Maybe they still deliver.

>>419905
What about Madagascar?

Reporting no cases is very misleading. If a country does no tests, it will report no cases. For example:
- New York does the most tests, so they have the most cases.
- Germany counts deaths as those only caused by COVID-19 and nothing else, if the victim has another illness next to coronavirus, they will count it as a death caused by (some other illness). Consequently they have the lowest death cases in Europe, even though they are not faring any better.

An african shithole of a country will most likely just have no tests done, and the amount of deaths caused by this virus won't even register next to the death tolls caused by a near constant state of civil wars, famine, ebola, HIV, etc.
Same reason why China only reported a hundred thousand cases (they stopped tallying and started cremating people) or India not getting any cases so far.

Fact is that as of now the virus is everywhere, chances are even you might have it.

>>419918
>An african shithole of a country will most likely just have no tests done, and the amount of deaths caused by this virus won't even register next to the death tolls caused by a near constant state of civil wars, famine, ebola, HIV, etc.
I got curious and looked up a list of recent epidemics. In 2000 onwards, the epidemics which had over 1000 reported deaths affected:
>2008: Zimbabwe, cholera
>2009: Worldwide, swine flu/H1N1
>2010: Haiti, cholera (ongoing)
>2011: Congo, measles (ongoing)
>2013: West Africa/Worldwide, ebola
>2015 : India, swine flu/H1N1
>2016: Yemen, cholera (ongoing)
>2018: Congo, Uganda, ebola (ongoing)
>2019: Congo, measles (ongoing)
>2019: Asia-Pacific, Latin America, dengue fever
>2019: Worldwide, COVID-19 (ongoing)

Congo have enough to deal with.

>>419920
Those are just the reported deaths. Do you think every illness related death in Africa gets reported? They don't even get diagnosed. Things like malaria there are like the common cold over here.

>>419922
Yes, I should have emphasized 'reported'.

So pretty much as of the moment 422+ people have died of Covid19 in the UK.

...that sucks.

My fitness is suffering because I can't do my full daily walk each day. Even in the times of Lockdown there's too many other people out on the streets or the beach for me to be comfortable being out long.

Can feel the fat accumulating.

>>419928
You can still do basic training at home, and it's perhaps worth as much as just a basic walk.

>>419928
I wish I could teach you the exercises I know.

So /baw/ I just finished a course of Omeprazole and was not aware of the "rebound acid hypersecretion" that hits you after you stop taking it. Right in the middle of this bullshit about a super flue I'm being fucked by my guts ejaculating acid and it apparently lasts for 2 weeks after you stop. More than a week and a half to go then before it should settle down.

>>420007
Well, Covid is just a super powerful flu that attacks your lungs, while ebola liquifies your insides, so that's kind of expected.

And when the fuck did Soul Calibur turn into Dragon Ball Z? I used to like it because it had the most realistic and fluid character movements I've ever seen in a game (not counting the stupid shit like Cervantes teleporting or the gimp moonkwalking on all fours). This anime posing is pretty fucking stupid and kinda breaks up the fluidity of the game. But then, I haven't played it since maybe Soul Calibur 2, so what do I know.

>>420022
That makes no sense whatsoever.

>>420023
You're not a fan of Berserk.

>>420024
I am not either, but I listen to Anime World Order, and understand that reference.

>>420053
I'm confused what this has to do with Health and Fitness?

WHY?

https://twitter.com/TIME/status/1253617676657844224

Why do so many retards not understand the need for social distancing?
Had to leave the house today to pick up a prescription and I could see so many people walking along the beachfront.

>>420149
Because they are morons, or think that the news apply to someone else.

Honestly, we could just remove the safety labels off of everything and the problem would solve itself.

Actually, I take that back. It's not a matter of stupidity. Most people just have so much going on that they can't accept to change their daily course of life, they just want to get on with it. They can't be arsed to deal with changes like that.

The virus and everything is just some shit they read about in the news.

Keeping the 1st world in lockdown for months longer will cause millions in the 3rd world to die. That is all.

>>420155
Ah so you're saying there's an upside to all this inconvenience? Jolly Good!

>>420155
Good.

>>420156
>>420157
+4chan finally gotten edgy. Lowkey proud of you children.

>>420155
In what way?

>>420161
With the borders closed they wont be able to migrate to first world countries and leech off the social welfare system.

>>420162
Eh now its just getting tired.

>>419181
So the medical companies blatantly gouge the populace for essential life-saving medicines

While the citizens are so fucking stupid poison control has to deal with a rash of calls where people have injected kitchen cleaner into their veins because they heard their president suggest it

>>420149
Some politician on the radio just said the likes of social distancing will remain in place until next year.
Seems pretty fucking pointless when so many people don't even bother.

>>420181
It depends on place to place, up a bit north from me I heard young adults were heckling old farts for not keeping their distance. Whodathunkit, the young are often the wise.
I've generally noticed people locally taking it seriously, either that or they're all holed up working from homewhenever I'm out...

Booze stores should not be considered an 'essential service'

>>420205
I disagree, they absolutely should be. High quality booze is what usually keeps my stomach aches down.

>>420207
Maybe I should become an alcoholic.

Currently addicted to the fizzy juice which I think just causes my stomach aches.

>>420214
quality tea has some rum in it, so he is back to square one.

>>420277
We all know Corona-chan respects consent.

>>420277
Coronavirus UK: Activists gather at anti-lockdown event in London's Hyde Park

>Muh Freedom
>Viruses aren't real

>>420301
Unfortunately too many of them would likely survive catching it, and it would just further strain the country in the process.

For fuck's sake

Thousands flock to beaches on UK's hottest day despite COVID-19 warnings

If Covid19 was actually hardcore there wouldn't be anybody left at this rate.

>>420303
Based UK.

>>420307
No. No, it is not.

>>420307
Erased and deadpilled.

>>420317
Actually funny.

I'm sick of being sick all the time, the pills the docs hand off to me keep things alright for awhile but it just goes back to how it is when they run out. Can't get any help in these times.

>>420345
What pills and what sickness?

>>420349
Omeprazole, acid and gut problems. Recently have started sweating heavily when sleeping which is new.

>>420352
I wouldn't know about gut problems, we have several strong local type of drinks as well as many thermal waters - both which are effective against it. I get panic attack induced nausea more often than actual stomach issue induced ones (which was a problem in itself, and I only realized it was all just a "fake" stomach ache when I got actual stomach problems that forced me to threw up).

As for sweating while sleeping, that only happens to me if I drink too much water before going to sleep, or if I wake up in the middle of the night to drink some water. More water intake = more sweating, basically. No idea how this relates to your case, however.

>>420353
I've got problem with anxiety as well so for all I know the two issues are intertwined.

>>420354
Do you actually have diarrhea or vomit, or all you do is feel nauseus, weak on your legs? The latter is one of the many ways how anxiety manifests. Feeling cold, sweating, and shaking legs are some others I've experienced. When I get the chills, I immediately know I'm having an attack, then I will get nausea. I only had shaking legs once, at which point I said to myself that this is getting ridiculous and willed myself to go on, after which the anxiety faded away.

I've went to all sorts of doctors for a period, thinking I had stomach illness, but nothing was found. Then many years later I finally figured out I was actually having panic attacks. This helped me get over the problem. The other was a time I had an actual stomach ache that forced me to wake up midnight to vomit; it was a completely different gut feeling than just the standard anxiety-induced nausea, which made me realize the difference between the two. Since having stomach problems is one of the things I fear, and in turn what gives me anxiety, I sort of "faced my fears" on that one, and actually did not have panic attacks for a while after that.
Eating in public is still what gives me the worst anxiety, due to the fear of having stomach problems.

>>420355
Chest often burns, burp up bile sometimes.

>>420356
And the medicine helps? Sounds you got something more serious than just anxiety attacks.
Don't know what else to say but to experiment with changing your eating habits. I know that most of my stomach issues are caused by my bad eating habits (I have 1 or 2 meals a day, but then I gorge on it like a pig, and I do not eat much if any fruits).

>>420357
Yeah I've cut out various things that seem like they would exacerbate problems. Cut out anything else and I'll stop eating.

>>420362
I don't just mean not eating certain things. Time your meals differently, or try eating different things you usually would not, see if it makes a difference.

So has the quarantine stuff been scaled back in most places now?

>>420446
Yeah, stores are allowed to open and quarantine has been scaled down mostly everywhere. Over here you still require to wear face masks in stores, but in two weeks they'll remove that too.

What''s the deal with this LockdownFailed going around?

>>420466
Protestingburning buildings and breaking cars over the tragic death of 1 man is okay, because this will end racism.

But you cannot gather up in groups, that will give everyone the 'Rona, and everyone will die.

The streets are fucking PACKED around here now the past few days. Went out for food shopping and my throat feels bad, probably just psychosomatic or discomfort from another source than THE PLAGUE.

>>420559
packed with protesters or just general people?

>>420560
Just general people, there's been no protesters around here. Now that the lockdown has been reduced everyone has decided its business as usual.

Apparently 'Murrica has been hit by a massive surge of 'Rona?

>>420586
What did you expect, they have been rioting in masses for the past month. Easy way for the virus to transfer like that. Even if they weren't, they are generally not adhering to quarantine rules either, unlike Europeans, so it would transfer faster regardless.

>>420586
Not where I reside.

>>420590
America is a big place.

>>420592
To be fair, the sun being out is perhaps a once-a-month event in the UK.

>>420593
Hardly, its been unfeasibly hot & bright for multiple days now where I live.

So various places are under lockdown again huh?

People are saying hoe Corona will kill as many people as the Spanish flu, but keep in mind that that happened when most of the world was war-torn, and the total populace of the world was significantly less. We'd need to hit a quarter billion in dead to get the same relative numbers.

And honestly? I hope we will reach that. The world is too overpopulated.

>>420721
Are you prepared to sacrifice yourself for the noble cause of population control?

>>420741
It's going to stay fucked until all the stupid people catch it, after that it will be limited in how much damage it can go.
So expect it to continue for quite a bit more. Until the end of the year minimum. Unless the virus mutates and re-infects, things will get crazier if that happens.

Also note that significantly more people already caught it, and healed up from it - on many people, it has the symptoms of a mild flu. I had two flus this winter, back to back, so I wouldn't be surprised if I already had gotten it way back then.

>Would anyone here actually go out to a bar or sit-in at a restaurant today?
I would not because I have agoraphobia.

>>420742
Isn't a problem with the Coronabullshit is that catching it doesn't actually make you immune, so you can heal up only to get it again?

>>420743
No sickness will make you immune to it, they just force your body to produce antibodies to defeat the sickness, which is how you recover; after which your body still "remembers" the virus for a time, and upon detecting it, it will start producing antibodies before it can get severe enough. But this is not permanent immunity, it goes away with time, otherwise people wouldn't catch a mild flu every year. Vaccines work the same way, they contain weakened viruses that "trick" your immune system into producing antibodies. It's why you have to take some vaccines again and again, because they only last so long depending on the virus.

COVID is like a turbo flu. It's much deadlier, much faster acting, and your body has less time to work on passive antibodies (the early warning system of your body) because it is too busy producing active antibodies that combat the already raging illness. So you can get it again faster.

That's not the real problem though. The real problem is that it spreads so fast that it overloads our healthcare system (not enough intensive care units), and it may even leave permanent damage in your body. Our aging populace can make the entire effect much worse too.

Fuck Spain

>>420746
What happened? Or just in general?

>>420754
Their idiocy caused Covid-19 in the country to flourish again when everyone there basically decided it was business as usual.

>>420755
In that case you should say Fuck the USA foremost, but I guess that has been redundant since the past few decades.

>>420757
I already pointed out that America is retarded over the virus a few posts above it, with an image.

>>420758
You can't have enough images of pointing out how retarded America is.

Live next to a shitty beach, slept in and had to go food shopping early afternoon, the streets were fucking THRONGED by careless idiots in a neverending crowd. Would have wished nothing more to gun them all down.

>>420769
Well, it IS summer, so it is inevitable that people want to enjoy that.
That and its 30-40C over here so I understand if people want to visit the beach.

>>420773
No, fuck them, its causing the spiking in infections and damaging the entire country.

>>420935
I don't even get how this is supposed to work. Is it saying that dying of covid-19 is a good thing? Also, why are the elderly not in the same line when covid-19 is more likely to kill the elderly?

>>420936
My guess is that all the partying people who gather are catching it and dying. All part of the plan to make heaven more lively.

>>420935
Actually funny.

[political post moved to politics thread]

Popped out to the shops to pick up a few needed items, thought it would be okay being that it is late at night, no. There were fucking crowds of retards out in the streets or standing infront of pubs. Notably there was this big group of people blasting music in a playground.

Someone walked up and stood right next to me when waiting to be served in the store, asked them to move back and they gave me shit and told me to fuck off.

Why are people so goddamn stupid.

>>421240
People are just selfish and only give a shit about their own thing. I didn't consider the mask thing serious when they first became required either, and got some shit over it, but at last I understand that I deserved it.

don't worry though, those assholes will likely get covid and die - it's fucking natural selection at work. And as long as you wear a mask, the chances of you getting it is significantly lowered.

>don't worry though, those assholes will likely get covid and die
I wish. Some of them will but not many, the death/hospitalization rate is low overall. Hopefully it's enough to meaningfully affect communities and shake them into understanding (like if two friends or relatives got it).

>>421309
I guess my life is also fake, and the people I know never existed.

>>421309
Is this sincere spam or are you just shitposting for a joke?

>>421311
>>421312
>>421317
It was a spam thread but the pic was cute so I just moved it here instead of deleting.

It seems like lockdown state will be lowered around here, restaurants and bars will open again etx.
This is actually the annoying part, where instead of remaining consistent the degree of response keeps moving up and down.

Is it possible to be woken up by it being too cold?

Was just woken up after a few hours feeling like something was wrong and it seems things having gotten so cold recently is the only factor as to why.

My arms which are the only parts really exposed are tingly like my body was cutting off the flow of blood to them to maintain core temperature.

Will need to start actually putting the heating on again.

>>421491
>Is it possible to be woken up by it being too cold?
Indirectly but yes. The cold will lead to discomfort, so if you throw yourself at night you'll be more likely to wake up.

>My arms which are the only parts really exposed are tingly like my body was cutting off the flow of blood to them to maintain core temperature.
I think that's more likely to happen because you slept in a pose where pressure was put on a blood vassal, slowing down the blood flow. I usually sleep on my side and every once in a while, if I rest my head under my arm, it will completely cut the blood flow and I'll wake with a numb arm. It becomes heavy, I cannot move it, and when the blood circulation goes back it will hurt a lot, plus it also makes my heart beat like a jackhammer until it is done. I've been trying to avoid that if I can since I'm older now and I'm worried that my heart will only be able to take so much.

Hell, developed a pair of small patches of stretch marks on my lower belly. Must have really been putting on weight recently.

>>421648
Do you look at computers and only see food?

>>421649
No, I look at computers and see videogames/porn.
Things have been kind of bad recently moving into the winter months and guess I've been comfort-eating to deal, thus the most likely cause. (These aren't my first, original ones developed in my younger years on my fat fucking thighs. This is just the first time I've seen them on my torso thus the shock)

>>421649
I can't imagine looking at computer and seeing food. I need to put myself on a fat diet.

>>421653
I experience being at computers RIGHT NOW!

I may have acid reflux issues.
This couldn't have come at a worse time, since we are in a crunch at work, and me failing right now could result in losing my job.

>>421749
Sympathies go out to you, was dealing with such things last year.

>>421750
I'm not even sure I have such problems, I just looked up the symptoms online. For the past week, no matter what I ate, I had a vomituous taste left in my throat, plus my stomach has been feeling weird lately (feels all swollen but empty). After eating, I always tended to cough up a lot of fluids but a few days ago the tea I drank came up spontaneously as well.

I need to see a doctor with it, problem is that due to the Covid crisis, I'm not even sure if that is even possible.

Think I irritated my lungs blowing a bunch of dust out of my machine the other day.

They're kind of uncomfortable since then and the cold is doing them no favors.

>>421758
>irritated

I read that as "irradiated".

>>421763
It could always be cancer I suppose.

Then would need to get radiotherapy thus making my lungs irradiated.

>>421765
Just take a trip to Chernobyl. You'll have a vacation AND cover the radiation therapy at the same time.

>>421749
>>421755
update. I now have diarrhoea, and with a minor increase in body temps. The docs straight up sent me to do a covid test....

>>422020
Better safe than sorry.

So, I should probably ask a better source at some point, but to toss it around here too: Last year, I had what seemed to be some serious allergies, so I got perscription allergy medicine. This January or Febuary, after we first heard of Covid but before the lockdowns, I had a day where I had a lot of trouble breathing all of a sudden.

Going outside seemed to help for some reason, but I my breathing didn't feel comfortable in the house long until after I took both allergy pills, and had to keep taking those for a while. Soon after that, I read that one of the ways Covid causes damage is by inducing a cytostorm, which to be seemed to fit a similar description to an allergic reaction.

Also, more recently, it seems like there's some research into using allergy medecine for covid along somewhat similar reasoning of it preventing inflammation.

But in general, what I'm asking is, should I tell people I know who have Covid to try using allergy medecine, be it over the coutner or whatever else they can get?

>>422024
>cytostorm
Cytokine storm, I mean.

>>422024
What sort of allergy medicine? There are many different allergies, and I have pollen allergy myself (hay fever is what the brits call it I think). The pills I take for those prevent me from having nonstop runny nose, which not only makes my days... livable, for one, it also allows me to sleep properly. But the best effect is that, since I don't have nonstop runny nose while sleeping, the junk does not pile up in my nasal area, from where it does not empty for weeks or months.

In fact I seem to be having that latter effect for the past month or two, despite allergy season being over. I may consider taking the hay fever pills during winter too. I suspect it's because I do not clean my place often enough, so the pollen gets stuck in the dust in my room, so it affects me even during winter.

On another note I also seem to have some breathing problem right now, which gets better when I move around or have a window open. I'm hoping it's just placebo with what the covid test I'll have to take. But it sure is odd that I have a bunch of minor, seemingly unrelated issues jumping up from seemingly nowhere. Plus I have no idea from where I could've gotten covid either, considering that I don't go around people to begin with, other than the stores where you have to wear masks.

>>422026
Yeah, I was also thinking maybe I was just having some sort of panic response. Also having ongoing sinus issues past allergy season, especially draining as phlegm, but my sinuses are just like that a lot for who knows what reason anyway.

>>422031
>Also having ongoing sinus issues past allergy season, especially draining as phlegm, but my sinuses are just like that a lot for who knows what reason anyway.

That's what I described too. Since I can't blow my nose when sleeping, the phlegm builds up and takes a while to drain. Actually it seems to build even when my nose isn't runny. Maybe it's just another issue that comes with age.

My breathing seems to have improved after eating a bit, I guess it was just the pizza I had earlier, the one I ordered tends to make me feel extremely dehydrated even when I'm not. That and sitting all day long probably did not help (and would also explain why I didn't have it when going out to the store or opening the window - what helped wasn't the clean air but just that I got off my ass.

>>422026
>>422031
Oh right: And I took Allegra, Flonase, and saline spray, with Singulair when symptoms got extra bad.

So apparently Covid has mutated in the UK and we now have DOUBLE-COVID?

What can I do to make Chamomile tea not taste like shit?

>>422067
>>422069
yeah, and the UK also got another new more virulent mutation, from South Africa this time.

Had to nip outside to buy food, it was such a wonderful feeling to see the streets completely barren.
Compared to during the runup to Christmas when the streets were absolutely heaving.

>>422112
>What can I do to make Chamomile tea not taste like shit?
Get better taste, it taste like awesomeness.

hey
don't inject yourself with mushrooms

https://www.livescience.com/magic-mushroom-injection-case-report.html

unless you want to end up like a victim in a fucking horror movie