> "We weren’t entitled because we weren’t paying customers."
Having insight into the Dutch university education system I've noticed that the students here are incredibly entitled, and even cite "being paying customers" when they disagree with the difficulty of course work or the scoring they get and diagree with.
My experience of my Nordic university time, some 20 years ago mirrors yours. Not unlimited retakes, but very hard exams and no one had this "customer" attitude. Just nose to the grindstone, very long days in the library, every single day of the week.
I had my fourth Covid infection just a month ago. Fully vaccinated, and having had it three times before, it still hit me like a brick.
It took 10 days to get rid of the flu like symptoms, two weeks to get to semi normal, but my taste hasn't been the same since. Not entirely gone, but very muted.
If these gums were available off the shelf I would buy them in a heartbeat!
The thing that helped me is "smell training". At random moments throughout the day try and sniff things that are just beyond your ability to smell. When I was fully in covid I could just barely perceive some sensation when sticking certain bottles of spice up to my nose.
I last had Covid 2 years ago. My sense of smell came back to about 25% of what it used to be. I describe it to people like distance. Like when a neighbor a couple floors below in an apartment building is cooking tomato sauce and you can smell it a bit by your apartment door. That's what it smells like when my face is over it cooking.
If it's been a while you lose the active antibodies, but your immune system still knows whats up and can generate them when exposed. If you're lucky they do it fast enough that the virus doesn't get time to gain a foothold and you never experience a symptom. More likely though you get sick, but your body has a head start fighting off the infection so you don't get as sick. That's why the vaccines help people from severe illness even after a few months.
The bad news is that there are strains out there now that are different enough that even our trained immune systems won't recognize them. That's why it's good to get a booster when updated vaccines become available.
You may not have complete immunity beyond 10 years though, so the recommendation is that you get a booster every 10 years.
But I don't see your point? Are you arguing that the COVID vaccine grants immunity for much longer than advertised? That seems unlikely given the mutation rate of coronaviruses.
People have been getting flu shots yearly for decades at this point. There's this weird delusion or socially-induced amnesia that comes with COVID.
I got COVID maybe a year ago, and I stayed home from work for a week. One of my friends couldn't believe it. He said "wow you're really gonna stay home for an entire week just because you have COVID?"
Uh... yes? Isn't that how we have always done things? If you're sick, you don't go to work because you'll get others sick. I recall being a kid and getting strep and flu many times and yup - the school nurse would send me home.
But something about the political environment around COVID has caused people to refuse to believe things that they know to be true. It's fascinating.
Yeah if I’m sick, I’m gonna stay home if I can help it. Doesn’t matter what is is or how innocuous I think it may be, what gives me the right to spread it around and multiply the misery?
>I had my fourth Covid infection just a month ago. Fully vaccinated, and having had it three times before, it still hit me like a brick.
My younger sibling, elderly mother, and I never vaccinated or caught covid, but my two older siblings both vaccinated and both caught covid several times each. My cousin is a nurse, vaccinated, caught covid, and lost hearing in one ear. Apparently hearing loss is a rare side effect of covid... I guess count yourself lucky that you didn't lose your hearing.
This is the case. A friend, born outside of the US, who is a researcher at Harvard is now looking at options outside of the US due to their visa being about to expire and it not looking like it will get extended.
They are looking at alternatives in Europe instead.
Yet even with all this information most webpages still insist on showing me the language version of the country who's IP address I have rather than, you know, using the preferred language selection.
It's almost like web devs don't know the concept of traveling outside ones county.
Having insight into the Dutch university education system I've noticed that the students here are incredibly entitled, and even cite "being paying customers" when they disagree with the difficulty of course work or the scoring they get and diagree with.
My experience of my Nordic university time, some 20 years ago mirrors yours. Not unlimited retakes, but very hard exams and no one had this "customer" attitude. Just nose to the grindstone, very long days in the library, every single day of the week.
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