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Off for my booster shortly (51) will report back.
After nearly 3 years, it's finally caught me. Wife had it three weeks ago and we all avoided it. Son went out clubbing a couple of weeks ago (first time in ages) - tested positive a few days later and has been fairly unwell (in bed and off work). He was still positive last night. Daughter caught it at weekend and has been sick and running a temperature.
I tested at weekend, negative, thought I had a cold - slight cough and stuffy nose. Tested again this morning as I was due in work, positive. So that's WFH all week then. Good job we got food in yesterday !
Not been too bad, just achy and feels more like a bad cold. Don't feel like riding though, so was going to drive to work until the test.
Booster yesterday - pfizer multivalent - no issues. Felt a bit tired last night & slight headache otherwise all good.
This might change in Jan/Feb/March among those who did not receive the autumn booster.
IIRC the next peak is expected January?
Having just read Martin's post above, what do you think the chances of them offering boosters to the under 50's are? I'd take one without hesitation at 41!
My mum who is 85 has just tested positive. She lives with my 88 YO dad who is currently negative. I'm amazed and grateful that they haven't caught it before, they both had hospital stays during the height of the initial wave. They are fully jabbed with the 4th booster received recently, so fingers and toes crossed. She currently feels rotten with bad cold like symptoms. I won't lie, it's a big worry!
@blokeuptheroad if it makes you feel any better, my nana who's 86 (I think) has had it twice and been fine both times. Caught it in hospital both times!
@fathomer thanks! She feels a little better today than yesterday which is encouraging.
RE booster take up - I have had flu jab every year I can. For the past few years I would go to the hall where there were 10+ nurses on hand to jab everyone - and yet I was only one, perhaps one other. And this was lunch time or end of working day appointment, at what I had expected to be busy.
Folk are different to me.
I won’t lie, it’s a big worry!
I can imagine. Similar to fathomer my very frail elderly aunt (about 85-86 years old) caught covid about 18 months ago. She has quite serious heart issues - has had a pacemaker for years, serious mobility issues - badly swollen legs, has a stair lift at home, you get the picture, I really didn't expect her to survive when I heard that she had covid. She pulled through fine with no permanent issues.
Too many people deciding that this is over.
My 82 year old auntie was absolutely fine during and after catching covid (just sore throat and cold like symptoms). My 36 year old nephew is not so good, he's got long covid (for many, many months).
Just had a message from a colleague at work to say he's tested positive.
Not sure if I've caught it or not as testing negative, but had night-sweats from hell on Monday night so hopefully it's been fought off.
realistically it will never be "over" I think but we've certainly reached the point now (where everyone who wants & can be vaccinated is) that we need to crack on as "normal" (the new normal, anyway) albeit I have slightly modified my behaviour compared to pre-pandemic days (and will continue to isolate if/when I get it subsequently).Too many people deciding that this is over.
I don't know what's happening with jab frequencies in other countries for the general 40+ population, but I think the UK dropped the ball this year by waiting so long after the boosters given last winter. In summer '21, there was lots of talk of vaccine wane ~6 months after second jabs.
It feels like the establishment was expecting most of the general population to catch an Omicron variant sometime around late spring to late summer, to give them an immunity boost with some risk, to keep them going until this autumn's or winter's (hopefully sometime before spring) second booster.
There is no "new normal". That was another scaremongering slogan pedalled by the media. To think people swallowed that. How sad. For the majority of rational, normal folk who aren't weighed down with hypochondria and paranoia, life is as it was before covid. ASs many predicted.
As for the "too many people deciding this is over" comment. Face. Palm. Governments and scientist's around the globe (bar communists and dictator nutters i.e. China) have decided its over. So you know more than them now do you? Just because you know someone who's caught it? Absurd and off the scale for paranoia.
Bizarrely it still sounds like you are desperate for it to continue, probably so you can log onto here and social media to shout about how great you are at 'abiding by the rules' (that don't exist anymore by the way).
If you still believe we're in a pandemic, move to China and then all your self appointed covid police dreams can come true, again.
So what are your thoughts on long covid? Are those living with that "just weighed down with hypochondria and paranoia"?
Are they simply not "believing its over" hard enough?
That's harsh @jhinwxm. A psychological operation was carried out on the British people by its own government who were advised by the "nudge unit" behavioural science. Utterly despicable. Show some understanding and empathy please.
life is as it was before covid
Not in healthcare, where many additional measures are still needed and are in use. Not in schools, where staff absence though illness is causing chaos. It might be more normal in both those settings if the rest of us were still doing a bit more.
Be careful on some of your views - they are unsubstantiated and you are being overly dramatic and rude about people who hold different views. Please discuss and offer evidence - not slating people.
Absurd and off the scale for paranoia.
Bizarrely it still sounds like you are desperate for it to continue
I have colleagues and friends who live with the loss of a loved one through the pandemic.
I have colleagues living with long covid - ex marathon runner who has not run since he got it.
I live with a wife who is 'off the scale' on reduce immunity and compromised lungs. Yes, seasonal flue and various viruses may be the end of her as much as Covid - but why not exercise some caution such as factoring in a seasonal booster as we do with flu every year or being aware of vulnerable people?
The main pandemic may be calming - the impacts and reality for some are very very real. Your attitude is really disrespectful of that.
Governments and scientist’s around the globe (bar communists and dictator nutters i.e. China) have decided its over.
No they haven't. In mid-September the World Health Organisation which represents 194 member states announced that the end of the pandemic was in sight, they did not declar that it is "over".
So you know more than them now do you?
Too much ironing.
"We’re not there yet, but the end is in sight.
A marathon runner does not stop when the finish line comes into view; she runs harder, with all the energy she has left.
So must we. Now is the time for all of us to run harder and make sure we cross the line and reap the rewards of all our hard work"
Jnr has a cough. Despite testing negative this morning he's been sent home and the school phone me to ensure he isn't back until he's well, "...to avoid the prospect of further pupil or staff absences..."
Would not have happened pre Covid - life has changed.
Would not have happened pre Covid – life has changed.
You could argue it should have happened pre-Covid. Amazing how many kids turn up at nursery or school with various illnesses, usually with the excuse that the parent is too busy to take a day off, yet ironically ensuring that other parents or teachers next week do have to take time off...
jhinwxn - your comments are clearly aimed at me.
I know many, many people who've had covid. 2 with 'long covid'.
Please don't tell me that I don't want this to be over, what a 'stupid' thing to say.
Oh and for the record yes I am one of those annoying people who follow most rules in life, because usually/ mostly they are for the good of everyone not a few.
Governments and scientist’s around the globe (bar communists and dictator nutters i.e. China) have decided its over.
FDA Advisory committee voting on whether to grant emergency use to a new drug as I type. Current emergent strains in US are resistant to last antibody (Lilly's betelovimab) and Evusheld prophylaxis. It is not over.
There is no “new normal”. That was another scaremongering slogan pedalled by the media. To think people swallowed that. How sad. For the majority of rational, normal folk who aren’t weighed down with hypochondria and paranoia, life is as it was before covid. ASs(sic) many predicted.
Thing is, most of you *crazies* actually predicted that the 'scaremongering' of lock downs was the opening salvo in a war on our freedoms - the lockdowns were to be an assault on our liberties that would be permanent no?
Now you are laughing off the things that YOU made such a thing of. Pathetic.
Governments and scientist’s around the globe (bar communists and dictator nutters i.e. China) have decided its over.
Curious that you say that. In Queensland today we've just declared that there's a fourth wave due to a jump in positive cases (against a background of vastly reduced testing). We've got more cases in hospital again and flat face masks will become compulsory in hospital once more.
Last time i checked we had a democratically elected government.
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Thing is, most of you *crazies* actually predicted that the ‘scaremongering’ of lock downs was the opening salvo in a war on our freedoms – the lockdowns were to be an assault on our liberties that would be permanent no?
Now you are laughing off the things that YOU made such a thing of. Pathetic.
It's a drip drip drip effect and would be very surprised if lockdowns didn't return at some point due to some new scariant that just happens to appear. And of course vaxx passports will be making a return as per a very recent announcement from the G20 summit so if you want to leave the country for any reason then you better be vaxxed to the max. Drip drip drip.
Hugs.
Yup,the rich and powerful saw what they could do to a population over a glorified flu.Similar powers by the greedheads will be used again.
But oddly I’m still free to do all the things I did before Covid! My life is as it was before. So where’s the new control?
The rich and powerful saw that they could make people stay at home over a glorified flu. Presumably it has made them even richer and more powerful.
They are going to be at it all the time now.
Does that make sense? No? Well that is all part of the cunning plan, it is not suppose to make sense.
By not making any sense no one, apart from the very astute, will suspect anything.
Crafty and devious or what?
Ha. The Brexit some people voted for removed more freedoms from me than any COVID legislation.
some new scariant
Ah. You're one of those.
So where’s the new control?
In your veins man, in your veins! Those choices you make aren’t yours. You’re being controlled by the machine!
In your veins man, in your veins! Those choices you make aren’t yours. You’re being controlled by the machine!
It's OK I can barely get a mobile signal at home let alone 5G.
It's not over for many
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-63546138
I managed to infect my good friend, previously a cat 2 cyclist, 7 months ago
She still can’t cycle more than 15 miles without having severe fatigue afterwards and her entire existence has been completely turned upside down. She recently got diagnosed with a dodgy heart valve, which may or may not be a result of covid infection, however it’s a bit of a coincidence
I’d genuinely enjoy seeing you tell her that it’s all over, it’s been a massive overreaction etc etc, simply to see her probably try to punch you on the nose. I say try because she probably wouldn’t have the energy to do so..
Not sure if that is aimed at me but the link is to a BBC article about people suffering from long covid,I did write that it's NOT over for many people
glorified flu
Flu didn't give me 10wks of post viral fatigue & vertigo so bad I couldn't stand up - but hey you crack the F on with your BS.
Careful peeps. The thread gets closed whenever a disbeliever appears.
There is no such thing as Covid. It's the flu, the cold, which is nothing more than the body's detoxification process. Detoxifying from what though, is the question...
Also, 'diseases' are not infectious. If they were, we wouldn't be here.
It’s a drip drip drip effect and would be very surprised if lockdowns didn’t return at some point
Not going to happen, even for SARS-CoV-3, should it appear, since we now have appropriate therapies and some protective strategies (vaccination) that have imparted some degree of cross-immunity.
There is no such thing as Covid. It’s the flu, the cold, which is nothing more than the body’s detoxification process. Detoxifying from what though, is the question…
Virologists would beg to differ. There is no such thing as Dog. It's the cat... Is Ebola a cold too? It's an unrelated virus to either of the above.
You do know that 'virologists' and 'doctors' are simply people who followed a specific syllabus of study, don't you? They are nothing special. Following your logic, ALL people with an indoctrination / piece of paper (education) necessarily know more than ALL those without. LOL.
Who controls the syllabus? THINK. Doctors are well-paid salesmen of the medical-industrial complex.
Oh FFS!
Next time you need any surgery I hope you get the bloke from Morrisons meat counter to do it - he's good with knives and shit so just as qualified.