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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

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Did another lateral flow test on Friday, negative again. Had football training yesterday morning, the weather was crucifying so I put that down to why I felt sick halfway through, played golf in the afternoon, felt ok despite how hot it was. Woke up this morning with a sore throat and cold like symptoms again, bit of a cough which has got slightly worse as the morning as progressed.
Managed to book a PCR test for 8.30 so I've nipped out and got it done.
I don't really feel ill as such, just like I have a minor cold or something but nothing I'd be taking time off work for in normal times.
Need to email work now to tell them I won't be available tomorrow :whistle:
 
howbow88 said:
Does anyone get the feeling that this will never end? I'm not a conspiracy theorist - I've had my jabs and other than travel abroad, my life isn't dramatically different.

But every time there appears to be some light at the end of the tunnel, it is quickly whisked away.

Eg - last month I put myself into the draw for Masters tickets. Knowing the odds are extremely low, I put myself down for all days, including the practice days. I thought the idea that we wouldn't be able to go to the US by Spring next year as fairly ridiculous. By then, both countries vaccination levels will be extremely high and I thought Covid will just simply be something like a common cold. But now, I find it very difficult to imagine that being the case.

I've said on here before that I do covid testing for work, and not too long ago we were told that we would be there for another year, possibly 18 months. This has already changed to 'minimum 2 years.'
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Yes I get the feeling it’s never going to end, too many people have become “addicted” to the Covid crisis. The press especially (and a few on here too) cannot move on…We have to learn to live with it, accept we are not going to eradicate it and for the love of dog stop testing.

Unfortunately that’s unlikely so we will be under yet another lockdown in 3-5 weeks.
 
Fade and Die said:
Yes I get the feeling it’s never going to end, too many people have become “addicted” to the Covid crisis. The press especially (and a few on here too) cannot move on…We have to learn to live with it, accept we are not going to eradicate it and for the love of dog stop testing.

Unfortunately that’s unlikely so we will be under yet another lockdown in 3-5 weeks.
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Totally agree. Covid is not going away, we just need to adapt and live with it.

I was a slave to the figures for a long time, initially finding them frightening but now more a matter of interest.

My life is not really all that different to how it was two years ago, with the exception of foreign travel. I am now used to the changes at home and have learned to accept them.

At some point I’ll bite the bullet and take a holiday abroad, but not just yet.
 
Billysboots said:
Totally agree. Covid is not going away, we just need to adapt and live with it.

I was a slave to the figures for a long time, initially finding them frightening but now more a matter of interest.

My life is not really all that different to how it was two years ago, with the exception of foreign travel. I am now used to the changes at home and have learned to accept them.

At some point I’ll bite the bullet and take a holiday abroad, but not just yet.
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It’s the foreign travel that’s the biggest issue for us. Two g’children, one 8 months old and one 6 months old that we’ve not seen yet.

We eat out at least once a week, always at a venue with outdoor seating. And we don’t go in somewhere that is rammed or has lots of pink/red people visiting.

Too few years left to sit at the back of the cave - life’s for living, not existing.
 
Fade and Die said:
Yes I get the feeling it’s never going to end, too many people have become “addicted” to the Covid crisis. The press especially (and a few on here too) cannot move on…We have to learn to live with it, accept we are not going to eradicate it and for the love of dog stop testing.

Unfortunately that’s unlikely so we will be under yet another lockdown in 3-5 weeks.
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Billysboots said:
Totally agree. Covid is not going away, we just need to adapt and live with it.

I was a slave to the figures for a long time, initially finding them frightening but now more a matter of interest.

My life is not really all that different to how it was two years ago, with the exception of foreign travel. I am now used to the changes at home and have learned to accept them.

At some point I’ll bite the bullet and take a holiday abroad, but not just yet.
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Hobbit said:
It’s the foreign travel that’s the biggest issue for us. Two g’children, one 8 months old and one 6 months old that we’ve not seen yet.

We eat out at least once a week, always at a venue with outdoor seating. And we don’t go in somewhere that is rammed or has lots of pink/red people visiting.

Too few years left to sit at the back of the cave - life’s for living, not existing.
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I’d like to be were you are all at, I want to be were you are all at, but as much as (fingers crossed) I’m fit and healthy and no known underlying health conditions, my wife and son are both extremely vulnerable and none of us feel confident enough for them to return to normal, apart from hosp appts, my wife hasn’t left the house for 18 months.

I’m not suggesting for one minute the world stops for the extremely vulnerable and for 20yrs we’ve lived our life with known risk, but this is still relatively new and it is the unknowns causing the problems.
 
Fade and Die said:
Yes I get the feeling it’s never going to end, too many people have become “addicted” to the Covid crisis. The press especially (and a few on here too) cannot move on…We have to learn to live with it, accept we are not going to eradicate it and for the love of dog stop testing.

Unfortunately that’s unlikely so we will be under yet another lockdown in 3-5 weeks.
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It will end, but not if only half-arsed attempts to kill it off are taken and then reversed into street parties for Covid. Plenty of countries, mostly in Asia where people do what theiy are told to do, have had a tiny fraction of the death and hospitalisation rate we have had here, and are now back to near normal.

Unfortunately the tone was set at the outset with delayed, weak and poorly enforced regulations, and some major gaps missed completely. Vaccination is softening the current case and death rates, but we should never have been in this place to begin with. Autumn 2020 was the chance to effectively act, and it was not taken, and the rest has been downhill with no immediate end in prospect. Another lockdown is coming, so what exactly are we giving Delta a free run first?

Learning to live with it means accepting large numbers of hospitalisations, long-standing complications and some deaths. As long as the NHS doesn't collapse, bring it on, Delta! seems to be the policy.

No civilised society should allow that. Apart from anything else, it will only prolong the whole thing.
 
looks like there are some “pilot” schemes to allow the bypass of isolation - interesting they have come to light now and suddenly available for select few

Bet all those businesses that suffered with employees who were pinged with track and trace would have loved to have been part of rhe “pilot” scheme
 
Liverpoolphil said:
looks like there are some “pilot” schemes to allow the bypass of isolation - interesting they have come to light now and suddenly available for select few

Bet all those businesses that suffered with employees who were pinged with track and trace would have loved to have been part of rhe “pilot” scheme
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It now seems that the selected business for the pilot have changed their mind and will be isolating like the rest of us.
 
SteveW86 said:
It now seems that the selected business for the pilot have changed their mind and will be isolating like the rest of us.
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And so they should - I can’t believe they are that cut off they don’t have a clue about the feeling of the country about the virus.

Have to say well done to the London Mayor for ensuring face masks are mandatory on public transport
 
Liverpoolphil said:
And so they should - I can’t believe they are that cut off they don’t have a clue about the feeling of the country about the virus.

Have to say well done to the London Mayor for ensuring face masks are mandatory on public transport
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Just shows how self centred they are.

Would be interesting if all the big supermarkets took the stance that you need to wear a mask to get in.
 
Liverpoolphil said:
looks like there are some “pilot” schemes to allow the bypass of isolation - interesting they have come to light now and suddenly available for select few

Bet all those businesses that suffered with employees who were pinged with track and trace would have loved to have been part of rhe “pilot” scheme
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Initially it was said that the people concerned were randomly allocated to the daily testing group rather than the self isolation group. Now they say they have changed their mind and will self isolate. In all my years of running clinical trials, I have never heard of one which allowed subjects randomised to one group to elect to switch to the other.

It is almost as if it isn't really a trial at all and is just a vehicle to allow important and self-important people to swerve the guidelines that the rest of us are expected to adhere to.
 
pauldj42 said:
I’d like to be were you are all at, I want to be were you are all at, but as much as (fingers crossed) I’m fit and healthy and no known underlying health conditions, my wife and son are both extremely vulnerable and none of us feel confident enough for them to return to normal, apart from hosp appts, my wife hasn’t left the house for 18 months.

I’m not suggesting for one minute the world stops for the extremely vulnerable and for 20yrs we’ve lived our life with known risk, but this is still relatively new and it is the unknowns causing the problems.
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I understand completely, (like you I have a vulnerable wife) and everyone has to make their own judgment. Travelling on the London Underground I would always wear a mask but that’s if I’m standing face to armpit with people but I think we need to focus less on the virus and more on returning the country to normal.
 
SteveW86 said:
Just shows how self centred they are.

Would be interesting if all the big supermarkets took the stance that you need to wear a mask to get in.
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They haven’t enforced it for ages now, why would they now mandate it to not enforce it further?


To be fair, it’s not down to chains but more down to locality/area. At least in my opinion. I hated my local Morrison’s with passion but on holiday in Cornwall their Morrison’s was amazing. All pre pandemic, of course.
 
Just seen on the BBC that this trial that Boris tried to use is going to be rolled out to certain government departments

I'm guessing basically key workers as network rail, tfl, Heathrow border force all be listed so far even tho we are awaiting official confirmation

Sounds a great idea at first but when that first person gets a ping then comes in you know your going to feel uneasy

Also I saw somewhere else you can come to work but nowhere else ..how many people will stick to that?

7 negative tests and your free
 
pauljames87 said:
Just seen on the BBC that this trial that Boris tried to use is going to be rolled out to certain government departments

I'm guessing basically key workers as network rail, tfl, Heathrow border force all be listed so far even tho we are awaiting official confirmation

Sounds a great idea at first but when that first person gets a ping then comes in you know your going to feel uneasy

Also I saw somewhere else you can come to work but nowhere else ..how many people will stick to that?

7 negative tests and your free
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Turns out its untrue .. goodness sake why make this up
 
SteveW86 said:
Just shows how self centred they are.

Would be interesting if all the big supermarkets took the stance that you need to wear a mask to get in.
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I’m hoping all the public transports and shopping centres etc and in fact anything inside should stay as masks as mandatory
 
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