Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

Reemul said:
Well 2 weeks from getting Covid symptoms, I still feel like crap. Working from home this week, I have now passed my 10 days isolation but I still have a persistent cough, blocked nose, bad head and at times struggle for breath and feel very chesty. Tuesday was worse than Monday and today feels worse than Tuesday. Just trying to rest up as much as possible but frustrated at not getting better.
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How you testing though? Good luck buying some if you don’t have any, though you might be just be very lucky with a last minute go at online order. And hoping you don‘t have or develop Long Covid (not much talk of that these days).
 
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Effects from a bout of anything can persist for some time after the infection has gone.
Those symptoms are also symptoms of other seasonal conditions.
I hope you get back to normal soon!
 
Jimaroid said:
Anecdotally, I think the Scotland infection rate is being caused by us lagging behind lifting restrictions because all we've done is move the wave of infection from earlier in the year to later in the year.
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Do you think the Scottish restrictions make it easier to catch Covid?
 
SocketRocket said:
Do you think the Scottish restrictions make it easier to catch Covid?
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Many people have stopped abiding by the restrictions. We had the typical early Scottish summer last week and it was "Taps Aff, Masks Aff" everywhere we went. Hoardes of people have just given up and don't care any more.
 
Jimaroid said:
Many people have stopped abiding by the restrictions. We had the typical early Scottish summer last week and it was "Taps Aff, Masks Aff" everywhere we went. Hoardes of people have just given up and don't care any more.
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So it's likely to be caused by no restrictions being used.
 
HomerJSimpson said:
Rate continue to rise and so every good reason to be concerned https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-55279092
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Just seen your link Homer and as much as I think it’s not pleasant reading, the figures are rammel. Me mum and dad had it last week but officially they are not recorded anywhere because they never went to any centre for a PCR. Now it’s only my opinion but now we can ” go out” with COVID I think folk are not bothering to be PCR tested.
 
Tashyboy said:
Just seen your link Homer and as much as I think it’s not pleasant reading, the figures are rammel. Me mum and dad had it last week but officially they are not recorded anywhere because they never went to any centre for a PCR. Now it’s only my opinion but now we can ” go out” with COVID I think folk are not bothering to be PCR tested.
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Funnily enough, someone on our town FB page was moaning that they could not find a testing centre as they had closed. Others were pointing out that there was no need to go to a testing centre now. You do your LFT, if it is positive then you have it, behave accordingly, if it is negative then carry on. Obviously, this means the figures are now meaningless but to an extent, infection rates have been meaningless for a while now. They are no longer the barometer they once were, infection = hospitalisation = death. We have moved on from then.
 
Tashyboy said:
Just seen your link Homer and as much as I think it’s not pleasant reading, the figures are rammel. Me mum and dad had it last week but officially they are not recorded anywhere because they never went to any centre for a PCR. Now it’s only my opinion but now we can ” go out” with COVID I think folk are not bothering to be PCR tested.
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It's not exactly difficult, when testing positive with a Lateral Flow you register it with the nhs as we did, you do not need a PCR to do this at all, it then gets added to the figures
 
Jimaroid said:
As I said, I suspect we're just lagging behind lifting restrictions. Which I also imply to mean that we've generally been more patient in our adherance but for many that patience has now expired.
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I'm not trying to be difficult, I just find it hard to follow the logic. Is it your opinion that the big infection increase in Scotland is due to people having restrictions like masks or is it due to them not wearing them.
 
Lord Tyrion said:
Funnily enough, someone on our town FB page was moaning that they could not find a testing centre as they had closed. Others were pointing out that there was no need to go to a testing centre now. You do your LFT, if it is positive then you have it, behave accordingly, if it is negative then carry on. Obviously, this means the figures are now meaningless but to an extent, infection rates have been meaningless for a while now. They are no longer the barometer they once were, infection = hospitalisation = death. We have moved on from then.
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I guess the meaningful information are the numbers going into hospital with Covid and the death rate. They will be self regulating and there can be no moving on from them.
 
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Reemul said:
It's not exactly difficult, when testing positive with a Lateral Flow you register it with the nhs as we did, you do not need a PCR to do this at all, it then gets added to the figures
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i didn't register mine, nor the wife, nor the myriad of friends i know who have had it over the past couple of months. As mentioned, the figures are now so poor and clearly we have no clue how accurate. What we do know is the 10% to 15% of the population that are positive is clearly a meaningful underestimation.
 
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