Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

[Foxholer]

Did the Friday big shop earlier, I let a guy through at the til as he only had 4 things in his basket. He went to great lengths to explain how his wife lets him do the shopping as she is massively at risk due to health issues.Yet he is stood there with no mask on. What do you say. In the last week I know of half a dozen folk who have caught COVID for the first time. Learning to live with it could mean learning to die with it.

If he only has 4 items, he's hardly 'doing the shopping' and would likely be further risking his and his wife's health (in her case 'life') by having to do repeat trips! Doesn't seem like particularly sensible planning and neither is his lack of mask - even if it only reduces the risk slightly as, in their case, every chance to reduce the risk should be taken!

 

[PJ87]

If he only has 4 items, he's hardly 'doing the shopping' and would likely be further risking his and his wife's health (in her case 'life') by having to do repeat trips! Doesn't seem like particularly sensible planning and neither is his lack of mask - even if it only reduces the risk slightly as, in their case, every chance to reduce the risk should be taken!

Well if we going to fully judge the poor bloke for trying to do the right thing he should be getting the shopping delivered

 

[Slime]

Well if we going to fully judge the poor bloke for trying to do the right thing he should be getting the shopping delivered

But he's trying to do the right thing pretty badly.

 

[FuzzyDuck]

Well I managed 2 years without catching, didn't even get it when my wife did a few months ago. Went to a 70's weekend two weeks ago and a few days later started snuffling. First LFT test was negative but after a could of days where I developed a minor cough I tested positive. After a week still testing positive but have virtually no symptoms. I've have had 4 vaccinations due to underlying conditions.

 

[Foxholer]

Well if we going to fully judge the poor bloke for trying to do the right thing he should be getting the shopping delivered

4 items?
I might agree, but we don't know whether there were other reasons for him to 'go to town' - like posting etc. Making assumptions can be embarrasing or even stupid!

 

[AmandaJR]

Well I managed 2 years without catching, didn't even get it when my wife did a few months ago. Went to a 70's weekend two weeks ago and a few days later started snuffling. First LFT test was negative but after a could of days where I developed a minor cough I tested positive. After a week still testing positive but have virtually no symptoms. I've have had 4 vaccinations due to underlying conditions.

That seems a current theme. For a long while it was rare to know anyone who had caught it (it seemed) but not now...

 

[phillarrow]

That seems a current theme. For a long while it was rare to know anyone who had caught it (it seemed) but not now...

It's ripping through my workplace at the moment. It's never been this bad before, even when we were testing more regularly.

I'm currently off work with my third bout of it and this one has hit me harder than the previous two.

As you said in a previous post - I wish it would just do one now.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Going through the ICU staff like a dose of salts. Rostering a constant juggling act. I think there is myself, one of my ward clerks and the lead technician that are the only ones that have yet to get it over the two year period out of around 140 staff including the doctors

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Both Mrs and self now testing -ve and both well past 10 days. I feel,fine, as I have since day 2, my wife is still hit by quite severe tiredness. Daughter is also now -ve but she’s still feeling really rough. Not good at all. It’s rife in our locality and a lot of folk going down with it.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Now running at 182 hospitalised patients (down to only 2 in ICU) and staff absence across the trust rising to the highest levels since the pandemic began. Becoming very worrying again and putting a lot of pressure on staff already drained and needing a real break. Not just the mental stress but the physical strain of proning patients regularly takes a physical toll on staff working 12 hour shifts

 

[Ethan]

The general view seems to be that the virulence of omicron is similar to alpha, but the population impact has been mitigated by vaccination. So if the vaccination effect fades, or a variant that can escape vaccination comes along, trouble awaits.

 

[Ethan]

Lancet paper showing that post-Covid, the risk of diabetes appears to be higher than in people who dod not have Covid. This is another example, in a growing body of evidence, that infection with Covid, even if mild, can cause inflammatory effects beyond the respiratory system. Reports of a great incidence of childhood diabetes have also been published, as well as myocardial, brain and vascular effects.

 

[Tashyboy]

Ethan what’s your thoughts on Children having the vaccine.

 

[Ethan]

Ethan what’s your thoughts on Children having the vaccine.

My 12 and 14 year old boys have both had it. We let them decide but when they asked my wife (also a doctor) and I, we both encouraged.

If we had younger kids, we would get them vaxxed.

The risks of Covid are greater than the immediate risk of death, which is very very low, but the risks of vax are also, in my opinion, extremely low. Vaccination now will hopefully offer some protection against nastier variants that will inevitably appear.

 

[Tashyboy]

My 12 and 14 year old boys have both had it. We let them decide but when they asked my wife (also a doctor) and I, we both encouraged.

If we had younger kids, we would get them vaxxed.

The risks of Covid are greater than the immediate risk of death, which is very very low, but the risks of vax are also, in my opinion, extremely low. Vaccination now will hopefully offer some protection against nastier variants that will inevitably appear.

I have half mentioned it to me daughter who has two kids 9 and 6. I will be having a good natter with her about it.personally if they were mine they would of already had it.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Have hit 200 patients in the trust. Ironically the 2 we have in ICU are no longer deemed infectious (both well over + 10 days infectious).

 

[Ethan]

Highest ever levels of community Covid as plans to close this study remain in force. https://news.sky.com/story/covid-ca...ngland-influential-react-study-finds-12583279

This study is necessary to get an early jump on changing patterns. The strategy of 'its just a cold' and sticking fingers in ears is wrong and dangerous. The official argument is to save costs, but the costs are modest compared to the amount spunked away on useless PPE in the VIP/crony fast track.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Got a feeling covid is an issue at the club...might just be coincidence but of four of us due to be playing a 4BBB match this friday I heard yesterday that two have just tested positive in last couple of days and so we have to rearrange, and I'm not a week out of self isolation. Any coincidence with members having stopped taking any infection control measures?

Fortunately wife is now feeling a bit better nearly three weeks after being infected, but still gets tired easy, and daughter feels better also three weeks on, but still not feeling 100%. I seem to be fine...I think I have been lucky with my symptoms.

 

[chrisd]

After 2 years of doing our very best to avoid Covid Mrs d has finally succumbed- luckily not too bad the symptoms

 

[chrisd]

After 2 years of doing our very best to avoid Covid Mrs d has finally succumbed- luckily not too bad the symptoms

Just tested and I have it too ....... whoopie ??