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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

SaintHacker said:
What you really mean is it took you that long to delete your search history after you had to google its meaning!??
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Aha no young padawan, for your Fragger is worldly wise and whilst (thankfully) lacking personal experience of the subject, knows what it involves, largely due to @Imurgs little black book of unspeakable things ?
 
larmen said:
There is the Gary Delany joke:
I went to A&E with a hoover nozzle up …
The doctor asked what happened? I was hoovering naked and thought, let’s put the nozzle up my …



For the cream egg story it’s really important to know if they were wrapped or not. And considering that putting 5 m&m one on each other is a record, has Guinness said something about the eggs yet?
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Whatever story you have heard about something disappearing where the sun don't shine, trust me, any A&E dept can better it in a heartbeat, and will have a few souvenir X-rays to illustrate the tale. Hoover nozzle up the bum? Mmm, must be a Tuesday. Fell on it in the shower, sir. Yeah, happens a lot.

Much weirder stuff has gone into other places, and in some cases, posed considerably greater removal challenges. Pro tip: things with barbs on them may go in easily, but they come out with a lot more grief.
 
Ethan said:
Whatever story you have heard about something disappearing where the sun don't shine, trust me, any A&E dept can better it in a heartbeat, and will have a few souvenir X-rays to illustrate the tale. Hoover nozzle up the bum? Mmm, must be a Tuesday. Fell on it in the shower, sir. Yeah, happens a lot.

Much weirder stuff has gone into other places, and in some cases, posed considerably greater removal challenges. Pro tip: things with barbs on them may go in easily, but they come out with a lot more grief.
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Is that a tip from your work or your personal life? ;)
 
ColchesterFC said:
Is that a tip from your work or your personal life? ;)
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Ha. Professional. A twig from a plant inserted up the urethra. Reason unknown. Turned put to have scales which are smooth in one direction, not smooth at all in the other. Went in fairly easily, came out leaving amid much anguish, calls for his mother (although ironically didn't want family to know), leaving bitter regrets and a lengthy recovery period of painful and bloody wee-ing, with possible permanent damage.
 
Ethan said:
Whatever story you have heard about something disappearing where the sun don't shine, trust me, any A&E dept can better it in a heartbeat, and will have a few souvenir X-rays to illustrate the tale. Hoover nozzle up the bum? Mmm, must be a Tuesday. Fell on it in the shower, sir. Yeah, happens a lot.

Much weirder stuff has gone into other places, and in some cases, posed considerably greater removal challenges. Pro tip: things with barbs on them may go in easily, but they come out with a lot more grief.
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Book I am reading “ this is going to hurt, diaries of a junior Dr” The guy is OB/GYN and some of the stories are both hilarious and mind boggling. In his early days he sometimes gave the patient the benefit of the doubt until he retrieved a TV remote control with a condom on it!!
 
Ethan said:
Whatever story you have heard about something disappearing where the sun don't shine, trust me, any A&E dept can better it in a heartbeat, and will have a few souvenir X-rays to illustrate the tale. Hoover nozzle up the bum? Mmm, must be a Tuesday. Fell on it in the shower, sir. Yeah, happens a lot.

Much weirder stuff has gone into other places, and in some cases, posed considerably greater removal challenges. Pro tip: things with barbs on them may go in easily, but they come out with a lot more grief.
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Some people make me laugh, some make me cry.
But you have just found another way to make my eyes water!?
 
Fade and Die said:
Book I am reading “ this is going to hurt, diaries of a junior Dr” The guy is OB/GYN and some of the stories are both hilarious and mind boggling. In his early days he sometimes gave the patient the benefit of the doubt until he retrieved a TV remote control with a condom on it!!
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Ive read that, its funny right until the end, then you might find you have something in your eye, i did

Anyway back to the covid, the vaccine minister said this mornijg they will hit the target of 66% of adults double jabbed before the target date of july 19th. So although they haven't said it is this the figure required for herd immunity to start taking effect?
 
Last couple of days been suffering badly with hay fever - badly stuffed up and it’s also given me a sore throat , didnt think much of it until last night the wife said it was the prime symptoms of the new delta virus ! Apparently it’s one of 20 symptoms !! But they have 5 prime ones. So this morning started taking the Covid tests ?
 
Liverpoolphil said:
Last couple of days been suffering badly with hay fever - badly stuffed up and it’s also given me a sore throat , didnt think much of it until last night the wife said it was the prime symptoms of the new delta virus ! Apparently it’s one of 20 symptoms !! But they have 5 prime ones. So this morning started taking the Covid tests ?
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As someone else whos suffering badly with hayfever I feel for you, worse than most years (especially this past week or so) but Im used to suffering so not overly concerned its not hayfever. Do you get hayfever normally?

As a confirmed cynic, is it not rather convenient that the version we had in winters main symptoms were similar to those of flu, yet in summer the new versions main symptoms are similar to hayfever. How does that work? anyone quieten my cynicism?
 
fundy said:
As someone else whos suffering badly with hayfever I feel for you, worse than most years (especially this past week or so) but Im used to suffering so not overly concerned its not hayfever. Do you get hayfever normally?

As a confirmed cynic, is it not rather convenient that the version we had in winters main symptoms were similar to those of flu, yet in summer the new versions main symptoms are similar to hayfever. How does that work? anyone quieten my cynicism?
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You are right to be cynical. Its all just a big plot by Bill Gates and the Illuminati (or Pinky and The Brain) to take over the world. Woohahahaha
 
Fade and Die said:
Book I am reading “ this is going to hurt, diaries of a junior Dr” The guy is OB/GYN and some of the stories are both hilarious and mind boggling. In his early days he sometimes gave the patient the benefit of the doubt until he retrieved a TV remote control with a condom on it!!
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I have read it. I understand that some of the stories have been "borrowed" by Adam Kay but all are true. Nothing he said rings as being bogus, though. I spent some time working in the maternity hospital and it can be a weird place. Other junior doctor stories such as Cardiac Arrest, written by the now famous Jed Mercurio, also generally ring true.
 
I tested positive last Sunday, had most of the classic symptoms except taste and smell were fine, felt pretty grotty all week so pretty much survived on snacks and paracetamol. Started to feel a little better yesterday, so made myself my first proper meal in a week, yep! - smell and taste have now cleared off!
 
Liverpoolphil said:
I don’t normally suffer badly but the last couple of days has been awful - I just double dosed the hay fever tablets and didnt think anything more until the wife mentioned the “change in symptoms”

Was speaking to a doctor this morning at the club who mentioned that he is a bit cynical about the variants having different symptoms and being inline with seasonal colds etc. Thankfully the pollen count is due to drop over the next week
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It is perfectly plausible that different variants have different symptoms, that could relate to the areas where they initially cause irritation, e.g. upper nasopharynx for one variant, lungs for another, and that could be affected by how well they stick.

But I think we are seeing a bit of that and a bit of recognition that the symptom picture always was a bit wider than initially thought coinciding. Problem is that some of the more recently identified features are much less specific and therefore more liable to false positives.
 
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