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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

fundy said:
for us, sore arm that day then overnight dead arm and tender arm where the jab went in, flu like aches and hot and cold, lasted a couple of days. mrs fundy had a very red, raised and painful area around the jab site for 4 or 5 days after the second jab. slightly worse after the 2nd jab to the 1st. lots of fluid and paracetemol

hope youre ok Hobbit
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Billysboots said:
First jab - a sore arm for a couple of days.

Second - felt like I had mild flu for about 24 hours.

Glad you got sorted at long last.
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Overnight, on day 1, arm painful enough to wake me up when I rolled onto it.
Day 4, joint ache, fuzzy head, tickly cough, ear ache.
Day 5, see above.
Yesterday, as above but with the shivers.

Today, just a bit tired and achy but well enough to go out if I wanted to. Reluctant to go out just in case I’d be taking something nasty with me.
 
Hobbit said:
Overnight, on day 1, arm painful enough to wake me up when I rolled onto it.
Day 4, joint ache, fuzzy head, tickly cough, ear ache.
Day 5, see above.
Yesterday, as above but with the shivers.

Today, just a bit tired and achy but well enough to go out if I wanted to. Reluctant to go out just in case I’d be taking something nasty with me.
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apart from the cough seems a pretty normal reaction, would see if it settles in a couple of days, the pfizer vaccine doesnt have the virus in it so wont have got it from the vax
 
Mrs had nothing with the 1st, but a very sore arm for a few days with tth 2nd, which travelled down her armpit and into her breast. She was getting quite concerned for a couple of days until one of the girls she works with said she had exactly the same thing.
 
fundy said:
apart from the cough seems a pretty normal reaction, would see if it settles in a couple of days, the pfizer vaccine doesnt have the virus in it so wont have got it from the vax
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None of the UK or Europe approved vaccines have live Covid-19 in them. AZ and J&J have adenovirus as a vector, but the strain involved is harmless to humans. Sinovac and Sinopharm have inactivated Covid-19 in them, the old school approach to vaccines.
 
SaintHacker said:
Mrs had nothing with the 1st, but a very sore arm for a few days with tth 2nd, which travelled down her armpit and into her breast. She was getting quite concerned for a couple of days until one of the girls she works with said she had exactly the same thing.
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Sounds like enlarged lymph nodes, a sign of activation of her immune system.
 
Appreciate that this is a first world problem however the council have collected garden waste once in the last 6 weeks due to a lack of HGV drivers and have just announced that instead of fortnightly collections they’re dropping it to monthly until the situation resolved itself.

Like I said, not a life or death situation but annoying given I’ve pretty much filled it with grass cuttings and still have 3 weeks to go……
 
road2ruin said:
Appreciate that this is a first world problem however the council have collected garden waste once in the last 6 weeks due to a lack of HGV drivers and have just announced that instead of fortnightly collections they’re dropping it to monthly until the situation resolved itself.

Like I said, not a life or death situation but annoying given I’ve pretty much filled it with grass cuttings and still have 3 weeks to go……
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In Somerset no such collections in August or Sept.
 
road2ruin said:
Appreciate that this is a first world problem however the council have collected garden waste once in the last 6 weeks due to a lack of HGV drivers and have just announced that instead of fortnightly collections they’re dropping it to monthly until the situation resolved itself.

Like I said, not a life or death situation but annoying given I’ve pretty much filled it with grass cuttings and still have 3 weeks to go……
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Do you have to pay for green bin collection in your area? And if so, are they giving you a rebate as you've paid for fortnightly collections and they're now not giving you that?
 
In a BBC article they say that if you are pinged you are ADVISED to take a test and it’s not compulsory if you are double jabbed or under 18.

Are they right? I was under the impression that it was a must have negative result rather than a do as you feel situation.

And is that the same for when you are called by test and trace, or just the app?
 
ColchesterFC said:
Do you have to pay for green bin collection in your area? And if so, are they giving you a rebate as you've paid for fortnightly collections and they're now not giving you that?
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Yep, to be fair they're taking it off next years subs. More annoying than anything else but, like I said, first world problems :D

drdel said:
Interested in how we get from COVID to the cost of green bin collections :unsure:
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Yep, as above, due to pinging they don't have the drivers. Hoping that today's relaxations in the isolation rules means that they can free up more drivers.
 
larmen said:
In a BBC article they say that if you are pinged you are ADVISED to take a test and it’s not compulsory if you are double jabbed or under 18.

Are they right? I was under the impression that it was a must have negative result rather than a do as you feel situation.

And is that the same for when you are called by test and trace, or just the app?
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They are right..it's gone a bit mental now. I guess we had to change at some point but I didn't realise the change was this much at once

Now even if my wife tests positive I can go work.. golf. Whatever .. I'm advised (choice or not) to take pcr and my daughter can still go school

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coron...reatment/when-to-self-isolate-and-what-to-do/

Scroll down to the section of "when do I not need to self isolate"

I must admit I thought would have been if someone in the house gets it you still isolate but evidently no
 
pauljames87 said:
They are right..it's gone a bit mental now. I guess we had to change at some point but I didn't realise the change was this much at once

Now even if my wife tests positive I can go work.. golf. Whatever .. I'm advised (choice or not) to take pcr and my daughter can still go school

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coron...reatment/when-to-self-isolate-and-what-to-do/

Scroll down to the section of "when do I not need to self isolate"

I must admit I thought would have been if someone in the house gets it you still isolate but evidently no
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I am suspecting that a good few folk have their fingers crossed - as I do. Infection, hospitalisation and deaths numbers still not great and don’t seem to yet be falling significantly.
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
Infection, hospitalisation and deaths numbers still not great and don’t seem to yet be falling significantly.
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Whilst not particularly falling they're also not really increasing if you look at the data over the last month, it's broadly plateaued. Definitely nowhere near the 100,000+ daily cases we were promised!
 
road2ruin said:
Whilst not particularly falling they're also not really increasing if you look at the data over the last month, it's broadly plateaued. Definitely nowhere near the 100,000+ daily cases we were promised!
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Plateaued too high, still much too many infections, deaths and hospitalisations. If this is 'Living with it' then its an ugly existence.
 
SocketRocket said:
Plateaued too high, still much too many infections, deaths and hospitalisations. If this is 'Living with it' then its an ugly existence.
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They're a whole lot betting than the numerous models that predicted horrendous numbers up to 200,000 or so infections a day with the deaths etc that would go along with it. Whilst they present numbers aren't ideal they're still an awful lot better than the predictions and I'm not entirely sure what the alternative is.
 
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