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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

I'm finding it odd that they've started simply calling it 'Omicron' now on the radio ads etc. i.e. "If you test positive for Omicron.." etc. Are people that bored of hearing about Covid that they're desensitised to it so the authorities have to act like this is a new thing again?
 
Orikoru said:
I'm finding it odd that they've started simply calling it 'Omicron' now on the radio ads etc. i.e. "If you test positive for Omicron.." etc. Are people that bored of hearing about Covid that they're desensitised to it so the authorities have to act like this is a new thing again?
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Guess it helps in explaining why we are being vaccinated again to help with covid 2.0 unstead of old school covid.
 
GB72 said:
Guess it helps in explaining why we are being vaccinated again to help with covid 2.0 unstead of old school covid.
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I just feel like we're going to have this every year from now on. Get your jab for the Sigma variant, get your jab for the Upsilon variant, etc etc. Until they run out of Greek letters I guess.
 
Orikoru said:
I just feel like we're going to have this every year from now on. Get your jab for the Sigma variant, get your jab for the Upsilon variant, etc etc. Until they run out of Greek letters I guess.
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At that stage Blue Peter will hold a 'name the next covid' competitoin each year with the winner being first to get the new vaccine.
 
Ethan said:
The same idiots are happy to let a physio inject their knees full of steroids, though. I know which one I think is safer.
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I suspect a great many of them over the years were coerced by their managers and had the doses administered by medical staff. A greaf many of them are now in constant pain and likely to remain so. Maybe not a line of argument worth pursuing.
 
pendodave said:
I suspect a great many of them over the years were coerced by their managers and had the doses administered by medical staff. A greaf many of them are now in constant pain and likely to remain so. Maybe not a line of argument worth pursuing.
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The doses are often administered by physios. With practice, not too hard to get it in the right place. I know some team docs and they have players coming asking for injections to shake off niggles. Steroids do have a short term favourable effect on a dodgy knee but can cause longer term damage. Some of the players don't, pun warning, play the long game.
 
Our anti vax, Covid denying relatives went away on a holiday camp 'Tincel & Turkey' weekend and now are quite ill with Covid. Words fail ?
 
Ethan said:
The doses are often administered by physios. With practice, not too hard to get it in the right place. I know some team docs and they have players coming asking for injections to shake off niggles. Steroids do have a short term favourable effect on a dodgy knee but can cause longer term damage. Some of the players don't, pun warning, play the long game.
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I had an anti-inflammatory knee injection from a specialist when I'd damaged my cartilage, felt great for around three days then seemed worse than before.
 
I was at the Cheltenham Festival for four days in March 2020, just before the first lockdown. In hindsight it appears to have been a bad decision to allow the meeting to take place in the presence of 50,000 spectators. By allowing tens of thousands of people to mix at events over the coming weeks, is the same mistake being made? I appreciate that in theory they have to be vaccinated, but that alone does not mean they are immune from catching and spreading the virus.
 
fenwayrich said:
I was at the Cheltenham Festival for four days in March 2020, just before the first lockdown. In hindsight it appears to have been a bad decision to allow the meeting to take place in the presence of 50,000 spectators. By allowing tens of thousands of people to mix at events over the coming weeks, is the same mistake being made? I appreciate that in theory they have to be vaccinated, but that alone does not mean they are immune from catching and spreading the virus.
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Guess the issue is, if you don't allow events this year what happens next year? Covid is likely to be seasonal, next year there will almost certainly be another variant and we can't keep cancelling events etc as soon as we get into Winter.
 
GB72 said:
Apparently at EFL clubs only 59% of players are double jabbed but 25% have no intention of getting jabbed at all
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pendodave said:
I suspect a great many of them over the years were coerced by their managers and had the doses administered by medical staff. A greaf many of them are now in constant pain and likely to remain so. Maybe not a line of argument worth pursuing.
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Ethan said:
The doses are often administered by physios. With practice, not too hard to get it in the right place. I know some team docs and they have players coming asking for injections to shake off niggles. Steroids do have a short term favourable effect on a dodgy knee but can cause longer term damage. Some of the players don't, pun warning, play the long game.
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Football players aren't paid the massive salaries for their intelligence!
Short term gains are often more important to Managers than the long-term health of their players! And often that seems to be players' attitudes too.
 
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