Coronavirus (2021) thread

[grunge]

Thanks. if my mates are anything to go by I'll feel like death in about 12h.

 

[Healdplace]

My guess is that she will have been vaccinated, but has become fearful to go out after reading all the news. One might see it as irrational, but being cooped up for so long isn’t natural and peoples’ mental structures are different. It sounds like this lady has suffered more than others and hope that she can regain her confidence again ASAP.

I understand her perfectly.

I am a few years younger but after catching what I feared might be Covid 10 days before the first lockdown in March last year - which as the NHS then decided I was too well to be tested I will never know if I had it or not - I took no risks. Before I came down with whatever bug I had I went on a bus into town that was half empty but a man got on after and sat right behind and coughed the entire journey there.

Was probably nothing. It was March. Bugs were about. Covid was not much worse than now in numbers. But it shook me up. For the next 6 months I never left the house and started taking interest in the data to distract myself.

Aside from walking to the doctors for my flu jab in October and then going to get my first Covid jab 11 weeks ago I have only spent time in my garden or out the front for a walk to the post box - only to on the most recent trip to post my vote to discover they have sealed it up!

I mostly did that TV recording last week to try to shake me back to some kind of connection with the world as I usually say no to TV stuff nowadays.

I will re-engage with the world a few weeks after I have had my second jab (due on Star Wars Day) but it will be with trepidation.

It is easy to overlook how those who are more vulnerable than many on here - even after vaccinating - will find it more difficult to re-establish normality. As years pass the flow of time accelerates and a year can go by in a blink and with more years behind than ahead it brings a balance to life that you can weigh differently.

That story will be nowhere near as rare as you imagine. Though the Summer weather will hopefully help to entice those who may to your surprise still see this as a risk in a way I guess the younger you are the less easily you will appreciate.

It will just take a little longer to adjust. But people will get there and embrace life again.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I understand her perfectly.

I am a few years younger but after catching what I feared might be Covid 10 days before the first lockdown in March last year - which as the NHS then decided I was too well to be tested I will never know if I had it or not - I took no risks. Before I came down with whatever bug I had I went on a bus into town that was half empty but a man got on after and sat right behind and coughed the entire journey there.

Was probably nothing. It was March. Bugs were about. Covid was not much worse than now in numbers. But it shook me up. For the next 6 months I never left the house and started taking interest in the data to distract myself.

Aside from walking to the doctors for my flu jab in October and then going to get my first Covid jab 11 weeks ago I have only spent time in my garden or out the front for a walk to the post box - only to on the most recent trip to post my vote to discover they have sealed it up!

I mostly did that TV recording last week to try to shake me back to some kind of connection with the world as I usually say no to TV stuff nowadays.

I will re-engage with the world a few weeks after I have had my second jab (due on Star Wars Day) but it will be with trepidation.

It is easy to overlook how those who are more vulnerable than many on here - even after vaccinating - will find it more difficult to re-establish normality. As years pass the flow of time accelerates and a year can go by in a blink and with more years behind than ahead it brings a balance to life that you can weigh differently.

That story will be nowhere near as rare as you imagine. Though the Summer weather will hopefully help to entice those who may to your surprise still see this as a risk in a way I guess the younger you are the less easily you will appreciate.

It will just take a little longer to adjust. But people will get there and embrace life again.

Totally agree. It does mess with your head. Every time you get a sniffle or a few coughs, you think is it Covid?

My second jab was due on 8th May, but got the text late last week asking me to make an appointment. Hopefully yours will come sooner too.

Thanks for all your hard work in this thread. You’ve made it easy for others to see what is actually going on without any sort of angle.

I‘m sure what you have done has resulted in fewer people being like the poor old lady.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Had my second dose today. No reaction at all as of yet, which is much better than the first time around.

Hope you don’t get any side effects.

Ah, your my trigger, should be getting a text in the next couple of days hopefully to get the booster.

 

[Armaan]

 

[grunge]

point 1, whats that got to do with Covid, plenty of other threads for this stuff.
point 2. if its a real clip, a reporter used a doctored image to get a point across. Not good form but not saying the effect isn't/wasn't real
point 3. prove the video isn't doctored? very poor quality footage to hide the crap faking.

 

[Healdplace]

6 all settings deaths

2064 cases

May be a bit slow tonight. Tell you why in a moment.

 

[Healdplace]

Seconds after typing my post an hour or so ago I got called by my GP. Could I come in and get the second jab. Now. They had someone refuse as it was AZ.

I only live 5 minutes walk away as they knew but they only started doing vaccinations recently. They were not when I had my first in February.

So it was a surprise and 8 days early but I was never going to say no!

So an hour later back home and will catchup on data as fast as I can in case the tiredness I had after the first jab for next 12 hours or so happens again.

Aside from me and the staff inside the doctors I passed ZERO people outside from maybe 100 or so who were wearing a mask. It was much busier out there than in February too.

Very much like normality in fact. Noticeable after 11 weeks of not going beyond my immediate space and near busy roads.

 

[Healdplace]

1. 453. 379 pillar 1 & 2 tests for those 2064 cases (which include a double dose from Wales remember).

Versus just 477, 317 - nearly a million less ! - for yesterdays cases.

And 697K on Saturday - less than half of today.

Wow.

 

[Healdplace]

Last Monday was 2963 cases - 899 more - from 1, 671, 473 pillar 1 & 2 tests

Week before 3568 cases - from 1, 206, 563 pillar 1 & 2 tests