Coronavirus (2021) thread

[Alan Harper's Tash]

A magnificent age ;-)

She doesn’t think so! “Nothing works like it should”. “Anyone got a spare skeleton?”

 

[Rammy Blue]

Ha, couldn’t make it up.

I‘d had a couple of sneezes and ever so slightly snotty, both kids have had a cold so assumed it was that, feel right as rain and strong as an ox.

Know I’m due to see my mum and in-laws this week so to shut the missus up I thought I’d best do a test, 100% confident I don’t have omicron.

Yep, you guessed it, positive.

Ah well, c’est la vie.

 

[blueinsa]

But you won’t be actively seeking to get it, and no doubt trying your best not to.

Absolutely not but that’s not how life and viruses work. They are not visible, you can get them anywhere and anytime and I’m not sat in boozers but I am in work for 50 hours a week and have been right through the pandemic. I have most probably had it and didn’t even know as was asymptomatic, who knows?

All I do know is life goes on, it has too.

 

[BobKowalski]

The report was in September and about October and they called for a lockdown or there would be 200k per positives per day (of delta).

We took no measures. Your enboldened post above is a pure fiction and bears no relation to the facts in hand.

No, it was slightly tongue in cheek. But summer months and good ventilation are mitigating factors for an airborne virus and in the past two summers we relaxed restrictions - we even had eat out for a tenner.

People also adapted their behaviour, something that has been touched on before. Society will adapt to Covid, as society adapts to all changes irrespective of whether the Govt issues restrictions. There have been a slew of cancellations for meals/ parties over the Christmas period. People took these decisions not because the Govt made them do so, but in reaction to a new variant. We know that it may be relatively benign, but people still acted with caution and that caution will act as mitigating factor on the spread.

 

[blueinsa]

Ha, couldn’t make it up.

I‘d had a couple of sneezes and ever so slightly snotty, both kids have had a cold so assumed it was that, feel right as rain and strong as an ox.

Know I’m due to see my mum and in-laws this week so to shut the missus up I thought I’d best do a test, 100% confident I don’t have omicron.

Yep, you guessed it, positive.

Ah well, c’est la vie.

Get well soon mate.

 

[Rammy Blue]

Get well soon mate.

I’m right as rain, lol.

 

[Rammy Blue]

One thing is for sure, and of course I’m not saying it’s same for everyone, but if this is what having 3 jabs and previous bout of delta does for me when I get omicron then I’m living proof that it appears to be far less severe.

With delta I wasn’t particularly poorly but I lost taste and smell for 10 days, had a proper cold and blocked nose, and earache/tinnitus.

Now, absolutely bugger all, can’t believe I’m actually positive.

 

[mexico1970]

How long did it take you show symptoms? Tested positive myself but other than a slightly sore back not really got any symptoms, just wondering if they are still to come.

Everyone is different, the worst symptom for me was/is fatigue mate.

 

[BlueHammer85]

My positive result now shows on LFT

 

[BlueAnorak]

I seem to recall our initial modelling was based on the virus acting like the flu which we had data on, then we discovered it didn’t act like the flu because it wasn’t the flu and scrapped it.

With any unknown pathogen and a lack of hard data, I think the hardest thing people struggle with is the fact we are not in control and modelling is an attempt to take back control and quantify the risk. That modelling can often fall short or be overtaken by events or even be just plain bollocks is something we find difficult to accept.

Hence conspiracy theories, religion and all other manner of crazy looking for ‘the truth’, I guess.

I’m in a philosophical mood :)

There is plenty of hard data available from South Africa and every day more in the UK.