Coronavirus (2021) thread

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Invisible Man's Bandage said:
I wouldn't worry too much. I had Hong Kong flu as a 14 year old in 1968 and again two years later in the second global wave. Both times I was in bed for two weeks and had to crawl to the toilet. It was a nightmare.

I've never had the flu since.
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Very similar, I used to get a bad cold around twice a year when the season changed, usually around winter and summer. I then had flu in 1996 and December 1999, really bad, all I did was drink fluids, piss and sleep for about two weeks, never had a cold since. Covid was the closest I got to the flu illness and the after effects lasted longer, fatigued for a couple of months. Not scientific but I think overcoming the flu has given me a lasting resistance, been getting the jab for the last few years as well.
 
Claytop said:
Well according to the data for the new variant this is becoming less and less likely. I mean even originally Covid wasn’t a deadly death sentence, yes it could be serious for the elderly and people with underlying conditions, we locked down and these people shielded.

This is not to downplay what has happened and the loss many people have faced but the scales have to tip eventually, if they haven’t already the other way.
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Over half a million was going to die, half a million!!!! In this country alone. it was the most deadly form of virus for decades and was extremely serious. Only the vaccines and virus evolution has changed the outcome to be now 30,000 dying which is a far more acceptable number. Just don't forget how bad this virus was
 
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Octavian said:
Again, I was young, but do you remember government announcements of it? I don’t remember any restrictions (City won the league with full crowds) and I don’t remember hearing from Wilson at all?
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From memory there were no restrictions at all and it was just accepted as something that was sweeping around the world. The first time I got it I was in school so nothing different there and the second time I had started work at Clayton Aniline and nearly collapsed when I got in. I was checked by the on site doctor and one of the older blokes I worked with drove me home.

It was a different era and people just accepted that shit happened.
 
Invisible Man's Bandage said:
From memory there were no restrictions at all and it was just accepted as something that was sweeping around the world. The first time I got it I was in school so nothing different there and the second time I had started work at Clayton Aniline and nearly collapsed when I got in. I was checked by the on site doctor and one of the older blokes I worked with drove me home.

It was a different era and people just accepted that shit happened.
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Just ad an aside, the landlord of our local pub, the Sycamore in Ashton worked in the lab at Clayton Aniline for many years going back around the late 60’s, he’s called Dave Etchells, also one of my mates (bit younger than me) Nat Gallagher also started his career there around mid eighties, do you know either of them?
 
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