Coronavirus (2021) thread

[hilts]

Yes. This discussion started when I said IF


I think it will pick up when we get through the most elderly groups. Must take a lot of time and resources sending people out to care homes etc.

I don't think there's much recognition that in Dec, and Jan we have had around 1 in 10 people with Covid-19. A lot of people have been infected in a short period of time, and added to that vaccinations are continuing apace. So whilst many blues are struggling at the moment, we are moving quickly through this epidemic.

Won’t things slows down badly when people are due the second dose? If they are 12 weeks apart from the day of vaccination each day will surely be a new person vaccinated and a second jab for someone else.

 

[somapop]

@somapop

Thanks for this. Definitely start doing this (I should know about all this from doing bloody yoga, albeit before the pandemic).

Think that getting out of bed bit needs reinforcing. I was told about the difficulty of getting out of bed in the mornings but it’s genuinely a huge struggle.
Seriously my alarm fir about 8:30 this morning but was more like one before I could physically lift myself out today.
It’s like being pinned to the bed & I suspected it wasn’t doing me much good.

That's the impact of the new highly infectious strain and doing over 10 times as many tests per day as in the first wave.

Both are factors as this one clearly infects at least two or three more people than last time - helped by it then being early Spring - longer, warmer days and nights and more people outside where it spreads less easily - and only testing those on their way to hospital as we had virtually no capacity to do otherwise then.

But now with us all being inside as it is Winter and mixing with others much more than we did that is a huge part of why a seasonal virus like this is far more apparent in Winter. Even without a faster spreading variant.

There were plenty of people in April saying they had it but not many got tested to know if they did. And most got over it after a week or two without ever needing to know. Just as they do now but these people will know if they do or not thanks to doing 3 or 4 million tests a week.

It is now far more widespread in reality than then and everyone with a suspicion just quickly knows for sure.

Yep - can’t disagree with any of that Healdplace.
Thanks for the post.

Not sure if this is a symptom or a return to ‘normality’ but my sense of smell is crazy at the moment. Deodorant, toothpaste....all really vibrant.

 

[Manc in London]

My covid clinic appt didn’t happen as the computer systems went down (?) apparently.
Fortunately my GP who arranged it stopped by my flat after he’d finished at the surgery. I’ve been seen by him a number of times over the years abs always liked him.
No pneumonia but chest ‘rattling with crap from covid’ nothing to be concerned about and using the oximeter gave a reading of 95, which I’m presuming is ok (anything under 92 a concern).
Also said if I were to walk down the stairs of the flats it would probably kill me which was spot on given I’d tried to yesterday....and it did nearly kill me.
Advised to get some fresh air on the hour (I hadn’t as I’ve been so cold). Should hopefully see some much better recovery by the weekend & hopefully full return to work Monday.
Perhaps psychological but I do feel a bit perkier this evening (I took a shower which helped).
Feet are still throbbing (no red blotches) & I have this phantom ‘hot oil in oven’ smell haunting me.

Positive news, mate. Good to hear

 

[unicorn]

But you know that 90% of them aren’t choosing to. Half of them aren’t being allowed to work from home, half of them can’t.

Wonder how many people were furloughed last March and haven’t been this time.

Spot on. It's people driving to work (Sheffield factories are open), hospital, schools, taking old folk for vaccinations, doing shopping.

Central Sheffield, like Manchester, still a ghost town. But a lot more people having to work this time by the the look of it.

 

[bluemcr]

thanks mate. i honestly know at least 100 people who have or currently have it and it has got much worse since about November. i am starting to think i must have had it in March ans been asymptotic as i litrrally have been in contact with tens of people with it over the past year.

I work on site and I know alot who have had it. One of the painting supervisors at Trevor Shaws caught it a couple of months ago went into a coma in hospital then died only 62. He caught it on that circle sq site. There is covid safety implemented on site but as you well know it goes out the window at smoking shelters or end of the job when it's all manic.

 

[Healdplace]

Watch areas:

Cheshire East:

Cases 124 - down from 175. Total 16, 280

Pop score up 32 to 4238. Weekly Pop 310 - down from 326.



Swansea:

Cases 58 - down from 72. Total 15, 691.

Pop score up 24 to 6353. Weekly Pop 195 - down from 205


Kent:

Dartford

Cases 83 - up from 74, Total 8785.

Pop score up 74 to 7802. Weekly Pop 714 down from 754


Medway

Cases 180 - up from 151. Total 22, 868.

Pop score up 65 - to 8210, Weekly Pop 543 down from 582

 

[Healdplace]

Won’t things slows down badly when people are due the second dose? If they are 12 weeks apart from the day of vaccination each day will surely be a new person vaccinated and a second jab for someone else.

They are still doing second jabs now at less than 12 weeks. From the ones who had the first one in December. But in modest numbers.

They want to cover the over 60s and all the otherwise vulnerable before the date arrives in early April when most of the first wave started this month need dose 2.

In fact those booking now get a choice of dates in April for dose 2 according to my friend who gets her first one on Friday at the Etihad and has her date for April for the second. She was given a choice of there or Macclesfield.

By then they will likely be using pharmacies and lots of such places to do almost on demand for the less vulnerable.

And by April there are other vaccines likely to be approved and coming here so stocks will be much higher than now.

If all goes well we should be able to do this. But that's a big if with the entire world wanting the vaccine in a hurry.

 

[Nellies left peg]

thanks mate. i honestly know at least 100 people who have or currently have it and it has got much worse since about November. i am starting to think i must have had it in March ans been asymptotic as i litrrally have been in contact with tens of people with it over the past year.

Unless you are the super spreader as the common denominator

 

[SB Blue]

Watching Outbreak on ITV.

As if we didn't know already, China has an awful lot to answer for.

And anybody who believes the number of deaths over there is around the 4000 figure that they say must be fucking nuts. It's probably more like 100 times that.

Will be interesting to see what happens during their NY period this year, if it’s as under control as they claim then surely they won’t be restricting people travelling to see relatives.....

 

[Cityfan]

Yes perfect point, although it’s more a desire for me to get back to normality. The psychological effects over the past week have been as bad for me as the physical ones. As your body fights all this it flips your brain upside down. Haven’t been able to think straight and it all went rather dark.

Btw - where does an oxygen reading of 95 sit? Average?

95% is fine, hope you keep getting better from here.