Coronavirus (2021) thread

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worsleyweb said:
no I just don’t want to have a rough few days with the booster and I ask myself is it worth it when I suspect and hope I have a tonne of antibodies. I have not been anywhere near right for coming up to 7 months now.
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Take the booster Worsley. It's there because our antibody levels fall away. If you are feeling bad that suggests poor health, not a robust immune system.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Ties in nicely with football getting back to normal for the 2023-24 season after the stupid Winter World Cup ruining next season. Seeing that shit show as a thing of the past will be great… just like Covid!

On a serious note; it feels like 2023-24 is the time to really look forward to! Until then, this should be a period of time where we all take stock of what’s happened over the last two years, take a look at our health, our jobs, our finances and make the necessary changes now while we can to make them all better.

Our health is the big one. I reckon we’d have 25,000 (personal guess) fewer deaths if the horrendous standard of personal responsibility we have as a nation for our own health was taken more seriously. We’ve slowly become a nation of fat lazy slobs over the last few decades and it’s really bitten us on the arse during Covid, but is the #1 reason why the NHS struggles in general anyway, before Covid happened. The amount of obese kids there are these days is a huge worry for the NHS as these fat kids become adults in the coming decades.

Surely this is the wake-up call for the nation?

…On the antivirals; does anyone know if antivirals work like antibiotics, where after a while the virus may become resistant to them and we breed a “superbug” (apologies, I hate that word as much as anyone!)?
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Development of anti-viral resistance is possible and is seen in 'flu.
 
worsleyweb said:
no I just don’t want to have a rough few days with the booster and I ask myself is it worth it when I suspect and hope I have a tonne of antibodies. I have not been anywhere near right for coming up to 7 months now.
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If not feeling right is what you want to avoid, choosing to have a higher than necessary risk of covid doesn't seem like an obvious way to achieve it.

All the best to you and your mum too.
 
jaseirai said:
That Austrian plan sounds difficult to implement. Maybe they could issue the unvaccinated with brightly coloured badges in order to identify themselves.
It’s possible I’m getting my Austrian chancellors mixed up though.
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Perhaps rather than colour them, save some money on dye and just make them obvious, perhaps a star or something?

I'm kidding, sorry....
 
jaseirai said:
That Austrian plan sounds difficult to implement. Maybe they could issue the unvaccinated with brightly coloured badges in order to identify themselves.
It’s possible I’m getting my Austrian chancellors mixed up though.
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I think most anti-vaxxers will be easy to spot. They’ll be the ones licking windows and/or eating crayons.
 
Rammy Blue said:
Just had my booster and flu jab, got fuck all on this weekend so figured if I feel a bit shit then it’s no biggie.

I had zero side effects from my 2 AZ jabs, and had covid back in July, so let’s see if I get any reaction to these jabs - feel fine so far.
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I had the Pfizer booster a few weeks ago had a sore arm for a day or two that’s it.

used my domestic Covid vaccine pass yesterday for first time watching soft cell at the Apollo. Great to get out and see a concert.

it was a condition of entry
 
kevin horlocks wand said:
I had the Pfizer booster a few weeks ago had a sore arm for a day or two that’s it.

used my domestic Covid vaccine pass yesterday for first time watching soft cell at the Apollo. Great to get out and see a concert.

it was a condition of entry
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We went to the theatre on Thursday and had to show pass to gain entry, how it should be.
 
Entry to the RNCM last week was an utter farce.
Despite banner headlines on the website saying covid status would be checked I arrived and there were a couple of blokes outside with customers milling round. I opened my NHS app to show my status. Now I cannot read this myself unless I get up close to my phone. He looked at it from six feet away and waved me in. No scan, no scrutiny. A couple in front of me were allowed in by flashing their vaccination record cards, could have been anyones of course, and another bloke was let in when he said he didn’t have any proof but he’d had his booster that morning!
A complete Waste of time.
 
My 14 year old son got his pcr test result through earlier,he's positive,me and the mrs both negative
All this time since march 2020,he didn't get it ,while me and his mam worked in the NHS. :-(
 
Just for bit of balance, as I know a few have concerns about booster, especially as a few stories posted on here, but I’m nearly 12 hours since both my flu and Pfizer booster, and I’m 100% fine. Been out for a few beers, feel right as rain, not even a sore arm.
 
Rammy Blue said:
Just for bit of balance, as I know a few have concerns about booster, especially as a few stories posted on here, but I’m nearly 12 hours since both my flu and Pfizer booster, and I’m 100% fine. Been out for a few beers, feel right as rain, not even a sore arm.
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Same for my 83-year old mother who had her booster and flu jab a few weeks ago without any problems.

I'll be having mine just after Christmas. I have been given a date of 25th December but should be able to put it off a couple of days and get to enjoy my turkey first!
 
Anyone had (or read) one of the latest ’doom colds’doing the rounds?
This is my second heavy cold in two months but this one has absolutely hammered me.
Every coughing fit renders me on the verge of blacking out.
My daughter has had it for two weeks (all neg covid tests btw) but wondering if my lungs are still damaged from covid/long covid which has made this worse?

Struggling to sleep or think straight.
 
somapop said:
Anyone had (or read) one of the latest ’doom colds’doing the rounds?
This is my second heavy cold in two months but this one has absolutely hammered me.
Every coughing fit renders me on the verge of blacking out.
My daughter has had it for two weeks (all neg covid tests btw) but wondering if my lungs are still damaged from covid/long covid which has made this worse?

Struggling to sleep or think straight.
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Did you get a lot of colds before the long covid? Do you have a healthy diet with plenty of veg and fruit? I saw from the running thread that you keep fit though.

It could just be down to luck or genes?. My family suffer multiple colds a year but I barely suffer any. It could be luck or genes? I try to keep fit. But the rest of the family don't exercise or eat as well (they eat take aways etc). Maybe that's a reason?
 
Rammy Blue said:
Just for bit of balance, as I know a few have concerns about booster, especially as a few stories posted on here, but I’m nearly 12 hours since both my flu and Pfizer booster, and I’m 100% fine. Been out for a few beers, feel right as rain, not even a sore arm.
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I had my pfizer booster four weeks ago now,no problem for me,i was lucky with the first two too.
a few people i work with had both together (booster and flu jab ) and had to have time off,none of us really know if they were ligitimate,as they get paid and it doesn't get classed on your sickness record in the nhs.
my mate who didn't have time off after having his,was poorly for a few days,he had his on a friday knowing he had the weekend to recover if he was bad.
 
somapop said:
Anyone had (or read) one of the latest ’doom colds’doing the rounds?
This is my second heavy cold in two months but this one has absolutely hammered me.
Every coughing fit renders me on the verge of blacking out.
My daughter has had it for two weeks (all neg covid tests btw) but wondering if my lungs are still damaged from covid/long covid which has made this worse?

Struggling to sleep or think straight.
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In future, you could try Echinacea tablets when you notice the beginning of a cold mate. They often prevent bad colds.
 
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