Coronavirus (2022) thread

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Invisible Man's Bandage said:
Mask wearing has collapsed in the last couple of weeks. For example, me and my wife were at a large garden centre last Sunday and there was barely a mask to be seen indoors and in the restaurant. As the demographic was mainly older adults with no teens / 20s you’d expect to see more of them. Same with supermarkets and so on.
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twosips said:
This is a sincere question - are there any studies showing the effectiveness of masks with Omicron? I have no doubts whatsoever that back with the original variant they were useful, but this virus is absolutely ridiculously more transmissible than that first version. Genuinely curious as to whether they even do anything anymore given how well adapted it is to transmission now. They sorta feel useless, unless you're wearing a proper filtered mask, but maybe I'm wrong.
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Some of the face coverings people wear is like the equivalent or hitting a golf ball into a football net hoping it will stop it going through
 
twosips said:
This is a sincere question - are there any studies showing the effectiveness of masks with Omicron? I have no doubts whatsoever that back with the original variant they were useful, but this virus is absolutely ridiculously more transmissible than that first version. Genuinely curious as to whether they even do anything anymore given how well adapted it is to transmission now. They sorta feel useless, unless you're wearing a proper filtered mask, but maybe I'm wrong.
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Doubt anyone has studied omicron specifically, but I'd guess that you'd expect the same proportion of infections to be prevented?

So if 20% of infections are prevented by mask wearing for delta, the same for omicron?

(The 20% figure is totally made up - but I don't think anyone believes masks as implemented by Joe public make a drastic difference)
 
I got Covid apx 6 weeks ago and it’s left me with a violent dry cough, pain in my shoulders hands and feet and the lung capacity of an asthmatic old man. Just walking to the shops and carrying a few bags back is really hard going.
I had to go into town for a chest X-ray yesterday and had a coughing fit on the bus, but because I was wearing my mask I couldn’t get the oxygen in so had to pull it down. The looks I got were ones of pure fear mixed with disgust. In the end I had to announce to them that I was now testing negative and it was just lasting symptoms.
I work in the NHS and really need to get back to work but they’re not sure how they can allow me back - the wrist pain is so bad I can’t slice cheese never mind do basic life support and I need gloves to try and keep the hand/wrist pain down.
There’s so much we still don’t know about Covid, especially the long term effects, but either more people are going to be claiming benefits or employers are going to have to try and make some big allowances for people like me so we can work.
 
Has anybody else been left with ‘long Covid’ and got problems with their joints? I now have pain and numbness in my fingers, wrists, elbows and feet that feels almost like Raynaud’s disease and I can’t walk very far without losing feeling in my feet. I was chopping onions last week and took the tip of my finger clean off because the joints just don’t seem to do what I want them to do. Really weird stuff this Covid and the lung problems are just a small part of it.
 
BLUEYESTU said:
Has anybody else been left with ‘long Covid’ and got problems with their joints? I now have pain and numbness in my fingers, wrists, elbows and feet that feels almost like Raynaud’s disease and I can’t walk very far without losing feeling in my feet. I was chopping onions last week and took the tip of my finger clean off because the joints just don’t seem to do what I want them to do. Really weird stuff this Covid and the lung problems are just a small part of it.
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I’ve not been able to exercise since having Covid. I’m knackered in minutes, I get pins’n’needles in my feet when I walk, every morning when I wake up I feel DOMS as if I’ve done a heavy weights workout the day before but I’ve not even exercised.

Going to the Spurs game the other week was proper hard work. It’s not like I walked or cycled there. I walked about 200m to the Met stop, got to Town and had a few pints, jumped on the Met to the Etihad, watched the game and got on the Met home. Hardly a day of big exertion!

I’ve not had this (yet) but hair loss is another symptom of long Covid.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
I’ve not been able to exercise since having Covid. I’m knackered in minutes, I get pins’n’needles in my feet when I walk, every morning when I wake up I feel DOMS as if I’ve done a heavy weights workout the day before but I’ve not even exercised.

Going to the Spurs game the other week was proper hard work. It’s not like I walked or cycled there. I walked about 200m to the Met stop, got to Town and had a few pints, jumped on the Met to the Etihad, watched the game and got on the Met home. Hardly a day of big exertion!

I’ve not had this (yet) but hair loss is another symptom of long Covid.
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What you’ve described is exactly the same as me after yesterday - I tried walking from Morecambe to Lancaster and by the end I was taking short stutter steps like an old man. Today I ache like I walked a marathon.
 
BLUEYESTU said:
What you’ve described is exactly the same as me after yesterday - I tried walking from Morecambe to Lancaster and by the end I was taking short stutter steps like an old man. Today I ache like I walked a marathon.
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I tested positive today for Covid. Not going to lie I'm in bits with it my throat feels razor blades and find myself constantly taking deep breaths. I'm hoping this doesn't turn out to be long term.
 
SWPISHOME said:
I tested positive today for Covid. Not going to lie I'm in bits with it my throat feels razor blades and find myself constantly taking deep breaths. I'm hoping this doesn't turn out to be long term.
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Keeping everything crossed for you mate. I can’t even offer any advice on managing the symptoms because I did everything we are supposed to do - paracetamol, fluids, eating and drinking etc.
Let us know how you’re going ok?
 
BLUEYESTU said:
Keeping everything crossed for you mate. I can’t even offer any advice on managing the symptoms because I did everything we are supposed to do - paracetamol, fluids, eating and drinking etc.
Let us know how you’re going ok?
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I'm eating and drinking also taking paracetamol just really uncomfortable trying to swallow. Actually had a few hot whiskeys last night it felt good on my throat for a few hours anyway.
Cheers for the reply though it's much appreciated.

How are you keeping?
 
SWPISHOME said:
I'm eating and drinking also taking paracetamol just really uncomfortable trying to swallow. Actually had a few hot whiskeys last night it felt good on my throat for a few hours anyway.
Cheers for the reply though it's much appreciated.

How are you keeping?
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Yesterday was a pretty good day; pushed my dad in his wheelchair along the prom and had some ‘quality time’ with the girlfriend, but this morning absolutely everything aches and it’s making me miserable! Can’t feel the tips of my fingers which makes typing interesting :)
I just keep hoping it’ll wear off in time and I get back to my old baseline.
I’ve actually found that alcohol now makes the joint pain worse so I avoid it, but when I had the coughing and bad chest etc a lemsip with honey and splash of whiskey really took the edge off; so go for it - whatever helps eh?
 
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