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Post by Bongo Heracles on May 30, 2022 22:20:47 GMT
My friend tested positive last week. She caught it back in 2020 and ended up in hospital for 2 weeks, and spent months recovering. This time she was absolutely fine and started testing negative after 5 days. I just thought that was interesting. I had it worse than I hoped but better than the first time. Rough for about five days and tested positive for ten days but it took months to bounce back properly in 2020 and I feel more or less back to normal now. The worst symptom, really, was a four day headache.
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Post by Sarfrin on May 30, 2022 22:32:03 GMT
Masks do cut the mustard, FFP2 masks work correctly more than cut the mustard. Still, will never happen. It won't ever happen. I don't want my kid to have to wear a ffp2 mask all day everyday at school. I don't want to wear one all day everyday in the office, in the pub etc. It "won't ever happen" not because of a lack of government policy, but because to be effective *enough* people (including kids) would need to be fully compliant more often than not...and very few would be. If people were bothered they would be wearing ffp2 masks today. It's not just governments who have moved on in their thinking y'know, we also have agency over our own decisions and risk. You're so 2020. You don't have to sound quite so smug about it. There are plenty of immunocompromised people who it is a real issue for. I work with one of them. I also used to work with someone who can't work any more because of the after effects of it.
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Post by richardiox on May 30, 2022 22:51:48 GMT
It won't ever happen. I don't want my kid to have to wear a ffp2 mask all day everyday at school. I don't want to wear one all day everyday in the office, in the pub etc. It "won't ever happen" not because of a lack of government policy, but because to be effective *enough* people (including kids) would need to be fully compliant more often than not...and very few would be. If people were bothered they would be wearing ffp2 masks today. It's not just governments who have moved on in their thinking y'know, we also have agency over our own decisions and risk. You're so 2020. You don't have to sound quite so smug about it. There are plenty of immunocompromised people who it is a real issue for. I work with one of them. I also used to work with someone who can't work any more because of the after effects of it. Yes I'm aware there's loads of people it's still a real issue for and it sucks. I have two elderly parents and young i/c family members, all of whom are vaccinated. Covid will continue to be a risk for them, regardless of reintroducing mask mandates. I just don't think the "why is the government letting this happen?" position is credible at this point in the pandemic and with what we've seen around the world. FFP2 masks if you're immunocompromised and out in public would be the most realistic public health measure at this point if we're still going to go down the masks discussion.
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Post by スコットランド on May 31, 2022 5:03:19 GMT
You don't have to sound quite so smug about it. There are plenty of immunocompromised people who it is a real issue for. I work with one of them. I also used to work with someone who can't work any more because of the after effects of it. Yes I'm aware there's loads of people it's still a real issue for and it sucks. I have two elderly parents and young i/c family members, all of whom are vaccinated. Covid will continue to be a risk for them, regardless of reintroducing mask mandates. I just don't think the "why is the government letting this happen?" position is credible at this point in the pandemic and with what we've seen around the world. FFP2 masks if you're immunocompromised and out in public would be the most realistic public health measure at this point if we're still going to go down the masks discussion. But masks don't cut the mustard.
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Post by richardiox on May 31, 2022 6:22:43 GMT
Not when everyone would have to wear them in every indoor setting all the time, no they wouldn't work because people wouldn't comply. I can prove it by going to the supermarket later today or even 2 months ago when we had the greatest community transmission since it all started. Everyone knew someone who had Covid and yet people were choosing not to wear masks.
And countries that had much greater levels of mandated mask use/compliance still had Omicron waves as big as the UK.
Anyway, I've committed the cardinal sin of responding to one of your "why is the government just happy to let it rip?" bad-faith fallacies and probably need to stop.
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Post by スコットランド on May 31, 2022 6:43:29 GMT
Not when everyone would have to wear them in every indoor setting all the time, no they wouldn't work because people wouldn't comply. I can prove it by going to the supermarket later today or even 2 months ago when we had the greatest community transmission since it all started. Everyone knew someone who had Covid and yet people were choosing not to wear masks. And countries that had much greater levels of mandated mask use/compliance still had Omicron waves as big as the UK. Anyway, I've committed the cardinal sin of responding to one of your "why is the government just happy to let it rip?" bad-faith fallacies and probably need to stop. I hope you know where you can ram your "bad-faith" comments.
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Post by drhickman1983 on May 31, 2022 7:27:01 GMT
I think there's a decent case that makes can be enforced in public transport and shops, but other then that I'm not so sure it's hard to justify at this point.
I wish social distancing from strangers would come back though, I do kinda miss that.
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Post by スコットランド on May 31, 2022 7:44:54 GMT
I think there's a decent case that makes can be enforced in public transport and shops, but other then that I'm not so sure it's hard to justify at this point. I wish social distancing from strangers would come back though, I do kinda miss that. www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/05/covid-reinfection-research-immunity/639436/"Strategies to avoid infection—to make it as infrequent as possible, for as many people as possible—remain options, in the form of vaccination, masking, ventilation, paid sick leave, and more. “There are still very good reasons” to keep exposures few and far between, Landon, of the University of Chicago, told me. Putting off reinfection creates fewer opportunities for harm: The dice are less likely to land on severe disease (or chronic illness) when they’re rolled less often overall. It also buys us time to enhance our understanding of the virus, and improve our tools to fight it. “The more we know about COVID when we get COVID,” the better off we’ll be, she said." The letitripitslikeallcoronaviruses crew somehow know better than the experts though.
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Post by drhickman1983 on May 31, 2022 7:48:16 GMT
I think there's a decent case that makes can be enforced in public transport and shops, but other then that I'm not so sure it's hard to justify at this point. I wish social distancing from strangers would come back though, I do kinda miss that. www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/05/covid-reinfection-research-immunity/639436/"Strategies to avoid infection—to make it as infrequent as possible, for as many people as possible—remain options, in the form of vaccination, masking, ventilation, paid sick leave, and more. “There are still very good reasons” to keep exposures few and far between, Landon, of the University of Chicago, told me. Putting off reinfection creates fewer opportunities for harm: The dice are less likely to land on severe disease (or chronic illness) when they’re rolled less often overall. It also buys us time to enhance our understanding of the virus, and improve our tools to fight it. “The more we know about COVID when we get COVID,” the better off we’ll be, she said." The letitripitslikeallcoronaviruses crew somehow know better than the experts though. To be honest I hadn't considered sick leave in relation to Covid specifically as frankly that is something that needs looking at desperately in general. And the push to get everyone back in offices is a terrible idea for a number of reasons, but yep, will have an impact on Covid for sure.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on May 31, 2022 8:07:42 GMT
Ive just had a week off work with it (would have been nearly two if I couldnt remote work) and our team is infrequently at full strength because someone is usually off with it.
But, yes, there is obviously a difference between 'letting it rip' and getting back to normal in a more controlled manner which we quite clearly needed to do.
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Post by TheSaint on Jun 8, 2022 8:51:45 GMT
Tested positive for the first time this morning. Nice souvenir from holiday last week or gigs at the weekend.
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Post by スコットランド on Jun 8, 2022 9:09:32 GMT
We've came back from Spain with mucusy cold symptoms so another Covid test for me this afternoon. Still, gives me an excuse to not attend the bullshit workshop that the Covid-sceptic wankers in our project are insisting on office attendance for. Utter wankers.
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Post by dfunked on Jun 8, 2022 9:14:01 GMT
Did you not wear a hazmat suit for the entire trip?...
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Post by Dougs on Jun 8, 2022 9:14:07 GMT
Tested positive for the first time this morning. Nice souvenir from holiday last week or gigs at the weekend. Gigs at the weekend I suspect. Most symptoms appear in a few days.
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Post by Aunt Alison on Jun 8, 2022 9:28:42 GMT
with mucusy cold symptoms You've certainly got a way with words
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Post by スコットランド on Jun 8, 2022 9:29:17 GMT
Did you not wear a hazmat suit for the entire trip?... Nope, nor when we went to Italy in April, nor when I go to France for a concert in a month, nor during our other trips abroad this year. Mrs Ecosse just got her test back negative so we continue to avoid the plague. FFP2 masks do seem to work
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Post by スコットランド on Jun 8, 2022 9:29:42 GMT
with mucusy cold symptoms You've certainly got a way with words Couldn't think of a better way to describe it.
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Post by Aunt Alison on Jun 8, 2022 9:30:48 GMT
Cold symptoms
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Post by スコットランド on Jun 8, 2022 9:36:12 GMT
No itchy throat, no headache etc.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2022 13:09:29 GMT
Runny nose could've worked.
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Post by dfunked on Jun 8, 2022 13:24:47 GMT
My confirmed and unconfirmed (Feb 2020) bouts of it both came with ridiculous amounts of phlegm buildup in my throat/nose.
"I'm a phlegmy mess" would've also been acceptable
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Post by スコットランド on Jun 8, 2022 13:46:19 GMT
Runny nose could've worked. Nose isn't runny. \o/
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Post by スコットランド on Jun 9, 2022 8:07:37 GMT
PCR test is negative so I continue to kick Rona's arse.
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Post by Reviewer on Jun 9, 2022 9:40:52 GMT
Not sure if I’ve had it again or if there’s some other similar bug going around. I’ve been tired for the last week, headaches, stomach a bit tender and a bad cough. Today is the first day I’ve not had a fuzzy head
It felt like a milder version of when I definitely had it 8 weeks ago.
Obviously it can’t be ’rona as it’s over now.
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Post by anephric on Jun 9, 2022 14:23:35 GMT
My missus and her mum just came back from Costa del Plonka with covid and gave it to me. Haven't had it before, managed to avoid it all through lockdown.
They were ill for about a week, mum in law has had it twice before, they're fineish now but I am absolutely wrecked: horrific laryngitis (completely lost my voice for three days), fever, nausea, hacking cough, shits, aches everywhere, catarrh and mucous spilling out with abandon. Six days in, still testing positive. Haven't slept for most of that.
Fucking twats and their cheap Spanish holiday.
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Post by starchildhypocrethes on Jun 21, 2022 13:17:27 GMT
Covid has finally breached the towering walls of Fortress Hypocrethes and my other half has it.
With us both home working, the spare room has been an office for the last couple of years, so do I have to sleep on the sofa for however long this goes on..?
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Post by dfunked on Jun 21, 2022 13:24:36 GMT
I'd just carry on as normal tbh. You're unlikely to avoid it unless you go to extreme measures.
Unless you mean sleeping on the couch to get away from the horrible phlegmy gurgling sound that passes for snoring.
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Post by starchildhypocrethes on Jun 21, 2022 13:46:11 GMT
Oh really?
Would venturing into the Plague Chamber and having her hack away in my face for a few hours not somewhat increase the likelihood of me getting it?
Might stick her in the shed.
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Post by TheSaint on Jun 21, 2022 13:52:58 GMT
My wife managed to avoid catching it when I had it the other week. We didn't do anything extreme and I continued to do most of the cooking. Pretty much the only step we took was sleeping separately while I was testing positive.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Jun 21, 2022 13:54:25 GMT
Unless your immunocompromised, and assuming your vaccinated, I'd just take the hit. More than likely it would be a week of feeling like shit, but then you'll basically be immune for a short while ago you can feel smug whilst riding a crowded train or in a crowded bar (until you get a non-covid infection, at least).
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