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Post by Jambowayoh on Feb 17, 2022 15:40:00 GMT
Still haven't had Covid despite working in what could be considered a COVID breeding ground. Maybe I'm superhuman. Who can say.
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Post by 111 on Feb 17, 2022 15:40:28 GMT
Or you've had it.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Feb 17, 2022 15:46:09 GMT
No I've definitely not had it, no antibodies or the like.
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Post by 111 on Feb 17, 2022 15:48:21 GMT
So. There's like a thousand* reasons that an antibody test might not find detectable levels of antibodies at the point that it's taken - a positive antibody test is a pretty fucking good indicator that you have had it at some point, but a negative antibody test is not proof that you've never had it.
*Not a thousand.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Feb 17, 2022 16:00:27 GMT
A thousand and one?
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Post by Trowel 🏴 on Feb 17, 2022 16:01:13 GMT
Can we have an option for people who had a runny nose in September 2019 and think they had Covid before anyone else?
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Post by convercide on Feb 17, 2022 17:37:39 GMT
I had Omicron, but I was just a little sleepy and achy for a couple days. This basically. Had a temperature day 1 and then sniffles for a couple of days. |
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Post by Sarfrin on Feb 17, 2022 19:16:17 GMT
I've had to change my answer to yes. Bloody terrible timing.
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Post by Youthist on Feb 17, 2022 19:16:49 GMT
I’ve had it twice, but I can’t vote twice. First time was really shit (delta when doubled) and Xmas was fuck all (when tripled) but still tested positive for ten days in a row.
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Post by elstoof on Feb 17, 2022 20:11:10 GMT
Twice. Illness itself wasn’t anything to write home about either time, extreme fatigue more than anything which didn’t go away. Ongoing symptoms were a lot worse, took months to get back to something like normal before getting it again. Following symptoms so far less severe, but a bit weirder
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2022 20:57:36 GMT
Don't think so.
Second jab kinda killed me for 24 hours too, so doubt it's just my ahem "strong" immune system being asymptomatic either.
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Post by Zuluhero on Feb 17, 2022 22:34:51 GMT
Nope.
Though I do have something atm, feeling rough. Test still says no.
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Post by Danno on Feb 17, 2022 22:44:17 GMT
I thought (or was lead to believe) that I'm bad at polls
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2022 22:45:43 GMT
if only something something poll guy
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Post by cubby on Feb 17, 2022 22:55:08 GMT
We've now reached over 100 people polled which is more data than makeup companies use to make bold claims about their lippy, so we can conclusively say that covid needs to up it's game.
It's not even got to 50% of us infected over 2 years!
Pathetic covid19, pathetic...
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Post by Aunt Alison on Feb 17, 2022 23:19:06 GMT
if only something something poll guy Maybe he's still around somewhere as a poll-ter-guy-st |
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Post by Danno on Feb 17, 2022 23:23:41 GMT
We've now reached over 100 people polled which is more data than makeup companies use to make bold claims about their lippy, so we can conclusively say that covid needs to up it's game. It's not even got to 50% of us infected over 2 years! Pathetic covid19, pathetic... I thought that was always a percentage thing. E.g. 57% of respondents agree with the words we put in their mouths over the course of 18 questions sort of thing |
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Post by Zuluhero on Feb 18, 2022 0:02:06 GMT
Maybe there's some correlation between the percentages and FGs demographic? 😏
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Post by KD on Feb 18, 2022 0:28:24 GMT
Hey, we not all old buggers, I'm not 40 until June...
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Post by lexw on Feb 18, 2022 4:23:25 GMT
I pretty much definitely had it in February 2020, when we were being told "nobody really has it yet, don't worry!" (despite the fact that it was spreading rapidly lol). I was the sickest I've ever been (worse than Swine flu, which was astonishingly bad), and haha, I dragged myself into work, and one of my colleagues said "Fuck mate, have you got COVID or something?!" and I had to say "Well, the doctor says they think it's unlikely and they can't test me because I don't have the right symptoms!". I'd gone to the doc because I was really sick and the doctor was pretty worried and sent me for a bunch of tests, but as noted said he couldn't test me for COVID as I didn't meet the requirements.
Turns out the "right symptoms" back then were not the actual symptoms we later found out COVID had.
So I'm pretty sure I gave a whole bunch of people COVID on the train and at the office. Feel great about that...
Eventually - and this is the only time this has ever happened in my whole work career, I looked so sick and so pale and was so obviously ill my boss sent my home and said "Seriously dude don't come back this week, get better!". I then got worse, and yeah, it was all the symptoms we learned were "classic COVID", including serious breathing difficulties (I was overusing my asthma inhaler, the steroid one at the time, which may have actually helped at least).
I also had long COVID symptoms (particularly this incredibly annoying thing where I randomly had breath or didn't on any given day - like one day I could almost jog up the inclined road to work, next I'd have to stop and have a sit-down) which lasted until I got the vaccine. No idea why they would stop after that, but they declined rapidly and vanished after that. I suppose we'll know all in like 15-20 years.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2022 8:27:08 GMT
Yeah I'm one of those that had it early on that nobody will believe because tests weren't available (I could be wrong about that but I just isolated). This was March 2020.
Hacking cough with uncontrollable coughing fits that produced nothing. Shortness of breath like the top of my lungs were not working. Fatigue, aches. Crippling sinus pain with clods of congealed blood at the top of my nose.
No taste or smell whatsoever which lasted about three weeks. The smell never fully came back. I had one night of very, very high fever with associated batshit nightmares. The lethargy was real and outlasted the illness by another two or three weeks and I felt a lot less cardio fit for a long time after.
I had it better than my partner who I thought at one point was going to have to go in.
Little one appeared unscathed throughout.
We caught it on a 'date night' which we finished at a packed Peaky Blinders bar in Manchester. That would be our last date night for a couple of years. What a shite place to host that. 😂
But I wasn't tested so people tell me it was just a bad cold and roll their eyes at me. And then close the poll.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Feb 18, 2022 9:01:59 GMT
Not that I know of, but I've had a few points where I felt worn out / shit for a week or two. Don't know if that was Covid or exhaustion or something else.
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Post by geefe on Nov 25, 2022 16:41:50 GMT
Well, nearly 3 years from when the pandemic hit these shores, of which I spent 15 months or so in schools or hospitals...
I have finally got it. A year into my comfy work from home job. The absolute bullshit state of it. Weekend plans ruined.
Some hold me.
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Post by Lukus on Nov 25, 2022 16:46:15 GMT
No, you fucking leper
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Post by deebs on Nov 25, 2022 16:48:19 GMT
I've had it three times, First, time I thought I was dying. Second and third times I'd been vaccinated and then boosted and it was barely a cold.
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Post by Aunt Alison on Nov 25, 2022 16:50:21 GMT
Stay in and watch some films - that'll cheer you up
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Post by Zuluhero on Nov 25, 2022 16:58:40 GMT
I thought I was immune too, having survived not getting it for years, then had it about 2 months ago. I was pretty bad with it, but rest of house had it really mild.
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Post by geefe on Nov 25, 2022 17:11:14 GMT
I am fairly sure I got it from pub and/ or gig at the weekend. My trajectory has been
Monday - slight cough and scratchy throat which I thought was gig screaming
Tuesday - this cough still here?
Weds - oh god no! Slept about 4-5 hours during the day, headache, hot and cold, like a really bad cold and nausea.
Thurs - shitty morning start, but nap and much better. Still coughing
Fri - sniffly, coughing and a bit tired.
Weirdly, tested negative on Weds but positive today. Think I'm through the worst of it though. I did a 5k run on Monday night as well.
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Post by Cosmopolitan on Nov 25, 2022 17:29:37 GMT
yes, in July. Not only it was scorching heat outside but I felt horribly weak and languid. Luckily it was not very strong and long lasting but I did lose my smell and taste for a few weeks.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2022 17:35:29 GMT
I would take the flu like symptoms compared to the total loss of smell and taste for I month I got with the OG covid. Then 2 years of things tasting/smelling funny. It was torture.
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