Apparently it's likely to be this new BA.2 Variant
SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)
- Thread starter Don't Kill Bill
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Apparently it's likely to be this new BA.2 Variant
Imagine how bad things would be getting if a delta was as transmissible as the current strains
Even the original strain before we had any vaccines. It would’ve caused havoc.
Tested positive today. Not as bad as I thought it would be, but I am triple jabbed. Just have a dry throat and snotty nose
Got Covid for the first time. Double jabbed.
Rang in sick to work on friday as I didn't feel well...aching body mainly and a bit of a cough...didn't even think I had Covid as it just felt like a cold. That night I had a mad fever in the night...but had the day off and stayed in, so didn't do a test.
Feeling a lot better today, but though let's do a test...POSITIVE. Not sure if it means anything but the lines thick as feck on the test....had some work that I really needed to get done by Wednesday that does involve me leaving the house.
Rang in sick to work on friday as I didn't feel well...aching body mainly and a bit of a cough...didn't even think I had Covid as it just felt like a cold. That night I had a mad fever in the night...but had the day off and stayed in, so didn't do a test.
Feeling a lot better today, but though let's do a test...POSITIVE. Not sure if it means anything but the lines thick as feck on the test....had some work that I really needed to get done by Wednesday that does involve me leaving the house.
Finally tested positive on Monday, positive line in seconds. Fever, and aches. Still had a slight positive today but feel fine. Was like a rapid bad cold for me. Lots of congestion.
I found when I was positive it came up nearly instantly too, I had always thought it would be 30mins till you could tell but that little fecker appeared so quick
I only wish it were transmissible that way, I'd be coughing all over every matchday thread
I read the other day that the single biggest factor in cutting transmission has been the working from home order.
No surprise that infection rates have absolutely exploded since companies have demanded the return to offices.
No surprise that infection rates have absolutely exploded since companies have demanded the return to offices.
FFS had it this week, im assuming it was the weaker omicron but feck me its like a really bad cold that leaves you tired a lot, its no bueno and ive been triple jabbed. I cant imagine how people survived the original strains unvaccinated.
This was after they stopped mandating masks in schools here in NI and my wife is a music teacher, first week without masks and it gets her me and our son.
This was after they stopped mandating masks in schools here in NI and my wife is a music teacher, first week without masks and it gets her me and our son.
What's the shortest period of time we know of between people recovering from it and contracting it again?
I know someone who caught it again about 3 weeks later
Still testing positive a week on. Barely existing line.
Wow. We could be trapped in an endless cycle of it given the numbers of cases at the moment.
I believe that new variant of omicron is doing the rounds. It could be that they caught one then the other
That couldn’t happen. The two omicron variants are too similar. To get a reinfection that soon you’d have to get exposed to delta first, then omicron for the reinfection. Which is next to impossible now that omicron has basically wiped out all the prior variants.
So odds are in favour of someone who has just recovered from it not contracting it again for a while? For example, I recovered a week or so ago, and had to isolate, meaning I couldn't see my kids as I normally would (they live with their mother). My daughter tested positive as soon as she got home from staying with me this weekend. Do you think it's at all likely I'll get it again from contact with her?
Well however it’s happened, person I know reinfected 3 weeks later. Positive, symptoms. Then a few weeks clear no symptoms. Then 3 weeks later, symptoms again and positive. Luckily they’ve been boostered
@decorativeed the scenario I’ve described I’d imagine is fairly rare, I’d think that You’ll be ok fir a few months at least
Incredibly unlikely, I’d say.
Same had it last week and man it knocked me out flat. No severe symptoms just like a cold on steroids but a week on I'm still exhausted and dizzy.
My daughter was sent home from school today with a bad cough and we just went to do a drive through PCR test. I said it was unlikely she'd have it again as we all had it in December.
The nurse at the school said she'd recently seen multiple kids have it twice within a couple of months, i.e. had it, fully recovered, then had it again.
So its more common than people realise and maybe its down to a new variant?
We are going to centreparcs next week, so hopefully we don't all get it again!
Dead virus still in your system, if you've got no symptoms you're fine.
I tested positive, but feel fine, just a mild cough now and then.
Should I go back to work, or wait a few more days until I get a negative??
Should I go back to work, or wait a few more days until I get a negative??
I'd say it depends on how much you want to make your colleagues ill.
Got grief for wearing a mask in Sainsbury's. Some very far gone bloke telling me I'm normalising vaccines that are controlling us. Couple people who weren't masked came up after to say to me I handled it well and that it's none of his business, which I appreciated cause I am a bit worried about how unusual I am in still wearing one and it's comforting to have some folks who don't themselves be nice about me choosing to.
Yeah I honestly don’t know anymore, I’m lost since the governments removed all restrictions and it’s barely reported. Which on one hand is good but on the other I’d like to know the answer to questions like reinfection
I wore one at an outing at a museum Sunday afternoon and I only saw two other people not including my significant other who were masked. Got a few expected looks but at this point I really couldn't care less. Shanghai is in lock down and I'm ready for the ensuing uptick in cases stateside. You're doing the right thing
Just pull the mask down and tell the daft twat that you've got it next time.
Harsh.
You need to respect his freedom to disrespect your freedom, man
Out of interest, why are you still wearing a mask? Not judging, just curious.
Yep I'm at the getting the crap out of my chest stage
You sure? I'm worried about this too now
I just think it's still worth minimising transmission where doing so comes at very little cost. I agree that 'everyone will get it' but like, I'd rather a couple people didn't get it an additional time from me, when on rare occasions infection can cause long term debilitating effects or even death.
Yeah, that's what I'd do. Tell him it's not illegal to go out rather than isolating any more and you would be happy to take it off and follow them around if wearing it bothered him so much.
I can't believe people are acting like this. You never saw someone being told off for trying to be hygenic in any other situations before. If anyone's normalising stuff, it's these people normalising loudmouthed idiocy.
So is the plan to mask up whenever you go to the supermarket indefinitely? Or is there a threshold for case numbers below which you’ll let your guard down?
I can totally understand people masking up if they’re worried about their own safety (or family members at home) but don’t really get the end game of those still wearing masks for the greater good. Especially now that covid has an IFR < flu. Because this means you’re committing to life long masking so long as covid or flu is in active circulation.
Just chewing the fat here. Obviously wouldn’t confront someone in person over this. I’m not a total monster like Will Smith.
Tested negative last Thurs so ended up having it for exactly a week. Felt like a headcold really and was a bit out of breath going up stairs and playing with the dog but seems to all be good now.