SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)
- Thread starter Don't Kill Bill
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Media hysteria working overtime at the moment it seems.
Yay, it's finally my turn. Avoided it for the entire pandemic. Left my freelancing to start a new job and within 2 weeks got it.
Do you not have to isolate in your country anymore?
Sounds like he’s being a selfish twat. Which is not a huge surprise.
That’s scaremongering melodrama from someone who should know better. There’s a lot of it about. Scientists desperately clinging on to their place in the spotlight.
I actually had to double take when I seen the supermarket post, hang on, didn't he just say he tested positive?
I mean, if someone’s stuck they’re stuck. Not everyone has the support network to get them through proper isolation. But doing it because “if nobody else follows the rules, I won’t either”…
Zero surprises that you don’t have anyone to help you out.
As someone who has spent a week indoors with two teenagers and 9 month old dog, I can assure had you followed the guidelines you wouldn't have been the only one.
How are you feeling? I had two days where I felt like it was in a car crash.
Extremely fatigued, achy all over. Bit grisly in my chest and nose and feel like I'm constantly on a the cusp of a fever that doesn't progress. I'm also craving salt and vinegar crisps and peanut butter on toast( separately ).
I was contacted to take part in a trial of an unnamed protein based covid vaccine (Novovax is a protein based vaccine I brlieve) that has been adapted for omicron. The study wants to look at how the new vaccine works with people who have already had 2 or 3 shots of an mRNA vaccine. I couldn't take part as my first two were AZ. Interesting though.
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Why not?
Huh? A third shot of anything seems to give a much better protection from Omicron than just 2 shots. There is some reduction in infectiousness and a big reduction in disease severity.
Its 7 months since I had my 3rd shot, covid has put me on my back for a week, rarely have I felt so dreadful in my entire life and this is the mild version. I really wonder how well we are all protected having had the booster so long ago. I wonder how different it would have been had I not been vaccinated at all. I really am surprised at how bad I felt and still need to sleep during the day.
Surely you only need to see the death rates for proof of the effectiveness of the vaccines? You don’t think it’s likely that catching it without three shots would have been even worse for you?
You have mild covid, by definition. You don’t need oxygen, you’re not in hospital. The main reason to vaccinate/boost is to stop people getting severe covid. You’re an example of someone who didn’t get severe covid.
His point is, he knows it’s mild and he wonders how bad it much worse it would have been had he not received all his shots.
That’s not his point at all. He’s trying to argue that because he’s feeling so poorly his vaccine booster didn’t work.
I could be wrong but I think you’re reading it from another angle. He’s always been pro vax
Figures are not published as headline news anymore but I have read they are increasing dramatically. I can't say what level of protection I have after all this time. My Mrs is a nurse and was boosttered months before me, she is also in bad shape.
Ok but this variant should be milder right? I cannot compare my symptoms to a non vaccinated person obviously as I don't know anyone that hasn't been vaccinated and subsequently caught it.
And that’s why we’re managing to ride out this wave with no masks or social distancing without filling up our ICUs.
If you want to see what “mild” omicron does to a population with low vaccination rates look at Hong Kong, where a hell of a lot of people ended up ventilated or dead.
There’s huge individual variation anyway. I was boosted in December and caught Covid in April. I barely even noticed it. The mildest of sniffly noses and that was it.
As it is a while since your booster you probably wouldn't have a significant number of antibodies but your memory cells will have kicked in to start producing them much faster. So you will likely get protection from serious symptoms (hospitalise/ICU) but it is probable that you will still have a period of not feeling well until the memory cells do their work. 3 does seem to give far better protection against Omicron than 2 with 80% protection against severe disease. Hopefully this will get better of we get Omicron tweaked versions of vaccines for boosters.
Tested positive this morning. Done well to avoid it for this long I guess. My Mrs tested positive on Saturday but she seems to be on the mend. Our three month old was feeling ill for a couple of days but thankfully she seems a lot better now.
Don't know where he lives but Poland has no isolation anymore. If you somehow test positive for any reason (getting tested is not advised), nothing happens.
I’m just getting over it now. 12 days I was positive.
I felt absolutely dreadful and so tired. I can’t even begin to imagine how bad I would have felt if I wasn’t triple jabbed.
I lost my 63 year old uncle to it last week. Poor sod caught it in hospital during knee surgery, had to be ventilated and never recovered.
I felt absolutely dreadful and so tired. I can’t even begin to imagine how bad I would have felt if I wasn’t triple jabbed.
I lost my 63 year old uncle to it last week. Poor sod caught it in hospital during knee surgery, had to be ventilated and never recovered.
Meanwhile in ireland
https://www.thejournal.ie/gemma-odoherty-supreme-court-covid-appeal-dismissed-5808188-Jul2022/
They should be put in stocks and have covid patients cough in their faces
https://www.thejournal.ie/gemma-odoherty-supreme-court-covid-appeal-dismissed-5808188-Jul2022/
They should be put in stocks and have covid patients cough in their faces
I got it last week and kinda glad as it was just a mild cold this time round comapred to what I had at Christmas. Just feels like i've got the invetible out of the way now and should hopefully have a nice covid free run for the summer months while i'm swimming in antibodies.
Where do I sign up to do the coughing?
I’d imagine there will be a lengthy queue
So I had to do an open day at the weekend and today just had to leave work because my throat basically seized up over lunchtime.
Dare I say that after 2 years the dreaded novel coronavirus sars-cov-2 might have finally got me
Dare I say that after 2 years the dreaded novel coronavirus sars-cov-2 might have finally got me
What kind of tests can they do to see if you have long covid? Me and my wife are both healthy and active people but since we had covid in December we are more susceptible to colds / feel drained far more regularly than we usually would from exercise and activities. It feels like my body is constantly aching in one way or another.
On day 4/5 of this thing now, the coughing has largely subsided but got a fairly horrible headache today. All in all I feel very similar to how I felt post vaccine but over a longer period. Hoping it subsides soon.
There's no specific tests as long covid is something that is a headline for a lot of symptoms but some of them can be checked. I had lung issues caused by covid which persisted for a fair while (over a year) and could be seen on scans I had. The diagnosis was specific to the problem, but goes under the banner of long covid as it was initially caused by the virus.
General fatigue for months can happen with a lot of viruses and I suspect you're less likely to get a diagnosis if it's not something that would show on scans / blood tests. The doctor was really good with me though and I got referred, they found why I was having issues so it's worth a visit to the them just in case.
Long-term effects of coronavirus (long COVID) - NHS (www.nhs.uk)