COVID-19 (Coronavirus) discussion

[the wopster]

Tested positive for the 3rd time yesterday, really strange this time though as I have had the symptoms since last Sunday(dry cough and feeling a bit ****** on a night time but felt like a cold) tested 4 times through the week all negative(Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday)

 

[Dr Jack]

Tested positive for the 3rd time yesterday, really strange this time though as I have had the symptoms since last Sunday(dry cough and feeling a bit ****** on a night time but felt like a cold) tested 4 times through the week all negative(Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday)

On a lateral flow, presumably? It's not all that uncommon to test negative while symptomatic for several days. Positive tests are very reliable; negative tests less so.

 

[Chris Wilson]

Always funny when people cite a paper that directly contradicts the point they're making:



The disease is massively more dangerous than the vaccine.

That, at this VERY early stage of seeing how a most probably laboratory created virus mutates and acts long term is like saying the new Ford model, that's been on the market for ten weeks is more reliable than the similarly new VW model. Realistically it will take several generations to find out what China created can, and will, do to mankind.

 

[the wopster]

On a lateral flow, presumably? It's not all that uncommon to test negative while symptomatic for several days. Positive tests are very reliable; negative tests less so.

Yep LFT, thought 7 days was a bit extreme though. What’s more concerning is I feel rougher today than at any point in the past week, sadly my 11 month old grandson also caught it off me.(who seems to have brushed it off after 2 bad days “touches wood”)

 

[bigmike20vt]

Yep LFT, thought 7 days was a bit extreme though. What’s more concerning is I feel rougher today than at any point in the past week, sadly my 11 month old grandson also caught it off me.(who seems to have brushed it off after 2 bad days “touches wood”)

most littleuns do.... our lad has had it (at least) twice...... both times he was under the weather for less than a day really. We dont test him every time he gets a cold so could have had it more.

 

[CapitalOne]

Tested positive for the 3rd time yesterday, really strange this time though as I have had the symptoms since last Sunday(dry cough and feeling a bit ****** on a night time but felt like a cold) tested 4 times through the week all negative(Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday)

This sounds like me now....started to feel crook on Saturday lunchtime, still ropey Sunday then did not get a winks sleep last night, still going. Tested negative twice so far.

 

[ethan]

There's no requirement to test anymore, it's basally a cold at this point. We have to learn to live with it, no more vaccines unless people are immunocompromised or elderly.

Given everything we know about the vaccine I would be surprised if healthy people wanted it anyway. Myocarditis Heart Damage in 1 Out of 35 Covid Vaccinations.....

The problem is there are people who are not immunocompromised or elderly with underlying conditions who are extremely vulnerable to it who don't meet the criteria for a further jab. I told my GP I didn't agree with his decision for the refusal and all he could say is, I could seek a second opinion. Obviously there would be not point since it is the criteria that's at fault.

 

[ebilcake]

The problem is there are people who are not immunocompromised or elderly with underlying conditions who are extremely vulnerable to it who don't meet the criteria for a further jab. I told my GP I didn't agree with his decision for the refusal and all he could say is, I could seek a second opinion. Obviously there would be not point since it is the criteria that's at fault.

That was certainly true for the first variant but not so much now, the variants doing the rounds now are pretty mild in comparison. First time around I just felt weak for 10 days with what was basically a head cold, I've had it twice since and I was just light symptoms for a few days... Probably had again but I don't test anymore, I'm done with Covid.

 

[CapitalOne]

That was certainly true for the first variant but not so much now, the variants doing the rounds now are pretty mild in comparison. First time around I just felt weak for 10 days with what was basically a head cold, I've had it twice since and I was just light symptoms for a few days... Probably had again but I don't test anymore, I'm done with Covid.

Yeah we know, apart from the posting in this thread.

 

[pimper]

Gone completely dead on the COVID side around where I live - don't know a single person with it. Even the local district hospital has slumped again to almost zero.



There was a variant of the flu that was identical to that which went around mid to late last December where I am got quite a few people at work - somehow I dodged it and got COVID instead (though I don't generally get flu - colds and apparently COVID but I rarely catch it when confirmed flu is going around)... I felt kind of bad because every time I phoned into work to confirm I was still sick (silly practise IMO) whichever manager I got sounded sicker than I was.

Odd for the flu to strike in the middle of summer especially when i've been getting flu jabs yearly for the past ten years or so! but I guess it can strike at any time. I felt the same each time I had to ring in (stupid system!) I found out this time also that when you've recovered and aren't dead, they also need to know you're back in... If I didn't ring, I guess I am!

 

[Tony Edwards]

Nurse who claimed the pandemic is a hoax is struck off

A Preston-based former care home nurse who claimed Covid was a hoax has been struck off the UK's nursing register for social media comments and attending a protest in London her uniform.

www.dailymail.co.uk

A care home nurse who attended a Covid-conspiracy rally in London in her nursing uniform and claimed the virus was a hoax has been struck off.

Carley Louise Stewart, of Preston, attended the mass protest in August 2020 holding a placard which read 'Nurse on call. Where's the pandemic?'.

The mother-of-two, who was fired from her care home job after the incident, was ruled unfit to remain a nurse by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) for both her protest attendance and multiple comments sowing distrust in official guidance.

Ms Stewart, who did not attend the NMC proceedings earlier this month, faced a total of ten charges regarding her conduct as a nurse.

These all related to her attendance at the protest wearing her nurse uniform and comments made via social media and YouTube in the aftermath.

This included claiming that Covid PCR tests people used to see if they had the virus didn't work, and that she had seen 'no evidence of a killer virus let alone a pandemic'.

She also claimed that viruses were not actually contagious and those following Covid restrictions in 2020, like six-foot social distancing, were participating in 'satanic rituals'.

'6 FEET 6 PEOPLE 6 MONTHS 666 If your [sic] unaware, you are conducting satanic rituals and evil by complying,' she wrote on Facebook in September that year.

 

[GGizmo]

I posted earlier about the impact of long covid. I just noticed this article that says post covid symptoms can last upto 2 years.

People aren't fully recovering from covid. I suspect the "dies suddenly" people are suffering from post covid symptoms. So they might appear to recover but the body is still fighting a battle and any extra strain can cause big problems.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/08/21/long-covid-lingering-effects-two-years-later/

 

[Rroff]

I posted earlier about the impact of long covid. I just noticed this article that says post covid symptoms can last upto 2 years.

People aren't fully recovering from covid. I suspect the "dies suddenly" people are suffering from post covid symptoms. So they might appear to recover but the body is still fighting a battle and any extra strain can cause big problems.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/08/21/long-covid-lingering-effects-two-years-later/

I've several friends and/or ex-colleagues whose other half had existing conditions (cancer, motor neuron, etc.) who've passed away after never fully recovering from COVID, though it won't be registered as a COVID death. It is kind of heart wrenching seeing the surviving partner trying to come to terms with it as they knew they didn't have long but COVID changed it from years to months.

 

[Ayahuasca]

Could be completely unrelated but I've been having vision issues post COVID. On and off throughout the day my eyes just go like double visioned.

I've had them checked and my vision is absolutely fine. From a quick look online, it seems to be quite common post covid.

 

[Werewolf]

I posted earlier about the impact of long covid. I just noticed this article that says post covid symptoms can last upto 2 years.

People aren't fully recovering from covid. I suspect the "dies suddenly" people are suffering from post covid symptoms. So they might appear to recover but the body is still fighting a battle and any extra strain can cause big problems.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/08/21/long-covid-lingering-effects-two-years-later/

See also Forbes, probably based on the same study https://fortune.com/2023/08/21/long...eals-arduous-road-to-recovery-carolyn-barber/

Despite the people trying to make out that it's the vaccine somehow being worse than the infection, or that covid is nothing it's still definitely a thing and there is continuing evidence to suggest that it does continue to cause issues.

 

[UTmaniac]

I posted earlier about the impact of long covid. I just noticed this article that says post covid symptoms can last upto 2 years.

People aren't fully recovering from covid. I suspect the "dies suddenly" people are suffering from post covid symptoms. So they might appear to recover but the body is still fighting a battle and any extra strain can cause big problems.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/08/21/long-covid-lingering-effects-two-years-later/

From our household of long covid, it can last longer than two years.

My better half had ~6 weeks off work right at the start of the pandemic because of breathing problems from covid, recovered pretty well through the summer, but then had a relapse in November '20 and by Xmas '20 it was affecting her badly and she had to go off sick again. She only returned to work on phased return a few months ago and has recently done her first week of full hours, but ~2.75 years on, fatigue is still an issue... But she's in a far better state than she was and being back at work is doing her some good.

I really hope I don't have another ~2 years to go of long covid symptoms, being limited to 45mins easy to moderate daily exercise is so frustrating, but then I feel shattered from a ~25min gentle cycle earlier.

 

[Rroff]

Could be completely unrelated but I've been having vision issues post COVID. On and off throughout the day my eyes just go like double visioned.

I've had them checked and my vision is absolutely fine. From a quick look online, it seems to be quite common post covid.

Dunno if related to blood oxygen but for weeks after COVID I was getting random episodes where I'd get hit by fatigue and have to sit down for 5-10 minutes and my blood oxygen would drop right out but quickly recover. Quite odd really.

At the expense of delving into medical advice I wonder if maybe borderline for diabetes or something and due to residual effects of COVID getting something similar with blood sugar levels being briefly out of whack.

 

[GGizmo]

Dunno if related to blood oxygen but for weeks after COVID I was getting random episodes where I'd get hit by fatigue and have to sit down for 5-10 minutes and my blood oxygen would drop right out but quickly recover. Quite odd really.

At the expense of delving into medical advice I wonder if maybe borderline for diabetes or something and due to residual effects of COVID getting something similar with blood sugar levels being briefly out of whack.

I've noticed people have mentioned about blood sugar levels. Also to check iron levels too. Check vitamin D levels too.

I only notice my oxygen drops because it also increases my heart rate. When that goes up it becomes harder to breath.

 

[pastymuncher]

After After 11 days the wife has tested negative. I caught it later than her so I am 2 days behind her. We may have had it mild but what a horrible disease to catch!! The breathlessness and blinding headaches are terrible and that's without the very bad flu like symptoms. The poor people who caught this prior to any vaccines had it really bad. Hopefully I will be clear in a couple of days and neither of us ever want to catch this again. I was surprised it took this long with people at her work coming in all the time when they are sick and we think that's where she brought it home from.

 

[Rroff]

After After 11 days the wife has tested negative. I caught it later than her so I am 2 days behind her. We may have had it mild but what a horrible disease to catch!! The breathlessness and blinding headaches are terrible and that's without the very bad flu like symptoms. The poor people who caught this prior to any vaccines had it really bad. Hopefully I will be clear in a couple of days and neither of us ever want to catch this again. I was surprised it took this long with people at her work coming in all the time when they are sick and we think that's where she brought it home from.

It is funny - it is far from the worst I've been ill, most colds I've had a worse sore throat, etc., but it is more unpleasant in a way that is hard to describe and unlike when you feel similarly ill from a cold or flu it has the potential to become far more severe in a way they don't. In my case it got my digestive system the worst and I was getting dangerously close to critical levels of dehydration before I turned a corner despite overall not being that bad.