So I go to the hospital a couple of times a month and people are wearing masks because of the winter flu and COVID overwhelming hospitals (in my area at least) but I was curious how many of you still wear masks and under what circumstances?
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The last time I wore a mask was up until I had my first Covid jab in Jan 2021 but since then I've only worn one when the hospital has told us to do so when walking round.
If i have to pick something up from a ward etc I always ask if I need one but nobody seems bothered any more.
I walked into the main complex yesterday and saw only one person with a mask on, even stopped off to visit my BIL in a Ward and nobody with masks on.
@Malevolence will have more idea about mask wearing since he gets around a lot more.
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As far as I know, there is currently no mandate to wear a mask, it's all down to personal choice. Some do, some don't. I don't wear one all the time, but I do wear one (along with the correct PPE) with patients who have specific conditions, anytime I enter W117 (Infectious Diseases) and when working with the deceased. For me though gloves are more important than masks, I always glove up when pushing a bed or chair, both empty and occupied.
Interesting that significant amounts of the remnants of COVID are still being found in wastewater samples, suggesting the virus is still in circulation at [much] higher numbers than surveys, and where testing it still done in a medical setting, etc. are detecting, but is increasingly having a very mild impact, at least as far as immediate symptoms go, with people probably just having a few days of feeling run done and tired and not realising they've had anything sickness wise.
There are lots of trials going on for both covid and long covid medications.
I don't think this will go away. It'll keep circulating until more people get long covid.
The tracking of the virus is nearly completed. It's weakening immune cells, changing how genes react.
When medications do arrive I suggest everyone should be tested if they have ever had covid, they can tell via a blood test, and to take the medication to clear the virus totally.
I don't think this will go away. It'll keep circulating until more people get long covid.
The tracking of the virus is nearly completed. It's weakening immune cells, changing how genes react.
When medications do arrive I suggest everyone should be tested if they have ever had covid, they can tell via a blood test, and to take the medication to clear the virus totally.
German spy agency 'believed Covid likely started in lab'
China denies German media reports of an assessment carried out by spying agency BND in 2020 supporting the theory.
www.bbc.com
Ah I remember the good old times when you would have been burned as a heretic for suggesting such a thing.
If this wasn't the normal cycle of things, our species would have died out
Agree with that. Historically, pandemics have lasted 5 years or so, and we're into the 5th year. Doesn't surprise me that most people have built up enough immunity and that the virus has slowed down in how fast it evolves (haven't heard of any new major variants since last summer) to the point where most people can easily shrug it off now.
I think that is primarly due to vulnerable people getting vaccines and natural immunity for everyone else. At this point in time someone has either had COVID or has had a vaccine (or both).
Edit: Vaccines change once or twice a year depending on the most prevalent strains at that time.
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A selection of Long Covid papers discussing all the current theories as to why post covid symptoms keep hanging around.
www.longcfoundation.org
Persistent Dozen
The Long COVID Foundation has put together The Persistent Dozen. Twelve important papers on SARS-CoV-2, spike protein, and viral particle persistence. You can download the pdf below.We have been working on a collection of hundreds of papers related to SARS-CoV-2 persistence that we are not...
www.longcfoundation.org
German spy agency 'believed Covid likely started in lab'
China denies German media reports of an assessment carried out by spying agency BND in 2020 supporting the theory.
Ah I remember the good old times when you would have been burned as a heretic for suggesting such a thing.
You know the guys who walk about with sandwich boards professing "the end of the world is nigh"?
They'll end up being right one day...
The point is, when something happens you start with the most obvious explanation and modify that when new, verifiable, information comes along. CT nuts start with the most outlandish explanations, with no evidence, which is why they are wrong the vast majority of the times and the few times their guesses are correct, doesn't validate their ways.
For an example, there's a high correlation with the people who said it was "obviously" a lab leak - because the Wuhan lab was in the area with those that said the Salisbury poisonings was a false flag/lab leak because Porton Down was close by. Still waiting for the corroboration on that one.
So, in conclusion, well done for being a broken clock.
One of the first articles in a major newspaper about the impact of Long Covid on the body, affecting millions of people. Yet it is hardly talked about by people outside of those living with it and the researchers researching it.
www.theguardian.com
Long Covid is the pandemic’s dark shadow. Why does no one in power in Britain want to talk about it? | Frances Ryan
Five years after the first lockdown, millions of lives are still being ruined by this debilitating disease. You wouldn’t know it, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
www.theguardian.com
Interestingly they've increased the "evolutionary distance" between SARS-CoV-2 and the nearest known natural relatives of the virus. It is pretty unlikely in reality, though not impossible, that we've not encountered and catalogued intermediate variants of the virus if it was purely natural origin. I like the way the wording on the Wiki though is that man made/lab leak origin "isn't supported by evidence" but doesn't apply the same tone to the natural origin which at this point is just as poorly supported by evidence.
Not sure if COVID or regular cold but something got me the last few days, fairly mild, but today sinuses are a touch blocked up giving me a bit of a headache, loss of smell but not like I had with COVID I think just congestion but fatigue like I've had with COVID rather than a cold historically.
Would you like a candlelight vigil or something similar ?
Nearly 1 in 10 people think they have long covid according to a GP survey.
They will either have long covid symptoms or they have them indirectly through bad colds, flu's, pneumonias etc.
www.bbc.co.uk
They will either have long covid symptoms or they have them indirectly through bad colds, flu's, pneumonias etc.
Long Covid: Almost one in 10 may have condition, research finds
University of Southampton researchers say NHS England shows 9.1% of people think they may have the condition.
www.bbc.co.uk
Nearly 1 in 10 people think they have long covid according to a GP survey.
They will either have long covid symptoms or they have them indirectly through bad colds, flu's, pneumonias etc.
Long Covid: Almost one in 10 may have condition, research finds
University of Southampton researchers say NHS England shows 9.1% of people think they may have the condition.
Think and may being the operative words here.
Or as Wes Streeting put it overdiagnosed and swinging the lead.
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Lab leak was the most obvious conclusion very early on. It took a conmcerted effort by insiders and the media to shout down every suggestion otherwise. The very people who publically claimed it wasn't lab leak privately believed it was a lab leak.
I think it's true because of the way covid/long covid works. Some people don't make the connection.
The first time I got covid I thought I'd got over it in 5 days. But looking back I had long covid but at the time nobody knew about LC.
At the time I started to get an allergic reaction to shampoo, and my heart was beating faster than normal. This caused me to become out of breath easier.
At the time I was blaming the shampoo, and my preexisting breathing issues. I thought my condition had just got worse.
After being infected twice more, each time making the situation worse, which as been shown in the research.
The first time I had suspicion that we were being fed a line was when the American chief medical officer was demonstrating how to make a face mask out of an old shirt.
It looked like a kids amateur hour.
Also our own governments contradicting advice. There is a case that the government allowed us to be infected by not acting to shut down international travel from places contaminated. They only did anything when the public started asking questions.
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