COVID-19 (Coronavirus) discussion

Rroff · 20 Sep 2025 at 23:59

Looks like it is going about a bit - my brother has confirmed COVID was a bit rough with it, 3 people at work are off claiming COVID, one lad came in tonight with cold like symptoms.

...and one lad last weekend didn't come into work claiming COVID then decided to share publicly on social media pictures of them getting progressively more wasted at a party... suffice to say that didn't end well.

UTmaniac · Wednesday at 15:40

No idea currently what the infection is, but better half has brought another infection home from work in a hospital, the third one this year. Sleeping 12hrs+ per night, head full of fog and feeling of a heavy weight plus headache above my eyes.

Rroff · Wednesday at 15:48

COVID is on a bit of a ramp at the moment - bit of an assumption but based on what I've seen symptoms of the main strain seems to be mild sore throat but very runny nose and moderate to heavy fatigue.

EDIT: Apparently we are starting to see the rise of what is called the XFG Stratus strain imported from the US with enhanced resilience against previous vaccination conferred immunity, with sore throat and digestive system infection being common with it, generally it is considered mild but with high transmissibility due to changes and that previous immunity is of limited protection against it.

SupraWez · Wednesday at 16:43

We got folks at work down with it

seems to be doing the rounds.

Blackjack Davy · Thursday at 02:37

Its been at higher than average levels all summer when normally it'd be expected to be at a low, seems likely to seriously take off this winter and I still can't get a jab

Rroff · Thursday at 02:40

Blackjack Davy said:
seems likely to seriously take off this winter

Maybe, but possible the constant stream of it will keep immunity levels up enough amongst the public to dull the normal winter surge. It has been a bit too quiet on the COVID front and the disease hasn't really gone away, though like the previous epidemics/pandemics they drop off when the population increasingly becomes made up of people more resistant to it.

fez · Thursday at 08:09

Probably what I have at the moment. Its not very serious but seems to be sticking around a long time. Had it nearly a week at this point.

Dave85 · Thursday at 10:11

Curious as to what point we just accept that your going to ill and sick several times a year with each one taking its toll on your immune system. Or is everyone still clinging to the hope that the more times you get it the better off you are? As if we are just going to pretend it doesnt kill people and slowly grinding you down many people are going to need sick leave days increased to keep up with it.

Hagar · Thursday at 10:33

Dave85 said:
Curious as to what point we just accept that your going to ill and sick several times a year with each one taking its toll on your immune system. Or is everyone still clinging to the hope that the more times you get it the better off you are? As if we are just going to pretend it doesnt kill people and slowly grinding you down many people are going to need sick leave days increased to keep up with it.

We are still waiting on disease X to cause some serious death rates. Covid 19 has become part of the background now.

JonRGV250 · Thursday at 10:45

Dave85 said:
Curious as to what point we just accept that your going to ill and sick several times a year with each one taking its toll on your immune system. Or is everyone still clinging to the hope that the more times you get it the better off you are? As if we are just going to pretend it doesnt kill people and slowly grinding you down many people are going to need sick leave days increased to keep up with it.

Personally and everyone I know doesn’t give it a second thought and just cracks on with life.

Dave85 · Thursday at 11:14

That's my issue. At this rate it's the but your going to get it mentality that is wrong. You dont always get the flu 2 to 3 times a year or even the cold. But yet we have been conditioned to ignore this. The ever growing welfare bill for people with new lifelong debilitating conditions linked to covid and long covid is all in our heads apparently. I jut don't get it.

Ayahuasca · Thursday at 11:15

Many still give it a second thought, as it frequently crops up in conversations, even if it's just people complaining about 'muh freedumbs'.

We don't have much choice now, as nobody is going to do anything about it. However, that doesn't mean that, in years to come, we won't realise that we've completely mismanaged its long-term effects.

Hagar · Thursday at 12:29

Ayahuasca said:
Many still give it a second thought, as it frequently crops up in conversations, even if it's just people complaining about 'muh freedumbs'.

We don't have much choice now, as nobody is going to do anything about it. However, that doesn't mean that, in years to come, we won't realise that we've completely mismanaged its long-term effects.

Big pharma are working on it apparently but in reality I don't know what else could have been done. Except prepare for all eventualities in the next export from the far east.

Buckster · Friday at 13:42

seem to have picked it up from somewhere too - I suspect tube/train

just after being ill for 10 days or so with some other cold/flu that I caught from my son who had been unwell after returning from holiday in Spain - I was really quite unwell for 10 days thought was quite probably the flu.

Had been well for 5 days then hit with this (think picked up on the tube/train)

started out with a really sore throat which didn't go throughout the day, then a day or two of feeling feevery (went to bed like 4pm - unheard of for me) - then developed into being generally tired and a very annoying dry cough, then my sense of smell went completely

sense of smell is now partially back

Blackjack Davy · Friday at 16:18

Moderna have/is to open new factory in teh UK maybe that'll increase the availability of vaccines its clear the govt have ordered just enough to cover vunerable/NHS workers and no more whereas flu vaccines appear to be in abundant supply. Moderna have said they've moved production "to where the demand is" whereas in teh US it appears to be dropping off a cliff due to Trump and his loons blatant misinformation and persecution of science based healthcare

Hagar · Friday at 17:01

Blackjack Davy said:
Moderna have/is to open new factory in teh UK maybe that'll increase the availability of vaccines its clear the govt have ordered just enough to cover vunerable/NHS workers and no more whereas flu vaccines appear to be in abundant supply. Moderna have said they've moved production "to where the demand is" whereas in teh US it appears to be dropping off a cliff due to Trump and his loons blatant misinformation and persecution of science based healthcare

Over 75 or vulnerable this year. Not me even if diagnosed COPD. Have booked flu jab though.

dcsarge · Saturday at 12:38

Hagar said:
Over 75 or vulnerable this year. Not me even if diagnosed COPD. Have booked flu jab though.

That's surprising. We have all got our doubles booked for October. My son is the most vulnerable but even without being carers the rest of us have qualifying health issues (Asthma in the case of my wife and daughter).

The annoying thing is our G.P. likes to give my son's jabs in person or get the community nurses to do it at home but his booking link is for a pharmacy a few miles away from all our local ones. The surgery reception will not let speak to a doctor or nurse without using the o line system. Low and behold, it doesn't cover that and tells you to speak to someone in person, around in circles we go.

pallys · Saturday at 14:37

Hagar said:
He's only a nurse when all said and done.

Tephnos said:
Yup. He became very popular and started making a lot of money from YouTube. As the pandemic lost the public interest he had to shift to more conspiracy crackpot crap in order to keep his new viewer base who continue to obsess over this stuff while everyone else has moved on.

He's been proven time and time again to no longer follow good evidence and cherrypicks stuff.

What I find interesting about Campbell is that he surfaces studies and conclusions that other professors and doctors have made that we would not otherwise be aware of as the mainstream media dont seem to report on it.

EG that research in Japan of data of 18million people is the same many have been saying: the more doses of this mrna vaccine you have the sooner you are going to die (or develop an immune condition where your body will start to attack your own organs and thus need to go on immuno supressants).

Play the ball not the man.

Tephnos · Sunday at 00:34

pallys said:
What I find interesting about Campbell is that he surfaces studies and conclusions that other professors and doctors have made that we would not otherwise be aware of as the mainstream media dont seem to report on it.

EG that research in Japan of data of 18million people is the same many have been saying: the more doses of this mrna vaccine you have the sooner you are going to die (or develop an immune condition where your body will start to attack your own organs and thus need to go on immuno supressants).

Play the ball not the man.

You mean this one?

Fact Check: Japanese study does not report explosion in deaths among COVID-vaccinated

A new study concludes excess deaths increased in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic but does not report any explosion in mortality among those vaccinated against the disease, as claimed in social media posts.

www.reuters.com

No, Japanese COVID vaccine database doesn't show "the more doses you get, the sooner you’re likely to die"

A fair comparison of an unvaccinated group with a vaccinated group requires that the two groups are matched in terms of age and medical condition. Multiple published studies have shown that COVID-19 vaccination isn’t associated with a higher risk of mortality.

science.feedback.org

Rroff · Sunday at 00:50

Not sure if COVID but one of my colleagues was saying last Monday their brother's family were having a weird time with a cold which was laying them out for 1-2 days then they'd feel fine with no symptoms for a couple of days repeat and didn't seem to be able to shake it off, and now a couple of colleagues at work who've had cold symptoms over the last week or so are experiencing similar.

Hope I'm not speaking too soon but no idea how I've dodged stuff so far the last 2 weeks has been a constant run of people at work either not coming in due to being down with cold like symptoms or coming into work with it, maybe the one I had a few weeks back has given me resistance.