COVID-19 (Coronavirus) discussion

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.
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This forum is the only place I ever hear it mentioned to be fair despite travelling around for work, but I guess it depends on your industry and your own personal situation (i.e. health conditions, vulnerable relatives etc...). I drop in here to keep myself informed on what I believe to be a very edge case/small minority of people, but I could have course be wrong. I suppose if anyone gets the flu they may say "I wonder if it's covid?" now and focus on recovery (as much as possible if you're a family person you have responsibilities that don't wait for your to be healthy). I assume flu symptoms are similar?

Anyway the positive (if you can call it that) of all of this is people are able to self diagnose enough not to come into work if they feel rough. For me it's not so much about the spreading of a cold that bothers me (although that is appreciated), but just the lack of productivity and the unfairness of forcing someone to come into work when they're not at their best. Seems counter productive to me. Even if they're only 1/4 productive staying at home and doing the bare minimum it's better than nothing.
 
Come back from germany couple weeks ago, had a real abd sore throat for a week, thought nothing wrong and got on with it, started feeling better.

Then this week after a day in the city, come down with a bad cough, slowness, tiredness and a complete lack of taste and smell.
Covid test confirms and i've needed to go dr's for some anti biotics to treat it as its a bit of a dick to my lungs.

Had covid back in Feb 2023 which was the only time and yeah it wiped me out for a week feeling awful and tired, exhausted. But this one is like I've got a truck smashing into my chest every time I breathe, pain in the ass.
 
There is a disgusting amount of cold like stuff going around at the moment :( dunno how long I can dodge it for. About half the staff at work now have something.
 
My friend just got back from Spain last Thursday and started to have really bad headaches, I told him to do a covid test and he was positive for it. No other symptoms yet..
 
sidimmu said:
Come back from germany couple weeks ago, had a real abd sore throat for a week, thought nothing wrong and got on with it, started feeling better.
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So an update from me, anti biotics are working but absolutely destroying me along with covid.
Not felt a slight bit better yet, if anything worse.

I only had Covid once before, when the initial strain had become weaker (feb23) but this is absolutely ****** horrid, protect yourself all, get your hand sanitisers out and what not, you do not want this variant.
I'd actually say this is the worst illness I've had in the last 10-15 years.
 
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sidimmu said:
So an update from me, anti biotics are working but absolutely destroying me along with covid.
Not felt a slight bit better yet, if anything worse.

I only had Covid once before, when the initial strain had become weaker (feb23) but this is absolutely ****** horrid, protect yourself all, get your hand sanitisers out and what not, you do not want this variant.
I'd actually say this is the worst illness I've had in the last 10-15 years.
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Take care brother. Hope you have someone to support you.
 
sidimmu said:
So an update from me, anti biotics are working but absolutely destroying me along with covid.
Not felt a slight bit better yet, if anything worse.

I only had Covid once before, when the initial strain had become weaker (feb23) but this is absolutely ****** horrid, protect yourself all, get your hand sanitisers out and what not, you do not want this variant.
I'd actually say this is the worst illness I've had in the last 10-15 years.
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I actually purposely never put my finger anywhere on any letter you'd typed as I was scrolling down the page, don't wanna catch anything lol!

Sounds bad dude! Had you been having any vaccinations against flu/covid recently? I'm still having mine privately. Get well soon.
 
sidimmu said:
you do not want this variant.
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Couple of staff have come back from cruises in the last ~10 days or so bringing something which seems to be COVID with them along with everything else going around, but no one really has had anything like the first time COVID was getting people, most people aren't even as bad as such as the colds which would go around pre-COVID, mostly it is just dragging them down a bit with the fatigue with lesser side of average for things like sore throat and sinuses, etc.

So far I seem to be dodging stuff going around, so far, I'm just hoping what I had a few weeks back has given me some resistance and hoping it holds up through the coming season.
 
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f666 said:
Take care brother. Hope you have someone to support you.
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Thanks mate, live on my own but my mums about 10 mins away, sister about 30 mins.

Tykey said:
I actually purposely never put my finger anywhere on any letter you'd typed as I was scrolling down the page, don't wanna catch anything lol!
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Genuinely dont blame you.

Tykey said:
Had you been having any vaccinations against flu/covid recently? I'm still having mine privately. Get well soon.
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No I have not, I did the first 2 and the first booster but all of them made me really unwell for a week, so I stopped them as at that time I hadnt had covid and when I did eventually catch covid, it wasnt the killer it once was.
Might have to rethink my stance once I recover from this.

Rroff said:
So far I seem to be dodging stuff going around, so far, I'm just hoping what I had a few weeks back has given me some resistance and hoping it holds up through the coming season.
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I thought the same with the cold I caught coming back from Germany, but nope.

So last night was horrendous again, 2 hour red hot bath just trying to breathe and sweat stuff out.
Had a bad nights sleep, my sinuses are ruined, my throat is razer blades, the cough is horrific and I am now bringing up really heavy mucus. I am still so so weak and cant really do too much without feeling like I need to sit down and rest for a bit.
Had 2 naps on the sofa through the day yesterday too, but still in a world of trouble.
My antibiotics finish tomorrow, I think im going to go back to drs today for something stronger and maybe some steroids to boost me a bit.

Again, genuinely get your protection back out and be safe all, you want to avoid this at all costs.
 
Had it last week, started feeling ill over the previous weekend but put it down to bad jetlag having returned from Asia. Felt absolutely rank, although didn't have much choice but to work (from home) having been off for 2 weeks. Took me a good week to kick it, and I've still got a bit of a cough and a runny nose, although I'm thankfully no longer testing positive and managed a decent run today so it thankfully isn't affecting my lungs too much. But yeah, it was worse than my first bout of Covid in 2020. Not fun!
 
My dad has it now, dunno how long I can keep dodging it unless I do have some immunity still from previous infection(s).
 
I haven’t done a test as I don’t have one but I started off with:

Flu like symptoms. Shivers/temprature
Followed by: vomiting/the trots/sore throat/loss of taste and smell
Then followed by: coughing/runny noise and dizziness.

Pretty sure some of the symptoms are of the new supposed strain but it’s not been great.
 
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Sounds more like a bad dose of influenza though the strain of COVID supposedly making inroads from the US apparently has a high tendency for digestive system infection as one of the symptoms.
 
Rroff said:
Sounds more like a bad dose of influenza though the strain of COVID supposedly making inroads from the US apparently has a high tendency for digestive system infection as one of the symptoms.
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Probably. It’s strange as every time I’ve had it/symptoms I’ve always had digestive issues as a symptom.

It’s awful. Not surprised as I meet many people daily due to my line of work.
 
First time I had COVID I had awful digestive issues with it - fortunately not repeated with later doses. Though I think it has permanently made some changes there as I'm finding my digestive system more easily upset by certain foods now which I was borderline on for tolerance before.
 
Rroff said:
First time I had COVID I had awful digestive issues with it - fortunately not repeated with later doses. Though I think it has permanently made some changes there as I'm finding my digestive system more easily upset by certain foods now which I was borderline on for tolerance before.
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Apparently COVID can live in the gut for more than 2yrs, a quick search of how long can COVID live in your gut lists multiple studies.
 
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