I'm in the SE. My boss (coincidentally) had cold like symptoms and a headache. She ended up working from home for a few days but never tested positive. A few days prior to this the person who sat behind her did test postive.
COVID-19 (Coronavirus) discussion
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Caporegime
Tested positive Friday but presuming I'm positive still today.
Most days I feel fine just a little coldy i.e. snotty. Some days my sinuses go nuts and others I'll feel slightly drained.
In general though I'm fine currently, I felt worse over new year's, so hopefully it continues how it is.
Most days I feel fine just a little coldy i.e. snotty. Some days my sinuses go nuts and others I'll feel slightly drained.
In general though I'm fine currently, I felt worse over new year's, so hopefully it continues how it is.
Man of Honour
Been absolutely floored with a cold since Friday. Not had one like this in years. So much pressure in my sinuses, splitting headache, sore throat and generally achey and a properly nasty cough. One of those ones that when you cough, it kind of just turns in to long wheeze. Done a couple of lateral flow tests and they both say negative but this doesn't feel like a cold at all. Normally when I get a cold, I'm snotty for a day then fine the next day
Soldato
Just a heads up that free LFT's end on 1st April (unless you're in the vulnerable category)
Yet this is held up as an example by many. When compared to their similar neighbour Norway they did much worse even before accounting for these revelations.
Yes, supposedly a very small minority are immune, further research is needed though to find out why and whether it's partial or full immunity: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...mystery-of-why-some-people-do-not-catch-covid
Are they swabbing the throat and the nose (even for kits that are supposedly nose only)? Sometimes the nose only ones are less reliable and swabbing the throat too will return a positive result in such cases.
Commissario
Just found out my sister tested positive for covid for the third time in ~6 months.
She was being pretty stupid, my nephew, his GF and their baby, and his step son all had covid, my sister went round to visit and was cuddling the baby despite being knowing everyone in the house had it.
Hopefully she'll be fine, but it does rather reinforce the reason I tend to be slightly reluctant to let sister into the house, as throughout covid she's tended to not take it seriously.
She was being pretty stupid, my nephew, his GF and their baby, and his step son all had covid, my sister went round to visit and was cuddling the baby despite being knowing everyone in the house had it.
Hopefully she'll be fine, but it does rather reinforce the reason I tend to be slightly reluctant to let sister into the house, as throughout covid she's tended to not take it seriously.
Tim Spector in one of his latest Covid ZOE updates said protection from a prior infection is thought to last about 3 months so 3 times in 6 months is good going!
Soldato
Chap in our office has it again, I say again it's the forth time since October. Had delta, then he guesses omicron twice and has tested positive on a PCR over the weekend for the forth time.
Associate
Yup, my Mrs has been ill for weeks with those symptoms plus a few others. We've been testing lots but always negative. I only got the sore throat, tiredness and oddly split lips / drying out skin regardless of me drinking like a fish to try and counter it.
Caporegime
I can get them still. There might be a black market. I could become a top LFT dealer
Both me and my wife feel ill last week, about the level of an annoying cold, I tested positive, she tested negative almost every day. Odd
Soldato
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That's the worst thing about covid, my sense of smell is still all over the place, certain things still dont taste like they should.
I'm literally going round the kitchen trying to smell and taste things to see what's what
How long has it lasted with you?
Permabanned
Dropping like flies at work, about 10% of the work force off with Covid, thankfully all seem quite mild cases.
Around 20% I think where I work - most don't seem that ill, several have continued working from home with it, except a nasty sore throat - had a couple of phone calls which transitioned to WhatsApp heh. We seem to have got hit by it suddenly, with probable transmission events at work, after a couple of years of mostly isolated cases.
Feeling a bit off myself but I think that is more from dealing with a lot of **** at work over the last few days due to a mixture of people being off sick and some "teething" problems with transitioning part of the business. Felt like I had a sore throat coming on and muscle aches on the drive home last night but just mild general aches and fatigue today.
Soldato
I reckon it's currently at the highest it's ever been which is testament to how important the vaccines have been given it doesn't currently seem to be transferring to huge death counts. I think I currently know more people with COVID that I do without.
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Covid cases picking up like crazy. I know a list of people with it currently. On holiday next week and really worried I’ll get stuck isolating there.
It’s starting to feel that way.
This must be a new variant. All with symptoms, but fortunately nothing major.
It’s starting to feel that way.
This must be a new variant. All with symptoms, but fortunately nothing major.