COVID-19 (Coronavirus) discussion

These posters are either trolls, or people so in fear of Covid, or the reaction to it they want to close down the discussion.

I favour the second unless trolling standards have dropped massively. Another unexpected lockdown impact no doubt I’m furious :D
 
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While my mum and sister probably had covid right at the start of the pandemic, after my sis visited London in March 2020 and returned with something unpleasant they both had, my retired mum has just had her first positive test today.

Sod's law just before she must be about to be offered her vaccine booster.

Hopefully they won't have any dramas and be getting over it in about a week, rather than joining me and my better half with long covid.
 
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I am sure that most companies could absorb 3% of staff being ill for a normal duration of one or two weeks. If you are now talking months off work it would be very hard for an employer to run his business. Questions are bound to be asked of the claimant.
 
Hagar said:
I am sure that most companies could absorb 3% of staff being ill for a normal duration of one or two weeks. If you are now talking months off work it would be very hard for an employer to run his business. Questions are bound to be asked of the claimant.
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I don’t want to argue for the sake of it, I’m too old for that :D

Why should the default be “it’s a **** take”? We all know the risks and staying away from others is the right thing to do, especially if you can work from home. Gatwick ATC obviously can’t deal with the sickness levels, although I thank buddha that we’re flying from Heathrow on Friday.

We have to adapt, getting sick is not good if you are of working age.

Much to my personal chagrin, a set of politicians who have 3 times my very generous holiday allowance (30 days plus bank holidays) are hardly in a position to comment on graft. They can go and eff themselves on that notion.

All sounds a bit “nanny state” to me :D
 
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CapitalOne said:
I don’t want to argue for the sake of it, I’m too old for that :D

Why should the default be “it’s a **** take”? We all know the risks and staying away from others is the right thing to do, especially if you can work from home. Gatwick ATC obviously can’t deal with the sickness levels, although I thank buddha that we’re flying from Heathrow on Friday.

We have to adapt, getting sick is not good if you are of working age.

Much to my personal chagrin, a set of politicians who have 3 times my very generous holiday allowance (30 days plus bank holidays) are hardly in a position to comment on graft. They can go and eff themselves on that notion.

All sounds a bit “nanny state” to me :D
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And who ignore their own rules....
 
CapitalOne said:
Why should the default be “it’s a **** take”?
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Quite.

CapitalOne said:
Much to my personal chagrin, a set of politicians who have 3 times my very generous holiday allowance (30 days plus bank holidays) are hardly in a position to comment on graft. They can go and eff themselves on that notion.
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They don't. Just because parliament is not running, does not mean MPs aren't working.
 
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All I can think of is the idiocy of it, Sweden has completely different demographics, social behaviours, population density, etc. etc. and even then in the longer run their outcomes for COVID was worse than those similar countries who approached it more cautiously.

EDIT: This is the worst "pandemic" of the pandemic, those with stupid ideas who can't see them for stupid ideas or think it amusing to push them - the whole pandemic could as it turns out have had a relatively minor impact if we'd just approached it sensibly at all levels of society from the start - it is tragic how few people actually understand what learning to live with a disease like this actually means as well.
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Telegraph is the leading scientists are/were wrong/covid lockdown sceptics, no surprises there if they had their way there would have been zero lockdowns and I'm not even joking. Of course their typical readers being well heeled professional types who live in air conditioned and well ventilated offices who can afford to take time off whenever it suits them, don't have to concern themselves will the lives of the plebs and those who are most of risk from it.

CapitalOne said:
I don’t want to argue for the sake of it, I’m too old for that :D

Why should the default be “it’s a **** take”? We all know the risks and staying away from others is the right thing to do, especially if you can work from home. Gatwick ATC obviously can’t deal with the sickness levels, although I thank buddha that we’re flying from Heathrow on Friday.

We have to adapt, getting sick is not good if you are of working age.

Much to my personal chagrin, a set of politicians who have 3 times my very generous holiday allowance (30 days plus bank holidays) are hardly in a position to comment on graft. They can go and eff themselves on that notion.

All sounds a bit “nanny state” to me :D
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Father lands at Gatwick tomorrow wonder if he'll wear a mask bet he won't... whats the incubation period for covid I'm meeting him on friday might have to wear a mask myself!

I'm only entitled to SSP so politcians can go do one.
 
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Blackjack Davy said:
Father lands at Gatwick tomorrow wonder if he'll wear a mask bet he won't... whats the incubation period for covid I'm meeting him on friday might have to wear a mask myself!

I'm only entitled to SSP so politcians can go do one.
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Google says 1-4 days for the current most common variants - with what was probably XBB.1.5 around here people were infectious after about 2 days from exposure... and that was including people who'd had the booster a few weeks before :s
 
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For the people who want to know more about the lingering effects of covid have a watch at this video.

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SARS-CoV-2 reservoir: potential a driver of inflammation and other disease mechanisms in Long COVID

PolyBio's Dr. Proal speaks at the NIH workshop "Unraveling Chronic Inflammation and Long COVID: Current State, Challenges and Opportunities.'
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The virus is still in the body for at least a year after the covid tests are negative. They say a year because there was delayed testing.

There are people still suffering from the initial wave, especially hospital workers, who were on the front line.
 
i've briefly looked on the web but couldn't find an answer to this, does anyone know when the window closes for autumn/winter covid booster jabs?
 
Interesting that flu caused more deaths last winter than covid despite flu jabs being readily available yet nobody freaks out about flu...

For the majority of people flu would be much, much worse than covid too..
 
n111ck said:
Interesting that flu caused more deaths last winter than covid despite flu jabs being readily available yet nobody freaks out about flu...

For the majority of people flu would be much, much worse than covid too..
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100%, I've never had flu and never want it however I firmly believe I wouldn't have been here if I had caught Delta in 2020 because of my list of comorbidities.
Since my jabs my 3 Covid infections have been nothing (touch wood).
 
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