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SexyGreyFox said:
It's you re-writing it and making a big deal of the sentence, I read it a completely different way.
"but not totally prevent it before you have your second jab" means when you have your second it won't totally prevent until you have your third and so on.
Before the first jab we were told there would be seconds and thirds and so on, if they were stating total prevention after the second we wouldn't need them but we were told it would be ongoing like the flu jab.
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The article is from before they were having boosters...
 
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The article is from before they were having boosters...
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Sunday 10 January 2021 07:03, UK

I had my first jab on that very day in Ward 76 at the UHNM and I knew I was going to be having regular jabs like flu.
The Covid card I was given had four places on it for dates.

Just so you can see I'm not fibbing -

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SexyGreyFox said:
Sunday 10 January 2021 07:03, UK

I had my first jab on that very day in Ward 76 at the UHNM and I knew I was going to be having regular jabs like flu.
The Covid card I was given had four places on it for dates.
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2. Will we have to have the vaccine every year?

"I don't know, and nobody knows, as we don't know the full protection of it yet," Prof Evans said.

"The way the data looks, you probably won't need a new vaccine every year because of declining efficacy.
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and yet we were told that it would be regular like flu jabs.

However he got the second sentence correct and for that reason I've only had four when I could have had six.
He also said "You probably won't need" and not "You won't need".
Words matter.
 
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Anybody wanting 100% efficacy against the virus should go back to the Chinese and ask how they made it in the first place. ;)
 
COVID must be doing the rounds again, at least my doctor thinks so.

I've been really under the weather since Thursday with temperature, tiredness, aching all over, surprisingly only small loss of appetite, full on face bunged up cold, then a "medium" intensity chest infection.

On top of the above loss of energy, disorientation, unable to stand properly and weirdly vision problems, light appears darker than normal and sometimes fussy.

Just about got into work today and now a weird smell has started and after taste, it's Unforgettable, it's what I had when I last had full on COVID in August 2021 it was disgusting, tainted everything, this isn't the level of that as I still have partial sense of taste and small amount of sense of smell .

Really knocked me out the past 3 days been in bed until today, unusually the symptoms varied and was not as strong as times.

When it got really bad I took a naproxen and a prescription strength cocodomol that seemed to stave it off slightly but at the same time knock me out.

Anyone else had similar symptoms?
 
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Noticed a stack of test kits on the local pharmacy counter today, not seen that for a long time. At nearly £9 a box I doubt there's much testing going on though.
 
Uther said:
Noticed a stack of test kits on the local pharmacy counter today, not seen that for a long time. At nearly £9 a box I doubt there's much testing going on though.
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I picked up several boxes of the later ones from Amazon at something like £8 for 5 a couple of months back.
 
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Werewolf said:
I picked up several boxes of the later ones from Amazon at something like £8 for 5 a couple of months back.
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I've still got some, they were sending them for free at one point (I'm on 'ze list') but not needed to test for ages luckily.
 
Whatever is going around at work isn't testing positive for COVID and largely the symptoms aren't like COVID, but it is taking awhile to throw off the lingering mild cough and slightly stuffed up sinuses for everyone :( I don't think it helps the heating packed in at work just as it started going around but still got cold air seeping through the vents so like sitting in a draught :( I'm sure it is making me feel quite unwell after a few hours and delaying recovery. Usually I'm back to 100% after a couple of days once symptoms start to decline from a cold.

So far no signs of COVID, hopefully can get through this Christmas without it as it made last dismal.

willhub said:
Just about got into work today and now a weird smell has started
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I had it where all I could smell was this weird metallic damp hair kind of smell - a bit like if Old Spice Original had gone off - about 50% of things all smelt like that and the other 50% zero ability to smell at all.

Weirdly I could still smell fire fine though somewhat dulled and anything which alcohol based like some aftershaves and wine, etc. though they didn't smell 100% like normal.

My sense of taste was largely unaffected but some stuff like orange juice was like drinking slightly thick sweet water without much flavour and weirdly wine as above I could smell but taste was again kind of like sweet water lacking flavour which is a bit counter-intuitive as orange juice would have been like that due to the loss of sense of smell which is a component in how we perceive its taste.
 
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Uther said:
I've still got some, they were sending them for free at one point (I'm on 'ze list') but not needed to test for ages luckily.
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IIRC the last of those boxes we tried had largely dried up :(

CapitalOne said:
You could get 5 flowflex for £5 a couple of weeks ago on amazon
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Aye for the price if you think ahead a bit, so you're not buying them when you think you need one, but have them in the medical cupboard they're not bad at all.
I tend to use them before taking my dad to the hospital etc if either of us have any of the symptoms even if they're ones that are common with other things.
 
Still annoys me - we seemingly dodged a load of colds when people were being considerate but then one of the younger girls came in with one with a "its just a cold attitude" and getting on top of everyone and/or in a huddled with some of the other staff at times talking, etc. and no chance of it not going around :(
 
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Still annoys me - we seemingly dodged a load of colds when people were being considerate but then one of the younger girls came in with one with a "its just a cold attitude" and getting on top of everyone and/or in a huddled with some of the other staff at times talking, etc. and no chance of it not going around :(
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“younger girl”…..”getting on top of everyone”….I can think of worse ways to catch it like red bull slob on the 6:37 sitting next to me coughing :D
 
It’s the disposable gloves worn by a few customers make me sick.

The two couples that still wear them when shopping- their gloves are disgusting and grey from used dozens of times.

Someone brave enough needs to tell them that their gloves are more disgusting than bare hands
 
My wife is a couple of years younger than me, goes to keep fit 5 times a week and is heathy and pretty fit ;)

I'm just over 60, only exercise is walking, type 1 diabetic, pernicious anaemia and prostate cancer ( on HT, RT starts in January)

She's been laid up with COVID for the week, I've got no symptoms at all (not tested to see if I have it)

I had the latest vaccination, she didn't...
 
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