COVID-19 (Coronavirus) discussion

Rroff · 7 Oct 2024 at 08:21

Freefaller said:
People always git ill at winter time! You know it's going to happen!

Dunno there seems to be waves of higher immunity to it, somewhat staggered through different groups of people and random new variants with differing protection afforded by existing immunity.

robj20 · 7 Oct 2024 at 08:22

Freefaller said:
People always git ill at winter time! You know it's going to happen!

Tell me about it, doubly so if you have petri dishes, I mean children.

Freefaller · 7 Oct 2024 at 08:56

robj20 said:
Tell me about it, doubly so if you have petri dishes, I mean children.

That's true - my kids always have a sniffle in winter - but that's just their immune system building up. They don't love me enough to share it with me though. :cry:

tom_e · 7 Oct 2024 at 08:58

Freefaller said:
That's true - my kids always have a sniffle in winter - but that's just their immune system building up. They don't love me enough to share it with me though.

Please share this secret...I'm currently at the point where I'm worried the next thing my daughter passes to me may finish me off (mentally more than anything :cry:

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Terminal_Boy · 7 Oct 2024 at 09:43

robj20 said:
Tell me about it, doubly so if you have petri dishes, I mean children.

There way always a cold in the house the first week after any return to school, especially when the girls where at nursery and later infants school where they appeared to spend the entire school day hugging their pestilential friends.

I suspect my wife and I only went down with about of quarter of the bugs that kids brought home was that we’d both been pre-exposed to them thanks to both using London public transport 5 days a week.

Freefaller · 7 Oct 2024 at 10:09

tom_e said:
Please share this secret...I'm currently at the point where I'm worried the next thing my daughter passes to me may finish me off (mentally more than anything )

Be lucky with genetics or just stop being a lil bitch

bigmike20vt · 7 Oct 2024 at 12:05

FGS. my aunt and uncle.both have COVID. they feel absolutely rotten..... both of them had the 1st COVID jab and it made them feel woozy (like it did for a lot of people). so they didn't take any others since. bear in mind both are pushing 80. They are almost reclusive hence had not had it yet... Mind you as annoyed as I am at them for not taking the jabs..... they got it off their hair dresser, she is an idiot as well because she knew she had COVID but because "it's just a cold now" she carried on working without warning her customers..... imo this is questionable at the best of times but when working with vulnerable oldies its bang out of order.

Barry Weiss · 9 Oct 2024 at 20:59

Malevolence said:
Thanks. She's 80 but says she's not that ill, said it feels like a bit of a bad cold. To be fair though, I'm glad it's only COVID she's come back with as I know people who've come back from Ibiza with far worse diseases..

at 80+?

Blackjack Davy · 10 Oct 2024 at 14:46

bigmike20vt said:
FGS. my aunt and uncle.both have COVID. they feel absolutely rotten..... both of them had the 1st COVID jab and it made them feel woozy (like it did for a lot of people). so they didn't take any others since. bear in mind both are pushing 80. They are almost reclusive hence had not had it yet... Mind you as annoyed as I am at them for not taking the jabs..... they got it off their hair dresser, she is an idiot as well because she knew she had COVID but because "it's just a cold now" she carried on working without warning her customers..... imo this is questionable at the best of times but when working with vulnerable oldies its bang out of order.

I visited my mother at the care home a couple of days ago they havn't had their jabs yet will be done at some point apparently. I've over covid just dealing with the afteraffects my sister who's a regular visitor has it now so she's having to stay away can't imagine what would happen if it got in there they'd be dropping like flies

Hagar · 10 Oct 2024 at 14:48

Blackjack Davy said:
I visited my mother at the care home a couple of days ago they havn't had their jabs yet will be done at some point apparently. I've over covid just dealing with the afteraffects my sister who's a regular visitor has it now so she's having to stay away can't imagine what would happen if it got in there they'd be dropping like flies

That's how it happened the first time, care in the community.

cheesefest · 12 Oct 2024 at 14:06

Cromulent said:
No idea but I'd expect is to be reasonably soon. Do you live on your own? Things like that might change it.

Had the flu vaccine yesterday. Pharmacist said did I want the covid booster now. I said I give it a few days and said the best times to pop back next week. I don't think my body can take two injections one in each arm. Plus the inability to move both arms is a no no. Left arm I am struggling to move it and found it painful using gym equipment for arms at times. Both parents are having both at the end of the month.

How can older people cope potentially side effects from both flu and covid?

cheesefest · 12 Oct 2024 at 14:09

tom_e said:
Please share this secret...I'm currently at the point where I'm worried the next thing my daughter passes to me may finish me off (mentally more than anything )

From my experience with friends and family, the ones who don't eat much fruit n veg seem to get more colds than those who eat a diet with loads of FnV.

Also take echinacea, vit c and zinc.

Cromulent · 12 Oct 2024 at 14:11

cheesefest said:
Had the flu vaccine yesterday. Pharmacist said did I want the covid booster now. I said I give it a few days and said the best times to pop back next week. I don't think my body can take two injections one in each arm. Plus the inability to move both arms is a no no. Left arm I am struggling to move it and found it painful using gym equipment for arms at times. Both parents are having both at the end of the month.

How can older people cope potentially side effects from both flu and covid?

I'm not sure. I never really got any side effects when I had the booster last year or the year before. I'd take a sore arm over getting COVID any day of the week though.

Kelt · 12 Oct 2024 at 15:25

cheesefest said:
Had the flu vaccine yesterday. Pharmacist said did I want the covid booster now. I said I give it a few days and said the best times to pop back next week. I don't think my body can take two injections one in each arm. Plus the inability to move both arms is a no no. Left arm I am struggling to move it and found it painful using gym equipment for arms at times. Both parents are having both at the end of the month.

How can older people cope potentially side effects from both flu and covid?

I'm just lucky I guess, never had any side effects and had both jabs in the same arm recently, with zero issues.

Tephnos · 12 Oct 2024 at 22:00

cheesefest said:
Had the flu vaccine yesterday. Pharmacist said did I want the covid booster now. I said I give it a few days and said the best times to pop back next week. I don't think my body can take two injections one in each arm. Plus the inability to move both arms is a no no. Left arm I am struggling to move it and found it painful using gym equipment for arms at times. Both parents are having both at the end of the month.

How can older people cope potentially side effects from both flu and covid?

You can request to have them both in the same arm - that's what I do.

Hagar · 12 Oct 2024 at 23:06

cheesefest said:
How can older people cope potentially side effects from both flu and covid?

We tend not to use gym equipment but that said it was a lot harder to pull a sickie and it involved doctors notes and faff. Easier to carry on carrying on. But yeah both in the same arm works and looks less like a zombie

cheesefest · 13 Oct 2024 at 06:29

Last year I fainted at work 3 days after having the flu vaccine. Customers were stepping over me whilst colleagues were attending to me.

Anyone stepping over ill customers or staff in shops and other places are pure scum. How would they like it if i stepped over them when they are on the floor ill?

Mint8 · 13 Oct 2024 at 11:29

Would you prefer them to step on you ?

Freefaller · 13 Oct 2024 at 12:46

cheesefest said:
Had the flu vaccine yesterday. Pharmacist said did I want the covid booster now. I said I give it a few days and said the best times to pop back next week. I don't think my body can take two injections one in each arm. Plus the inability to move both arms is a no no. Left arm I am struggling to move it and found it painful using gym equipment for arms at times. Both parents are having both at the end of the month.

How can older people cope potentially side effects from both flu and covid?

I feel sorry for you having so many jabs! Giving blood is as close as I get to needles!

Hope you're not badly affected by them

Blackjack Davy · 13 Oct 2024 at 19:02

Its been more than six weeks now since intitial symptoms and I'm still croaking it seems to have done something to my larynx just can't stop coughing been through a full set of antibiotics and its still giving me grief

cheesefest said:
Had the flu vaccine yesterday. Pharmacist said did I want the covid booster now. I said I give it a few days and said the best times to pop back next week. I don't think my body can take two injections one in each arm. Plus the inability to move both arms is a no no. Left arm I am struggling to move it and found it painful using gym equipment for arms at times. Both parents are having both at the end of the month.

How can older people cope potentially side effects from both flu and covid?

I don't think they suffer from symptoms as a rule something to do with feeble immune system I would guess none of the old folks I know had any kind of aftereffects from any of the jabs. The first one I had from the first rollout of the vaccine hurt like hell for days the later ones not much the flu jab none at all. I'd take a sore arm over covid or flu anyday I wish it had been offered to me.