COVID-19 (Coronavirus) discussion

Well I've got covid so it's still around, had 3 jabs, got it off the big boss, drove to his nice house to press a button and join a Teams meeting, caught covid from him, so did the guy that I went with :) you should see how many of us it takes to change a light bulb etc.

Exposed to it on Thursday, started getting a cough on Friday, felt like I was coming down with something Saturday morning, fever by lunch time or rather I couldn't get warm for a long time, even put gloves on indoors, fever broke yesterday lunch time but somehow returned last night.

Work just said 'do whatever it tell you to do online' because no-one has any idea anymore :) and the gov website is fairly vague, so I have a PCR test coming anyway in the post today, it might be a finger ***** blood sample version, I think it gets returned in the post.

Covid still exists and isn't over yet, it will continue doing what life does, make slightly imperfect copies of itself and mutate, but we don't yet know for sure if it goes more mild and we no longer have to care about it or it wipes us out before we get a chance to do it ourselves with nukes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerstick

sorry for the harsh language boobs

update: it's just a normal swab sample and return one.

I'm feeling mostly fine now, mostly just a cough and as long as I can sleep ok again I'll be WFH for the rest of this week I guess.
 
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To me COVID seems in the past, I've gone about normal since probably November last year, no masks since they were scrapped, been to the odd pub/club, had 2 colds over the space of 4 weeks last year didn't go to the chest which colds usually do. not been ill since (touch wood).
 
Blackjack Davy said:
Never, its all over our glorious leader said so, all and any symptoms you may be suffering is entirely a figment of your imagination, innit bruv.
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Our glorious leader has much more important things to deal with now..

For those that keep misrepresenting what the govt have said about it being 'over' what exactly is it that you want, for how long and why?
 
Jokester said:
Big studies now showing Ivermectin (yes, that horse drug) is very effective at treating covid.
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No.

First he plays the appeal to authority fallacy ('These guys won a Nobel Prize with ivermectin!'). But they did not win a Nobel Prize for demonstrating the effectiveness of ivermectin in treating of COVID, or any other respiratory disease. They won it for showing that ivermectin is an effective parasite treatment in humans.

Pushing the 'ivermectin won a Nobel Prize' angle is like saying we should use dynamite to treat measles because it was invented by the guy the Nobel Prize is named after. Just ridiculous.

Then the very first study he mentions is a meta-analysis (not a clinical trial) claiming 'ivermectin was associated with reduced mortality vs remdesivir', but not telling us how great that reduction supposedly was.

The study concludes:

Further double-blinded placebo-controlled RCTs with large samples are required for definite conclusion.
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Quelle surprise.
 
Sankari said:
'These guys won a Nobel Prize with ivermectin!'
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Which they did.

Sankari said:
Claiming 'ivermectin was associated with reduced mortality vs remdesivir'
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Which it was.

So you're agreeing with the factual statements made in the video, but also disagreeing with the statements because they aren't factual enough i.e. leave out additional info you think should have been added, is that correct?
 
Sankari said:
First he plays the appeal to authority fallacy ('These guys won a Nobel Prize with ivermectin!'). But they did not win a Nobel Prize for demonstrating the effectiveness of ivermectin in treating of COVID, or any other respiratory disease. They won it for showing that ivermectin is an effective parasite treatment in humans.
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Ironic that you use the term "authority fallacy" while constructing your strawman.
 
Ugh, well it's finally in the house :(

I'm a carer for my Mom who lives with me and so does my Step Dad. They are both in their 70's. Underlying health conditions as well. We are all triple jabbed.

So I got home from work and was speaking to my Mom, who happened to mention my Step Dad woke up with a bad head (unusual for him) and was a bit sniffly. So I made him do a test and low and behold a positive within a minute of doing the test.

Cue panic from my Mom. Step Dad is now banished to the spare bedroom for the foreseeable.

Both myself and Mom did tests but so far negative. Myself and my Mom are far more careful, wear ffp2 masks if out and about (which she doesn't go out much) constant washing hands or using hand gel. Step Dad however was itching to get back out and only wears surgical masks and forgets to gel his hands and has a far more half hearted approach, despite having Atrial fibrillation and asthma and emphysema.

Hopefully it's only going to be mild and quarantining him means less virus circulating throughout the house, but will now have to test daily for myself and Mom and see what happens :(
 
ljt said:
Ugh, well it's finally in the house :(

I'm a carer for my Mom who lives with me and so does my Step Dad. They are both in their 70's. Underlying health conditions as well. We are all triple jabbed.

So I got home from work and was speaking to my Mom, who happened to mention my Step Dad woke up with a bad head (unusual for him) and was a bit sniffly. So I made him do a test and low and behold a positive within a minute of doing the test.

Cue panic from my Mom. Step Dad is now banished to the spare bedroom for the foreseeable.

Both myself and Mom did tests but so far negative. Myself and my Mom are far more careful, wear ffp2 masks if out and about (which she doesn't go out much) constant washing hands or using hand gel. Step Dad however was itching to get back out and only wears surgical masks and forgets to gel his hands and has a far more half hearted approach, despite having Atrial fibrillation and asthma and emphysema.

Hopefully it's only going to be mild and quarantining him means less virus circulating throughout the house, but will now have to test daily for myself and Mom and see what happens :(
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Don’t worry, I’m extremely vulnerable. I caught it in January, and tbh, I’ve been more ill from a dodgy pint
 
All Covid travel curbs could be axed in DAYS .
  • The extremely unpopular passenger locator form is set to be dropped for good
  • Testing of unvaccinated travellers could also be removed by the Government
  • A decision is set to be made at a Cabinet meeting that takes place next week
  • The Covid-ravaged aviation industry has hailed the move as long overdue
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-travel-curbs-axed-DAYS-just-time-Easter.html
 
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My wife is down with it. Six months pregnant. Grim.

Whilst my son is still testing negative, as am I, we've decided to take him out of nursery immediately in case we're the source of an outbreak! Got to take a week off work now, which isn't an issue insofar as I'm the boss, but it's just an almighty faff.

I'm expecting we're both going to test positive in the next few days... as he ran into my wife's bedroom the second he got home last night! :rolleyes:

She caught it at a hen do... she'd told me I couldn't go to a wedding abroad next week as it was too close to the due date (June!) for us to be apart and that I might catch covid. Then she arranged to go away on the hen do the week before...

And got covid.
 
tracertong said:
Pfizer vaccine side effects: New documents uncover a shocking 158,000 adverse events.

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1577745/Pfizer-vaccine-side-effects-adverse-effects
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That's a great scare story from the Express.

IIRC depending on exactly which list of "adverse effects" you're talking about, it can be literally anything that resulted in someone seeing a medical professional within a certain time limit after getting a vaccine in children that has included things like swallowing things.
There are from memory several such lists that the vaccine manufacturers have to provide, or are provided by the wider medical community, one is as I say basically every time someone has sought medical attention after getting the vaccine, and one is the "actually possibly linked to the vaccine" list (discounting things like "pulled a coin out of little Sid's nose" and "broken arm"), and one is the "adjusted for probability list". If you give 1 million people a glass of water and monitor their health you'll get things like reports of miscarriages, heart attacks, strokes and the like within the following days/weeks.

The express also seems to have just copied bits from another papers report, rather than having actually looked at the original paperwork, so it's doubly dubious that they're reporting with any context.

Remember the Express does love a shock headline, and is from memory the paper that every single year goes to a guy who has basically no other clients for his "weather forecasting" service where he'll reliably predict for the paper that we're going to see 6 foot of snow, then in the summer will alternate between massive floods and "we're going to cook".
 
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