Covid

That was to protect you, not stop you giving Covid to your surgeon. If you’ve had Covid recently then your immune system is busy fighting off the infection, and you might not therefore heal from the op as quickly.

The flu I had around 15 years ago was so much worse than my covid. I was off work for a month with flu and wasn't fully better for at least 3 months. Both my covid bouts I had cold like symptoms for a few days and was fine within a week.

I'm not saying this because I don't believe you. I absolutely do. But covid can be very much like flu for some. And like colds for others. And worse than flu for others. And totally asymptomatic for other. Which is just like flu and many other viruses.
Flu can kill people. Flu can also be totally asymptomatic in others. Just like covid can both kill and be asymptomatic.

15th October is two weeks away and your sore throat started over two weeks ago, calm down...

I suggest you get some multi vitamins, take some paracetamol and try and boost your recovery by eating extremely well, if you don't already.

I eat very well normally but when I have a cold starting I make a flu busting chicken soup containing ginger, garlic and turmeric (have a look for recipes online)

Will you tell the taxi driver you are covid positive?

Or is it ok to be in a confined space with them... its rather hypocritical really.

Have you seen whether you can get the medication from something like a supermarket through deliveroo?

To give the benefit of the doubt, I think maybe her "they weren't around 30 years ago, where did they come from" comment could have been about coronaviruses in general which were discovered ~60 years ago (although thought to have been around much much longer).

But I may be being too generous.

The Covid I had last year was nothing like flu , I was ill for a month and still haven't regained my sense of smell properly.

I'm going to report this. I think OP's on the wind up, claiming to be confused about why no one had covid 30 years ago.

Do they test for all respiratory viruses or just covid?

I only tested positive for one day, when I tested negative I gradually felt worse and was feeling more horrendous for another four days!
Such is Covid sadly!

I got Covid last December.
I rang my employer to go sick.
They said I could come in to work!!

I said first of all I feel shit (I did) and secondly morally I wouldn't come in knowing I had Covid! I could potentially pass it on to some who was immune suppressed or frail!

I doubt most of us would want our treating doctor or nurse to wear a mask they've had on in the supermarket, on the bus etc!

That said, a well fitted FFP3 offers some protection to the wearer. It's not that masks per se are useless, it's that on a population level people don't wear them properly. If you're worried, maybe get yourself one.

Quite. Very scary how many people are still scared 4 years on.

You can wear your mask if you want, nothing stopping you at all and plenty of people in the supermarket I work at come in wearing them. Don't inflict them on everyone else though, if you have enough belief that a mask works well enough you do you and let the rest of us be.

Indeed. Knows ALL about testing and masks, and wants everyone to test and wear masks, but has no clue at all about how it all started. A likely story.

Have you been asleep for the past 5 years? Of course it wasn't around 30 years ago!

But since you don't know (how, I'm not sure) it was first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan in China, it is suspected it started in a wet market there, and despite the best attempts of the Chinese authorities, it spread widely and was first identified in the UK in early 2020. The country went into lockdown March 20 in a bid to lessen the spread. Sounds familiar?

You’re taking the piss now, surely.

It's not even October yet. Get a grip.

Yep. H1N1 viruses include Spanish Flu and Swine Flu. It didn't go anywhere.

If you say to many organisations "I have COVID/flu etc" of course they are going to say don't come in as organisations fear would become liable if they say yes come in.
The NHS has no choice but to welcome sick people through it's doors.
Are you still wearing rubber gloves when you leave the house OP and damaging your skin by overuse of sanitisers.

Are you anxious about health in general, OP?

If you’d done what the vast majority do, and not tested, you’d be none the wiser. And you wouldn’t be irrationally stressing over a holiday that’s almost 3 weeks away.

Jeezo.

Spanish flu was a variant of flu. Because flu is also a virus which changes every year. We still have flu. The "Spanish" variant (which didn't even originate in Spain but that's a whole other thread) may have gone but there are numerous other flu variants circulating which is why we vaccinate people against flu.

For someone who is apparently so fearful of Covid and thinks everyone should be testing and wearing masks, you don't seem to have a very firm grasp on what it's all about.

You could have avoided this by not testing in the first place and just going out if you feel well enough, like everyone used to do in 2018.