Covid. I have f-ing Covid

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Got through the entire pandemic, both kids and ex H all got sick, I was immune! Or so I thought.
Felt suddenly feverish yesterday, did a test, negative. Up in the night with proper fever, aches and pains etc so did another test today. Immediate positive result.
For fucks sake!! I'm starting to wonder who I pissed off in a former life. My car has just failed its MOT, and I've been diagnosed with a chronic illness. I'm a LP and money is so fucking tight.
Argh. Sorry just ranting.

@Flinstones i dont think many people were that careful pre covid.

And im absolutely sure people didn’t stay at home with a cold before. They were going to work, shopping etc…. which was putting into contact with all the people you mentioned, either directly or indirectly.

(eg you went to work with a cold, your colleague got it from you and brought it back home where he has a newborn baby etc…)

I don't know anyone in my family or friends circle who is testing anymore. I work & unless really poorly expected in to work. We are In enough of a mess after covid with our economy as it is.
I will never agree about testing still & those that do test won't ever agree with me so we will have to agree to disagree! I have always been in the camp of not shutting down everything when we had covid. I always thought from day 1 that the old, vulnerable & scared should of stayed in & let the rest of us get on as normal, we sure wouldn't be in this mess now if we had.

I was the same, I thought I was immune to it, hadn't had in at all even though husband had got it previously and he didn't isolate in one room. We both got it in April this year and I felt incredibly unwell for about 5 days and then less unwell but still not good for another 5 days. In all I think it took me about 3 weeks to get over it. Sorry you are not feeling good.

@Flinstones you do you.

And let’s people who either need to know (eg they need antivirals asap) or want to protect others (close or not so closed ones) test if they want to. Without feeling judged if they do test.

I have to say I’m very jealous of anyone thinks it’s not an issue anymore and what about the economy blablabla Because it means you’re still healthy, don’t have LC. Whereas I’m not. And its shit. (Hence not wanting to spread it Btw. I dont wish that life on anyone)

I'm assuming your rich then with your blabla comment as I'm not sure most of us struggling in this economy thanks to shutting down due to covid & it's ongoing presence has the luxury to treat the economy so blase!!

You don't seem to understand that the economic fall out from Covid isn't just about 'the economy'. Workers are a core component of the economy and vast numbers have been left seriously impaired either by Covid directly OR because the health service is absolutely fucked.

Your attitude to clinically vulnerable people is disgusting but your lack of understanding almost disgusts me more. No one really understands the longterm impact of this virus yet on all sorts of things. You have a cavalier attitude that 'It's only old sick people, fuck them, they can stay in.' Which is bad enough but it's also astonishingly shortsighted. The people I know who were most impacted by Covid were in their forties and fifties and economically active. Many of us were frontline workers in health, social care, education, transport. Many of us have had our capacity to work cut in half. You don't think that affects 'the economy'? The benefits bill alone will cripple Britain in time and that's before we even look at the impact on hospital waiting lists.

But truthfully there's no arguing with tunnel vision so I don't know why I'm bothering.

The health service was a mess & not fit for purpose before covid. Covid has just made it worse by the way it was handled. I don't care for your tone just because I have a different opinion to you. I do believe covid hit a certain person worse than others, which is why I said old vulnerable or scared stay in! How on Earth did it make sense to keep everyone in just so we didn't offend a certain group of people. Myself & all my family had it when it was compulsory to test, all ok & no long term effects which we are lucky but I honestly don't know anyone with long term covid. I just don't see the sense to keep testing & won't.
You crack on with your opinion but I am not wrong just because I don't agree with you!!

How on Earth did it make sense to keep everyone in just so we didn't offend a certain group of people

It was so we didn't KILL a certain group of people. Fuck all to do with offending them. What's the matter with you??

@MyOtherNameToday - well said. I can't work out if so many people really are so thick they can't think things through. Glad you've explained a bit, though, for any who are listening.

But if they all stayed in then we wouldn't of would we!! This is pointless I will never agree no matter how much you use offensive bullying language at me to make your point! as I believe I am right & you are wrong! I did not believe in how we handled covid & I do not believe in testing now.

What actually happened, purely for the sake of people wilfully trying to alter the narrative to fit whatever their world view is, is that the government didn’t respond at all to what we learnt from SARS 1, they prepared very inadequately for a flu pandemic and for what to do with bodies. As Matt Hancock has now stated, much of the logistics were about what to do with bodies. Then SARS 2 came, the government realised that it was worth trying to prevent death, and that people expected them to do this. By then, it was too late and we were caught just reacting and trying things out to mitigate the worst. Of course it wasn’t great, but what are you expecting? It’s just people, and they are very sadly fallible and illogical. It’s not some fucking master plan ffs.

Nobody said anything was a master plan! Again no need for the offensive language to make your point! The government got everything to do with covid wrong by being so unprepared. Lots of different opinions but I'm out now as it's going round in circles, I've made my opinion & not going to change others & all this nastiness isn't going to change it either.

@Flinstones

I just don't see the sense to keep testing & won't.

Certain categories of people require anti-viral medicine if they have Covid. If they don't test for it, how will they know? (They require this test to receive the medicine.)

If you don't wish to test - don't?

Testing does not mean shutting everything down. It means you have information to inform your behaviour.

You attitude towards those who are apparently not you is abhorrent. You do know the vulnerable included those with Down syndrome, and disproportionately affected BAME people? How do your feel about them? Should they of (sic) stayed in?

You, not your - sodding autocorrect has gone bananas lately!!!

AND your not you. Aaargh!!!

If covid is 'the new cold' I am a monkey's uncle.

Correct.

You're wrong for several other reasons.

@Flinstones Your point that vulnerable ppl should stay locked up at home is ridiculous.

Many of us were young, fighting fit and really healthy before we got LC! 3 years on and I can can barely mop my own kitchen floor.

LC can happen to almost anyone. Be careful what you wish for.

I just don't see the sense to keep testing & won't.

You never know the day @Flinstones that vulnerability will arrive at your door. My 11yo was fit and healthy until he was diagnosed with Crohn's Disease. He is on biologics and is immunosuppressed. I have Covid right now. I know because I tested. It means I can take necessary precautions to at least try and stop my child catching Covid and possibly becoming dangerously ill. It has been little more than a cold for me, but that doesn't mean it's the same for everyone else, including my son. He can't fight it. Having a child who is more vulnerable to this illness doesn't half change your perspective. Just be grateful you don't have to give a shit about anyone else. Don't test, that's fair enough. But maybe try to 'see the sense' in why others do.

@Flinstones people test to find out what’s wrong with them. It’s strange that that’s such a crazy idea to you!

Last week I suddenly felt very unwell and couldn’t stop being sick. I’m pregnant and was a bit worried I had food poisoning. Someone suggested it could be covid so I took a test and it was. I felt better knowing what it was, and was able to ask the doctor for specific covid/ pregnancy advice.

What’s also strange is your belief that if we don’t test, covid will magically disappear. You said you want it ‘over’. That’s not really how it works. Does the same apply for other diseases? Let’s just not diagnose anyone with anything and then we can just say ‘look this particular disease has gone now’

Covid isn’t going away- it’s always going to be there. You are right, life needs to go on, but things like testing helps people manage it better and make decisions that benefit them and those around them. Not sure why you wouldn’t want that?

if you don’t want to test that’s fine, but your original post was asking why anyone would test- what’s the point etc… hopefully you now understand why people may want to test.

Seriously!
The op has said how scrappy she feels. She's a single parent, skint and going through a lot of shit at the moment.
Have some fucking empathy!

"Just a cold" doesn't leave you with the chronic conditions that Covid does.
There are so many people who's health has been irreparably changed, people with long Covid who can no longer work, look after their children etc.
My sister in law had Covid at Christmas. She's gone from being extremely active, working full time in a career that she trained for years for to only managing a couple of hours of sedate activity per day.
She has no sense of taste or smell, her hair is falling out, she has been left with an awful cough and has had to have a stair lift fitted because she cannot manage the stairs in her home anymore. She doesn't even look like the same person because her body is so bloated.
She only has 3 months more of sick pay due from work then she has no idea how she will manage to continue to pay her mortgage once her savings have gone.
Its utterly heartbreaking.

Sympathies OP, I had it a few weeks ago and it was awful. I’d had it mildly a couple of years ago but this one was so much worse. Hurt everywhere and couldn’t get out of bed for 3 days.

hope you feel better soon.

To the poster with the scratchy throat worrying about an elderly relative, does that mean you don't go anywhere? There are vulnerable people everywhere we go who you could make Ill with your germs

Dad drove 250 miles to see me. He's had many colds in his life. He's had COVID once and he had a stroke. Testing was therefore useful in order to give him the relevant information about whether he wanted to see me or not.

As if happens no I didn't go out til I was testing negative because I was too bloody unwell to go anywhere.