To think people have forgotten it’s possible to be ill and it not be covid?

[MarcelineMissouri]

Everywhere you look at the moment - Posters who seem to be utterly bemused by the fact that it’s entirely possible for them or their children to have coughs/colds/viruses etc that aren’t covid, just like we did 2 years ago and indeed ever other year we’ve ever been alive. People who have a cough/temp and can’t believe they’ve tested negative for covid (yes I realise the odd positive will slip through the net)

Illnesses, many with very similar symptoms to covid have been around for as long as people have. They haven’t gone anywhere. We will continue to catch them and we will continue to be unwell, possibly very unwell from them. Being ill is not something that just started in March 2020!! Take some paracetamol and a chill pill please!

Aibu?

@MrsPelligrinoPetrichor so we are stuck doing PCR tests forever? It's just so disruptive. I know covid causes terrible problems, but terrible other problems are caused because of all the restrictions in place due to covid

It’s all relative to likelihood of it being covid too… we tested in the summer after the first lockdown when prevalence was low, not a big surprise that we were experiencing a non-covid bug.

There are now cases in our family, secondary school, primary school, nursery and work place… so of course the suspicion level is raised for every sniffle and headache when you know covid is everywhere - but you also potentially mix with vulnerable people so it is important to know.

My PCR has just come back negative, day 6 and I'm starting to feel better and will probably be back to work tomorrow

People died of flu they always have but tended only to be vulnerable people. This just seems fair game for anyone

But this isn't accurate. Flu can be deadly for fit & healthy children. Any illness has the potential to be serious because everyone's immune system reacts differently.

My friends little girl almost died of chicken pox, a decade on she still suffers the after effects (Long Chicken Pox?) She has no vulnerabilities that would have pointed out how ill she might get. This is a disease people are very blasè with. But in the right conditions is deadly!