To ask if Covid is still a thing?

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I’ve had Covid twice. Both times were just a mild cold.

Today I’ve got body aches, hot flushes, a really tickly cough, a sore chest and a headache. I feel worse than I did when I had Covid.

is Covid still doing the rounds? Or have I probably just got a normal cold

Got it here, feeling quite poorly. High temp, blocked sinus, headache and aching limbs. Restless and can't sleep.

Does anyone know if the stuff about Covid causing long-term damage is accurate, or scaremongering? Or does anyone even know yet?

You’d think it would be over considering the gazillion jabs a lot of people have had but no it does seem to be making the rounds on vaccinated people. Hope you feel better soon

Covid itself is still a thing it will never go.away
However lots of people will still try and make you feel guilty b for going around your normal.day with it
Because they themselves have very understanding employers who pay them ful!sick pay or can work from home with it and can't grasp.that not every does ....

Because we know that covid IS more dangerous to some people than the common cold so if at all possible, it’s best to avoid contact with others if we have covid.

that’s what the NHS website says today.

We’re not required to test or to isolate in law, but that’s mostly because the country has to keep going. It’s not that covid is gone or that it’s less of a risk to people.

we still have to test before operations etc I believe.

It’s good to know if it’s just a cold or covid. Makes little difference to how it plays out with our symptoms etc, but it’s not actually all about us.

…. unless of course your question was rhetorical and you were just practicing being obtuse?

If you have no choice but to go to work/go out etc that’s your lot. You do what you have to do.

people do understand.

It’s when people don’t need to do x or y and do so anyway without thinking because they are selfish that irritates.

covid will get weaker over time, it’s going to take a while tho.

We are not allowed to test at work unless we are in the extremely vulnerable category and on a ‘list’ that means we are eligible for treatment on the nhs. If we test and it is positive we are told off 🤷🏽‍♀️ so instead we can only say we have cold symptoms and possibly spread it around vulnerable service users who aren’t on the ‘list’ and wouldn’t qualify for treatment.

I’ve taken a rest and it’s negative. But each time I had Covid it was negative when I first had simpsons. Am slightly breathless and sore. But biggest issue today has been sweating

The ONS takes it seriously, though as COVID is new, the picture is developing:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/selfreportedlongcovidsymptomsuk/10july2023

Anecdotally, my friend who has had it for 18 months now and can do one thing a day, e.g change the bed, says it's no joke.

The thing to remember is that long COVID isn't necessarily related to how severe your COVID bout was, so it's always better to avoid it and definitely avoid giving it to others.

Here's a meta-analysis in the Lancet:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(22)00491-6/fulltext

Yes. Like flu it will now always with us.

It may be, but it's not something to bother about. Just stop testing.

You do know that the covid jab is not actually a true vaccination like say the polio vaccine.

It doesn't prevent you getting Covid or transmitting Covid it just means your symptoms are less severe if you do get Covid. So in that sense it is more like the annual flu jab.

But like the flu jab the effectiveness of the Covid jab wanes over time (circa 9 months).

That said if I had posted the above 2 years ago I would have been vilified as an anti vax / Covid denier / granny killer.

That said if I had posted the above 2 years ago I would have been vilified as an anti vax / Covid denier / granny killer

What makes you think that? Except saying the COVID and 'flu vax are not true vax (yes, they are) qualifies for any of the categories you cite. Stop making shit up.

It's still a thing in that it still exists and you can catch it, just as you can many viruses. I remember being really floored by a virus I got December 2019 that seemed to go on forever, was getting fatigued walking to the end of the street six weeks later.

When word broke about covid I thought that's what I had but I got my antibodies tested as part of a study and it wasn't COVID. Just a horrible virus.

That might be what you've got, or it might be covid, or it might be something different, who knows? I hope you get better soon. These things are always with us.

I guess the bigger question is why we aren't getting more shitty with China given that we now pretty much know they released this fecking thing on us and even though it might be just one of many viruses now it was pretty bad at the time it first came out and killed loads of people and paralysed trade and movement etc. I mean it wasn't just a flu back then.

Not where I'm from.
I know lot's of elderly folk and none of them have gotten covid in ages.
Basically it's not a thing here and everyone has been living normal lives for quite some time.

@echt

"What makes you think that? Except saying the COVID and 'flu vax are not true vax (yes, they are) qualifies for any of the categories you cite. Stop making shit up."

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Firstly it depends on the definition of vaccine. Does it confer lifelong immunity like a polio vaccine does then no. Does it improve your bodies natural immunity like the flu jab then yes it does.

So going back to the pandemic if anyone at the time had said:
The Covid jab does not offer lifelong immunity
The Covid jab does not prevent you catching Covid or
The Covid jab does not prevent you transmitting Covid

Then yes you would absolutely have been described as anti vax.

erm no. That’s not true at all.