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Bloody fucking covid

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IsTheOffDutyDoneYet · 08/08/2023 13:17

I know IABU as there’s a covid board and this is more of a rant, however. I have worked my arse off for months, taking extra shifts, working all week/nearly all week for the majority of the time. I have two weeks of annual leave now, that begun yesterday. I have planned various things with DC for these two weeks. This morning I woke up with a banging headache, sore throat and just general rubbishness. Before heading out for the day with DC I decided to test for covid, on the off-chance…and wouldn’t you know it my test was blazingly positive. Fucking covid. All plans now out the window for the next few days at least, and I’m stuck in bed feeling awful. I’ve only had covid once before, and that was most unpleasant.

AIBU to think this is just bloody typical and to wish covid would just fuck the fuck off?

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Howmuchfurther · 09/08/2023 23:35

Moonberri · 09/08/2023 10:24

Sadly covid has highlighted just how selfish some people are. Lack of empathy, stupid accusations of people "dramatising" their illness, telling people not to test as if sticking your fingers in your ears makes it all go away. Testing is so easy to do, some people just don't want to be inconvenienced for the benefit of others.

I'm glad I tested as now I know I have covid I have protected my family from catching it from me, postponed my son's vaccination at the GP (only I could take him), postponed a health scan I was due at the hospital, avoided seeing my elderly FiL etc and therefore have avoided passing it onto to a potentially large number of people.

Covid is not the same as cold or flu. It is more transmissible, more unpredictable and has a much higher rate of long-term complications.

Yes it has highlighted all those things.

It was a full scale Milgram experiment / Stanford prison experiment.

It showed that people are quite happy to cut GDP, infringe basic rights of others and cause poverty, hardship and hunger abroad, simply because Govt tells them to.

The stats have been out for two years now. 2020 was an ordinary year for deaths. The Diamond Princess cruise ship was Feb 2020. We knew then.

EmilyBrontesGhost · 09/08/2023 23:37

Howmuchfurther · 09/08/2023 23:18

Why would you test?

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It's a religion.

It's given their lives meaning and they don't want to let it go,

Society has moved on but they're still hanging on to their religion by testing, and coming to MN with their tales of woe, desperately still trying to keep the drama alive.

EmilyBrontesGhost · 09/08/2023 23:42

Howmuchfurther · 09/08/2023 23:35

Yes it has highlighted all those things.

It was a full scale Milgram experiment / Stanford prison experiment.

It showed that people are quite happy to cut GDP, infringe basic rights of others and cause poverty, hardship and hunger abroad, simply because Govt tells them to.

The stats have been out for two years now. 2020 was an ordinary year for deaths. The Diamond Princess cruise ship was Feb 2020. We knew then.

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Yep. covid was a nothing burger, we knew that three years ago.

And three years on, OP is trying to make a drama out if it.

IT'S A RESPIRATORY VIRUS.

WE HAVE THEM EVERY YEAR.,

Howmuchfurther · 09/08/2023 23:43

EmilyBrontesGhost · 09/08/2023 23:37

It's a religion.

It's given their lives meaning and they don't want to let it go,

Society has moved on but they're still hanging on to their religion by testing, and coming to MN with their tales of woe, desperately still trying to keep the drama alive.

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War and the cost of living crisis were the dramatic consequences I feared when they locked us up in March 2020.

babbscrabbs · 09/08/2023 23:45

If you're ill, take the leave as sick leave and claim the holiday back.

Deathbyfluffy · 09/08/2023 23:46

Berlinlover · 08/08/2023 13:21

If you were heading out for the day why didn’t you just keep going?

Because they’re not a twat?

EmilyBrontesGhost · 09/08/2023 23:46

Howmuchfurther · 09/08/2023 23:43

War and the cost of living crisis were the dramatic consequences I feared when they locked us up in March 2020.

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Yep, the moment they shut down society there could only be disaster ahead.

80sMum · 09/08/2023 23:56

Agh, that sounds very similar to what I had a few weeks ago and what DH has just gone down with yesterday. We don't test though, so it might be covid (which seems most likely) or might be something else.

I tested back in January when I had the same symptoms and it was positive, but then I wondered why I'd bothered as knowing what it was didn't change anything. There seems little point in testing, so I don't bother with it any more.

Parseley · 10/08/2023 00:09

Hbh17 · 08/08/2023 16:56

Just. Stop. Testing. Then you can carry on as normal, even if you feel a bit grotty. Honestly, it's not difficult! This is a problem entirely of your own making.

Some of us work with vulnerable patients so no we won’t, bugger off.

Parseley · 10/08/2023 00:13

EmilyBrontesGhost · 08/08/2023 23:51

Society doesn't work like this, it never has.

If you're ill, stay away from vulnerable people (though TBH before covid no-one even cared about that).

But no-one EVER needed a test for ANYTHING. All they knew.
was they'd caught a virus and didn't want to spread it to others (vulnerable or otherwise).

The test is irrelevant.

The virus is irrelevant.

NO-ONE VCARED ABOUT ANY OF THIS BEFORE COVID.

Now, you all just like the drama.

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No, YOU didn’t.

Plenty of us with jobs in healthcare have and family on immunosuppressants or chemo. Just go off with your unbelievable ignorance.

OCaptain · 10/08/2023 02:25

@EmilyBrontesGhost

Yep. covid was a nothing burger, we knew that three years ago.
And three years on, OP is trying to make a drama out if it.
IT'S A RESPIRATORY VIRUS.
WE HAVE THEM EVERY YEAR.,

Actually, it's a vascular disease with respiratory elements. Congrats to you for knowing everything at the very beginning, though! And, yes, we do experience viruses every year, but novel viruses causing pandemics and causing the death of millions are not that frequent.

Threenow · 10/08/2023 05:15

ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 08/08/2023 14:54

I’m glad your experience was ‘brilliant’Confused

Mine was and still is shit.

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Maybe read the post properly before rushing into print. The poster clearly says "Just be prepared for -", obviously meaning OP needs to be prepared for posters to say those things!

KinooOrKinog · 10/08/2023 13:51

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