This covid merry-go-round is never going to end, is it

[sixtyandsomething]

covid again, oxygen monitors again, off work again, informing all vulnerable contacts again, feeling terrible again. I have had 8 immunisations. Well, at least it isn't anything like as bad as it could be without immunisations. But this is never going to end, is it. Every year, at least 2 immunisations, and at least 2 illnesses, until the one that finishes me off , I suppose. That is without counting the disruption when someone else tests positive, instead of me.

I'm reading it as a joke or a shit stirrer - nobody who is capable of driving a smartphone is that dumb

You obviously don't work in haematology or oncology then. I had my 3 monthly haematology appointment last week. Everyone was masked up, patients only in waiting room and socially distanced

Claxon: @ShiteRider It's the Full Tinfoil mate. I'm bowing out now as I can see 'Rational' has time on their hands and is on a mission to convert us and I have tea to get ready. Have fun.

Could you be any more patronising?

I was fit and healthy before catching Covid. Now I struggle to walk due to lung damage, I suffer from circulatory issues which have caused MS symptoms and no one will give me life insurance because no one can work out what going on.

My daughter worked in ICU throughout Covid, I’ll tell her that all the people she nursed throughout that time who died must have died of something else. That it wasn’t the number of people with Covid which required them to double their beds, that having multiple people die due to respiratory problems wasn’t due to Covid after all. It was just a coincidence. 🙄

Some people really are absolute idiots. (That’s not a personal attack by the way, just a general comment on society)

There it's there at the bottom of the graph

You didn't have covid in 2019 unless you lived in china

@Rationalmum she said she was immunocompromised due to chemotherapy

I'm also immunocompromised but not by the vaccines

I had it in December 2019

Yes but again I assume the chemotherapy was AFTER 2020 as she said she was fit and healthy prior to that.

No you didn't. It wasn't in the UK in 2019

It likely was in the UK then / the first documented cases were end of January

It's called Covid 19 for a reason

It started rearing it's ugly head around November/December time

@Rationalmum but that doesn't make any difference to having the vaccine? It's not the vaccine that's caused her to be immunocompromised

but what I am saying is it comes again and again and again, and there is no way of knowing if each one is going to be mild, or serious.

I know exactly how you feel - ECV , had all the vaccines and back to work today after another 4 weeks off work with COVID. I work with school groups and I know I will get it again. What do you do? I shielded for nearly a year and can't do that again. Funnily I've had no other infections in the last 2 years apart from COVID.
Hope you feel better soon 🤞

more genetic susceptibility does make sense, as although I am immunocompromised, it does seem ONLY to be covid that keeps hitting me, in the last couple of years, no colds etc.

of course it is luck! I wasn't ill for about 40 years! That was luck! now I am

sorry, but I really don't think there is anything you can add to this thread. nobody died of covid? I think you might have some mental health problems. Stay and post all you like, you don't have anything at all to say, so I will ignore you totally.

If only! My OH has to go to the oncology dept at least monthly to pick up his drugs, have blood tests, see the haematologist, etc., and says that none of the staff wear masks and the waiting rooms are as crowded as ever. He hates having to go. He manages to avoid all other crowded indoor places, no longer goes to pubs/restaurants, only goes shopping at quiet times, won't ever set foot on a plane again, yet there seems to be no protection/awareness in the one place he's forced to go to and should be a safe place!

”when your immune system doesn't work the effect of boosters building an ever stronger immune response doesn't really work”

The various immunology consultants I’ve seen over the years disagree. It’s far more nuanced than immune systems “not working”. Even if - like me - you do not develop antibodies, there is evidence to support that other parts of the immune system, the B and T cells do gain some benefit.

But not in the uk

@MuseKira I'm sorry - hospitals should be much lower risk than they are.

No, she didn’t. She said she had chemotherapy. Nobody says “immunocompromisation”, where did you get your medical degree from?