Covid

[Flute56]

Ive got covid. How worrying is the new variant and why are they still not insisting we wear masks.

My main problem with masks is how we were all told ( back in March 2020) they were useless for the general public and suddenly they were not. The professional ones told us this!
I would comply and did comply, but I understand why people think as they do and wouldn't comply again tbh. The messages were definitely mixed over mask wearing.

I think it’s madness to spend money on a covid test to be honest. If you’re unwell, you stay home, rest, avoid spreading it to others and take the necessary medicine for your symptoms. What good is knowing that you are covid positive for the majority of cases?

Because l have LC l read about it quite a lot.

It has the potential to significantly impact a large number of people, some predictions are dire. The more times you get it the higher the risk. I have read once predicted scenario where 60% of the world could have it.

The World Economic Forum have issued warnings about the financial impacts it’s having on the world economy.

I have read research that it’s linked to oestrogen and this is why women are disproportionality affected.

And yet people on here are so blasé. It won’t happen to them. I thought that too. I didn’t care. I felt safe. l’ll just carry on as normal. It’s no longer a threat.

But it is. In an insidious dark way. The threat of dying is low. The threat of disability isn’t.

We keep an eye on what illnesses arrive in our home because our 12yo is immunosuppressed. He could become very ill with Covid and is eligible for antivirals, provided of course that we know he has Covid, which obviously involves testing. I'm sick of people saying it's nothing more than a cold. Colds don't have possible long term repercussions, nor do they generally kill people. Comparing it to the flu is at least acknowledging its seriousness, given that a flu vaccine is developed every year to manage the risk of serious illness and death in vulnerable groups. I completely understand that people don't want to test or wear masks or self isolate for days on end, but surely they can at least recognise that Covid is not the same for everyone and that their blasé remarks about it being just a cold are ignorant and lacking in compassion for others. It's the old 'I'm alright Jack, pull the ladder up ..'

I mentioned masks to a friend and how I've seen people wearing them again inside places
Her answer ' it's been proved they don't work '
So people will not do it
It's only one opinion, but one I've heard a lot of times and seems to be imbedded

I did a covid test last Wednesday and it was positive and I just did one today five days later and it is now negative so I don't know when in the five days time frame it went from positive to negative but the main thing is it's now negative and I can start really seriously planning for my trip away however I do have a few symptoms like the shortness of breaths but those will go over time so there you go I'm now a very very happy person

Because it is more infectious than anything else so much more likely to infect people.

Why does the test changing to negative mean so much if you still don’t feel well?

Your trip is 3 weeks away so you were always not going to have covid by then.

They lied in march 2020 because we just didn't have enough masks. The reusable cloth ones that they then advised people to use probably didn't do much either. It was all about money and lack of preparation.

the common cold is also very infectious, as is D&V. Stay home and don’t expect people to spend money confirming that they have it

The common cold is nowhere near as infectious as covid.🙄

And you don’t get Long Colds that debilitate you for years.

Thanks, please can you link me in to some research papers confirming this,

Because it means that I no longer have covid

@ArseInTheCoOpWindow but you can get post viral long term chronic health issues

Yes you can. But not from something as widespread, infectious and virulent as Covid

Flu is seasonal, glandular fever is age related, most other things are vaccinated.

But in terms of PV illness, Covid is the worse and the most virulent. So affects more people. 60m worldwide and 3 m in UK. No other post viral illness has impacted world wide economic output. It’s affecting U.K. economic output. No other illness has done this. Except possibly the Spanish flu.

Are you still short of breath? Do you also have health anxiety?

I do not have shortness of breaths as much anymore and I do not have health anxiety

It's.not utter madness not to test. I was forced to test for work and I will not do them. If I get COVID so be it. I'm not bothered by it considering the job I did during covid where I saw people die and I'm refusing the COVID jab now as I'm eligible but prefer my own natural defence.

If you're too ill to go out you stay at home. If you have symptoms you could pass on to others you stay at home if you can - that's not feasible for everyone. If you have any viral symptoms you avoid the elderly, frail and immunosuppressed. There's generally little need to test now.

🙄

So what's your problem with what I said? It's how most people are living their lives now and it includes being mindful of others.

I agree with you, all of the passive aggressive eye rolls 🙄 from people who are still loving the testing are pretty irritating to be honest. If you want to waste your money confirming you have a virus @Flute56 and @wombat15 then crack on. Knowing you have it is just curiosity and if you feel unwell use your common sense and stay home and away from vulnerable people.

wow What an emotional rollercoaster the OP has been through here. Was nearly at a&e last night and now is ecstatically happy this morning.

It's refreshing to read this take from someone who's restriction minded, but honest enough to acknowledge where the population are.

I fully agree that widespread compliance would be unlikely if faced with another pandemic/iteration of this one now, and until there've been some very significant changes in public trust. There's a tendency from some people who don't want to hear that to bury their heads in the sand and tell people they'd just have to behave.