I know more people with covid now than at any point before

[AmIAJoke]

Including myself!

My work has half the staff out, 4 of my friends (in various locations from Manchester to Edinburgh) are positive and several of my sports club. These groups aren’t linked in any way. No one is seriously ill (thankfully) but most seem to be fairly unwell - minimum one week off work kind of ill. It’s been the worst bug I’ve had in many years.

It seems strange whilst there is almost zero talk in the media and yet so many in my life.

Is this is now? Regular repeating cycles of being unwell with covid now jabs are wearing off? I guess we just have to accept and be grateful it’s not making us seriously ill - but it’s no fun and I am worrying about long covid as I’m exhausted.

Also Greater Manchester and know a fair few in the last couple of weeks, also the cases in the hospital I work in are back on the up too. A lot more covid positives being seenin recent weeks than in May. Defo a wave happening right now.

I honestly think these repeated infections will leave some with real health conditions in years to come.

I’m living and working with Covid and understand that we have to and just getting on with life. However it’s not a ‘mild’ illness the mild symptoms can be somewhat misleading in some, the damage can be unknown until it flares up. We need a long term plan to deal with vaccinations/variants/ventilation to minimise how many infections we get.

I have it at the moment and know loads of people who have it. Thankfully, I have not really been unwell with it but I know quite a lot of people who have been really poorly.

I made a point of reporting my lateral flow test result as I think they need to know what the numbers are!

Well it was in my house 3 weeks ago. 8yo only symptoms were he slept for 48hrs and slight change to taste (in his words he's has worse colds). DP has it worse, few days of heavy cold, plus change in taste. Vulnerable 12yo (on daily immunosuppressents never tested positive or had symptoms. I never tested positive, my hayfever miraculously disappeared for 3days, random bouts of exhaustion interspersed with bouts of feeling really energetic, gross taste in my mouth (that is slowly going). I was much, much sicker when I had a "mystery respiratory virus" Christmas 19 (as in I thought I was dying).

I just had it too, very strong positive on test. Extremely mild though , was extremely fortunate.

We've got it for the first time, and everyone we go to tell also has it!

-Sorry sarah, I need to cancel our lunch because COVID.
-Oh yes, me too!

-Hi Mum, 'Fraid we've all got Covid.
-Yeah, so've we!

It's a bad cold, but I generally do get bad colds. I can usually read and watch tv with a bad cold, but I'm driving about like a lost soul. No concentration at all.

Its flippin' everywhere.

I had a sore throat yesterday, like the kind of sore throat that makes you feel like you need to drink water but no matter how much you drink it doesn’t go away. Then today from the second I opened my eyes I just really struggled to get out of bed. I then got my baby up for breakfast then attempted to go back into bed, which I literally never do. I now feel all that sort of feverish way. I had a lateral flow left in the drawer so did it this morning and it’s negative but my partner works with only one person all day and him and his partner have just had it last week. Convinced it must be, I’ve dodged it for 2 and a half years 🙈

I’d manage to dodge Covid all through the lockdowns and was a key worker so on the front line throughout. Tested positive yesterday and feel like I’ve been hit by a bus, thank goodness I’m triple jabbed - East Midlands region.

This was Northern Ireland a few months ago. Literally everyone I knew had it!!

I don't know anyone who has it right now.
I don't know anyone who was more than mildly ill with it.
I understand that my step-nephew's 20yo cousin had LC in 2020. He's the worst affected of all the people I ever met.

Why? My next door neighbours just caught it after her 4th booster. It’s a load of bollocks

I know a few people who have had it with varying degrees of illness but nowhere near hospitalisation etc.

I also know many people who just aren’t testing any more, including myself. Unless I was symptomatic and visiting someone ECV I wouldn’t test.

Whats the point in worrying? We can’t possibly lock down again.

my son has just had it (second time since Feb) and I've come down with a headache and feeling a bit rough tho testing negative. Its gone a bit wild!

DD currently has it, she is double vaccinated and had it at new year. She had a stuffy nose and a sore throat for a few days.
It meant she missed her last week of GCSEs.(thankfully only 2) 😬

Greater Manchester and suddenly this last 2 weeks know quite a few from work and socially who have it. Have had a couple of months with no one I know having it. None seriously ill but needing a bit of time off work.

@Fizbosshoes that's my fear although DS is more worried about missing the prom . At least the splitting of subjects has meant that students can get a grade awarded, although it has made the exam period so long

Family event here on Sunday has had to be postponed. Two separate people, living far apart, have tested positive today. One other is CEV so nobody wants to take the risk of infecting them. Ho hum.

@legosunqueen
DD would definitely be more bothered about missing prom than missing exams! She wasn't bothered at all. I had to sign a form to verify she was "too ill" to take the exam ...which I'm not sure she was but obviously I adhered to the exam/covid policy. Although apparently some schools are letting pupils with a positive covid test, sit the exams

I don't know anyone with it at the moment. My area of the country got absolutely clobbered by Omicron 1 back in Jan/Feb so I'm hoping we avoid this latest wave as I had long Covid symptoms for months after recovering from a mild case 🤞🏼

Three members of my close family have had in in the past month. Two adults who share a house (likely caught at work) and my teenage DS who missed an A level due to having covid as the college policy stated he was unable to attend (he was unwell with it so wouldn't have been fair for him to attend anyway.)
I also attended a large multi-day conference recently and at least 10 ppl I know of have had covid since. Around 9 others have had a really nasty virus that presents like covid but isn't showing up on tests.

I'm still logging daily with the Zoe Covid symptom study.

Unfortunately we are very firmly at the beginnings on another wave.

The daily figures have been steadily and steeply rising for the last couple of weeks.

I also know several people with covid right now after having a period of time where no one had it.

Yep in rural Scotland and suddenly in last 2-3 weeks I've heard of loads of people getting it round about me.
A bus load went to an event in Glasgow and about 2/3rds of them tested positive later that week and it seems to have spread outwards through the village from there.
Most say heavy cold but a couple of them are in their beds feeling very rough, and a couple reporting really bad diarrhoea too which seems a new thing with this latest variant.

Yes I know loads with it. One of my close friends is seriously ill with it, I'm so worried about her 😢

I dodged it despite 5 kids, 3 schools/colleges and 6 workplaces between us for 2.5 years. Littlest came home from school today looking shocking, tested; very very faint positive. Tested all of us; me and eldest immediate strong positives 🙈 Nothing more than a sniffly nose here, youngest seems to have rallied before bed too. Looks like a big spike on the way 😔

I'm in Ireland and yes agree with you. It's in my house for the first time and there's loads around our area who has it. Havent heard of as many having it sonce feb/march.