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It's all over isn't it?

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Bornslippery · 30/08/2022 23:43

Just that really. Thankfully. Used to have a high temp twice a year and spent a few days in bed (few times knocked me for 6 and spent a week in bed as feeling so rubbish). So no change there for most. Seems it's normal again now. Been abroad twice this year and it feels no different than before.

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SimonaRazowska · 31/08/2022 07:46

Really?

I guess it is nice for everyone who can feel this way

I just just spent almost the entire summer
with Covid. I was very sick, could not breathe well, had asthma attacks and sensation of burning lungs. Unable to work for weeks.

Am a fit sporty person who never had asthma, who had all the vacs, who did not see this coming. I know others who had escaped the virus so far, got it for the first time this summer, and were very unwell

It's shaken me up

chillipenguin · 31/08/2022 07:47

Bornslippery · 30/08/2022 23:43

Just that really. Thankfully. Used to have a high temp twice a year and spent a few days in bed (few times knocked me for 6 and spent a week in bed as feeling so rubbish). So no change there for most. Seems it's normal again now. Been abroad twice this year and it feels no different than before.

Long covid is destroying lives and no one cares

Devo1818 · 31/08/2022 07:48

Also, no one is suggesting that Covid is over as in no one is getting it any more- our great great great grandchildren will get it. I have had it the last 2 winters and will probably get it every winter. Its another respitory disease now.

Saying it is over means the restrictions and Pandemic is over.

DanglingMod · 31/08/2022 07:49

That's not what the OP meant only, though, is it, by suggesting it's really mild for everyone now?

zoopigi · 31/08/2022 07:59

OP that may be the case in the UK but in other places we still have restrictions. Here in Cyprus we still have to wear masks indoors, and the children going back to school will have to wear their masks in class. The children will also have to do rapid tests before going into school for their first day next week. It remains to be seen wether they will have to test weekly as they have had to do for the last couple of school years.

Flatmountains · 31/08/2022 08:01

Don't visit Shropshire. They don't think its over.

Lindy2 · 31/08/2022 08:04

DH kept winding me up using the phrase "Covid's over" everytime I suggested something like an outside table for being out for a meal rather than sitting inside. (He did sit outside).

He currently has Covid.

He first had it in January 2021 before the vaccine roll out. We all caught it and it was very tough. We felt very poorly and it was a very long drawn out illness. It took 3 weeks to not feel dreadful and several months to be anything like vaguely back to normal.

This time he feels rough but not dreadful. It's not pleasant but it's not frightening now like it was before being vaccinated. So far the rest of us have avoided it although I suspect DD14 may have been the asymptomatic source.

The vaccines really have made a difference.

It's not over but it's better than it was.

janj2301 · 31/08/2022 08:06

I am on day 7 of my first bout of covid very ill. I usually get one really bad cold a year ( in bed for 3/4 days). This has been much worse.

Aposterhasnoname · 31/08/2022 08:07

picklespark · 31/08/2022 01:07

I don't know. My mum, who is in her mid 60s, had a stroke 4 days into her mild covid. No other risk factors, she was a healthy weight, blood pressure fine, non-smoker etc. It was a minor stroke thankfully, but terrifying. She likely faces a vastly reduced lifespan than the one she might have enjoyed had this not happened to her.

When she rung the Stroke Association they said (anecdotally of course, studies will be needed) they are getting increasing reports of cases like hers, people in their 50s and 60s with few risk factors presenting with sudden strokes during or just after covid.

Yes, it's just my story. But there are many stories like mine, and many younger people who are facing the long haul of long covid.

But sure, it's just like the flu.

My grandmother had a stroke in her late 50s four days after contracting flu, no other risk factors, healthy weight didn’t smoke etc, so in that case, yes you’re right, I guess it is just like the flu.

etulosba · 31/08/2022 08:07

It’s not over where I am. Masks are mandatory in shops and public places.

pinklavenders · 31/08/2022 11:30

I definitely feel very 'liberated'. I've been on several trips abroad and it's great to have no more 'restrictions'!

Having had Covid myself earlier this summer, I feel relieved that it was a mild cold/flu that I recovered from within a week.

My kids have Covid twice, the second time even milder than the first time - a couple of days of sniffles/sore throat, less severe than a cold.

In 2020 I was genuinely worried about it, but now I feel relaxed and free.

Of course the Coranavirus will be with us forever - as a species we'll be building up immunity. And it's unfortunate that vulnerable people are continuing to be affected.

pinklavenders · 31/08/2022 11:32

Op, I do feel your title is 'goady'. Hence most posters are disagreeing with you!

PastMyBestBeforeDate · 31/08/2022 12:02

And it's unfortunate that vulnerable people are continuing to be affected.

No, it's not unfortunate. It's deliberate. Evushield would help but for some unknown reason, we aren't allowed it.

chillipenguin · 31/08/2022 12:06

And it's unfortunate that vulnerable people are continuing to be affected. I'm not even clinically vulnerable and it has had long term affects.

chillipenguin · 31/08/2022 12:07

janj2301 · 31/08/2022 08:06

I am on day 7 of my first bout of covid very ill. I usually get one really bad cold a year ( in bed for 3/4 days). This has been much worse.

Best of luck, stay as rested as you can.

PurpleWisteria · 31/08/2022 12:14

Only fools think it's over. There were more Covid deaths in summer this year than the previous year.

But they were old or frail, so they don't matter, do they? Not in your brave new world.

x2boys · 31/08/2022 13:40

The virus is never going to go away ,rates of infection are going to go up and down ,but it's how it impacts hospital admissions and deaths that matters, anecdotally I caught covid for the first time a couple of months ago I'm triple vaccinated ,I felt rough about four days and then I was fine ,my son has also had it twice and was fine ,
But that doesn't mean everyone will be fine I wouldn't knowingly visit my frail 80 year mum and dad with it
Nobody can predict the future we just have to take it as it comes .

ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 31/08/2022 13:47

Someone l know is in hospital with it on her second case.

Fully vaxxed and fine first time round.

pinklavenders · 31/08/2022 14:07

The virus is never going to go away ,rates of infection are going to go up and down

This. As a society we have to learn to live with it. Over time, immunity will likely increase, although new variants may well emerge.

janj2301 · 31/08/2022 14:33

I work in a GP surgery and still test twice a week, I was really peed off when NHS England said we couldn't enforce mask wearing. I go nowhere but work and caught it for the first time last week, I caught it from someone coming into the surgery!!!

pinklavenders · 31/08/2022 14:53

I go nowhere but work and caught it for the first time last week,

It's inevitable that we're all going to catch it.... you've done well to avoid it for so long!

PeloAddict · 31/08/2022 14:56

The new vaccine programme/booster starts in 2 weeks so I imagine there's going to be a lot of publicity soon. Tweaked vaccine for new variant

Hugasauras · 31/08/2022 15:04

I have to admit I don't really think about it now outside of medical settings where I wear a mask. But I know I'm lucky to be in a position where I don't have to worry about it overly and where life is pretty much normal again.

MenopauseSucks · 31/08/2022 15:10

The care home in which my mother lives are testing staff weekly & residents fortnightly. They are currently locked down, were closed for 3 weeks in July & all of March due to Covid.

They do exactly the same level of closures if there's a norovirus or flu outbreak but at the moment it's only Covid that's causing the problems.

User36373729472847273 · 31/08/2022 15:15

Everyone's mindsight is definitely back to normal, no one seems to care about covid anymore and want to be normal. I spent a long time being anxious about covid, but it's honestly towards the back of my mind now. I had it in December and I wasn't badly affected - had far worse non covid viruses. My grandmother 80 has recently had it, she felt a bit rough but very manageable and she made a quick recovery! If I knew I had covid I would stay away from people as much as poss - like I would with any other virus. I wouldn't want to spread it still but catching it myself is the last thing I'm worried about.

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