Covid news

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I know it's a divisive subject.. just thought people may be interested..

www.msn.com/en-gb/health/medical/covid-horror-as-cases-spike-50-percent-in-10-days-causing-scientists-to-issue-dire-warning/ar-AA16VhEm?ocid=mailsignout&pc=U591&cvid=cf708cce6d2f49e793fbd3205e6de532

I'm still the only one I know wearing a mask..

I know of a couple still wearing masks it's personal choice and tbh on crowded public transport I will wear one too

I won't be wearing a mask again unless I'm obliged to. This shit had taken up enough precious time.

There are quite a few people still wearing masks in my town. It seems to have increased recently.

YABU to get your news from the Daily Express. A horrid rag that exists to terrify old people with alarmist headlines.

Quadruple vaxed, I had managed to avoid Covid until 10 days ago. And I had virtually given up, mostly through forgetfulness, wearing a mask. There has to be a causal link.

Getting covid doesn't bother me. I've had it a few times that I know of. If I've had it since December 21 it has been so mild/asymptomatic that I haven't noticed.

What is really damaging my health is the backlog in dentistry because they were so panicked about covid that I'm on an 18 month waiting list to have an impacted wisdom tooth removed. This causes infections, accesses and severe pain, way worse than covid.

Can't you put this in the covid board? With the rest of the worriers

Sorry @user1471518104 I wasn't aware there was a Covid board. I'm not a worrier. I thought it was interesting & relevant. We all have aged or otherwise vulnerable relatives.

Have you tried 111 or a local dental hospital ? I’m not registered yet since moving house and was seen by a local dentist yesterday for an emergency extraction

Wearing masks doesn’t help. It’s pointless.

Covid isn’t going anywhere.

Why is it interesting or relevant?

@Botw1 Really?

Yeah.

Why are we even still tracking covid cases?

I can't open the link but unless hospitalians and deaths have rocketed why should anyone be interested?

All your aged relatives are going to die. As are you. I hope this doesn’t come as too much of a shock to you.

I am annoyed that this performative bollocks has cost me my sight and my mobility because preventative medicine could’ve been given when I was being investigated pre-lockdown.

You crack on. You’ll still die.

OP that is just another sub-variant of Omicron and has been the dominant strain in the US for most of January, so not surprising it’s taking hold in other countries now.

Its highly transmissible (as are all the winter bugs doing the rounds) but there is no evidence this is leading to higher numbers of hospitalisations (in the US) the last time I heard anyway.

This is only news now in the sense “norovirus and flu are very virulent this year”. COVID will still be here in 10 years time and the rest.

No, they are probably potential bank robbers searching fruitlessly for any branch of a bank that has not been closed down.

We've got to just live with this, as Africa does with malaria/TB. We could be heading for a health crisis in ten years because the effect of getting Covid again and again means lung damage. But if variants are more infectious then mask wearing won't make much of a difference. There isn't an answer. Like a pp my GC health has been affected because of the lockdown, she won't get her hearing back. Lock down is living a half life and caused deaths.

A lot of women have had to abandon getting their lips/Botox done during this cost of living crisis. I quite liked my mask coupled with sunglasses, I loved being makeup free.

Not everyone who is aging and or vulnerable cares about covid any more. Worry about yourself not others that aren't your family and don't use us old and vulnerable to push your cause please.

Same. Wore FFP2 masks all the time, socialised Christmas Day without one, caught covid
Still wearing a mask as I really don't want it again (can't afford time off work plus the pain of getting anti virals)

@silverclock222 Wow.. just wow.. I don't have 'a cause' but will bow out, don't want to upset anyone, do I? :-0

I've tried everything, I was NHS, registered as a private patient just to get through the door, I've seen 2 specialists at dental hospitals and been told it needs to be done by Oral Surgery in a hospital. My only other option is to pay for the full surgery in a private hospital which I've been considering but I'm scared to even ask for a quote. It would be a huge amount of money to me. The last person I spoke to in the hospital directly blamed the fact that dentists shut their doors to most patients through covid, and the issues have escalated to the point of needing oral surgery rather than dentist care. Most routine referrals are taking over 2 years to first appointment. Mine is an urgent referral and I'm in month 10.

I’m more interested in my mother in law who died because her cancer scans were delayed.

Screw all of you covid bed wetters. Go hide in your basements with 50 masks. Let the rest of us get on with our lives. Or the lucky ones that made it out alive should I say.

Lockdowns killed more people than they saved. My DH is now without his mother.

I got Alpha in Dec 2020, and nothing since. My immune system is shot due to a previous health condition and I usually catch everything going.

So either, the subsequent variants are not serious enough to make me feel unwell enough to realise I have covid, or its really just luck of the drawer and no mask wearing will make a difference given masks protect everyone else and not the wearer (unless wearing FFP3)

My Dad had covid in Dec 2022 and he has COPD and asthma (and smokes 😡) and he was fine and back to normal in less than a week. At 70yo his risk is still incredibly low after all.

*draw goddamn autocorrect