This isn't like a mild cold !

[MrsPelligrinoPetrichor]

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I ache all over and the covid sweats/ chills are something else! No cough at all but the mad covid nightmares are doing me in!

Feel free to add your own covid woes...

Have you all been “vaccinated”?

I am exactly the same, but also sense of taste has gone weird. Baffling.

Yes and boosters

Yet people are going to work and sending kids to school with it.

Chaos by Christmas I reckon!

I had some soup earlier, tasted a bit ... odd. Could taste the toothpaste when I cleaned my teeth but again a bit weird. Oh joy.

Took 4 days before mine was positive. Monday morning negative and by 2pm very strong positive and feeling like shit.

Yup it's brutal. First time we hsve had it. 2.5 weeks in and husband and I only just getting gradually back to work. Week 1 was temperature, nausea, headaches, sore throat etc. Then around day 5 these started to clear and digestive symptoms started. Weird taste and smell. Then 7 days complete exhaustion amd brain fog for another 7 days. Started to improve now but taking it easy still.

I think I have it again (had it first time last year and was really ill)

Sore throat, cough, heart chest, food tastes odd, stomach cramps

Dh started with it, but back at work now, then ds2

Ds1 and I seem to suffer more (did last year, too)

Ugh 😷

💐☕ Lemsip!

heavy chest even

I've been feeling queasy. I didn't realise that was a symptom of Covid this time. I'll need to test in the morning.

I slept!! In between being really hot all night and have woken up with odd chopped lips. Feel pole axed this morning.

Coughing all night
Feel like roadkill

** CHAPPED lips obvs

You poor thing 😭

I might attempt a shower and a hair wash...

For most people, the main concern with COVID is not the acute infection stage (which most people won't require hospitalization for), but the long term effects. It's a vascular disease, so all your organs can be affected. The "mild cold" trope peddled by government and media was to get us back to normal as quickly as possible, but with severe consequences for overall population health.

If your child gets infected once a year at school, by the time they are 18 they will have had it at least 13 times. Can you think of any other disease we willingly inflict on our kids annually, let alone one that has potential to increase type 1 diabetes diagnoses, heart damage, brain damage, immune system damage and the list goes on? https://www.croakey.org/covid-19s-toll-on-children-and-young-people/

And yes we can do something about it. As parents we have a duty to protect our kids. We should be demanding that schools implement ventilation and run HEPA purifiers, and forget 100% attendance - if your child has symptoms, they need to stay home to prevent spread. Children are responsible for 70% of case spread. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/more-70-us-household-covid-spread-started-child-study-suggests

As a mother I will do everything I can to prevent my child from catching COVID. It's bad news. I don't understand why people are blindly accepting continual infection.

Great

I'm waiting for my online grocery order to arrive

I could weep

I'm well aware of the long term affects of covid...I've been left with heart issues after my last bout

But what do I do? Stay indoors? Pointless - I have 3 family members at different settings every day, I have to look after my mother

Whilst I do 95% of my shopping online I do need to actually go into shops occasionally

As for schools...aren't you paying attention? THERE IS NO MONEY and tory ministers kids don't go to state schools...they DO NOT CARE

Do, yeah, filters etc great but how? School buildings are literally crumbling

Covid is here for good, sadly. I mitigate my risks where I can 🤷

That ^ was in reply to @aussiemanque

The cost of installing and running HEPA filters pays for itself in savings on supply teachers. Teaching is one of the most affected professions in terms of long term illness. Schools can also build DIY Cosri Rosenthal boxes which are much cheaper and more effective than the recommended Dyson ones that surprise surprise the D of Education recommends.

I don't stay home. I wear an N95 mask when I go in any public indoor space including at work. Easy. Supplemented with nasal sprays like Viraleze.

COVID is indeed here to stay, but at these levels of spread most of us will be disabled in some way by 2030. With concrete efforts to clean indoor air (which incidentally helps with all airborne viruses, mould, pollen, CO2 levels) we can push down infection levels to measles or TB levels, rather than everyone catching it at least once a year. It's just not sustainable.

Sympathies @MrsPelligrinoPetrichor we have it too. DH came down with it on Thursday and has just started to perk up. I had one very bad day on Saturday. Both had a very sudden onset of symptoms, and then a very sudden recovery. The worst was extremely achey bones, streaming nose, and headaches.

The achey bones have gone now thank goodness,that was awful. I've just put the washing away and I think I feel a lot better, also think I'm hungry...

My smell has gone, can't smell my lavender body lotion 😭

Mine was like a mild cold.After a week I felt fine until I tried to run. I can
normally do Parkrun in 32 mins.

After covid, despite feeling fine, I only ran 800m. Legs like lead, aching back, I just couldn't get enough air in. It felt horrible. It has taken me three months to run the whole distance in sub-35 minutes.

Oh wow that's a long recovery 😢