So annoyed to think this is just how COVID is going to be?

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3rd time with COVID in the house. Wouldn't have tested but had to due to being around a very vulnerable person.

Whole house down with very high fever, cough, fatigue etc.

The thing is we had the exact same nightmare 6 months ago.

I've never been so ill so often. We're down with a crashing high fever every few months now. Takes each person 2 weeks to recover to normal activity so whole event is causing well over a month of disruption each time.

And we're not eligible for boosters.

Is this just how it's going to be??

You can get private jabs now.

There will be a tipping point at some point - way too late of course, where we'll spend what we should have done a couple of years ago, but with much more collateral damage by letting this situation drag on and on and on. Sorry OP, it sucks.

Yeah we went through a phase of Novo Virus like this. Thats the only one that kills me off.

I work with the public and pretty used to them coughing in my face. Think I’m immune to it now

I think it’s always been normal for most people to get that type of virus every six months or so. Only being on your third round of Covid is good going.

At risk of sounding like I'm paid to say it, I've not been properly ill since I started using Vicks 1st Defence. Going to get jabbed next autumn as well.

Start a regime of vitamin d zinc and vitamin c.
also try and improve gut health. These should help boost immunity. It is absolutely shit. In the space of 18 months I have had it 4 times and the last time was pretty horrific. (I was triple jabbed too!). I haven’t bothered getting any boosters and ‘touchwood’ I’ve managed to avoid it for at least a year.

I've pretty much forgotten about covid at this point tbf, although I wouldn't of course have had that privilege if I was around somebody clinically vulnerable.

I'm in a fairly high risk environment being around dozens of builders/tradesman ever day but don't seem to have really suffered. I had a confirmed case xmas before last which I only tested for as didn't want my sister catching it before going to Italy and then getting quarantined there.

It was like a normal cold for me. I was quite happily drinking red wine and watching box sets while isolating.

Covid is a mass disabling event, as per the World Health Organisation. "The pandemic is over", "Covid is mild" etc will end up like the infected blood scandal in a few years. It will be too late for many of the people affected in the meantime, unfortunately.

It is not normal or OK for previously healthy adults to be ill all the time. Flu, for example, is contracted by healthy people over 30 only 1-2 times per decade. By comparison, most people have had at least 3-4 Covid infections already, and mass infection only began in winter 2021-22.

The normalisation of constant illness is astonishing to me. I'm not a spring chicken and before the pandemic I'd never heard of so many people having respiratory illnesses in June. The denial of reality is like The Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

OP- I am sorry you are ill again. Please try to rest as much as possible to minimise the risk of Long Covid. In the future, you can try to minimise the risk of re-infection by taking as many gatherings outdoors as possible, and wearing a respirator in crowded indoor places.

It's absolutely f*cking maddening. The worst part of it all is that if you were to get sick you're nearly not believed and you are expected just to keep on going.

I had a virus earlier this year. I was negative on home COVID tests but I didn't test enough to be honest. I had nothing like it before. It wasn't a cold but it wasn't a flu. A cold can go in a week or two. What I had lingered for 6 weeks despite taking home remedies. I suspect what I had was COVID. I was so sick but I wasn't as sick like a flu. There weeks when I could even sleep or go to bed and lie down and I slept on the couch. In the end I think I just started to shock my body by drinking codeine meds and overdosing on whatever I could get my hands on. If COVID doesn't kill it will be the mountains of over the counter meds that will kill.

I always strongly had a view that governments all around the world should run aggressive health campaigns teaching the population how to do manners. TV adverts telling people what to do was never enough. There has to be TV adverts showing people the right way to cough and sneeze.
The very people who like to pass on their illness are the very people who don't know any manners and would gladly and happily cough and sneeze into your face and over your meal.

Me and my partner are on the verge of breaking up. Because he likes cruises and me they are ok but the last cruise we were on was in 22. I came off that shop sick and he wasn't. There were so many badly mannered sick people on board and I hadn't a hope or a chance when people were coughing into the open and over people's plates of food.

I used to care about protecting other people but not any more. To some degree I still have an element of caring but I am so sick of other people's selfishness. If I ever get sick again I will make sure to find someone vulnerable and give them my virus in the hope that they get badly ill. Everyone is doing it and just passing it on and on.

sympathy... I am going through the same- it is miserable isn't it