Guilt Free Railing 5

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Just in case railing remains required.

@WaxOnFeckOff

I'm sure I read something about the common cold kicking covid's butt?

I read that too, quite amazing stuff. Which in turn also provides an argument against masks and stuff.

Do you want me to post my snotty hankies out to you? So you can all get it just in case you get COVID?

@DeepfriedPizza 😂

Glad you're finally one the mend Scottishskifun.

It is a Glasgow Uni study. However it looks like the effect is transient so you would need a permanent rhino cold to block the Covid.

www.gla.ac.uk/research/coronavirus/headline_781603_en.html

This was predicted because there is existing research on cross interference between rhino / corona and flu viruses. I do wonder if this will have an impact on future vaccination schedules if both Flu and Covid vaccines become annual.

May be part of the explanation why children are less impacted.

Think you make get be onto something there shouldi

Got to be better than injecting dettol a la Trump

@SempreSuiGeneris

Glad you're finally one the mend Scottishskifun.

It is a Glasgow Uni study. However it looks like the effect is transient so you would need a permanent rhino cold to block the Covid.

www.gla.ac.uk/research/coronavirus/headline_781603_en.html

This was predicted because there is existing research on cross interference between rhino / corona and flu viruses. I do wonder if this will have an impact on future vaccination schedules if both Flu and Covid vaccines become annual.

May be part of the explanation why children are less impacted.

Bloody love this for some reason 🙌🏻

May be part of the explanation why children are less impacted.

I was going to say this! Surely as children, especially preschool, have perma-colds, they must be walking immunity bombs, rather than the plague carriers they are sold as being!

rookiemere

Did your DM get the Pfizer vaccine? It does seem to offer protection against the Brazilian and South African strains. The AZ vaccine seems to offer next to no protection from mild to moderate covid infection with the SA variant so there's a worry that it won't protect from severe infection either, but they don't know yet.

@mibbelucieachwell unfortunately they got the AZ vaccine, but I do suspect even if there weren't the very small risk from variants DM would invent some reason not to go out. The lockdowns have removed most of her confidence which would be fine if DF was happy staying in.

Anyway just back from a very bracing walk at Cramond and a rather unsuccessful visit to Malenny Gardens as dogs are not allowed.

rookie I don't think your DM is alone in having lost confidence like this. (I also don't think the sweeping generalisation about the efficacy of the AZ vaccine and variants is accurate either but the jury is still out).

I had hoped the Govt talk of Covid certification and rapid testing had been an attempt to provide reassurance for the nervous newly vaccinated. However they are making such a hash of the comms and being so authoritarian about it they may end up having exactly the opposite effect.

My elderly neighbours were both vaccinated weeks ago. They used to converse quite happily outside without masks but now I never see them unmasked. I can only assume all the literature about face coverings on the way to and from and at the vaccine centre and the need for caution for a couple of weeks after have scared them.

I am starting to worry we will never get people back to normal levels of social interaction.

@SempreSuiGeneris DH and I were talking about how much DM and DF seem to have aged over the past year. I mean obviously they are going to age - they are in their 80s - but their cognitive and reasoning abilities seem to have declined faster than we would have expected.

I do hope we can help to build them up gradually to getting out again- pre lockdown they'd go out for lunch once a week and for meetings with their probus club. Also slightly selfishly when they do visit us we used to break up the visit with trips to the garden centre and lunch out, if those are no longer options it will be a long visit indeed.

I am very lucky because my DM is just as outgoing as ever and if anything has been keeping the rest of her friends connected. However she has lived on her own since her 40s and was a single parent for a decade before then so is very independent.

I finally caved and had to ask a friend to come to my house at the weekend. My mental health took a massive nose dive. She came inside, we had a hug or two and I had a massive sob fest.

Still feeling really rough, emotional and anxiety is high but know I would be worse had she not came to see me so I don’t even feel guilty

Big hugs @runningpink you have nothing to feel guilty about human interaction is needed for people and its so important!

The govt has rammed into people so much that it's wrong when reality it isn't and we all need to live with this. I'm not going to hug a random person in a supermarket but I hug a select few friends on occasion and the difference it makes to my MH is astronomical! *disclaimer no friends were hugged in the lead up to my covid catching from my DS! 😂

Thanks @Scottishskifun and I’m glad to hear you are feeling a bit better now. I have been lurking away but haven’t felt up to posting. Sending hugs straight back to you

It’s not actually lockdown that’s got me so down at the moment but circumstances that I feel wouldn’t have come about if it hadn’t been for everything this past year that are causing me so much misery and upset.
I swear I must run out of tears eventually.

Actually considering going to the doctor as I think I may be at a point where medication is required. Something I have always refused until now

No need to feel guilty at all.

My friend has went through a horrific separation over the past 18 months so I’ve went to hers a couple of times. Now she has finally managed to get the arse hole to move out I’m her support bubble so I’m allowed over.

@runningpink have an awkward backpat hug from me.

Here is the place to lay your worries out, with no inspiring reasons why you should be hapoy/grateful/resilient.

And no shame in medication.

Awww @runningpink moan away here, there's nothing wrong with a good fry to make you feel better but maybe you should speak to someone if it's becoming unmanageable

@runningpink it's all health at the end of the day and if medication helps your health then it's worth discussing.
I've been doing counselling and was massively skeptical at first (I'm more of a problem solving try and fix it type of person) but it's really helping me. It's a slow process but compared to where I was even 6 weeks ago its a huge difference!

Running pink, I'm glad you have allowed someone in. Sending big hugs.

Hugs to all suffering.

Good to hear ski on the mend

Omg that wind bit all our faces off today

Weren’t long in park till noses were streaming

I went to the coast for a whippy ice cream. It was very cold. And so was the ice cream 😃

Which coast?

I'm going to Troon on Wednesday for a wee wander and ice cream.I am saving my Largs trip for when it may be quieter.

Ooh I love Troon beach, can't wait to take the boys when it warms up a bit.

The news reports today about the "opening up of Scotland" have seriously pissed me off.

The ONLY FUCKING DIFFERENCE is that you can go to the hairdressers and get a key cut. Oh, and go to the garden centre.