Guilt Free Railing 8

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Can’t believe it’s needed….

Humph, SoMuch.

@SoMuchForSummerLove

Yeah I'll join you.

I've got one week off work this summer, and it's meant to rain every day from now until I go back to work.

Same here, off next week, my summer holidays and its meant to lash

@Groovee hope you have a lovely time in the east neuk, we live nearby and often say when we’re looking for holidays it’s hard to find a nicer coastline than there. Dh won’t let me book a holiday half an hour from where we live though 😀. There’s a fairly newish Ish cream shop in elie if you like an ice cream called caroles. I highly recommend the waffle on a stick with chocolate sauce and biscoff ice cream 😊. For everyone heading to that side of Fife though I’d recommend booking anywhere you want to eat sooner rather than later esp in st.andrews as it’s hard to get in anywhere. Also menu prices are a bit pants since reopening 😕

East Neuk is beautiful, i totally agree.
Crail is my favourite.

How are you doing @ResilienceWanker ?

Ooooh, yes, East Neuk is lovely. I'm sure you'll have a great time revisiting your past haunts groovee. We've just come back from York where my gran used to live, and it was really nice to do some of the things I did as a child, with DS. We went to a play park that I remember constantly badgering my mum to take me to whenever we went there. Was a bit worried it would actually be shit (and was just good by 1980s playpark standards, when anything not surfaced in concrete, broken glass and dog turd was amazing) but it was still rather nice!

Yy on the rain. It's quite dispiriting. I thought May/June had got that out of its weather system. But apparently not.

I'm feeling much better this evening thanks somuch Still reliant on paracetamol for the headache, but it does feel like a heavy cold now, rather than yesterday/ this morning when vertical really wasn't happening. Sent off my test this afternoon, so hopefully I'll find out by tomorrow eve or Monday.

DH and I did our first lateral flow tests today - yes I know, I know, I'm sure everyone else has done hundreds. If we go to Majorca in August- huge big if and after researching the testing required I really couldn't be bothered- then it would be good to know if we have covid now.

Stunned to discover we're both negative . It's quite exciting though waiting for the results- like the world's least fun pregnancy test. I did manage to botch my first one up though.

I've never done a lft and i work in retail and take a busy train all week.
I just don't see the point.

Glad you're feeling a bit better resilience

Never done one, never will

I do the LFT when at work. With Mr G's health I have been terrified of bringing Covid home and his health has been so horrible in the last 6 months. Dd does a PCR test weekly for work.

I can totally understand that groovee.

I do the LFT when I am at work as there are some ECV pupils in my classes. I am double jagged and have been for about a month so not concerned about being infected. It was ripping through the school in the last few weeks of term.

Railing cause that's several of DD (13) friends got Covid now. All feeling really shite. DD okay so far, done some LFTs and all negative. DD hasn't seen those friends recently.

I'm very worried about school aged children come August, especially if all restrictions are gone, no masks etc.

I don't want DD getting Covid.

I also work in HE and although we are WFH, I am nervous about potentially returning to campus with no social distancing. Especially if the 17yo and sometimes 16yo new students are not jagged.

I am doubly jagged but I have friends also doubly jagged who got Covid recently anyway.

So the easing of restrictions is making me nervous, although I hate face masks.

Getting 2 jags doesnt stop you get covid, its meant to help stop you getting really ill and needing hospitalised.

Thanks ssd! Today's new symptom is rivers of snot. Just in case you wanted to know . But less headache and no temperature, which is nice.

I agree rookiemere on the world's least fun pregnancy test I'm not sure why the swab they give you for the LFTs is so much more springy than the pcr ones. It's absolutely impossible for someone as cack handed as me to poke it on your tonsils without also twanging everything else in your mouth at the same time. At least the pcr one has some degree of controllability. Glad you're negative anyway!

Hope DDs friends pick up soon yedancer. Definitely understandable to be concerned given we've had so long being told we have to do everything we can to avoid getting or spreading it. It's a bit of a shift to "its fine if you catch it, because it probably won't be serious"! I just wish the SG would actually put their money where their mouth is on eg funding long covid clinics/ support for people affected. If we are living with it, which seems the only reasonable outcome, surely the emphasis should be on funding help for those who are affected long term, rather than focusing only on mitigations to stop it from spreading in the first place. At the moment, we're not doing either, seemingly, which seems odd.

I think it does stop people getting Covid, although it’s not 100%, but is very effective at preventing severe symptoms, hospitalisation and death.

Which is great, obviously.

I dont think it stops transmission but i could be wrong.

Totally agree about the long covid clinics here, its not going anywhere and we need to learn to live with it...sooo living with it more comfortably should be the priority

CDC says studies show it does

@ssd

I dont think it stops transmission but i could be wrong.

Totally agree about the long covid clinics here, its not going anywhere and we need to learn to live with it...sooo living with it more comfortably should be the priority

Yes it stops the majority of people double dosed catching it and also of those who do catch it transmission onto others is reduced by 40-60% so it does both.

But obviously it's person specific and you get some people who either don't create enough antibodies or who are a breakthrough person.

Link to information below although it's from the US.

www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/effectiveness/why-measure-effectiveness/breakthrough-cases.html

But big sympathy for people currently ill or surrounded by people testing positive. No fun.

@YeDancer why are you so worried about your DD 17 getting covid unless she is CEV or vulnerable in some other way ? For vast majority of young people they scarcely know they have it and I believe it builds up antibodies for the future. Of course a very tiny number may get long covid, in the same way that people had long term issues from say pneumonia or flu in the past.

I have to say DS 15 getting covid has never factored in our concerns, other than testing positive and missing school.

She's 13 and she has asthma (as does DH). DH got his jag early as he is classed as vulnerable (not CEV though).

All the parents of those who have tested positive say their DDs have been really unwell for about 2 weeks - headaches, fatigue, runny nose, fatigue.

Also friend's DD (who is 17) has long covid.

Oh sorry @YeDancer didn't realise she had asthma. Hopefully she'll have at least one vaccine before Autumn term.

@YeDancer

She's 13 and she has asthma (as does DH). DH got his jag early as he is classed as vulnerable (not CEV though).

All the parents of those who have tested positive say their DDs have been really unwell for about 2 weeks - headaches, fatigue, runny nose, fatigue.

Also friend's DD (who is 17) has long covid.

I think it's the fear of the unknown especially with asthma and its understandable but unfortunately this illness isn't going anywhere.

I have asthma and although I got a moderate case (I'm donkeys older than your daughter though at 34 when I got it) actually having asthma in a weird way helped me!

The research studies show that asthmatics already have a lot of the tools available to them such as the reliever pump and knowing how to ease breathing etc so actually they are less likely to end up in hospital. Also me being an asthmatic meant I got prescribed steroids very quickly and easily when my DH contacted 111. This helped hugely!

There are several ongoing studies into what makes people more susceptible to long covid one of which is having glandular fever.

Best thing is to be prepared, have a oximeter and if she does get it then ensure that she rests but also not be concerned about contacting 111.

The biggest issue we face in Scotland is the govt flat refusal to set up long covid clinics to help people.

If your friends DD doesn't already know taking vit b complexes, magnesium, high strength vit D, curcumin and umbiquinol (this one is the most expensive) can help ease the fatigue. They take a while to take effect but sooner she can start the better!