[Misc] COVID… again

[The Mole]

Twice - the first contracted in a government Covid prison (holiday inn express) which meant my sentence was increased until midnight Christmas Eve. That was reasonably mild - ironically I was working on the vaccination programme at the time.
second tme got most of the symptoms- recovered in time to watch us beat Man U on tv in May 2023

 

[Sussax]

Covid again óle óle

 

[Weststander]

If there was a similar pandemic in the near future, I suspect that populations wouldn’t accept the wholesale measures imposed in 2020 to 2022. Nor the resulting state debt of $T’s across the West. People won’t accept it, there wouldn’t be enough police to enforce mass civil disobedience.

[Said as someone who pretty much agreed with it all the first time].

Hopefully the UK’s Covid Enquiry has a wide remit to look at what was pretty much pointless too. In hindsight, preventing folk meeting up outdoors was draconian, for example. Perhaps Sweden it right, without crippling the economy and curtailing liberties.

 

[Skuller]

It is really weird. I had a cold last week and felt awful with it. Chest felt like I’d been beaten up, couldn’t stop coughing, body aches etc. Much worse than I’ve ever felt with Covid.

Why do these things exist? What is the evolutionary point of them?

A virus or bacterium exists because it can (Darwinian evolution). It evolves to be able to reproduce in your body (otherwise it would die out) without killing you (otherwise it cannot reproduce). Doing that takes time. So Covid is evolving to be able to infect you, reproduce, and infect others without killing you (see the common cold). So it evolves towards a balance of being able to invade and reproduce without killing you. Covid, a new virus, initially did kill a lot of people but recent strains have learned to be less devastating (or they’d die out).

Sometimes a mutation doesn’t create a strain that can invade, reproduce, but not kill but instead creates a strain that does kill and can infect easily before its host dies. They’re the tricky ones (like early Covid). There’s no intent or malice, just Darwinian evolution.

The reason you react badly to infection is purely defensive. Your body has learned through evolution (those that do it survive, those that don’t don’t) to increase body temperature to the extent that the virus cannot survive (heat kills it) but you can (just).

 

[Zeberdi]

Once - hospitalised for 5 months on and off after getting severe Covid in March 2023 while attending a Palace game at home - despite having all vacs and boosters. Still recovering with lasting exacerbation to neurological autoimmune condition and asthma. Continue to have boosters and use a lot of hand gel as I‘m immunosuppressed.

Have many complications still and under NHS long Covid Clinic.

(Was told by consultant at Covid clinic that I probably would have died if I hadn’t had the vacs so worth getting them if you are immunosuppressed or elderly for sure although it didn’t feel like it at the time.)

 

[ManOfSussex]

Tested positive for it once which was at Easter last year. Was actually quite bad - sleeping for 12 hours, limbs aching like hell and that despite having all jabs. I was ill in February 2020 after our home game against Watford - opinion of a GP long afterwards was that was Covid, based on what we now know. Both those illnesses were followed up by a bout of gout in my left foot though. Without any testing or anything I got ill after the Spurs game this autumn too. It was mild but followed by gout in my left foot again, so I'm going to call that Covid too. So it's a 3 for me.

 

[Giraffe]

Who is still testing for this?

 

[Zeberdi]

Who is still testing for this?

Me.

Don’t get the tests free anymore though and they are not very easily available.

 

[m20gull]

Had all the boosters and one Covid infection in late 2021. Still suffering post-Covid symptoms now and on asthma medication for it. Much better than I was though.

 

[aolstudios]

Who is still testing for this?

Me. But I do get them free

 

[Zeberdi]

Me. But I do get them free

How do you get free ones?

(feel free to PM if you would rather not say on thread)

 

[aolstudios]

How do you get free ones?

(feel free to PM if you would rather not say on thread)

PMd

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Me.

Don’t get the tests free anymore though and they are not very easily available.

We bought ours from Amazon. We’ve both had bad infections since October, tested but wasn't covid. Husband is severely asthmatic and I am immunocompromised. He had to take 8 steroids a day plus antibiotics and still isn’t fully recovered.

 

[LamieRobertson]

This is going well ….

re the question....once…mild…felt a bit rough for a couple of days

 

[LamieRobertson]

I caught it off a customer a in 2022, went to her house to look at a job, rang her the next day with the price and she told me she had Covid and felt unwell for 3 days before I visited.

bit of a cheek

 

[dazzer6666]

Twice. Both very mild. I don’t and wouldn’t test, it’s just another ‘bug’ that lasts a few days

 

[Thunder Bolt]

3 times, always in September

Kids bringing it home from school.

 

[BN9 BHA]

bit of a cheek

I wasn’t too happy as I had to cancel a week of jobs, I made sure I was all clear until I booked anymore work or went anywhere.

 

[TugWilson]

Woke up this morning feeling like absolute shite - did a test and sure enough, COVID again. My third time despite being triple jabbed. Currently having to isolate from my vulnerable elderly Mum who I’m caring for.

How many times have you had it? Three other mates (ones I haven’t seen in person recently, but have a WhatsApp group with) all have it too, two for the first time. Is there a new strain going around or something?

Sorry to hear that , especially your poor Mum , we had a similar situation and that can cause more trouble than the Covid . I have had it twice and the better half once , thought it was three just recently but turned out to be a simple 5 day bug thankfully , but there has been talk down here about some new strain , i have no idea if there is any truth in it .

All the best

 

[ManOfSussex]

This is going well ….

re the question....once…mild…felt a bit rough for a couple of dadays

But thanks to people like you and me who believed in Boris, backed Britain and our world beating infection rate, who got jabbed and stayed alert, 'going well' became 'got Covid 19 done.'