Coronavirus

[machin05]

Is it true though? Not seen it anywhere else.
My 8 month old granddaughter tested positive today, first case I've heard of locally for months.

Seeing lots of it at our work (secondary school) recently. Staff absence has been really high, with a lot of that either covid or very covid-like symptoms but not tested - very few people are paying for LFTs now which masks the stats.

 

[Tony Towner]

Seeing lots of it at our work (secondary school) recently. Staff absence has been really high, with a lot of that either covid or very covid-like symptoms but not tested - very few people are paying for LFTs now which masks the stats.

Surely the whole point is unless you are genuinely ill, you go into work if you are location based? You would have done 3 years ago, I thought that's where we are supposed to be back to? I have Covid symptoms but haven't tested is really weak imo

 

[machin05]

Surely the whole point is unless you are genuinely ill, you go into work if you are location based? You would have done 3 years ago, I thought that's where we are supposed to be back to? I have Covid symptoms but haven't tested is really weak imo

Yeah, people are staying off work as they're genuinely really ill. It's kind of irrelevant to them whether they actually have Covid so they're not testing (the ones that are testing must still have LFTs left over from before). There's has been at least one person come into work whilst testing positive that I know off, but this latest strain that's been going around here has been knocking people for six.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Yeah, if you get a strong enough dose of it then you ain't working for at least a few days.

 

[Wolf Hunting]

Whilst on a personal basis, I don't know of anyone who has been hospitalised with it, I do know several guys that had a good dose the 1st time around, and several months later have caught a second dose and all of them say their lungs are fucked! damage was done 1st time around and lungs were damaged and seemingly not repaired....
Awful fucking dirty virus.

 

[lemonjelly]

The long term effects will become clear in time. I do recall a lot of the runners on here mentioning that after covid they were well off their pbs. Dunno if that's a short term or long term impact.

 

[Keef]

I’ve had a couple of doses of it, second one I was a lot worse, can still bike to work 10-12 mile round trip) get a bit out of breath, walk up a flight of stairs or tying my shoelaces random I know but there we go, I’ve had it, have to sit down for five minutes to get my breath back

 

[lemonjelly]

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...ts-to-claw-back-cash-from-ppe-branded-pitiful

only £18m has been retrieved by Department of Health, out of suspect Covid contracts potentially worth £630m....
Ministers have been accused of making a “pitiful attempt” to recoup taxpayers’ money wasted on fraudulent Covid contracts, after it emerged that only a fraction of the estimated total had been recovered so far.

About £18m has been retrieved by the Department of Health and Social Care through checks on personal protective equipment (PPE) contracts identified as “high risk” and through “contract management”...

Will Quince, a health minister, said the figure was correct as of 12 December, and stressed that the government was working to “prevent loss”. However, the amount of taxpayers’ money clawed back is significantly less than that believed to have been lost through PPE fraud

 

[lemonjelly]

https://www.ft.com/content/7a2093f8-55f8-400f-9176-2225b9193e05

government alleging camerons mate provided fraudulent safety info

 

[PuntsWolf]

This faux Covid everyone’s got/getting which is worse than Covid yet we’re doing fuck all about it make a bit of a mockery of the last few years regardless of which side of the fence you sit.

 

[BillyDee]

This faux Covid everyone’s got/getting which is worse than Covid yet we’re doing fuck all about it make a bit of a mockery of the last few years regardless of which side of the fence you sit.

 

[PuntsWolf]

Educate me

 

[sycophantia]

This faux Covid everyone’s got/getting which is worse than Covid yet we’re doing fuck all about it make a bit of a mockery of the last few years regardless of which side of the fence you sit.

Not heard about it, not sure what faux covid is?
Had 4 family members tested positive for covid over Xmas, and a few including me that have had cold symptoms without testing positive.
None of us have been especially ill, just usual mild cold symptoms whether covid or not.
I just put it down to people's natural immunity to covid building up and having lost a bit of immunity to the older bugs.

 

[machin05]

It's not faux covid

People are getting Covid and it's wiping them out. I work in a school so we're lucky enough to still have the odd box of LFTs knocking around and what I've noticed is people aren't testing positive until a good few days after feeling at their worst throughout the illness. So, what you get are people feeling rough, testing negative and then presuming they don't have covid.
Then there's the people who don't have any LFTs and don't really want to pay for one, so never know if it's covid or not.
And on top of that there's a pretty mean flu virus going around (lots of chest infections and laryngitis type illnesses). Flu isn't the same as covid - see the first few pages of this thread for a reminder of how they're different

 

[machin05]

Oh, and I guess for the people who have just had Covid (but not know its covid) are feeling worse as its probably been around a year since their 3rd vaccination

 

[Johnny75]

It's not faux covid

People are getting Covid and it's wiping them out. I work in a school so we're lucky enough to still have the odd box of LFTs knocking around and what I've noticed is people aren't testing positive until a good few days after feeling at their worst throughout the illness. So, what you get are people feeling rough, testing negative and then presuming they don't have covid.
Then there's the people who don't have any LFTs and don't really want to pay for one, so never know if it's covid or not.
And on top of that there's a pretty mean flu virus going around (lots of chest infections and laryngitis type illnesses). Flu isn't the same as covid - see the first few pages of this thread for a reminder of how they're different

I've had the flu over the last week (tested negative for COVID) and it wiped me out completely for a few days.

Horrible stuff.

 

[PuntsWolf]

It's not faux covid

People are getting Covid and it's wiping them out. I work in a school so we're lucky enough to still have the odd box of LFTs knocking around and what I've noticed is people aren't testing positive until a good few days after feeling at their worst throughout the illness. So, what you get are people feeling rough, testing negative and then presuming they don't have covid.
Then there's the people who don't have any LFTs and don't really want to pay for one, so never know if it's covid or not.
And on top of that there's a pretty mean flu virus going around (lots of chest infections and laryngitis type illnesses). Flu isn't the same as covid - see the first few pages of this thread for a reminder of how they're different

I just had the info that loads I know are getting ill, testing negative (your explanation makes sense though) but also feeling waaayyy worse than when they’ve had Covid before (pre and post vaccination) and people who have had every booster and flu jab going like my in laws.

Nurse at Russell’s hall even said 1000s of people are coming in with Covid like symptoms but testing negative, so then saying it’s not Covid and give them antibiotics, (which then do fuck all as even if it wasn’t Covid 99% of URTI are viral…, so pointless and also damaging). So I’ll blame them for the misinformation, and the GPs who are saying and doing the same.

 

[Tredman]

I've had the flu over the last week (tested negative for COVID) and it wiped me out completely for a few days.

Horrible stuff.

Yeah I had it before Xmas and family during. Definitely worst of its type I’ve had, still deaf in one ear nearly a month later.

 

[lemonjelly]

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...m-ppe-contract-for-firm-linked-to-fellow-tory

Within five days of Feldman forwarding Sumner’s offer to the officials, on 26 April 2020 SG Recruitment was given a £23.9m government contract to supply coveralls. The second contract, for £26.1m to supply hand sanitiser, was awarded on 28 May 2020. Both contracts were granted without inviting competitive bids from other companies, as the government had suspended normal procurement rules due to the pandemic emergency.......
Before the pandemic SG Recruitment was a small UK-registered subsidiary company with five staff, primarily involved in recruiting nurses for the NHS from countries overseas including the Philippines and India.

The company also sought to fill vacancies for nurses and domestic workers in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Malaysia. In its financial accounts for the year before it was awarded the PPE contracts by the DHSC, SG Recruitment turned over less than £500,000 and made a loss of £700,000.

 

[pr0sl0]

For what it's worth, some friends and I have found that it's super easy to get another booster even if you're under-50 and otherwise not eligible. Just go to a walk-in centre and say you're looking after a relative with an autoimmune disorder. They don't do any checks or anything.

Did it back in September and really glad I did, a huge % of people I know have come down it and/or flu over the last few months, but I've been fine.