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[servodude]

I felt fine just had bad brain fog on the Monday before my first test

Brain fog on a Monday? If I tested everytime that happened I'd be skint.

There seems to be a nasty "not COVID" going about - gave my 18 year old a litany of about 80% of the symptoms but a negative PCR.
GP referred her to the hospital and they had her in for a few hours on IV to rehydrate, get throat swelling down and kick start a course of antibiotics.

[XFool]

Talking about "living with it" :

First person to have Covid infection for more than a year identified in UK

The Guardian

Researchers at London hospitals call for urgent new treatments for persistent infections

[bungeejumper]

A friend recently spent a week on a narrowboat with six other people, pubbing in the evenings. Immediately after they came back, he tested LFT positive, and a PCR gave the same result. Felt really lousy. All of his friends tested, and all of them were negative. It's an unpredictable bug.

BJ

[Mike4]

A friend recently spent a week on a narrowboat with six other people, pubbing in the evenings. Immediately after they came back, he tested LFT positive, and a PCR gave the same result. Felt really lousy. All of his friends tested, and all of them were negative. It's an unpredictable bug.

BJ

My guess would be he probably caught it in one of the pubs then.

Pubs strike me as a highly likely places to get infected. Lots of people within, a few of whom will be full-on covid deniers, and a few who just don't give a damn about passing it on to strangers. Often poor ventilation and one tends to stay in them for long periods breathing the potentially contaminated air.

[XFool]

Only 29% of UK Covid hospital patients recover within a year

The Guardian

Of the 750,000 hospitalised, many still report fatigue, muscle pain, insomnia and breathlessness, with women worst affected

"Fewer than one in three people who have been hospitalised with Covid-19 have fully recovered a year after they succumbed to infection."

[XFool]

Covid: Discharging hospital patients to care homes 'unlawful'

BBC News

Government policies on discharging patients from hospital to care homes at the start of the Covid pandemic have been ruled unlawful by the High Court.

[XFool]

Covid infections in record drop of nearly one million, says ONS

BBC News

There has been a record drop in the number of Covid infections in the UK, according to the latest estimates from the Office for National Statistics.

[XFool]

The Great Barrington Declaration - Perhaps a bit "Yesterday's News"? But as they still seem to be around it is worth pointing out, IMO:

Two-thirds of the Great Barrington Declaration aren’t even hiding that they are antivax anymore

https://respectfulinsolence.com/2022/05/18/two-thirds-of-the-great-barrington-declaration-arent-even-hiding-that-they-are-antivax-anymore/

Two of the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration appeared on a panel with antivaxxer Steve Kirsch, who thinks COVID vaccines have killed 500K. And they keep denying that they are antivax!

"Over time, GBD proponents (and at least two of the authors, and I bet that you can guess which two) have become more and more antivax and aligned with right-wing politics."

[servodude]

The Great Barrington Declaration - Perhaps a bit "Yesterday's News"? But as they still seem to be around it is worth pointing out, IMO:

Two-thirds of the Great Barrington Declaration aren’t even hiding that they are antivax anymore

https://respectfulinsolence.com/2022/05/18/two-thirds-of-the-great-barrington-declaration-arent-even-hiding-that-they-are-antivax-anymore/

Two of the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration appeared on a panel with antivaxxer Steve Kirsch, who thinks COVID vaccines have killed 500K. And they keep denying that they are antivax!

"Over time, GBD proponents (and at least two of the authors, and I bet that you can guess which two) have become more and more antivax and aligned with right-wing politics."

They were irrelevant at the time and served only as a smoke screen prop for folk who couldn't be bothered

[XFool]

Dream-enactment disorder rose up to fourfold during pandemic, study finds

The Guardian

Exclusive: Condition most prevalent among those who had Covid, raising possibility of link with Parkinson’s disease

[XFool]

Sanctuary: Thousands gather to see Bedworth Covid memorial burned

BBC News

Thousands gathered to watch as a memorial to people who died during the pandemic was ceremonially burned.

"The 20m (65ft) temple, called Sanctuary, was designed by artist David Best and has been open to visitors in Bedworth for the past week."

[pje16]

As this thread has gone the way of Covid (ie almost irrelevant)
let's bring it back to life ( as meeja can't be bothered to say anything about it these days)
the weekly trend for cases increases in the UK is on the rise
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavir ... ekly_table
Just a thought...

[Lootman]

As this thread has gone the way of Covid (ie almost irrelevant)
let's bring it back to life ( as meeja can't be bothered to say anything about it these days)
the weekly trend for cases increases in the UK is on the rise
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavir ... ekly_table
Just a thought...

I know, it is amazing how Covid has just vanished as a news item. Even a month or two ago there were Lemons here telling us that they still wear a face covering or avoiding travel. Where are they now?

[pje16]

I know, it is amazing how Covid has just vanished as a news item. Even a month or two ago there were Lemons here telling us that they still wear a face covering or avoiding travel. Where are they now?

I hadn't been to the supermarket for about 5 weeks (mobility problem - which has now healed)
so least week muscle memory and habit kicked in, and I put my mask on...
felt odd going in and then saw a handful of others with them
TFL still encouarges it, I'll be on the tube on Friday... my money's on it being back to no-one wearing a mask at all

[tjh290633]

I went into our Health Centre this morning and was advised that it was no longer necessary to wear a mask, to my considerable relief. This change came in today, it would appear, although they do ask anyone with a respiratory infection to wear one.

We are getting back to normal.

TJH

[pje16]

That was the centres choice presumably
I went to see an osteopath last week, the sign on practice door asks you to wear one and indeed he does too
(first time I've been to see one, walked in having use crutches, came out not needing them for about 300 metres, wonderful !!!

[redsturgeon]

Even a month or two ago there were Lemons here telling us that they still wear a face covering or avoiding travel. Where are they now?

I am not quite sure what that comment means. Could you clarify please.

John

[XFool]

That was the centres choice presumably
I went to see an osteopath last week, the sign on practice door asks you to wear one and indeed he does too
(first time I've been to see one, walked in having use crutches, came out not needing them for about 300 metres, wonderful !!!

What happened after 300 metres?

[XFool]

Even a month or two ago there were Lemons here telling us that they still wear a face covering or avoiding travel. Where are they now?

Hi!

[pje16]

That was the centres choice presumably
I went to see an osteopath last week, the sign on practice door asks you to wear one and indeed he does too
(first time I've been to see one, walked in having use crutches, came out not needing them for about 300 metres, wonderful !!!

What happened after 300 metres?

The pain came back so badly I need my crutches again
Before the visit to him, I could only do 3 steps before needing them
It's call radiculitis and the recovery takes on average 6-12 weeks and you have good and bad days,but as long as the good days get better yiou are on the mend
I have seen him 3 times now and I'm back to about 90 %