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Fuck this is grim. Makes me really anxious as two days ago my sisters father in law was ambulanced to hospital and has been in an HDU ward being given oxygen. Today he was diagnosed with covid pneumonia and his condition has got worse this evening and they are having to increase the amount of oxygen he is being given.
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I have felt very similar over the last 4 weeks also.
Possible that you were under the weather because your body was fighting various viruses, not to the point where you've been struck down, possibly even covid?I also had a horrendous January/Feb with the worst cough I ever remember having. Had to go to the GP in January before a ski trip to the Alps end of Jan to check if it was serious, was given antibiotics, although probably viral pneumonia.
Suffered alot in the cold air when skiing, and briefly lost sense of taste and smell, which is devastating when surrounded by wine, ham and cheese.Took about 5-6 weeks before I felt ok again, though most of my family didn't seem to get it as bad as I did, though most had a 1 week period of heavy 'flu' at some point between Jan-March.
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You end up second guessing yourself I find.
I got a blood test via my GP, not because I thought I had covid, but because I, and my slightly hypercondriact partner, wanted to check everything was more broadly ok. It was just odd having these two episodes of being wiped out inside a month.
The positive covid result came as a surprise as I was convinced I'd just had a bad cold in Feb - but had I had that in April I'd have been convinced it was Covid.
Fingers crossed for all foremites loved ones at this time. The reports of what doctors and nurses are dealing with this time round are really troubling me. Almost makes me want to go out and clap on my own! Pointless symbolism perhaps, but the indifference to this phase by the general population is also alarming.
Once this is all done those on the front line need to be venerated like war heros. It is insane what they are going through as part of their daily lives while twats on the right still claim the lockdowns are unnecessary. The same twats that get all het up about poppies!
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Made myself cross earlier looking at my local neighbourhood fb group with someone saying "remember that for most people it's a mild illness" and a bunch of other maddening crap (in response to a post by a hospital worker no less appealing for people to stay safe, no less). Too many others supporting them. Grr.
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Hopefully not, though I am Asian.
Don’t remember eating bats for Christmas though.On a more serious note, skiing is fairly socially distanced to within your friends and family group. I had a buff at all times due to my chest and the cold air, and the closest I got to other people were on ski lifts.
It was only once I got back that I heard about the British skiers who ‘brought back’ COVID to the UK, who were at a different resort in the alps the same week.If I did have it, (I’d be surprised that I didn’t), I probably got it from interna tional students coming back to uni after the Christmas break. Martial arts training and teaching isn’t very hygienic or socially distanced.
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The apathy among large swathes of the population is now evident, more than it already was. The Christmas and New Year period is going to accelerate this virus into a bit of a tsunami into 2021. I can only see it getting a lot worse before it gets better.
A friend of mine was invited to a large party for Hogmanay in Glasgow, everyone is welcome, the only caveat being that you can't complain if you get fined and you must pay your own.
For those of us with a conscience and very real worry its time to really hunker down and attempt to weather the storm as best we can.
I'm lucky to live quite rurally, all I do is cycle, literally. (My work life was all but completely removed since...well the whole year)
Good luck.
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I was wondering just now what had happened to the 'Nightingale' hospital at the ExCel:
It's still there--sort of--, but:
Dr Nick Scriven, immediate past president of the Society for Acute Medicine, said: “It is not ‘just the case’ of using the Nightingale hospital as there are simply no staff for them to run as they were originally intended (mini intensive care units).
“They could play a role perhaps if used as rehabilitation units for those recovering but, again, where do we find the specialist staff – the NHS simply does not have the capacity to spare anyone.”
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blood test comes back normal apart from positive for covid antibodies
That's interesting, that you have antibodies after nearly a year
Does that mean you kept a reasonable number of antibodies from then, or have they been reactivated/manufactured when you got covid a second time? -
88,000 deaths in the UK.
UK deaths rise to above 88,000, new figures show
More than 88,000 deaths involving Covid-19 have now occurred in the UK, latest figures show.
A total of 2,986 deaths registered in England and Wales in the week ending 18 December mentioned Covid-19 on the death certificate, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). This is up from 2,756 deaths in the week to 11 December – a rise of 8%.
The increase follows two weeks in which the number of deaths had dropped slightly.
Nearly a quarter (22.9%) of all deaths registered in England and Wales in the week to 18 December mentioned Covid-19 on the death certificate.
A total of 84,641 deaths have so far been registered in the UK where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate, according to the latest reports from the UK’s statistics agencies. This includes 76,669 deaths in England and Wales up to 18 December, which were confirmed by the ONS on Wednesday.
Since these statistics were compiled, a further 3,088 deaths are known to have occurred in England, plus 66 in Scotland, 239 in Wales and 117 in Northern Ireland, according to additional data published on the government’s coronavirus dashboard.
Together, these totals mean that so far 88,151 deaths involving Covid-19 have taken place in the UK, which make the UK’s the highest death toll in Europe so far, ahead of Italy’s overall death toll of 73,029.
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On a more serious note, skiing is fairly socially distanced to within your friends and family group
Alpine ski resorts were basically the warm meat market of Europe. They were the sites of the biggest outbreaks in Feb/March and are directly linked to the initial outbreaks in dozens of countries. The Austrian resort, Ischgl, is linked to cases in 45 countries alone.
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We went to a resort that was very family friendly (Les Saisies) not too far from Contamines-Montjoie where the unlucky British chap went after catching it in Singapore. We were there at the same time too.
I completely understand that during the ski season, one super spreader could could infect dozens/hundreds of people who subsequently flew back home to all the various countries and developed symptoms only once arrived.
Article from 10th Feb, which states that more than 900 people had died.... now at 1.77 million dead...
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