Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

Grim !

keep going Hats i hope it ends soon at least the cats haven't eaten you yet.

Will be time for a Monkey Pox thread soon /trollface

Noooooo don't you dare say that.

Managed to get away with work trip (mingling with 700 people and also transatlantic flights) with no Covid. Just got latest ONS PCR test result back and all negative. I'm guessing having it 3 months ago was beneficial.

So over 2 years into this and having worked in essential retail for all the lockdowns etc I’ve finally tested positive

Coughs pretty grim, definitely not mild, definitely not a fucking cold. Came on pretty quickly from sore throat Friday AM to full blown shivers etc in the evening

Hope you get through the properly ill bit quick and don't push the recovery phase

Hope you recover quickly. My wife and I stayed clear as well until 2 weeks ago, symptoms similar to you for a short period. The thing that crippled me was the he headache, that lasted a couple of days and then just had cold symptoms. Still bunged up now

Do you need any Covid documents for uk - EU travel at the moment? Or everything back to normal

Depends on the country - you'll need to research.

Just tested positive yesterday morning, after feeling a bit "off" and with a strong headache.

Symptoms are not too bad so far. Headache is still there but added to that Im freezing all the time. Mildly soar throat however not really any coughs .

I just been to Germany and no one asked at the border for nha covid pass.

I went to Ireland a few weeks ago and no-one even asked to see a passport!

Spain a couple of months ago required SPTH forms being completed

I find it so wild that the rest of the world can travel around with no covid passes or passports - I had to show my pass to cross from one district of the city I live in to another district. When public transport/shops/offices reopen, we will need to show a covid test in the last 72h to be allowed entrance (recently relaxed from 48h). At least I'm allowed to walk around outside now!! Shanghai lockdown has been a fucking embarrassment and the death toll has been enormous so there's really been no fucking point.

Went to Paris a couple of weeks ago - no-one asked to see documents on the way out or on the way back.

Two days after we came back, felt a bit of a cold creeping in - had a box of lat flow tests left over & did one just to check, very faint positive then totally clear the next day... tickly cough lasted about a week but not bad really, might have been a low level exposure which didn't come to much. After 2 years of managing to dodge it I got it from Mickey Mouse... or maybe one of the 2 million people rammed into Disney Paris that week as they recently relaxed the masks & covid pass rules for entry, felt like all the punters across mainland Europe that deliberately stayed away because of this rule descended en masse.

felt like all the punters across mainland Europe that deliberately stayed away because of this rule descended en masse

You are the traffic.

It got me finally. Asymptomatic positive last July but feel properly shit today.

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True, I'd have preferred if everyone was wearing masks, or at the very least required to prove vaccination status to enter theme parks etc to be fair - until recently both of these measures were still in place & it would maybe have been a bit quieter if they still were. The trip had been postponed every 6 months since early 2020, really didn't fancy rebooking everything again at the last minute - and we didn't stay away because of masks / covid passes, was just how the timing worked out this time.

That's us all back to enforced normality now, roll on monkeypox & the return of personal space.

After 61 days (and 56 covid tests!), Shanghai's citywide lockdown has ended. Could this be due to the absolute scorcher of speech Li Keqiang (2nd in command) gave chastising all the regional governments for fucking the economy? It's certainly not because covid has been eliminated - 3m people in Shanghai are still in lockdown. I went out to get a covid test earlier as mine has expired but the queues at the new testing boxes are huge (and crowded) so I guess I'll live without going indoors for a while. Some friends are not allowed into their houses without a valid test - thankfully not the case for me. The whole thing has been absolutely bonkers. Feels surreal that it's "over". My mental health is pretty fucked. Overwhelmed.

Glad it's some kind of vague improvement, and hopefully a few steps closer to you getting yourself out all together.

Sounds absolutely crazy. Our factory was having groups of workers on site for 2 week periods but they had a couple of outbreaks and the eventual outcome was a group of workers who stayed on-site permanently!

You mentioned that there is still a high death toll, has that started to drop? What is vaccine uptake like over there?

The official death toll from covid is very low, around 700 people. But lots and lots of deaths from other things - anything you'd normally need a hospital for - plus suicides. None of that gets officially reported. So it's hard to put a number on anything, the official figures are obviously bullshit (average age of death significantly higher than the life expectancy??) but to what extent? Who knows.

Vaccines... well, only domestic vaccines are approved here - Sinovac and Sinopharm. When they got rolled out, older people weren't initially allowed to take them, and they remain very resistant to getting vaccinated. From Bloomberg:

About 51% of over 80-year-olds have received two shots and some 20% have gotten boosters, health officials told reporters. Of the 264 million Chinese aged above 60, 52 million are yet to be fully vaccinated, officials said.

During lockdown there has been precisely no drive to vaccinate people. I'm actually officially unvaccinated (my vaccine record is, like everything else in China, linked to my passport number, but unlike everything else, it's impossible to transfer vaccine records from an old passport to a new one) and that hasn't been a problem at all.