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

Govt doesn’t need to pay German companies for vaccines if they can keep us all naturally immune (taps temple*).

anecdotal, but i reckon I knew/follow online ~40 people at glasto and more than half of them have covid

Shit

wasnt there but a good amount of people I know who were at glasto also caught it. they are calling it the glasto strain/mutant

In somewhat more positive anecdata, no one from my group of stewards seem to have got it. Maybe I should write a tweet about it...

How are people finding LFTs now days? I spent a rare night in the pub on Friday and started to feel unwell on Tuesday. I've got a slight fever, sore throat, ear ache and headache but neg for Covid.

Obvs could just be another bug but I feel very similar to how I felt when I had Covid in March. Anybody noticing testing positive later than previously?

My LFT's were very reflective of how I felt.

E.g. Faintest of lines only today, feeling much better

https://twitter.com/Kit_Yates_Maths/status/1542767039814713346

First day back at work (day 15 after testing positive, and probably 17 since first feeling not quite right).
Still coughing, but it's a dry throat / non-productive cough now.
Felt good to ride in (the flatter way).
In the interim, masks and barriers etc have all disappeared at work (hospital). Feels weird seeing everyone's face.

So I do have Covid. Just took a little longer after symptoms started to test pos.

Roughly 90 days since I last tested pos for COvid.

another day of symptoms and is it looking better/worse or different this time? you likely had BA2.0/BA 2.12.1 last time but could be BA4/5 now.
curious as i’m close to 3 months post positive and might start on the masks for transport/shops if the numbers keep on rising.

Another faint line today. Getting stir crazy. At what point is it as good as clear?

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That's very faint. If I had that, was 10+ days after initial symptoms/test and wasn't symptomatic I'd go out. I'd stay away from particularly crowded places and old relatives without a big estate for a while longer.

If I had that, was 10+ days after initial symptoms/test and wasn't symptomatic I'd go out.

7 days, still coughing. I miss my allotment time though, (which is a very solitary activity).

another day of symptoms and is it looking better/worse or different this time? you likely had BA2.0/BA 2.12.1 last time but could be BA4/5 now.

curious as i’m close to 3 months post positive and might start on the masks for transport/shops if the numbers keep on rising.

Definitely better than last time so far. I have the same weird brain fog/euphoria feeling as last time, which is why I felt so sure it was Covid again. Other than that, very sore throat, occasional headache and a bit of a runny nose. A little bit worse than a cold but nothing like last time, which was probably the sickest I've been since I last had proper flu 20+ years ago.

thanks, i’m hoping it’s the same for me and my partner when the inevitable happens...

still wasn’t as bad a flu/virus thing we had in 2018, that involved secondary ear, eye and chest infections, me having to work nearly passing out on the train and a cancelled christmas.

Its obviously only anecdotal but most people I know who have had their 2nd infection found it to be more mild. With the exception of my colleague Jim who had mild Covid last Autumn and is absolutely bed bound with it at the moment.

I think the game we are currently playing is stacked in our favour, but its still possible to lose if you're unlucky.

Jana has symptoms today too...really hoping that she has a mild experience like me.

Hmmm....makes the train less appealing

https://twitter.com/Kit_Yates_Maths/status/1542767039814713346

Scottish CMO just said on C4 news, five days isolation is enough, even if still testing positive, if you feel well enough to go out then crack on as the majority of people will no longer be infectious - his words, not mine

The English NHS count day zero as the first positive and they say you can go back on day 11 even if testing positive.

Early release is negative tests day 5 and 6, go back to work day six but meant to have risk assessment to stay away from vulnerable people.

Schools just don't seem to bother......

The cough goes on forever, long after the lft goes negative

I seemed to get off lightly on the cough - it was fairly short-lived unlike the random cough/laryngitis I got at Christmas - but I found the brain-fog/daze goes on and on.

As an employer do you mean?

The app just told me I’m free 5 days after the day zero test.

Generally feeling better today but went for a walk round the block for air this evening and got a few hundred metres before giving up and shuffling home. No shortness of breath or sweating but felt like I’d done an hour of hard exercise.

I was hoping to play football Monday eve, which seems unlikely now!

Just saw black van discreetly labelled private ambulance take away the bodies of two elderly-ish neighbours. She had long standing disability and he was recently confirmed his cancer returned. I’m saddened at the thought that covid would’ve impacted their access to treatment and to their support network.

Fuck this disease.

Mrs EB's tested positive this morning. I feel like I've got a bit of a headache, sore throat, yet I'm testing negative. Can it take a few days before testing positive? First time for me (and Mrs EB) if so....