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

Has this been posted:
https://www.iflscience.com/brain/even-mild-covid19-linked-to-brain-shrinkage-and-tissue-damage-study-reveals/

Well, have woke up with a sore throat and runny nose but its tree pollen season round here so thats not unusual!

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Sigh. Day 9, faint positive still (NHS branded test).

Had a work meeting last thursday where we ate lunch together and that evening one of us felt ill and tested positive. Since then three others in the meeting have tested positive. So far I am the only one to avoid it and am still negative on the lateral flows. I'm starting to be hopeful I will avoid it. Any anectdata to dispel or back up my hope?

Re this, was it not originally 10 days from test/symptoms?
It's only more recently that two days -ve lateral flows could allow you to release early.

Are people really isolating for 14 days, even with no symptoms?

I got my first positive on Thursday and am still testing positive, though very mild symptoms. Partner has stayed negative in our tiny flat on both LFTs and PCR.

Cancelled the dinner. I'm definitely feeling off colour. Who knows if its my usual allergies, but seems like the right thing to do.

The advice is 10 days from first positive test or symptoms. Implicit is you can leave after 10 regardless of LFT results as, I assume, there is vanishingly little chance of your being infectious.

To add to the anec-data, a couple of weeks ago my son (7) tested positive on an LTF and a PCR for the full 10 days, no symptoms. It was half term and me and my heavily pregnant partner spent the week indoors with him, both of us triple jabbed, no extra precautions in the house, we tested negative on LTF and PCR for ages, and remain 🤞 negative.

In December my partner got it and it was only after 8 days that I eventually tested positive (then a full 10 days before I was released)

Could have been delta instead of omicron. Both were rampant then

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Yup: I caught it after a lunch with friends. Only one half of the table got infected. Those with their backs to the door all dodged illness.

Wait. Does a solid line actually mean “more covid”? It looks like it fades out towards the end?

Looking at my tests I'm confident that it does generally mean that, yes, hence you can leave isolation early if you test negative. But you could also be infectious and test negative, or no longer be infectious but still test positive (after 10-30 days or whatever) so it's clearly not a hard and fast rule.

My partner's were very similar to mine

I'm going to guess that what you've done is googled it and shared the first link that comes up which for reference is a WHO Vaccine safety Net website so not exactly impartial.

Heres John Campbell with an overview, he provides a link so you can read it yourself -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YOD9drZasM&t=113s&ab_channel=Dr.JohnCampbell

John Campbell is an interesting one as he has gone from a vaccine fan boy at the start of the pandemic to a full sceptic.

Heres a little bonus video of JC discussing Ivermectin which I still standby as one of the biggest frauds of the Pandemic. There is now so much real life evidence that Ivermectin works. It has a long standing proven safety profile so why are they still not allowing those who want to use it use it? ££££$$$$

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz4adJXLHgA&ab_channel=Dr.JohnCampbell

See, to watch those videos I'd need two things but I've got neither at the moment

1, 34 minutes to watch both of those
2, Hours of research to work out if that bloke is a foil-hat wearing nutter

I'm going to guess that what you've done is googled it and gone down a conspiracy rabbit hole, so not exactly impartial.

That guys Wikipedia page tells me plenty to avoid listening to anything he says, much like anything you say, because it's all shite.

John Campbell started off ok, and I think he did a good thing by taking somebody who was unlucky enough to get serious side effects* serious. Unfortunately some doctors are dismissing genuine issues that patients have.

As time went on though, rather than a very necessary critical eye, his analysis went sloppy and he's now tending towards low quality analysis in my view.

*Yes about one in a million for many vaccinations, Guillaume barre symptome

Ireland has effectively gone back to normal, no masks needed anywhere anymore, no restrictions on numbers at events, etc etc.

At a wedding on Friday eve, woke up the next morning with a sore throat, put it down to singing too much the night before. Negative antigen test Sunday morning so went out for a punchy 90km spin with 3 mates, felt great after it. Got up yesterday morning and swam 2km before work, with probably the fastest splits I’ve ever swam. Got a text today from a mate that was at the wedding to say he tested positive, so I figured I should test again just in case, and sure enough it was positive.

My wife and 2 month old baby weren’t at the wedding, and although we’ve been going on as normal since Saturday afternoon, I’m now isolating because she tested negative. I’ll continue to isolate until either 7 days have passed, or she tests positive.

I feel fine, I had planned a steady 10km run, but it’s not really in the spirit of isolation to head out with a known infection. Have of course let the lads I was cycling with know, but it was all outdoors so hopefully no transmission.

EDIT: goes without saying that we’re both triple vaxxed (I had my booster on New Year’s Eve, but wife had hers 2 weeks ago as she was in labour on nye), and she’s breastfeeding baby, so hopefully they’ve got a good level of immunity

110k cases. What's happened this week?
It's so far down in the news now it's not even a big deal

I woke up with mild symptoms this morning. Had a chat with my bro and apparently 11 of the people he socialised with this weekend have tested positive so even though I am still neg on a test, I'm going to assume I'm positive!

Looks like I made the right decision to cancel dinner with my friend last night.

Unfortunately means I'll be missing some much needed physio today and can't go to the football tonight. Bummer.

110k cases. What's happened this week?

New variant, waning immunity, no masks and everybody back in offices.

Yeah sure but so sudden? It's been that way for weeks

Yeah sure but so sudden? It's been that way for weeks

I have literally no idea.

If I were to hazard a guess, I'd say that exponential or near exponential growth almost always seems sudden if you're not looking for it. Low numbers for a while and then BOOM

True, true.
Well it's fairly worrying and more so because it's barely making the news