Coronavirus

Are you worried about contracting coronavirus?

  • Yes, I am absolutely terrified

    Votes: 12 15.6%
  • Yes, I am slightly concerned

    Votes: 35 45.5%
  • I am neither concerned or unconcerned

    Votes: 7 9.1%
  • No, I am slightly unconcerned

    Votes: 6 7.8%
  • No, I am totally unconcerned

    Votes: 6 7.8%
  • Bring back the old poll

    Votes: 3 3.9%
  • Charlotte Awbrey tits out doing the Macarena

    Votes: 2 2.6%
  • I believe VoR is evil

    Votes: 11 14.3%

  • Total voters
    77
I would really like to hope that the majority of people wouldn’t knowingly expose people to it. I’m perhaps being charitable in assuming we haven’t reached that stage YET.

Oh I think we have. Based on conversations I hear all the time.
 
Kicked its arse as of yesterday. Few days of lack of energy and crap cold (though had worse ones) and then several days of "will this line kindly fuck off"

 
It seems to have calmed down in our place - I don't think we've had anyone off with it for a couple of weeks. Of course it could just be coincidence that as of a few weeks ago it is being counted on sick records now whereas it wasn't previously. Which means people are more likely to come in when they do have it.

After being in London a fortnight ago I'm amazed how anyone doesn't have it. It was nose to armpit on the underground and I'd say under 5% of people were wearing masks.
 
On three separate occasions in April I spent multiple hours indoors in close company with someone who tested positive 2-4 days later.

I've no idea how I remain so coronafree.
 
Yes, I'm amazed how I've never succumbed, given I carried on working at multiple locations throughout lockdowns using public transport, and how many people I've been working with and family I've been with have had it.
 
I don’t actually have to DO anything now though, do I? Just test every day and avoid people?
 
From Sunday 1 May public health advice will change to a ‘stay at home’ message replacing self-isolation for people who have symptoms or have tested positive for Covid-19.

People who have symptoms of Covid-19 and who have a fever or are too unwell to carry out normal activities will be asked to ‘stay at home’ while they are unwell or have a fever. They will no longer be advised to take a PCR test.

The changes, part of the Test and Protect Transition Plan which was published last month, will also see all contact tracing ending.

As previously announced, testing for the general population will end on 30 April with test sites closing at that point too. However, testing will remain available to certain groups in order to protect high risk settings, support clinical care and for surveillance purposes.

Those groups include health and social care workers, care home and hospital visitors, patients groups eligible for treatment, hospital patients, unpaid carers and people in prison.

Other adults who have symptoms of Covid-19 and other respiratory illnesses and have a high temperature or do not feel well enough to go to work or carry out normal activities, are advised to stay at home until their fever has gone or they feel well enough.
 
Get well Rita!
My mom just messaged me that my dad got it too. Some part of me feels better for happening now that the variant is not that hostile and that he's fully vaccinated but am also a little worried cause my mom hasn't had her 3rd shot yet.
 
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Not that I am doing anything as I made sure I was free to watch Eurovision with you lot tomorrow evening.
 
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As I posted in the Eurovision hangover thread, I've tested positive this morning.

I don't really get it though - I've been feeling a bit shit for weeks with congestion and occasional headaches which I put down to my hay fever/sinusitis which has been an absolute bitch this year - and that hay fever meds helped. So I didn't even really think of testing until Friday, because I noticed then that my chest also felt tight, and the nasal spray I've been using for hay fever, which usually gives pretty instant relief, didn't seem to work. So Friday night I tested, and it was negative.

I didn't go out at all yesterday, but thought I'd test again today as I'm due to see my mum - and now it's positive.
 
As I posted in the Eurovision hangover thread, I've tested positive this morning.

I don't really get it though - I've been feeling a bit shit for weeks with congestion and occasional headaches which I put down to my hay fever/sinusitis which has been an absolute bitch this year - and that hay fever meds helped. So I didn't even really think of testing until Friday, because I noticed then that my chest also felt tight, and the nasal spray I've been using for hay fever, which usually gives pretty instant relief, didn't seem to work. So Friday night I tested, and it was negative.

I didn't go out at all yesterday, but thought I'd test again today as I'm due to see my mum - and now it's positive.

I found it all a bit of an inconvenience more than anything else. Had one night of hot and cold sweats, a few days with a high temperature and a sore throat throughout the 5-6 days I was testing positive. I’m assuming in your line of work you will need to take time off until you show a negative test? Rest up, and enjoy some time to yourself.x
 
I found it all a bit of an inconvenience more than anything else. Had one night of hot and cold sweats, a few days with a high temperature and a sore throat throughout the 5-6 days I was testing positive. I’m assuming in your line of work you will need to take time off until you show a negative test? Rest up, and enjoy some time to yourself.x
I definitely won't be allowed in to work at surgery - and although there are aspects of the job I can do from the office (or home), a lot of it I just can't do unless I'm there.

I don't feel that bad really - it's more of a general malaise. I would go to work if I could. I'll have to call my boss tomorrow morning and see how she wants to play it.
 
The delay to testing positive is such a bitch - it’s like this disease knows how to maximise spreading in a modern medical world.

Oh you have tests now? I’ll see about that… :eyes:
 
Felt really shitty indeed yesterday, more so towards the evening when I felt incredibly achey and feverish, and didn't think I'd manage to sleep much, but to my relief slept the best I have for quite a few nights. Had one of those background kind of headaches this morning and was still a little achey, but feel considerably better now. I've been out for about a 30 minute walk, and although I'm still aware that my chest capacity feels reduced and the walk has tired me a little, fingers crossed I feel as if I've turned a corner.

I haven't done another test yet as there doesn't seem to be too much point until tomorrow when it will determine if I go into work or work from home.
 
You might have a quick relapse on like the 5th or 6th day @lolly a lot of people report that, it’s quite normal and no need to worry
 
You might have a quick relapse on like the 5th or 6th day @lolly a lot of people report that, it’s quite normal and no need to worry
The problem is I don't know when day one was. I'm choosing to ignore that negative test on Friday, as I'd had symptoms a good few days prior to that. I was getting muscle spasms the weekend before last, and apparently that's often an early symptom (I genuinely had no idea about that). As I said, I've had a lot of symptoms which I was putting down to allergies, that I think weren't. I really do think that first test was either a false negative or I fucked the test up somehow.

So I hope I'm a bit further on than the first positive test on Sunday suggests - I'm on day 10 if I go from the muscle spasms, or day 6 if from when I first felt the tightness in my chest, which also came with the first real sense of fatigue. I know I'd be daft to think it's over, and that it's variable, but I haven't felt as relatively well for as long as I have now for a week or so. I've not had any painkillers today, and I haven't managed that for a week, either. So fingers crossed...
 
Tested positive still Wednesday morning but was feeling a lot better other than tiredness, so worked from home that day. As I've said before I hate working from home, so work agreed that although I was still positive, I could work from the office on Thursday as long as I wore a mask. And again, other than tiredness and perhaps a bit of brain fog, felt largely fine.

Then yesterday (when I don't work), I woke up feeling awful - started as a headache but then developed into a horrid very light sensitive migraine, accompanied by fever symptoms of sweating and chills. And still feeling utterly knackered, but unable to lie down as that made the migraine worse. Easily the worst day I've had so far, so @funky's relapse prediction was totally spot on.

Today I feel a lot better - again it's just an overwhelming sense of tiredness over anything else.

How is it going with the Eurovision strain, @COB, @ZenGiraffe ?
 
I've had a cough and just been a bit tired all week. I ended up taking a couple of naps during workdays but this I think is day 6 and I'm fine and tested negative
 
I must have caught a mild strain as I only really felt under the weather the very first day I tested positive. Other than that I had a sore throat in the morning, but felt pretty well otherwise.
 

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