Covid

It's nasty virus. I had it last year and I don't want it again, so I know how you're feeling. I think treating it as a bad case of flu. Rest, staying hydrated and eating even small nourishing snacks if you can't face eating a meal, is the way to get through this. Obviously if you feel it's worse than that, or you have difficulty breathing then you need medical attention.
I fainted a couple of times then read that it's one of the symptoms.

Hope you have help to get in meds and provisions etc. Treat yourself with care and it does get better. Not right away, but day by day and you will get through this.

Thank you my husband started first now me and my daughter together. Not good when more than one in the house

We’ve only just stopped being really cautious so I’m sure we’ll end up catching it at some point, especially as we’ve stopped wearing masks in shops (not that we go in many) because nobody wears them any more. Hope you feel better soon.

I noticed the other day that cases are on the rise and there are several that I know about where I live. I had it after Christmas and was really unwell for a couple of days, and not great for a week. However my DH who is vulnerable managed to avoid it so it can be done. Hope you are feeling better soon.

Apparently cases are rising again, not sure if there’s a new variant. With immaculate timing the government is no longer doing the random public sampling that let them estimate the number of cases, so the only way to judge is by hospital admissions. There will be no real way of knowing what is in the community. To me that is concerning. If cases are low I would carry on as normal, but higher rates and I would be far more cautious.
It is a horrible illness. Look after yourself Nanderin. I hope you feel better very soon.

Because I saw this thread...and have been feeling off colour since Monday,....woke up feeling really poorly today...did an LFT and its positive...

It's not only a horrible illness, but having it doesn't confer any immunity. (All that guff early in the pandemic about 'letting it run through the population so that they develop herd immunity' was so scientifically wrong).

I went to the theatre last night with some friends. A man seated behind us was coughing deep chesty coughs at intervals all through the performance. Just like the coughs Mr M and I had when we had covid (mildly) a few weeks ago. We all agreed on the way out that we wished we had had masks with us. Now keeping our fingers crossed that we'll be OK..

It's a tragedy that our government is acting as though it no longer exists when cases and deaths are rising and it's still clogging up the NHS. And we don't know what long term effect it's having on the younger people and children who get it.

Nanderin

Hi 3yrs avoided covid and yesterday we tested positive for covid. Feeling not well at all.

Why were you testing? Because of vulnerable people where you work?

We test every time we feel off colour with cold like symptoms or a sore throat. Just routine here.

With immaculate timing the government is no longer doing the random public sampling that let them estimate the number of cases, so the only way to judge is by hospital admissions.

I'm not sure that's true Caramme. Why do you think that?

I've got it too, after three years of avoiding it. First tested positive on the 22nd and still positive today. But I feel better thank goodness. It was a bit grim.

Our DIL attended a function early last week, felt ill on Thursday, tested positive and now so has our eldest DGD. Awaiting news to find out whether DS and younger DGD have also succumbed. It's not over yet folks

I don't think the government can be held entirely responsible for a lack of information regarding Covid cases outside of hospital, because not everyone tests now.

OK, here's the data.

It comes out every Friday at lunchtime.

www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/coronaviruscovid19infectionsurveypilot/24march2023

I read you don't have to inform of you positive test unless you get free nhs kits. I don't know why because they are the same manufacturer I had to pay nearly £10 for 5. I really don't understand when it's rising again.

Nanderin

I read you don't have to inform of you positive test unless you get free nhs kits. I don't know why because they are the same manufacturer I had to pay nearly £10 for 5. I really don't understand when it's rising again.

You really don't understand why it's rising again, Nanderin?.

Really? 😨

You don't understand why a highly infectious airborne disease is rising in a population where absolutely no mitigations are in place to reduce its incidence?

Not only highly infectious but also able to cause long term, life changing harm to some of the people who get it.

It is no surprise to me that infections are rising, and are probably far more than those reported.

Sorry I meant I don't understand why we don't have to report it when positive

The reason that you don't have to inform of a positive test is nothing to do with the test, its to do with the fact the people who are particularly vulnerable or work with people who are particularly vulnerable, get the tests for nothing.

So saying you should report if you get the test for free, is proxy for saying you shoudl report if you or the people you meet daily are vulnerable.

Cases may be rising but compared to what we have had in the past the incidence is tiny.

Now we need to stop scaremongering. Look at the data.

I still have the NHS app on my phone. Now received notification it’s being discontinued from the end of April.

I tend to test if I feel a little off normal because I have had Covid twice and if it wasn't for the test I wouldn't know I had it.
I suspect many have it and don't even know because it's not always a terrible illness like flu it can be asymptomatic.
We are not alone in having no mitigations along with other countries in Europe.

Cases may be rising but compared to what we have had in the past the incidence is tiny.

We don't want what we had in the past, do we?

And the rising cases are only those that are reported. Or are the figures extrapolated from the reported ones?

I wonder how people have had it, not tested, because there is no requirement, and thought it was just a bad cold? That's what I thought, it was only when Mr M had unmistakeable covid symptoms that we tested. And our son got it, too. No results reported anywhere.

It is not a 'normal' illness. Why is it being dismissed as such?

Unlike flu covid does not appear to be a winter virus, but is having a peak every few months.

The latest death rate involving covid in U.K. was 619 in week ending 17 March. Most of the deaths are in the over 75 age group with the majority over 85.
I guess this is not really unexpected.

MaizieD

^Cases may be rising but compared to what we have had in the past the incidence is tiny.^

We don't want what we had in the past, do we?

And the rising cases are only those that are reported. Or are the figures extrapolated from the reported ones?

I wonder how people have had it, not tested, because there is no requirement, and thought it was just a bad cold? That's what I thought, it was only when Mr M had unmistakeable covid symptoms that we tested. And our son got it, too. No results reported anywhere.

It is not a 'normal' illness. Why is it being dismissed as such?

I remember when the pandemic first started one doctor saying he’d never seen anything like it. And it most likely thrives on complacency. Are they still doing research into anti virals I wonder? Mind you, wouldn’t surprise me if funding has been cut for such things. I also wonder what planning is in place if it mutates again?

I totally agree with you.