The other C word (Covid)

According to yesterdays Guardian - the UK is “flying blind” this Autumn
The UK is nearly “flying blind” when it comes to Covid this autumn, experts have said, amid an increase in cases
While the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) continues to track some metrics of Covid, including hospitalisation numbers, many of the community surveillance studies tracking infection levels have finished
Now experts have said the situation is leaving the country in the dark about how Covid may play out in the months ahead.
Christina Pagel, a professor of operational research at University College London, said a new wave of Covid appeared to be under way – possibly driven by waning immunity, new variants of Omicron, and factors including poor weather keeping people inside
A recent spike for instance has been attributed to packed cinemas (often with older people) for “Oppenheimer” and do we all still test? Does anybody really know about the incidence in their area? Answers on a postcard!

I know it’s still around, a friend had it a couple of weeks ago and as I’ve a bit of a cough, I tested on Friday, negative.
I was looking online recently for any mention of an autumn booster, none found.

I was on a packed coach day trip yesterday. I sat behind the driver and he coughed all day long. Same with a woman behind me. It gave me the heeby jeebies (?) I’d forgotten about Covid, but it certainly came back into my mind and I’m vaccinated.

I would say be very careful this just hasn’t gone away. I work in childcare and the children breed germs. I’ve had a sore throat temperature and feeling unwell symptoms of covid. My sister lives alone 10 miles from me and has got the same symptoms. Bath have streaming eyes ( hay fever) ?? I’m sure it’s been covid.where I work I’ve been told it’s up to us if we want to test but don’t have to.😏

Soooo - just be aware, this particular illness has not gone, it's just been lying dormant but is now (partly because of the weather being so bad, apparently) starting to spread again.

But we have been told this so many times. No, it hasn't gone and no, it never will do. It will always be with us, just like the common cold, just like the flu. So we have to accept it, live with it and try to stop the awful panic about it. There is no choice.

Just carry on with the vaccinations when offered because they do stop Covid affecting people as much as it did pre-vaccinations. And cope with it as best you can if and when you do catch it.

I've heard of several people who have or have had Covid recently, in particular three who have returned from holidays overseas.
One has been very ill but had been fully vaccinated, luckily, and has recovered. His wife, who has been suffering with Long Covid for two years, did not catch it. 🤔

The big Covid centre near to me has closed (I was volunteering there) it is not being re-opened in the Autumn as the Government will no longer fund it.. so I think that any future vaccinations here will be in mobile Centres... if they're going to be still offered to anyone..

My daughter's partner has been really poorly with Covid - fully vaccinated and young and fit, but completely wiped out in June and still exhausted now in August.

We will continue to test if we have symptoms, we were both unwell on returning from a flight abroad but both tested negative even though MrOops was worse than when he had Covid a year or so ago, (he had the same symptoms)
If we test Positive we will avoid going out where there are unsuspecting ( and possibly immuno compromised) people.

I meant to add, this is the same way we would behave if we had the ‘flu.

It isn’t like the common cold and it isn’t like flu. Someone I follow on Facebook has just died of it. The problem is that any measures put in place to protect the old and vulnerable will be bad for the economy and the government can’t have that. I’d like to know what measures they have put in place in case of a resurgence. Bet, if they have done anything it won’t have cost as much as the Rwanda scheme.

I certainly hope that we will offered a booster this Autumn. I had Covid badly and was hospitalised and no way do I want to repeat that. I haven’t heard anything about Covid boosters this year and I’m worried. We’ve already been invited to go for our flu vaccinations, in July for goodness sake, what’s that all about? Far, far too early! Flu season isn’t until Nov to March (approximately) so why offer flu vaccines in July but no Covid vaccines at all. I’ll pay for one if the government aren’t going to provide them.

The guy that does my decorating caught covid. He was super fit: did lots of rowing. Was a scout leader. Developed asthma after he’d had covid and has now had to stop doing both. We asked at Boots recently when we booked our flu jabs if they were doing covid jabs and they said they didn’t know.

My daughter messaged me this morning to tell me she and her 12 year old have felt unwell for the last two days and both tested positive this morning!

I’ve had a look on the government website and it says that some people will be offered vaccinations in Autumn. I’m 70 now and hoping that I’ll be offered a vaccine this time round. The European Centre for the Prevention of Disease and Control is advising vaccinations this Autumn for 60 years and older. Hoping our government takes notice.

You can still get free vaccinations here ( so far ). Covid is still around and quite a few still wear masks in public.

It isn’t like the common cold and it isn’t like flu.

But it is exactly like a common cold and like the flu. Both unpleasant, especially flu, just like Covid. And people do die of the flu, still. But they also die of other things that were neglected during the Covid crisis, e.g. cancer.

And all the damage caused by the panicked reaction to Covid - I never want to see that again. For me, personally, that was far, far worse than the disease itself ever was.

Covid.... yes its alive and kicking in me and my husband. I hadn't given it much thought to be honest considering it wasn't in the news 24/7 and in everyone's conversation. So when he said he felt rough and lifeless, I thought surely it cant be Covid!! So he did a test ( I have some tests under the stairs ) lo and behold it was, then the following day I had runny nose, headache blah blah so once again under the stairs I ventured for my own test and yep..... I had it too.

Now he is feeling back to normal ( so much so that he is cutting the lawn !! ) and me? Well I resemble a limp lettuce.

My son has Covid he’s really poorly with it .it’s totally wiped him out .he’s fit and only in his 40s

CatsCatsCats

^It isn’t like the common cold and it isn’t like flu. ^

But it is exactly like a common cold and like the flu. Both unpleasant, especially flu, just like Covid. And people do die of the flu, still. But they also die of other things that were neglected during the Covid crisis, e.g. cancer.

And all the damage caused by the panicked reaction to Covid - I never want to see that again. For me, personally, that was far, far worse than the disease itself ever was.

Prior to the vaccine covid was a killer. And, if it was done in what seemed to be a panic it was because the government chose to ignore what was happening in other parts of the world because they were too busy getting Brexit done (along with, in the case of Johnson, sorting out his personal life). The government had been offered the means by which testing could be done (please listen to the The Rest is Politics Leading interview with Paul Church’: but hey, why take the advice of a Nobel Science winning scientist when you’ve got Matt Hancock sorting everything out) but they chose to wait until they could hand out lucrative contracts to their mates.

CatsCatsCats

^It isn’t like the common cold and it isn’t like flu. ^

But it is exactly like a common cold and like the flu. Both unpleasant, especially flu, just like Covid. And people do die of the flu, still. But they also die of other things that were neglected during the Covid crisis, e.g. cancer.

And all the damage caused by the panicked reaction to Covid - I never want to see that again. For me, personally, that was far, far worse than the disease itself ever was.

It might have been for you CatsCatsCats but it wasn’t for me. I nearly died with it, twelve days in hospital, nine different drugs, pneumonia on my lung, on oxygen for eleven days. Now I’ve got nerve problems in my hand and evidence emerging that Covid causes nerve damage. So probably not good to say it’s not so bad. It’s not, if you don’t have it bad!

CatsCatsCats

^It isn’t like the common cold and it isn’t like flu. ^

But it is exactly like a common cold and like the flu. Both unpleasant, especially flu, just like Covid. And people do die of the flu, still. But they also die of other things that were neglected during the Covid crisis, e.g. cancer.

And all the damage caused by the panicked reaction to Covid - I never want to see that again. For me, personally, that was far, far worse than the disease itself ever was.

No, it isn't like a common cold or flu. Potentially, Covid affects every part of the body, including the brain, and the effects can be long-term. Neither a cold or flu does that.

I’m taking part in a Covid vaccine medical trial. I’ve been given a Moderna vaccine, either the regular one or a tweaked one a couple of weeks ago. I won’t know for 12 months which one it was. This will be my 5th dose.
We can not keep running away from this. Like others have said, people die of flu. It’s up to each one of us to take the precautions we feel are personally required. This is what should have happened from the start of the pandemic. Maybe we we wouldn’t be in the NHS backlog and economic m as we are in.

DD2 caught it from a work colleague who knew they had it but didn't feel ill. She didn't tell my daughter who had lunch with her. This meant that DD2 never got to see DD1 until the last day of her holiday here. They rarely have a chance to meet and it was a great shame but now there is no bar on going anywhere with it if you feel ok obviously it is going to spread quickly. We now know people who have suffered from long Covid and one who has suffered from having the vaccine.