Coronavirus Pandemic

[gilesgoat]

Moderna day 2 : I FEEL LIKE *CRAP* !

Woke up certain time of the night to go in the loo, best I can describe it "every bone/muscle/nerve(?) aching badly" .. also a sort of headache ( and I am still like that now ) ..

Tireness .. not "massive head aching" but "enough to make you feel like shit-dont-want-to-do-anything".

Classic "real bad cold sympthoms" strangely enough NO sore throat, NO fever, NO runny nose ( actually feeling quite 'dry' ), NO chest pain but yeah the feeling like "someone been punching me all night while I was alseep now I am really sore".

And and overall sense of "I am so tired, I am so light headed" ...

Well I am guessing "the vaccine is doing its work" ..

So overall, had the vaccine around 3PM .. some VERY MILD tireness sympthoms start to appear around 10 PM ... but around 11 PM .. 12 AM .. "something a bit more serious started to come up" .. then I went bed, at some point I got awake "EVERYTHING WAS HURTING", strangely enough "the ears mucles" of "the ears themselves but NOT the ear drums really 'the ears' " ..

Ah yes I some point went to the loo came back had " a super chilling shivering spine experience " like BRRRRRRR ! MEGA COLD ! .. did last some mins .. I guess .. I don't know .. spent all the rest of time falling asleep/waking up, NOT a good sleep.

So yeah "has SOME effects, your mileage may vary", certainly takes a while to manifest.

I may return back in bed later, can't see me doing much "serious stuff" today

[Rhythm]

Jabbed. 4th attempt to get the booster actually paid off. It took an hour to get into the place because apparently appointments mean nothing, plus there was anti-vax abuse being dished as we waited outside, and following the "exit" sign meant me and some other folks got abuse from security guards for wandering into a "staff only" section but aside from that it was all great

[zip accident]

Booster yesterday.

Took three nurses, one for the shot, one on a laptop, one asking questions. The shot when they were ready was fine, bing, bang, bosh done, under a minute. The nurse on the laptop asked for my DoB and name, then the one asking questions asked me the same, then if I had had a positive covid test, seemed surprised when I told her I hadn't had a negative one either, then a bunch more, must have taken easily five minutes when they had a queue backing up.

This was my third Moderna, arm is sore, feel a little cold which may be due to the room temperature, but not bad and nothing else.

[Cloudane]

Yeah day 2 of Moderna is shit, I crawled into work, crawled back again and ended up sleeping the rest of the day

Day 3 was ok though, some mild bleh in the morning that cleared up

[KlaxonCow]

Well, the consolation is that, if you're getting some side effects, then at least you know it's working.

[KlaxonCow]

Well, Drakeford's getting strict about things, even if Boris isn't:

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wale ... d-22528904

People in Wales can now be fined for not working from home

A £60 fine for employees and up to £10,000 for employers
[...]
“Further to our long-standing advice for people to work from home wherever possible, from Monday this will now be a legal requirement to work from home unless there is a reasonable excuse not to. We expect employers to take all reasonable steps to facilitate home working and provide employees with the support they need."

The regulations include a requirement for businesses to take all reasonable measures, including allowing or requiring people to work from home, to minimise the risk of exposure to coronavirus. According to the Welsh Government the enforcement approach can include premises improvement and closure notices. A person who fails to comply a notice could receive a fixed penalty notice of £1,000 for the first notice, rising to up to £10,000.

"Work from home" was always the recommended advice in Wales, but it's now a legal requirement, with some hefty fines to ensure compliance.

[PFVA]

And at midnight on Christmas Eve instead of Father Christmas we will have the arrival of the 'Containment Period' measures (they are not called confinement anymore).

In practice they apply more to the New Year's Celebrations. All street partying will be forbidden, Reveillons at hotels and restaurants will require vaccination certificate and negative testing. Cultural events too. Bars and discos are closed till January 10. Telecommute mandatory, etc, etc.

Algarve hotels are already screaming that reservations for New Year's réveillons are being cancelled. Bars and disco owners association is also screaming. Their point is if they are closed people will party in garages and similar places and it will even be worse in terms of virus propagation.

47% of the new infections are already Omicron.

[NorthWay]

Got my booster dose today (my first Moderna) after going to a drop-in service with no queue at all. Can't say I'm feeling anything yet (well, slight sore around the needlemark, but you can't escape that).

[gilesgoat]

Second day of Moderna still feeling a bit rough ..

Approximatively I'd say "it took about 12 hours" to start showing some effect .. but man if it did .. today feeling less tried but still quite a bit light headed and "muscular pain" the kind of "bad cold/flu muscular pain".

I can definitely "do things" but I would not do "heavy stuff" (i.e. jobs requiring too much attention/physical strenght ).

[NorthWay]

Got my booster dose today (my first Moderna) after going to a drop-in service with no queue at all. Can't say I'm feeling anything yet (well, slight sore around the needlemark, but you can't escape that).

Famous last words. Woke up in the middle of the night and felt chilled and tried to get up the temperature - after failing for a long while I decided to get up and put on some socks and as soon as I drop my duvet I start shaking so hard it was hard to get my socks on. Sure enough, I have a fever and popped a Paracet which made me feel better (and an Ibux a while later), but it still shows my temperature elevated. Got truck all sleep during the night so I expect concentration to nosedive in not too long.
(Also, for some reason I got real peckish after the tablets started working so I have probably had my daily ration of energy already.)

[gilesgoat]

Got my booster dose today (my first Moderna) after going to a drop-in service with no queue at all. Can't say I'm feeling anything yet (well, slight sore around the needlemark, but you can't escape that).

Famous last words. Woke up in the middle of the night and felt chilled and tried to get up the temperature - after failing for a long while I decided to get up and put on some socks and as soon as I drop my duvet I start shaking so hard it was hard to get my socks on. Sure enough, I have a fever and popped a Paracet which made me feel better (and an Ibux a while later), but it still shows my temperature elevated. Got truck all sleep during the night so I expect concentration to nosedive in not too long.
(Also, for some reason I got real peckish after the tablets started working so I have probably had my daily ration of energy already.)

Told you .. "take a while" but then "effects appear", I too had this "oh it's nothing" but then 12 hours later went to "NO IT IS SOMETHING!!" ..

[Rhythm]

Day after Moderna v3: Arm mildly sore, general feeling of head cold - too awake to sleep, too groggy to focus, too fatigued to play guitar... All a bit meh, really

Still, better than Moderna v2, which legitimately knocked me out for about 6 hours

[gilesgoat]

13.02 PM .. still quite some "muscular/nerve pain" .. especially in the lover back/left leg .. it's just .. PAIN .. but at leat the brain ( appars to be ) is working

[merman]

So Rishi Sunak waves the Government chequebook around and gets to act all benevolent.

£1 billion for businesses!


Only... it’s £6,000 per business premises. When the average hospitality business is losing more than that each week staying closed.

And let’s not forget two key facts.

In the last week Sunak missed a Cabinet meeting and a COBRA emergency briefing. He had swanned off to California to meet US healthcare businesses, getting ready to flog off more of the NHS.

And Sunak is one of the key voices in Cabinet opposing more restrictions. Blood on his hands.

[Harlequin]

Only... it’s £6,000 per business premises. When the average hospitality business is losing more than that each week staying closed.

Which hospitality businesses have closed?