Coronavirus Pandemic

[WiteWulf]

When a report is so accurate and reliable that you feel the best outlet for it is Fox News, you know there's something wrong...

[NorthWay]

National numbers are still low, but they seem to be slowly climbing again. Last time they did that it didn't take all too long to die down. We'll have to wait and see. (If winter could just give up the ghost and we'd have the warm weather effect on the spreading - still snowing as I type.)

[merman]

Latest figures show 8,000 hospitalised in the UK with COVID - the week they stop publishing regular stats and start to scale back the NHS App.

But.. they are still using the App to remind people to book a spring booster.
5 million eligible, predominantly elderly in care but also immune suppressed (like me).
That means I will get doses in May and November (there will be an autumn programme of vaccination, currently planned to be bivalent vaccines offering better protection against Omicron.)

That still leaves 500,000 severely ill people who cannot receive a vaccine - and they are entering their fourth year of shielding.

[(o)(o)]

Second run here a nice strong positive..



Very different to the first time around March 2020...

13 days in... similarly if not more intense fever, but no delirium, loss of smell, breathing difficulties or other weird symptoms.. after a few days just cold symptoms, a lingering cough and a bit of gloop on the lungs... actually in the middle of it, transitioned to feeling better than before.. I feel great.. (probably as I quit drinking)... except for this mind-numbing fatigue..

Stroll to the bathroom and back for a pee, and I'm ready for a lie down..

Barely seem to have the energy to lift a fork to eat..

[Cloudane]

Get well soon

My second run a few weeks back was runny nose for a day, general malaise for a day or two then felt fine and line went away after 7 days

[merman]

Get well soon.
I’m still trying to take as many precautions as I can. Hoping I get called for my booster before I go in for my hernia op.

[(o)(o)]

Thanks both.. and GL with your op merman, keep us posted!

So my secpmd Covid experience wasn't too bad.. but.. after the fever and headaches, just weird..

Felt generally okay after about 2 weeks just the lingering cough.. and at the time of posting the above a lethargy crept in.

Still feel like.. wide awake, physically, calmer / better than before, like i've had a 'reset'.. but this lack of energy / slightly spaced out feeling.. it's weird AF.

Mood is noticeably different.. flat.. no highs, no lows.. calm.. but flat.

I've also realised, my sense of smell is probably operating at about 20% of what it was.

I guess it's mild 'long covid..

One has to remember this isn't a respiratory infection.. it's a viral infection, that gets into ones brain.

[KlaxonCow]

I guess it's mild 'long covid..

One has to remember this isn't a respiratory infection.. it's a viral infection, that gets into ones brain.

Indeed.

I've been there with the mild Long Covid, so you have my sympathies.

Still feel like.. wide awake, physically, calmer / better than before, like i've had a 'reset'.. but this lack of energy / slightly spaced out feeling.. it's weird AF.

Yeah, it's a hard one to describe - and, no doubt, your version of it ain't the same as mine was either.

But those Pink Floyd lyrics from Comfortably Numb jump out: "you would not understand. This is not how I am".

I was like that for months. Externally, just fine and dandy. To everyone else, the same person I always was.

But, internally, just this slightly spaced out feeling. Feeling distant from my own existence, weirdly. Somehow just not feeling quite right. Not feeling 100% "me".

But it does eventually pass. Which you might need to know, if it lasts a few months for you too. It can be horridly slow to pass - hence the name "long Covid" - but it does pass.

One thing I was spared, though. My sense of taste and smell were never (at least noticeably to me) affected.

[PFVA]

Apparently there is a new sub variant of Omicron mostly in India but with cases in other countries such as the USA,
the XBB.1.16, also known as Arcturus. Apparently as a new symptom, conjunctivitis (also called pink eye in English), specially in children and adolescents.

The WHO considers it of interest but not very serious at least for now.

What I'm wondering is how someone can tell they have it or not. I often have watering eyes is not uncommon due to pollution, saharan dust and things like that during dry spells. Unless I remember to do the test is going to be difficult to sort it apart. And something tells me in India it will be even a bigger problem if everything I hear about pollution in places like Mumbai.

[F-ZeroOne]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-65321937

A very tragic case, that is no doubt going to be misused by the usual suspects.

[(o)(o)]

I guess it's mild 'long covid..

One has to remember this isn't a respiratory infection.. it's a viral infection, that gets into ones brain.

Indeed.

I've been there with the mild Long Covid, so you have my sympathies.

Still feel like.. wide awake, physically, calmer / better than before, like i've had a 'reset'.. but this lack of energy / slightly spaced out feeling.. it's weird AF.

Yeah, it's a hard one to describe - and, no doubt, your version of it ain't the same as mine was either.

But those Pink Floyd lyrics from Comfortably Numb jump out: "you would not understand. This is not how I am".

I was like that for months. Externally, just fine and dandy. To everyone else, the same person I always was.

But, internally, just this slightly spaced out feeling. Feeling distant from my own existence, weirdly. Somehow just not feeling quite right. Not feeling 100% "me".

But it does eventually pass. Which you might need to know, if it lasts a few months for you too. It can be horridly slow to pass - hence the name "long Covid" - but it does pass.

One thing I was spared, though. My sense of taste and smell were never (at least noticeably to me) affected.

Thanks for this - I don't always respond in a timely manner, brain fog isn't helping) I do read and appreciate replies

I saw and recall many of your posts about your long covid experience.

You describe pretty well my spaced out / depersonalisation feeling.. seem to becoming normalised to it right now.

Despite the cognitive issues there's a calmness that I'm getting with it.. weird because I feel sort of relaxed as if my blood pressure is down.. however on the contrary it's gone up (and it nudged up a few points after my first Covid infection March 2020 when previously was well managed by meds)..

So I'm getting like 150/100.. (just about 135/95 after self-relaxation exercises) and some other issues..

[After a couple of beers and anxiety meds I get near perfect 115/70 ]

On Tuesday I stood up went to wash some dishes. Heart rate went to 140.. that's what I'd expect after a good brisk walk for 30 minutes!

Then it shot down to 60... then up to 135.. then down to 65 and so on.. just standing there.

Looks like covid has got to both heart and brain...

GP is sending me for chest Xray to look at heart/lungs, and full bloods. I don't doubt I have inflammation.. hoping no tissue scarring/permanent damage

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-65321937

A very tragic case, that is no doubt going to be misused by the usual suspects.

ISTR Rik posted a case of a young woman he knew who died from the vax. There has always been a small risk with all vaccines.

There's some real cognitive dissonance going on with people who think the covid vaccines are causing blood clots (and other issues) which are clearly caused by covid - and possibly some residual effects of lockdown etc.

The lockdown leaks contain nothing to suggest midazolam was being used to euthenize the elderly (as mental as that suggestion is).. even if there have likely been casualties of lax protocols. There's no smoking gun in there at all. Yet these leak are being latched on to suggest the exact opposite!

It's started to look like denialism caused by fear, very ironic.. considering the most likely vax injury is a sore arm.

[(o)(o)]

The BHF is finally properly acknowledging covid is a vascular disease

https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsuppo ... od-vessels

The pandemic is far from over. Expect to see huge numbers of casualties from the effects of this bioweapon for years. Carried in the blood stream it can reach and penetrate all parts of the body, creating microclots in capillaries that prevent organs from functioning properly, neurological and immune system damage. The WHO suggest 10% of infections will result in a person needing care. Individuals exposed to multiple infections are increasingly prone to permanent debilitating organ failure.

We are just beginning to see a trickle of acknowledgement of this in MSM under the banner of long covid. Presumably this will escalate to a flood as the cumulative effects mount on our communities and push healthcare systems to breaking point.

[merman]

The BHF is finally properly acknowledging covid is a vascular disease

https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsuppo ... od-vessels

The pandemic is far from over. Expect to see huge numbers of casualties from the effects of this bioweapon for years. Carried in the blood stream it can reach and penetrate all parts of the body, creating microclots in capillaries that prevent organs from functioning properly, neurological and immune system damage. The WHO suggest 10% of infections will result in a person needing care. Individuals exposed to multiple infections are increasingly prone to permanent debilitating organ failure.

We are just beginning to see a trickle of acknowledgement of this in MSM under the banner of long covid. Presumably this will escalate to a flood as the cumulative effects mount on our communities and push healthcare systems to breaking point.

A record 2.5 million UK adults not working due to long-term illness. Caused by both long COVID and musculoskeletal problems from working at home at inadequate desks.

Get my spring booster on Thursday, before I go into hospital for my (delayed) op.
But very worried that my local trust has been badly hit by staff absence due to COVID & related stress.

[PFVA]

It's baaaack.

They're alerting the cases here are on the rise. They didn't say but it may be the Eris variant on the American news for a while.

They think that the 1 million visitors for the Catholic Youth Encounter may have helped the spreading.

[PFVA]

No vax centers this year but everybody over 60 and risk groups will be able to get thee vaccine at the pharmacies just as they do with the flu one. That's convenient.