Coronavirus Pandemic

[Orava]

When I was in the hospital there was a thin stream of Corona patients coming in, all very elderly

[PFVA]

Two of the hospitals in Lisbon just made masks mandatory for the staff and visitors due to an increase in cases and the new strain, ERIS.

When I went for medical tests last Wednesday I was the only person wearing a mask. A small waiting room, full of people, closed windows, a bit better system of air circulation than before Covid, but still not enough but people don't seem to have the initiative of wearing those unless is made mandatory.

Portugal is also recording the highest number of Mpox cases in Europe, with an average of 5 new ones a week, all in Lisbon. I keep having this feeling that Lisbon needs a big campaign of disinfection. Everybody disinfecting everything.

[F-ZeroOne]

German man apparently had 217 - no, thats not a typo - COVID vaccinations (!):

https://www.theguardian.com/society/202 ... ts-germany

It will be interesting to see how the anti-vaccination crowd react to this, assuming the reports are accurate.

[Deckard]

German man apparently had 217 - no, thats not a typo - COVID vaccinations (!):

https://www.theguardian.com/society/202 ... ts-germany

It will be interesting to see how the anti-vaccination crowd react to this, assuming the reports are accurate.

Its a belief system - facts dont come into it.....

[tufty]

I bet he gets really good cellphone signal.

[F-ZeroOne]

German man apparently had 217 - no, thats not a typo - COVID vaccinations (!):

https://www.theguardian.com/society/202 ... ts-germany

It will be interesting to see how the anti-vaccination crowd react to this, assuming the reports are accurate.

Its a belief system - facts dont come into it.....

Oh, I'm very much aware of that. I'm just curious to see how they're going to try and square the circle this time, especially as some of the more lunat... extreme ones believe one dose of a vaccine is near instant death.

[PFVA]

Covid 19 is back around here.
I have been hearing that at the café for around 2 weeks.
Yesterday the news warned we are averaging 400 new cases and 12 deaths a day.

[Orava]

I had the one vaccination and was quite sick for the next couple of days. But still better than having the virus. I probably already had the virus, very early into the epidemic, I thought it was just flu but the symptoms very very peculiar.

[Cloudane]

Just had something horrible. 2 days of aching and fatigue, fever, no loss of taste or appetite for food, but it was weekend and I couldn't get more than half a beer down as my body just said "nah I'm full". Had the squits at one point. Bit of everything. Fine just on time for work sadly, still coughing crap up on occasion though

Freshly bought LFT negative after a very thorough swabbing, so who knows. Just seems unusual to have a cold/flu at this time of year.

[gilesgoat]

Just had something horrible. 2 days of aching and fatigue, fever, no loss of taste or appetite for food, but it was weekend and I couldn't get more than half a beer down as my body just said "nah I'm full". Had the squits at one point. Bit of everything. Fine just on time for work sadly, still coughing crap up on occasion though

Freshly bought LFT negative after a very thorough swabbing, so who knows. Just seems unusual to have a cold/flu at this time of year.

No it isn't at all .. actually there's lot of crap around ...

[NorthWay]

I was at a festival Friday-Saturday last week and my friend that I went together with has come down with a positive test and has been in bed with fever for the last two days. We were hanging around together most of the time and she rode with me in my car 3 of 4 legs to and fro (about 1h one way) without me feeling any effects. So far anyway. Maybe my turn last November was warding it off.

[KlaxonCow]

Just had something horrible. 2 days of aching and fatigue, fever, no loss of taste or appetite for food, but it was weekend and I couldn't get more than half a beer down as my body just said "nah I'm full". Had the squits at one point. Bit of everything.

There has been norovirus going around, mind you.

(Friend of mine just had it, as they were texting me for advice, knowing that I'd had it a good few years back.)

There's no subtle way to describe the symptoms. Was your body just completely unable to retain food? Like, that it was "coming out both ends" - very suddenly, without warning - and you have to park yourself very close to the toilet, just in case, for a few days?

It's highly contagious, by the way. Spreads like wildfire. You are advised, with norovirus, to quarantine yourself - because even if you nip out for 5 minutes to the supermarket, you've probably just infected 10 people. It's pretty much "if you've breathed the same air as someone who has norovirus, then you've probably got it".

Just picking up on the refusal of your body to accept food - though, yeah, annoyingly, you don't actually lose your appetite, it's just your body won't retain food - and having the squits.

While I'd normally characterise norovirus as "coming out both ends", there are some people for whom it's only one end - just squits, no vomiting or no squits, just vomiting - so it could still very much be a norovirus thing.

Like, let us remember that other diseases do still exist. And, indeed, lockdown kept them all at bay for a while, so they're all looking for revenge right now.

I'd be more tempted to think it's something non-Covid, just because, you know, though it absolutely does have "additional symptoms" (I'm convinced, from experience, that it does something to the blood - and that's why blood clots and heart palpatations and such were a thing with Covid as well), it is a respiratory virus.

Covid is breathing / circulation stuff, not stomach stuff. What you're describing sounds more like norovirus / stomach bug stuff.

Though, you know, "I am not a doctor and this is not medical advice". But I do know there's some norovirus going around and those symptoms sound more in its ballpark than Covid's ballpark.

Norovirus really is rather horrible to experience. Put it this way, after having it a few years back and hearing that it might be circulating locally, I'm just not going anywhere at all, unless I really have to, and staying at home - because I never want that one ever again.

[Cloudane]

I wasn't super clear, but interestingly, my body was fine with food I had no loss of appetite at all. It's just beer where it was like "nah not today". Trying to drink it was trying to get my autistic ass to make eye contact - just difficult but for no apparent "reason"

Which is unsual for me, as usually I ignore sensible things like staying sober and drinking only lots of water (if I'm going to have a miserable couple of days, I wouldn't mind a drink to take the edge off, is my usual excuse!) and I wouldn't have been throwing anything back up. It was just this weird feeling of massive UNthirst with a beer in front of me.

To my knowledge I've not had norovirus yet and from what i've heard of it, am really not looking forward to it!

I think this was just the good old fashioned flu. "Manflu" (bad cold) perhaps but since learning more about viruses I'm not convinced the flu is always a case of "completely bedridden" like people used to say while handwaving you as a whiner

[snaff]

They want to lock us down again to advance the next stage of their agenda.

[PFVA]

They want to lock us down again to advance the next stage of their agenda.

At least around here so far they are only talking about vaccination.
They're saying that the vaccine of the previous variation of mpox works well against this new one.