Coronavirus Pandemic

[merman]

A million registered new cases in the last seven days.

1 in 16 infected.

[Cloudane]

It's closing in on me... one in the new open plan office at work off with it, the one who sits next to her seems to think it's absolutely FINE to come in clearly unwell and coughing like a chain smoker

Geronimo, I guess? Annoying as in the next couple of weeks I have 2 carefully timed dental trips, a milestone birthday etc and one or all of these things seems inevitable to end up covid'd.

[Little stoned kiwi]

Forget about Covid, we all have inflation to worry about now. The young, old, disabled, and environment must all make sacrifices to protect asset prices.

[PFVA]

Covid in the news?

Only once a week, on Fridays when the numbers are released. And there is not enough time to talk much about it. There is the gas and specially the Diesel prices and the Ukraine war. There is the seismic activity in the St Jorge island (Azores) that may cause the eruption of the local volcano, and the President of the Republic went there in person to calm down the people, even though his presence may not calm down the volcano itself. There is the Assembly being back in functions and the new elected extreme right reps that showing up all wearing masks with the national flag. Ow, and the national team won again Turkey, and North Macedonia, and will be going to the World Cup.

As for Covid in the cafés we hear about so and so who is having it, or has an immediate relative with it. We hear about the number of deaths increasing but only weekly, not daily like before. And we hear there is a lot less cases overall. Some experts insist in saying it's because people are not being tested like before but there is not much time on the news to discuss it.

On a good thing. I went to the city yesterday and indoors and it the public transportation everybody was wearing masks. Outdoors there was several people wearing them. That includes the tourists. The ones on the train had them on and lots of those in tour groups outdoors had them on too.

[merman]

Local hospitals have stopped visitors again, rates here doubled in a week.

[phattslagg]

Our household is just coming out of our first covid infection. Nobody got seriously ill, but it wasn’t pleasant for me or the wife. Meanwhile, mask wearing has all but entirely disappeared - it’s like the UK is living in an alternate reality.

[PFVA]

Masks in enclosed public places will continue to be mandatory till April 23rd. Reason, we are still averaging 20 deaths/day. It has to drop under 20 which is the EU recommended number to lift all restrictions. (20 for our 10 million inhabitants). Plus they are worried tha Easter will increase the numbers for the more vulnerable people. They are recommending people wear the masks at Easter gatherings.

[merman]

Masks in enclosed public places will continue to be mandatory till April 23rd. Reason, we are still averaging 20 deaths/day. It has to drop under 20 which is the EU recommended number to lift all restrictions. (20 for our 10 million inhabitants). Plus they are worried tha Easter will increase the numbers for the more vulnerable people. They are recommending people wear the masks at Easter gatherings.

That’s sensible.

My mum has got COVID for the second time.

[Foozwah]

After my 14yo had Covid about a month ago, my 11yo and partner both tested positive today...

My test was negative, but it feels almost inevitable that I'll either get it this week, since the four of us live on top of one another in a pretty small, old house, or I've already got it but am still in the incubation period... Seems fairly likely - last night the youngest and I were reading together and I fell asleep, woke up a bit over two hours later and went off to bed proper, but of course realised today we'd been right next to each other, breathing the same air basically, for hours.

I'll test myself again tomorrow, guess we'll see...

To be honest I'm mainly concerned about the young'un - he's had respiratory issues all his life, been hospitalised too many times to count, which seems like a bad starting point. In his favour, he only had his second vaccine jab three weeks ago, so if anything he's probably close to peak efficiency, so fingers crossed he only has it mild.

My partner is triple vaxxed, but I'm not sure how much that counts for these days. Hopefully it will be mild for her too - it was for our eldest, he had about 36 really shitty hours early on, but after that was mostly fine, though had residual headaches and a bit of vagueness (more than his usual teenage self, haha) for about a week afterward.

So looks like I didn't need to plan what we'd all do for Easter, as now we'll be home isolating for the next week. Huzzah.

Sigh.

[Foozwah]

My mum has got COVID for the second time.

Sorry to hear that about your mum. My #1 fear for the last two years has been my mum getting it, as she has a whole raft of health issues, in and out of hospital a lot, and I do not think her body would cope well...

[Cloudane]

Found it

Dad too, probably mum but she's only done one of the newer nose tests

I did the new test at first, negative... tried the older one with the throat swab, positive within seconds

Feeling tired, slight temperature-bleh kind of feeling like one of the crappy colds.

[TFO]

My missus has just got over it after testing positive. Have to be careful with her as she has MS
Odd thing was is that I had much worse symptoms than her (I felt rough as hell - not like anything I had ever had before) yet tested negative every day

I have heard lots of stories recently from people saying they swear they have it yet repeatedly test negative

[gilesgoat]

My missus has just got over it after testing positive. Have to be careful with her as she has MS
Odd thing was is that I had much worse symptoms than her (I felt rough as hell - not like anything I had ever had before) yet tested negative every day

I have heard lots of stories recently from people saying they swear they have it yet repeatedly test negative

I just returned back from Italy, I had TWO PCR tests all came negative ( and I can tell you they swabbed me REAL good / DEEP, in fact in UK they even managed to make my nose bleed ) .. all the time I had tests ALWAYS negative.

Despite I am 99% convinced around December LAST year I got it, or if it wasn't Covid it must have been "something quite similar" went on "partial sense of taste" for about 3 .. 4 days and feeling with a bad sore throat for 2 weeks, but was Xmas so I was already "isolating" for about 20 days and in all the time I got tested I always resulted negative.

So what to say ? Boh !

I keep wearing maks when in closed spaces, avoid too many people assembly and use disinfectant for hands.

[Cloudane]

The newer LFTs are rumoured to be a hit hit and miss, at least if you don't swab your throat (which they don't tell you to do), wouldn't be surprised at all if there are a lot of false negatives out there

Mum pretty much just accepting she's going to get it off us and carrying on as normal, I am in my room door shut window open to at least hopefully reduce viral load though. You see too many who get a big "hit" of it suffering badly

[PFVA]

Rumour is the masks will stop to be mandatory as of this weekend, an the media is pushing hard for that (in the short intervals when they are not showing the Ukraine). I am planning to keep wearing them in enclosed spaces.