COVID-19

[David L]

If you didn't believe the Djokovic farrago was just grandstanding from the Australian authorities:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2022/08/08/picture-sums-lunacy-team-australias-covid-attitudes/

[Slim]

Dual strain Moderna vaccine approved in the UK:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-62548336

• Designed to target Omicron
• Provides substantially better antibody response
• Entering our arms this autumn

[Slim]

Wife has had bad cold symptoms all day so we dug out a lateral flow test, and yep - positive. A very clear line on the test kit and it came up in seconds.

I have a mild headache and vaguely out-of-sorts feeling myself but that could well be the sort of debilitation that imbibing cocktails every day for a week causes.

We returned from our cruise yesterday. Unfortunately a cruise ship is a sort of floating plague village so I'm not really surprised. I'll take a test myself if I do get more obvious symptoms, but I'll isolate anyway.

[Nick]

Hope the vaccinations take the edge off the worse of it. I did a trade show in Germany in the summer and unsurprisingly it was rife throughout post show with visitors and exhibitors.

[David L]

It certainly seems to have been rife among those who have been vaccinated 

[Slim]

Well I don't believe any data exists to suggest that the vaccinated are more susceptible to infection, though I stand ready to be corrected on that. I do believe that it's been established beyond doubt that the vaccinated are less susceptible to serious illness and fatality.

Eight months since we had our boosters though.

[Slim]

I tested negative about 90 minutes ago. Will be maintaining a respectful distance from the wife for a day or several.

[Matt2112]

It certainly seems to have been rife among those who have been vaccinated 

Vaccines are for mitigation not prevention. 

The plural of anecdote isn't data, but, to my knowledge, as a triple-vaxxed person, I've (somehow) never had Covid, despite being in close proximity of family members and work colleagues who have had it at least once - getting Covid seems to be the luck of the draw; what happens from then, though, undoubtedly less so.

[David L]

It certainly seems to have been rife among those who have been vaccinated 

Vaccines are for mitigation not prevention. 

That appears to be the case, although not by design 

[Fishy]

Got myself booked in next Tues for booster and flu jab..

[Slim]

I tested negative about 90 minutes ago. Will be maintaining a respectful distance from the wife for a day or several.

Four days later - woke up with a sore throat and slightly fluey feeling. Not bad enough to call in sick. No runny nose. And yet, I tested negative about an hour ago. Not a trace on the test strip, whereas Sue's came up very clear in 15 seconds.

The only person I could possibly have caught a cold from is Sue, so it seems a bit of an odd one.

[Fishy]

Got flu and booster this morning.. feeling a bit tired I have to say but otherwise ok👍

[Slim]

I tested negative about 90 minutes ago. Will be maintaining a respectful distance from the wife for a day or several.

Four days later - woke up with a sore throat and slightly fluey feeling. Not bad enough to call in sick. No runny nose. And yet, I tested negative about an hour ago. Not a trace on the test strip, whereas Sue's came up very clear in 15 seconds.

The only person I could possibly have caught a cold from is Sue, so it seems a bit of an odd one.

Started feeling awful at about 3:30pm yesterday, and took myself off to bed 15 minutes later. I've only just got up again!

Very rough night last night. Very nasty headache and at one point I was semi-delirious, my head felt like it was overheating. I have a nasty cough, but it's only bothering me infrequently. Couldn't sleep and I was getting up every two hours for a wee, and wondering where it was all coming from. I must have expelled two litres of urine. Despite that I didn't feel particularly dehydrated.

I took another test just now and it came up positive very clearly this time.



So: for me anyway although it's been unpleasant, it hasn't really been that bad. Certainly no difficulty breathing or anything like that. No loss of smell or taste. How it would have gone if I hadn't been triple-jabbed, I don't know. Nothing devastating, probably. A single paracetamol helped, I'll take another one before I go to bed but I hope the worst of it has passed now.

Very interesting that even after developing symptoms yesterday, I tested negative.

Wife has recovered nicely.

[The Picnic Wasp]

What a weird illness. It doesn't seem to play by any rules. I'm still frightened by the thought of it to be honest. I hope you feel better soon and are stocked up on even more immunity.

[David L]

What a weird illness. It doesn't seem to play by any rules. I'm still frightened by the thought of it to be honest.

You've got nothing to fear but fear itself