SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)

Its 7 months since I had my 3rd shot, covid has put me on my back for a week, rarely have I felt so dreadful in my entire life and this is the mild version. I really wonder how well we are all protected having had the booster so long ago. I wonder how different it would have been had I not been vaccinated at all. I really am surprised at how bad I felt and still need to sleep during the day.

You have mild covid, by definition. You don’t need oxygen, you’re not in hospital. The main reason to vaccinate/boost is to stop people getting severe covid. You’re an example of someone who didn’t get severe covid.
 
You have mild covid, by definition. You don’t need oxygen, you’re not in hospital. The main reason to vaccinate/boost is to stop people getting severe covid. You’re an example of someone who didn’t get severe covid.
His point is, he knows it’s mild and he wonders how bad it much worse it would have been had he not received all his shots.
 
That’s not his point at all. He’s trying to argue that because he’s feeling so poorly his vaccine booster didn’t work.
I could be wrong but I think you’re reading it from another angle. He’s always been pro vax
 
Surely you only need to see the death rates for proof of the effectiveness of the vaccines? You don’t think it’s likely that catching it without three shots would have been even worse for you?
Figures are not published as headline news anymore but I have read they are increasing dramatically. I can't say what level of protection I have after all this time. My Mrs is a nurse and was boosttered months before me, she is also in bad shape.
 
You have mild covid, by definition. You don’t need oxygen, you’re not in hospital. The main reason to vaccinate/boost is to stop people getting severe covid. You’re an example of someone who didn’t get severe covid.
Ok but this variant should be milder right? I cannot compare my symptoms to a non vaccinated person obviously as I don't know anyone that hasn't been vaccinated and subsequently caught it.
 
Ok but this variant should be milder right? I cannot compare my symptoms to a non vaccinated person obviously as I don't know anyone that hasn't been vaccinated and subsequently caught it.

And that’s why we’re managing to ride out this wave with no masks or social distancing without filling up our ICUs.

If you want to see what “mild” omicron does to a population with low vaccination rates look at Hong Kong, where a hell of a lot of people ended up ventilated or dead.

There’s huge individual variation anyway. I was boosted in December and caught Covid in April. I barely even noticed it. The mildest of sniffly noses and that was it.
 
Its 7 months since I had my 3rd shot, covid has put me on my back for a week, rarely have I felt so dreadful in my entire life and this is the mild version. I really wonder how well we are all protected having had the booster so long ago. I wonder how different it would have been had I not been vaccinated at all. I really am surprised at how bad I felt and still need to sleep during the day.

As it is a while since your booster you probably wouldn't have a significant number of antibodies but your memory cells will have kicked in to start producing them much faster. So you will likely get protection from serious symptoms (hospitalise/ICU) but it is probable that you will still have a period of not feeling well until the memory cells do their work. 3 does seem to give far better protection against Omicron than 2 with 80% protection against severe disease. Hopefully this will get better of we get Omicron tweaked versions of vaccines for boosters.
 
Tested positive this morning. Done well to avoid it for this long I guess. My Mrs tested positive on Saturday but she seems to be on the mend. Our three month old was feeling ill for a couple of days but thankfully she seems a lot better now.
 
Do you not have to isolate in your country anymore?

Don't know where he lives but Poland has no isolation anymore. If you somehow test positive for any reason (getting tested is not advised), nothing happens.
 
I’m just getting over it now. 12 days I was positive.

I felt absolutely dreadful and so tired. I can’t even begin to imagine how bad I would have felt if I wasn’t triple jabbed.

I lost my 63 year old uncle to it last week. Poor sod caught it in hospital during knee surgery, had to be ventilated and never recovered.
 
Meanwhile in ireland

https://www.thejournal.ie/gemma-odoherty-supreme-court-covid-appeal-dismissed-5808188-Jul2022/

He said that the measures, such as the lockdown, brought in over a pandemic he did not believe existed had fundamentally and impermissibly breach fundamental constitutional rights that he and other citizens enjoy.

Ms O’Doherty had argued that the measures were taken over a virus that was “no different to the common cold”.

They should be put in stocks and have covid patients cough in their faces
 
I got it last week and kinda glad as it was just a mild cold this time round comapred to what I had at Christmas. Just feels like i've got the invetible out of the way now and should hopefully have a nice covid free run for the summer months while i'm swimming in antibodies.
 
So I had to do an open day at the weekend and today just had to leave work because my throat basically seized up over lunchtime.

Dare I say that after 2 years the dreaded novel coronavirus sars-cov-2 might have finally got me :(
 
What kind of tests can they do to see if you have long covid? Me and my wife are both healthy and active people but since we had covid in December we are more susceptible to colds / feel drained far more regularly than we usually would from exercise and activities. It feels like my body is constantly aching in one way or another.
 
On day 4/5 of this thing now, the coughing has largely subsided but got a fairly horrible headache today. All in all I feel very similar to how I felt post vaccine but over a longer period. Hoping it subsides soon.
 
What kind of tests can they do to see if you have long covid? Me and my wife are both healthy and active people but since we had covid in December we are more susceptible to colds / feel drained far more regularly than we usually would from exercise and activities. It feels like my body is constantly aching in one way or another.

There's no specific tests as long covid is something that is a headline for a lot of symptoms but some of them can be checked. I had lung issues caused by covid which persisted for a fair while (over a year) and could be seen on scans I had. The diagnosis was specific to the problem, but goes under the banner of long covid as it was initially caused by the virus.

General fatigue for months can happen with a lot of viruses and I suspect you're less likely to get a diagnosis if it's not something that would show on scans / blood tests. The doctor was really good with me though and I got referred, they found why I was having issues so it's worth a visit to the them just in case.

Long-term effects of coronavirus (long COVID) - NHS (www.nhs.uk)
 
Mine has gone from aches to more like a cold but with a bit of a temperature too.

I ached so much yesterday that I could barely get out of bed.
 
So far me and my partner have just had extreme tiredness, although she has had a bit of a sore throat the last couple of days. The tiredness though is crazy, like I literally feel like none of my limbs belong on my body and my eyes and mind are just incredibly foggy. I’d managed to work from home the last couple of days but today I’ve tapped out and am just resting in bed. I’d love to get some fresh air in the field behind my house (minimal people) but I doubt I’ll have the strength for that.
 
It's been 9 days since I got my first symptoms. I had a rough 3 or 4 days. Lingering cough now and I'm sleeping 10 hours and any activity has me floored.
 
4th shot just authorised here from Monday. I have a Monday appointment.
 
Yesterday was by far the worst day so far, everything ached, extremely tired, sore throat and cough. Stayed in bed the entire day. Today a slight sore throat, bit of a foggy head so hopefully over the worst of it. I'm so bored being stuck indoors but on the other hand two days I never would've been able to go out even if I wanted to.
 
And having dodged it for two years - it finally caught up with me.

Two doses of Novavax back in December 2020. Two doses of Pfizer in November 2021.

Probably caught on my way back from Spain.

First symptom fatigue, that I just blamed on the travel. Then muscle aches choosing random targets around my body. Followed by sneezing and blocked/runny nose. Solid positive on covid LFT.

Fortunately I didn't go out between first symptoms and test so I don't have to feel guilty about giving it to friends, family or even strangers. Looks like I have given it to my partner though.
 
Covid is now the biggest killer in Australia. I'm getting my 4th shot on Monday but i hope further vaccine development gets ahead of new variants so they protect better from catching the disease.
 
I've had the weirdest cold for over a week now but I keep testing negative for covid.

It's strange, because I know I've got some kind of infection (slightly stuffy nose, a bit of a sore throat, some aches and pains) but it's mild enough to ignore. It's the weirdest experience I've had, because normally i go through these symptoms for about a day or 2 before a fully blown infection which knocks me out for a day and a half followed by a recovery over the next 48 hours. But this is like the early stage that has lasted for 8 days now.
 
4th shot just authorised here from Monday. I have a Monday appointment.
I can't get one yet, Italy's only doing people over 80, people in care homes or with certain health conditions. oates got his 4th yesterday and the doctor had been to the main vaccination centre to get the vaccine - he said it was absolutely full of very old people, and it's a huge place.

We've never stopped wearing masks here, as it happens.
 
I've had the weirdest cold for over a week now but I keep testing negative for covid.

It's strange, because I know I've got some kind of infection (slightly stuffy nose, a bit of a sore throat, some aches and pains) but it's mild enough to ignore. It's the weirdest experience I've had, because normally i go through these symptoms for about a day or 2 before a fully blown infection which knocks me out for a day and a half followed by a recovery over the next 48 hours. But this is like the early stage that has lasted for 8 days now.
About two months ago I had something similar to you, lasted around two weeks and then I got hit with a terrible cold that lasted another two weeks.
 
About two months ago I had something similar to you, lasted around two weeks and then I got hit with a terrible cold that lasted another two weeks.

And you were negative for covid throughout? It's weird. If it lasts an entire month, then it's fecking awful.
 
I can't get one yet, Italy's only doing people over 80, people in care homes or with certain health conditions. oates got his 4th yesterday and the doctor had been to the main vaccination centre to get the vaccine - he said it was absolutely full of very old people, and it's a huge place.

We've never stopped wearing masks here, as it happens.
Policy has only just changed here. I'm getting mine on the first official day for over 30's
 
Special Covid leave scrapped for NHS staff in England

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62018738

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Same where I work - another part of the UK public sector - if I get Covid I’m afraid I’ll now have to try and soldier on and go in, like I would with a cold.
 
I must have missed the memo as to when the comment section on YouTube became an antivaxx cesspool. I was just watching a video on the latest Covid strain and Jesus H., these idiots talk about being a fecking 'pureblood' like it's an achievement instead of a brain defect.
 
I must have missed the memo as to when the comment section on YouTube became an antivaxx cesspool. I was just watching a video on the latest Covid strain and Jesus H., these idiots talk about being a fecking 'pureblood' like it's an achievement instead of a brain defect.
Certain channels attract degenerates, ever read the comments on vids upload by BBC? Absolute pond life