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Post by WDB on Sept 12, 2022 17:09:01 GMT
Had an email today inviting me for an ‘autumn booster’ vaccination. It then gets very confusing when I try to make an appointment, but it also mentions walk-in centres, of which there’s one in town, so I may just try my luck there.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2022 7:51:23 GMT
Dubya, are you a straightforward case, 50+, no underlying conditions which would give you priority? Haven't received an invitation myself yet but keen to get on with the programme, although I'd like to get a flu vaccine at the same time. Dunno if that's possible at a walk-in Rona-arama.
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Post by WDB on Sept 13, 2022 8:23:26 GMT
There’s nothing significant wrong with me but I do seem to be on a priority list for flu, probably because I’ve had two cases in the last 15 (!) years, including H5N1 when that was fashionable. Neither was more severe than a week off work, and having had them ought to make me less susceptible to the next related flu strain, as that acquired immunity tends to last for life. But I did accept the autumn flu invitation for the first time in 2020, on the premise that it was an easy way to stay out of the way of the NHS when it had other priorities, and I’ll take it again this year.
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Post by EspadaIII on May 26, 2024 16:14:11 GMT
Well....
Two and a half years after my first and as far as I am aware only bout of Covid, I tested positive yesterday morning. Been in unwitting contact (hug and a kiss for someone who lost their mother) before they knew they were unwell. I came down with what would I describe as a bad cold on Thursday night.
We were visiting an older couple yesterday evening so decided to do a test as we by then knew our contact was also positive. Also a few friends and acquaintances have been positive recently... Obviously a lot going around.
Don't feel too bad, able to go for a reasonable walk, including up a steep hill. A few coughs and sneezes and mildly sore throat.
Needless to say we didn't visit the couple.
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Post by bpg on Sept 26, 2024 7:26:38 GMT
Frau u. fraulein bpg went to a concert in the city last Thursday. By Sunday everyone in the house had the usual symptoms - sore throat, fever, coughing.
We all took tests from the same batch, the girls positive the boys negative.
Working from home full week.
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Post by Humph on Sept 26, 2024 11:30:02 GMT
It’s not going away is it. Does make me wonder if all the restrictions applied the first time around were a bit of an overreaction. Sure of course it must have helped to protect the most vulnerable, but at a huge cost, in every context, to everyone else.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2024 11:35:41 GMT
We've built up some immunity across the board now. When it started, there was zero. That's why we needed restrictions. Healthy bloke in his 40s next door to me was in a coma and they almost lost him, had to be trained to walk again. The restrictions were never about eradicating this new disease, they were about buying time. Buying things costs. the costs, IMHO, were justifiable and outweighed by the benefits. Just replay the news reports from northern Italy when it broke out in Europe for a reminder what would have happened with no lockdowns. Still think it was an overreaction? Well, I'm afraid the communal crystal ball was in for a service, and I'm glad that a degree of caution was taken.
Get well soon, die Familie BPG (that's German "die", not English "die").
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Post by EspadaIII on Sept 26, 2024 11:41:05 GMT
Very contagious at the moment but no one really getting ill; mostly it's a bad cold for 95% of the people I speak to. I think the original strains were much worse in terms of symptoms. Espadrille had it two weeks ago; a sniffle at worst. When I had it in 2021 I was pretty queasy.
But I think the 2020 lockdown was overly policed and unnecessary for about 80% of the population but I had a friend with a weak chest (for want of a better description) who died in April 2020, although another friend who is an ITU consultant in a different hospital who said he would have treated him differently and our friend would probably have survived... The problem was that no one really knew what they were doing for several months.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2024 11:46:08 GMT
Which is exactly why we needed restrictions to buy time, otherwise health services would have collapsed. They needed time to work out what they were doing. Mistakes are inevitable and I'm really sorry for your friend. Many thousands more would have died unnecessarily without restrictions.
Testimony from the Enquiry ^^
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Post by Humph on Sept 26, 2024 12:28:41 GMT
Oh well, I guess that’s another thing we’ll have to agree to disagree on then.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2024 12:52:22 GMT
You'd have had us face a worse situation than the one which we actually went through in 2020/21? You're right, we're going to have to disagree on that. Does the evidence given in the official enquiry not carry any weight with you? Temporary (for that's what they were) restrictions were the right thing to do, to buy time, time needed to learn how to treat the disease and to develop other strategies like vaccines. What was wrong was the scale of corruption and incompetence around PPE provision and the lack of real support for health service professionals, aside from clapping and banging pots. And the wholescale lawbreaking and despicable personal behaviour of those in government at the time.
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Post by bpg on Sept 26, 2024 14:38:55 GMT
We've built up some immunity across the board now. Get well soon, die Familie BPG (that's German "die", not English "die"). Thanks, Al. I got 'die' from context Familie, would have been a bit of a bugger if your spell checker had kicked in and changed it to family. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2024 14:41:00 GMT
I was extra careful about that...perhaps should have done italics as well...
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Post by Rob on Sept 26, 2024 14:49:43 GMT
I heard one of the doctors giving evidence earlier. It clearly was bad even with the lockdown. Nurses getting tired of putting bodies n body bags. At times they put a body in a bag, lifted it onto the floor and then put someone else in the bed.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2024 9:25:30 GMT
That's the very testimony which I posted above, Rob. Can't imagine how anyone can see/hear such material and think "yep, we did TOO much".
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