So who has covid? Nov 2021

That's the thing felt grand on the bike ....thought the throat was from too much whiskey over Christmas 🤣

Taste and smell is gone just there, weird feeling. I think I'm 4/5 days in. It's weird because otherwise I think I feel a lot better today, sore throat, cough etc seem to have packed it in.

It's been mild altogether but this is the first icky symptom.

Vaccinated (no booster yet)

Did two antigens and positive so have booked PCR for tomorrow. (Was with family last few days at home house but I’m gone back to my own house now).

Should they be doing anything out of their normal routine? (Regular antigens etc) or do they need to do some more stuff now? First encounter really with COVID so a bit lost. Are they classed as a close contact now or only if PCR is positive?

My antigen was negative for four days running after being a close contact . On day 5 it litterly shot up positive in seconds . I am waiting for a PCR result now too

Could be related to the manner in which you tell them.

“buy-in to this rubbish over the last 22 months”

This pandemic is following the trajectory of other corona virus pandemics through history e.g. the Russian flu in the late 19th century. The virus gets less severe as it evolves. It now looks like Covid has become another strain of the common cold, as the Russian flu did before. Many scientists predicted this would happen but it is fantastic to see it all the same.

Dont make the mistake of thinking that the moderate cold you have today is the exact same as what other people have had over the last 22 months. In 2020, in particular, we were dealing with a serious virus that would have caused untold suffering if we had let it rip through the community. Just look at what happened in Brazil and other places in 2020 and early 2021. Thankfully, we are long past that now and it is time to get back to normality and open things up.

It doesn’t matter what anyone says to you, you’ve made your mind up. There’s a word for that type of attitude.

I don’t think anyone knew what the percentage of symptomatic vs asymptotic cases were in March 2020. I think they knew very little about the virus in March 2020.

Of course I’m not telling you that you’d have been at death’s door if you had caught a previous strain. If you are youngish and healthy, then the overwhelming likelihood is that you would have been just fine, even if you had had moderate symptoms. But Omicron is basically the sniffles compared to previous strains. All I’m saying is you can’t really compare them. My own view is that if we had let previous strains just rip through the community, especially before the vulnerable had been vaccinated, we would have ended up in a really awful situation.

"They are saying"? Who is "they"?

The experts are saying that it's difficult to tell whether it's intrinsically less pathogenic or just statistically milder because it's reinfecting the partially immune (recovered/vaccinated), but probably a bit of both.

There's no contradiction.

PCR came back positive alright, **** joke. literally dont even have a runny nose, had a blocked nose for about 2 days...

covid twice in about 4 months, both times a joke.

Well i have tried at very least 30 times to book a PCR and no luck

same for many people I know so Paul Reid has no clue about who is getting an appointment .

Most people aren’t even bothering trying because it’s a waste of time attempting to get one

Same. Most i have heard have a few sniffles, the odd one had maybe 1 rough day but havent heard anyone with any remotely serious dose.

Would you rather you had ended up in hospital or what’s the issue?

Understand it’s a pain in the hole getting it twice and all that entails, but I think I’d be glad I wasn’t too sick.

We use voodoo dolls. Cannot have unnecessary mixing even if there is a good cause.

take care and Happy New Year. I will gladly take positive reports any day.

Literally cannot get a pcr test despite 2 days of almost consistently trying. I am isolating with my immediate family but has anyone here who has/had covid had a positive (feint) antigen followed by several negatives? My head still tells me I don't have this but I know the guidelines tell me I do.

Its wasnt a joke looking at my kids coughing the lungs out... Please be more respectful.. i am happy that you had nothing to worry about but keep in the mind that this is very sensitive topic for some...

You could dodge the bullet.... My wife was looking after me and.my kids for 5 days before she went into labour and gave birth ty mo daughter...and she was negative....and is... While me and my 2 little boys down...pcr confirmed and moderate ill.......

Its individual