Coronavirus (2 Viewers)

[Rita]

We both are, he just asked me to isolate too because he thinks i have a high risk of bad covid for being a smoker.

Oh. So you are only keeping away from him? You are still going out and about as normal?

 

[Marina Salty]

Wait. I am confused? If you are testing negative then why are you self isolating in the bedroom?

He thinks i'll get it from surfaces in the house that he was touching before he had the test.

 

[Tetris-Rock]

He thinks i'll get it from surfaces in the house that he was touching before he had the test.

As an FYI, fairly sure the evidence says that COVID transmission is only very rarely from surfaces.

 

[Kate]

Plus the virus will only live for a couple of days.

 

[lolly]

Yeah, I'd fling the windows open to ventilate the house and reduce the chance even more, but as above - transmission from surfaces is rare and the virus only lasts a maximum of 72 hours on non-porous surfaces, and just a few hours on porous ones.

I'm inclined to think Mr QotB just wants you to suffer as well

 

[Marina Salty]

 

[Cloud]

Dual tests... kind of useful

On the other hand, more isolation

 

[Diddy]

What are the two tests? Covid and… syphilis?

 

[Marina Salty]

Flu A and B

 

[Cloud]

It got me again

So far just a very runny nose and general malaise on day 1, coughing up crap on day 2. Looks like the immune system is making short work of it, at least. Buggers up my weekend plans though (a meet up and my dad's 70th)

 

[funky]

Definitely feels like it’s on the rise.

 

[AGinAg (37)]

Yeah my parents both have it.

 

[funky]

Are they ok?

My auntie got it for the first time last week but she’s fine, just a nasty cold.

 

[AGinAg (37)]

They're pretty rough sounding on the phone, but they sound resilient.

 

[Cloud]

Yeah it's gone back to "everyone I know getting it", at about the same time as last year, couple of months earlier.

That YouTuber John Campbell (think I recommended his videos back in the day) is an absolute quackpot grifter nowadays, total money grabbing clickbait mentalist, but every stopped clock is right twice a day and he did suggest the vast majority of us will be getting this variant, seems he might have been right on that one. I only watched it out of morbid curiosity!

 

[Rita]

This is absolutely rife around here at the moment. I’ve just had a call from a friend who said that one of our friends is in intensive care at the moment and is really unwell. She has underlying health conditions but what a shock.

 

[Cloud]

All clear now, so this one lasted less than 6 days. Better than last time when it dragged on for 10

3 days symptomatic with general malaise and bouts of nose running.

 

[Rita]

I’ve just had a letter about an outbreak of BIRD FLU TYPE A in this area. I’m not really even sure what it is? Not as bad as COVID?

 

[ZenGiraffe]

I’ve just had a letter about an outbreak of BIRD FLU TYPE A in this area. I’m not really even sure what it is? Not as bad as COVID?

@Rita, pictured here after carelessly not wearing her mask in the Supermarket

 

[Rita]

Just read the letter again apparently I live in a SAFETY SURVEILLANCE ZONE and that is why they are letting me know. Lethal to birds not humans. Phew.

 

[Marina Salty]

Lethal to birds not humans. Phew.

Poor pheasants though

 

[Cloud]

The idea that it WAS a lab leak after all, seems to be gaining traction. Albeit not that it was ever intended as a weapon.

 

[Marina Salty]

Was just reading about this too, but i think everything is still speculation, isn't it?

 

[Cloud]

Source

Covid-19 likely came from lab leak, says news report citing US energy department

Updated finding comes with ‘low confidence’ and is a departure from previous studies on how virus emerged, Wall Street Journal reports

www.theguardian.com

Yes it's "low confidence" at the moment, the grauniad is bigging it up a little. But seemingly a departure from the "certainly not, don't be crazy" from before

 

[Peekaboo]

Oh my god this is going to set the loonies into overdrive.

 

[Marilyn]

After 3 long years of somehow avoiding the inevitable...

Spoiler

 

[straightorbroken]

I clapped at the Val finale, I'm so sorry though. Hope it's fast away.

 

[Cloud]

Gets us all eventually. Speedy recovery

 

[lolly]

Mr L has tested positive this morning - his first time. He's been feeling rough since Thursday.

I'm negative this morning and feeling fine.

 

[Sheena]

Mr Sheena woke up this morning proper rough and tested negative, but someone I've been away with all weekend has just tested positive out of our big group.

I'm absolutely fine- just did 2 hours in the gym and actually felt great, so fingers crossed it somehow bypasses me, but I'll prepare for the worst with a stock up at Boots and Lidl today I think...

 

[Devil]

My flatmate tested positive on Thursday (albeit had been somewhat feeling ill the day before)…yet by Saturday morning it was negative and still is and he feels absolutely fine other than a bit clogged up on Friday when he was testing positive.

So fuck knows how it’s working. I’m still yet to get it. One of the benefits of being a baron old bitch who doesn’t like being touched

 

[Jocasta Clun]

I've got it (now! NOW AFTER ALL THESE YEARS) and I am DISTINCTLY UNAMUSED

 

[funky]

Second time around for me!

Yesterday was HORRIBLE not gonna lie, but I’ve already perked up a bit after 24 hours so hoping it’s the lite remix

 

[AGinAg (37)]

DEAD

 

[Dark Carnival]

Close this thread.

 

[Lucille]

Bye Miss. Rona

 

[Iguana]

FLUSH

 

[Dark Carnival]

Clogged the charts for three years. WHEN WILL YOUR FAVES?

 

[Marina Salty]

Never got it.

 

[Phoenix]

Never got it.

It was a virus, caused a pandemic but it’s over now you don’t need to worry.