The big Coronavirus thread

darkhairedlord

My family is still uninfected, the last hold-outs in town. Everyone of my daughters classmates, wife's friends, sons class-mates etc have had it.
Last man standing!

rick_chasey

Me too, and I'm out fairly regularly

rick_chasey

https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1483062311971704833?s=21

👍🏻

briantrumpet

rick_chasey said:

Me too, and I'm out fairly regularly

Is the sofa out of a job?

rick_chasey

briantrumpet said:

rick_chasey said:

Me too, and I'm out fairly regularly

Is the sofa out of a job?

Meeow. I'm in the office 2-3 days a week plus out in the evening and weekend.

Stevo_666

Surely this means that the pandemic is officially over?

briantrumpet

rick_chasey said:

briantrumpet said:

rick_chasey said:

Me too, and I'm out fairly regularly

Is the sofa out of a job?

Meeow. I'm in the office 2-3 days a week plus out in the evening and weekend.

Should I have put a ? 🤔

FWIW, I'm still being cautious... whilst I'm not too worried about catching it now, it would still be a PITA. Or the throat, anyway.

briantrumpet

Stevo_666 said:

Surely this means that the pandemic is officially over?

Let's hope so. I think we at least have got a good chunk of breathing space, as this wave should take us to warmer times when people are out of doors.

It'll be interesting to see where any further variants take us, but if they are no worse than omicron, and there is a plan to keep the vulnerable safe (as we do with flu), lets hope that something like normal life is achievable & sustainable.

kingstonian

darkhairedlord said:

My family is still uninfected, the last hold-outs in town. Everyone of my daughters classmates, wife's friends, sons class-mates etc have had it.
Last man standing!

Somehow we haven’t had it either - my wife is a Teaching Assistant in a Primary school, literally every child in her class plus the teacher have had confirmed cases yet somehow she’s avoided it so far. Both my kids have seen their entire friendship groups having Covid at some time, yet they’ve not had it either.

Worth mentioning they’ve been doing LFTs 3 times a week since that process for school kids started, which should have picked up cases during that time.

First.Aspect

briantrumpet said:

Stevo_666 said:

Surely this means that the pandemic is officially over?

Let's hope so. I think we at least have got a good chunk of breathing space, as this wave should take us to warmer times when people are out of doors.

It'll be interesting to see where any further variants take us, but if they are no worse than omicron, and there is a plan to keep the vulnerable safe (as we do with flu), lets hope that something like normal life is achievable & sustainable.

Wishful thinking I'm afraid.

briantrumpet

First.Aspect said:

briantrumpet said:

Stevo_666 said:

Surely this means that the pandemic is officially over?

Let's hope so. I think we at least have got a good chunk of breathing space, as this wave should take us to warmer times when people are out of doors.

It'll be interesting to see where any further variants take us, but if they are no worse than omicron, and there is a plan to keep the vulnerable safe (as we do with flu), lets hope that something like normal life is achievable & sustainable.

Wishful thinking I'm afraid.

It is. It's a wish I hope comes true. At the same time, I hope those in charge of public health take a more robust view of planning for eventualities.

ddraver

Well unless there is a political apocolypse over summer it's the end of covid restrictions in England whatever happens...

That may not be the same thing as the pandemic being over though....

pangolin

https://twitter.com/redouad/status/1482991873190936576?s=19

Mad_Malx

Yehbut is that “with” vaccine or because “of” vaccine?

TheBigBean

TheBigBean said:

The rest of my family tested positve this morning. Not sure my chances are good given that one has spent the best of part of 36 hours sleeping and vomiting on me.

Positve today.

First.Aspect

Mad_Malx said:

Yehbut is that “with” vaccine or because “of” vaccine?

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surrey_commuter

TheBigBean said:

TheBigBean said:

The rest of my family tested positve this morning. Not sure my chances are good given that one has spent the best of part of 36 hours sleeping and vomiting on me.

Positve today.

Well done, did you have time to lay in everything you need

TheBigBean

surrey_commuter said:

TheBigBean said:

TheBigBean said:

The rest of my family tested positve this morning. Not sure my chances are good given that one has spent the best of part of 36 hours sleeping and vomiting on me.

Positve today.

Well done, did you have time to lay in everything you need

I didn't go out yesterday. Although allowed I assumed I'd be pretty infectious. Provisions are ok though.

I just need to find some people to have a wild night out with next week.

surrey_commuter

TheBigBean said:

surrey_commuter said:

TheBigBean said:

TheBigBean said:

The rest of my family tested positve this morning. Not sure my chances are good given that one has spent the best of part of 36 hours sleeping and vomiting on me.

Positve today.

Well done, did you have time to lay in everything you need

I didn't go out yesterday. Although allowed I assumed I'd be pretty infectious. Provisions are ok though.

I just need to find some people to have a wild night out with next week.

go to Downing St

veronese68

TheBigBean said:

TheBigBean said:

The rest of my family tested positve this morning. Not sure my chances are good given that one has spent the best of part of 36 hours sleeping and vomiting on me.

Positve today.

I think that's a good thing in a way, better now than you test positive when the rest of the family are coming out of isolation. As you said you didn't go out yeterday as you assumed you'd still be infectious.
I've minimised going out for the last 9 days as the lad has had it and also assumed the chances of me passing it on must be higher even if I am testing negative. I've been to the supermarket a few times and sat in a pub garden with a couple of mates on Sunday affternoon. I had to go to the office yesterday, the directors wanted me in last week but I said I thought it was a bad idea and worked from home. In spite of that two of the girls in my office have it now.
I'm still expecting to come back with a positive result in the next few days which would be tedious.
As with SC above the boy is still testing positive, but tomorrow he can go out. He's itching to get out and has been going stir crazy as apart from a bit of a fever the first night and feeling sniffly he's been fine. Thankfully he's quite sensible so will avoid too much contact indoors for the time being.

ballysmate

Mrs has had it. Got her second negative test on Friday and was released back into the wild.
Other 3 members of the household all negative.
Everyone boostered before Xmas.

Ben6899

Would be interested to know - in the "kid(s)/wife had it, I managed to avoid altogether" anecdotes - if any particular effort was made to stay away from each other.

Just in the interests of understanding what the deal is wrt contagiousness etc.

surrey_commuter

Ben6899 said:

Would be interested to know - in the "kid(s)/wife had it, I managed to avoid altogether" anecdotes - if any particular effort was made to stay away from each other.

Just in the interests of understanding what the deal is wrt contagiousness etc.

Me and two kids had it and missus didn't with absolutely no effort to avoid it and pretty sure we all got it at the same social gathering

ballysmate

Mrs stayed in the bedroom and had meals taken up to her.
Had run of the house when everyone out.

veronese68

Ben6899 said:

Would be interested to know - in the "kid(s)/wife had it, I managed to avoid altogether" anecdotes - if any particular effort was made to stay away from each other.

Just in the interests of understanding what the deal is wrt contagiousness etc.

We took the view that it's unreasonable to lock him in his room for 10 days, he's going stir crazy enough not leaving the house. He's kept himself to himself a litle more than usual and is aware of trying to be a little careful. But we are not making him isolate in the house. Hence me being a little more cautious about what I do even though I'm testing negative daily.
This is with a 23 year old, so very different to it being a toddler of course.
Better add to that, he was boosted about 3 weeks before getting it. He has had several instances over the last couple of years where he has had to isolate becasue of house mates getting it or girlfriend getting it. Has tested every time that has happened and not got it.

Ben6899

Thanks chaps. Interesting anecdotes.

We have already agreed that if one of us tests positive, we'll just accept that that other will probably do so at some point. I mean, we share a bed at the end of the day (literally).

TheBigBean

Ben6899 said:

Thanks chaps. Interesting anecdotes.

We have already agreed that if one of us tests positive, we'll just accept that that other will probably do so at some point. I mean, we share a bed at the end of the day (literally).

I don't think it is worth it with Omicron when you are fully vaccinated. I think at the outset of the virus you had a better chance of protecting each other with far worse potential consequences if you failed.

Pross

Ben6899 said:

Would be interested to know - in the "kid(s)/wife had it, I managed to avoid altogether" anecdotes - if any particular effort was made to stay away from each other.

Just in the interests of understanding what the deal is wrt contagiousness etc.

It must have be delta in this case but my sister and her two kids live with my parents. One of the kids brought it home from school and my sister, her other child and my dad all caught it but my mum managed to avoid it. They didn't take any particular precautions, all had mild / no symptoms and my parents and sister were double jabbed (this was pre-booster). Omicron is obviously supposed to be more infectuous though but as it is seemingly relatively mild in most cases I guess there's little point it taking precautions unless you're highly vulnerable.

Stevo_666

TheBigBean said:

Ben6899 said:

Thanks chaps. Interesting anecdotes.

We have already agreed that if one of us tests positive, we'll just accept that that other will probably do so at some point. I mean, we share a bed at the end of the day (literally).

I don't think it is worth it with Omicron when you are fully vaccinated. I think at the outset of the virus you had a better chance of protecting each other with far worse potential consequences if you failed.

There does seem to be a general feeling along these lines that the high transmissibility combined with the generally mild effects (for the vaccinated especially) makes it not worth trying to avoid. I have even read reports about some people holding Omicron parties (like Chicken Pox parties of the past) to 'get it over with'. A bit silly admittedly, but it is probably one indication that we are learning to live with it and that it will (hopefully) be treated more like the flu going forwards.

focuszing723

That could become a problem if people relax with this attitude and a new variant crops up with more severe symptoms (impact the lungs more). I guess it will keep coming down to the same question raised from day one on the Government and Scientific briefings, "Can the NHS cope with demand"?