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Post by romily on Mar 28, 2023 2:36:48 GMT -5
Last week dad and his wife tested positive in Germany.
Last week engineer 1 tested positive, then engineer two - and today engineer three as well (all without contact to each other).
I had quite close contact with engineer three yesterday who also happens to be my best friend - he's going through tough times so we had a long chat close to each other and I gave him a big hug goodbye - so definitely was exposed, even though he tested negative yesterday and positive today you are infectious even before the test is positive, right?
I'm still testing negative but with a few days of incubation period it might still be in the cards for me. Super annoyed, after being so careful all these years and not getting it to be now exposed and at risk.
Around here it seems to come in waves - lots of people being positive, then nothing for 4-6 weeks, then another cluster. And nobody really cares a lot. Because most cases are mild and nobody wants to think about long Covid risks. I'm one of the few people I can think of who have never had it before... What's the situation and attitude where you are right now?
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Post by whothingie on Mar 28, 2023 2:50:26 GMT -5
Same problem,. Three from work in three weeks, and varying levels of infection in their families following 4 months of no cases.
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Post by lillielangtry on Mar 28, 2023 2:56:59 GMT -5
Yes, everyone in Germany seems to have it right now.
I just had it for the first time about 3 weeks ago and am one of the few people I know who held out this long. Fortunately it was extremely mild - 3 or 4 days of sniffles, nothing more (I'm 4x vacced).
You may be lucky - I spent an hour in a colleague's office about 3 hours before my positive test and he didn't get it. And my test was SUCH a deep red line and went so fast...!
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Post by sprite on Mar 28, 2023 3:20:27 GMT -5
I had a doctor's appt, and when you book the message asks you to wear a mask. None of the reception staff were, although they were behind glass and the large waiting room only had about 6 people. Not sure what ventilation they had. I definitely wore mine in there, even though the chairs were well spaced and people instinctively sat far apart. That place is full of sick people.
A friend in Slovakia has just been hit with it for the second time. He had the option for a booster, but as he'd had one last year and had a mild bout last year, and is mostly home on paternity leave, he opted not to. He's now feeling miserable, and his wife has taken time off work to take care of their baby.
I haven't checked the local numbers; it may be up again here, but I volunteer with a lot of oldies, and none of them are calling in sick.
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Post by tucano on Mar 28, 2023 4:17:49 GMT -5
As far as I know I haven't had it (unless symptom free) so far, but I've just started working at a uni and have been told to expect to get it at some point.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Mar 28, 2023 5:46:14 GMT -5
There was a wave around here a couple of weeks ago. I still haven’t had it, but I’m an instinctive social distancer.
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Post by scicaro on Mar 28, 2023 6:19:27 GMT -5
I haven't had it either as far as I know. There is a wave again in Denmark but most people don't bother to test anymore.
I was quite impressed at addenbrookes hospital that they still require masks and most were wearing them. The exception was someone serving at a coffee/snacks kiosk who was clearly too ill to be at work on Friday and was still there and ill yesterday 😠.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Mar 28, 2023 7:00:26 GMT -5
Still haven't had, still trying to avoid it.
Sadly I know too many people with long covid or longer term health issues post Covid to want to risk it. A good friend finally has an appointment with a long covid clinic next week, but I think they will only be able to manage a few of her symptoms.
I know there are a lot of cases in local schools at the moment - lots of schools handing out RATs again. What blows my mind is that one of the schools with large case numbers had a huge concert on the weekend - whole school choir, brass and wind instruments in the band. They did hire one of the major concert halls, so maybe ventilation was ok, but who knows? One of LC's mates was off the other week with Covid. There would be plenty of unknown cases as well, as even though the school request your keep kids home with symptoms and test them, many aren't. And the other thing is that a current variant here has a lot of gastro symptoms, so people don't even think to test.
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Post by Phar Lap on Mar 28, 2023 10:15:11 GMT -5
In my daughter’s household, there are five people. Four had covid, one didn’t .
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Post by Q-pee on Mar 28, 2023 11:56:21 GMT -5
we've got low cases here - but it's ripped through US colleagues in Jan and Feb.
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Post by Webs on Mar 28, 2023 14:57:20 GMT -5
I don't know anyone who has gotten it this year.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Mar 28, 2023 15:31:08 GMT -5
LC just handed over the latest lot of RATs from the school. Said one kid decided to do one in a class yesterday when they were given the RATs, more as a joke, and discovered they were positive.
I am so annoyed about what is being done to kids in schools. There is zero medical research that has come out that has said 'covid is mild like a cold'. It can present as cold in the acute phase, that is all. There are multiple studies now that point to covid being a vascular disease that could cause harm in any organ in the body and can cause immune dysfunction in some. And yet we seem to be willing to accept our kids being exposed over and over again in classes.
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Post by leela on Mar 28, 2023 16:15:04 GMT -5
My eldest (a teacher, so...) has it at the moment. My friend's mum does. And I'm hearing this kind of thing from all sorts of people over the last few weeks. It seems to have kicked off again.
I'm flying out to visit the Australian relatives at the end of April. I'm seriously considering wearing an FFP2 for a week or so beforehand, in crowded or confined places.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Mar 28, 2023 16:27:21 GMT -5
Also on the plane, I'd say. Wear the most comfortable, high quality mask you can find.
Good friends of mine are currently in Japan, and they were more cautious than usual in the lead up to their flight.
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Post by Liiisa on Mar 28, 2023 17:10:03 GMT -5
No one here has it right now (and we haven't gotten it yet).
I've got a flight out to Portland in mid-April and absolutely will wear an N95 mask on the plane and carry a bunch more with. They're direct flights, at least.
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Post by romily on Mar 30, 2023 4:28:43 GMT -5
Still tested negative this morning but it's been only three days from exposure and they say to test on day three and 5 as incubation period can wary...feeling rather rough, but had dental surgery on Tuesday, so felt like shit the last two days, so it's hard to say what is what.
No masks anywhere anymore here in the UK, was at the GP recently to get blood pressure taken and neither reception staff nor nurse were wearing masks, nor did anybody in waiting room, and chairs were set close to each other like pre Covid. Dentist on Tuesday wore mask but took it off whenever she was speaking so makes it totally pointless.
On flights to and from Atlanta / Panama, and in the airports, nobody, literally nobody was wearing a mask.
My neighbor has long Covid - heart arrhythmia, decreased lung function, can barely sleep as she then can't breathe, and is severely handicapped. So I am very aware of long Covid and what it can do to very healthy people, so hoping my tests will stay negative.
I would be way pissed off if, after being so careful for years, I would catch Covid at work of all places.
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Post by kraken on Mar 30, 2023 10:52:01 GMT -5
I finally caught it in December when it seemed to be absolutely everywhere. I didn't actually realise I had it, as my symptoms were pretty much that of a mild cold, but my routine Covid study test result came back positive. I have had breathing issues pretty much ever since, I thought they were finally starting to go when they started getting worse again which has felt pretty disheartening as it's affecting my running and physical activity in general.
There's another wave of it going around my area at the moment, it turns out. I'm not entirely sure where I've had it again or just a bad cold, I had excruciating migraine-like sinus headaches off and on for over a week (which quite a few people seem to be suggesting is a symptom of the latest version of Covid doing the rounds), and felt pretty crappy at times. I did a test as I still have a few left, but that was negative.
The UK has pretty much stopped caring, they've stopped the study I was part of since 2020 as well so there will be less data available too.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Mar 30, 2023 15:24:57 GMT -5
Sorry to hear that Kraken. Pacing is important, but hard to do and frustrating.
One of LC's mates, who is 14, has an upcoming cardiologist appointment due to new cardiac issues. This may or may not be related to Covid, but it does seem strange that over the past year there are now 4 teenagers I know (3 I know well) who have had to have cardiologist visits, and 2 of those visits are definitely linked to Covid, while one is 'viral cause' (so possible Covid) and the other is 'unknown'.
There was a big forum in Canberra yesterday on Clean Air, and while there are some pushing back saying it is too expensive to implement measures, the estimated cost of Long Covid in Australia was 3 billion and rising, so hopefully some changes come from the discussion.
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Post by snowwhite on Mar 30, 2023 16:26:23 GMT -5
I know this is not what you were talking about, and apologies if you'd rather nobody mentioned it (feel free to say so), but this is an example of using would where (imo) a native speaker really just, um, wouldn't...
I'd suggest instead of 'would catch' you could use 'caught' or possibly 'had caught'.
I hope you haven't caught it of course, or that if you have, it proves mild and without any nasty lingering effects.
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Post by whothingie on Mar 30, 2023 22:31:15 GMT -5
I've just booked for monday another vaccination and now we can have flu Vax at the same time. I'm happy as so far I've escaped, but my last Vax was close to 15 months ago so likely to be next to useless. As an elderly asthmatic still working in a place where staff are in multiple multi inhabited buildings ie hospitals and rest homes I'm vulnerable so delighted this is now available.
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Post by Q-pee on Mar 31, 2023 2:27:05 GMT -5
Time for another shot... maybe before the long Easter weekend. The shots seem to make me tired - less tired than bloody covid but best to plan ahead.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Mar 31, 2023 2:38:05 GMT -5
Can you get Novavax in the Netherlands?
After being really knocked around by the mRNA vaccines, I did a lot of reading (particularly related to my chronic illness) and decided to switch to Novavax. Pay off was that it may not give quite as good coverage as the bivalent mRNA ones, but it doesn't wane as quickly (so slightly lower protection but it will last for longer)
Anyway, I had a slightly red, raised area on my arm where the injection was given and that was it. No other side effects. Which did bear out the first part of what I'd read on minimal side effects. Now hoping the next bit is as true!
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Post by Q-pee on Mar 31, 2023 2:53:52 GMT -5
Can you get Novavax in the Netherlands? Just checked, and it turns out I can. I think last time it was only available for people who had really had an issue with their first/earlier "prik". It's Pfizer as the standard no appointment necessary, but you can choose to have Jansen or Novavax by appointment.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Mar 31, 2023 3:05:48 GMT -5
yes, here you just had to say you don't want an mRNA vaccine, and, of course, find somewhere that offers it.
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Post by lillielangtry on Mar 31, 2023 3:41:01 GMT -5
A friend of mine got Novavax because she is trying to get pregnant and said the previous jabs messed up her cycle. I believe the evidence was mixed on that, but obviously she is tracking herself and said it happened every time so she wanted to try something different.
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Post by romily on Mar 31, 2023 4:04:18 GMT -5
Thanks snow. i guess it's pretty ingrained after getting it wrong for nearly 20 years!
Miraculously still testing negative so might have dodged a bullet. Had booster for Covid and Flu in December (Pfizer) so maybe that has helped. So 4 vaccinations so far (2 x Astrazeneca, Moderna and then Pfizer, all with quite strong side effects) - no talk about another booster, but if then it would be autumn I guess.
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Post by crazycat on Apr 3, 2023 19:15:03 GMT -5
I had it for the second time last month. Stil a pretty mild case but I had gastro symptoms this time alongside the cold and sore throat. No one else at home caught it from me and I have no idea where I got it from.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Apr 3, 2023 22:20:55 GMT -5
A friend didn't come to bookclub last night - she said 3 of her colleagues are currently out with Covid, and while she is still negative at this stage she didn't want to risk it.
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Post by whothingie on Apr 5, 2023 21:38:41 GMT -5
Two more today, including one I went to a wedding with as the plus 1 last weekend. I've got sniffles but testing negative. Took myself back home via the pick up a box of rats station so am preparing for the inevitable.
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Post by romily on Apr 6, 2023 2:01:18 GMT -5
Just an example how little people care anymore - somebody who I know via work who tested positive didn't even think of isolating, miraculously didn't pas sit on to partner and child, and even attended a meeting with social services while still testing positive. Because "everybody has it, who cares". Made me quite angry.
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