Remaining Effects of Covid

[najaB]

At this time of year, he might have had hay fever, for starters.

Sneezing, maybe, but if he had a heavy cough it was more likely a cold, flu or Covid.

 

[Richard Scott]

Sneezing, maybe, but if he had a heavy cough it was more likely a cold, flu or Covid.

My hay-fever symptoms make it appear to others that I have a cold. Can sneeze so much causes a coughing fit!

 

[najaB]

My hay-fever symptoms make it appear to others that I have a cold. Can sneeze so much causes a coughing fit!

You have my sympathy. It's been a long, long time since mine was bad enough to cause coughing fits. Normally I'm just completely bunged up to the point that I give up on the thought of breathing through my nose for days at a time.

 

[Richard Scott]

You have my sympathy. It's been a long, long time since mine was bad enough to cause coughing fits. Normally I'm just completely bunged up to the point that I give up on the thought of breathing through my nose for days at a time.

Thanks. It's not often that bad but can be. No exaggeration but can have times where if I sneeze once, I'll sneeze 20 times, then end up with the coughing fit. Luckily don't get runny eyes with it so some people have far worse than I do.

 

[dangie]

From the BBC article:

‘There is some talk of a "summer Covid wave" at the moment. We all seem to know someone who has had it lately, or a friend who has been off sick.’

No we don’t. We all may know someone who has had Hay Fever though. Just like those who say they’ve got flu, when all they have is a common cold.

 

[Bald Rick]

From the BBC article:

‘There is some talk of a "summer Covid wave" at the moment. We all seem to know someone who has had it lately, or a friend who has been off sick.’

No we don’t. We all may know someone who has had Hay Fever though. Just like those who say they’ve got flu, when all they have is a common cold.

Whilst true that not everyone will know someone who has had it recently, I certainly know several people who have, including one in my house!

 

[najaB]

Whilst true that not everyone will know someone who has had it recently, I certainly know several people who have, including one in my house!

As do I. Though, not in your house.

 

[route101]

Opposite of what I've noticed recently, most of the sanitiser statins I've tired to use for a good 12 months have been empty.

My local B&M have only just take down the screens at the tills.

 

[gg1]

Sneezing, maybe, but if he had a heavy cough it was more likely a cold, flu or Covid.

Not necessarily, coughing is one of my common hay fever symptoms.

 

[brad465]

Whilst true that not everyone will know someone who has had it recently, I certainly know several people who have, including one in my house!

Last Christmas while staying at my parents my mum had covid for about 4 days, but despite this I never caught it, even though there were more than enough opportunities to catch it. This suggests I either had an asymptomatic case, or had covid not long before in the form of a cold that I still had immunity from.

 

[Howardh]

My hay-fever symptoms make it appear to others that I have a cold. Can sneeze so much causes a coughing fit!

Severe grass allergy here, on a bad day can end up in bed shaking violently, to an onlooker (that and with runny eyes/very red face) can appear to be covid symptoms or flu. Coughing is rare though, for me. Knock-on effect of covid is how difficult it is to see a doctor now in person, they would much rather have a phone consultation and send in a photo, so if I'm particularly bad I would rather them see my face *live* than via a photo.

That being said, having a phone consultation saves going to the surgery, sitting with others and listening to that darned "Smooth" radio over the speakers!

Just a note, my allergy is reasonably under control with mild antihistamines and a night's sleep if particularly bad. I have steroids just in case!

 

[ChrisC]

There's certainly an uptick in that sort of behaviour recently - and for the first time in at least eighteen months I'm seeing people wearing masks on a regular basis again.

I have no problem with some elderly and other vulnerable people wearing masks if it helps them to feel safe and gives them confidence to go into crowded places. Although, I do accept that the types of masks many of them wear offer no real protection at all.

What does concern me is how since Covid mask wearing by certain elements of society has almost become part of their culture and fashion. Fashion trends, especially amongst gangs of young men have often seemed somewhat strange to me, although I suppose I was young once. The wearing of hoodies and thick puffer jackets with hoods up, even during heat waves always seems odd. However, now along with this comes the wearing of masks. You only have to go into any urban area to see gangs of young men with thick clothes, hoods up and wearing masks even in mid summer. For some riders of scooters and bikes this seem to be part of the uniform. The other night I travelled into Nottingham on the tram and there were a number of mask wearing young men with hoods up. Interestingly these mask wearing youths are very quick to jump off the tram if there are any imminent ticket inspections. I actually find this type of mask wearing quite a threatening and disturbing after effect of Covid.

 

[AM9]

I have no problem with some elderly and other vulnerable people wearing masks if it helps them to feel safe and gives them confidence to go into crowded places. Although, I do accept that the types of masks many of them wear offer no real protection at all.

That's my view, it is no business of anybody else.*

* With the sole exception of situations where for security purposes it is necessary to make a visual facial identification, e.g. passports, banks etc..

 

[Ashfordian6]

Well any claim that it could be eliminated would have been the crank claim, and I don't recall any claims by anyone in a position to command respect claiming that it couldn't be controlled.

I am not surprised but we are now seeing a pandemic of blinkered and false memories from the gullible who allowed the people in command to control them during the pandemic years.

Devi Sridhar was one of those in command who had a Covid elimination approach. She was advising Nicola Sturgeon with this approach, as well as many Guardian articles. She is a crank, but she was taken very seriously by those in charge in Scotland and the knock on damaging effects the politicisation of Covid had over the rest of the UK!

And another crank, Matt Hancock constantly changed the parameters of the delivery of the Covid jab because he thought the virus could be eliminated, despite the evidence already being obvious to the contrary (March 2021).

 

[najaB]

And another crank, Matt Hancock constantly changed the parameters of the delivery of the Covid jab because he thought the virus could be eliminated, despite the evidence already being obvious to the contrary (March 2021).

Clearly wasn't listening to any epidemiologists. We could no more eliminate Sars-Cov-2 than you can any other coronavirus. All we could do was attempt to slow the spread so that it didn't hit the kind of peaks seen elsewhere that overwhelmed the healthcare systems. It was always going to become endemic and herd immunity was the endgame.

 

[jon0844]

Whilst true that not everyone will know someone who has had it recently, I certainly know several people who have, including one in my house!

I got it too, and it was worse this time than what I got during Covid (and I tested so I know it was Covid). I can't imagine the vaccination will still do anything by now, so perhaps that's a factor in why I felt worse this time.

Nothing life threatening, but a total loss of energy, loss of taste and smell, and a very upset stomach at the start. Weirdly, I had initial cold like symptoms and soon felt better (and bar a day or two of shivering even when it was 25 degrees outside, my body temperature was pretty normal most of the time), but then a few days later it hit full on. It seems unlikely I got a cold THEN Covid so the symptoms are a little different early on as you don't usually get well from a cold that quick. Oh and I also got the runny nose and coughing, which now has me feeling like I have bronchitis - tight chest and dry cough, which can extend to a full-on coughing session where I feel like I'm going to black out.

Other people who have been near me have either had it before I got fully ill, or are ill now.

So I'd say Covid is definitely still doing the rounds.

 

[DustyBin]

That's my view, it is no business of anybody else.*

* With the sole exception of situations where for security purposes it is necessary to make a visual facial identification, e.g. passports, banks etc..

I'd add that wearers should practice proper mask hygiene, which they commonly don't....

 

[Lampshade]

I have it right now, basically just a blocked nose and phlegmy throat for a few days, had a cold in February that was MUCH worse, woudn't have known this was Covid if I hadn't done a lateral flow out of curiosity.

 

[AM9]

I'd add that wearers should practice proper mask hygiene, which they commonly don't....

Should, but so long as there's no mandatory wearing of them anywhere, how they are used and worn is up to the wearer.

 

[Mikw]

Or the new MML variant - promised but the new model never seems to come.