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pluk said:
So do I! I'm talking outside of work.
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I know you are. I remember witnessing a copper being spat all over the first week of lockdown. Must have been a hideous working environment.

I wasn't talking about me standing shoulder by shoulder (I'm such a miserable person of little faith, I try and stay as much away from people anyway, despite working in a shop, even I do mine online), I'm talking about the GP. I witnessed impeccable behaviour when hospitality for instance reopened. But when people walked across the road to do some shopping, they seemed perfectly comfortable grouping together.
 
All recovered from Covid! Was like a bad flu for about 2/3 days and then eased off. Bad cough for a week and then went.

Alton Towers I have to say have been excellent with regards the tickets - no questions, no quibbles, just moved them over to another weekend for me with no problems.
 
I've still somehow not had it, despite everyone else in my family catching it around New Year's.
 
www.bbc.co.uk

Covid: Nine new symptoms added to official list

Sore throats, headaches and loss of appetite are now all officially recognised as signs of infection.
www.bbc.co.uk

An updated list of Covud symptoms, consistent with what I've been having over the last 10 days which includes fever, headaches and quite extreme tiredness. Back to work tomorrow and I am quite concerned that I'll actually be up it, not sure how I'm going to cope with how knackered I'm currently getting from very little effort.
 
I've had about half of those symptoms for about 5 days now. I've not tested positive for Covid and have tested 3-4 times over those days. In fact I've been testing pretty regularly since the LFT's originally became available and apparently I've not had Covid once in the past year or two. Seems a bit dodgy as I've been working in retail throughout the whole pandemic. Maybe the back of my nose/throat don't like giving up the Covid juice or something....
 
Sorry to bump, but I just wanted to let you all know; if you’re getting your NHS COVID Pass and had the Pfizer vaccine for any of your doses, don’t be concerned if it says you’ve had the Comirnaty vaccine.

I was initially a bit concerned, thinking that it had my vaccine records wrong, but as it turns out, that’s just a medical name for the Pfizer vaccine.

Just thought I’d let you all know in case any of you find yourselves concerned about this if/when you get an NHS COVID Pass and have had the Pfizer vaccine like I did.

Why did they not just keep it as the Pfizer vaccine?
 
Pfizer is the name of the company who made the vaccine, whereas Comirnaty is the name of the product (in this case, the vaccine itself). I beleive the others also have product names.
 
Matt N said:
Sorry to bump, but I just wanted to let you all know; if you’re getting your NHS COVID Pass and had the Pfizer vaccine for any of your doses, don’t be concerned if it says you’ve had the Comirnaty vaccine.

I was initially a bit concerned, thinking that it had my vaccine records wrong, but as it turns out, that’s just a medical name for the Pfizer vaccine.

Just thought I’d let you all know in case any of you find yourselves concerned about this if/when you get an NHS COVID Pass and have had the Pfizer vaccine like I did.

Why did they not just keep it as the Pfizer vaccine?
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Comirnaty is the vaccine brand name, BionTech is the manufacturer in collaboration with Pfizer.
Similar that Viagra is the brand name, Pfizer is the manufactuer.

Also like Fiesta is the model and Ford is the manufacturer.

I think for the Oxford/Astrazenica vaccine the brand is Vaxzevria, not sure if that shows on the NHS pass.
 
This is potentially quite concerning

www.independent.co.uk

Omicron Covid variants ‘evolving to target lungs and beat immunity’ as UK cases surge

Scientists fear the sub-variants may be similar to the more deadly Alpha and Delta variants
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The new BA4 and BA5 variants which are causing a new wave of infections seem to have evolved to once again target the lungs of their host, similar to the Alpha and Delta strains and show more severe disease.

So where do we go from here now society has fully opened up? Just get on with life or so you think we should again have masks and distancing for the winter?
 
Tell you what, if it's not one thing it's a-bloody-nother at the moment isn't it. If it's not cost of living it's rail strikes. If it's not covid it's monkey pox. If it's not the war in Ukraine it's covid again. If it's not that it's cancelled flights, trains, buses due to this, that and the other. And on it goes. I'm trying to maintain an ethos of "I'll only worry when it starts to affect me" but when bad news is rammed down your throat from left, right and centre, be it from headlines, clickbait articles or general word of mouth, that's quite difficult and makes me wonder, what is the bloody point of trying to do anything.

Off topic I know (I'll PM a warning to myself?) but just wanted to get that off my chest.

As you were.
 
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GaryH said:
This is potentially quite concerning

www.independent.co.uk

Omicron Covid variants ‘evolving to target lungs and beat immunity’ as UK cases surge

Scientists fear the sub-variants may be similar to the more deadly Alpha and Delta variants
www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk


The new BA4 and BA5 variants which are causing a new wave of infections seem to have evolved to once again target the lungs of their host, similar to the Alpha and Delta strains and show more severe disease.

So where do we go from here now society has fully opened up? Just get on with life or so you think we should again have masks and distancing for the winter?
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At the moment it’s conjecture that the predisposition for lung infection or upper RT infection dictates the severity (though not without merit). Certainly ITU admission hasn’t increased yet which is a good indicator of severity of a new strain (though there is still time for this to start happening).

Moderna and Pfizer also have new bivalant vaccines coming through more targeted to omicron in general so the picture is more complicated than just a variant change.
 
I tested positive for Covid for the first time almost two weeks ago. Pretty much spent a couple of days lazing in bed as didn't feel energetic, was achey for a couple of days and had general cold symptoms for about a week and a half (I still don't feel hundred percent but had a holiday booked in the Lake District so am going up Scafell Pike today, and feel that I will be able to manage it). I'd say I was feeling not well enough to work for about 5 days as I work on my feet all day. I have had the 2 covid jabs and the booster and I would say I'm probably slightly above average fitness for a soon to be 40 year old, so I'm guessing it could have been worse without the jabs. Honestly, I tested frequently throughout the worst periods of the pandemic and was always negative. Seems I was victim to this new wave of infections.
 
BarryZola said:
I tested positive for Covid for the first time almost two weeks ago. Pretty much spent a couple of days lazing in bed as didn't feel energetic, was achey for a couple of days and had general cold symptoms for about a week and a half (I still don't feel hundred percent but had a holiday booked in the Lake District so am going up Scafell Pike today, and feel that I will be able to manage it). I'd say I was feeling not well enough to work for about 5 days as I work on my feet all day. I have had the 2 covid jabs and the booster and I would say I'm probably slightly above average fitness for a soon to be 40 year old, so I'm guessing it could have been worse without the jabs. Honestly, I tested frequently throughout the worst periods of the pandemic and was always negative. Seems I was victim to this new wave of infections.
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I had it about a month ago for the first time too and symptoms were very similar, I had cold symptoms two days of fever so in bed, then a week of being very tired and cough/sneezing and then another month of coughing.

GaryH said:
Just get on with life or so you think we should again have masks and distancing for the winter?
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Masks should be encouraged for anyone who feels ill with anything, similar to how it is in Japan. Just stop cold/flu/covid being breathed everywhere.
Also we need a better system for sick pay and to stop assuming everyone is just "pulling a sickie" so that people actually do stay home instead of spreading their germs.
I expect there will be further vaccination this winter, but the main action should be a culture change so people don't work when they are ill. That way at least it might be one person off sick for three days, instead of the whole workforce going off as the germs spread around a workplace over a few weeks.

Unfortunately the main thing many people have taken away from the pandemic is that they need to wipe the handle of the trolley at the supermarket, whilst not realising Covid is airborne and therefore masks are more important. Clean hands is more for the food poisoning bugs (E.Coli and similar).
 
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There's not going to be another lockdown so it's about getting on with life now, taking extra precautions and being a bit more hygiene conscious.

Don't waste your life hiding away from something you can't see nor control. You only get one go round as they say.
 
Benjsh said:
There's not going to be another lockdown so it's about getting on with life now, taking extra precautions and being a bit more hygiene conscious.

Don't waste your life hiding away from something you can't see nor control. You only get one go round as they say.
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But "hygiene" has nothing to do with covid, it is airborne. It is more about courtesy to others, not going out if you are ill or if you have to go out when unwell, wear a mask.
 
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