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Wildest memories from the COVID-19 pandemic period?

I know this isn't exactly a memory. It's a lasting affect of the Corona.

I saw on the news this morning that some olde time disease's are on the rise. You know diseases that was under control because of vaccinations down the years.
 
Not really a memory, but does anyone feel like there's a massive lurgy going around at the moment? I've been really rough for about 4 days now. Low energy, nose hasn't stopped running, headaches, sore throat and tickly cough and sneezing. My mom has been the same. Customers at work coughing up their lungs. Multiple people at work have phoned in sick with it. Na? Probably just me.
 
BarryZola said:
Not really a memory, but does anyone feel like there's a massive lurgy going around at the moment? I've been really rough for about 4 days now. Low energy, nose hasn't stopped running, headaches, sore throat and tickly cough and sneezing. My mom has been the same. Customers at work coughing up their lungs. Multiple people at work have phoned in sick with it. Na? Probably just me.
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Tis the season:

"This is normal, it's autumn after all," says Prof Jonathan Ball, from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

He says the levels of illnesses at the moment are not particularly high.

Cold, flu, Covid: Why is everyone sick right now? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1jz608l9l4o
 
It doesn't help that huge numbers of people previously considered "medium risk" are no longer being offered Covid vaccinations as of this year. Now the jab is only available to over 75s, people living in care homes and those that are severely immunocompromised. The argument is that Covid is less severe an illness than it used to be. The reason is obviously cost saving.
 
My work offers a free flu jab via boots which I've been getting every year since 2020.

Had a nasty cold, bug, thing a few months ago. Just came out of nowhere and was gone after about 72 hours. Felt awful for about 48 hours.
 
Had a nasty cough for about 3/4 weeks recently. Finally easing off but was an absolute ******, presuming nothing untoward just couldn't shift it (plus everyone in house had it for a bit, so putting it down to nursery flu).

Yesterday felt a bit off but I'm putting that down to wild changes in temperature between office, workshop and outside.

Problem is nowadays many cannot afford to take time off work so go in regardless of their being ill or not. Hence stuff just goes round.
 
Flu patients in hospital 56% higher than last year. I did mention some weeks ago that it seemed some weird strain or whatever was going around. I mix with lots of people who also mix with lots of people so we usually get a decent feel for these things early on. It was the same with Covid. We all had it in the December/January (not knowing it existed at the time) before the major publicised breakout in March/April or whatever it was (not saying this is Covid obviously).
 
That reminds me.

Mrs slugjc works on ECM. She became ill in January 2020 after work one day. Flu like symptoms, but really full on. Drives back from Leeds station shivering and hallucinations. Ran her bath, I can't even put my hand in. She gets in and complains it's freezing.

After a few days later, starts feeling better. Alot of train staff have fallen to this illness. Turns out. It was contact with Chinese students returning to york after Christmas.

I'm like you, had something a few weeks ago, knocked me flat. Couldn't go on sick as the Mrs has just had a foot opp. I never got COVID, don't get well ever. But, makes you think if new strains are about.
 
BarryZola said:
Flu patients in hospital 56% higher than last year. I did mention some weeks ago that it seemed some weird strain or whatever was going around. I mix with lots of people who also mix with lots of people so we usually get a decent feel for these things early on. It was the same with Covid. We all had it in the December/January (not knowing it existed at the time) before the major publicised breakout in March/April or whatever it was (not saying this is Covid obviously).
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Based on the symptoms you suggested in your earlier post it’s unlikely that was the flu, there are a number of respiratory bugs floating around at the moment.

Flu tends to be more systemic symptoms rather than cough, cold, runny nose. Generally if you can get out of bed and it lasts less then a week you don’t have the flu. If you can’t get out of bed and feel like you have been hit by a freight train then it might be the flu.

There isn’t a particularly weird Flu strain either, it just mutated mid-season so the flu vaccine has lower effectiveness than usual, it has however come earlier than normal to the UK.
 
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