Francoisvander or else wrote: ↑Wed Oct 12, 2022 2:46 am
Me and Mrs FVE are currently in Tenerife, both of us had a bit of a cough a few days ago and flu like symptoms but nothing to extreme so just brushed it off as a cold. Tonight we went to a bar and Mrs FVE asks for a Jack Daniel’s and coke. She takes one sip and says ‘that’s not JD, it’s cheap whiskey’. I march back to the bar and remonstrate with the barmen who is adamant it JD so much so he opens a brand new bottle in front of me, low and behold I can’t smell anything and when I take it back to the Mrs neither can she. Gave it to some friends to try who confirm it’s definitely JD. Sounds to me like we might have got the dreaded covid
Fingers crossed you'll both be ok.
For the JD drinkers, here's Rich Hall's twopenn'orth.....
Last couple of weeks, my 3yr-old girl had a runny nose, then a terrible cough, then a temperature and then an earache which burst both eardrums. So she's been crying, vomiting, and running out of her nose and ears, all at once. Not really been eating, been lethargic, and she's full of Calpol, baby Nurofen and antibiotic ear drops. She's starting to improve - last night was the first time in about a fortnight that she didn't wake up screaming and burning hot and ended up in our bed - but it's been a b*stard. And she still can't hear properly; we're given to understand that that won't right itself for a few weeks while the eardrums heal. Mrs.caress went down with it and took the last part of last week off work coughing her lungs up and took the start of this week off puking her guts up (although she's a lot brighter today). Couple of nights ago, I started feeling very... well, drugged up, and a bit too hot and too cold. Very swimmy. My eyes are hurting, like I'm wearing someone else's prescription spectacles.
We've all had negative COVID tests, though. So far.
Sorry to hear about your daughter LC, I hope she gets better soon.
I had an absolute minger of a cold last week - temperature was all over the place, completely exhausted. Did four tests, didn't show as COVID, so it turns out I was being a big woo.
Tim Spector reckons currently there is a ratio of three colds to one COVID case in this country.
We've all had a cold over the last couple weeks, including the baba, who's nose hasn't stopped running, and has had a horrible cough too.
Went to a big family meal with the outlaws on Sunday, where one person tested positive on the Monday, now seven people are positive and all have the new sickness and diarrhea symptons too.
It what it is now though, this time two years ago, my anxiety would be through the roof, just life now isn't it.
S-H wrote: ↑Thu Oct 13, 2022 7:39 am
Went to a big family meal with the outlaws on Sunday, where one person tested positive on the Monday, now seven people are positive and all have the new sickness and diarrhea symptons too.
Interestingly, it appears the only people testing positive from attending this, were those who had not had covid before.
It's everywhere around here again, popped into Colchester hospital on Saturday to see a mate, got turned away as they have closed the ward down to visitors as apparently 1 in 4 people in the hospital are expected to have the virus!
Clacton-ammer wrote: ↑Mon Oct 17, 2022 11:31 am
It's everywhere around here again, popped into Colchester hospital on Saturday to see a mate, got turned away as they have closed the ward down to visitors as apparently 1 in 4 people in the hospital are expected to have the virus!
The NHS are expecting higher flu and covid infections (than normal) this winter.
Her OFTness and I are now both negative.
She's still got little or no sense of taste and I've still got a dry cough.
Supposed to be going for re-scheduled 4th Jab tomorrow not sure what to do for the best.
OFT wrote: ↑Mon Oct 17, 2022 12:29 pm
Her OFTness and I are now both negative. She's still got little or no sense of taste and I've still got a dry cough.
Supposed to be going for re-scheduled 4th Jab tomorrow not sure what to do for the best.
The Chinese government made a massive commitment to zero COVID a while ago and it was always going to take them ages to roll that back. I'm not saying it is right, but that is how it is. They also have vaccinated their entire population with Sinovac, which isn't as good as the Western vaccines. So the government there will do whatever it sees to be in the interests of the ruling party.