Coronavirus

[smuts]

Haven't lost my sense of smell or taste. Woke up in the night with my throat on fire and my legs are aching like mad.

Another day in the pit beckons.

[Tezza65]

From Friday,you will have to buy your Covid tests

Around about £20 for a pack of 7.

People just ain't going to bother.

[mumbles87]

From Friday,you will have to buy your Covid tests

Around about £20 for a pack of 7.

People just ain't going to bother.

Will be interesting to see the prices

Boots claimed once free tests stopped they would lower the price.. (I doubt it)

If they are all the new ones id pay it as a box of 7 in reserve would be alright, 7 tests

If they are the ones the NHS is sending out ATM (the old ones) I wouldn't bother as for £20 you would get about 2 tests that work because the amount of liquid is too small (proven by the new ones giving triple the amount of liquid)

[S-H]

Mum & Dad who both shielded when all this started, have just tested positive..

[Denbighammer]

Mum & Dad who both shielded when all this started, have just tested positive..

Fingers crossed they are OK S-H. One big positive is that Corona is obviously weaker than at the start and two (hopefully) your folks have been jabbed.

[S-H]

Fingers crossed they are OK S-H. One big positive is that Corona is obviously weaker than at the start and two (hopefully) your folks have been jabbed.

Both been jabbed, both eligible for the anti viral treatment too, fingers crossed they won't need it.

[ageing hammer]

Dodged this b*stard since it began despite working in a hospital.
Went to first night out for two years to opera house on Friday night.
Tested positive this morning
Pains in places I never knew existed

[SammyLeeWasOffside]

From Friday,you will have to buy your Covid tests

Around about £20 for a pack of 7.

People just ain't going to bother.

Have to have a negative test to get into a care home. Some people don't have the choice but to pay.

[SammyLeeWasOffside]

Pains in places I never knew existed

Opera will do that

[mumbles87]

Have to have a negative test to get into a care home. Some people don't have the choice but to pay.

if you can get them. Mum at my daughters school tried to get the free ones.. no slots (always gonna happen the week before they stop being free they cut back deliveries)

she tried to get paid ones from chemist.. they didnt have any

[S-H]

Get well soon, ageing.

[Hummer_I_mean_Hammer]

From Friday,you will have to buy your Covid tests

Around about £20 for a pack of 7.

People just ain't going to bother.

Blimey, cheaper to get some fags (that'ssayingsomething) and at least you derive some joy out of those.

[ageing hammer]

Opera will do that

It was a queen tribute band :lol:

[Burnley Hammer]

So lockdown has resulted in a significant worsening of childhood obesity

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/0 ... bstantial/

The irony being that obesity increased the chances of severe illness from covid.

[Burnley Hammer]

Neutralizing Antibodies and Cellular Immune Responses Against SARS-CoV-2 Sustained One and a Half Years After Natural Infection

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35310397/

[Burnley Hammer]

And a bit of nutritional advice for those that like to keep their immune systems optimised...

The Role of Minerals in the Optimal Functioning of the Immune System
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8840645/

[S-H]

Mum & Dad both had the Omicron variant, Both High risk, they've been getting regular calls from the local GP, and in my Mum's case her consultant from the Royal Brompton, just checking in, which has been reassuring for them both, they are now on the mend.

[smuts]

Finally started feeling more human today a week later. By which I'm actually out of bed by 10am...

We have more people off sick at work with Covid than for the rest of the pandemic put together.

[MB]

They are dropping like flies in my office. Thankfully mild, but symptomatic for 10-12 days.

Somehow I still haven't caught it since the suspected dose in 2019. Same for everyone in my household. My youngest has sat next to three kids with it and never tested positive. My eldest had half her form off with it and nothing.

[S-H]

They are dropping like flies in my office. Thankfully mild, but symptomatic for 10-12 days.

Somehow I still haven't caught it since the suspected dose in 2019. Same for everyone in my household. My youngest has sat next to three kids with it and never tested positive. My eldest had half her form off with it and nothing.

Good genes.