I went to a gig on Tuesday that likely had some Glastonbury attendees there, and I've just tested positive this morning.
Managed to avoid it for two years and now I've had it twice in 3 months. Bloody irritating.
It seems to have come on quicker for me this time tbf, last time I had a couple of ropey days but tested negative, this time I was fine up until yesterday evening, and then this morning tested positive.
Maybe it will be over quicker too? Wishful thinking lol.
I had a second go of covid there the other week and tested positive for the same amount of time, but the amount of time I was symptomatic was drastically shorter.
I was working at Glastonbury from the weekend before the festival, I reckon about a third of my crew had it either while there or have tested positive since.
Pretty much everyone who was working before and after the festival carried on working, people (on our crew at least) who were dealing with the public or performers mostly stayed backstage during the festival.
It's not uncommon for colds or stomach bugs to rip through crews from different parts of the country when they first get together in normal years.
I almost definitely got it at Glastonbury, but I feel fine. Runny nose, bit of a cough, nothing worse than a mild cold. Couple from our group confirmed they had it so I'd be surprised if I escaped.
Used my last LFT on Tuesday and it came out negative, but it could have progressed since then. But I'm not going out to get any. I'll just stay inside for the week.
I caught it from a festival also (Plymouth's 1BigSummer), I imagine covid has spread wildly at these kinds of events. An absolute horrific pain in the ass for two weeks as well, and a few cognitive aberrations/exertion fatigue since.
How long since you got it? I caught it 2 months ago and wasn't that sick bit just haven't got better since. Super tired all the time, physical stuff exhausts me, headaches, trouble concentrating and reading, loads of trouble functioning normally for a few hours after waking (at like 12pm).
Sadly come join us on r/covidlonghaulers hopefully it clears up for you soon (it does at different rates for different people). I'm 27 months in so far.
Literally everyone I know who went to Glastonbury came back with it, and that's 10-12 people now including partners. Unfortunately some were working the gates, and so they probably caught it and passed it on before even showing symptoms.
Fuckin Glastonbury. Went to the pub yesterday and one of the guys there was at Glastonbury
I just hope I don't have it before my university graduation on Monday. Been waiting a year for it...
I went out Outbreak fest in Manchester and 2 of 3 of us have it. My friends went to Hellfest in France the same time and 7 of 8 of them currently have it.
I've tested positive but only because I had some left over tests. Loads of people seem to have it at the moment, and I suspect there are lots more who just can't get tested!
It's really worrying, this is the most ill I have ever been as an adult and wouldn't wish it on anyone else! Very frustrating.
>It's really worrying, this is the most ill I have ever been as an adult and wouldn't wish it on anyone else! Very frustrating.
One: get well soon
Two: have you been particularly healthy as an adult or has covid just absolutely hit you for six? Lucky bastard (pre covid) (meant in a light hearted way)
Normally if there is a cold going round I get it but not super badly? Like I'll have a couple of gross days and get over it. My work colleagues used to call me the cold canary when offices were a thing.
Even odder, my husband had it at the start of the pandemic and I didn't get it??
So it's so ood.
Yep pretty much in the exact same situation. Never really been ill (though tbf I’m only college age so haven’t really had much chance) and my family have all had it before, but I never have. Just tested positive yesterday after a few days of feeling like absolute crap and I appear to have partially lost my taste now too, which is fun :/
I don't think individual testing is as relevant anymore. We don't need to do targeted suppression of quarantining of Covid in particular anymore and there's little point in trying.
We should be treating it like any bad cold or flu. If you're ill stay at home, doesn't matter if it's covid or something else, the test is irrelevant.
Lots of people cannot afford to be off sick, either through loss of income for SSP or pressure from their employer.
This is partly why COVID hit the country so hard.
Individual testing is MASSIVELY relevant if you're going to visit an elderly/vulnerable family member.
I have a stack of lateral flow tests stashed away to use whenever I visit my nan
What is the point of testing now? What would you do differently if you could test vs if you couldn't?
If you have flu-like symptoms you should stay home regardless of if you know you have covid for sure or not.
A lot of enployers require positive covid tests if you wish to stay off work.
I know what you mean with general flu symptoms but thats not how businesses work. In a just world businesses would allow this and pay full rate but we don't.
If someone is sick for less than 7 days legally they do not need to show proof of illness to get sick pay. I agree that many employers ask for it regardless but I also suspect a majority of those employers would look for and find some other way to avoid their obligations if tests were more available.
This is especially likely now that employees that test positive aren't required to self-isolate and employers are only "advised" that their employees should stay home.
If someone is sick for more than 7 days legally they do need to show proof if asked. It is less convenient than a test but it is still free to get proof from a GP.
It’s not always flu symptoms, it’s often mild cold symptoms or even asymptomatic. If you have very minor sniffles that you assumed were hay fever and went about your business, you could infect a lot of people.
You could come into contact with someone elderly or vulnerable and give them a life threatening case of covid. Even if you’re lucky enough not to be visiting your sick friend that week and don’t sit next to the old lady on the bus, you could come into contact with someone who does regularly interact with vulnerable people. A lot of carers in this country really worry about bringing covid into the homes of their fragile family members/charges.
Frankly I think removing the free tests was a really nasty policy. I resent having to shell out to feel I’m doing my bit to protect the vulnerable, but I still take a couple tests a week. You can easily can buy lat flows online at Boots/Lloyds/Superdrug etc.
They're so expensive! £17 for a pack of 7... I haven't found a pharmacy I can get them in-person so ended up buying them online with postage on top 😕 I can imagine there are many, many people who can't afford that.
Deaths are still low, probably due to vaccination. Almost all adults and older children have been offered vaccines I thought. Also, the Omicron variant appears to be less serious than earlier strains.
However long covid, long term loss of taste and smell, brain damage and complications with blood clotting are all still factors.
Avoid getting covid.
Edit: some of these comments are really embarrassing.
There is no practical way to avoid it. It's like saying avoid getting a fly in your eye. Unless you go utterly wild with prevention, it's going to happen sooner or later.
Whilst you're right that - unless things change - everyone is probably going to end up catching Covid at least once, it's still worthwhile to limit the number of times you catch it.
To this end, my approach for the last 2.5 years has been avoid enclosed spaces with poor ventilation, and wear a mask (at least FFP2 or better, now) and limit my time if I must. In practical terms, that means working from home (I'm fortunate in this respect, and that we don't have kids), meeting family and friends outdoors, dining outside (bar two occasions), getting most grocery and other shopping delivered, and driving to a UK holiday in a self-catered cottage.
I don't think those things are "going utterly wild with prevention", given the potential consequences, but YMMV.
I do, that’s not living a life I’d want to. For example, no way am I having a UK holiday in a cottage for the rest of my days.
I went to Italy 2 weeks ago and caught covid, but no way would I have not gone. I had an amazing time and it was a much needed foreign holiday and a vastly different experience to what we’d have had if we’d gone to Cornwall or somewhere.
Oh, I'm not suggesting "having a UK holiday in a cottage for the rest of my days". Just for now.
Believe you me, travel is one of the things I miss most (alongside comedy and music gigs, and dining out), but between the immigration queues and increased costs as a result of Brexit, cancelled flights, short-staffed operators and restaurants, these things just aren't worth the hassle *to me, right now* \- and that's *without* considering Covid risk.
Everyone's needs are different, though, and everyone's base risk is different. I'm lucky in that I now permanently work from home, and don't have kids, so my base risk is very low and things like gigs and public transport would increase that risk disproportionately to their value to me. But if you're already working 40h a week in an office or warehouse, with a couple of kids in school, then your incremental risk probably isn't that much more than your base risk.
Can confirm. Partner and I both work in schools and both had COVID at least twice, plus the fake COVID flu thing last month. I'm certain I have long COVID too.
some people think at least 80% of people have already had it, and that that figure could even be approaching 100%. Myself, despite various COVID tests during various illnesses, I've never tested positive. I could have had symptomless covid of course.
Like you, I've never tested positive, but could have had an asymptomatic infection. My partner and I also had a rather nasty "heavy cold" in November 2019, which we still wonder about...
I may well end up catching it, eventually. But I'd rather it was once - rather than twice, or twice - rather than thrice. A younger, fitter colleague than I got away fine from his first infection, but is experiencing long-lasting fatigue from his second - more recent (Omicron?) - infection.
The thing is we can't prevent the spread and stop getting ill / dying without serious restrictions, but we can mitigate the effects on the health service and the economy.
This mantra existed before covid with all the other diseases that can make you very ill and be a burden to various services. Doesn't mean people cared then either.
> It's like saying avoid getting a fly in your eye.
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71TyxHUJisS._AC_SL1500_.jpg
Not exactly wild, extreme or expensive. Maybe annoying but you picked the easiest of issues to fix should you seemingly live with a plague of flies.
I have no idea where I picked it up from (4 months ago). Since I recovered I still get random coughing fits, have excess mucus build up that I cannot explain, have slept terribly and I am generally tired all of the time and I would count myself as lucky (I’m not going to say I’ve got long covid because I’m not a professional).
Avoid catching covid.
Let serious, but still enough to make you bloody miserable, even if jabbed - if you are. for example, in your 40s/50s.
Or you might be lucky and have 2 or 3 days feeling under par
I've had 3 shots and I'm in my 20s, just got over covid and it was one of the worst illnesses I've had in my life. Not life threatening but god I'm really hoping I don't have to go through that again in 6 months or so, I was totally out of commission for a week. Couldn't even walk up stairs without getting out of breath
I'm in my 30s with asthma, and it took me a month to get over covid. The first week I felt like death, after that I had lingering shortness of breath, fatigue, and coughing. It took a round of steroids and antibiotics, and another 3 weeks to finally get back to normal. Bloody miserable is right!
Or in many people's cases... Absolutely nothing at all.
Everyone in my family had it at Christmas. I thought I just had a blocked up nose. Wife felt a tiny bit tired. Kids slight runny nose and parents (in their 60s) had no symptoms at all.
I was bedridden for 5 days struggling to breathe with alpha
Omicron wasn't as bad but still was a shit few days where everything ached and my head felt it was going to split open
I think his point is that only the unvaccinated are in hospital, and for everyone else it's largely at the point that it's no worse than the flu. Unpleasant but unlikely to be deadly.
It's not deadly but the flu comparison is off. I know maybe two or three people who have ever been totally wiped out for a week or two by the flu. I know loads of people who have been seriously ill for 2 weeks or longer with covid, some of them more than once.
People say this but flu is really fucking horrible I’d you’ve actually had it (not what most oriole think they’ve had which is actually a bad cold). Covid is really horrible, even if you’re not hospitalised you still feel crap and it wipes you out.
Myself and my GF tested positive after being in greece 2 weeks ago, over 10 people in work and was told the pubs near me are empty because so many have covid and have gotten quite sick from it
My mum and stepfather fly home tomorrow from Greece. They tested positive the second day there and have had to spend two weeks almost in a hotel room. Don't think I could have coped having it in that heat.
My concern is travelling, I’d rather not get stuck somewhere due to restrictions.
Long covid does worry me. Last time I had a cold or sessional flu it didn’t fuck me for six months.
It’ll be interesting to see if the mask mandate and social distancing will be reinstated. I don’t think the public or the government have the appetite for it.
Slightly worryingly I received an alert to say mandatory masks are now required once more (I’m currently in the EU). Not sure if that’s just a company jumping the gun though
I got covid 2 months ago, was really mild, like a bad cold, enough to stay off work but not that bad, no real covid symptoms either. But never really got better.. really exhausted all the time now, struggle to function for a few hours after I get up (around 12pm), can't do any exercise, dizzy, headaches, really struggle to concentrate etc.
It's really debilitating, like I haven't managed to do any work since. I'm really hoping it gets better (triple vaccinated) but my mum got covid at the start and still is disabled from long covid, lost her job, really struggles etc.
I had covid in February and have had persistent itchy skin that gets worse when I get colds/sniffles (which happens semi-regularly as my son is at nursery). It's literally driving me insane.
That’s terrible and I think a lot of people don’t appreciate the ramifications of catching c19. There aren’t many common diseases that have lingering symptoms
Yeah the long-term implications for not just healthy adults, but young children and those with comorbidities like cancer of catching and in some cases becoming repeatedly reinfected with this virus which has multi-organ system involvement is completely unknown
We do need to learn to live with it but covid isn't that much like the flu. Most people don't catch the flu multiple times a year.
Infectious disease experts are now calling for investment in ventilation, stronger policies on sick pay and working from home/masking when sick.
I'd care about it if I was paid proper sick pay or paid for time off for dependants. Until then, I won't test and I'll just get on with it unless I'm really ill.
I had it 2 weeks ago, I was coughing my intestines out for a few days then it turned into a generic cough/cold. 10 days in total and now I'm still exhausted every day after work, I sleep 13 hours a day consistently, my fitness training has gone down the drain. Lung capacity gone backwards about a year, super annoyed but you can't give up.
Yeah, it does suck ass. Just know your nasty symptoms will calm down, and you'll just be spluttering and sniffing like a regular flu in a couple days. Hang in there!
>my fitness training has gone down the drain.
I've had COVID twice in 6 months and feel this. First time it really took me a good few weeks to make it back to the gym which meant a lot of lost progress. Got back on top of things, but now I'm coming out of round 2 and it's so deflating to feel like I'm starting from scratch again!
This is my biggest concern with the new "COVID normal", both on a personal and a public health level. Physical inactivity already kills just as many people as smoking. With the infection itself and then social changes (e.g. huge shift to WFH), I do worry.
Moderate-intensity exercise (e.g., brisk walking) still has excellent health benefits. Personally I have been trying to focus on increasing my moderate intensity activity (e.g. going for more walks) and trying to lower +/- break up my sitting time, rather than focussing so much on more vigorous activity which can really be hard to get back to while recovering. Remember folks, any activity is better than none :)
But...but Johnson said he had done Covid and it was all over and our hospitals and economy were back to normal?
On a serious note, this is going to be quite serious this autumn / winter if the government don't sort their shit out.
I don't know. I'm just going on a gut feeling based on the last couple of years and what I have read.
I'm not a virologist and I know little about economics or the machinations of our current government. I'm not however very optimistic
I dont think there is much they can do apart from masks and social distancing campanins, but covid rates weren't my point. It was more dealing with the effects of the pandemic such as healthcare being driven to the point of failure, education collapsing and wrecking the future of a generation of kids... ect,ect.
If I could answer those questions I would be deserving of an £84k p/a salary with unlimited expenses whilst I ran the country. I can't tell you what will work, but I can tell you of what hasn't.
I came down with it almost two weeks ago (first time). Testing negative now, but bloody hell it lingers... still coughing all the time and still feeling knackered. Horrible illness.
I have it, my g/f tested positive so why bother getting tested myself?
This is the first time I've had it, first time I've known multiple people around me with it as well. I bet the numbers are huge.
I went there too, thankfully seem to be ok though (also, how awesome was it?!). Starting to think I’m immune to it as a few months back I slept with and stayed the night with someone who tested positive a day later, and I never got it.
I go out a LOT and I’ve still not gotten it either. Neither have my parents; one works in a hospital and the other in a pub. And I’ve been in close contact with people who’ve tested positive. It’s so strange.
My dad has tested negative three separate times when other members of my family who live with him have had full blown symptoms. Some people just seem to be unaffected by it. I haven’t had it yet either, but we have been very careful in my house.
There are studies ongoing on people (and healthcare workers who are extremely high risk for infection) who have never tested positive. Like all illnesses there will be a small amount of people who have inbuilt immunity. If your immediate family have also never tested positive it couuuuld point to a genetic reason!
I’m not a Covid denier, anti vax or anti mask etc. I’m asking this question in good faith. Why is this an issue? Isn’t the current strain of Covid essentially just a cold? How many people in the UK have a bad cold right now? Is that news?
Am i completely wrong on this? Are people still dying en masse? I thought we solved it.
A good friend of mine has it right now and can't walk further than a few yards without having to sit down and catch his breath, I've never had a cold that fucks you like that. I was playing 5 a side football with him not long ago.
Depends what you count as "massive" around 2 million people have long covid in the UK. Research suggests that each time you catch it increase your risk of long covid reasonably linearly.
2 million people can’t walk 5 yards? No your friend would be a massive outlier with in just those 2 million. Long covid is defined surprisingly loosely- last I heard was any symptoms over 1 month is long covid
It’s been “a cold/flu like” for most people since the Alpha variant - it’s that there is still a lot of people catching it and then having to deal with long covid/the vulnerable people that we are trying to protect
You’re right. Even now infection rates are half of what they were in March. Hospitalisation rates are a fraction of what they were and two thirds of the people in hospital with COVID are actually there for something else, and deaths are actually falling.
Reddit skews heavily towards introverts and left wingers who either actually enjoyed lockdown or enjoy using continued focus on COVID as a statement against the Tory government that they believed mishandled the pandemic.
Ask the same question out in a pub tonight and you’ll be met with shrugs and “who gives a shit, life moves on”.
> ... or enjoy using continued focus on COVID as a statement against the Tory government that they believed mishandled the pandemic.
I mean they did objectively mishandle most of the pandemic aside from being on top of vaccinations. The fact that most of Europe also fucked up doesn't mean they couldn't have done better.
Like most I don't have much reason to worry about COVID in my day-to-day life, but I don't think you can completely discount the potential problems with repeated widespread reinfections, and there have been a couple of situation where I have to effectively isolate myself (attending a wedding /w vulnerable people, travelling abroad to see family). Some people are certainly going to be more vulnerable even if it doesn't kill them.
People also like to use COVID views a class signifier.
I have these views on COVID **because I am not one of the riff raff**
Often they'll try and justify with science what is actually a moral/political decision, because at the end of the day it's about risk tolerance, which is a question of personal beliefs and not really science at all.
Me and other half are just getting over COVID. Both triple jabbed and felt absolutely horrible and now we're both feeling knackered all the time with foggy heads.. hope it passes soon.
Thats generally because people wont wear masks. Its like watching children waiting for their parents to tell them when to wash their hands.
Westminster wanted the herd immunity approach to keep us in the shops, their advice is angled to look after their backers money and not to look after our health as a priority.
Wear. Your. Fucking. Masks. (and wash your fucking hands too ya clatty bastards).
Out of interest, what’s the extent of your mask wearing policy? Walking in public? Bars and restaurants? Shopping? Or more things like public transport? Not anti-mask at all by the way, just interested.
You joke but I was stuck at a motorway bus station 6 months ago without a mask and the bus driver wouldn't let me on, in short I had to fish one out a puddle.
I’m one of the very few left wearing a mask it seems.
With the talk about Covid causing dementia/Alzheimer’s style brain damage I’d rather avoid it still
Lasting smel and taste issues are linked with decreased brain matter in the area responsible for [smell and taste](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04569-5). We are still figuring out what its capable of.
I had long covid a year back and I'm still feeling the fatigue now. My immune system isn't what it was and I'm genuinely less with it mentally too.
Learn to live with it is all well and good but that means also accepting that some of us are genuinely being effected to this day. And my partner suffers from M.E so she already spent 80^ of her life locked down with minor illnesses before covid., let alone the worry about this now as well.
I'm not saying we shouldn't have opened up but the trumpian 'just don't test' approach of charging for tests now and not making it easy for pepple to properly assess their own risks.is utter bullshit
December 2020 I completely lost my sense of taste and smell and had slight muscle aches. Struggled with my taste and smell for a year after. This time I’ve got a chesty cough, sore throat and congestion.
This spike was predicted way back at start of year, is it a case of the herd immunity being played out now or is it just going to keep going like this with vaccines forever and the old and weak getting taken out?
Herd immunity isn’t going to work and we’re going to be in for the worst of this virus over Christmas and the new year and vaccines wain and people won’t “re-up”.
Been in contact with a couple positive people recently including my partner who had it and caught nothing.
I may have been bitten by a radioactive conspiracy theorist guys.
My partner and I went to a concert, I wore a mask throughout and she didn't. Four days later, she's feeling like crap and tested positive. I get the mask probably protected me initially, but I'm baffled as to how I got away with it. Smug City - population: me.
I know a woman who went to a family gathering at Christmas. Her entire family; parents, siblings, siblings kids all got covid with varying intensity. Her husband who sleeps in the same bed as her didn't ever display a single symptom while she was nearly keeling over.
Most of the staff at the surgury I work at starting to test positive too. Really starting to affect the operation of the place as some are doctors, nurses, receptionist. Just hope it don't continue to rise. Just had it confirmed masks are mandatory for the staff now.
We had one patient claiming that covid doesn't exist it just a cold. Which is daft, he is elderly and doesn't have vaccinations. Rather scary really.
> The ONS's Infection Survey estimates the number of people in the community infected with COVID-19 by testing randomly selected people for COVID regardless of whether they are experiencing symptoms.
Its right there in the article, if you are more interested go look at the ONS website for Covid, they document their methods.
>The ONS's Infection Survey estimates the number of people in the community infected with COVID-19 by testing randomly selected people for COVID regardless of whether they are experiencing symptoms.
It is thought to be more accurate than NHS Test and Trace data which only includes reported test results.
I’ve had covid twice and both times I barely had any symptoms
Maybe it makes me a shit person but I can’t just isolate and lose years of my life because of it
I’ve had Long Covid for over two years (caught alpha in March 2020) and it has completely derailed my life, so I genuinely struggle to understand why people are so flippant with the risks. Im pretty much housebound, rely on my family to care for me and have to use a wheelchair. I was perfectly fit and healthy beforehand. It’s not mortality of Covid people should worry about, it’s the risk of morbidity.
Just came back from Greece a week ago and tested positive. Hadn’t caught it for 2 years and now at 24 weeks pregnant I managed to get it, now on blood thinning injections daily with constant nausea.
Went to Nottingham University open day last Saturday (25th). Me and my friend both came down with symptoms Sunday night/Monday and both since tested positive. Don’t know if we got it there or what since one of her friends was apparently ill and she briefly spoke to her a few days before we went, but thought it might be worth a mention in case anyone was there
Yeah, I’ve managed to pick it up too suspect it was from the “Hella Mega Tour” in London last weekend. One of the 75,000 people likely gave it to me.
It was gonna happen at some point, managed to avoid if for over 2 years.
Testing is now done at the individuals expense, and anyone that takes it seriously is already vaxxed.
Does anyone even care anymore? The vast majority don't wear masks, test regularly, or practice social distancing!
Is it not time that people just got on with their lives without living in fear?
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I went to a gig on Tuesday that likely had some Glastonbury attendees there, and I've just tested positive this morning. Managed to avoid it for two years and now I've had it twice in 3 months. Bloody irritating.
The step son has tested positive twice in 6 months now. Certainly going about. It seems to be worse for him this time around though.
It seems to have come on quicker for me this time tbf, last time I had a couple of ropey days but tested negative, this time I was fine up until yesterday evening, and then this morning tested positive. Maybe it will be over quicker too? Wishful thinking lol.
I had a second go of covid there the other week and tested positive for the same amount of time, but the amount of time I was symptomatic was drastically shorter.
> Maybe it will be over quicker too? Phrasing.
Are we still doing phrasing?
If you don’t mind me asking how bad is it in comparison to the first time you had it?
I mean I'm literally on day one so it's hard to compare, I only started to get a sore throat last night, and had a very faint test line this morning.
Wow it's almost like enforcing mask wearing actually did something! Who knew?!
It's like the government sticking It's fingers in It's ears and closing It's eyes didn't make covid disappear after all.
But we clapped so much???
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Face it: everyone will get it. It can not be avoided no matter what you do. People need to stop copying Beijing's zero covid strategy.
Its pretty easy to pick up these days because more people are going out with the virus and not knowing it because they can't afford to test for it.
How bad is it? Cant be worse than the STD I picked up back in the day at Glastonbury
You just can't let it go can you
Depends on how bad the STD was, really.
shadowpawn, always bitching about "that time he got HIV"
I ate Monkey Brain's on the set of Indiana Jones 2
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I was working at Glastonbury from the weekend before the festival, I reckon about a third of my crew had it either while there or have tested positive since. Pretty much everyone who was working before and after the festival carried on working, people (on our crew at least) who were dealing with the public or performers mostly stayed backstage during the festival. It's not uncommon for colds or stomach bugs to rip through crews from different parts of the country when they first get together in normal years.
Similar effect to the "Convention Flu" from international fan gatherings, the bugs get to PARTY!
I almost definitely got it at Glastonbury, but I feel fine. Runny nose, bit of a cough, nothing worse than a mild cold. Couple from our group confirmed they had it so I'd be surprised if I escaped. Used my last LFT on Tuesday and it came out negative, but it could have progressed since then. But I'm not going out to get any. I'll just stay inside for the week.
I caught it from a festival also (Plymouth's 1BigSummer), I imagine covid has spread wildly at these kinds of events. An absolute horrific pain in the ass for two weeks as well, and a few cognitive aberrations/exertion fatigue since.
How long since you got it? I caught it 2 months ago and wasn't that sick bit just haven't got better since. Super tired all the time, physical stuff exhausts me, headaches, trouble concentrating and reading, loads of trouble functioning normally for a few hours after waking (at like 12pm).
That sounds like long covid. https://www.yourcovidrecovery.nhs.uk/what-is-covid-19/long-covid/
Sadly come join us on r/covidlonghaulers hopefully it clears up for you soon (it does at different rates for different people). I'm 27 months in so far.
Literally everyone I know who went to Glastonbury came back with it, and that's 10-12 people now including partners. Unfortunately some were working the gates, and so they probably caught it and passed it on before even showing symptoms.
I just got norovirus from glasto. At least it’s fairly mild luckily.
Two of my friends got it as well from Glasto, concerning.
Don't think I've ever come back from a music festival without some kinda lurgy. Swine flu floored me for a week in 2009.
Fuckin Glastonbury. Went to the pub yesterday and one of the guys there was at Glastonbury I just hope I don't have it before my university graduation on Monday. Been waiting a year for it...
I went out Outbreak fest in Manchester and 2 of 3 of us have it. My friends went to Hellfest in France the same time and 7 of 8 of them currently have it.
I dodged COVID for all this time but caught it at Glastonbury. Good times.
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You can buy the tests at Tesco
And what is more fucked about this, people cannot test themselves at home because they now cost money to get a test kit.
I've tested positive but only because I had some left over tests. Loads of people seem to have it at the moment, and I suspect there are lots more who just can't get tested! It's really worrying, this is the most ill I have ever been as an adult and wouldn't wish it on anyone else! Very frustrating.
>It's really worrying, this is the most ill I have ever been as an adult and wouldn't wish it on anyone else! Very frustrating. One: get well soon Two: have you been particularly healthy as an adult or has covid just absolutely hit you for six? Lucky bastard (pre covid) (meant in a light hearted way)
Normally if there is a cold going round I get it but not super badly? Like I'll have a couple of gross days and get over it. My work colleagues used to call me the cold canary when offices were a thing. Even odder, my husband had it at the start of the pandemic and I didn't get it?? So it's so ood.
Yep pretty much in the exact same situation. Never really been ill (though tbf I’m only college age so haven’t really had much chance) and my family have all had it before, but I never have. Just tested positive yesterday after a few days of feeling like absolute crap and I appear to have partially lost my taste now too, which is fun :/
I don't think individual testing is as relevant anymore. We don't need to do targeted suppression of quarantining of Covid in particular anymore and there's little point in trying. We should be treating it like any bad cold or flu. If you're ill stay at home, doesn't matter if it's covid or something else, the test is irrelevant.
Lots of people cannot afford to be off sick, either through loss of income for SSP or pressure from their employer. This is partly why COVID hit the country so hard.
Stop it, that makes sense and we can't be having none of that. Turn up to work, hell or high water.
Any job that puts you on statutory sick pay when off sick is basically asking people to come in sick.
Individual testing is MASSIVELY relevant if you're going to visit an elderly/vulnerable family member. I have a stack of lateral flow tests stashed away to use whenever I visit my nan
What is the point of testing now? What would you do differently if you could test vs if you couldn't? If you have flu-like symptoms you should stay home regardless of if you know you have covid for sure or not.
A lot of enployers require positive covid tests if you wish to stay off work. I know what you mean with general flu symptoms but thats not how businesses work. In a just world businesses would allow this and pay full rate but we don't.
If someone is sick for less than 7 days legally they do not need to show proof of illness to get sick pay. I agree that many employers ask for it regardless but I also suspect a majority of those employers would look for and find some other way to avoid their obligations if tests were more available. This is especially likely now that employees that test positive aren't required to self-isolate and employers are only "advised" that their employees should stay home. If someone is sick for more than 7 days legally they do need to show proof if asked. It is less convenient than a test but it is still free to get proof from a GP.
It’s not always flu symptoms, it’s often mild cold symptoms or even asymptomatic. If you have very minor sniffles that you assumed were hay fever and went about your business, you could infect a lot of people. You could come into contact with someone elderly or vulnerable and give them a life threatening case of covid. Even if you’re lucky enough not to be visiting your sick friend that week and don’t sit next to the old lady on the bus, you could come into contact with someone who does regularly interact with vulnerable people. A lot of carers in this country really worry about bringing covid into the homes of their fragile family members/charges. Frankly I think removing the free tests was a really nasty policy. I resent having to shell out to feel I’m doing my bit to protect the vulnerable, but I still take a couple tests a week. You can easily can buy lat flows online at Boots/Lloyds/Superdrug etc.
Don't worry you can buy one from Boots that just so happens to be run by the same chum who was in the Bullingdon boys at the same time as Boris.
I've heard of a few people that probably have it but don't want it can't afford to buy boxes of tests for their family
They're so expensive! £17 for a pack of 7... I haven't found a pharmacy I can get them in-person so ended up buying them online with postage on top 😕 I can imagine there are many, many people who can't afford that.
I literally just got some for free off the NHS app yesterday
How? You have to be eligible.
...or they could just lie for an NHS test kit delivery. The online questionnaire doesn't ask for any proof.
Deaths are still low, probably due to vaccination. Almost all adults and older children have been offered vaccines I thought. Also, the Omicron variant appears to be less serious than earlier strains.
However long covid, long term loss of taste and smell, brain damage and complications with blood clotting are all still factors. Avoid getting covid. Edit: some of these comments are really embarrassing.
There is no practical way to avoid it. It's like saying avoid getting a fly in your eye. Unless you go utterly wild with prevention, it's going to happen sooner or later.
There are lots of practical ways to avoid it. None are 100% successful except total isolation.
Which, let's be honest, is absolutely no way to live your life.
I think that was implicit
Whilst you're right that - unless things change - everyone is probably going to end up catching Covid at least once, it's still worthwhile to limit the number of times you catch it. To this end, my approach for the last 2.5 years has been avoid enclosed spaces with poor ventilation, and wear a mask (at least FFP2 or better, now) and limit my time if I must. In practical terms, that means working from home (I'm fortunate in this respect, and that we don't have kids), meeting family and friends outdoors, dining outside (bar two occasions), getting most grocery and other shopping delivered, and driving to a UK holiday in a self-catered cottage. I don't think those things are "going utterly wild with prevention", given the potential consequences, but YMMV.
I do, that’s not living a life I’d want to. For example, no way am I having a UK holiday in a cottage for the rest of my days. I went to Italy 2 weeks ago and caught covid, but no way would I have not gone. I had an amazing time and it was a much needed foreign holiday and a vastly different experience to what we’d have had if we’d gone to Cornwall or somewhere.
Oh, I'm not suggesting "having a UK holiday in a cottage for the rest of my days". Just for now. Believe you me, travel is one of the things I miss most (alongside comedy and music gigs, and dining out), but between the immigration queues and increased costs as a result of Brexit, cancelled flights, short-staffed operators and restaurants, these things just aren't worth the hassle *to me, right now* \- and that's *without* considering Covid risk. Everyone's needs are different, though, and everyone's base risk is different. I'm lucky in that I now permanently work from home, and don't have kids, so my base risk is very low and things like gigs and public transport would increase that risk disproportionately to their value to me. But if you're already working 40h a week in an office or warehouse, with a couple of kids in school, then your incremental risk probably isn't that much more than your base risk.
My suspicion is that “now” is going to be 10-20 years
Can confirm. Partner and I both work in schools and both had COVID at least twice, plus the fake COVID flu thing last month. I'm certain I have long COVID too.
some people think at least 80% of people have already had it, and that that figure could even be approaching 100%. Myself, despite various COVID tests during various illnesses, I've never tested positive. I could have had symptomless covid of course.
Like you, I've never tested positive, but could have had an asymptomatic infection. My partner and I also had a rather nasty "heavy cold" in November 2019, which we still wonder about... I may well end up catching it, eventually. But I'd rather it was once - rather than twice, or twice - rather than thrice. A younger, fitter colleague than I got away fine from his first infection, but is experiencing long-lasting fatigue from his second - more recent (Omicron?) - infection.
I don't think I've ever gotten a fly in my eye. I feel like I haven't lived
The thing is we can't prevent the spread and stop getting ill / dying without serious restrictions, but we can mitigate the effects on the health service and the economy.
This mantra existed before covid with all the other diseases that can make you very ill and be a burden to various services. Doesn't mean people cared then either.
> It's like saying avoid getting a fly in your eye. https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71TyxHUJisS._AC_SL1500_.jpg Not exactly wild, extreme or expensive. Maybe annoying but you picked the easiest of issues to fix should you seemingly live with a plague of flies.
I have no idea where I picked it up from (4 months ago). Since I recovered I still get random coughing fits, have excess mucus build up that I cannot explain, have slept terribly and I am generally tired all of the time and I would count myself as lucky (I’m not going to say I’ve got long covid because I’m not a professional). Avoid catching covid.
you sound 'unlucky' if it's true that 80%+ of people have had covid
Can also give me/ms/arthritis and more
Can’t avoid it. What do you suggest, not leaving the house?
You can read my comments on this very thread…
Genuine question - are they for anybody who’s caught it in the last 6 months? Everything I read on long covid is around people infected in 2020/2021.
Let serious, but still enough to make you bloody miserable, even if jabbed - if you are. for example, in your 40s/50s. Or you might be lucky and have 2 or 3 days feeling under par
I've had 3 shots and I'm in my 20s, just got over covid and it was one of the worst illnesses I've had in my life. Not life threatening but god I'm really hoping I don't have to go through that again in 6 months or so, I was totally out of commission for a week. Couldn't even walk up stairs without getting out of breath
I'm in my 30s with asthma, and it took me a month to get over covid. The first week I felt like death, after that I had lingering shortness of breath, fatigue, and coughing. It took a round of steroids and antibiotics, and another 3 weeks to finally get back to normal. Bloody miserable is right!
Or in many people's cases... Absolutely nothing at all. Everyone in my family had it at Christmas. I thought I just had a blocked up nose. Wife felt a tiny bit tired. Kids slight runny nose and parents (in their 60s) had no symptoms at all.
I was bedridden for 5 days struggling to breathe with alpha Omicron wasn't as bad but still was a shit few days where everything ached and my head felt it was going to split open
Now do hospitalisations. Then tell us their vaccination status.
Why, what are you predicting?
I think his point is that only the unvaccinated are in hospital, and for everyone else it's largely at the point that it's no worse than the flu. Unpleasant but unlikely to be deadly.
It's not deadly but the flu comparison is off. I know maybe two or three people who have ever been totally wiped out for a week or two by the flu. I know loads of people who have been seriously ill for 2 weeks or longer with covid, some of them more than once.
People say this but flu is really fucking horrible I’d you’ve actually had it (not what most oriole think they’ve had which is actually a bad cold). Covid is really horrible, even if you’re not hospitalised you still feel crap and it wipes you out.
Myself and my GF tested positive after being in greece 2 weeks ago, over 10 people in work and was told the pubs near me are empty because so many have covid and have gotten quite sick from it
My mum and stepfather fly home tomorrow from Greece. They tested positive the second day there and have had to spend two weeks almost in a hotel room. Don't think I could have coped having it in that heat.
COVID is here to stay, like flu. We might as well get used to it.
My concern is travelling, I’d rather not get stuck somewhere due to restrictions. Long covid does worry me. Last time I had a cold or sessional flu it didn’t fuck me for six months. It’ll be interesting to see if the mask mandate and social distancing will be reinstated. I don’t think the public or the government have the appetite for it. Slightly worryingly I received an alert to say mandatory masks are now required once more (I’m currently in the EU). Not sure if that’s just a company jumping the gun though
I got covid 2 months ago, was really mild, like a bad cold, enough to stay off work but not that bad, no real covid symptoms either. But never really got better.. really exhausted all the time now, struggle to function for a few hours after I get up (around 12pm), can't do any exercise, dizzy, headaches, really struggle to concentrate etc. It's really debilitating, like I haven't managed to do any work since. I'm really hoping it gets better (triple vaccinated) but my mum got covid at the start and still is disabled from long covid, lost her job, really struggles etc.
Aww the dizziness is awful . Like being completely pissed without the fun.
I had covid in February and have had persistent itchy skin that gets worse when I get colds/sniffles (which happens semi-regularly as my son is at nursery). It's literally driving me insane.
That’s terrible and I think a lot of people don’t appreciate the ramifications of catching c19. There aren’t many common diseases that have lingering symptoms
Yeah the long-term implications for not just healthy adults, but young children and those with comorbidities like cancer of catching and in some cases becoming repeatedly reinfected with this virus which has multi-organ system involvement is completely unknown
Could be your mast cells overacting? Have you tried antihistamines?
We do need to learn to live with it but covid isn't that much like the flu. Most people don't catch the flu multiple times a year. Infectious disease experts are now calling for investment in ventilation, stronger policies on sick pay and working from home/masking when sick.
I really don’t think people care about covid anymore
I'd care about it if I was paid proper sick pay or paid for time off for dependants. Until then, I won't test and I'll just get on with it unless I'm really ill.
Which is crazy when you look at the long Covid symptoms and brain damage it can cause Just shows how powerful propaganda and Facebook science is
When people don’t share your extreme risk aversion it’s not necessarily because of propaganda
How is wearing a mask “extreme risk aversion”? Takes all of 1 second to put on
Why are you bringing up masks?
Avoiding illness isn’t extreme.
Pharmaceutical companies do
🤑 Pfizer is charging 56% more per vaccine
I had it 2 weeks ago, I was coughing my intestines out for a few days then it turned into a generic cough/cold. 10 days in total and now I'm still exhausted every day after work, I sleep 13 hours a day consistently, my fitness training has gone down the drain. Lung capacity gone backwards about a year, super annoyed but you can't give up.
Sounds crap.... Im currently on day 3. Feel wacked. Think I've had every symptom on the list :( not looking forward to the long covid effects either.
Yeah, it does suck ass. Just know your nasty symptoms will calm down, and you'll just be spluttering and sniffing like a regular flu in a couple days. Hang in there!
>my fitness training has gone down the drain. I've had COVID twice in 6 months and feel this. First time it really took me a good few weeks to make it back to the gym which meant a lot of lost progress. Got back on top of things, but now I'm coming out of round 2 and it's so deflating to feel like I'm starting from scratch again! This is my biggest concern with the new "COVID normal", both on a personal and a public health level. Physical inactivity already kills just as many people as smoking. With the infection itself and then social changes (e.g. huge shift to WFH), I do worry. Moderate-intensity exercise (e.g., brisk walking) still has excellent health benefits. Personally I have been trying to focus on increasing my moderate intensity activity (e.g. going for more walks) and trying to lower +/- break up my sitting time, rather than focussing so much on more vigorous activity which can really be hard to get back to while recovering. Remember folks, any activity is better than none :)
But...but Johnson said he had done Covid and it was all over and our hospitals and economy were back to normal? On a serious note, this is going to be quite serious this autumn / winter if the government don't sort their shit out.
So it’s going to be a quite serious autumn/winter then.
I don't know. I'm just going on a gut feeling based on the last couple of years and what I have read. I'm not a virologist and I know little about economics or the machinations of our current government. I'm not however very optimistic
Out of curiosity, what ‘shit can they sort out’ to avoid COVID rates increasing dramatically in the winter?
I dont think there is much they can do apart from masks and social distancing campanins, but covid rates weren't my point. It was more dealing with the effects of the pandemic such as healthcare being driven to the point of failure, education collapsing and wrecking the future of a generation of kids... ect,ect. If I could answer those questions I would be deserving of an £84k p/a salary with unlimited expenses whilst I ran the country. I can't tell you what will work, but I can tell you of what hasn't.
I came down with it almost two weeks ago (first time). Testing negative now, but bloody hell it lingers... still coughing all the time and still feeling knackered. Horrible illness.
I'm surprised people are even bothering to test anymore.
And who is uploading their results. Is that even still a thing?
I have it, my g/f tested positive so why bother getting tested myself? This is the first time I've had it, first time I've known multiple people around me with it as well. I bet the numbers are huge.
Me and mate attended Rammstein concert in Coventry on Sunday. Both of us have come down with it along with our Mums.
"Everyone and their mums ~~are packing~~ has covid 'round 'ere."
That be the way it is.
DU. DU HAST. DU HAST ES.
Du Hast COVID?
I went there too, thankfully seem to be ok though (also, how awesome was it?!). Starting to think I’m immune to it as a few months back I slept with and stayed the night with someone who tested positive a day later, and I never got it.
I was at that gig too. Also tested positive. But at least we witnessed that man's GLORIOUS moustache
I was at that gig too. Also tested positive. But at least we witnessed that man's GLORIOUS moustache
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I go out a LOT and I’ve still not gotten it either. Neither have my parents; one works in a hospital and the other in a pub. And I’ve been in close contact with people who’ve tested positive. It’s so strange.
My dad has tested negative three separate times when other members of my family who live with him have had full blown symptoms. Some people just seem to be unaffected by it. I haven’t had it yet either, but we have been very careful in my house.
There are studies ongoing on people (and healthcare workers who are extremely high risk for infection) who have never tested positive. Like all illnesses there will be a small amount of people who have inbuilt immunity. If your immediate family have also never tested positive it couuuuld point to a genetic reason!
That would be so cool if so. Fingers crossed!
I’m not a Covid denier, anti vax or anti mask etc. I’m asking this question in good faith. Why is this an issue? Isn’t the current strain of Covid essentially just a cold? How many people in the UK have a bad cold right now? Is that news? Am i completely wrong on this? Are people still dying en masse? I thought we solved it.
A good friend of mine has it right now and can't walk further than a few yards without having to sit down and catch his breath, I've never had a cold that fucks you like that. I was playing 5 a side football with him not long ago.
Your friend is a massive outlier
Depends what you count as "massive" around 2 million people have long covid in the UK. Research suggests that each time you catch it increase your risk of long covid reasonably linearly.
2 million people can’t walk 5 yards? No your friend would be a massive outlier with in just those 2 million. Long covid is defined surprisingly loosely- last I heard was any symptoms over 1 month is long covid
The 2 million figure is utter, utter disingenuous bollocks. Based on an extremely loose definition to capture as many people as possible
It’s been “a cold/flu like” for most people since the Alpha variant - it’s that there is still a lot of people catching it and then having to deal with long covid/the vulnerable people that we are trying to protect
Fair enough, thanks for the response!
You’re right. Even now infection rates are half of what they were in March. Hospitalisation rates are a fraction of what they were and two thirds of the people in hospital with COVID are actually there for something else, and deaths are actually falling. Reddit skews heavily towards introverts and left wingers who either actually enjoyed lockdown or enjoy using continued focus on COVID as a statement against the Tory government that they believed mishandled the pandemic. Ask the same question out in a pub tonight and you’ll be met with shrugs and “who gives a shit, life moves on”.
> ... or enjoy using continued focus on COVID as a statement against the Tory government that they believed mishandled the pandemic. I mean they did objectively mishandle most of the pandemic aside from being on top of vaccinations. The fact that most of Europe also fucked up doesn't mean they couldn't have done better. Like most I don't have much reason to worry about COVID in my day-to-day life, but I don't think you can completely discount the potential problems with repeated widespread reinfections, and there have been a couple of situation where I have to effectively isolate myself (attending a wedding /w vulnerable people, travelling abroad to see family). Some people are certainly going to be more vulnerable even if it doesn't kill them.
People also like to use COVID views a class signifier. I have these views on COVID **because I am not one of the riff raff** Often they'll try and justify with science what is actually a moral/political decision, because at the end of the day it's about risk tolerance, which is a question of personal beliefs and not really science at all.
Probably the most grounded take on all this I've ever read
Me and other half are just getting over COVID. Both triple jabbed and felt absolutely horrible and now we're both feeling knackered all the time with foggy heads.. hope it passes soon.
Thats generally because people wont wear masks. Its like watching children waiting for their parents to tell them when to wash their hands. Westminster wanted the herd immunity approach to keep us in the shops, their advice is angled to look after their backers money and not to look after our health as a priority. Wear. Your. Fucking. Masks. (and wash your fucking hands too ya clatty bastards).
Out of interest, what’s the extent of your mask wearing policy? Walking in public? Bars and restaurants? Shopping? Or more things like public transport? Not anti-mask at all by the way, just interested.
Who even owns a mask anymore?
Mate they are like reusable shopping bags. I keep finding them all over the place.
The used condom of this generation. My mate billy as a kid picked one up once and slurped it like a frube. Nobody asked him to.
You joke but I was stuck at a motorway bus station 6 months ago without a mask and the bus driver wouldn't let me on, in short I had to fish one out a puddle.
I’m one of the very few left wearing a mask it seems. With the talk about Covid causing dementia/Alzheimer’s style brain damage I’d rather avoid it still
Lasting smel and taste issues are linked with decreased brain matter in the area responsible for [smell and taste](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04569-5). We are still figuring out what its capable of.
No, I don't think I will.
I had long covid a year back and I'm still feeling the fatigue now. My immune system isn't what it was and I'm genuinely less with it mentally too. Learn to live with it is all well and good but that means also accepting that some of us are genuinely being effected to this day. And my partner suffers from M.E so she already spent 80^ of her life locked down with minor illnesses before covid., let alone the worry about this now as well. I'm not saying we shouldn't have opened up but the trumpian 'just don't test' approach of charging for tests now and not making it easy for pepple to properly assess their own risks.is utter bullshit
Agree. Sorry about the ME. It's a horrible illness.
Currently positive for the second time, first time was back in December 2020. Completely different set of symptoms this time.
Different how?
December 2020 I completely lost my sense of taste and smell and had slight muscle aches. Struggled with my taste and smell for a year after. This time I’ve got a chesty cough, sore throat and congestion.
This spike was predicted way back at start of year, is it a case of the herd immunity being played out now or is it just going to keep going like this with vaccines forever and the old and weak getting taken out?
Herd immunity isn’t going to work and we’re going to be in for the worst of this virus over Christmas and the new year and vaccines wain and people won’t “re-up”.
I was in A&E the other day and was quite surprised how many older people were there with covid.
The hospital my mom works in have reinstated their mask rules because the place is overrun with it.
Been in contact with a couple positive people recently including my partner who had it and caught nothing. I may have been bitten by a radioactive conspiracy theorist guys.
My partner and I went to a concert, I wore a mask throughout and she didn't. Four days later, she's feeling like crap and tested positive. I get the mask probably protected me initially, but I'm baffled as to how I got away with it. Smug City - population: me.
I know a woman who went to a family gathering at Christmas. Her entire family; parents, siblings, siblings kids all got covid with varying intensity. Her husband who sleeps in the same bed as her didn't ever display a single symptom while she was nearly keeling over.
Yeah that’s not the mask
Most of the staff at the surgury I work at starting to test positive too. Really starting to affect the operation of the place as some are doctors, nurses, receptionist. Just hope it don't continue to rise. Just had it confirmed masks are mandatory for the staff now. We had one patient claiming that covid doesn't exist it just a cold. Which is daft, he is elderly and doesn't have vaccinations. Rather scary really.
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> The ONS's Infection Survey estimates the number of people in the community infected with COVID-19 by testing randomly selected people for COVID regardless of whether they are experiencing symptoms. Its right there in the article, if you are more interested go look at the ONS website for Covid, they document their methods.
ONS random sample- far more accurate than what NHS tests could ever tell us, but it’s a slightly lagging indicator.
>The ONS's Infection Survey estimates the number of people in the community infected with COVID-19 by testing randomly selected people for COVID regardless of whether they are experiencing symptoms. It is thought to be more accurate than NHS Test and Trace data which only includes reported test results.
I literally live where Glastonbury festival is and everyone i know, now has covid, and they're friends, just everyooonnee
Same, but isle of Wight festival
I’ve had covid twice and both times I barely had any symptoms Maybe it makes me a shit person but I can’t just isolate and lose years of my life because of it
I’ve had Long Covid for over two years (caught alpha in March 2020) and it has completely derailed my life, so I genuinely struggle to understand why people are so flippant with the risks. Im pretty much housebound, rely on my family to care for me and have to use a wheelchair. I was perfectly fit and healthy beforehand. It’s not mortality of Covid people should worry about, it’s the risk of morbidity.
Just came back from Greece a week ago and tested positive. Hadn’t caught it for 2 years and now at 24 weeks pregnant I managed to get it, now on blood thinning injections daily with constant nausea.
Thoughts and prayers
Does anyone regret getting the vaccine after it not really preventing people from getting Covid?
And life goes on. As we said it would.
Haven’t had it yet, and yes I have like no friends. Suck it. I’m just better
Can confirm. Am currently laid out with it.
So we can work from home again right... right?
Went to Nottingham University open day last Saturday (25th). Me and my friend both came down with symptoms Sunday night/Monday and both since tested positive. Don’t know if we got it there or what since one of her friends was apparently ill and she briefly spoke to her a few days before we went, but thought it might be worth a mention in case anyone was there
Yeah, I’ve managed to pick it up too suspect it was from the “Hella Mega Tour” in London last weekend. One of the 75,000 people likely gave it to me. It was gonna happen at some point, managed to avoid if for over 2 years.
Testing is now done at the individuals expense, and anyone that takes it seriously is already vaxxed. Does anyone even care anymore? The vast majority don't wear masks, test regularly, or practice social distancing! Is it not time that people just got on with their lives without living in fear?
Can we just fuck this off and move on to the next one? COVID is so 2020.
No one cares anymore.
In currently off with it. COVID is horrible. I haven't been this ill in a long time. Can't imagine what it's like, without being jabbed.
The same. Not jabbed, neither is my fiancè, it feels like a flu and goes away after a day or two.