How are we getting through it?

[Steve J]

I'm fully boosted and considering my wife works in school, we have managed to avoid it until now. She is the only adult in her year not to have caught it - yet. I wear a mask in the shops to minimise my risks, but am pretty sure I caught it when we went to our first proper social outing for over two years .

[John Cook]

My son and daughter in law are over from Australia with their infant son.  They caught it when they were visiting her sister in Telford.  It was brought home by one of her sister's children.  The whole family got it - my son and daughter in law, our grandson, her sister, her two sons and husband.  What was planned as a week's visit turned into a fortnight.  The youngest hardly seemed to notice it at all but it affected the adults differently, my son and daughter in law were pretty rough for a couple of days, her sister's husband was out of it for about four days but her sister, though positive, had no symptoms at all.  They were all negative after about ten days.  The after effects seemed to be similar and comprised mainly tiredness for the adults.  Three weeks later and they are all over it completely.  All were fully vaccinated, either here or in Australia.  I'm not surprised it is spreading again though as people seem generally to be behaving as if it is over and ignoring guidelines completely.  My wife and I are almost alone among customers wearing masks in our local supermarket but the thing which really annoys me are those selfish pieces of work who don't even both to use the hand sanitiser and then go on to pick over the fruit and veg. 

[Orcs]

Using a mask is really to stop you passing it on if you have Covid. its of little value stopping you getting it.

[John Cook]

Using a mask is really to stop you passing it on if you have Covid. its of little value stopping you getting it.

Yes it is primarily to stop passing it on to others. People who are asymptomatic will not even know they have it and others can still be infectious after the symptoms have gone, or before they appear. Be that as it may the Government recommendation is that people continue to wear a face covering in crowded and enclosed spaces because although it is principally to protect others, masks provide fivefold protection as opposed to no mask at all.  Social distancing in crowded enclosed places and using a hand sanitiser all helps and, I reiterate, some people are behaving as if it is all over and have no regard for others.     

[Last Hussar]

2nd bout of covid. Off work, feels like a cold.

[kustenjaeger]

2nd bout of covid. Off work, feels like a cold.

I hope it's mild this time round and you get better soon.

There seems to be little rhyme or reason to the severity of symptoms. My wife and I had a bad bout in May (after I caught it in the US) and our son and daughter in law had it pretty badly last month (after she caught it in France).

Edward

[Steve J]

I had one of the new variants 3 weeks ago and it hit me really hard, whilst my wife and son had it too, they only had a bit of a headache and sore throat for a few days. Our daughter didn't catch it at all or if she did, was completely asymptomatic.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Just had a bad sore throat for 3 days with negative LF test. Bout 1 1/2 hrs on phone to 111 and surgery.

[John Cook]

There is a nasty summer cold doing the rounds at the moment.  My wife, my son and I caught it.  The symptoms were very much like COVID 19, sore throat, headache, cough, streaming nose and, in my case, very chesty.  Very unpleasant indeed.  We all tested negative for COVID 19 with LF tests throughout.  It took 10 days for me to shake off the catarrh and chstiness.  My son, who's had COVID 19 recently, said he rather have that than this cold.  So if you test negative you probably don't have COVID 19 and it is as well to remember that there are still colds, and flu, out there. 

[pbeccas]

Stay safe and warm mate.  More people die of the flu each year over Covid.

[Last Hussar]

It feels like a cold, actually a bit worse than when I had it in February.

[Steve J]

My Wife, daughter and neighbour have been complaining of flu/cold like symptoms lately, but luckily they have not developed into anything debilitating (yet!).

[John Cook]

My Wife, daughter and neighbour have been complaining of flu/cold like symptoms lately, but luckily they have not developed into anything debilitating (yet!).

Well, Steve, if it the same cold I had, the saving grace is that there is no temperature and it is just the inconvenience of the symptoms.

[Big Insect]

Lots of coughing and sneezing going around. Both the wife & I have had it. No other symptoms (no headaches, fevers, chills, snotty noses or sore throats etc). The wife tested herself twice for Covid - with a clear result.

But it is taking a couple of weeks to clear the chest. Maybe it is/was one of those things we used to get pre-Covid - called a 'summer cold' 

[Ithoriel]

I had a bout about a month ago. Eyes and nose streaming and an irritating cough but otherwise feeling fine. Whole trees worth of paper hankies and all but mainlining Olbas Oil but none of the usual headaches and generally feeling grotty I usually suffer with a cold.