Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!
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Yeah I'm not sure what they can do but ultimately best to let them know. If I'd have had any symptoms or done my test before I obviously wouldn't have gone, but I did my test yesterday evening ahead of work today (which I've obviously not gone to).
So yeah, it also hit me pretty hard overnight. I'm okay, it's a bit like tonsilitis – sore throat, headache and chills that comes and goes in waves. Just really fatigued and a bit achey. Hopefully this is the most of it though! Really weird how it came on last night (was around 2am I woke up I think and felt dreadful).
I'm alternating painkillers and drinking plenty of water and juice, and it's helping relieve the headaches. Touch wood, but no issues with chest or loss of taste or smell or anything so far.
My brother-in-law is the same. He wasn't against vaccinating, he was just not booking it in – he was actually booked in for this week in the end but now can't go for two weeks because he's currently got it.
He's 39, so would probably still be waiting his second jab (but wouldn't be far off getting it), and obviously he could still have got covid, but I think it's made him realise.
Issue is, my bloody sister and my two-week old niece are there too. They probably both caught it in the hospital and luckily the baby is fine, the health visitors and midwife have all said as such and that her little immune system will be even stronger from feeding. Fortunately my sister just has a bit of a sore throat and loss of taste. My brother-in-law was mainly body aches, headache, but has started feeling a lot better over the last day or so.
They both need to get the jab asap - she hadn't because by the time it came around to her age group, she was in the last 3 weeks of her pregnancy.
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Social media is a serious issue for young age groups. Stories of people contracting rare conditions post-vaccination go viral with hundreds of thousands of likes and shares, whilst the incredibly more likely event of serious long term damage/death from covid being prevented by the vaccine cannot be acknowledged and will not be shared. Many, many people I know believe the whole thing is still somewhat of an experiment, and they do not see (or cannot comprehend) the nature of risk vs reward when it comes to being vaccinated.
I think that's really the most sensible thing - you can safely avoid contact with going out like that and if you get pinged you haven't necessarily got it. Will be worth you lateral flowing as well I'd say though! They might not be perfect but I do think if you do test positive on one, then try again later the same day, you can be pretty sure you're positive and at least take extra precautions with those around you.
If people have been double vaccinated, it won't be long until they won't have to isolate anyway. The government's arbitrary dates make no sense but locking people in their own homes on the off chance isn't right.
I'm going to try and get out on a walk tonight, need to take the dog but it's too hot now anyway so will go about 9ish round the block and can almost guarantee I won't see anyone. I was hoping to do a ride today anyway if the no symptoms thing stayed, as I'm in the middle of a training block, but I'm now not well enough and as @LinekersLegs pointed out it's not worth the risk and is probably a bit selfish of me to risk it if indeed I have only just got the virus. I don't know if that's the case, I've been very careful lately, but who knows.
Which is why, as draconian and dictatorship like as it is, creating a 'two-tier society' with the vaccine process is really the only answer.
You can't force people to get it. But you can force their hand.
They'll trial it with clubs and gigs and events, but I bet by Xmas it's in bars, theatres, maybe even restaurants too, and almost certainly will be in place for travel.
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It's tough. No doubt there are a lot of young people out there who are really struggling with the fear of being vaccinated. They see these horror stories and will be terrified of suffering the same - but if they're told they have to have one to do stuff they enjoy, or even keep there job, that's going to put them in a horrible place mentally.
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Just being in the 18 to 25 bracket, when I think about the risks I took then... Makes me shudder!
Our lad took some convincing and, in the end persuaded/educated him to take first jab on the pretence it's likely very soon (2 weeks ago) large events will require vaccine passports. He is the only one as of yesterday out of his group of friend's to take the offer up.
And it's moral social duty to take up the vaccine if offered, too many already are being denied life saving/prolonging operations.
They'd put worse stuff into their bodies on a night out mate.
I know that's not what everybody's fear is tbf. My sister's mate has got hers but was worried about infertility side-effects. I don't know if there is any like.
I had a bit of a worry when I went. Not because of the vaccine really, but you get that fear of what if I faint, or you know, I had pfizer so had to wait for 15-20 mins after and was worried I'd start clamming up and have a fit or whatever. But you just go and do it and get it done because the alternative is worse.
The vaccine helps protect you and in the process once enough people have it, helps protect everyone as well.
The government here are clearly now back on the herd immunity strategy because the vaccines have done the heavy lifting, despite all the cries that they wouldn't do or couldn't be relied on. A very big gamble which in that sense has worked. Now, I'm not sold on the herd immunity gamble working btw, as I said last night, but they're probably looking at it and thinking if there's a load of 18-30s getting it now, in the height of the summer, when schools are off, and the vaccine roll out has covered who it really needed to first and foremost, and then also the vaccine will get to those 18-30s by the end of the summer, then we can be in a better place come winter.
I think @Tubey mentioned it - 'immunity debt', or something? Maybe @Bruce Wayne quoted the article.
For once, agree with you here.
All of my friends have got it. There's a group in total over different friend groups of about 30-35 people altogether and every single one has taken up the offer - some have already had their second as class as key workers or whatever.
But I know that's not the case for everyone and some of my friends had initial hesitancy, but I think they probably just realised that it's not worth the risk.
Why didn’t they get the jab? Apathy, or down the rabbit hole of bill gates, 5G, plandemic stuff?
A combination of all the above.
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