04-04-2022, 00:30
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Re: Coronavirus
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Originally Posted by Hugh
I am an "OAP" who uses Apps…
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That however, was not his question.
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04-04-2022, 09:07
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Re: Coronavirus
I've needed hospital services twice so far this year, and Mrs P has once. We've both been dealt with quickly, no apps required.
I was going to go private for one of them, but the NHS managed to get me in quicker than I could arrange it via BUPA.
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04-04-2022, 10:01
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Re: Coronavirus
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Originally Posted by Paul
That however, was not his question.
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Absolutely right - I had a knee-jerk response to (what I inferred was) an implicit assumption that anyone over 65 was IT-illiterate.
Apologies to Mr K.
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04-04-2022, 10:10
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Re: Coronavirus
About 10 days ago wife felt poorly, negative LFT. Last Sunday still poorly positive LFT, I tested negative. Our daughter went to stay with friend so she didn't miss college.
Yesterday both wife and I tested negative. Daughter came home. Today she tested positive (but she had been out with friends and at college all week).
All good fun. She has a small stash of tests.
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04-04-2022, 15:22
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Re: Coronavirus
Nine 'new' symptoms added to covid list ;
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-60982070
* Shortness of breath
* Feeling tired or exhausted
* Aching body
* Headache
* Sore throat
* Blocked or runny nose
* Loss of appetite
* Diarrhoea
* Feeling sick or being sick
So basically everything most people get every winter.
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04-04-2022, 15:25
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Re: Coronavirus
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Originally Posted by Paul
Nine 'new' symptoms added to covid list ;
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-60982070
* Shortness of breath
* Feeling tired or exhausted
* Aching body
* Headache
* Sore throat
* Blocked or runny nose
* Loss of appetite
* Diarrhoea
* Feeling sick or being sick
So basically everything most people get every winter.
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The first three could be old age.
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04-04-2022, 15:42
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Re: Coronavirus
what do you mean 'could be'?
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04-04-2022, 16:27
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Re: Coronavirus
Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul
Nine 'new' symptoms added to covid list ;
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-60982070
* Shortness of breath
* Feeling tired or exhausted
* Aching body
* Headache
* Sore throat
* Blocked or runny nose
* Loss of appetite
* Diarrhoea
* Feeling sick or being sick
So basically everything most people get every winter.
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Exactly, any excuse for the skivers to take time off, just blame everything on Covid.
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04-04-2022, 17:11
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Re: Coronavirus
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Originally Posted by Paul
So basically everything most people get every winter.
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Would you prefer they didn't give you correct information? Shame it's two years too late.
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04-04-2022, 23:40
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Re: Coronavirus
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Originally Posted by spiderplant
Would you prefer they didn't give you correct information? Shame it's two years too late.
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I would prefer they dont give useless information.
What difference would it have made two years ago, based on that list people "could" have had covid for the last 1000+ years.
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05-04-2022, 11:36
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Re: Coronavirus
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Originally Posted by Paul
What difference would it have made two years ago
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People would have got tested and self-isolated instead of just thinking "I've got a cold" and carrying on their lives as normal.
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05-04-2022, 13:08
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Re: Coronavirus
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Originally Posted by spiderplant
People would have got tested and self-isolated instead of just thinking "I've got a cold" and carrying on their lives as normal.
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Well, to be honest mass testing wasn't available really until about Autumn 2020, maybe even later really with actual access when desired to LFTs and also to PCR tests, So 2 years ago they were obviously only testing hospital admissions.
The issue is that even when they're saying it's a cough/fever/loss of taste (and not all three) is that those symptoms are pretty nonspecific and with varying severity or even infections with no symptoms at all. Even at the start of the pandemic we had some football players testing positive and as they were young and healthy usually they were saying it wasn't any more severe than a cold. But with some obviously it can still progress to more severe illness (as can other respiratory viruses).
The issue with that new list is, yes, they are symptoms people who test positive have had. But differential diagnosis with those is even more impossible without a test to confirm and you can no longer generally get these (probably a good thing in the long term even if that is maybe a little soon). Someone who presents with diarrhoea, stomach pains, being sick... OK so they could have covid but they are probably more likely to have food poisoning or norovirus or something like that. It's now basically a list of "feeling ill".
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05-04-2022, 15:37
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Re: Coronavirus
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Originally Posted by spiderplant
People would have got tested and self-isolated instead of just thinking "I've got a cold" and carrying on their lives as normal.
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Somehow I doubt that, even if easy/mass testing had been available, which it wasnt.
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05-04-2022, 15:48
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Re: Coronavirus
* Shortness of breath
* Feeling tired or exhausted
* Aching body
* Headache
* Sore throat
* Blocked or runny nose
* Loss of appetite
* Diarrhoea
* Feeling sick or being sick
When I had Covid a few weeks ago, I had none of those symptoms. I had a simple cold with an occasional cough; the cold lasted about 5 days longer than "usual".
You have to wonder about who thinks up this information and decides to put it out. Ludicrous. The guidance should be simply something like:
"Covid (Omicron) behave in most cases like a common cold. If your symptoms seem more severe than that, then a Covid test is advisable."
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05-04-2022, 15:54
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Re: Coronavirus
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Originally Posted by Paul
Somehow I doubt that, even if easy/mass testing had been available, which it wasnt.
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Also, if mass testing had been available, which it wasn't quite, then when Alpha hit the government fear factor wouldn't have been able to persuade nigh-on 60 million people that they were walking murderers with the "act as though you have the virus" rhetoric. When taking a LFT would nigh-on show that you didn't.
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