I now know quite a lot of people who have had Covid recently, including my family and me, but we weren't very ill, just properly ill for about 3 days, otherwise like a cold. Not even as bad as flu, more like a feverish cold.
Is it true that Covid is a lot less severe than it used to be @punkdoc? Will we get used to it and mostly survive and accept it as we do other infections like flu?
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Punkdoc what are you an expert in, my partner is a cardiologist and she's never believed its anything to be worried as the average age of people dying is 82 and most of them died of old age
It has been true until now that COVID was less severe, however, immunity is waning and the new Omicron variants are leading to more severe disease. More people are being admitted to hospital because of COVID and the mortality rate is starting to rise again.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Busy lizzie I couldn't agree more with you it's something we have to get used to. My partner had flu knocked off her feet for 3 days but it was just flu and not covid
Real influenza, is still a leading cause of death every year. Too many confuse a heavy cold with flu they are not the same. Likewise covid, quite appart from the deaths there is a growing number of people suffering, what has been labeled long covid. Many of these were young fit and active before they caught this virus. We are in summer respiratory infections normally subside at this time of year, if the numbers are high now we will be in real trouble again in winter. Hence the advice for caution , but it's up to you what you do with that advice.
Not sure how you can ever quite tell now whether an illness is severe or not when vaccinations are in place. If, as with flu, only over 60s had been vaccinated, would the current strain(s) of Covid be seen differently? Was your partner vaccinated against flu?
It so easy now to feel a false sense of security - but that security was bought by way of vaccines and as their effectiveness diminishes over time (and viral mutation), so does that security.
My kids are ill again. They pick up a bug at nursery every other week at the moment because there's so many viruses going around and, we're told, that they have reduced immune systems from being isolated for so long. It's going to be Covid eventually so it's only a matter of time before we have it.
Every time I go to the shops several people will be coughing and sneezing all over the place and hardly anyone wears a mask anymore.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Oh dear. Thanks for the update, Punkdoc. I’m now having second thoughts about attending a friends wedding on Saturday. I’d decided just to go for the ceremony, stay for an hour to say hello, and have made my apologies for the dinner and dancing bit. However, it does involve a train journey to London, four hours each way, admittedly in first class so not quite so crowded. I got a very cheap advance ticket with my rail card , so not a disaster to lose the money. It does seem like too big a risk. OH has had his over 75 booster, but I’m not eligible for it yet. He wasn’t going anyway, and I was even thinking of sleeping in the spare room for a week after I came back. Any thoughts from the team? Writing this down, it does seem as if Im being silly just to even consider going. Things were seemingly improving when I was organising the trip, but it’s not looking like that now.
Ergates go and enjoy your wedding and stop worrying about something a expert in nothing says. Me and my partner have just done a rail trip from scunthorpe to Thurso via Edinburgh Glasgow and Inverness with no sign of catching anything
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Is it true that Covid is a lot less severe than it used to be @punkdoc? Will we get used to it and mostly survive and accept it as we do other infections like flu?
It has been true until now that COVID was less severe, however, immunity is waning and the new Omicron variants are leading to more severe disease. More people are being admitted to hospital because of COVID and the mortality rate is starting to rise again.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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Hence the advice for caution , but it's up to you what you do with that advice.
It does seem like too big a risk. OH has had his over 75 booster, but I’m not eligible for it yet. He wasn’t going anyway, and I was even thinking of sleeping in the spare room for a week after I came back.
Any thoughts from the team? Writing this down, it does seem as if Im being silly just to even consider going. Things were seemingly improving when I was organising the trip, but it’s not looking like that now.