Punkdoc you keep telling us your an expert but won't say what in but you have time to be able to post on here
Well, punkdoc’s expertise ranks higher than having a spouse who is a cardiologist, yet evidently didn’t see anyone like my relatives who certainly suffered from more than flu like symptoms, ( one was hospitalised and nearly died) Certainly all rather worrying, and I am pretty sure I am going to skip the wedding. We’ve been very careful so far, avoiding crowds, wearing masks appropriately and taking sensible precautions, so it would be a shame to take an unnecessary risk for a fairly small reward. Friend is very sensible and will understand completely. ( Additionally, her late father was a GP which would perhaps, in some eyes, qualify her to give all sorts of medical advice)
I just don't understand why people feel it's an infringement of their personal liberty to wear a mask. I don't wear a mask because I'm particularly vulnerable to Covid, but because the person next to me in the supermarket might be vulnerable. Does nobody "do as they would be done by" these days?
PS Though @punkdoc is of course right, that old age has never been allowable as a cause of death on a death certificate, my grandmother's doctor did write "being 108" in the "cause of death" space on hers.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Old age has never been allowable as a cause of death on a death certificate.
Illnesses connected to old age have been allowed. If my partner had someone die it had to be put down as covid but just because they had it that didn't kill them We was told to wear masks but it never did any good as the infection rate went up. Have the people getting covid now never worn a mask?
I may be mistaken @mac12, but do I remember seeing on the forum that you did not believe in climate change? I suppose COVID denial and climate change denial are not related, but somehow it seems they might be.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
@mac12 well all I can say is I am very pleased that it was not your partner who treated my son when he was on a ventilator for two months after catching Covid at the start of the pandemic and has been on a heart monitor for the past two years, and is only now getting back to anything like a normal life. And she says it's nothing much to worry about!! It beggars belief. Thank goodness I live in France.
If you recover from one of the new Covid variants, does it give you some immunity from all of the new variants, or just the one you had?
anecdotally, the people I know who are catching it now have all already had it once, presumably they now have a different variant but without the PCR testing being done, I don't suppose that's known, just probable. The BA4/BA5 variant seems to be evading immunity from previous infection, and from what pdoc is reporting, it's possibly sidestepping the vaccines to some extent as well
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Certainly all rather worrying, and I am pretty sure I am going to skip the wedding. We’ve been very careful so far, avoiding crowds, wearing masks appropriately and taking sensible precautions, so it would be a shame to take an unnecessary risk for a fairly small reward. Friend is very sensible and will understand completely. ( Additionally, her late father was a GP which would perhaps, in some eyes, qualify her to give all sorts of medical advice)
PS Though @punkdoc is of course right, that old age has never been allowable as a cause of death on a death certificate, my grandmother's doctor did write "being 108" in the "cause of death" space on hers.
We was told to wear masks but it never did any good as the infection rate went up. Have the people getting covid now never worn a mask?
I suppose COVID denial and climate change denial are not related, but somehow it seems they might be.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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