Corona Virus: How Are We Doing?

[Julia9054]

No harm to you but ....
I had Covid ... I was really Ill ... Hospitalised ... so ill for 3 weeks ... lost over a stone in weight .....
Then made a full recovery ...
Because I’m self employed .....
Amazing how many people that have long term effects of Covid have Corporate or Public sector employment ........

You’ll have figures to prove that statement of course?
Thought not. Just prejudice then.

 

[Ajax Bay]

Amazing how many people that have long term effects of Covid have Corporate or Public sector employment ........

You’ll have figures to prove that statement of course? Thought not. Just prejudice then.

Not sure this is a useful discussion, but I went looking for 'figures' - data here (but none to support the poster's "amazement").
Prevalenceofongoingsymptomsfollowingcoronaviruscovid19infectionintheuk/3march2022
"(UK) prevalence of self-reported long COVID was greatest in people aged 35 to 49 years, females, people living in more deprived areas, those working in teaching and education, social care or health care (likely reflecting increased exposure to COVID-19 infection in these sectors)"

 

[DaveReading]

Amazing how many people that have long term effects of Covid have Corporate or Public sector employment ........

Probably about 86.3% of them, given that that's the proportion of the workforce that isn't self-employed.

So not really much scope for being amazed ...

 

[kingrollo]

Tested negative on day 6. Feel fully recovered - but will take it easy for the next week.

(Public Sector worker !)

 

[fossyant]

No harm to you but ....
I had Covid ... I was really Ill ... Hospitalised ... so ill for 3 weeks ... lost over a stone in weight .....
Then made a full recovery ...
Because I’m self employed .....
Amazing how many people that have long term effects of Covid have Corporate or Public sector employment ........

Funny that, got a mate whose been suffering about 16 months with it and is still on Qxygen. He's managing to work, but hooked up for 16 hours a day - fortunately desk based. He's not been able to do much since catching it.

 

[fossyant]

Tested negative on day 6. Feel fully recovered - but will take it easy for the next week.

(Public Sector worker !)

At least you'll be allowed back to work.

 

[kingrollo]

At least you'll be allowed back to work.

I wasn't off. WFH. !!!!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

That's what I'm dreading.... especially with a new bike on order !!!!

Thanks for the info though.

Blame the bike, is it a Corona Cycle?

 

[fossyant]

I wasn't off. WFH. !!!!

Or back in the office - we've had loads go 'off' but they are all WFH.

 

[CanucksTraveller]

Well I'm 4 weeks on from testing positive, I started back to work on day 12 when I got my second negative test but if anything I've gone a little downhill since then. I'm generally about 90% okay but my sinuses are infected and are causing pain, plus it takes me 30 minutes every morning to cough, sneeze and hack all the rubbish out which has collected in my nose and throat every night. There's a constant mild tiredness and a slightly heavy feeling on the upper respiratory tract. Not nice, I thought I'd be fit as a fiddle after a week or so.

 

[fossyant]

MIL now has Covid.

Not good given she is extremely clinically vulnerable. She was rushed into hospital two weeks ago with suspected pneumonia and put on antibiotics, but she's not done the course as she was getting 'constipated' so SIL said stop taking them. (Constipated or potentially snuffing it with pneumonia - not really a choice.

FFS - SIL is really stupid sometimes - you must finish anti-biotics. So, lung issues not cleared up and was raspy yesterday when same SIL visited, MIL tested positive this morning. Same SIL also has a clinically vulnerable husband whose ticker is knackered - she'll be pooping herself now !

Ballcocks. Fingers crossed MIL won't get too ill, but she's already got an infection, on top of having knackered heart, fluid on lungs and now add Covid on top.

As usual, this all happens just as we're about to have two weeks off work - every flaming time ! - At least we're only 90 minutes away in the caravan, if things do get worse.

I really do wish SIL wound't interfere with medicines - she has previous with FIL on his pain meds in end of life care. Oh you don't need that morphine - yes he flipping does he's dying.

 

[Andy in Germany]

No harm to you but ....
I had Covid ... I was really Ill ... Hospitalised ... so ill for 3 weeks ... lost over a stone in weight .....
Then made a full recovery ...
Because I’m self employed .....
Amazing how many people that have long term effects of Covid have Corporate or Public sector employment ........

Someone really, really, really, committed to their business wouldn't have caught Corona virus in the first place... tut, tut...

 

[Andy in Germany]

Masks are no longer mandatory in most public places (at least in Baden-Würtemberg). They are still "recommended" though and we're requesting that customers wear them as we have some vulnerable staff members.

 

[KnittyNorah]

No harm to you but ....
I had Covid ... I was really Ill ... Hospitalised ... so ill for 3 weeks ... lost over a stone in weight .....
Then made a full recovery ...
Because I’m self employed .....
Amazing how many people that have long term effects of Covid have Corporate or Public sector employment ........

It's also amazing how some people apparently prefer to remain tied to oxygen tanks or dialysis machines instead of running free over the hillsides when I'm sure they could make a different decision for themselves. And as for those people who make the choice to have appendages or even entire limbs amputated when they've been damaged by sepsis, clots, etc, well, isn't it something everyone wants to do?

What is even more amazing - bizarre even - is that someone believes they made a full recovery (from anything) because they are self-employed ...
It is as if self-employment creates some magical, Harry Potter-esque, self-healing balm or lotion, as dispensed at St Mungo's Hospital and the Sanitorium at Hogwart's ...

 

[BoldonLad]

It would appear, that, so far, the approximately 300 people who have voted are far from typical of the population of the UK. Only 10% say they have had the virus, but, current infection rates are 1 in 18, ie 18%, we are told. Some poor souls must have a double dose.

Edit. Oops, think I have just failed my GCSE Maths cannot work out %ges! (5.5%)