Corona Virus: How Are We Doing?

[Ming the Merciless]

This is all from a little LED on your wrist. I've got one too, these fancy watches... don't ever get that bothered by them as the reading's aren't that accurate.

Fairly good when resting which is what Andy’s readings are from. Not so much when exercising due to movement on wrist.

 

[PK99]

On the back of a restful day and decent night's sleep, my Garmin confirms what I feel like
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Resting HR within 1 or 2 BPM of normal for me. Must of been lucky with this variant, just a few days of feeling like a bad cold

Different people & different variants. With the Original, back in March 2020 all I had was a mild cough & slight temperature for 2/3 days while mrs pk was in bed with covid that was medium flu like (confirmation it was covid was total loss of smell for 7 days , 7 days following infection

 

[CXRAndy]

I was much worse with my 2020 COVID, 6 weeks of fatigue post

 

[CXRAndy]

Fairly good when resting which is what Andy’s readings are from. Not so much when exercising due to movement on wrist.

That's what I found, poor HR reading from exercise. I use a heart strap when racing on Zwift. The Garmin Fenix seems decent enough for body metrics when not moving, sleep, sat down etc

 

[cougie uk]

That's what I found, poor HR reading from exercise. I use a heart strap when racing on Zwift. The Garmin Fenix seems decent enough for body metrics when not moving, sleep, sat down etc

I've the Fenix 6 and my HR graphs look as good running as when I had the 3 with the HR strap.

 

[CXRAndy]

I've the Fenix 6 and my HR graphs look as good running as when I had the 3 with the HR strap.

I had an allergic reaction to the synthetic strap on my F6. I bought a leather strap, problems cured. But watch is no longer tight against skin

 

[fossyant]

Fairly good when resting which is what Andy’s readings are from. Not so much when exercising due to movement on wrist.

This. OK resting but not climbing up a hill sweatting to bits,

 

[CXRAndy]

Being a lovely evening, wife took me on a cyclists pub crawl. Twenty odd miles and five pubs. Felt fine re breathing.

 

[C R]

Yes to the bold bit because new variants can only establish by being more contagious than existing strains. Simple maths.

Not sure about the last bit. Alpha & Delta were both more virulent (lethal) than the Wuhan strain, so it's quite possible a future variant could be even worse.

My understanding is that there's a limit to lethality in that if a variant were too lethal it limits the number of hosts it can reach, as it kills the host too quickly. So there's an upper limit to lethality, but there's no evolutionary pressure for lower lethality, so long as it can still propagate, which is not good news for the hosts, i.e., us.

 

[ColinJ]

My understanding is that there's a limit to lethality in that if a variant were too lethal it limits the number of hosts it can reach, as it kills the host too quickly. So there's an upper limit to lethality, but there's no evolutionary pressure for lower lethality, so long as it can still propagate, which is not good news for the hosts, i.e., us.

If a virus is lethal and quick-acting, that is true because everyone could see what was happening and run away, or take precautions - for example, ebola. If someone in a supermarket suddenly collapsed in front of you coughing and spluttering out blood and you knew that people in the area had been infected by ebola, you'd be crazy to get too close.

If a virus were lethal and slow-acting, then there would be a BIG problem because it could spread very widely BEFORE it started killing the hosts.

 

[lazybloke]

My understanding is that there's a limit to lethality in that if a variant were too lethal it limits the number of hosts it can reach, as it kills the host too quickly. So there's an upper limit to lethality, but there's no evolutionary pressure for lower lethality, so long as it can still propagate, which is not good news for the hosts, i.e., us.

If a virus is lethal and quick-acting, that is true because everyone could see what was happening and run away, or take precautions - for example, ebola. If someone in a supermarket suddenly collapsed in front of you coughing and spluttering out blood and you knew that people in the area had been infected by ebola, you'd be crazy to get too close.

If a virus were lethal and slow-acting, then there would be a BIG problem because it could spread very widely BEFORE it started killing the hosts.

Agreed Colin, and Ebola is an interesting example because it can incubate for WEEKS. Thankfully it is only transmissible once symptoms develop, otherwise it would be an even more terrifying/horrifying disease.

A more deadly strain of Covid could also be trouble; as coronaviruses already have that capability to spread whilst the carrier is asymptomatic.

 

[Rezillo]

Day 13 - finally a negative test. Still got an intermittent cough but feel much, much better. Sense of taste and smell hugely reduced but signs of it coming back. I've lost 3kg!

Mrs R still positive.

[edit 16 July] Mrs R now negative on her day 13.

 

[Electric_Andy]

Started coughing on Monday night, worked from home Tuesday but had to sign off sick at 11. I tested positive for covid. It's the worst I've ever felt, probably worse than when I had tonsillitis. My throat feels like razor blades and annoyingly is worse just as I get into bed. This is day 3…hoping it gets better tomorrow

Well I went back to work yesterday, so it took 7 days for my throat to ease, and 8 days until I was testing negative. Apparently sore throat is the most common symptom now, but I do hope not everyone has a throat like I did, it was agony

 

[Bazzer]

Daughter 2 has it again. This is the fourth time and the third time since she has been vaccinated. Bouts 2 & 3 were not too bad, but this time she is as rough as when she caught it a week or so before lockdown, when it was touch and go about an ambulance.

 

[fossyant]

Quite a few at work still going down with it.

A mate has just spent 3 months in hospital due to a foot infection, get's released, and goes home with covid.

A friend of our's has just lost her sister to covid - 80 year old with health complications, but wasn't able to fight it - in hospital just over a month with it..