Coronavirus (COVID-19)

[theHotHead]

So is Covid not a "thing" anymore ? vaccine-free travel ? Are any countries still insisting on accepting vaccinated travellers only ?

[Goonerred]

Hiya guys,

It's been a while!
I'm not reading through the hundreds of pages, but I hope everyone was okay during covid.

I'm posting this as my 10 year old daughter and husband have had covid this last week. Daughter is fine, lasted a day or 2. Husband is still poorly with it but not as bad as the first time. I'm hoping the variant is weaker so the illness isn't as bad.

In 2020 when covid was announced, i had been working as a senior carer for 6 years in a care home for people with dementia.
What I went through is something I will never forget. The management and carers got covid, along with a few residents. Within a week, there was me and another senior running the home over 24 hours between us. We had 3 staff members, (needed 8 at least) so had to get agency in. Then every resident apart from 2 was hit with covid. Lost 5 out of 19 residents.

The 2 that didn't get it, were the ones who had it in March. The outbreak was December. Luckily when I did get it, the management and staff were due back the next day. I honestly have never felt as ill in my life when I got it.

Then the vaccines came...I refused. I knew you could be immune for 8 months at least due to the 2 residents that didn't get it. It's not that i disagree with them.

I actually ended up leaving care over a year ago to focus on better hours, less stress and my family. Good job I did really because I would of been sacked for not having the vaccine a few months later. When I think back to that time, I would come home and just cry in the shower. Having texts when i was at home saying residents were positive, having paramedics looking like space men in the home, seeing people dying infront of you, trying to control the spread but yet results in care homes were taking 5 bloody days to come back. Was unreal.

I know covid is back now, hopefully its a weaker varient. Sorry for the vent, lol. That's only half of it.

Have any of you had covid recently and noticed you are not as ill as the first time?

You're a true hero Trina for standing up to the bullying and blackmail.

I admit I had the 1st 2 doses (even jumped the queue for them) but when they came up with the boosters, I refused to have any because I thought "this is ridiculous, its just moving the goalposts". I had covid in July after it and apart from the first day where I had a massive fever, the rest of the week was just a mild temperature. I felt fine enough to go out and mingle with others.

The irony being is I worked in a high risk environment at the height of it, refused to wear a mask (exempt) and got close to positive cases and I had nothing at all for 2 years until after I had that vaccine. So it goes to show you that the vaccine actually did hurt your immune system so people like you not to have any were the true heroes. Especially when those leaked messages proved that Hancock and co. grossly exageratted the threat.

I didn't have the booster because they weren't giving the same flavour that I had has a 'vaccine'. Then they said people would need a booster every four months or something, well, to me that is not a vaccine, I had vaccines as a kid and I will never get the disease they vaccinated me against. My in laws kept getting Covid every time they had a booster!!!

[theHotHead]

Hiya guys,

It's been a while!
I'm not reading through the hundreds of pages, but I hope everyone was okay during covid.

I'm posting this as my 10 year old daughter and husband have had covid this last week. Daughter is fine, lasted a day or 2. Husband is still poorly with it but not as bad as the first time. I'm hoping the variant is weaker so the illness isn't as bad.

In 2020 when covid was announced, i had been working as a senior carer for 6 years in a care home for people with dementia.
What I went through is something I will never forget. The management and carers got covid, along with a few residents. Within a week, there was me and another senior running the home over 24 hours between us. We had 3 staff members, (needed 8 at least) so had to get agency in. Then every resident apart from 2 was hit with covid. Lost 5 out of 19 residents.

The 2 that didn't get it, were the ones who had it in March. The outbreak was December. Luckily when I did get it, the management and staff were due back the next day. I honestly have never felt as ill in my life when I got it.

Then the vaccines came...I refused. I knew you could be immune for 8 months at least due to the 2 residents that didn't get it. It's not that i disagree with them.

I actually ended up leaving care over a year ago to focus on better hours, less stress and my family. Good job I did really because I would of been sacked for not having the vaccine a few months later. When I think back to that time, I would come home and just cry in the shower. Having texts when i was at home saying residents were positive, having paramedics looking like space men in the home, seeing people dying infront of you, trying to control the spread but yet results in care homes were taking 5 bloody days to come back. Was unreal.

I know covid is back now, hopefully its a weaker varient. Sorry for the vent, lol. That's only half of it.

Have any of you had covid recently and noticed you are not as ill as the first time?

Hi Trina

My story in short, I was totally against having the vaccine, didn't want to be a guinea pig and wasn't classed as a high risk. Got Covid in November 2021 along with the rest of my family, wanted to go snowboarding in April 2022 but you had tpo be vaccinated to travel (had missed going in 2020 and 2021 because of Covid lockdowns) so thought - I already caught Covid so will have plenty of naturally developed antibodies so taking the vaccine will have a minimal impact on me than if I had taken the vaccine before. When I got Covid in November I had it for about 10 days, was uncomfortable for about a week (loss of energy).

I went snowboarding this year in February and caught Covid while on the trip, didn't realise it was Covid until I got home and did a test. The symptoms lasted for about 5 days, the first 3 days of having it were uncomfortable, the other days it was just a mild inconvenience. I would say the worst symptoms were about the same, from the first and second time around, but the worst symptoms didn't last as long the second time around and the symptoms in general didn't last as long the second time around (so loss of taste and tiredness etc).

I only had the first and second jabs, not had any boosters.

[Goonerred]

Hiya guys,

It's been a while!
I'm not reading through the hundreds of pages, but I hope everyone was okay during covid.

I'm posting this as my 10 year old daughter and husband have had covid this last week. Daughter is fine, lasted a day or 2. Husband is still poorly with it but not as bad as the first time. I'm hoping the variant is weaker so the illness isn't as bad.

In 2020 when covid was announced, i had been working as a senior carer for 6 years in a care home for people with dementia.
What I went through is something I will never forget. The management and carers got covid, along with a few residents. Within a week, there was me and another senior running the home over 24 hours between us. We had 3 staff members, (needed 8 at least) so had to get agency in. Then every resident apart from 2 was hit with covid. Lost 5 out of 19 residents.

The 2 that didn't get it, were the ones who had it in March. The outbreak was December. Luckily when I did get it, the management and staff were due back the next day. I honestly have never felt as ill in my life when I got it.

Then the vaccines came...I refused. I knew you could be immune for 8 months at least due to the 2 residents that didn't get it. It's not that i disagree with them.

I actually ended up leaving care over a year ago to focus on better hours, less stress and my family. Good job I did really because I would of been sacked for not having the vaccine a few months later. When I think back to that time, I would come home and just cry in the shower. Having texts when i was at home saying residents were positive, having paramedics looking like space men in the home, seeing people dying infront of you, trying to control the spread but yet results in care homes were taking 5 bloody days to come back. Was unreal.

I know covid is back now, hopefully its a weaker varient. Sorry for the vent, lol. That's only half of it.

Have any of you had covid recently and noticed you are not as ill as the first time?

That sounds tough, from every angle possible.

[Callum]

So is Covid not a "thing" anymore ? vaccine-free travel ? Are any countries still insisting on accepting vaccinated travellers only ?

I caught it for the second time late July, likely at an airport or on a flight. Still very much a thing.

[UFGN]

The Japanese are still strict in some public places but generally you can go where you want