COVID - where are we now?

[Lucan Unlordly]

This week 6 members of our immediate family have tested positive, fortunately with minimal symptoms and just about everybody I'm talking to has, or knows somebody who's got the virus.

Covid has been wiped off of the headlines for obvious reasons and the only information I can find suggests the infection rates are going down. Is this simply because lateral flow tests aren't being reported?

 

[Ozzy]

Is this simply because lateral flow tests aren't being reported?

I believe this is the main reason, but I also think we’re now “living with it”.
It’s still impacting places like schools, I’m a governor of a school and the reports we receive still include a section on how many staff are off at any one time with C19.

Day to day though I don’t feel impacted by it. I go to coffee shops and meet clients there for a catch-up, work in the office as before. I think the only day to day change to my life now, me personally as I know others have lost so much, is hybrid working compared to 2 years ago.

 

[Newchodge]

Perhaps it is because people no longer have to report if they have a disease which causes them, personally, little inconvenience. Let's hope that as we live with it, there aren't a lot of people dying from it.

 

[fisicx]

My niece is on her third infection. My sister has had it twice. Each time it’s be like a bad cold. Like you say, people are now just living with it.

 

[apricot]

War came and covid is forgotten already

 

[Ozzy]

Let's hope that as we live with it, there aren't a lot of people dying from it.

I better add that I’ve stipulated that staff working from the office need to test, and when free test kits stop next month we’ve committed to supplying the kits for free for staff until further notice.

Then again I do also have a policy and have done for as long as I can remember that if you have so much as a runny nose don’t come to work, and if you are well enough to work then work from home.

 

[Ian J]

My sister has had it twice. Each time it’s be like a bad cold. Like you say, people are now just living with it.

My wife has also had it twice. The first time she didn't even know that she'd had it but an antibody test showed that she had it. The second time was in January and she had it quite badly so it can affect people differently each time if they have it more than once

 

[MikeJ]

I better add that I’ve stipulated that staff working from the office need to test, and when free test kits stop next month we’ve committed to supplying the kits for free for staff until further notice.

Then again I do also have a policy and have done for as long as I can remember that if you have so much as a runny nose don’t come to work, and if you are well enough to work then work from home.

Is nobody else stocking up on the free tests then?

 

[Ozzy]

Is nobody else stocking up on the free tests then?

??? How did I ever get this far in business ??

 

[Paul Norman]

I understand that the infection rate in the UK is spiralling upwards - despite the fact that most of us are no longer being tested, and the true figure no longer being available.

But the reality is that WWIII looms, and frankly, COVID now has a context that makes it a lot less alarming.

 

[The Byre]

This week 6 members of our immediate family have tested positive,

Then don't test! Ignore the whole thing!

I had this silly C19 thing right at the beginning, you know - the real one, not this limp-wristed, open-toed sandal Omicron nonsense, but Version One. A dry cough and a headache for a couple of weeks.

If you are slim, fit and healthy, you have nothing to fear. And that is substantially more than I can say for the war in Ukraine.

Big country A, run by a lunatic, invades smaller and weaker country B. That's how WW1 and WW2 both started. Now that's what I call a real danger!

 

[Alan]

Rather strangely I have had two really bad colds in the last month both lasting over a week, headache, cough, sore throat, night sweats, negative on lateral flow testing for C19. Two!!

The last time I was ill was 2 years ago - with suspected C19 ( no testing then for Joe public ) and before then probably 5 or 10 years long enough I don't recall.

The colds are as bad as the suspected C19