Quality clips those.
When I feel better, I’d imagine my missus will be dragging out my well worn phrase “I drink because I love the taste of it” and it’ll be fully tested as I won’t be able to taste anything for another three weeks.
Not tasting anything is possibly the worst side-effect. Apart from the death bit.
Along_the_Wire I know we haven’t always seen eye to eye on here but I admire your stoicism and belligerence. All the best mate 
alistair cheers Al, appreciated mate
Do you know what doesn’t get Covid?
The kitchen sink.
Which will be out in full force when you make a recovery Grant.
Godspeed brother, we will meet again.
Along_the_Wire The non tasting bit was a godsend with Claire’s cooking 
Rest up Brother.
Sorry to hear that Grant. Its really bad out there at the minute.
Sorry to hear that, G. Get well soon, buddy.
Rubbish one. We’ve had to do a round of pcr’s as there are now, for the first time, a number of cases at the little one’s nursery. I’m sort of amazed its taken this long for it to hit the nursery - but it does maybe speak to a rise in cases at the moment.
It’s everywhere - schools and nurseries especially - it’s where I got it from.
The gov wants shooting for deciding that they’ve done enough and now it’s time to get back to work. Fucking cunts.
Mutterings Germany are about to go into another lockdown. Wouldn’t surprise me if it happens here.
You still get textures and your taste buds pick up bits here and there and your brain tries to piece the 2 together (at least mine did).
I went to town on an amazing Indian takeaway which I wanted to make sure I got in before I lost mine. Discovering you’ve lost your sense of smell and taste as you bite into a tandoori lamb chop starter with £70’s worth of food sitting in front of you is a cruel cunt.
Mostly back now thankfully but still a little muted
Wally The gov wants shooting for deciding that they’ve done enough and now it’s time to get back to work. Fucking cunts.
I agree with the government - things have to get back to normal. Take the booster when offered and move on.
Germany et al are in this mess because they opened up later than us as much as anything else.
Along_the_Wire Things aren’t back to “normal” though are they? People are still dying, hospitals are under intense pressure and it’s going to become a permanent thing - catch covid once or twice a year and just get on with it. Fuck that. It’s fucking awful and despite being double vaxxed, people can still become really ill.
If they want to go down that route, make vaccinations and mask wearing mandatory.
Old-Dutch You still get textures and your taste buds pick up bits here and there and your brain tries to piece the 2 together (at least mine did).
Yeah, got a lot of that yesterday, but worse today - the brain definitely tries hard to plug the gap, but it’s failing me now
Along_the_Wire I mostly kept my taste but my smell completely went other than a weird chemically smell that seemed to be blocking anything getting through. Still getting pangs of it now in the second week but my smell is getting better every day.
Wally To be honest wal, hospitals are not under massive pressure. We are basically back to normal work, a few on ICU but nothing like the 51 we had at the peak. I am doing normal work. Biggest pressure is staff off because of catching it rather than covid taking up all the resources that are present. That and a massive backlog of patients. Many of whom have been on waiting lists for surgery for ages and other stuff has happened in the meantime that we diagnose at pre-op tests (anaemia / renal failure) and then that delays surgery further whilst we get that sorted. GPs are working their tits off.
But i’ll keep it in the C19 thread. Oh and yes, almost all the ones on ICu that are in deep trouble are unvaccinated
