Everyone is ill as fuck

JonQPublik

Retested positive for Covid this morning. 🙄

Mad_Cyril

JonQPublik
That’s getting a bit greedy, you’ve only just had it!!

NasserAlazzawi

JonQPublik feck! Hope it’s away for Christmas!

JonQPublik

Mad_Cyril seriously! Though I think retesting positive after using Paxloxid is somewhat common. I don’t feel sick, but I don’t trust myself to not get others sick, so home I stay.

Dan

16 people tested positive at work today….I’ll be swerving the office tomorrow. 🤞🏻

ehitach2

Just out of curiousity, why testing if you don’t feel sick?

ehitach2

So anyways, no - it’s a lot of people, but literally not everyone. As you allude to, there is a load of coughs, sore throats, everlasting runny noses/eyes around, not least with us for weeks this winter.

I should save this for the tabloids but my daughter was obviously not well Wednesday, just whiny/moaning a bit more than usual and had a slight temperature.

Next day, no temperature but obvious scarlet fever rash. Friday, same. Ring the GP surgery and register the details first thing. Turns out there aren’t any GPs at the surgery…after chasing twice. I get a call early evening from an 0161 number from some random doctor. Confirms a few things, eventually he asks for photos of the rash sent to his mobile. I tell him it’s not secure, NHS has a secure dropbox type thing. He says he has no other option. Too much of a coincedence if it was a random hacker/nonce (and he was on Whatsapp). Photos of rash sent. Doctor is back on my phone 20 minuntes saying it’s nothing serious and prescribes generic emollient cream and Piriton. His actual words ’it’s nothing serious’ and ‘gone by Monday’. I went and got the prescription.

Saturday, same - no temperature but still obvious scarlet fever rash. Emollient/Piriton lol. What to do?

Sunday, ring 111 or whatever for hours, no-one is picking up. Take the pained decision to go to a walk-in with a probably highly contagious kid.

Walk-in is rammed with a lot of sort of rough and/or slightly down trodden folk who seem to be doing it as just a thing they do most weekends.

Get triaged 1 hour later, get moved into a side room because of the rash and then left pretty much for 4 hours…

Doctor sees my kid, checks the rash on her torso, tonsils are swollen etc (still no temperature) - yup it’s strep A - scarlet fever and throat.

Why couldn’t the first nurse say that? Why did it take 4 hours in the meantime.

Cankles-McJeggings

Did she have a swab that confirmed it?
Just asking coz about a month ago had exactly the same with my 6 year old. Both of us got sore throat and raging temp, went to emergency as boy came out in rash all over and temp of 39.
Got diagnosed as scarlet fever/strep A/acute tonsillitis. Got given antibiotics. 3 days later swab result comes back as negative and it was viral. Both our swabs.
In short strep a is being misdiagnosed and subsequently mistreated. But better the devil.

ehitach2

Cankles-McJeggings

Nope. No way at this point where they geared up to swabbing throats for lab analysis. Christ.

No-one here with me has had a ‘raging’ temp or sore throat. The rash wasn’t all over. My daughter has a couple of blisters on her tongue and a rash on her torso. It is scarlet fever, no doubt about it. The last prescription is working.

Cankles-McJeggings

They did say my son’s was scarlet fever no doubt too. He was head to toe rash mimicking exactly scarlet fever along with the other symptoms .
Tbh the thing that pissed me the most was they knew on day 3 it wasn’t bacterial but had given him ten days of antibiotics on day 1. So he would been talking broad spectrum antibiotics for 7 days for no reason and there was no follow up to let us know to discontinue them. I only found out because my Dr rang me about something else by chance on day 5 and found out for me when I asked.
Better safe and sorry on day one of course but just think that was poor form giving a kid, or anyone for that matter, antibiotics when they are trying to stop handing them out like sweets and everything becoming strain resistant.

rhouses

Seasonal flu had me for about 3-4 days, but was contagious af. Missus also go for the same amount of time, unfortunately, it lasted with the little one for about a week.

So far so good though, nothing lingering for the three of us. The negative test result was great for peace of mind, but with China going nuts at the moment, I’m a tad bit paranoid. Didn’t really see a big spike globally when HK randomly got smashed by covid, but omicron this time last year did rage.

bosstrabs

rhouses with China going nuts at the moment

Well, what’s happening here is basically the same as I remember the early days of it spreading massively in the UK (I arrived in the UK for an extended break 2 days before the first ever death in Beijing from COVID).

No-one going out, mass hysteria, hospitals overburdened, people talking about ‘flattening the curve’.

It’s just the numbers here are going to be absolutely massive in comparison because it’s China. A city of 1 million people doesn’t even register as a significant/important city. Beijing has 20 million, Shanghai about 25. It’s a massive scale that probably only someone who has lived here, or an Indian could comprehend, actually.

And, of course, the vaccination isn’t supposed to be particularly effective. An added problem.

bosstrabs

rhouses Didn’t really see a big spike globally when HK randomly got smashed by covid

I don’t really see why there would be? Because HK is a travel hub? So is Singapore, Dubai and loads of other places that have had it.

HK effectively operates the same way as those places to - as a city-state with enforced borders between it and its neighbouring territories that people don’t flow through that easily*.

*Strangely, it is much easier for me as a Brit to go in and out of HK than it is a mainland Chinese person. I just walk in, with a British passport, they have to have something basically equivalent to a visa to enter.

rhouses

bosstrabs I’m assuming it’s going to be a devasting culling of the older generation. But yeah, understand the population scale makes it relatively similar to India. Maybe China has better health infrastructure.

Interesting to see how the Chinese government knee jerked with absolutely no planning, definitely reminds me of Indian governance. With a vaccine they probably know is useless. Maybe they can focus a little less on the border, and get some stock from India.

bosstrabs Yup, mostly because it’s a travel hub and a key shipping port. Would have thought they’d have made colonial access difficult and the Chinese could stroll in as they please - definitely strange.

bosstrabs

The UK passport also allows visa-free entry to Malaysia, another legacy of the colonial era that has never been rolled back.

rhouses

bosstrabs lol. Incidentally my closest friend from my England days missed my wedding, as he was rejected at immigration when he attempted to enter India with a visa-less British passport.

bosstrabs

There are actually many reasons for the Chinese to restrict mainlanders from easily going to Hong Kong, but as I understand it one of the main ones is the lower sales taxes in Hong Kong would allow ample opportunities for arbitrage/resale of goods that could be bought in Hong Kong and then easily driven/walked back over the border.

Also, the Brits in Hong Kong don’t generally make a pain in the arse of themselves (unlike the EasyJet hordes around Europe or on all-inclusives in the “Dom Rep”) so there’s no practical reason to repeal that particular status, other than pointless spite of course.

rhouses

bosstrabs Ahh yes. That’s what I was wondering when we were talking about the luxury goods tax on boss trabs in China.

Smallman1

Dave and Rhouses riffing on UK visas?

Scones!

Homegrove

Long thread. Tl;dr covid will fuck up your immune system even if you had a light case.

NasserAlazzawi

How long we fucked for? I last had it in april but sure I’m gonna hit that shit doing the rounds in the U.K. with our friends (and a lot of kids!)

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