Coping in the Time of Covid-19 - New and Improved!

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  • I went further afield to a newly opened large Sainsbury’s this morning, where masks were in the minority. Very high tech, and as usual I needed help with the self service check out. I normally avoid them but the old sort were very busy, and only four of them. I then went to the new petrol station but that was self service, with no human being to help, just a disembodied voice. I decided, with my record, not to risk it, for fear of messing up again, though it was Covid safe of course.
  • I sometimes use the self-service checkout at Tess Coe, if the tills are busy, and generally have to call for help from the Very Nice Lady who is usually on duty...

    In other Covid-related news, our local paper reports crowds attending the switching-on of Christmas illuminations *heralding the official start of the festive season*. Very few people - even the mayor - were masked, and there was no apparent attempt at any form of social distancing.

    I hope they manage to buy enough tat to last them through the Christmas lockdown, if they're not one of the patients being taken every 48 seconds to A&E in this county...where cases are rising rapidly.

    Folly.
    :disappointed:
  • la vie en rougela vie en rouge Purgatory Host, Circus Host
    Bugger. Despite being double-Pfizered, husband en rouge has caught the rona.

    He's not dangerously unwell, aches and chills mostly, but staying indoors for ten days is going to be mighty inconvenient.
  • O dear. Sorry to hear it - hope he's better soon, and that you and Captain P remain plague-free...🤞
  • I hope he is better soon.
    The Delta virus is more contagious than the original one which does mean that being vaccinated won't necessarily prevent someone from catching the virus but it should, hopefully, prevent him from becoming seriously ill.
  • I hope he is better soon.
    The Delta virus is more contagious than the original one which does mean that being vaccinated won't necessarily prevent someone from catching the virus but it should, hopefully, prevent him from becoming seriously ill.

    Yes. I'm hoping that my Jab The Third will help keep me plague-free, despite the Maskless Masses, but even a mild dose of Delta would be hard to cope with, as I live on my own.

    Still, I have Good Neighbours on whom I could call for help if necessary.
    :wink:
  • NenyaNenya All Saints Host, Ecclesiantics & MW Host
    I'm sorry to hear that, @la vie en rouge . Over here on Ye Plague Island you don't have to isolate with a Covid-infected family member as long as you remain symptom free and testing negative yourself. I daresay it's different en France.

    I popped into a couple of shops when in town and am reasonably impressed with the mask-wearing. The majority of people are still doing it.

    I got my booster today so am feeling glad about that.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Sorry to hear about M en Rouge, La Vie - hope you and Captain Pyjamas keep well.

  • JapesJapes Shipmate
    Sorry about M en Rouge's 'rona status, @la vie en rouge. Hope the double vaccinated status means it's a mild dose and hope you and Captain Pyjamas manage to avoid it.
  • la vie en rougela vie en rouge Purgatory Host, Circus Host
    Aaaaaand Captain Pyjamas has a 39° fever. Fun times.
  • BoogieBoogie Heaven Host
    Aaaaaand Captain Pyjamas has a 39° fever. Fun times.

    😢😢

  • Poor Captain Pyjamas - and poor you as well...
    🙏
  • DooneDoone Shipmate
    So sorry, hope they feel better soon 🕯
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Poor Captain PJs! :cry:
  • Oh sorry, prayers for the en rouge family.
  • Sorry to hear that @la vie en rouge, hope both patients have a mild dose and recover quickly.
  • LouiseLouise Epiphanies Host
    Oh dear sorry to hear that!
  • SarasaSarasa All Saints Host
    Sorry to hear that @la vie en rouge .
  • Yikes! poor people.
  • Gee DGee D Shipmate
    La vie en rouge - not good news at all. Our prayers for all of you.
  • jedijudyjedijudy Heaven Host
    Praying for the en rouge family to all be healthy soon.
  • NenyaNenya All Saints Host, Ecclesiantics & MW Host
    Aaaaaand Captain Pyjamas has a 39° fever. Fun times.

    Oh, I'm so sorry to hear this. I hope he feels much better very soon and that you keep well.
  • How are you all doing, la vie en rouge? Hope things are looking up and people are feeling better.
  • la vie en rougela vie en rouge Purgatory Host, Circus Host
    Here in the plague house, we are doing our bit for the French paracetamol industry. Husband en rouge is still feeling quite rough but on the mend, I think. Captain Pyjamas has a cough and went to bed with a fever again. It doesn't look like anyone's dangerously ill though.

    I seem to have managed not to succumb so far, which is fortunate because we have to get food in the house somehow.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    {{{La Vie and family}}}
  • Gee DGee D Shipmate
    I seem to have managed not to succumb so far, which is fortunate because we have to get food in the house somehow.

    It might be reasonable to temporarily abandon a national custom, and your own custom of a lifetime, and buy several days food at once - save the daily trip to the local shops.

    Remembering all of you.
  • Just back from Covid Jab The Third, at a local pharmacy (which has erected a temporary, but adequate, vaccination centre in their back yard).

    I was a few minutes late, owing to the Mad Maskless Masses rushing about buying Puddingmas/Tinseltide Tat at the city's *Christmas Market* (you know, the things they've done away with in Germany on account of Ye Plague), but was seen more-or-less straightaway. Pfizer this time, and I was warned that I would probably Feel Rough tomorrow. Still, there are adequate supplies of food, drink, and coal on board the Ark, so hopefully I won't have to go ashore again until Tuesday.

    After the Jab, I was chatting to a worried lady who told me that her 30-year old son was refusing the vaccine, on account of being healthy, and not having had Ye Plague in the last two years - which made him think (she said) that he was already immune. I only hope he's right, and that she doesn't have to see him choking his life out in hospital. As she rightly said, she could hardly force him to be vaccinated, but at least she was showing him an example by her own sensible behaviour.
  • ArethosemyfeetArethosemyfeet Shipmate, Heaven Host
    As she rightly said, she could hardly force him to be vaccinated,

    Dart gun?
  • I almost wish I'd suggested something like that, but the poor lady was almost in tears, so levity would not have been appropriate, alas.

    I daresay she's not the only worried parent around, especially as Omicrontide approaches...
  • Penny SPenny S Shipmate
    edited November 2021
    I have today received a missive with a video of an elderly bearded Jewish doctor claiming that the whole shebang, imaginary non-virus, all the vaccines and all are intentional genocide. The sender, herself practicing Orthodox, was so stirred up she sent it today, Shabbat. It included footage of someone who had had a very bad reaction two days after the booster. "This," opined the elderly gentleman of his post, "is too late for those who have been vaccinated."
    So where are these many many people who have been killed by Pfizer?
    BF, I had no reaction beyond sore arm to my booster. which she knows I have had.
    The person running the Youtube channel thinks that the millions who will die from the vaccine are the unintelligent.
    Hmmm.
  • O dear. The fruitloops are with us always...

    My arm isn't sore, but Jabs First and Second made me come over all peculiar some 24 hours on. The Evil Pfizer may have different effects, though I hope that my demise will not be one of them.

    If it is, I shall want my money back.

    O wait...
  • One of my friends was somewhat scornful when I said I am only meeting my grandchildren outside. She said she didn't know anyone with Covid. I replied that my grandchildren’s half brother and stepmother currently have it. It is certainly still spreading amongst school children who have not yet been vaccinated.
  • I'm not usually pessimistic, but I have an Awful Feeling that England, at least, is heading for a dreadful winter.

    Please God I'm wrong, but being stuck with a *government* in which I have no trust or confidence whatsoever is not conducive to optimism.

  • You know, if I were a fruitloop, or married into fruitloops, I'd hide my fucking COVID case from their knowledge too.
  • jedijudyjedijudy Heaven Host
    A week ago today, my cousin's husband died of Covid. She and her brother had/have it, too. They refuse to vaccinate, and even when C and her husband M were in the hospital, C's brother M said no matter what, they won't get the vaccine. Our other cousin D is a retired nurse. She talked to cousin M, trying to help him see the sense of being vaccinated, especially since they have the very real results of not doing so. He was so angry at D that he refuses to talk to her anymore.

    I'm angry and frustrated and sad about that half of my family who are being so stubborn, and refusing to see what is so clear to this half of my family.
  • I really don't understand any of this. And I'm so sorry for the heartbreak it is causing you.
  • jedijudyjedijudy Heaven Host
    Thanks, @Lamb Chopped.
    I don't understand either. :disappointed:
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    {{{JJ and both halves of your family}}}
  • DooneDoone Shipmate
    🕯
  • I really don't understand any of this. And I'm so sorry for the heartbreak it is causing you.

    Amen.
    🙏


    I suppose I can sort of understand someone who is young, and perfectly healthy, feeling that the vaccine is unnecessary, but still refusing it after members of your own family have died (unvaccinated) is indeed incomprehensible.
  • Puzzler wrote: »
    One of my friends was somewhat scornful when I said I am only meeting my grandchildren outside. She said she didn't know anyone with Covid. I replied that my grandchildren’s half brother and stepmother currently have it. It is certainly still spreading amongst school children who have not yet been vaccinated.

    Local elementary school (300-ish kids) has averaged 2 new cases a week since the start of term. Transmission mostly seems to occur outside school (cases are not clusters of kids who interact at school).
  • la vie en rougela vie en rouge Purgatory Host, Circus Host
    Booooo. After resisting for a week, I woke up this morning feeling extremely groggy.

    I shall go and get my nose swabbed in the morning (not sure where I could get it done on a Sunday). Hopefully husband en rouge will be negative by then, or life is going to get very inconvenient.
  • Boo indeed. Down with the 'Rona :rage: Prayers ascending for swift healing for all the Rouge household.
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited November 2021
    Amen.
    🙏

    I had a slightly tender arm overnight, after Jab The Third, and woke up feeling very sleepy IYSWIM. I stayed in my berth until midday, sleeping quite soundly for several hours, and feel OK now,

    I wonder if that's the end of the side effects, or will I feel Rough tomorrow?
    :fearful:
  • I'm sorry @jedijudy - I don't understand either. My friend has improved a little, though still ventilated and sedated - oxygen requirement has fallen to about 55%, which means heavily- rather than utterly- f*cked lungs. His family are very concerned, and I am in close contact. As far as I know they are still unvaccinated. If he recovers I expect him to blame the health service for how sick he is going to remain. Perhaps I should give him more credit, or cut my losses.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Those of you who have regularly had flu jags - have you ever had flu/cold-like symptoms, but a long time later?

    I had the Covid booster (Moderna) and the flu jag on 9th November, and seemed to have no side-effects at all, but this morning I woke with a headache, and have felt a bit fluish (blowing hot and cold, sneezing). Isn't the jag supposed to stop you feeling like that? :confused:
  • FirenzeFirenze Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    Ah, it'll be omicron flu...

    I think the annual vaccine is developed from the most prevalent strains at a particular time, but there are always others.
  • Yes, the flu jab is made against the strains thought likeliest to be prevalent in the coming months - but there's no guarantee that the predictions are right. I believe there's been the odd year that they've been way off. I fear you've fallen foul of a stray bug not covered by the jab...

    Hope you feel better soon, and prayers for those who are suffering from The Dreaded Lurgi, and those suffering from fuckwits as well. And maybe a prayer for relief from fuckwittery too?
  • HeavenlyannieHeavenlyannie Shipmate
    edited November 2021
    Piglet wrote: »
    Those of you who have regularly had flu jags - have you ever had flu/cold-like symptoms, but a long time later?

    I had the Covid booster (Moderna) and the flu jag on 9th November, and seemed to have no side-effects at all, but this morning I woke with a headache, and have felt a bit fluish (blowing hot and cold, sneezing). Isn't the jag supposed to stop you feeling like that? :confused:
    It seems a bit late for side effects from the jabs but you may have gone down with some other virus, there’s a lot of bugs around at the moment.
  • Oh drat, both to la vie en rouge's rona and piglet's bug. I really don't think flu shots can cause those kinds of effect so long afterward, so like others, I think it's a different bug. Though flu shots are much less effective than COVID shots anyway, depending on the year--so you could have a flu that just didn't make it into this year's shot.
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