Coronavirus Thread of Doom

[JohnS]

Sorry to hear you're struck down Marky, hope you're on the mend.
There are some weird bugs doing the rounds - someone I know has just recovered from a 2-week flu-like illness. The symptoms were absolutely typical Covid, ticked all the boxes, but she tested repeatedly and was negative throughout. It was quite bad too, she couldn't get out of bed for the first week.

[laxman]

Sorry to hear you're struck down Marky, hope you're on the mend.
There are some weird bugs doing the rounds - someone I know has just recovered from a 2-week flu-like illness. The symptoms were absolutely typical Covid, ticked all the boxes, but she tested repeatedly and was negative throughout. It was quite bad too, she couldn't get out of bed for the first week.

Get well soon Marky. Maybe use this opportunity to catch up on your hundreds of unplayed CDs?

JohnS similar experience here, I know a few people who are ill but not testing positive. Also a couple of our lacrosse juniors tested positive but the positive reading was very faint. Is the virus now mutating to trick the lateral flow test?

[Marky Dread]

Sorry to hear you're struck down Marky, hope you're on the mend.
There are some weird bugs doing the rounds - someone I know has just recovered from a 2-week flu-like illness. The symptoms were absolutely typical Covid, ticked all the boxes, but she tested repeatedly and was negative throughout. It was quite bad too, she couldn't get out of bed for the first week.

Get well soon Marky. Maybe use this opportunity to catch up on your hundreds of unplayed CDs?

Thank laxman and JohnS.

My mum has tested positive this evening. She had symptons yesterday but tested negative.

She goes to a church group on a Monday afternoon with a load of other old biddy's to chat and crochet.

But half of them are oblivious to wearing a mask. So my guess is I actually caught it from my mum via one of her freinds. She has COPD so I'm way more concerned for her. I haven't been in contact with anyone except my mum for at least a fortnight.

Yeah I'll play a couple of CDs for sure. I had two deliveries today the Japanese Clash CD singles box and the Costello colour vinyl box set.

However as always I'm remastering some Clash shows. The Hamburg "Riot Show" and I've gone back to source material for the 2nd night at the Hammersmith Palais 1980 show.

[Low Down Low]

Sorry to hear you're struck down Marky, hope you're on the mend.
There are some weird bugs doing the rounds - someone I know has just recovered from a 2-week flu-like illness. The symptoms were absolutely typical Covid, ticked all the boxes, but she tested repeatedly and was negative throughout. It was quite bad too, she couldn't get out of bed for the first week.

Get well soon Marky. Maybe use this opportunity to catch up on your hundreds of unplayed CDs?

JohnS similar experience here, I know a few people who are ill but not testing positive. Also a couple of our lacrosse juniors tested positive but the positive reading was very faint. Is the virus now mutating to trick the lateral flow test?

Very curious. Possibility it could just be flu i guess, but flu season should have passed by now so who knows?

Just to add best wishes to Marky for swift and full recovery. Have somehow managed to avoid infection and what's more, not even the merest hint of a sniffle since January 2020 so my metronomic twice yearly head and chest colds been a merciful stranger to me of late. God knows how long that continues.

[Marky Dread]

Sorry to hear you're struck down Marky, hope you're on the mend.
There are some weird bugs doing the rounds - someone I know has just recovered from a 2-week flu-like illness. The symptoms were absolutely typical Covid, ticked all the boxes, but she tested repeatedly and was negative throughout. It was quite bad too, she couldn't get out of bed for the first week.

Get well soon Marky. Maybe use this opportunity to catch up on your hundreds of unplayed CDs?

JohnS similar experience here, I know a few people who are ill but not testing positive. Also a couple of our lacrosse juniors tested positive but the positive reading was very faint. Is the virus now mutating to trick the lateral flow test?

Very curious. Possibility it could just be flu i guess, but flu season should have passed by now so who knows?

Just to add best wishes to Marky for swift and full recovery. Have somehow managed to avoid infection and what's more, not even the merest hint of a sniffle since January 2020 so my metronomic twice yearly head and chest colds been a merciful stranger to me of late. God knows how long that continues.

Thank mate appreciated. Covid is currently rife here in Cornwall at the moment.

[eumaas]

Feeling pretty bad, went to look up the PCR test that had been free and found out it's now $119. Not sure about the rapid ones; we already used up our allotted 4 free tests from the government.

[Sparky]

Feeling pretty bad, went to look up the PCR test that had been free and found out it's now $119. Not sure about the rapid ones; we already used up our allotted 4 free tests from the government.

The US government is providing 4 more kits, we just put in for them last week, got them in 3 days.

https://www.covidtests.gov/

[eumaas]

Feeling pretty bad, went to look up the PCR test that had been free and found out it's now $119. Not sure about the rapid ones; we already used up our allotted 4 free tests from the government.

The US government is providing 4 more kits, we just put in for them last week, got them in 3 days.

https://www.covidtests.gov/

Ah thank you, the website I looked at said just the 1 batch of 4.

[Sparky]

Feeling pretty bad, went to look up the PCR test that had been free and found out it's now $119. Not sure about the rapid ones; we already used up our allotted 4 free tests from the government.

The US government is providing 4 more kits, we just put in for them last week, got them in 3 days.

https://www.covidtests.gov/

Ah thank you, the website I looked at said just the 1 batch of 4.

Hope you get to feeling better, I had no idea the tests were so expensive.

[Dr. Medulla]

Woo hoo, we're officially in wave number six in Onterrible. Almost entirely due to the end of mask mandates and vaccination of proof. I can understand relaxing masks, but dispensing with the vax passport seems dumb as hell. Limiting the access of the unvaccinated, along with potential stigma, just makes sense for the foreseeable future.

[Inder]

Hope you feel better soon, Marky!

Woo hoo, we're officially in wave number six in Onterrible. Almost entirely due to the end of mask mandates and vaccination of proof. I can understand relaxing masks, but dispensing with the vax passport seems dumb as hell. Limiting the access of the unvaccinated, along with potential stigma, just makes sense for the foreseeable future.

The good news is that the government is getting rid of free rapid tests, so positive cases will continue to decline.

[Flex]

The good news is that the government is getting rid of free rapid tests, so positive cases will continue to decline.

That's what we've done here in Colorado. And good news! Even though covid is on the rise in wastewater measuring we aren't seeing a commensurate rise in confirmed individual testing, which means covid isn't really here! Huzzah!

[Dr. Medulla]

We've tried "science," but we haven't yet fully tested whether pretending the virus doesn't exist will work. We'd be negligent not to test alternative strategies or else we lose our freedom.

[eumaas]

The good news is that the government is getting rid of free rapid tests, so positive cases will continue to decline.

That's what we've done here in Colorado. And good news! Even though covid is on the rise in wastewater measuring we aren't seeing a commensurate rise in confirmed individual testing, which means covid isn't really here! Huzzah!

I still remember long ago when Trump was ridiculed for saying fewer tests, fewer cases. Now it's policy!

[Flex]

I still remember long ago when Trump was ridiculed for saying fewer tests, fewer cases. Now it's policy!

(Being charitable, I suppose) I do understand that at a certain point the virus becomes endemic and then the kind of testing we're doing doesn't make as much sense but ahhhhhh it's very unclear to me that we're at that point. A LOT of it is based on the assumption that natural infection provides robust protection, making it safe for the folks who "made the right choice," and there just doesn't seem to be concrete evidence of that. I mean, we'll find out, I guess. Love to be part of a massive global experiment in infectious disease!