Andy in Germany
Guru
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- Freiburg im Breisgau
Wasn't the long term projection that the variants will be increasingly contagious but less lethal?
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Wasn't the long term projection that the variants will be increasingly contagious but less lethal?
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
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- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
Think so, but an eminently qualified and not befuddled member can confirm/deny this.
That is my understanding. However, if you have people with flu-like symptoms in high numbers in an older age group, there will be a percentage requiring hospital admission.
It's the usual covid problem of a small percentage of large numbers still being a large number. In other words, this could be a burden on the NHS even if the variants are less lethal and those admitted to hospital safely released after treatment.
The symptoms I've had have been no worse than 'normal' flu but certainly nothing like a cold. My niece and nephew in their late twenties just had a few cold-like snuffles and only tested because I had tested positive and we had met up.
Flick of the Elbow
Guru
- Location
- Edinburgh
Today is the first day that I’m feeling almost normal after three and a half weeks of symptoms. I’m not 100% yet, but at last the feeling of dizziness and legs like jelly has worn off.
(I’m late 50’s, triple vaccinated, and had managed to avoid it up until now).
(I’m late 50’s, triple vaccinated, and had managed to avoid it up until now).
Oh, that is bad luck.
Amazon delivery just now and our dialog at the door went:
"Don't get too close - I've got"
"Covid?"
"Yes"
"as has everyone else, it seems"
not had covid, never had symptons of covid and never tested for covid
BUT
i never broke any rules, i stayed isolated with my partner ( who has fibromyalgia and a heart defect ) for nearly all the two years of various lockdowns, i permenantley work from home, i have my food shopping delivered and if i do go into stores/chemists then i still wear a face mask, to ensure my partners illness doesnt suffer or that she doesnt get it from myself......not seen my parents physically in two years and my inlaws who live 2 doors away, we only talk over the fence
BUT
i never broke any rules, i stayed isolated with my partner ( who has fibromyalgia and a heart defect ) for nearly all the two years of various lockdowns, i permenantley work from home, i have my food shopping delivered and if i do go into stores/chemists then i still wear a face mask, to ensure my partners illness doesnt suffer or that she doesnt get it from myself......not seen my parents physically in two years and my inlaws who live 2 doors away, we only talk over the fence
Tom...
Guru
- Location
- Inside my skull
You can get Covid quicker on Prime I hear.
- Location
- Inside my skull
How do you know you haven't had it if you've never tested for it?
What if you measure resting HR and HRV every single day. Let’s say you exercise every day or every other day and that includes heart rate and power data on the bike. Let’s include exercise that pushes you up to 90% or more of your max heart rate. You have a good understanding of your RPE and how that ties to your heart rate response and power output.
I would posit that you can’t have Covid-19 without it showing up in any of your daily data especially if you have a long and well established baseline.
lazybloke
Considering a new username
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- Leafy Surrey
Yes to the bold bit because new variants can only establish by being more contagious than existing strains. Simple maths.
Not sure about the last bit. Alpha & Delta were both more virulent (lethal) than the Wuhan strain, so it's quite possible a future variant could be even worse.
Tom...
Guru
Let's be realistic.
Alex321
Veteran
- Location
- South Wales
How do you know you haven't had it if you've never tested for it?
Well if he's never had symptoms, and has stayed permanently isolated, not much chance he's had it.
Most of us have only ever tested if showing symptoms.
Personally, I did have a several month phase of testing weekly because I was meeting others for Morris practice and we agreed we would all test before each practice. Ironically, when I finally caught COVID three weeks ago, it appears to have been from a Morris event, and more half the side went down with it.
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- Inside my skull
The reality, it’s possible to know you’ve not had it, without testing.
Tom...
Guru
Wrong.
How would you know it's Covid-19, and not a cold/flu or any other ailment?
- Location
- Inside my skull
Because you have absolutely zero symptoms or indication that anything is off, despite the long history of data from before and leading all the way through the pandemic. You haven’t been ill once , during the whole period.
Thats how you know it’s not a cold or flu because you’ve had nothing even close to those symptoms either, not a hint of it. You haven’t been ill once.
