Coronavirus Disease Outbreak COVID-19 #116

[Homebird44]

If it wasn't for the test, I'd be out and about, it's a cold. If I caught it in two weeks time, I would be allowed to go out, which makes no sense to me at all

Tbf once tests stop being free I wouldn't test anyway. I can't afford to buy tests, the numbers will go right down after 1st April.

 

[monga]

 

[Ensay]

I've had head colds, the flu, sinus infections, and it's happened to me before.

For weeks after? That's not normal!

 

[monga]

Breathe easy on flights now then

 

[Ensay]

If I had to fly BA I'd be wearing a FFP2 mask. All that air recirculating in an enclosed space. Nope!

 

[justbeingnosy98]

Agreed I would still wear a mask on a plane! Probably in the airport too since they tend to be busy

 

[Prefrontalmedialcortex]

And that also happens with a cold? You get stuffed up, lightheaded, it all happens before. We need to stop this culture where we put our lives on hold for what is, essentially, a variant of the common cold.

Covid is not like the common cold.

 

[monga]

It’ll be nice to be given the choice a lot of people don’t like wearing them for long periods of time.

 

[jiggy_girl]

Covid is not like the common cold.

I have Covid right now. Yes it is. I've had colds heavier than this. A cold is a coronavirus, just a different mutation.

 

[Prefrontalmedialcortex]

I have Covid right now. Yes it is. I've had colds heavier than this. A cold is a coronavirus, just a different mutation.

No it is not. That’s just you. Your experience does not mean it is a cold. A cold does not leave the impact on your body like Covid does. Does the common cold leave people with brain shrinkage of 0.2 - 2% like Covid-19 was found to do in some people?

 

[monga]

I think everybody's experiences are different and valid some people don't even know they have it only by the lines on a test.

 

[Prefrontalmedialcortex]

I think everybody's experiences are different and valid some people don't even know they have it only by the lines on a test.

Yes I am not saying it doesn’t affect people differently but to say it is like the common cold is not accurate, and this is not an opinion. It is fact.

 

[monga]

Yes I am not saying it doesn’t affect people differently but to say it is like the common cold is not accurate.

To some people it will be ,we can't judge one persons symptoms and effects like anothers ,our bodies react differently .

 

[Prefrontalmedialcortex]

To some people it will be ,we can't judge one persons symptoms and effects like anothers ,our bodies react differently .

I am not. Just pointing out the common cold and Covid-19 are not the same.

 

[monga]

I am not. Just pointing out the common cold and Covid-19 are not the same.

The gov are telling people to go on how they're feeling not on the disease differential .

 

[Ensay]

I think the point is that saying "it's just a cold" implies that everyone who catches covid nowadays will get mild cold-like symptoms (or none at all), which isn't the case.

Some will, but not all. Yet most people who say the above usually do so as a way of justifying why everything should go back to 100% normal - including no masks in hospitals and other healthcare settings.

 

[monga]

Thing is we don't know how many people have had covid to get a real percentage it seems hospital aquired infection has risen massively so somethings going wrong somewhere masks /testing or not .

 

[Prefrontalmedialcortex]

Thing is we don't know how many people have had covid to get a real percentage it seems hospital aquired infection has risen massively so somethings going wrong somewhere masks /testing or not .

We do know what it can do to people and the lasting damage/long term effects it can have on so many of the organs.

 

[monga]

We do know what it can do to people and the lasting damage/long term effects it can have on so many of the organs.

That's from the data they have ,what about those that never bothered testing ? for all we know the rest of the world could've already had it ,we just don't know .

Free testing ends at the end of the month btw if anyone wants to stock up.

Hospital acquired covid

 

[Purrrrrrr]

To some people it will be ,we can't judge one persons symptoms and effects like anothers ,our bodies react differently .

It is like a cold in the way some people will feel/be very ill and others won't even notice. Colds have always been like that. Some people can be knocked off their feet by a cold and can take ages to shake off, another person could catch it and just have a light sniffle