Coronavirus...post your thoughts here...

[itiwhetu]

I’m not medically trained/qualified so I think your dad might be right with some muscle injuries…if you’d done something to hurt your back maybe…? But, unless you’re planning on doing some heavy weight lifting, I would think the chances of making your arm worse would be slim. And having a more relaxed arm for the massage will be more comfortable for you too.

True, we do garden maintenance and today I spent 7 hours pushing a mower, I was pleased I knew what my shoulder was doing.

 

[Caesar]

Novavax requested approval in Canada today, which is exciting! I reacted quite poorly and my heart hasn't recovered from the first dose of Pfizer, so I'm hopeful for an alternative that won't make my heart any worse. It beats so hard at night it keeps me awake and sometimes enough to shake my arm slightly while laying still.

 

[Essjay]

They submitted a couple of days ago in the UK as well. If it's approved it will be manufactured a few miles from where I live.

 

[snailaquarium]

I’m not medically trained/qualified so I think your dad might be right with some muscle injuries…if you’d done something to hurt your back maybe…? But, unless you’re planning on doing some heavy weight lifting, I would think the chances of making your arm worse would be slim. And having a more relaxed arm for the massage will be more comfortable for you too.

Yeah I've heard weight lifters take painkillers before lifting but never afterwards because it can stop the healing process.

 

[Deleted member 149562]

Now the NHS was the best thing sinced a sliced loaf of bread...much of it still is...but not all. The GP's are in a league all of their own and it ain't a good league.

Yesterday due to a medication mix up I contacted my GP surgery....the experience was eye poppingly bad.

"You are customer number one in the queue"

Customer...what the heck?

A whole 20 minutes later (customer zero took a very long time), I spoke to a lesser known example of a GP's rotweiller (aka receptionist)

She dutifully told me that out of the 10 usual GP's, only 3 were available as the rest are on "annual leave"...an appointment face to face which is classed as "urgent" would be an average of 21 days wait - "so sorry, we are terribly short staffed"

Although what I had told her over the phone was correct having read my records, she still had to ask a GP to sign off that a mistake had been made and change the records accordingly - "so sorry but it might take anything up to 28 days....we are terribly short staffed, so sorry"

I casually mentioned the three jabs......the annual flu, the pneumonia (which had been promised for the last 4 years but never delivered) and the virus booster - "so sorry but the nurses aren't doing those anymore, they only work 3 days a week and are unable to do home visits for vaccinations to customers like yourself who is housebound....so, sorry"

OK so I asked who would be doing the jabs this year..."so sorry, but there will be quite a long wait due to the district nurses from the hospital are handling that, so sorry"

That would be 10 district nurses for a city, its suburbs and outlying villages...give or take 3.5 million people since all jabs would be home visits due to the fact they only have a tiny office in the hospital's basement and no facility to do jabs at the hospital. "so sorry"

The GP union in the UK has taken it upon itself to recommend that its member GP's go on strike after they were kindly requested to stop working from home on zoom or phone appointments and get back to doing face to face at their surgeries since the worst of the Coronavirus has now passed, the majority of bodies are vaccinated and there really is no reason not to go to work normally

"so sorry"

(And if you use the Klinik messaging system now rolled out across all NHS GP surgeries, they have a 3-4 week backlog.... "so sorry")

 

[Naughts]

I think you need to change your surgery Wasmewasntit. Yesterday I phoned the doctors late in the day for my son. Within 2 hours he had been triaged over the phone, seen by a GP at the practice and referred to a consultant. The receptionist and the Doctors were kind and considerate throughout.

 

[Deleted member 149562]

I think you need to change your surgery Wasmewasntit. Yesterday I phoned the doctors late in the day for my son. Within 2 hours he had been triaged over the phone, seen by a GP at the practice and referred to a consultant. The receptionist and the Doctors were kind and considerate throughout.

Sadly all 5 choices of GP surgery where I am, in a city suburb, are owned by the same group practice. Not allowed to go outside their catchment area as the other GP group surgeries have this insane "gentlemans agreement" not to step on each other's territory.

So the choice is stick it our with them or go without any GP or go to A&E...and I ain't about to put myself needlessly into A&E cos they have quite enough to deal with already with patients waiting up to 4 hours before they even get wheeled out of the ambulances outside.

 

[StevenF]

Correct me if I'm wrong, concerning the vaccine...I'm getting confused about people talking about immunity....as far as I'm aware, the vaccines don't provide immunity? I thought they were just supposed to help with the symptoms? As in stop you getting so poorly? They don't stop you being carriers of the virus either so you could still pass it on? I'm confused

Yeah, just like the flu shot, they put the dead virus inside of you so that your immune system fights that and then if you get the live stuff you are able to fight it off.

All viruses need to stick to a human cell to infect it. To do that the outer shell of the virus has protein that acts like a glue to attach the virus to the human cell.

You can teach the immune system to recognize this protein by:

1. inject the person iwith very small amount of the actual virus.
2. .Creat a modified weak version of the virus. The modified virus may feel like a minor cold.
3. Inject the fragments of a dead virus.
4. Identify the exact RNA sequence the virus uses to creat the glue protein and make a vaccine that delivers just that piece of MRNA.

All 4 will teach the immune system how to recognize the virus. 1 and 2 are the most dangerous because they can make a person sick and that individual may infect others.

n additional issue is that sometimes the human immune system may not make the correct antibody for the glue protein. theymay make a lot of antibodies that don't work. Due to this issue MRNA vaccines (Pfiserand Moderna) are MRNA Covid 19 accine and are currently the most effective covid 19 vaccines.

In regards to the term immunity many people think of immunity in binary terms. you are immune or not immune. However inumity is not binary. A person may be 100% immune (vary rare) or have partial immunity (Less than (100% and more than 0%) or no immunity )%. The level of immunity achieved is dependent on how good a persons immune system is and how effective the vaccine was.

So there will always be some people that get sick after vaccination and in many cases they may never know that they were infected. In some people the immune system may be very weak due to disease (cancer for example) so they they may still catch the disease and or die from it. And in some people they may have an overly active immune system and get close to 100%. Unfortunately overly active immune systems often cause other problems like arthritis and as a result they take immune suppressant drugs that may make the vaccine less effective.

 

[snailaquarium]

I don't know if you guys already knew this but thought I'd share..


09.14
"'Very clear' jab immunity is waning as 9,000 in hospital
The need for booster jabs has become "very clear", an expert has said.
Professor Peter Openshaw, chair of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag) that advises the government, said it had become plain that immunity from vaccines was waning and that they don't last forever."

COVID news live: UK daily cases top 40,000 again - as England's R number falls to between 0.8 to 1

Latest on coronavirus as the UK reports 40,375 daily cases and 145 deaths; England's R number is estimated at between 0.8 and 1.0 - down from between 0.9 and 1.1 last week; Netherlands "to impose a partial lockdown" from this weekend despite COVID vaccine rollout.

news.sky.com

 

[emeraldking]

I respect everyone's opinion about the covid situation. But my own person does believe that covid is a real thing. Thusfar, I've lost three relatives to covid.
Our country has turned pretty red on the covid card again. We've got new measures by the government. Booster vaccins are available starting next month. But the government was only speaking of eldery and those who work in the healthcare that will get that shot. But none was spoken of the chronic ill. Pretty weird, in my opinion!

 

[Fishmanic]

today I spent 7 hours pushing a mower, I was pleased I knew what my shoulder was doing.

7 hours? You either have a very large lawn or are a landscaper.

 

[CaptainBarnicles]

7 hours? You either have a very large lawn or are a landscaper.

Or very short legs...

 

[OliveFish05]

Or very short legs...

Or very tiny lawn mower. Great for those with limited storage.

 

[FishHobby99]

The Coronavirus is spreading rapidly worldwide.

• What is the present state of the virus in your country or state?
• Do you know anyone who is infected?
• What restrictions does your government have to prevent the spread of the virus?
• Are you making any preparations such as stocking up on food and buying masks?
• What is your opinion about the coronavirus..is it overblown; or do you feel there will be a pandemic?

Please stick to the facts and stay on topic. Please be able to back up your post with a link to a reputable source if necessary.

My state of Pennsylvania usually has the highest or second highest vaccination rate in the US. Over 99% of seniors have been poked at least once & are expected to complete the series. Vaccination rates are high in <65 as well. Death and hospitalization is accordingly lower than elsewhere.

I know of no one currently positive, but my 59 yr old cousin died out in California. She was obese, the highest risk factor for <60.

I never leave home without a N95 mask. Never stocked up on anything.

There IS a pandemic.

 

[itiwhetu]

7 hours? You either have a very large lawn or are a landscaper.

We run a garden maintenance business