rona moved in: ilx0rs with the bug report on their progress

(And a buddy that caught it at the same time that I did has reported extended coughing spells)

I still have the cough and smell isn't at 100% but otherwise pretty fine.

sorry to hear it :( hope your recovery is relatively straightforward

oof. sorry to hear that jim, wishing a swift recovery. and a more complete recovery to Andy, hopefully soon!

Welp, I had managed to keep myself and my family Corona-free since last March, up until this week. Started getting chills and muscle aches on Monday, got tested and result came back positive. No coughing/breathing issues, just lots of sneezing and nose blowing. Tuesday and Wednesday were the worst, but today's almost back to normal, except the complete lack of smell and taste is crazy-making.

I'm isolating in our downstairs family room to try to keep my wife and kid from getting it. So far, so good. Thank goodness for Criterion channel!

Best wishes for a return to health to anyone battling this.

Best wishes to all of you for a swift recovery!

ugh, love you guys.

Were you boostered?

I had not gotten my booster yet.

I've had a rough week but feeling better today.

All the best to you Jim and Dan.

I wasn't boostered yet but being in Canada I didn't get my second vaccination until late July so I'm not even at 6 months yet. probably be able to get one next month. think actually having the thing and then getting a booster will mean I'll be antibodied up the ying yang.

actually you will have superhero powers and thus will have to register as a result of the SHRA

booster booked for about 2.5 hours time but i woke up with an odd taste in my mouth and a face that was burning so i guess i'd better cancel that, along with any Christmas plans i had.

been feeling ropey for about a week, cold symptoms mainly, slight temperature, the odd ache but can't really ignore this and certainly don't want to be mixing with a room full of unboosted people.

did a lateral flow test yesterday and it was negative, but i don't really trust my method seeing as it was the first time. I'll do another in an hour or so but am already pretty decided to skip the booster appointment

> my weird symptom. tingling semi-numbness in my left index finger

had a bunch of this all last week, along with what looked and felt like an infection on right ring finger that made it hurt and hard to bend. figured that was the cause of my slight temperature, although i don't remember doing anything to cause it. and that's gone down over the last two days, is almost back to normal

If you've got a temperature I'd do a PCR test. sorry. good luck !

6000 people in the queue, 45 minutes to my appointment

get to the front, now 35 minutes to my appointment

"If you need to cancel your appointment

If you need to rebook your appointment you will need to cancel your existing appointment first.

If you want to cancel your appointment you will have to come back tomorrow to cancel and rebook."

not sure how that'll work. i guess i'm a no show. (although i doubt they'll notice tbh, i wasn't the only person in that 15 minute timeslot)

this morning's lateral flow test also negative...

That's... very annoying!
not much you can do about that.

welp

we need a Dan progress report

i got it again

arrgh, no way! thats not fair at all

yeah not the greatest timing either :/

symptoms v mild, i think this one’s omicron. gotta collect them all

i was double vaxxed, boosted and had previously gotten covid (as detailed in this thread) and it still got me

that really sucks! 10 day isolation means you'll be free on christmas day?

good luck koogs btw

ugggh that sucks, Tracer. What are the mild symptoms?

we need a Dan progress report

Aw, thanks Alfred, I'm back to normal other than lack of taste and smell, which are improving daily. I consider myself extremely fortunate that symptoms were relatively mild and short-lived, and that my wife and kid tested negative.

good to hear Dan.

my symptoms are apparently classic Omicron - indistinguishable from a cold. sniffles, congestion, headaches, sore throat.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/15/londoners-with-cold-symptoms-more-likely-to-have-covid-expert-omicron

Thanks, Tracer. Glad to hear your symptoms appear mild as well, but man you've done everything right and still got it twice. I've had friends in the same predicament. Covid just sucks.

> 10 day isolation means you'll be free on christmas day?

yeah, this has been on my mind as well. especially living alone. i will run out of bread / milk a few days before the end of isolation and then when i can go out the shops'll be closed for another 2 days anyway! (maybe more given mon and tue are bank holidays).

i think the window for me getting negative pcr, being free(?), getting booster and making it home has already closed though. (vulnerable people at home, so i don't think unboosted is an option) ((not that he seems to care but...))

(thanks nick)

oh jeez, sorry to hear this tracer hand and koogs!

koogs, have you tried the weird hyper-fast grocery apps? they all seem to have intro promo codes so you could get essentials delivered by them (like Getir, Gorillas, and so on. I think there are at least 5 in London and all seem to constantly be running massive discounts that mean they aren't much more expensive than actual grocery stores. I don't like their business models for the long term, but this might be a time where they are useful)

oh, interesting, thanks colette. jiffy looks like it would do. semi-skimmed milk though, gak

i am hoping that i'll do the pcr tomorrow and it'll come back on friday and be negative (although it's not obvious from the website what to do in this case). and i'll worry about anything else when it happens.

laughably, i would be allowed out to post the pcr back to them using the post box that is outside the sainsburys i always use, but i couldn't *legally* go in.

Shit, Tracer, that blows. I just had what I assume was the delta last month - after the single-shot J&J

Got boosted with Pfizer last week, but i guess that won't matter when omicron comes to town.. I normally have a fairly strong immune system but not sure that matters either

But it will matter! If you get infected, you likely will avoid severe illness/hospitalization.

Oh, I agree with that 100%... I'm just saying there's no way to outrun this shit

It's also winter in the northern hemisphere... met some friends for drinks last night, and they didn't want to go to the bar with the outdoor seating because it was too cold

I’m anti-covid.

Otm

tbf, the bold stance here is pro-covid

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TousAntiCovid

3 different co-workers in NYC just tested positive. Has to be the first outbreaks at work in almost a year

Monitoring the rate of covid panic in NYC by keeping tabs on how quickly LCD Soundsystem ticket prices are dropping

— Lindsey Adler (@lindseyadler) December 16, 2021

In the past two days the most people I know personally (compared to the rest of the pandemic) have gotten covid

i got it again

thanks fizz :)

i think relying on royal mail for pcr delivery might be a flaw in the plan. (didn't arrive overnight. and if it's anything like my birthday cards i could be past my 10 days before it appears)

(that's assuming the porch junkies haven't stolen it and sold it on some pcr test kit black market)

(i got a text 2 hours later saying it's coming today)

((reader, it never arrived))

Yet…

my pcr that i took this morning came back negative, despite my sharing an apartment with my covid-positive wife. we have been separating and masking in the apartment, which seemingly has worked so far. i did spend a lot of time unmasked with her on tuesday, the day she tested positive, so idk if i'm 100% out of the woods yet. i am thinking, however, that she might not be contagious anymore, in which case it might be safe to stop separating in the apartment, tho prob still not safe to interact with others? who knows! we have three (3) binax tests, which as we know are now as valuable as gold, and we're debating how to use them. should she take a test tomorrow to see if she's still infected? should we save them until after our next pcr test (scheduled for tuesday) to see when it would be safe to visit family?

for now tho, i'm just relieved i didn't catch it and hopeful that she is through with it.