Seal your borders forever. 10 days in isolation hotel quarantine for those entering. 24 days isolation for a positive test. What a way to not live, and try to shut out the real world.
In the UK, or at least England, we are about to move on to the next experiment, where all precautions are to be removed. Starts next Thursday. Lets see how that goes. Frankly around here that might as well have happened quite a few weeks ago. Nevertheless, jabbed and boosted up to the max. I will still wear my mask and be cautious. As will most of my friends and family. And continue to take lateral flow tests before social engagements. They may not be particularly effective, but if they do show positive you have fairly certainly got it.
It has not gone away, It still can be utterly miserable to have, if not worse, long Covid is I think real, not just for hypochondriacs, so I, personally will continue to be cautious.
I got glandular fever during 2nd year at Uni., badly, which affected my studies (had to take six months out), and continued to affect me for at least another four years, fortunately I had an understanding employer. If long covid is anything like that I would wish that on anyone.
Almost everyone I know has had it, I suspect even I might have, in early 2020, but for most of the people I know, family, friends, acquaintances, random strangers who seem to like to talk to me, it has been anything from nothing except a positive test, to a week or more of unpleasantness, to something more lingering. And yes I knew several who actually died from it, not just with it.
Omicron, thank goodness, seems to have mutated into something that might persist, by not killing off too many of its hosts with severe symptoms, displacing Delta, meanwhile possibly boosting that fabled "herd immunity". But who knows what might be the next twist coming up.
Meanwhile happy to have had Astra Zenica x2 and Pfizer, two different mechanisms, most very common reactions experienced, no big deal. Things were looking very bleak around January 2021, thank goodness the UK led the world in mass vaccination. I would take great exception to any argument that vaccination has been irrelevant to fighting the pandemic, then normalising and learning to live with the endemic for the rest of our lives.
Plus the intensive research into the new vaccines may lead to promising new areas of application for other diseases, soon. Vaccination has probably been the most important benefit to public health as antibiotics, if not more so.
New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern cancels wedding plans due to Omicron surge
to the point it didn’t exist .Cant help but think the whole thing was a choreographed lie .
