Not "full" protection, just stronger.
Sick Bay (Or what ails you)
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Tested positive again yesterday and have deteriorated today. I'll test again tomorrow. I don't know if it's just me, but I expected that covid would be less savage in its effects than has been the case.
Another day (day 8) another positive test. My dog walking clients will soon be voting with the paws of their pets.
The first test I took on Saturday when there was no way known in retrospect that I wasn't positive. Then I figured I had a 24 hour bug after the covid temporarily abated, and that 24 hours is the worst of what I have suffered. Then I had 2 duds that didn't even work. I have a different brand now. Is there any significance to a lighter coloured second line?
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I really don't know what shelf life the tests have, I too tested early and it was negative.
A lighter second line? Not sure other than the virus is going.
Getting the flu injection next week and even though it hasn't been 6 months (since Covid) not sure if I will have the next Covid injection.
Doctors suggest I do but still thinking about it.
I wasn't that impressed with the vaccine's effectiveness given I had no. 5 three weeks before I came down with covid, and had been given the vaccine considered most up to date at the time. If it lessened covid's effects then I sure didn't notice it, but I guess I don't have any means of comparison. I had the flu vaccine last year, but prior to that had never had it, and can only recall getting the flu once in living memory. As I am not paying for it, I may get it again. Might protect me in Thailand too.
Still testing positive. Weak second line for 2 days. My main dog walking/caring role, my bread and butter role, is with an NDIS recipient with immune deficiency, so I need to be totally negative then probably in a mask for a few days to resume duties.
Well they’d be f ing fools then.
You sound like a reliable employee who actually cares about his charges.
So you’re sick. Everyone gets sick.
Day 10 positive but no real symptoms. I had 2 in-house dogs which would otherwise have been alone all day. I thought I was negative today but then noticed the faintest of lines. Did a walk on the beach with no real ill effects. You're right though - I care a lot about the dogs in my charge.
Day 11 positive and a cough has developed and gone to my chest. Bought another box of tests. This is going on forever. I will make a telehealth appointment but the reception in my apartment is so poor, when the doctor calls, the call goes straight to message bank.
For a telehealth appointment I had to go and sit in my car and wait - doctor usually running 30-40 mins late, so was glad when face to face appointments returned. But this time I have no choice. I kind of see no point in consulting a doctor by phone now. Seems like it
is too late.
For a telehealth appointment I had to go and sit in my car and wait - doctor usually running 30-40 mins late, so was glad when face to face appointments returned. But this time I have no choice. I kind of see no point in consulting a doctor by phone now. Seems like it
is too late.
Thanks Maggie. I have a telehealth appointment on Thursday (earliest I could get) with a clinic bulk bill doctor. The guy's all right I guess compared to the other doctors in the clinic and should at least be able to tell me how contagious I am likely to be at this stage and what to do next. Wish I had a real doctor! Short of waiting till I become an ambulance case, I am at a bit of a loss where to go from here.
EDIT: I checked with the clinic this morning and I don't have a telehealth appointment till next week. Shows what kind of state of mind I was in! Thursday next week is the earliest appointment time. I am not going to test again today. I don't know what to do.
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I heard the Vaccine has led to people going to Hospital and even Dying from the Vaccine.
So guess up to each person to way up the Risks
Didn't test yesterday. I am not sure I really need or want to anymore. Got a dry cough yesterday as a bit of an afterthought, but feel strong again. 13 days. All dogs back on again.
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Glad you are back on your feet TGG. Sounds like a rough ride. Hope it is plain sailing from now on.
I am supposed to be looking after horses and people this week but have come down with the Rona and people are having to look after me instead. Flat on back. The cat is using my head as a pillow and I am too stuffed to throw it off. Purring strangely analgesic except whenever I cough it tells me this is unwelcome by clawing. May need a wood chipper.
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Greek Easter family do last Sunday, 2 of the extended fam have so far tested positive. Nervous wait for the rest of us. OK so far.
Get well soon mate.
P.S: Rona is no excuse for not giving carrots to the pony.
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Greek Easter family do last Sunday, 2 of the extended fam have so far tested positive. Nervous wait for the rest of us. OK so far.
Get well soon mate.
P.S: Rona is no excuse for not giving carrots to the pony.
The freaking pony got out somehow and went straight for the hay stores. Lots of bales carefully wrapped in plastic, instead of feasting on one of them he bit his way into each and every bale breaking the seals and throwing s**t everywhere and had a bit of a taste.
The woodchipper is for the pony.
ya see, donkeys are way smarter. they would have on-sold/traded those bales to ponies, for carrots and apples
I don't think there has ever been a vaccine that hasn't had a fatality along the way.
But the world is a better place for the vaccines. Polio, measles, smallpox, TB, the list goes on and on. All those diseases killed in the tens of thousands and now don't.
As I've always said, life is risk, and the vaccines are a risk. But it's a terribly small risk compared to the consequences that we saw before we had them.
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Well I think other Vaccines where Properly Tested and not like the Covid One that just came out ASAP.
I get the Reason why they wanted it out Quick but people where putting there Lives at Risk even IF it was a Small % that Died from it.
That was the Big Reason why my Sister Refused the Vaccine for Her and her Kids.
Saw on a Car Yesteday someone saying there was a Ex-Nurse and Called the Covid Vaccine Poison
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Dave, viagra was tested for longer period than the vaccines but did you know that 522 people died taking it in 2000?
I very much doubt whether any medication or vaccines is 100% fail safe, even the humble aspirin can cause problems/death.
Around 11 per cent of older Australians take daily aspirin to help prevent stroke and heart attack, but statistically, aspirin is two hundred times more dangerous than AstraZeneca – resulting in around one death per 10,000 people.
Getting a COVID jab is safer than taking aspirin
Risk of rare side effects of COVID-19 vaccines are being greatly exaggerated: they are far safer than many regular medicines says University of Melbourne expert
pursuit.unimelb.edu.au
We don't know what underlying conditions people have and unless we do, can't blame just the drug/vaccine.
maggie i think with all these things you need to dive deeper into the statistics.
now how did these blokes actually die... was it from the viagra, or maybe a heart attack ie, lets say exercising a little too much due to their new found powers?
Oh dear.
Billions and billions of jabs administered over the last few years might prove the safety of the vaccines.
An ex nurse? Not someone who has spent years in university learning the trade and then years in research labs?
Who to believe!
Testing of vaccines normally take years as you say. Mostly because there isn’t money to dedicate to the single vaccine for a small percentage of the population that needs it. Why do you think MND is screaming for donations every year?
The Covid vaccines had billions of dollars thrown at them and thousands of man hours to develop and test in a short time frame. If that amount of money and manpower was available for MND we would probably have a vaccine by now.
TradeDraft
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Very Good Chance my Dad dies from the Vaccine and that is very close to home
Drug Companies see Covid is a way to make Billions of Dollars
