Slow news day, or end of the world?

”Aggressive” new variant has landed in Moscow. Makes people, even those that have been vaccinated, more poorly than previous types.

Time for Uncle Joe to push the button? Short term pain.

1 hour ago, little whitt said:

my mum had it last week 

she just had a sore arm pal

Same as, sore arm this morning

16 hours ago, MancWanderer said:

I suspect that I did my test wrong on Monday and got a false negative

Yep. Same. Can’t remember who it was on here that got the first variant really early and was saying how hard the exhaustion hit them 

 

14 hours ago, jeep said:

Sweep the Gypsy?

 

13 hours ago, MancWanderer said:

Yep. Think it was @Sweep now that you say it

Indeed, I caught it before it became fashionable 😁

I was absolutely fucked for months, OK now mind, but it wiped me out for a good six months I reckon

Mrs woke up feeling rough so tested 

Positive 

So i tested

Got a really faint line but it's there 

Hers on the left, mine on the right 

So I guess it's finally got me 

 

Where do you get tests from? Thought they’d stopped giving them out now?

17 minutes ago, Spider said:

Where do you get tests from? Thought they’d stopped giving them out now?

we've had these a while, the mrs went all over the place all while back trying to find some as we knew they were stopping giving them out

we've got 5 left

saving them for later in the week as it's the little ones 4th birthday at the weekend and we're planning on having folk over sat/sun

then dunno what we'd do after that

well, we'd probably just crack on

19 minutes ago, Spider said:

Where do you get tests from? Thought they’d stopped giving them out now?

I think they have stopped giving them out, we did a count of ours yesterday, and we've still got 87 left 😲, although we'll soon go through them, as Mrs Sweep is still testing 3~4 times a week

You can buy them from most supermarkets now. The thing that's keeping me going are those Hedex Extra tablets, they are bloody brilliant.

14 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

You can buy them from most supermarkets now. The thing that's keeping me going are those Hedex Extra tablets, they are bloody brilliant.

You mean good old paracetamol?

1 minute ago, Winchester White said:

You mean good old paracetamol?

Yeah - but the caffeine, the good old caffeine.

 

I've got three bored kids at home, parents due at the end of the week, work to do, two birthday's to get through on wednesday and thursday (12 and 41 respectivly) So I'll take anything that works fast, keeps me going and isn't illegal.

I don't care if its even psychosomatic, it's helping more than the 30p paracetamol from poundland.

 

3 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

Yeah - but the caffeine, the good old caffeine.

 

I've got three bored kids at home, parents due at the end of the week, work to do, two birthday's to get through on wednesday and thursday (12 and 41 respectivly) So I'll take anything that works fast, keeps me going and isn't illegal.

I don't care if its even psychosomatic, it's helping more than the 30p paracetamol from poundland.

 

Marketing man's dream. 

3 minutes ago, stevieb said:

dream Marketing man

Corrected for you.

2 hours ago, Spider said:

Where do you get tests from? Thought they’d stopped giving them out now?

They sell them at our local chemist

£2.50 which is I assume for a box of 7?

Just now, MancWanderer said:

They sell them at our local chemist

£2.50 which is I assume for a box of 7?

Each 

Just now, MancWanderer said:

They sell them at our local chemist

£2.50 which is I assume for a box of 7?

£2.50 each aren't they?

3 hours ago, Zico said:

Mrs woke up feeling rough so tested 

Positive 

So i tested

Got a really faint line but it's there 

Hers on the left, mine on the right 

So I guess it's finally got me 

 

Faint line means Fuck All 

crack on you soft Cunt 

6 minutes ago, Escobarp said:

Each 

 

5 minutes ago, Sweep said:

£2.50 each aren't they?

Ah OK. It didn’t say on the sign

Ok, co-codamol is much better.

Feel fantastic now.

5 hours ago, Sweep said:

 

 

Indeed, I caught it before it became fashionable 😁

I was absolutely fucked for months, OK now mind, but it wiped me out for a good six months I reckon

You had a more virulent strain didn't you?

We've got it's weedy cousin.

5 hours ago, Spider said:

Where do you get tests from? Thought they’d stopped giving them out now?

I can get them to you for a price 👀 1st day back in work today. Not worn a mask in i don't know how long. Could see fuck all with the gegs steaming up 

5 hours ago, Zico said:

Mrs woke up feeling rough so tested 

Positive 

So i tested

Got a really faint line but it's there 

Hers on the left, mine on the right 

So I guess it's finally got me 

 

Yep, it's got you.

Do another one tomorrow and it'll light up like a beacon.

I did one this morning, first since testing positive of Thursday, and it couldn't wait. The fluid hadn't reached the control point, but T line was glowing.

https://lloydspharmacy.com/pages/covid-19-lateral-flow-test-kits

Bit cheaper here.

Edited April 11, 20224 yr by Tonge moor green jacket

https://www.medisave.co.uk/covid-lateral-flow-test.html?gclid=CjwKCAjwo8-SBhAlEiwAopc9WwK0B5Jntjw2pbDnQYQ0DzUK5Lt5cP-nG8wXHgAk79-9YL3QfIsPGhoCH94QAvD_BwE

 

15 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

You had a more virulent strain didn't you?

We've got it's weedy cousin.

apparently so, plus it was before any vaccines were around

Back then, they thought taking my blood plasma to use on ill people might help. I apparently held the record for the highest level of antibodies of any body who donated at the particular place that I went to. They had 8 pints of the stuff out of me before they fucked my veins up. I'd have been a really shit junkie.

6 hours ago, bolton_blondie said:

I can get them to you for a price 👀 1st day back in work today. Not worn a mask in i don't know how long. Could see fuck all with the gegs steaming up 

we're the same wearing a mask at work, thank fuck I only go in one day a week

positive again today

looking like the little ones birthday will be ruined by covid, again

and all for what just feels like a blocked nose

1 hour ago, Zico said:

positive again today

looking like the little ones birthday will be ruined by covid, again

and all for what just feels like a blocked nose

Well, we're taking our daughter's mate round London for her birthday, she and her parents don't care about Covid - just tested negative for the first time so that's two days of positives and now negative, so it looks like birthday trip is on.

Its certainly been a lot less severe this time round.