[keith with the teef]

I had the Virus 4 months ago now and I still have not recovered my sense of smell/taste. Its become distressing. The Quack says it will come back and off the hoof given me some steroid spray. Isn’t working.

Definitely not 100% my usual self, prowess wise, summats changed.

I’m looking forward to the jab?

[Ed P]

I sympathise with you, it took me about six months to get over most of the ill-effects. Taste mostly came back after 3-4 months but was only fully back after six. During that time I could only taste the fatty or bitter components, it ruined eating chocolate!

To get into town from where I live I have 100 metres of a 1 in 8 gradient both ways. I found it impossible to walk up the gradient without coughing fit to bust at the top during that six months. Even now, 12 months later I find these slopes hard to walk with a pM25 face mask on, and a quick cough nearly always happens, causing understandable alarm from passers-by.

However, I do think that daily walking is probably my best therapy for lung exercise.

[PlaneMan]

Dave, glad you have got somewhere with the vaccine.Hope you get the Pfizer one even though it took me about 8 days to feel ‘normal’.

Ed/ Teafs, I know someone who had it near the start of the first (Welsh) lockdown. He works for the council as an emergency responder, the people that come out when sheltered housing type people pull on the emergency cords in their homes.

Ambulances/paramedics are sent at the same time but often he and his work partner are there first.

He still can’t taste certain things like salt so his wife has to watch how much he puts on his food as he just piles it on to get some tiny flavour hit.

[keith with the teef]

It came on Radio 4 the other day with a minister getting a grilling>

Why are the poorest in society falling way behind the other classes when it comes to getting the jab.

Seems Obvs to me. Its the carn’t learn wont learn brigade who just cannot wait for the pubs to open.

I say make have the jab before they can go in.

@ EDP

Ed P wrote:

it ruined eating chocolate!

Yeah, and Heineken: Refreshes the parts other beers cannot reach. Well not with Covid.

[Ed P]

The wife had Covid at the same time – going off chocolate was almost the only impact it had on her.  Man flu all over again!

[PlaneMan]

I had another test this morning which was a bit of surprise.

It was arranged last night and done by 8.45 this morning.

[JayCeeDee]

Ed P wrote:

The wife had Covid at the same time – going off chocolate was almost the only impact it had on her. Man flu all over again!

Just been phoned this morning by a customer from our dog days. Her partner ( male, 69 – she’s late 50’s  ) went down with it in November and has been in and out of hospital three times since. He’s at home on oxygen and his stats are low, but not critical at the moment. She said he has a fibrosis in his lungs as a result of long Covid. When he was diagnosed, she was recommended to go in for a test and she came back positive, saying the only thing she felt was the start of a cold, but has been fine ever since. There’s just no telling!!

[Ed P]

No justice either! Unless you are at death’s door SWMBO thinks you only have a cold and are just a wimp.

[JayCeeDee]

Ed P wrote:

No justice either! Unless you are at death’s door SWMBO thinks you only have a cold and are just a wimp.

You’re not alone – I put it down to genetic programming!!

[RSB]

test

Americans: Over Sexed, Over Payed and Over here, Wat Wat!

[PlaneMan]

My second jab date was bought forward on Sunday via text message.

It’s now a fortnight tomorrow instead of the last week of April.

Fair play to the Welsh government they have really ramped up vaccination rates.

[Dave Rice]

The Mrs got her call through to book online for the Ashton Gate regional centre and got to book both dates at once.

[Ed P]

Yesterday I tried to post about the first signs of a Spring. The local pubs are restocking their draft beer!

[Ed P]

A couple of people have posted about skin problems. You may be interested in the report that Dermol is just as good as alcohol sanitizer in killing off any Covid on your skin.

link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/10/soap-substitute-kills-covid-just-as-well-as-alcohol-sanitiser-study-shows

[PlaneMan]

I can’t use sanitizer, I have probable eczema on my hands, legs and upper arms. Still waiting to see a dermatologist. I wear gloves when out and about.

I’ve been using Dermol 500 for a good while for hand washing quick ‘that looks nasty, treat it’ situations but I also have to use Hydromol overnight on my hands and to put in bath water.

[Ed P]

A failure in patrimony and the cost of an ineffective Dildo Harding …

£37 billions — all wasted!

Do not believe the Bojo BS about Test & Trace, Dildo ignored all scientific advice and gutted an effective Public Health/Local Authority system to give money to inexperienced private companies. Even the testing system only became effective when public resources were brought into play.

Dominic Cummings has been rewarded with a 40% pay rise, all at the time this Government says it can only afford a derisory 1% NHS pay rise.

Failures and pariahs rewarded while they give a kick in the teeth to those who deserve much better. BoJo even had the gall to lie in Parliament (once again) by saying that others had voted against a bigger pay rise.

[Ed P]

In a slight divert from Covid, its knock-on effect on GP surgeries means that it can take forever to talk over the telephone to a live person. This morning I spent the best part of two hours either trying to get through or hanging on in the queue (all because of a minor issue with a repeat prescription).

I therefore killed the time browsing on line and rediscovered the mindless pleasure of watching someone else doing hard work. It was in fact a self-documented program of a young Swede building a log cabin in the woods without the benefit of powered machinery or tools. Not only was it a ‘hole in the ground’ sort of pleasure, it actually taught me quite a lot!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBX5qh09OIE

[Ed P]

Heads should roll at AstraZeneca. They initially totally screwed up the original trial by having two different regimes, and now it appears that they are guilty of only choosing to release data that is favourable to the vaccine.

“The fact is, this is very likely a very good vaccine,” Fauci (chief US Medical Advisor) added. “If you look at the data they really are quite good, but when they put it into the press release it wasn’t completely accurate.”

A full account is given in this Ars technica brief.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/03/authorities-raise-red-flags-about-astrazenecas-vaccine-press-release/

Even if Astra Zenica are right, heads should still roll for a Press Release that had not been cleared by everyone. As Fauci states, vaccine confidence is a valuable commodity.

Perhaps now even more important in the UK where the EU’s actions may cause us to mix and match vaccines.

 

[PlaneMan]

Had my second jab today, so far no real ill effects. Arm is sore but nothing else so far. Pifzer one again.

This time I asked before I went into the hall if I could go out the same way I came in and the very helpful (and attractive) 30 odd year old female greeter sorted it for me. Saved me a lot of pain and exhaustion.

[JayCeeDee]

Just booked our second jab for tomorrow. Saga had a 600 staff call centre near our local large shopping centre which has been empty since they all started working from home and is now up for sale. They have set up a mass vaccination centre there which has been doing wonders.👍

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