Coronavirus.

staffordjas

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12 hrs after the jab suddenly went
From feeling great ,to aching all over . Worse in jab arm , shoulders and back of head and neck. Feeling like a block of ice inside as well.
I had no side effects at all after the first one.
So glad I've had that 2nd jab though now
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Heard the England booking system is now inviting anyone 40+ to make appointments.
 

staffordjas

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I thought my vision was going funny as I got up and left the waiting area and seemed strange walking to the carpark. Then realised when I went to put my varifocals on in the car to drive back that I'd still got my reading glasses on .... :lol:
 

littleme

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My neighbour who had the first one the same day as me is having hers next thursday as well.

Woke up feeling much better this morning, just my arm aching now. Was so cold in the night that had to sleep with my dressing gown on in bed and a hot water bottle.
Same for me this morning, terrible achy arm and boiling hot all night again.

I'm putting the night time heat down to my age, although I did have a temperature on Wednesday it doesn't excuse the rest of the year when I'm a 'windows open, covers off, covers on, covers off' all night long type of person...
 

staffordjas

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I read on the Teletext (or whatever it's called these days)

'People may not need to self isolate if they have been in close contact with someone with Covid , if a new trial is successful . The government backed research will trial giving people daily lateral flow tests for 7 days instead of quarantining for 10 days . So long as they test negative all week they can carry on with their normal lives. '
 

Cue

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Everyone without symptoms should be having twice weekly LF home self tests anyway.

If that’s the case the messaging hasn’t been terribly good on it, if they want everyone to be doing it they need to be sending out letters to everyone instructing them to do so because I’ve seen 0 messaging indicating as such. Just telling the papers to tell that to people isn’t good enough, there’s plenty of us that don’t bother with reading them because they’re mostly full of garbage.
 

Gramaisc

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If that’s the case the messaging hasn’t been terribly good on it, if they want everyone to be doing it they need to be sending out letters to everyone instructing them to do so because I’ve seen 0 messaging indicating as such. Just telling the papers to tell that to people isn’t good enough, there’s plenty of us that don’t bother with reading them because they’re mostly full of garbage.
I haven't bought a national newspaper in the UK since 1982.

Or even a local one in this century.
 

EasMid

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If that’s the case the messaging hasn’t been terribly good on it, if they want everyone to be doing it they need to be sending out letters to everyone instructing them to do so because I’ve seen 0 messaging indicating as such. Just telling the papers to tell that to people isn’t good enough, there’s plenty of us that don’t bother with reading them because they’re mostly full of garbage.
Agree 100%. They’ve been asking people without symptoms to get tested for at least 6 months but there’s never been any concerted effort put into publicising it. The local test centre at Kingston is only for regular testing yet I’ve never seen any advice about this & most people I speak to aren’t aware & many even say I’m wrong & it should only be those with symptoms that go. We’ve been there every week since it opened.
The emphasis has now moved to home testing, you order test kits via NHS website/app. Again, apart from a couple of very low key tv advers & the odd half arsed comment “get a test” by politicians there’s been very little publicity.
They say that most people infected with covid now don’t show symptoms yet can still spread it even if you’ve been vaccinated. We both come into contact with quite a few people through work so we test the family (with home tests now)a couple of times a week to protect us & others.

P. S. When you do the test you're asked to report the result, it's easy to do & it allows "them" totrack the infection. You can report multiple family member's results etc at the same time. I was surprised when I reported the first results that we all got a text message telling us we'd had a test & it was negative.

Order kits here (they're delivered next day)
https://www.gov.uk/order-coronavirus-rapid-lateral-flow-tests
 
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Lucy

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I had to pop to get some antibiotics on Friday and lots of people were picking up kits from the pharmacy.

I'm not doing home test kits as at the moment I don't think I need to, I'm working from home as is the OH and go to the supermarket once a week, normally on the day I've done a LFT at the vaccination centre. If I start to go back to work at all then I will.
 

BobClay

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I haven't bought a national newspaper in the UK since 1982.

Or even a local one in this century.

I'm exactly the same. Since that Sun headline 'Gotcha' in 1982 I decided newspapers weren't even fit for purpose hanging on a piece of string in the bog.
 

Gramaisc

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I'm exactly the same. Since that Sun headline 'Gotcha' in 1982 I decided newspapers weren't even fit for purpose hanging on a piece of string in the bog.
I bought an Observer on that wet Sunday in '82 - there's a good chance that was the only national newspaper I've ever bought.

I did buy the odd Newsletter in the 70s and 80s, but not many.

Newspapers were like comics, not only in the quality of the journalism, but in the sense that you generally read somebody else's...
 
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