Coronavirus.

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
Answering peoples specific loaded questions or addressing what's actually happening? Hmmm which shall I do?
You all seem happily entrenched in right v left, believers v non believers, vaxxed or anti vaxxed. No in between or common sense. If there isn't a link attached you can;t accept it, so I'd guess quite a few of you are towards one end of the spectrum and find it hard to understand or trust explanation. If that's the case, that's fine. Just stop beating me around the head with it!
The story is different March 2023 than it was in March 2020 and it'll change by the end of this year and I'd put my house on it that I won;t get any apologies!
Answering questions about the actual videos you chose to share would be a great start, we know you refuse to watch what others post but at least this would show you understood what you had?

As for not believing things without a link, I'm terribly sorry I require evidence to believe something 🤣
 

SketchyMagpie

Well-Known Forumite
Accuses me of thinking that what I post is gospel...

Complains that we don't accept what he posts unquestioningly....

🤷🏻‍♂️

If you're in the position where the very idea of finding out if something is true or not before you believe it is offensive to you, then what few braincells you posses have already been claimed by bad actors.
 

DoggedWalker

Well-Known Forumite
Gilbert, you post pseudo science rubbish over and over. There is clear evidence of the efficacy of the vaccine and the vast reduction in deaths following roll out.

This isn’t some World Economic Forum, New World Order, conspiracy to control you. This isn’t some conspiracy to oppress you (oh look, although those lock down laws that you were all so convinced would be extended are gone).

You sir, are an idiot
 

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
This point though…. When you all keep telling me the same crap like those Brexiteers have been telling us what’s in our best interests when it obviously isn’t! Ironic!
But did you vote leave? Too busy to look back now, just in my head you were a brexiteer yourself. Maybe I'm wrong, just seems odd I thought that so strongly if you weren't.
 

SketchyMagpie

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I've never had the impression that Gilbert was a Brexiteer, for what it's worth.

(which is probably the nicest thing I can say about his beliefs...)
 
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tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
I've never had the impression that Gilbert was a Brexiteer, for what it's worth.

(which is probably the nicest thing I can say about his beliefs...)
It's possible I saw it on another medium. Not that it matters as such, I know he's anti now, I just thought it interesting that he's so intractable in this yet changed his mind on that. Then realised I may have imagined it!
 

gilbert grape

Well-Known Forumite
You pair are now confirming yourselves as even more petty and even more inaccurate and un-factual than I even imagined!
My beliefs in rights, autonomy and putting people first should tell you enough about me being against dictatorships, restrictions and what we have experienced in recent times. That’s what makes me so unhappy about you all thinking what they have imposed on us is in our best interests!
 

SketchyMagpie

Well-Known Forumite
I said your beliefs, not your values. I know that, from your perspective, you are fighting to protect people's health and freedoms.
 
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tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
You pair are now confirming yourselves as even more petty and even more inaccurate and un-factual than I even imagined!
My beliefs in rights, autonomy and putting people first should tell you enough about me being against dictatorships, restrictions and what we have experienced in recent times. That’s what makes me so unhappy about you all thinking what they have imposed on us is in our best interests!
So you didn't vote for brexit?
 

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
What are the symptoms of the current strain? Wife was ill from Monday, hit me snd Eric last night. So far got:

Hot/cold, can flip within minutes
Headache
Dizzy
Very congested but feels mainly in the forehead?

When I'm able I'll do a test, assuming they're in date.
 

SketchyMagpie

Well-Known Forumite
According to The Independent, these are the 10 most common symptoms reported in the UK in the last month:

Sore throat – 57.3%
Blocked nose – 57.8%
Runny nose – 55.5%
Sneezing – 52%
Cough no phlegm – 50.7%
Headaches – 49.6%
Cough with phlegm – 47.3%
Hoarse voice – 41.4%
Muscle pain – 24.7%
Altered smell – 22.3%
 

Mudgie

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According to The Independent, these are the 10 most common symptoms reported in the UK in the last month:

Sore throat – 57.3%
Blocked nose – 57.8%
Runny nose – 55.5%
Sneezing – 52%
Cough no phlegm – 50.7%
Headaches – 49.6%
Cough with phlegm – 47.3%
Hoarse voice – 41.4%
Muscle pain – 24.7%
Altered smell – 22.3%
So mainly
Cough – 98%
 

PeterD

ST16 Represent.
I had it and my symptoms were fairly standard, fever, cough, persistent and dry. The lingering after effect when the cough finally left was the fatigue, and the shortness of breath from walking a very short distance, 50 yards, or climbing a single flight of stairs. I would be gasping for air as a result of these.
 

gilbert grape

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Maybe what people are experiencing are from the group of coronavirus, as described on the labels of cleaning materials for many years?
Covid 19 was surely what was perported to be the pandemic, while horrible viruses will always be around? We’ve just never felt like sharing the news with the masses each time somebody had one and the test kits are even described as unreliable by their creator.
 

SketchyMagpie

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It's the pandemic level of transmission (ie global) that makes a virus like covid19 newsworthy (though I'm not denying there is an element in our media that will catastrophise stuff like this to make money). The reason that a pandemic is more newsworthy than any other nasty virus is because, besides the increased risk to health, the higher rate and levels of transmission make mutations that can escape vaccines and cause more harm etc much more likely.

Do you remember how, back before the government abandoned the testing, if you got a positive with the "at home" kits then you had to confirm it with a PCR...? That in itself is proof that we have always known the rapid tests were unreliable, because otherwise there would have been no need to confirm it with a lab test, would there? Perhaps it hadn't occurred to some people if you've not followed it very closely, but that seems like something you could easily have ascertained through logic to me.

It's also worth mentioning that the rapid tests generally report false negatives rather than false positives, so - if anything - they're likely to give the impression of there being less Covid around than there actually is, not more.
 
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