In early 2020 I had a flu-like illness (as the doctors say) for two weeks during which I tested negative (PCR) for COVID. About a week after the symptoms cleared, I started testing positive, again for about two weeks, but with no symptoms. This was long before vaccines.
A couple of months later I was tested for COVID antibodies and was positive. In late 2021, after two vaccinations, I tested positive a couple of times but with no symptoms at all. It seems to be a many-faced illness.
A lot of it *was* as bad as it was portrayed. Older people in urban environments were dropping like flies. I had occasion to be in hospital; and talked to the healthcare workers.
Out in the countryside, not so much.
+1. I am not sure whether or not I had it, but I took all my shots and never got seriously ill, but I live in splendid rural isolation. Friends who got it who had been vaccinated didn't die.
These are not "casual laboratory measures" but scrupulously carried out measurements of atmospheric concentrations of CO2 by highly qualified scientists. Yes, the Britannia articles have all the relevant citations. Going back through all my books to rescan those citations is not something I have the time or inclination to do currently, although I may do in future if enough people ask for them (you're the first and only so far). From what I have seen, all the major and most popular online sources have been compromised, and the same applies to the links Google provides to those sources when anyone searches for anything to do with historical CO2 levels. The discrepancy is too striking to be down to anything else but - dare I use word - a high level conspiracy.
Twice as long in bed! That was my experience of Covid without vaccination and I'm guessing I'm a good 10 years older than you. It was just like having a very short bout of flu. In fact I now refer to Covid as "48hr flu" 'cos that's what it gave me. A ton of fuss over nothing IME. Very little of Boris' measures were justified.
Joe snipped-for-privacy@jretrading.com wrote
That has never happened.
Bullshit.
Bullshit.
Bullshit they did. Plenty didnt.
More fool you.
Bullshit.
Because that does radically reduce the effect of getting infected.
Because it is nowhere near as big a problem as it once was, because so many did get vaccinated.
No one ever claimed they did. They do however radically reduce the risk of getting killed or hospitalised by it.
And that is the main advantage of the vaccination, it radically reduces the effect of getting infected.
Indeed not. There was no point to the lockdown, as the disease was already widespread. Lockdowns are only of use when a disease is confined to a small area, as with MERS and the original SARS.
The issue over Boris' party was not so much that he broke the rules, which he knew were pointless, but that he imposed them on the rest of us. The same was true in the US where senators, themselves exempt from the requirement for vaccination, gathered together without masks, when they were served by waiters in masks.
Are you in your 90s?
But he nearly died - pre vaccination.
At least the experts recognized that it's difficult to eat with a mask in place. We had restaurants and bars with masked servers and unmasked patrons.
Actually, the whole masking/distancing thing was absurd.
Actually no, but to do it properly you'd have had to close restaurants.
Joe snipped-for-privacy@jretrading.com wrote
That is completely silly, most obviously with Italy and NewZealand.
They were completely different.
Even sillier.
Ditto.
Makes no sense to eat out with covid rampant.
Nope.
And NewZealand did just that and got a much better result because they did.
And wear masks that can actually filter viruses.
I suspect that cloth masks make an infected person more infectuous. And don't filter incoming viruses.
I still see people wearing masks. Even outdoors. Even alone in cars. It's hard to understand what they are saying in meetings.
Yes, but we were supposed to put on masks when leaving the table, going to the toilet etc.
Exactly. And the people with access to real information knew it, but they still imposed it. That's what Boris *should* have been accused of.
You'd be wrong.
No one said that they do.
Even medical professionals. Funny that.
Because it makes no sense to keep taking it off and putting it on again.
Didnt realise you were deaf and needed to lip read,
Must be why the medical professionals never wore them.
He didnt bother to wear one and that almost killed him, stupid.
I know a number of people who caught COVID. Two, one older, one middle aged, died; a number, younger, were very ill; my parents, in their '80s, but vaccinated, felt off for a few days and then were fine. Others, of a variety of ages, unvaccinated, survived, but felt that they were going to die for a time.
I knew two people who died from it and a number that were very ill. My parents, in their 80s and vaccinated had a couple of days of feeling off.
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