The Omicron variant

A really heavy cold can feel a lot like influenza but without the fever. Omicron symptoms can vary between those two. I had a really bad cold some years ago which lasted for 3 weeks. I usually prefer proper influenza to that, 3 to 4 days then gone though some suffer for longer.

Can i just state that people w Omikron infections DO have mostly cold like symptoms, that some have influenza like symptoms, that most symptoms last under 5 days. So, it is not 'just a cold' but neither affects a great many severely or for long or kills a lot of people. And end that ridiculous spat between the ignorant and arrogant? And the definition of 'lockdown'?

Probably not 🙂

I DID have a raised temperature which usually comes with inflammation. Technically that is a fever. But anyone who has ever had influenza will know the difference. Bedridden fever..

Symptoms and Sequelae

Disclaimer: - Not an MD, PhD achieved doctorate.

Mad how the conversation to help poorer countries with vaccines for their most vulnerable has stopped. Wealthy countries will be heading for dose no4 soon while health systems struggle elsewhere. We’re vaccinating kids and giving boosters to beat the band against WHO advice? Doesn’t make sense.

I've seen several doctors say in the last day or so that it is in and around the same level of severity as the original Wuhan variant in early 2020. The big difference of course is that nobody was vaccinated back then, meaning it was potentially deadly for very elderly people or those with underlying conditions.

I guess I'm just making it up for the craic.

Have you had it? How many of the 20k+ people per day getting it have you talked to to be able to say 'everybody'.

I have talked to some people who have said it's not bad, but that's not how it's been for me.

It's the people who have problems with masks, vaccines and lockdowns, conservative tory types and people who have money in the stock market who are pushing this 'mild cold' narrative IMO.

A mild cold doesn't take this long to get over and I've never had a constant 24 hr headache with a cold.

Like I said the bad side effects from the jab if you had them it wasn't anything like a cold and that is what actually having covid felt like the 1st 24 hrs plus a sore throat and headache.

I think there might be some relation between those who had bad side effects from both a Covid vaccine and got infected by a variant. I wonder how much worse an infection might have been without the prior vaccination. One would never know because the experiment cannot be replicated but i suspect a strong correlation between the two. If the body reacts badly from a small dose spike protein vaccine (apart from the trombosis part) it is very likely that it would go bananas from the antigen with a high viral load. Maybe be glad you didnt get Delta but Omicron. It could have been much worse..

Likewise I have it at the moment - started with sore throat. Felt like a bad head cold but I did have a very dodgy afternoon yesterday - full on fever, aches, heart racing and couldn’t leave bed. I’m early 40s, fit, healthy, lower end of ‘healthy weight’ etc. now it only lasted a few hours, the fever broke and I felt ok again. But for me - even if short lived it’s more than a mild cold. I was yet to get my booster though so I assume if I’d gotten my booster my symptoms may have been milder

my wife tested positive pcr last week because junior had a positive antigen before going back to school , nobody has any symptoms, so basically our house it thrown into choas because of a false positive antigen. Its starting to look like a testemic at this stage.

junior did an antigen first which was +, on the basis of that we all did an antigen, my wife was positive on that too, so junior and my wife did a pcr and my wife was positive with that, junior was negative. Nobody has any symptoms so if it wasnt for the first false positive antigen we would have been none the wiser.

Deltacron

• Lab contamination
• UKHSA no new variants under surveillance

interesting tweet from UK Dept Health and Social care about treatments for Covid.

https://twitter.com/DHSCgovuk/status/1479513165423681540

Calling it a 'testemic' because the 2 people who tested positive in your house were asymptomatic, good lord. And then you're inexplicably convinced they are false positives.

23k+ people per day are testing positive. At least half of those must be getting tests because they have symptoms.

I guess you would have to get it yourself and be sick as a dog to be convinced, but that's the boat I'm in and I wouldn't wish it on anyone.