Covid Positive, things to watch...

Afternoon Ladies &Gents, At least one member knows, but I recently tested positive for Covid 19, I'm ok slight cough still, but out of isolation now, other household family members all ok, main concern has been my Daughter who suffers from Asthma.

For all the main symptoms, I have them every time with a bad cold, start with a sore throat, sniffles, head cold and normally loose taste, smell for several days and basically feel like crap.

This happened a few weeks back as wife and monster in law were bad, got tested and were negative, I can catch a cold by opening a door so the inevitable was going to happen, I caught there cold and turned into what I get at least twice a year, always the same pattern, by the time I lost taste and smell too late to get tested but as they tested negative can only put it down to a bad cold.

So at the end of that and regaining my strength I continued on my demolition to make room for new extension, a few days into this and I was clearing my throat a lot and got worse, late evening taking a deep breath I knew there was something wrong , didn't feel too tight but I could tell something wasn't right, a day later developed a cough and headache, cough was out the blue at times but very irritable, a few spells of this and I booked a test, I could only get a home kit test as my nearest drive in was miles away according to Gov web site, yet there are two drive inns and several walk inns about 15 mins away from me.
kit arrived next day (Sunday) completed test and sent off on the Monday results back on Wednesday morning ........Positive.

I don't know where when as we have been so carefull, after a shop I place everything in boot of car then clean hands , credit card, car keys, door handles steering wheel, gearstick hand brake and hands again. (even clean dogs paws after a walk)

At home , all shopping gets a clean with suitable spray and wipe or soap and water.

Been so careful since the start I couldn't believe it, I genuinely thought it was just dust from the demolition, obviously not.

I can only guess I'd let my guard down at some point, or and I think its probably the main contact was through picking Daughter up from school as she will always grab my hand, even though she uses a sanitiser then sanitise hands when she gets in car....... possible of one of her friends after the first sanitise.

Luckily it was mild for me, apart from the cough starting up at anytime after a few days it receded to occasional, tight chest went in a matter of days.

There are a so many different symptoms now I would recommend anyone with anything out the blue to get a test....... I'm just happy I'm out of isolation as I only had three bottles of beer left........

Three bottles of beer left Geoff!! You left the most important to last mate!

Glad you're feeling better, hell of a lot of it your neck of the woods mate....

Glad you're on the rebound. My niece was down for the better part of a month, so I know it's ugly.

Glad you're ok anyway...this shows us that all the precautions are for naught. If you're going to get it, you're going to get it... Glad you're on the mend.

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Originally Posted by browningautorifle

Glad you're ok anyway...this shows us that all the precautions are for naught. If you're going to get it, you're going to get it... Glad you're on the mend.

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Yes. My neighbour was together with two customers who were positive and landed in an ICU and didn’t get it. Others care about everything, like Geoff, and get it.
One of my “blood brothers”, a guy who played 15 years with me (I was middle linebacker and he played nose guard/defensive tackle, got into ICU today. I’m horribly worried...
Damned thing!
Geoff, glad you’re getting out. But don’t get caught with insufficient reserves anymore!!!

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Originally Posted by mrclark303

Three bottles of beer left Geoff!! You left the most important to last mate!

Glad you're feeling better, hell of a lot of it your neck of the woods mate....

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Cheers John and Thanks to all the other members, John you were the "Member " I mentioned, still a bit tired at times, but just happy no hospital visit (Hope your dads Ok ?) I've only posted here as it seems to hit home more if you know someone, certainly caught me with my "pants down" but just to let anyone know my symptoms, Gov web sites haven't got enough and don't have enough info yet.

I've other family members (not my household) who have suffered quite bad, more respiratory than anything else, but It wasn't from them I got it from, my Nephew has vomiting at both ends and his girlfriends family.

It is taking hold of Liverpool for sure, but I'm convinced it was part schools, bars and restaurants that have given the high rise, an example of the stupidity of parents in my Daughters School, on the first week of the new term no one apart from myself, Daughter and a Chinese woman and her child had masks, not one ounce of sense either regarding distance..........
Its as if it had blown over, more now its blown up.

So stay safe Ladies and Gents, I'm not saying to start prepping but, do make sure you have enough beer.......

Its certainly catching folk out, but at the same time other nasties are still out there, Flu, Colds etc,

I'm just getting over it. Who knows how I got it. For me it started with a sore throat. For the next 2 days it felt like a head cold with a cough and I actually thought I was feeling better. Days 4,5,6,7 kicked me in balls. At the worst of it my O2 saturation was 91% and I was running a 102.4 fever. One more point off the saturation and I would've needed to go to the hospital for oxygen. Cold showers and Tylenol keep the fever in check.
I still have the cough but my strength and breath are back. For me it felt like the Flu but I just couldn't catch my breath after the slightest movement.
Thank God this thing doesn't effect children as severely as it does adults. Even so the Chinese government still needs to pay a price as far as I'm concerned.

Good to hear your on the mend, Certainly a worry, but at least on here we can share the symptoms, Were all firearms owners so more trust here than anywhere else in my opinion, more so than some bimbo in the press saying she got it from a tissue in a jacket she tried on in a shop......

Good to hear that you and the other members are doing well after having the COVID...

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Originally Posted by bigduke6

Cheers John and Thanks to all the other members, John you were the "Member " I mentioned, still a bit tired at times, but just happy no hospital visit (Hope your dads Ok ?) I've only posted here as it seems to hit home more if you know someone, certainly caught me with my "pants down" but just to let anyone know my symptoms, Gov web sites haven't got enough and don't have enough info yet.

I've other family members (not my household) who have suffered quite bad, more respiratory than anything else, but It wasn't from them I got it from, my Nephew has vomiting at both ends and his girlfriends family.

It is taking hold of Liverpool for sure, but I'm convinced it was part schools, bars and restaurants that have given the high rise, an example of the stupidity of parents in my Daughters School, on the first week of the new term no one apart from myself, Daughter and a Chinese woman and her child had masks, not one ounce of sense either regarding distance..........
Its as if it had blown over, more now its blown up.

So stay safe Ladies and Gents, I'm not saying to start prepping but, do make sure you have enough beer.......

Its certainly catching folk out, but at the same time other nasties are still out there, Flu, Colds etc,

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I'm in a fairly low risk area, but we get a lot of people here from London at the weekend, they stick out like the proverbial bull dogs dangling bits!

Few bother with masks and cough, shout and fill the pavement with zero social distance....

Typical big city attitude.

Ticking bloody time bomb....

Geoff,
Great to hear you have fought through it mate and hope your daughter and other family members miss it completely.
Worrying times, especially, like us, when you take so much care on cleaning things down "continually"!!
Stay Safe

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Originally Posted by bigduke6

It is taking hold of Liverpool for sure, but I'm convinced it was part schools, bars and restaurants that have given the high rise, an example of the stupidity of parents in my Daughters School, on the first week of the new term no one apart from myself, Daughter and a Chinese woman and her child had masks, not one ounce of sense either regarding distance..........
Its as if it had blown over, more now its blown up.

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Indeed.

The capacity for stupidity within the general public has no bounds, I was saying to friends back in July/Aug that by November we'll be in deep do-dah because people with barely half a brain, can't grasp the simple facts about social distancing, as evidenced by the numbers of people desperate to jump on a plane and go abroad and party as if everything was back to normal.
I was told I was over reacting...... :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by WarPig1976

Thank God this thing doesn't effect children as severely as it does adults.

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True, but its also the bigger problem of them being super-spreaders, and the 'belief' among many of the young that they re immune from it as a result.

A friend of mine who's son is currently at Uni, told me last month, that one of his son's ex-school friends died from it - so, that has shocked his son into changing his view of how he needs to protect himself while at Uni now.

You are right there, kids take a lot of looking after when they are ill. Been there done that and glad my two are in their 40's.
"Still need looking after" :lol:

Thanks and glad it worked out, My wife was just diagnosed positive 10-14-20 of course today 10-15-20 the 4 remaining Kids and Myself had to be tested need to wait 48-72 hours for results, while it hit wife hard. Knock on wood no one else has her symptoms. watching it kick the cousins out of wife I am lucky so far kids and myself are symptom free...As far as where picked up with the incubation taking up to 3 weeks anyone`s guess..Work? Kids? Store? Church? One can have Covid-19 never develop symptoms, and still give it away. Or have every symptom there is and no one in contact is affected, One weird man designed bug for sure.

Why though, If it was designed by man in a laboratory for Military Purposes, (assuming it came out of their Biological Chemical Weapons lab in Wuhan) it would have been designed to immobilise an Army in minutes not weeks, wouldn't it??

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Originally Posted by Gil Boyd

Why though, If it was designed by man in a laboratory for Military Purposes, (assuming it came out of their Biological Chemical Weapons lab in Wuhan) it would have been designed to immobilise an Army in minutes not weeks, wouldn't it??

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From what I understand of the consipracy theory regarding the Chinese manufacturing this, it wasn't for the purpose of attacking an enemy army, but the consipracy theory is that they created something that will infect and 'knock off' their own elderly and infirm and the drain that they are seeing on their own state and largely leaving the younger people unaffected.....and at the same time creating havoc in the rest of the world while they sit back and wait........playing the long game that they are known for.

While I wouldn't trust the PRC as far as I can throw them, I'm not convinced that its been a deliberate release into the community, although I do suspect that the source of this was an accidental release from one of their err.......research centres.

The Chinese would have no reason to expose their own population unless they were sure they had the means to quickly the suppress the disease, and they were sure such means would not be available to, or would not be used by those countries that they might wish to infect. But why should they wish to do so anyway? China is going from strength to strength, she has no need to introduce this kind of problem to the world.

Either the disease is tearing through China or they have found a way to treat it on a mass scale, quickly and effectively. And so the Chinese elephant snores on the fireside rug while most of the Western world stares at the ceiling and talks about the weather :D:rolleyes:

Our media seems to have forgotten all about China; we hear nothing. But then who asks? :p

China (mainland) cases
Updated Oct 16 at 11:14 PM local
Confirmed
85,659
+13
Deaths
4,634
Recovered
80,766
+7

This is from the WHO and I assume the numbers ultimately came from the Chinese government which may be either too high or too low depending on which conspiracy theory one ascribes to. I suspect they are a bit low but perhaps not all that low because unlike here in the U.S. the virus is not political and with their form of government when they are told to wear masks, they do. When they are told to sanitize , they do. Here in America we wear seat belts in our motor vehicles, don't go without shoes or shirtless in eateries, stop at stop signs (usually) among many other government edicts for the public good but we cannot wear a freaking mask because it somehow infringes on our freedom. Tom

My brain tells me, if this virus was caused by Bats/Rats/Cats or whatever, why has it not emerged before. Sorry but this callsign is still firmly on the "manmade" side I'm afraid until someone tells me otherwise with scientific proof.
This could have prematurely been carried out of the labs by an employee by mistake...........or not as the case may finally be!!
Easier to blame climate change, everybody else does!
One things for certain...........gun sales have gone throught the roof all over the world, does someone know something I don't, is a Zombie outbreak coming lol??

Not here they haven't, most firearms licencing departments just gave up issuing new ones and variations, though they seem to be starting again now.

If I remember what I read months ago it was suggested that the French government had a hand in either the construction of the level 4 lab at Wuhan or else the ventilation system for it, and that there were problems with the latter, probably caused either by how it was constructed or operated.

I do know from a direct and personal source that several million people left Wuhan before the city was "locked down"; no doubt those people went all over China.

Why play board games or watch Jeopardy when you can get all the entertainment you need figuring out what's going on in this world!? :D

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Originally Posted by Surpmil

If I remember what I read months ago it was suggested that the French government had a hand in either the construction of the level 4 lab at Wuhan or else the ventilation system for it, and that there were problems with the latter, probably caused either by how it was constructed or operated.

I do know from a direct and personal source that several million people left Wuhan before the city was "locked down"; no doubt those people went all over China.

Why play board games or watch Jeopardy when you can get all the entertainment you need figuring out what's going on in this world!? :D

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The individuals who set up/consulted on the Wuhan lab were frog marched out of the Canadian Winnipeg lab in June/July 2019...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/chinese-researcher-escorted-from-infectious-disease-lab-amid-rcmp-investigation-1.5211567