johno1234:

 

By now most people have caught COVID more than once.

 

Citation required. 

I know there's a cost to the country if they subsidise the RAT tests, but now that they are full-price I suspect a lot of people have stopped testing when they have cold-like symptoms.  Not only is the test a bit unpleasant, but now you need to spend $20 to buy them (and potentially use them daily while you are feeling ill).  If we actually wanted to limit the number of people going to work with a mild cold (which actually turns out to be Covid) because they didn't have sick leave available but wouldn't miss work for a cold - then we potentially need to talk about making the tests cheap or free again.  Otherwise we're going to have additional rounds of Covid impacting our workplaces, and even if the direct symptoms end up being mild and no worse than a cold...if they lead to increased likelihood of long covid or cancer or other maladies - it may be in our interests to have more info rather than less.

Not that I think this government is going to undertake any additional cost related to the health system.

Canuckabroad:

 

I know there's a cost to the country if they subsidise the RAT tests, but now that they are full-price I suspect a lot of people have stopped testing when they have cold-like symptoms. .

 

On the nose.

Due various reasons I'm still asked to surveillance check from held stocks at the sign of poss illness to keep ahead of any possible sharing.

Have since had first bout since inception. And given my general life is work - home - work with little between was surprised, but not. Given my symptoms if anyone else was thinking otherwise they'd probably charge off to work and share it without a care. (And likely given the noises you hear in any public common spaces at present)

Friday started with that niggly something's wrong in the nose feels and started on the meds. By Sunday I had cold morning sniffles and the odd irritating cough. Come Monday morning before a dental appt and work went to rule it out. And boom. Had the updated booster in Feb. Wether that helps mask it or not...

That was me home for 5 days barking. (And still lingers 3wks later)

Sort of wander around goin, people clearly forget the 'stay home of sick' quick. Then again with a 6 month drop off and noone admitting to keeping boosters up I guess the walls are also down.

cddt:

 

johno1234:

 

By now most people have caught COVID more than once.

 

 

Citation required. 

 

There are none as globally the reporting is less than actual as many cases are asymptomatic and most people don't test let alone report it. However if we take it as read that COVID is more transmissible than other common coronaviruses and vaccination and naturally acquired immunity does not prevent reinfection then common sense tells you this is the case for a virus that has been around for over six years.

If most people have not been  reinfected then the whole transmissibility aspect of Covid would be untrue.

cddt:

 

johno1234:

 

By now most people have caught COVID more than once.

 

 

Citation required. 

 

Still running at Zero Covid here. and still getting regular Vaccinations once a year.

openmedia:

 

Still running at Zero Covid here. and still getting regular Vaccinations once a year.

 

Well, Zero Symptomatic infections anyway, 

Studies seem to put Asymptomatic Covid at between 20-40%, so unless you actually run an antibody test you will never know for certain. 

My parents have missed it, and they test when feeling niggly/tickly.

I've had it at least three times (three times tested positive, pretty sure I've had it since then too - was on a Cruise in April and others that we were with tested positive for it a day after we returned - I didn't but I felt I'd had it).

I have RATs at home, but they're old. I'm not buying new ones.

I've had all the vaccinations and boosters (I think I'm up to 5 jabs, maybe 6?). I don't think I'll get any more.

I never get colds or flu or other respiratory illnesses and I am rigorous about vaccination. To the best of my knowledge, I have never had Covid.

Rikkitic:

 

I never get colds or flu or other respiratory illnesses and I am rigorous about vaccination. To the best of my knowledge, I have never had Covid.

 

 

 

 

 

+1

I would generally have said the same thing previously.  I went years between using sick leave at work, not because I soldiered through, but because I didn't get sick.

Then I had a kid in daycare.  Anyone with kids in daycare know it's a petri dish consolidating all the germs from hundreds or thousands of people and every time there's a change, they get exposed to a whole new batch of sicknesses.  Even moving from one age group to another within the same centre (with a new batch of kids) has meant my kid got sick a couple times - and it usually impacts the parents too.

Canuckabroad:

 

I would generally have said the same thing previously.  I went years between using sick leave at work, not because I soldiered through, but because I didn't get sick.

 

Then I had a kid in daycare.  Anyone with kids in daycare know it's a petri dish consolidating all the germs from hundreds or thousands of people and every time there's a change, they get exposed to a whole new batch of sicknesses.  Even moving from one age group to another within the same centre (with a new batch of kids) has meant my kid got sick a couple times - and it usually impacts the parents too.

 

That's right. Everyone thinks covid came from a wuhan weapons lab but it was actually from a wuhan day care centre.

jk. Or am I ... ?

Canuckabroad:

 

Then I had a kid in daycare.  Anyone with kids in daycare know it's a petri dish consolidating all the germs from hundreds or thousands of people and every time there's a change, they get exposed to a whole new batch of sicknesses.  Even moving from one age group to another within the same centre (with a new batch of kids) has meant my kid got sick a couple times - and it usually impacts the parents too.

 

Yip, been there, lived through that... 

On the positive sign I just hope that the continued exposure to pretty much every disease on the planet will help their immune systems in the long term :) 

I can confirm that expired rat tests still give a positive result if you have it. Tried with an expired and a fresh one. 

This is an excellent in-depth thread on X by a neuropathologist that discusses why people minimise the dangers of catching Covid 19 — like the assertion shared here a few days back that the flu is more severe. 

One of key points is that "When a threat is chronic, invisible, and socially inconvenient, people don’t rationally evaluate it, they emotionally suppress it." The thread discusses how and why people emotionally suppress Covid. 

You need to be an X user to see all 18 posts, unfortunately.  I have no idea if it would violate forum etiquette to copy and paste the content of the 18 posts here.