Covid-19

[sadloserkid]

my second Pfizer dose took me out too. Was actually fine for the 24 hours after (except sore arm) and then sick as a dog, in bed or on the couch for about 36 hours. Same as yourself. Not much by way of fever but aching legs and arms, headache, the lot.

Yeah a very similar story at my end. I felt absolutely fine for the rest of the day after getting but woke up in the pits. Back to normal again now anyway. :)

[CraftyToePoke]

The day after I got the second Pfizer dose (yesterday) I was sicker than I've been in probably 20 years. Headache, fever, every muscle in my body ached. All back to normal today though.


my second Pfizer dose took me out too. Was actually fine for the 24 hours after (except sore arm) and then sick as a dog, in bed or on the couch for about 36 hours. Same as yourself. Not much by way of fever but aching legs and arms, headache, the lot.

Things to look forward to so, my second Pfizer next week after sailing through the first one.

[sadloserkid]

Things to look forward to so, my second Pfizer next week after sailing through the first one.

Good luck. ☺

[tetsujin1979]

Animated the vaccination progress in Ireland over the last seven months
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[John83]

Damn, it loops just as it's getting good. #gifsthatendtoosoon ;)

[NeverFeltBetter]

And just as the government goes toe to toe with the RCC over breaking restrictions early: https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/news/katherine-zappone-hosted-50-friends-including-tanaiste-in-five-starhotelbeforecontroversial-appointment-40717044.html

[dahamsta]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_x6QmuJdms

[NeverFeltBetter]

Second dose yesterday. Lots more aches and pains around 24 hours later, and a bit of what I've seen people call "brain fog" alright, nothing worse than that so far.

[pineapple stu]

Israel has started into a third dose of the vaccine after cases have gone from 0 (literally nil) on 9th June to a near-record amount of 8,700 on 16th August.

They've revised long-term Pfizer efficiency from 94% to 64%, and it appears antibody rates reduce dramatically after about eight months. They've reintroduced restrictions and masks.

Ho hum...

[John83]

I refuse to thank that post, informative as it is. Damn it.

[dahamsta]

Getting my booster Monday, hopefully things will have calmed down a bit by Xmas so I can go and have an actually bloody pint!

[tetsujin1979]

Didn't sleep at all on Monday night, with a high temperature, pounding headache, and had to take yesterday off work. Had a phone consult with my doctor and he recommended a PCR test for my own peace of mind. Got a spot at 4 yesterday in Dundrum.
Feeling better today, but still wiped out.
Was at a wedding with Mrs T over the weekend, and she got a message from the bride that she tested positive for COVID today.
Still waiting on my results.

[tetsujin1979]

Didn't sleep at all on Monday night, with a high temperature, pounding headache, and had to take yesterday off work. Had a phone consult with my doctor and he recommended a PCR test for my own peace of mind. Got a spot at 4 yesterday in Dundrum.
Feeling better today, but still wiped out.
Was at a wedding with Mrs T over the weekend, and she got a message from the bride that she tested positive for COVID today.
Still waiting on my results.
Update on the wedding. Three of the eight people that were sitting at my table have now tested positive, including the woman myself and Mrs T gave a lift to the train station the day after the wedding.
Mrs T has also had a PCR test, and it's come back negative, but I'm still waiting on my results

[D24Saint]

Update on the wedding. Three of the eight people that were sitting at my table have now tested positive, including the woman myself and Mrs T gave a lift to the train station the day after the wedding.
Mrs T has also had a PCR test, and it's come back negative, but I'm still waiting on my results

Hope everyone is doing ok. I’ve had a close scrape recently as I work in private houses , a customer was positive. I went to citywest for a pcr and got the all clear. Thankfully I’m triple injected now. I’m hearing of more people I know that are positive or close contacts this time around. I’m not too nervous and still get out and about with masks & sanitizer etc. I do think we have to learn to live with this thing as it looks set to stick around in the foreseeable future.

[dahamsta]

"Sorry, I can't go to your wedding because COVID" sounds pretty good to me. Not that I get invited to weddings any more!

Hope your PCR comes back negative tets.

[tetsujin1979]

Test results arrived this morning - positive for COVID. ********.
I'm feeling fine today, apart from being a little dehydrated. Monday night and Tuesday were the worst. Yesterday I was ok, apart from the occasional coughing fit, and a headache. Have to isolate for ten days from the test on Tuesday, the 14th, which takes me up to Christmas Eve

If those 36 hours were any indication of what a weakened version of the virus can do to someone, then get ****ing vaccinated, I would not like to face that without it.

[passinginterest]

Have a wedding on Tuesday, although it's a small one, this is making me nervous. Don't particularly fancy being in isolation for Christmas. I've got my booster too but wife hasn't. I know the venue have said everyone needs a covid cert (or the couple have taken it on themselves to insist on everyone having been vaccinated) so it should at least help limit the chances of picking anything up. I'm in the camp of still being very careful, I can't walk past a hand sanitizer without using it. I do think complacency has a lot to do with recent spread, it amazes me how few people seem to sanitize going in and out of shops etc now compared to the early days.

Hope you're feeling better tets and managed to escape it.

*crossed over posting. Hope you recover well, at least the isolation finishes on Christmas eve!

[Eminence Grise]

Get well soon, Tets.

[SkStu]

Rest up Tets and take care.

[dahamsta]

Sorry to hear it Tets, keep yourself safe.

[tetsujin1979]

Added the booster data to the daily vaccination tweets
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[Eminence Grise]

Feeling better, Tets?

I got my booster yesterday morning. No side effects, touch wood. Proof of how busy Citywest was... the nurse burst out laughing during the screening questions before saying 'I'm sorry. We're so flat out I was going to ask you next if you're pregnant.' I told her as a male in my forties I wasn't, but it is the season for miracle births so who knows...

[tetsujin1979]

yeah, thanks. At this stage it's like the tail end of a cold I can't shake off. Still in isolation, and will be until Christmas Eve.

Among other restrictions, I can't get my booster for four weeks after my symptoms have passed, and I can't get another PCR test through the HSE for nine months!

[The Good Son]

Among other restrictions, I can't get my booster for four weeks after my symptoms have passed

Is this definite? Personally, I hope you're correct, but anywhere I check HSE seem to be sticking with six months after symptoms have passed before being eligible for the booster. If they've changed to four weeks, I'm good to get it. I noticed that UK has only 28 days after symptoms before eligibility for booster kicks in, so hopefully we're gone the same way.

[peadar1987]

Got absolutely nuked by my booster. Spent the last 36 hours sweating, shivering, and aching. Seems to be on the mend now, but I've lost out on crucial pre-Xmas cheese-eating time.

[tetsujin1979]

This is the link with information on getting the vaccine after testing positive, I might have misread it
https://www2.hse.ie/conditions/covid19/testing/positive-result/

if you have COVID-19, do not go to a vaccine appointment if you have one scheduled. Wait until it has been 4 weeks since you tested positive. Phone HSELive on 1800 700 700 to get a new appointment date."

[The Good Son]

This is the link with information on getting the vaccine after testing positive, I might have misread it
https://www2.hse.ie/conditions/covid19/testing/positive-result/

Seems to be contradictory advice here -

https://www2.hse.ie/screening-and-vaccinations/covid-19-vaccine/get-the-vaccine/covid-19-vaccine-booster-dose/

'If you had COVID-19 since you were vaccinated, you should get your booster dose at least 6 months after your positive test result.'

I wonder is the booster treated differently to the 1st/2nd doses?

[nigel-harps1954]

Hope the recovery goes well for you Tets.

Took COVID myself this month and had an awful dose of it. First few days were a total write-off for me and I've little memory of them. Started out feeling like a headcold, took an antigen test which returned positive, booked a PCR the next morning, and that evening had a positive result. Started isolating the day before, to be safe. Thankfully the better half and the kids both avoided it.
Lost sense of smell, lost all energy, had awful aches and pains, struggled to sleep at all at night for those first few days, and the chest was utterly destroyed. Came out of the worst of it around day four, started to slowly improve, although the aches and pains and cramps remained. Even having a shower drained the energy out of me. The ten day isolation was just horrible.

Came out the other side of it thankfully, but it's 8 days since I finished my ten day isolation period, and still don't have full sense of smell back, still suffering a bit of fatigue and lung capacity is not where it was at all. Improving day by day, but like you said Tets, left wondering what I would have been like were it not for the vaccinations.

My partner got her booster shot yesterday, I'm of the understanding I've to wait six months for mine now too. We're due to go to a wedding at the end of the month, bride and groom have asked that everyone take three antigen tests in the week leading up to it and another on the day of the wedding, and insisting on covid certs being shown on entry to ceremony and reception. They've also got four large HEPA filters, so they've really taken as many precautions as they possibly could.

[tetsujin1979]

Sorry to hear that Nigel, sounds you had a much worse dose than me. I was in the horrors for about a day and a half, raging temperature, headache, frequent trips to the bathroom, and a complete loss of appetite, but I never lost my sense of taste or smell. It's a week now since I first started showing symptoms on Monday night, and I'm more or less over it, but I'm still in isolation until Friday morning.

[tetsujin1979]

One year in vaccinations, in graph form
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[NeverFeltBetter]

Partner has tested positive, stands to reason I'm next, so won't be heading down to Limerick for my first Treaty game after all, pitch or no pitch! Instead it will be parade on the TV, the Formula 1 on the weekend, and antigen tests.

[nigel-harps1954]

It's in my house again too, unfortunately. Missed a trip to Sligo on Monday night. Doesn't help to be on crutches currently with torn ligaments in the ankle, but the young lad having covid put an end to any chance of that trip, and likely a trip to Tolka on Friday too.
Seems fairly rampant again in the community. Numbers soaring again.

[NeverFeltBetter]

Partner has tested positive, stands to reason I'm next, so won't be heading down to Limerick for my first Treaty game after all, pitch or no pitch! Instead it will be parade on the TV, the Formula 1 on the weekend, and antigen tests.

I've been ill since Wednesday evening, but testing negative up until around 20 minutes ago. I'm fine, feel I'm already over the worst of it.

[dahamsta]

Kids school is littered with it. Went to see Dara O'Briain in the Opera House last week with two friends, one of them tested positive over the weekend despite all three of us doing our level best to keep our distance from people.

[the 12 th man]

Dodged the lurgy for over 2 years,went to a wedding in Dublin about 3 weeks ago,about 80-90 aprox out of 100 at the wedding caught it (including me and my extended family who were all covid free for the 2 years as well)

[passinginterest]

Still dodging it for now although a few close calls recently. Niece tested positive the day after wife was a close contact, despite living with four other people, and her grandparents and my wife visiting the day before, none of the close contacts got it. It wasn't a false positive either, because she tested positive a number of times after. She got a pretty bad dose and missed her confirmation. Seems to be at the level of bad cold/average flu for most now, with a lot a fatigue being the main symptom. It seems to be completely rampant in the community at the moment. I got my 4th vaccine dose a while back because I'm still considered immunocompromised, hoping to be able to look back in years to come and say I dodged the virus during the great pandemic!

[seanfhear]

It’s everywhere at the moment. And considering that this is a mild strain then hopefully everyone will develop natural immunity.

[tetsujin1979]

during my own isolation, I tried to come up with a lockdown anthem
Eventually settled on this underrated 90's classic
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[Real ale Madrid]

It’s everywhere at the moment. And considering that this is a mild strain then hopefully everyone will develop natural immunity.

Still can't quite believe over two years into this and thousands of people being infected numerous times that natural immunity is even a thing.

Six of us in this house, 4 have it now - 1 had it in Jan, so just myself left standing. I've convinced myself now that I'm so ugly that I can't even get COVID!

[SkStu]

Still can't quite believe over two years into this and thousands of people being infected numerous times that natural immunity is even a thing.

Six of us in this house, 4 have it now - 1 had it in Jan, so just myself left standing. I've convinced myself now that I'm so ugly that I can't even get COVID!

I have good news for you (and myself) RAM. It's actually the opposite. :) ;)

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/individuals-considered-physically-attractive-may-boast-stronger-immune-systems

[Real ale Madrid]

I have good news for you (and myself) RAM. It's actually the opposite. :) ;)

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/individuals-considered-physically-attractive-may-boast-stronger-immune-systems

Stu we clashed on this site before re. source info so I'm really pleased to see you've come a long way in that regard. This article looks impeccable :)

[tetsujin1979]

Started posting the same COVID updates from Twitter to mastodon: https://mastodon.ie/@COVID19IECharts

Tried posting a link on Twitter and wasn't able to - mastodon links appear to be banned because Musk is a little b!tch

[dahamsta]

They are indeed. I deleted all of my accounts the day Musk took over.

[NeverFeltBetter]

The local Centra is taking down their till screens today, which seems staggeringly unwise given the time of year.

Not a hint of COVID in Qatar I note, suspiciously absent despite the millions passing through. A lot of "Doha flu" though as I've seen some journalists dub it.

[tetsujin1979]

My sister in law tested positive this morning, her husband has had it for a week, and two more friends have tested positive in the last fortnight.

[tetsujin1979]

Started posting the same COVID updates from Twitter to mastodon: https://mastodon.ie/@COVID19IECharts

Tried posting a link on Twitter and wasn't able to - mastodon links appear to be banned because Musk is a little b!tch

And now posting mastodon links is allowed on twitter. along with all the other previously banned sites. Musk is still a b!tch.

[dahamsta]

He's resigning as CEO too, after his latest pathetic poll. You know, just as soon as he can find someone suitable from his list of candidates that has attributes remarkably similar to his own. It's a very short list, I hear.

[tetsujin1979]

He's resigning as CEO too, after his latest pathetic poll. You know, just as soon as he can find someone suitable from his list of candidates that has attributes remarkably similar to his own. It's a very short list, I hear.
I believe this is the favourite
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