Coronavirus not very megathread.

[Nimrod]

Flew home from Dominican Republic on the weekend. Nobody asked to see my vaccine certificate upon arrival - the unvaccinated are supposed to take a PCR test before boarding and to isolate upon arrival. Nobody in Heathrow mentioned any of those things.

Covid is over, here. Fully over.

We now have a new boogeyman......WW3. Well, on paper. There always has to be something to fear, otherwise people get too happy and they can't be having that.

On another note, my fractured arm turns out to actually be a fractured shoulder that potentially needs surgery.

Yeah my mate that just got back from Iraq just echoed this .. pcr test etc . Hasn't done it . No follow up etc.. knowby is bothered as long as you pay the money ..

 

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Flew home from Dominican Republic on the weekend. Nobody asked to see my vaccine certificate upon arrival - the unvaccinated are supposed to take a PCR test before boarding and to isolate upon arrival. Nobody in Heathrow mentioned any of those things.

Covid is over, here. Fully over.

We now have a new boogeyman......WW3. Well, on paper. There always has to be something to fear, otherwise people get too happy and they can't be having that.

On another note, my fractured arm turns out to actually be a fractured shoulder that potentially needs surgery.

Oh no!!! How did you manage that?!

I got a test to come here and then the UK gov changed the rule overnight that I just had to fill out a bunch of forms to enter the country. I have to do a test tomorrow to fly back Saturday though which is a pain in the butt but so be it.

Did you have fun on holiday? This trip has been a flippin nightmare from start to finish...apart from country pub grub and decent Brit TV.

 

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Yeah my mate that just got back from Iraq just echoed this .. pcr test etc . Hasn't done it . No follow up etc.. knowby is bothered as long as you pay the money ..

The US is stringent about it. Virgin won't let me on the flight without a negative test within 24 hours.

 

[fingercuffs]

...and I had to provide my vaccine card in San Francisco before they let me check in.

 

[Nimrod]

The US is stringent about it. Virgin won't let me on the flight without a negative test within 24 hours.

He's been backwards and forwards in the middle East for 12 months now .. as long as he's been paying the money and doing the first test to fly out of England that's all he has been doing .. all the testing when he gets back hasn't been done and zero follow up. Ouch

 

[The_Renaissance]

Oh no!!! How did you manage that?!

I got a test to come here and then the UK gov changed the rule overnight that I just had to fill out a bunch of forms to enter the country. I have to do a test tomorrow to fly back Saturday though which is a pain in the butt but so be it.

Did you have fun on holiday? This trip has been a flippin nightmare from start to finish...apart from country pub grub and decent Brit TV.

Day 3, I tripped on a pothole and fractured my 'arm'. Refused the hospital's only suggestion - surgery, 25,000 USD at least that I needed to front and claim back from insurance. Fuck off, give me that sling and do one. Thought about flying home but after 2 days of soul searching I got back on the horse and managed to have a cracking further 10 days around the island. Even managed to get laid which further fucked up my arm, haha. Flight home was extremely rough and uncomfortable. Hospital yesterday, turns out its my shoulder thats fractured, not my arm. Potentially need surgery but its 50/50 because its almost 3 weeks old already and has started healing. Meeting a specialist next week who will decide. Holiday was amazing though.

Why a nightmare?

 

[Anewt]

I do find it amusing that the anti-vaxxers are shaking their pom poms about it like it's the second coming of Jesus.
If my doctor suggested it and I was really sick with Covid I wouldn't give it a second thought but it does make me laugh.

Wait. Somehow your take away from this is that anti-vaxxers are talking about ivermectin like a second coming of Jesus?

Not the absurdity of the fact that big pharma, The media and many western governments have been letting people die ?

Not that ivermectin has been spoken about like it's made by Satan himself and making countless false claims and pumping constant misinformation....

Your take away... is its funny anti-vaxxers think it's the second coming of jesus ..... ? Really?

 

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Day 3, I tripped on a pothole and fractured my 'arm'. Refused the hospital's only suggestion - surgery, 25,000 USD at least that I needed to front and claim back from insurance. Fuck off, give me that sling and do one. Thought about flying home but after 2 days of soul searching I got back on the horse and managed to have a cracking further 10 days around the island. Even managed to get laid which further fucked up my arm, haha. Flight home was extremely rough and uncomfortable. Hospital yesterday, turns out its my shoulder thats fractured, not my arm. Potentially need surgery but its 50/50 because its almost 3 weeks old already and has started healing. Meeting a specialist next week who will decide. Holiday was amazing though.

Why a nightmare?

Had a massive falling out with step-dad and stormed off to a hotel for 3nights. We made up and he came for dinner last night and we're okay. I'm just not well enough to travel, I've been ignoring a repetitive tennis injury for over a year so I'm not strong enough with long haul travel then driving for 3 hours...I'll go and get it sorted, hip replacements are pretty straightforward.

Well at least the getting laid injury was a good injury, lol. I'm not planning on leaving this airport hotel till my Covid test tomorrow so the only injury I'll be doing hopefully is battery operated.

 

[fingercuffs]

Wait. Somehow your take away from this is that anti-vaxxers are talking about ivermectin like a second coming of Jesus?

Not the absurdity of the fact that big pharma, The media and many western governments have been letting people die ?

Not that ivermectin has been spoken about like it's made by Satan himself and making countless false claims and pumping constant misinformation....

Your take away... is its funny anti-vaxxers think it's the second coming of jesus ..... ? Really?

Did you read my post or no? I'm easy with the vaccine and I'm easy with the worming tablets if my doc told me I needed it.

Calm your tits.

 

[Scerpi]

I do find it amusing that the anti-vaxxers are shaking their pom poms about it like it's the second coming of Jesus.
If my doctor suggested it and I was really sick with Covid I wouldn't give it a second thought but it does make me laugh.

My issue is the lack of any therapeutics. I was told to go home and take OTC meds and go to the ER if my symptoms got worse. I had heard that before, but it was still crazy to hear for myself when I got Covid... And yes, I got jabbed in May.

Where's the EUA for the Pfizer pill submitted months ago? It was supposed to be a game changer... Crickets.

Doctors have always been allowed to prescribe off label meds as they see fit... It's part of them being a Doctor.

Until Covid came around... Now there's official "meds"... It's insane that some Pharmacies have elected to not fill prescriptions given by doctors. How did this happen? Why does anyone care a Doctor prescribes a med for their patient. It's no one businesses except between them.

 

[fingercuffs]

My issue is the lack of any therapeutics. I was told to go home and take OTC meds and go to the ER if my symptoms got worse. I had heard that before, but it was still crazy to hear for myself when I got Covid... And yes, I got jabbed in May.

Where's the EUA for the Pfizer pill submitted months ago? It was supposed to be a game changer... Crickets.

Doctors have always been allowed to prescribe off label meds as they see fit... It's part of them being a Doctor.

Until Covid came around... Now there's official "meds"... It's insane that some Pharmacies have elected to not fill prescriptions given by doctors. How did this happen? Why does anyone care a Doctor prescribes a med for their patient. It's no one businesses except between them.

I'm happy in a way that after I had an illness I had two doctors who really didn't like each other and this weird quite recently discovered gene PALB2 thing which was still being studied so they were trying to beat each other to the major decision as to whether I needed my breasts removed or not. At the time there was a worry it may lead to ovarian cancer as well as breast and pancreas. It's come to light since that there is a risk of ovarian. My point is, as soon as I asked about the vaccine they were in agreement and not trying to outdo each other and told me to get it immediately because of my medical history.

If one of them told me to get those worming tablets I would do it immediately.

 

[Anewt]

Did you read my post or no? I'm easy with the vaccine and I'm easy with the worming tablets if my doc told me I needed it.

Calm your tits.

My tits are always calm. Yes I read your post. Which is why I responded. I find it odd to find it amusing is all.

 

[Strychnine]

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2789362

@Strychnine meant to reply to you .

Patients who required ventilation
Ivermectin 4... ( 1.4% )
Non ivermectin.. 10 ( 4% )

Patients who died
Ivermectin 3.. ( 1.2% )
Non ivermectin 10. ( 4% )

ICU admissions
Ivermectin 6
Non ivermectin 8

You'll have to read through because the conclusion of the study is that ivermectin doesn't prevent " severe " covid.

I'd love to know the definition of " severe " to them tho. Because it certainly made a difference on deaths and ventilation.

Was a random trial of 500 approx . No deaths due to adverse events. ( 44 adverse events 33 in the ivermectin group.) But bare in mind they used a high risk group for the trials.

Most adverse events were diarrhoea. 5 were considered serious adverse effects. 4 in ivermectin group 1 in control. 2 myocardial issues, 1 anaemia 1 shock. Doesn't say if these occured in vaccinated or unvaccinated individuals.

51% of the trial were double vaccinated.

Among the 13 deaths ( 3 ivermectin 10 control )
9 were deemed covid pneumonia and 4 died from sepsis ( all in control group )


This was a group that was considered high risk for severe covid complications. All up 2.7% death rate for the entire study... 10 who didn't receive ivermectin... 3 who did.

It's clever wording to claim " makes no difference in preventing severe issues ".. when in their own data it's proven it lowers the chance of death and ventilation... ( not severe symptoms somehow)

It's also worth noting

Limitations = from the authors

Our study has limitations. First, the open-label trial design might contribute to the underreporting of adverse events in the control group while overestimating the drug effects of ivermectin..

Thanks for the info. This is the stuff I want to see. Actual research and studies. Let's get more arrows in the quiver so we can get things back to normal.

 

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[fingercuffs]

My tits are always calm. Yes I read your post. Which is why I responded. I find it odd to find it amusing is all.

So you're fine with the vaccine and the worming tablets?


4th Covid test this afternoon, back of the throat for 2 x 10 seconds and 15 seconds up my nostril.

Horrendous. I'll do a home kit when I get home but hope not to ever have to do one again. My gag reflex was put to shame today.

 

[Strychnine]

So you're fine with the vaccine and the worming tablets?


4th Covid test this afternoon, back of the throat for 2 x 10 seconds and 15 seconds up my nostril.

Horrendous. I'll do a home kit when I get home but hope not to ever have to do one again. My gag reflex was put to shame today.

 

[fingercuffs]

Just got a negative test result back

I can go back to he US!!

Thank fuck. This trip has made me realise why I left 12 years ago. I don't dislike British people but it's very far from pleasant in comparison.

 

[Anewt]

So you're fine with the vaccine and the worming tablets?


4th Covid test this afternoon, back of the throat for 2 x 10 seconds and 15 seconds up my nostril.

Horrendous. I'll do a home kit when I get home but hope not to ever have to do one again. My gag reflex was put to shame today.

Yeah whatever people choose to take is not my concern. If ya want the vaccine and boosters go for it. Realistically for me it should always have been up to the individual ( and their Dr who knows your medical history). Not policy-makers

 

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Yeah whatever people choose to take is not my concern. If ya want the vaccine and boosters go for it. Realistically for me it should always have been up to the individual ( and their Dr who knows your medical history). Not policy-makers

I am happy we are in agreement.

 

[Bald1]

This just in: a more transmissible Omicron subvariant is coming for us all! I don't know whether to <Lmaoo>or , but I'm definitely not .