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17 minutes ago, oaksoft said:

What on earth are you going on about?

Are you seriously suggesting post-viral syndrome isn't a physical thing?

If you are, you clearly don't know what you are talking about.

Have I misunderstood you?

Of course not, i've been saying "Long Covid" is just Post-Viral Fatigue Syndrome for about a year.

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35 minutes ago, oaksoft said:

That story is absolutely mental.

The woman considered suicide because she was so afraid of dying?????

Honestly, how do people get into that sort of state where they can't even think straight?

You just need to look at the headlines in the press , take them to heart and voila instant depression 😞

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19 hours ago, Benidorm said:

I got the astra zeneca this morning. I'm 29 going on 30 in a month and quite physically fit I'd say,  no underlying health issues but work in Health Care although not directly front line sometimes go into hospital wards and care homes. Do some sort of exercise most nights. When I arrived they gave me the choice of waiting for an alternative vaccine given the side effects of the astra zeneca and my age/physical health. I decided just to take the plunge and get it. Since about 2pm I've felt like I'm riddled with the flu, shakes, shivers, bit of a headache, worst I've felt in years although I don't generally get too unwell, though I'm not letting it bother me too much. Paracetamol has been managing the worst of it just about. We'll see what the next few days brings. I still plan to go to work in the morning unless I'm dying more or less. Rest, lucozade and paracetamol will do the job I reckon. Cool story bro.

Let's hope so...

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10 minutes ago, NorthernLights said:

I've noticed this guy brown nosing and defending Devi a lot whenever anyone questions her opinion or views.

 

Unfortunately think it’s down to Scotland’s current political climate Being as polarised as it is now that you get folk like this . Even if someone is a total idiot they will have people defending them to the hilt as they are on “their side” . Some just don’t have it in them to be any form of critical to anyone on their side or whatever even when it is well deserved. 

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I pay zero attention to any of the 'breaking news' variant stuff you see online now.  It's all utter shite made up by journalists terrified of this being over soon and them having to report on actual news.

As long as the hospital numbers keep falling, that's good enough for me.

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4 minutes ago, Forever_blueco said:

Unfortunately think it’s down to Scotland’s current political climate Being as polarised as it is now that you get folk like this . Even if someone is a total idiot they will have people defending them to the hilt as they are on “their side” . Some just don’t have it in them to be any form of critical to anyone on their side or whatever even when it is well deserved. 

It's just very strange behaviour to white knight a scientific adviser, likely one you had never heard of 14 months ago, to the point you flat out deny things they have actually said to give the impression they are flawless.

What a world 😂

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2 hours ago, oaksoft said:

What on earth are you going on about?

Are you seriously suggesting post-viral syndrome isn't a physical thing?

If you are, you clearly don't know what you are talking about.

Have I misunderstood you?

How many people cited as suffering from 'long Covid' have consulted a specialist and been diagnosed?

The ONS data that Monbiot and the like treat as Gospel is an entirely unverified, self-reporting survey. You can respond yes to the question of 'long Covid' without having ever tested positive or had symptoms. 

There is unquestionably a significant overlap then between people who are genuinely struggling to recover from viral illness (not to mention the process of intensive care itself) and hypochondriacs who definitely reckon they got Covid in Angus in November 2019 and now think 'feeling a bit shite' in a lockdown winter is a genuine illness. And media coverage absolutely replicates that self-reporting. 

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I have a mate who claims to suffer from long covid because he's tired all the time lately. In this year so far he's laid a large 2 tier decking in his garden, painted the outside of his house, built a shed with a bar in it and refurbished an old pool table on top of working a full time job with its fair share of manual labour.

But it's definitely the covid that's done him in.

 

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13 minutes ago, GiGi said:

I have a mate who claims to suffer from long covid because he's tired all the time lately. In this year so far he's laid a large 2 tier decking in his garden, painted the outside of his house, built a shed with a bar in it and refurbished an old pool table on top of working a full time job with its fair share of manual labour.

But it's definitely the covid that's done him in.

So debilitating. Must be horrible 🙏🏻

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2 hours ago, Ginaro said:

First time actually listening to her, wish I'd kept it on mute.

Devi says the way to avoid lockdowns is to keep your case numbers low enough. Well sure, but in the previous sentence you were just talking about full hospitals and ICUs forcing lockdowns. If you have a vaccine which stops most cases becoming hospitalisations/going into ICU then you can have higher cases numbers without a lockdown...

And of course, when you avoid lockdown, case numbers rise, especially in winter...

How do people like her get in their position?

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On 15/04/2021 at 16:31, Todd_is_God said:

She's not a virologist or epidemiologist

What's your definition of epidemiology? Her research involves study of patterns of disease and influence of interventions in populations, which is pretty much the definition of what an epidemiologist does.

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