Covid

So true, it hasn’t gone away

Mine has left me with a dry and noisy cough. My nephew is still feeling poorly after having his cancer treatment injection whilst still under the influence of COVID.

Shopped in Lidl, Action and Leclerc yesterday. We were still the only people wearing masks and using the provided hand sanitizer.

Our GP stopped wearing a mask months ago, even though he covers the local hospice and tells me he is seeing Covid all the time.

Friends of ours caught it and they think it was the latest strain.  He was very poorly with it and for some days his throat was so swollen that he could not eat solids.  She had been vaccinated but he had not and she was not as ill as him.  She regularly tested but was proving positive for fifteen days.

After reading all the information about the Omicron variant (incubation period = 3-4 days, symptoms = sore throat, runny nose) and the rapidity with which my nephew and his wife tested positive after I did, I would say that is the variant I contracted. I left the UK on Friday and tested positive on Tuesday. I arrived in Australia on Sunday, and they tested positive on Wednesday.

She, like me, apart from the first day did not feel unwell, we merely had an annoying cough, gungy nose and dry mouth. He was the same until he had his cancer treatment, he then felt very poorly and continued to test positive two weeks later, He was told that cancer patients test positive for longer.

As I have said before, I wore a double mask (changing twice on each leg of the journey the under mask) for the whole of my journey from entering Heathrow airport, during my overnight stay in Singapore, and up to exiting Perth airport, with the exception of when I ate. So I am not sure what that says about mask-wearing and the protection it gives.

I did have my top up vaccination before I went.

I attended the GP yesterday, I wore a mask throughout, despite ther being lots of coughing and sneezing Only one other person wore one. The Doctors did not wear them.

I asked the Doctor she said masks were ineffective against Covid and that it is here to stay and must be accepted as part of normal life.

I have not seen her before but she seemed professional. I think what she is saying is we must carry on as normal and that masks don’t work anyway. There were three other GP’s working, none of whom had masks and they are clearly exposed to all sorts of viruses and germs on a daily basis.

She did say I can have an injection after 15th though by going to the Pharmacy.

Indeed, anything that might help is worth a try.

You cannot be sure you caught it on the aircraft, many more people pass through airports, you have to touch security trays that are in constant use by lots of people, same with baggage trolleys etc.