Not personally, haven’t had the pleasure, but that is not at all an uncommon symptom. A runner friend of mine took ~18 months to see his resting heart rate back to where it was in January 2020 (got covid October 2020), and his Vo2-max is still 10 points below where it was.
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Should have gone to Manchester. No FFP there.
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Similar thing happened to a friend of mine on a flight recently. Her flight was in the air when it was announced the TSA mask mandate was overturned in the courts (by an unqualified political hack of a judge) and so the rules were changed literally midflight with a big celebration. Imagine being a person on that flight?
This is why mandates are so important and “making your own decision for what is right for you” doesn’t work (even ignoring that public health is not about personal choice) - people struggle to reconcile that the lifting of a mandate does not necessarily mean it has changed the risk profile of not masking.
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It’s an aberration indeed. Then again, the risk profile in Italy, compared with Switzerland, is as a matter of fact higher. If you get an illness in Italy, you’ll have no guarantee at all to be immediately treated. A 70-years old friend of mine in Rome got covid at the end of last year. He had to be hospitalised, but spent the 48 first hours in a corridor of an emergency service, without seeing a proper doctor. Then, as he was really really ill, he finally got a room, got isolated, and spent the next two-three months there, with a severe form of broncho-pneumonia which wouldn’t go away for a long time. Luckily, he made it in the end and is now out (went to see him recently and was glad to be able to do so, it was a close shave for him).
In Switzerland, this kind of situation is unthinkable. He would have been immediately taken in charge, properly isolated and treated. Even during the height of the pandemics.
In Italy, you risk your life if you have an illness which forces you to go to hospital. It’s a fact, and even more so since covid arrived. So, they have no choice but to enforce stronger anti-covid measures and I understand that. But on the other hand, the current situation is a result of decades of successive far right governments ruthlessly dismantling the health system in this country. They are paying this now, very dearly.
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Seemed something one in four or five wearing masks. 1,600 people died over the last month. Nobody gives a fuck.
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I will be in London in July with the missus on a two day stop on the way to Anerystwyth for a holiday. Sure as hell we will wear a mask on the Tube.
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Nope. Under the carpet and in the past now.
I’ll admit I’ve lapsed a bit so thanks for the little shake up.
I was rather shocked to realize the current rate of covid deaths in the UK just a week or so ago.
Seems like the worst of the symptoms have passed so took another test this morning. It turned positive in the time it took me to turn around and pour a coffee 
Based on that viral load trajectory looks like Im still going to be isolating for another 4-5 days regardless of symptoms.
You coping ok?
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Physically its been rough and put me a big hole for work. in the grand scheme of things though that isnt the worst outcome, and hopefully am through the worst of it. I’m going to have to miss some social commitments this weekend, and cannot even have my partner come over to keep me company so may as well take that time to catch up with the work Ive missed.
When Im not being bombarded by emails and having to participate in meetings I actually enjoy most of my work, so fingers crossed it wont be that bad.
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Hardly anyone wearing a mask in London now on public transport.
Chin up…take care…
Thought I was getting through the post Covid thingy. No funny turns for a week. Yesterday, boom hit with it again.
Oh come on already!
Saw something the other day that Bill Gates, he of the nano bots was predicting a far more infectious and deadlier variant. He rated the probability above 5%.
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Saw an interesting discussion yesterday about the phenomenon of rebound infection in people taking Plaxlovid in which the infection initially appears to be treated with symptoms abating the participant returning negative tests, but then shortly after ceasing treatment returning back to symptomatically positive
The most likely scenario is inadvertent down regulation of the immune system giving an opportunity for viral reemergence in the days after treatment stops. This may require higher or, more likely, longer dosing. Very preliminary, but something to keep in mind if you or anyone you know ends up having to take it.
Me, I returned my first negative test yesterday (really a borderline negative), but it’s a new test I’ve never used before so still treating it as positive and will test again this afternoon and hope for a negative. All my acute symptoms have gone and Im not just left with a chesty cough which seems like the attempt to shift all the gunk that was built up to fight the primary infection.
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If you look back a short distance in this thread you’ll note that I was given an antibody treatment. @Limiescouse rightly queried whether I’d been given a test to confirm the variant etc.
Guess what turned today? Useless now given that I don’t have symptoms unless they want a back check.
Got to love private firm efficiency. Another box ticked for payment.