Lockdown diaries - COVID-19 matters!
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So off i go to put in my wife's four weekly prescription. Up to the doctors to post through their post box as although it's a doctors they don't actually let sick people in never mind people just with prescriptions to be approved after all people could have Covid and doctors are for healthy people, those blagging it to get a paid week off work, again!
Then after sanitizing my hands in to the almost empty town monitoring whether the street is empty enough so it's safe to take my mask off for a bit which is almost causing death through my struggling to breath! Four shops to visit including the supermarket that's a lot of social distancing queuing waiting to pay despite the shops almost being empty and a lot of sanitizer, i will be a while! Oh wait! on my way back i need to pop into the garage to put some electric on our electric key, s**t their Indian, no wait that's like saying wait the girl behind the till is from Kent, will mask double up and use extra sanitizer as a precaution! I might be back!
Then after sanitizing my hands in to the almost empty town monitoring whether the street is empty enough so it's safe to take my mask off for a bit which is almost causing death through my struggling to breath! Four shops to visit including the supermarket that's a lot of social distancing queuing waiting to pay despite the shops almost being empty and a lot of sanitizer, i will be a while! Oh wait! on my way back i need to pop into the garage to put some electric on our electric key, s**t their Indian, no wait that's like saying wait the girl behind the till is from Kent, will mask double up and use extra sanitizer as a precaution! I might be back!
Last year when I went to the GP for my annual flu vaccination, no-one was allowed to even enter the property (her consulting rooms are a house). Everyone had to wait in their cars, parked outside. When it was your turn, you stood on the pavement and the paramedic vaccinated you.
This year we're a bit closer to the real deal. Now we're allowed to enter the premises and announce ourselves at Reception, but only one person at a time is allowed to sit in the waiting room. For the rest, there are a few chairs outside the entrance. Right outside, with very little distance between the chairs. Anyone arriving has to walk past those sitting down. But - everyone is happy because it looks as though the right steps are being taken. Appearances are important.
Speaking of annual flu vaccinations ... I get one every year and I've never been ill or had any side-effects thereafter. However, this year I felt very flu-ish two days thereafter, as did my brother (who has also never had any side-effects). And to be honest, ever since then I felt a bit flu-ish and it's been 2 weeks now.
Has anyone else experienced this, this year?
This year we're a bit closer to the real deal. Now we're allowed to enter the premises and announce ourselves at Reception, but only one person at a time is allowed to sit in the waiting room. For the rest, there are a few chairs outside the entrance. Right outside, with very little distance between the chairs. Anyone arriving has to walk past those sitting down. But - everyone is happy because it looks as though the right steps are being taken. Appearances are important.
Speaking of annual flu vaccinations ... I get one every year and I've never been ill or had any side-effects thereafter. However, this year I felt very flu-ish two days thereafter, as did my brother (who has also never had any side-effects). And to be honest, ever since then I felt a bit flu-ish and it's been 2 weeks now.
Has anyone else experienced this, this year?
hi @Hooked
I am lucky in that I have very seldom gotten flu
Maybe two times in the last 15 yrs
I don’t take flu vaccine and never have
but since Covid I’ve felt a bit fluey about 3 times. It’s been in the last 6 months or so. I’ve spoken to a friend of mine who works at NICD and she reminded me that all the social distancing and locking ourselves up at home much of the time has reduced our general immune system. So that is probably the reason why I’ve gotten a bit fluey after a year of social distancing. We actually need to be exposed to smaller germs and viruses to keep our immune systems stronger.
The other reason is that for the first year my exercise routine went downhill. Didn’t go to the gym for my regular spin and weights workouts and didn’t play tennis or do any swimming. As a result my system is low and my immunity is also low.
Am trying to slowly build up the exercise routines with outdoor brisk walking and home strength workouts.
not easy and I think it will take me a while to get back to where I was pre-Covid
I had mild symptoms after my flu shot for a day or so, nothing serious.
The flu vaccine formula is designed every year based on the most common strains isolated in the previous season. You may have encountered a new strain for the first time against which your immune system overreacted… or did they include the bloody microchip in this year’s vaccine?!
This year was the first year I took the flu jab after I was down for the count in February because of flu. Had no side effects. Not even a sensitive arm.
But I do handle a lot of the NICD viral watch samples so I might have some exposure to a good few flu strains in the past.
But I do handle a lot of the NICD viral watch samples so I might have some exposure to a good few flu strains in the past.
I had mild symptoms after my flu shot for a day or so, nothing serious.
The flu vaccine formula is designed every year based on the most common strains isolated in the previous season. You may have encountered a new strain for the first time against which your immune system overreacted… or did they include the bloody microchip in this year’s vaccine?!
How it works at our doctors is you ring up for an appointment only to be told you have to fill out an online request, the only 2 times over the last year we did this (after these 2 attempts gave up and suffered) we got a call back from the surgery which was a receptionist not even a doctor telling us to just visit a chemist with symptoms, it's basically impossible to actually get to see a doctor they just don't seem to want to risk meeting ill people but no doubt happily take their pay.
But because i need to go to the doctors to hand in (use to be hand in now because of Covid just put in their post box) my wifes repeat prescription i see that for those that do have an appointment (rarely anybody actually there because as explained getting an appointment is virtually impossible), they buzz the intercom and wait for an answer, if they have got an appointment a receptionist looking like a forensic scientist OTT on the PPE equipment if they are trying to keep the public calm, great job! unlocks the door armed with one of those modern temperature gauges which i almost mistook for a taser. If the taser says the patient hasn't got Covid they are let in for their appointment and the receptionist locks up again as if her life depended on it! Our doctors surgeries are not the same places they were pre-covid you don't actually have people inside waiting for appointments and people can't just walk in!
When picking up prescriptions from the chemist you have to queue at least 2 metres apart masked up and only one person is allowed in at a time so you can imagine how the air turns Blue if in front you get a chatterbox who thinks their visit to the chemist includes a good old chin wag when inside (just get your prescription and f**k off), i have other things to do rather than waiting for you talking about the weather and what's happening in the latest soaps!)!
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Whew! COVID is really bad over there. Even chemists have symptoms!
A Covid-19 outbreak at a major Chinese port is worsening the global shipping crisis
https://www.businessinsider.co.za/s...s-thanksgiving-orders-covid-suez-canal-2021-6
14 June 2021
"... A recent coronavirus outbreak in the province of Guangdong, South China, prompted authorities to introduce strict Covid-19 measures, causing congestion at four major ports, Reuters reported on Friday...
The new Chinese port restrictions, which include disinfection checks and limits on the vessel numbers, have triggered a backlog in shipments in ports including Yantian, Shekou, Chiwan, and Nansha.
Yantian, "one of the biggest ports in China, has basically closed down for close to three weeks," Nils Haupt, communications director at the German shipping firm Hapag-Lloyd, told the BBC on Sunday. "They have some berths in operation, but nowhere near enough." ...
James Baker, container shipping editor at shipping industry publication, Lloyd's List, told the BBC that retailers are already putting in orders for the holiday season because they know how slow shipping is at the moment. He said this is leading to more congestion.
Baker told the BBC he expects shipping delays to last for at least another year...
More than 50 container ships were waiting to dock in the Outer Pearl River Delta as of Friday, compared to 20 ships in the same period last year, according to Refinitiv data cited by Reuters. This was also more than in February 2020, when coronavirus stopped China's shipping business, according to the data..."
https://www.businessinsider.co.za/s...s-thanksgiving-orders-covid-suez-canal-2021-6
14 June 2021
"... A recent coronavirus outbreak in the province of Guangdong, South China, prompted authorities to introduce strict Covid-19 measures, causing congestion at four major ports, Reuters reported on Friday...
The new Chinese port restrictions, which include disinfection checks and limits on the vessel numbers, have triggered a backlog in shipments in ports including Yantian, Shekou, Chiwan, and Nansha.
Yantian, "one of the biggest ports in China, has basically closed down for close to three weeks," Nils Haupt, communications director at the German shipping firm Hapag-Lloyd, told the BBC on Sunday. "They have some berths in operation, but nowhere near enough." ...
James Baker, container shipping editor at shipping industry publication, Lloyd's List, told the BBC that retailers are already putting in orders for the holiday season because they know how slow shipping is at the moment. He said this is leading to more congestion.
Baker told the BBC he expects shipping delays to last for at least another year...
More than 50 container ships were waiting to dock in the Outer Pearl River Delta as of Friday, compared to 20 ships in the same period last year, according to Refinitiv data cited by Reuters. This was also more than in February 2020, when coronavirus stopped China's shipping business, according to the data..."
My uncle passed away on Monday night. Fro the side of the family we are not realy close with but still sad there is a family member we will never see again.
He was also a Covid non-believer. Listened to all the conspiracies and misinformation you find everywhere. Hence mask wearing was at a minimum and even though he qualified for the jab he had no intention of getting it.
And here is the sad part. His wife had cancer treatmenta few years back and in some way it affected her mind. She is mourning her spouse alone and she doesn't know why. And nobody can go comfort her because it is suspected she also got Covid.
I really hope these people thats spreading all the bullshit know the damage they are really causing.
He was also a Covid non-believer. Listened to all the conspiracies and misinformation you find everywhere. Hence mask wearing was at a minimum and even though he qualified for the jab he had no intention of getting it.
And here is the sad part. His wife had cancer treatmenta few years back and in some way it affected her mind. She is mourning her spouse alone and she doesn't know why. And nobody can go comfort her because it is suspected she also got Covid.
I really hope these people thats spreading all the bullshit know the damage they are really causing.
Sorry for your loss...
I’m sorry for your loss @Adephi but this sentence sums it up completely.
the amount of misinformation people spread is so dangerous!!
Any loss is a sad affair, so sorry for yours @Adephi !!!
Wish I can convince my almost 74 year old dad to take the vaccine, but to change the mind of an ex cop that fought in a war in Rhodesia and that has seen more hardship in life than most people has is not as easy as one would think. He had a full life up to now, was not all bad for him and he is now a happy camper that follows the sun all through the year and only spends 3 months at home to take stock and plan his next holiday with my mom. He is a man that takes his research serious, yet he cannot see the benefit of taking the vaccine... I will keep on trying... something will sink in eventually...
Wish I can convince my almost 74 year old dad to take the vaccine, but to change the mind of an ex cop that fought in a war in Rhodesia and that has seen more hardship in life than most people has is not as easy as one would think. He had a full life up to now, was not all bad for him and he is now a happy camper that follows the sun all through the year and only spends 3 months at home to take stock and plan his next holiday with my mom. He is a man that takes his research serious, yet he cannot see the benefit of taking the vaccine... I will keep on trying... something will sink in eventually...
So many of the ‘older’ military types - not a great deal older than me! - are exactly the same. Not forgetting that one of the first things everyone does in the military is stand in a long line getting multiple vaccinations and laughing at the big guys passing out.
But there’s no way to talk sense about COVID to a group of veterans.
It's really a disgrace what's happening (or not happening) at Charlotte Maxeke. 25% of Gauteng's bedspace out of commission due to firedoors. Those doors would have been in place on Monday already if they allowed a charity to provide it.
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