Im currently suffering from covid after being fully vaccinated. Wouldnt wish covid on anyone.Even with being double jabbed i have felt awfull. No taste or smell at all. Was just going to get my booster before i caught it bit now have to wait 28 days. Imo get all jabs offered to you!!

Don’t know if anyone remembers the film they played on the big screen at the first match back at the DW….I was struck at the number of fans who’d lost their lives to Covid.
I know we are in a difference space now, what with the vaccine programme. But our attitude of being blasé about having 25k+ cases for so long has been wrong, scientist were warning at the time this was the petri dish for mutations.
Anyway its now a numbers game with x% of those that get covid needing hospitalisation, even if they don’t die, the NHS may be overwhelmed.
What happened to the ‘Nightingale’ hospitals? Surely it time to get them ready again?

I don’t think the ‘I’m bored with all this…..pretend it isn’t happening’ policy is the right one. Its seems the Government is ting its pants and realising itself….
Have a good, safe Christmas. Choose to take precautions, or cross your fingers….whatever method you’ve chosen.

My Christmas wish is that it doesn’t impact too much on the new season.

per FT...
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"Health secretary Sajid Javid sent shockwaves through parliament on Monday when he revealed that an estimated 200,000 people in the UK had been infected with the Omicron coronavirus variant that day.

If Omicron infections continue to double every 2.5 days, as current estimates suggest, there will be a million people infected this coming Sunday alone."

Million infections on Sunday and another 6 days to Christmas.....it's beginning to look a lot like...... a dystopian horror film

All 4 of us here have it. Me and my sone are out of isolation on Christmas Eve and my wife and daughter are out of isolation on Christmas Day. we were cutting it fine.
None of us have been really bad at all. I've had worse colds.

I’ve also had COVID and it wasn’t pleasant but neither was actual flu when I had that. In fact I’d argue the flu was far, far worse. I appreciate though that that is subjective. Sincerely hope you feel better soon pal.

My issue here is that a week or so ago the newspapers had headlines like “100,000 could die from Omicron”. There’s been 1 death. Now as sad as that is and I’m not wishing to dumb down the impact that’ll have on all who knew that person, it’s 1 death. There’s 15 hospitalisations from Omicron - how many is there year in year with flu? I almost sound like a conspirator here and trust me that’s not what I am but seriously what are we panicking about? It’s all ‘ifs, coulds, mights’ when the facts are clear; omicron is mild, hasn’t caused a surge in hospitalisations or killed nearly as many as the media scare mongered people into believing it had.

Couldn't agree more tbh.

1 death so far is irrelevant. They’ve already said it takes a while for the deaths to show because it takes longer for serious illness to develop and then the unfortunate happen. Same with hospitalisation but to a lesser extent.

You need to educate yourself a bit more.

Will come back to this post in a few weeks and ask if you admit you were wrong.

Spot on. Same as you, double jabbed but aint getting the booster. Can't be that bad ifnthe powers that be are having parties whilst we can't have parents round for Christmas dinner. Seems funny the peak day of infections will land on Christmad day, just in time eh? So people will either be scared into getting the booster or not seeing people. Well the Gov and covid and fork right off.

I'm hoping the club don't bring in the vaccine passports, this will all blow over by the seasons start.

My husband had Covid a few weeks back,rough for a couple of days and it did seem to take him awhile for it to fully go but he said the same thing he got dose of flu a couple of Christmas ago and he said that was far worse than Covid,but everyone is different of course

200,000 with omicron, but only 10 in hospital with it and 1 death. Look at the odds and stats, forget what the government say and make your own mind up. In the Delta wave out of 1000 people with it 100 needed hospital treatment, with Omicron out of 1000 with it 38 need hospital treatment, and not ICU treatment just oxygen. Over the years of doing medical gasses for Lancashire Teaching Hospitals where we had wards with flu every year its similar to that yet we carried on, albeit with infection control procedures in those wards with flu.

Either way, whilst everyone stops going out, stops seeing friends or relatives (who they may never see again due to death from illness or suicide) and lives miserable lonely scared lives the people that are making these rules and spreading the fear will be partying, socialising, eating out and laughing at you.

Have you been told of its Delta or Omicron? Do they give you that information?