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The lateral flow test positivity depends on viral load, which declines gradually. My wife tested negative today, 10 days after first positive. But risk of transmission declines sooner, and is usually negligible after 5-7 days. I hope to be fit for Pub and BEER come the weekend. Jerry

The other odd thing was the lateral flow test. The second "covid" line doesn't just disappear overnight, it gradually fades over a period of about 7 days. I was testing myself daily to see whether or not I was fit to return for my two days a week in the office, or just continue working from home full time. In the end I went back after 4 weeks, even though I felt a lot better after about 10 days. I agree with you about Nicola Sturgeon. She obviously just forgot in the immediacy of the moment, and then remembered. Human error.

I agree, if it follows the typical course for highly mutating new viruses, though there is always the possibility of a more deadly variant along the way. What has really hit me with this illness over the last two days is the near total inability to breathe through my nose, as Mike experienced. The aches and squits haven’t helped!🤢 Like Blake, I am reasonably slim and fit for my age, bar the asthma/COPD, I dread to think how I’d have felt if not fully vaccinated. I see Nicola has had her words from the police, and apologised. Accepting that apology and moving on would be a reasonable public response, and I hope it happens despite me having no fondness for her policies (and despite having a good entitlement to a Scottish passport should one eventually become available…… if the whole UK gets to vote and kicks them out). Jerry

Covid will be a no problem in about 3 years or so it is becomeing milder and less deadly quite quickly , not that you could never be harmed with it now but it's becomeing less and less bother some . There could easy be another virus hideing around the corner quite soon maybe in my lifetime , I hope lessons are learned from it .

Eurgh....came back from Brussels in early november. Tested negative...yeah right.... holy crap....I told Erica that I was going to sleep again ( 4 days by then without going downstairs) and if I felt even _slightly_ worse when I woke up she was going to be calling someone.... REALLY not funny...never had chest problems like that before. I'm slim and fit for my age, and it hit me real hard. Lost a mate last month- big time anti vaxer - overweight idiot and sure enough, yet another covid hospital bed and death.... Keep going Jerry!!

In the situation we were in at the time, mistakes were inevitable. If Labour had been in power there would have been other errors and cause for criticism - may not have been the same ones, but they would have cropped up for sure. The government's opponents will only highlight faults - that's their job. But if you look at everything in the round, they actually made a reasonable fist of getting us through what was always totally uncharted territory. You have my sympathy Jerry. I had it in January. The worst symptom was the horribly blocked nose, and throbbing head every time I stood up. Awful sensation. That plus a feeling of tiredness for a few days at the start, but not being able to sleep properly because of discomfort.

Hmmm..yeah---I'm gambling-- just put out all my big tropical stuff, and took the straw cage off my Musa Basjoo clump. Last year was that very very dry April, which stuffed the woodland seed sowing I did...£70 worth of nothing....!

Oh, and I’m poxed up to my eyeballs with COVID at the moment, thanks to my wife - oh delete that, I’d better blame the grandchildren. So the above post may be infectious, handle with care. This isn’t nice, despite the vaccine. Jerry

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