Reply With QuoteAs it's the football board I'll say Cardiff City hasn't come out of it too well.Originally Posted by North Cardiff Blue
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It seems longer to me, and it's taken its toll, but it looks like we've come through the other side thank God!
As it's the football board I'll say Cardiff City hasn't come out of it too well.
Good point, it's been a disaster for football, especially below the Premier League, we've done particularly bad, more down to Tan appointing the wrong Managers than Covid though!
Nonfootball related, but people's mental health has suffered tremendously too, Steve Baker on Preston saying he has suffered due to Brexit, I would say also Covid along with everyone else.
Move it to the nonfootball if you like, but not much Cardiff City news today.
Seems less than three years ago to me - although, reading the other board, it seems Covid never existed in the first place.
I don't really use the other board but just had a look, it's looney tunes over there, but Covid measures were always a massive overreaction, I'm just so glad it's now completely ignored.
Funnily enough, a trip to see the Reading game with a mate of mine resulted in us both catching Covid. It was very unpleasant and, while I'm now clear, it's lingering on.
Since I discovered I had it last Tuesday, I reckon I've heard of around 20 others who have it, and that others I know know of others again who have it. That's not considering others who have had colds and don't test any more.
It's still out there.
Not heard anyone I know mention it for a while….my mother caught in in llandough hospital over xmas, she didn’t even know she had it but tested positive…..she is 89. No doubt Drakeford is still banging on about variants mind?
Depends what your pespective is really, as coming out of it
Many will have;
Lost loved ones
Lost family
Lost friends
Lost relationships
Lost Jobs
Lost health
Lost their businesses
Lost their homes
Lost their confidence
been close to death
been dehumanized
suffered breakdowns
IMHO, it will be a very long time before some begin to recover.
Learned new words;
Epidemiologist
Furlough
So is the cold so is the flu. So what it's just another illness which will always be there
By far the worst thing to happen to our society, and me personally, in a long long time, and I was lucky to not know anyone who was taken early as a result of it.
The long term impacts will be with us for many years in the future. Everything definitely seems to be viewed in a 'pre covid' and 'post covid' world now and I cannot think of anything that is for the better.
A few I know seem to have lost the will to socialise whereas pre covid they were quite active….
Sounds like you could have had a very nasty variant of influenza, then again you could have had a nasty variant of Covid , from what I’ve experienced they are very similar.
My mothers got Covid now (76) and is asymptomatic.
It might be "over" in your backyard but many places in the world are still taking precautions. It's not over, never will be
Nope, I said with certainty that I had COVID due to me testing positive for it.
I think it's a bit more of a problem than the common cold.
[QUOTE=Eric the Half a Bee;5397665]Nope, I said with certainty that I had COVID due to me testing positive for it.[/QUOTE
Thank god you took the test then just to be sure , as imagine if you didn’t.
Not thanking him, he planned the whole thing.
[QUOTE=TWGL1;5397671]Indeed. I didn't leave the house until I tested positive. Thankfully that was only 5 days later and 4 were spent in bed.
I was stuck in Uganda for over two years with quite a lot of restrictions - including for large periods of being unable to drive as the govt didn't want people taking COVID to parts of the country where they couldn't cope due to limited health systems.
Early in the pandemic and before the vaccine, I did lose quite a few colleagues and friends - hospitals in Uganda were overrun and COVID killed a great many people. They had some health issues before COVID hit them - RIP Stella Ogwong, James Kaboggoza and Frank Masiko.
Some batshit crazy evangelical churches adopted the conspiracy theory that Bill Gates was using the vaccine to control
everyone and denied COVID existed, all the while people were dropping dead. Some of those 'pastors' are no longer with us (still too many though), but conspiracy theories remain - bizarrely David Icke is popular in Uganda.
Personally, I was very lucky as everyday I would walk (6k) to meet my daughter and we would head to a sports club which I was/am a member and, although officially closed, had a skeleton staff to maintain the place and they allowed me in. I would work from there, use the small gym, play tennis and swim with my daughter. I would buy food for the staff there. Restaurants were closed for sit down meals but you could order a delivery and 'boda boda' drivers (motorbike taxis) would deliver food. That time spent with my daughter (who was 12 and 13 at the time) was really precious.
I suppose everyone has their own COVID lockdown story and I hope people share them. It was a strange strange time.
We’ve got more people off work with Covid right now than at any previous time (since it started)
Thanks for sharing your unique experience. It certainly was a strange time. I don’t think people are anywhere near being over it emotionally, in fact I think PTSD is rife. We underestimate the negative impact of Covid on people’s mental health at our peril.
Good post Heathblue, it certainly took its toll and is something we will remember for the rest of our lives.
When I look at that list I feel very lucky, as I came through it pretty much unscathed other than the loss of liberty during the lockdowns and the long-lasting financial effects on the World economies.
I've been very fortunate in the sense that it hasn't impacted me in the slightest.
My life is marginally better in the sense WFH is common practice and would have never have happened otherwise.
Mercifully I didn’t lose anyone close to me and apart from catching the virus early doors and getting pretty sick, although thankfully not hospitalised, I had a “good pandemic” to borrow/alter a phrase.
I was able to work throughout without missing a beat, save ill health. Since then working arrangements have become more flexible and favourable.
I find I often look back fondly on the first period of lockdown (even the subsequent ones). Which sounds strange to say but I do, there was something about the change of pace of life that I enjoyed appreciating that it wouldn’t be forever. I got to exercise more, spend more time with my partner and my hobbies that weren’t affected by restrictions.
Yes, not seeing loved ones as regularly was difficult at times but it wasn’t anywhere near as difficult as I thought it would be for me personally. I would say I managed to still lead as full a life as possible given the obvious. But I appreciate I was very fortunate and perhaps have a temperament that helped cope with less socialising.
It was a surreal and often scary time but from my own personal position there were positives, if I can call them that.
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