James Blonde Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 8 minutes ago, wrighty said: It's the standard pattern. As we develop herd immunity severity will be less. Mutations that become dominant also tend to be less virulent. The virus isn't interested in killing people, it just wants to spread. Most effective way of doing that is to cause fewer symptoms so that it is more likely to be passed on. (And before anyone picks me up on viruses not having feelings etc, I do understand Darwinian selection - it's just a figure of speech) I've thought all along that covid will become another common cold. Let's hope Omicron is it. Would it be correct to say that this is covid becoming endemic, as many people expected? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sm-iom Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 Government announce booster online applications now open to my age group. Front page of website confirms. Fill form out, press submit. Automated email rejection, not open to my age group.... 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swoopy2110 Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 27 minutes ago, sm-iom said: Government announce booster online applications now open to my age group. Front page of website confirms. Fill form out, press submit. Automated email rejection, not open to my age group.... Absolutely useless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevster Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 37 minutes ago, sm-iom said: Government announce booster online applications now open to my age group. Front page of website confirms. Fill form out, press submit. Automated email rejection, not open to my age group.... How long ago was your second shot? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thommo2010 Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 1 hour ago, Roger Mexico said: Well there's currently 970 active cases, and since the Island 'opened up' at the end of June, I reckon there have been 10,326 people officially diagnosed with Covid (there were only 1164 up to 20 June). Of course these are just those that got to the PCR stage, so there will be many more undiagnosed or only suspected because of positive LFDs or household contact (they stopped testing these). So it's not surprising people know more sufferers. The hope was that natural immunity would develop to protect those too young to be vaccinated and our high levels of adult vaccination would protect the vulnerable. After 'opening up' there would be a quick outbreak that meant the unvaccinated got 'natural' protection and then Mr Covid would go away. Certainly there was an enormous outbreak in July, mainly among the young. But infection never then dropped below a rate of around 20 a day, there was a second intensification at the end of October, peaking at around 100 per day, and we are currently experiencing a third, post-opening, wave which is already averaging higher than that: Mercifully hospitalisation is low at the moment, but I would expect it to increase following this third wave (as it did with the second). It would be interesting to find out how many people are going for tests because they have symptoms and those that are going because they have started taking LFT and are testing positive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sm-iom Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 6 minutes ago, kevster said: How long ago was your second shot? Nearly 6 months ago. Says open to you if after 3months. Nothing to do with that though, said my age/priority group not yet called. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill1977 Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 https://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/covid-island-heading-in-the-right-direction-says-minister/ Slightly mystical comment considering we have 2 more in hospital (7 in total) and almost 1000 active cases. Surely it would be better to have less cases and nobody in hospital. Cue slating from the herd immunity crew! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramseyboi Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 3 hours ago, Roxanne said: I now know more people with covid than without. I seem to be the only person I’ve know who hasn’t got it. I did my first ever up the nose jobbie (LFT) yesterday and I’m all clear. No-one I know seems to be having it bad though. Headaches and a feeling of malaise in the main. Maybe it’s burning itself out? Does that happen? @wrighty If it’s your first ever test, how do you know you haven’t already had it? They have been encouraging everyone to do tests for months now because people can be wandering around unknowingly passing it to others. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Mexico Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 1 hour ago, sm-iom said: Government announce booster online applications now open to my age group. Front page of website confirms. Fill form out, press submit. Automated email rejection, not open to my age group.... I think it's because they've modified the site to take requests for all stages of vaccination, not just boosters. But according to this Manx Radio piece today, it's "Currently, people over 60 and those who're extremely clinically vulnerable are being invited to book a jab slot online..". Which seems the same as it was last week (groups 1 -7 inclusive). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Phantom Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 8 minutes ago, Ramseyboi said: If it’s your first ever test, how do you know you haven’t already had it? They have been encouraging everyone to do tests for months now because people can be wandering around unknowingly passing it to others. It's becoming apparent that some form of home antibody tests could be pretty handy. Anyone done one/know where they can get them, to tell if you've had it and not realised/thought it was a cold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Mexico Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 3 minutes ago, The Phantom said: It's becoming apparent that some form of home antibody tests could be pretty handy. Anyone done one/know where they can get them, to tell if you've had it and not realised/thought it was a cold. Unless they can develop something very specific, it won't tell you anything because vaccination also produces antibodies. That's why about 93% of the population in the UK have them. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quilp Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 A serology test is required to ascertain whether a person has had covid prior to vaccination. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Phantom Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 2 minutes ago, Roger Mexico said: Unless they can develop something very specific, it won't tell you anything because vaccination also produces antibodies. That's why about 93% of the population in the UK have them. Ahhh, makes sense. Hadn't considered that. Obvious really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sm-iom Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 1 hour ago, sm-iom said: Government announce booster online applications now open to my age group. Front page of website confirms. Fill form out, press submit. Automated email rejection, not open to my age group.... Government says they've fixed a glitch.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
immortalpuppet Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 Booster today, thanks to whoever reminded to have your consent form filled in prior. In and jabbed within 5 minutes while a colleague took nearly 30 mins pissing around with paperwork and queuing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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