The lurgy returns

[Papa Bongo]

Sorry to hear of your experience Wully and hope Christina is fully fit soon.

Gordon and Moira

 

[moonshadow]

Get well soon!

 

[Patnlore]

Hope you’re both feeling better soon

 

[Undertaker]

Sorry to hear that Christine is suffering Wully. Give her our best wishes. Your experience mirrors ours, I just had a gruff voice but Teresa was very poorly and in bed for over a week. It is indeed a weird illness.

 

[Tezza33]

I hope she gets better soon Wully, you are lucky to have no symptoms but as you said it is a strange virus, I am still suffering after 5 years with long COVID and having breathing difficulties, brain fog etc but Maggy was only ill for a few weeks with it in 2020 but no after effects

 

[Mobilvetta]

The gift that keeps on giving. Nearly early 5 years since the first lockdown. The world has never been the same. We travelled to Canada last week via Iceland and noticed a lot of people in the airport and on the aircraft wearing masks. I thought they were just being over protective but two days after we got home Christina started feeling ill thought a cold or something but she’s gradually got worse done a Test and it’s positive for Covid that’s the third time she’s took it and took it bad. I have it but have no symptoms same as before tested positive but not even a runny nose. Strange how it effects people differently.

Wow, we flew to Vancouver to do an Alaska cruise in may 2023, we both ended up getting COVID on that trip, I wasn't to bad, but Elaine felt it worse, we had both had the booster jabs too. I'm sure it's been stuck in that aluminium tube for hours that helps spread it, although Elaine thinks she caught hers on the ship, the Chinese family in the next cabin to us were constantly coughing on the balcony.

 

[mariesnowgoose]

I personally wouldn't blame it on the "coughers", mask or no mask.

If it's gonna get you nothing will realistically stop it.

It amazed me during the pandemic how the virus was apparently intelligent enough to recognise where the borders were between England, Wales and Scotland and that it must have automatically altered itself to comply with their differing guidelines as it floated around the countryside...

One thing I doubt I will ever do again in my remaining lifespan is fly though. Mobivetta is correct; stuck on an aluminium tube with all the great unwashed in close confines breathing the cabin air. If anyone on the flight is harbouring a virus, it's about the best chance you'll ever get for catching it.

 

[Scotia]

I personally wouldn't blame it on the "coughers", mask or no mask.

If it's gonna get you nothing will realistically stop it.

It amazed me during the pandemic how the virus was apparently intelligent enough to recognise where the borders were between England, Wales and Scotland and that it must have automatically altered itself to comply with their differing guidelines as it floated around the countryside...

One thing I doubt I will ever do again in my remaining lifespan is fly though. Mobivetta is correct; stuck on an aluminium tube with all the great unwashed in close confines breathing the cabin air. If anyone on the flight is harbouring a virus, it's about the best chance you'll ever get for catching it.

To a point yes, as far as I'm aware air within the aircraft is passed through a hepa filter which gives 99.9 % clean air or so I've been told.

 

[Pauljenny]

Interesting statistic :
According to a survey....
The average passenger farts 7 times an hour on a flight.

One might argue that the knickers or underpants might act as a bum mask..?

But I'm not prepared to risk it.

How.big is a fart..?
How long would it take 160 passengers to completely fill a 737..?

 

[TeamRienza]

I would be more concerned about the noxious percentage of the passengers. The thought of a spark caused by static doesn't bear thinking about!

Davy

 

[HurricaneSmith]

It's still around.

At an AGM I was saddened to hear that the mature daughter of an acquaintance picked up covid, due to her already reduced immunity she was put into a medically induced coma, they had issues resuscitating her, and she now has a long road to recovery.

 

[korky]

Interesting statistic :
According to a survey....
The average passenger farts 7 times an hour on a flight.

One might argue that the knickers or underpants might act as a bum mask..?

But I'm not prepared to risk it.

How.big is a fart..?
How long would it take 160 passengers to completely fill a 737..?

Dave Allen succinctly covered this very subject years ago.

 

[marchie]

Interesting statistic :
According to a survey....
The average passenger farts 7 times an hour on a flight.

One might argue that the knickers or underpants might act as a bum mask..?

But I'm not prepared to risk it.

How.big is a fart..?
How long would it take 160 passengers to completely fill a 737..?

I didn't read the survey, but I did hear reports ...

Steve