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Lovely article about a Welsh choir singing during the pandemic.
Are you back to your choirs, Margaid?
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/apr/24/we-were-determined-covid-wouldnt-finish-us-off-the-welsh-choir-who-sang-through-the-pandemic
 
Unfortunately not. One choir did manage to rehearse last autumn - in the enclosure round the musical director's swimming pool with huge doors open Just four choir members, accompanist and MD. We all wore masks made to a pattern devised by a singer; they were HUGE because they were stiffened to stand out from the face, but comfortable and relatively easy to sing in.
I have taken part in some on-line workshops for early music, but singing something you've never sung or possibly never heard when you can't hear the other voices around you which gives a form to the music, I find very unrewarding.
Hopefully things will change soon ...
 
Yay, finally getting first jab on Sunday! Astra zeneca, so the second dose won't be given until end of July/early August. I'm a bit nervous, because I know 3 people who got fever and a blinding headache the day after getting it, but they were fine after 24 hours or so.

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It can’t be denied that having two gives a great feeling of security. I know it’s not guaranteed 100% but 95% will do me.
Also after 2 years of nagging and badgering I got my shingles jab. For those who’ve never had it, despite its homely name, it is agonisingly painful.
 
LadyA I have my second astra zenith jab on Friday 28th. With the first one, the day after I was so bad I couldn't get out of bed. I'm not a drinker, but this was like 5 hangovers in one. That said, I am still getting the second one and I've heard it doesn't affect you so much the second time. Here's hoping. ??
 
Tweetypie said:
LadyA I have my second astra zenith jab on Friday 28th. With the first one, the day after I was so bad I couldn't get out of bed. I'm not a drinker, but this was like 5 hangovers in one. That said, I am still getting the second one and I've heard it doesn't affect you so much the second time. Here's hoping. [emoji16][emoji1696]
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After the first jab, I did get a headache, but not a bad one ( although, dau pointed out that, having suffered from 17 years of very severe migraines two or three times a week I'm no judge of what constitutes a bad headache for most people!). I also felt exhausted and a bit wobbly in the legs, but only for a say or so. I won't be getting the second jab until August, about 12 weeks after the first.

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Heard that on the news this morning - it's really amazing how they can smell out specific diseases!

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I liked this bit;

“Some of the dogs were born into this occupation, others are rescue dogs that have been donated. Asher, a cocker spaniel who also lives with Guest, was too active for his previous family but is now a valued member of the Covid-detection squad.“
 
If you have ever watched Paul O'Grady love of Dogs this happens quite often. A dog is too lively for the family to cope i.e. it needs more stimulus than they can provide and likes to be busy and it is then taken and trained to be a search dog for drugs at airports etc.

What amazes me are the medical alert dogs who can detect changes in a human long before the human would detect them - epileptic fit, diabetic low blood sugar etc.
 
A friend of ours son had a dog and they were visiting one day and the dog kept sniffing at his upper leg and pawing it. After the usual wisecracks about personal hygiene, his wife remarked on sniffer dogs and told him to go to the doctor as it was unusual behaviour for the dog. Luckily the doctor being young took it seriously and low and behold our friend had early stage bladder cancer, easily curable
 
Our Public Health Department, in the face of the threat from the Delta variant, cut the time between doses of Astra Zeneca vaccine down, first to 8 weeks, and now to 4, realising that the long gap left people over 60 (who had been given the first dose) too vulnerable. So I'm getting my second dose on Monday.

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That’s good news, LadyA.
Because I’ve been enrolled in the Zoe COVID-19 app, one of those apps where you sign in every day with your status to help give a bigger picture of the outbreak, I was offered a free antibody test, 6 weeks after I’d had my second vaccination. It came back negative for antibodies, which was a bit concerning. The notes did say the test doesn’t record T-cell levels, which may or may not give some protection. I’ve just been offered a second antibody test and have sent it off, but can’t see any reason why it will be any different this time. Now looking forward to a booster in the Autumn, with luck.
Our Government seems to have given up on trying to control the outbreak. In the face of rising numbers they have basically said ‘oh go on, then, just go out in large groups and celebrate. It’s OK, don’t bother with masks or any of that nonsense.’
 
The whole family, including nephews and nieces, are vaccinated now, with the exception of my daughter and her husband. She says they will get done, but they just haven't gotten around to it. Unfortunately, she knows of two people who developed heart problems which they think may have been from the vaccine but they're not sure. That's making daughter hesitant I think. However, I'd say they will be vaccinated sooner or later, because they will want to go and let her husband's parents meet their second child, who's almost 2 now, and they will probably need their vaccine certificates for travel. Also looking like here, we will need them for indoor pubs and indoor dining in restaurants and cafés.

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