Good news/bad news time with necessary apologies to @rdm and @leece. First the good news: it’s not one of the big 3: #NotCOVID #NotRSV #NotFlu

Just had to jump into the work chat for a minute (though not working today). Three people talking about how their little kids and their teenage kids and themselves are all crook at the moment. Sore throat, headache, sinuses.

BUT IT'S NOT #COVID19 YOU FCKERS. STOP SAYING THAT IT IS.

#NotCOVID

Friends are doing one of those multi-day organised-ish walks in Japan, not far from Osaka. I asked if there were many others walking and they told me about a woman who was really unwell yesterday. Lots of coughing, feeling terrible with a "really bad cold".

So, #notCOVID then?

Narrator: from the symptoms they described, it's likely #COVID19. I dare say they'll have it in the next couple of days.

Sigh.

#COVIDisNOTover

Yay, not Covid. I still feel like death, though. No fever, but I check all the other flu symptoms. First time I’ve been this sick since I had Covid back in 2020.

#BeingSickSucks #NotCovid

@ChristosArgyrop
Lucira is dead.

Yeah more will have severe outcomes, but I'm not too sure about acute illness.

The uptake of the last iteration was so poor, that I don't think the amount of people getting the vax is going to materially be different.

My theory is that more are having zero immediate response and then suffering/dying mysteriously of #NotCovid, e.g. strokes, pneumonia, etc.

Been trying to get out more in my job so I’m off to Salford and then York today. By bus, then train, but no bike as I’m still not well in my chest. #NotCovid

There's a lot of people sick with #NotCovid right now.

How do they know it's not #covid? Oh, they just know.

Unsolicited cold update.
Still negative for covid. Sinuses not streaming as much today but have developed a productive cough. Tired.
#NotCovid

Every time I think this cold is receding it suddenly comes up with another symptom. This time it's my sinuses constantly streaming.

Tissues and aloe being generously applied.
#NotCovid (we've tested)