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Tbh i would have been pretty surprised that a bowel condition would be exacerbated by covid, or make catching covid more dangerous. I'm not sure many conclusionsn(about shielding or anything else really) can be drawn from the fact that people with this condition ultimately haven't been affected more than by cv than the general pop. 

We were never obliged to follow the shielding guidelines anyway

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4 minutes ago, madwullie said:

Tbh i would have been pretty surprised that a bowel condition would be exacerbated by covid, or make catching covid more dangerous. I'm not sure many conclusions can be drawn from the fact that people with this condition ultimately haven't been affected more than by cv than the general pop. 

It's not the condition itself, it's the immunosuppressants used to help control it that are what causes me to be classed as vulnerable.

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Tbh i would have been pretty surprised that a bowel condition would be exacerbated by covid, or make catching covid more dangerous. I'm not sure many conclusionsn(about shielding or anything else really) can be drawn from the fact that people with this condition ultimately haven't been affected more than by cv than the general pop. 
We were never obliged to follow the shielding guidelines anyway


Bowel conditions were included in shielding because many patients take immunosuppressant drugs to manage their condition, rather than strict danger as a result of IBS or similar.
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Todd's went from a guy occasionally posting about Hamilton to spending his life on a general nonsense discussion of Corona on a football forum. It's as sad as it is creepy tbh.

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28 minutes ago, Todd_is_God said:

It's not the condition itself, it's the immunosuppressants used to help control it that are what causes me to be classed as vulnerable.

Fair fucks mate. That makes more sense 

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3 minutes ago, Rugster said:

 Can you answer my question please?

He did tbf, knows better than the people drawing up the shielded list naturally.

1 hour ago, Todd_is_God said:

Naturally I've looked into the specific reason why I would be on the list to see what the outcomes were for others with the same condition.

They appear no less favourable than otherwise healthy people.

 

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8 minutes ago, Honest Saints Fan said:

Came down with high temp earlier and sense of taste disappeared at dinner. Just had to go to Inverness test centre. The touch your brain with it up your nose wasn't pleasant. Hopefully it's just my shitty immune system reacting bad to a cold and not corona!

All the best, hope you don't have to wait too long to find out.

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Came down with high temp earlier and sense of taste disappeared at dinner. Just had to go to Inverness test centre. The touch your brain with it up your nose wasn't pleasant. Hopefully it's just my shitty immune system reacting bad to a cold and not corona!
Fingers crossed bud
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34 minutes ago, welshbairn said:

He did tbf, knows better than the people drawing up the shielded list naturally.

It's not about knowing better than anyone.

I can only speak for me, but when a new virus arrives along with a suggested mortality rate of 3% (or whatever it was in March), and you get told that not only are millions in the UK going go get it, but your personal risk is greater than that, the natural reaction is to find out as much information as possible.

When it gets about 6 weeks down the line and your personal risk moves from "high risk" to "moderate risk," you read studies that show that the outcomes of your specific circumstance were better than expected / no worse than the general population, and couple this with overall risk for your age group, underlying condition or not, being relatively low, then I personally felt much better about the chances of serious illness / death if I was unlucky enough to catch it.

When you've spent the last 10+ years taking drugs that raise your risk of certain cancers etc, weighing up whether to continue to do the things you enjoy doing, fully in the knowledge that doing so comes with a slightly higher risk than the general public, or not doing them to reduce risk, but missing out along the way, then socialising etc during Coronavirus is just another one of those choices to me. The risk isn't zero, but it's very low, and the risk of most things isn't zero either.

If that makes me "A w**k of a boy" (not your words I know) then so be it.

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