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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,228
    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/18/business/china-coronavirus-vaccines.html

    This looks sure to fail against Omicron.
  • john80
    john80 Posts: 2,965
    kingstongraham said:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/18/business/china-coronavirus-vaccines.html

    This looks sure to fail against Omicron.

    Are people still working under the assumption that the Chinese government cares about the health of its population. They want them well enough to work but not too well or they might revolt.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,025
    kingstongraham said:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/18/business/china-coronavirus-vaccines.html

    This looks sure to fail against Omicron.

    It's behind a paywall. Omicron is very infectious?
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,228
    TheBigBean said:

    kingstongraham said:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/18/business/china-coronavirus-vaccines.html

    This looks sure to fail against Omicron.

    It's behind a paywall. Omicron is very infectious?
    China has not bought any foreign mRNA vaccines, and failed in its attempts to develop its own.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    pblakeney said:

    laurentian said:

    . . . you're all aware that there's a new variant "Deltacron" right? Reported as having a "R"of 10 this morning on the radio . . .

    Doesn't matter. BJ says live with it so that's that then.
    He's due another U turn though so get ready for a full on lockdown (once Cheltenham Festival has ended though obviously)
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,996
    briantrumpet said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Wiped me out. Can barely read for more than 3 minutes at a time without having to lie down.

    Nightmare for work, this is a big week career wise.


    Seems to be wiping a lot of people out for 10 days. Hope you recover quickly.
    Nephew tested positive on Thursday. Felt a bit off for a few days and back to work on Monday. Negative.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,725
    ballysmate said:

    briantrumpet said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Wiped me out. Can barely read for more than 3 minutes at a time without having to lie down.

    Nightmare for work, this is a big week career wise.


    Seems to be wiping a lot of people out for 10 days. Hope you recover quickly.
    Nephew tested positive on Thursday. Felt a bit off for a few days and back to work on Monday. Negative.

    Yes, seems very variable.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    Just got notification that the person sat behind me in choir last Thursday tested positive. Had to provide my details for test and trace which surprised me as I didn't think we were doing that anymore.

    Luckily we were masked up as there's been another positive earlier in the week but I'll be doing an LFT later.
  • kingstonian
    kingstonian Posts: 2,847
    Ten days ago my wife felt a bit under the weather, she did a LFT on Monday of last week (negative) and then tested positive on a PCR test done on Tuesday afternoon. She was really rough until Sunday and has then been getting better each day.

    I started feeling tired last Thurs and went for a PCR test (negative). I felt better over the weekend, but yesterday woke with a slightly sore throat - did a LFT which had a very faint positive line and did a PCR test later in the day - got the positive result this morning. At the moment I’m a bit sniffly, but that’s it (hopefully it will stay that way).

    When we had our vaccines I was knocked for six whereas my wife had hardly any reaction, so pretty much the opposite to how our bodies have reacted now we’ve actually caught it.
  • mully79
    mully79 Posts: 904
    Statistically excess deaths is always going to average out across all the countries eventually as the people who have died early are not around to die later.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,725
    Pross said:

    Just got notification that the person sat behind me in choir last Thursday tested positive. Had to provide my details for test and trace which surprised me as I didn't think we were doing that anymore.

    Luckily we were masked up as there's been another positive earlier in the week but I'll be doing an LFT later.


    Just heard from a colleague about half a dozen singers from a choir she normally goes to catching it on last week when she didn't go.
    https://www.facebook.com/unanglaisendiois
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,270
    So, isn't the purpose of vaccination to prep our bodies, get them tooled up so inevitably when one catches the virulent wee barsteward bug one's immune system is on it pronto? And the impact is thereby reduced. Like usual vaccinations against whichever problematic.

    Life returns to usual. Ignoring the 'world beating' multi billion TnT of course.

    And Novax and his like cohort can just toss their coin and await...

  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    LFT negative and feel fine so all good.
  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    briantrumpet said:

    ballysmate said:

    briantrumpet said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Wiped me out. Can barely read for more than 3 minutes at a time without having to lie down.

    Nightmare for work, this is a big week career wise.


    Seems to be wiping a lot of people out for 10 days. Hope you recover quickly.
    Nephew tested positive on Thursday. Felt a bit off for a few days and back to work on Monday. Negative.

    Yes, seems very variable.
    or there is more than on variant
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Whoever said there was a day recently with no covid patients in ICU...

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-60755172

    From last night

    Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge currently has 61 Covid patients, nine of them in intensive care.
    _
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,490
    rick_chasey said:

    Whoever said there was a day recently with no covid patients in ICU...

    It was in N.I.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,725
    It does look as if places will be going back to black on the map soon. "But it's all over!!", said who?
    https://www.facebook.com/unanglaisendiois
  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    briantrumpet said:

    It does look as if places will be going back to black on the map soon. "But it's all over!!", said who?

    I am going to say it is time to go back to normal and think we currently have the right policy. With Spring nearly upon we should be good for 6 months.
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,389
    surrey_commuter said:

    briantrumpet said:

    It does look as if places will be going back to black on the map soon. "But it's all over!!", said who?

    I am going to say it is time to go back to normal and think we currently have the right policy. With Spring nearly upon we should be good for 6 months.
    How do you explain the high case rates last September?


  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,490
    I said before that we opened up too quickly.
    Should have waited for the Easter holidays.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • DeVlaeminck
    DeVlaeminck Posts: 9,108
    In England at least it pretty much is over to the extent we aren't going to go back to restrictions. Anywhere I've been recently with crowds very few people were wearing masks.
    [Castle Donington Ladies FC - going up in '22]
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    edited March 2022
    All the infections I know about have been either from skiing holidays (remember that?) or 1 step removed (in that instance, me).


    Bad enough they bore me to tears with their rar rar chat about skiing, christ, it's dull, I get it, you need to talk about the snow and how you need a holiday to recover blah blah, and wasn't it hilarious when Henry go so drunk he had sex with a mogul on his way down but at least, at least, don't come into the office *the next day* when half the party got corona on the holiday.


    And then, when you do test positive in the office, do please *go home* and don't just find yourself a smaller room and march about the floor.
    _
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,025
    rick_chasey said:

    All the infections I know about have been either from skiing holidays (remember that?) or 1 step removed (in that instance, me).


    Bad enough they bore me to tears with their rar rar chat about skiing, christ, it's dull, I get it, you need to talk about the snow and how you need a holiday to recover blah blah, and wasn't it hilarious when Henry go so drunk he had sex with a mogul on his way down but at least, at least, don't come into the office *the next day* when half the party got corona on the holiday.


    And then, when you do test positive in the office, do please *go home* and don't just find yourself a smaller room and march about the floor.

    Not a fan of skiing holidays then?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    They're fine. It's the way they get spoken about.

    There's this sort of unjustified mystique about them. They're just an activities holiday that happens to be expensive and it's quite easily set up to be boozy.

    They also happen to be where my entire team bar me caught corona and then my boss spread it to me, so we're all under the pump now, pr!cks.
    _
  • pangolin
    pangolin Posts: 6,660
    rick_chasey said:

    They're fine. It's the way they get spoken about.

    There's this sort of unjustified mystique about them. They're just an activities holiday that happens to be expensive and it's quite easily set up to be boozy.

    They also happen to be where my entire team bar me caught corona and then my boss spread it to me, so we're all under the pump now, pr!cks.

    Did your entire team go on holiday without you Rick?
    - Genesis Croix de Fer
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,490
    rick_chasey said:


    They also happen to be where my entire team bar me caught corona and then my boss spread it to me, so we're all under the pump now, pr!cks.

    Please tell me they all went on separate holidays during a quiet spell and not all together.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • Jezyboy
    Jezyboy Posts: 3,657
    pblakeney said:

    I said before that we opened up too quickly.
    Should have waited for the Easter holidays.

    What would you have kept closed until Easter?

    Have to say, my skiing holiday was pretty top, really missed it last year.
  • kingstonian
    kingstonian Posts: 2,847
    TBH from this post and others I’ve seen in the past it would appear that many of your colleagues are fairly high on the tw@t scale.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,490
    Jezyboy said:

    pblakeney said:

    I said before that we opened up too quickly.
    Should have waited for the Easter holidays.

    What would you have kept closed until Easter?

    Have to say, my skiing holiday was pretty top, really missed it last year.
    I'd have kept masks, social distancing and ventilation. Warmer weather more outside, more windows open.
    Skiing holiday is when you'd probably be the most vulnerable. Not while skiing, but the transport and socialising.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    pblakeney said:

    rick_chasey said:


    They also happen to be where my entire team bar me caught corona and then my boss spread it to me, so we're all under the pump now, pr!cks.

    Please tell me they all went on separate holidays during a quiet spell and not all together.
    Yes yes. One arranged a trip of...wait for it....50 people....

    The other was his second skiing holiday in a month. "I need to let of steam with the guys for a week after I've skiied with the family". Of course you do, family man.
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