The big Coronavirus thread
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if you are isolating how did you get a cold?rick_chasey said:Anyway, I am making slow progress but progress nonetheless with my recovery.
Alas picked up a stinker of a cold so I am feeling **rough**0 -
I'm into week 4, I've not been isolating since day 12 - I tested negative on day 16.surrey_commuter said:
if you are isolating how did you get a cold?rick_chasey said:Anyway, I am making slow progress but progress nonetheless with my recovery.
Alas picked up a stinker of a cold so I am feeling **rough**0 -
You also don't have to isolate if you test positive (it was strange seeing my +ve neighbours annouce they were going to the shops).surrey_commuter said:
if you are isolating how did you get a cold?rick_chasey said:Anyway, I am making slow progress but progress nonetheless with my recovery.
Alas picked up a stinker of a cold so I am feeling **rough**0 -
Thats a hugely ignorant thing for them to have done. Memories are so short and people are so childish.shirley_basso said:
You also don't have to isolate if you test positive (it was strange seeing my +ve neighbours annouce they were going to the shops).surrey_commuter said:
if you are isolating how did you get a cold?rick_chasey said:Anyway, I am making slow progress but progress nonetheless with my recovery.
Alas picked up a stinker of a cold so I am feeling **rough**0 -
My wife and I did raise our eyebrows to one another as we peered through the shutters0
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Good job you can see through the shutters from behind the sofa 😉
Seriously though, people are fuckingidiots! We've had nearly half the warehouse off with it as someone came in when positive, she told someone she'd tested positive, but they didn't tell a manager for a few days. A week later lots have it.0 -
Just to show it isn't just the Westminster government who go down the 'do as I say, not as I do' route a bunch of Welsh Assembly members got cleared today after drinking alcohol at a meeting in the Senedd tea room during a ban on the sale of alcohol introduced by the Senedd itself.
The investigation concluded that they hadn't breached the code of conduct as it was only illegal to sell alcohol and not to drink it. It was also concluded they weren't aware they were doing anything wrong despite, presumably, having sat through discussions on the introduction of the ban.
Absolute farce, for balance the Assembly members were from a mix of parties (I don't know if anyone got reprimanded for selling the booze).0 -
Something about choice apparently...shirley_basso said:My wife and I did raise our eyebrows to one another as we peered through the shutters
We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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The choice of whether to knowingly spread a virus or not.
Wonderful.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.0 -
Look at the positives. Now you know what sort of people your neighbours are.shirley_basso said:My wife and I did raise our eyebrows to one another as we peered through the shutters
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One is a two-time PhD. The other is an scientist / engineer who develops medical devices.
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So, as you can see, having a respected academic background need not be correlated with caring about others.shirley_basso said:One is a two-time PhD. The other is an scientist / engineer who develops medical devices.
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Was a bit odd.
I imagine their attitude is reflective of the section of the population who just can't be arsed any more.0 -
I think, *I think* I'm over the worst of the fatigue as I can now march around at normal pace.
Hard to tell as this cold is hard to shift, but i feel now quite normal apart from having a cold, rather than this overwall weakness and lack of strength.
Yet to get on the bike to test for real, but I suspect all that lying down for 3-4 weeks is not that great for fitness...0 -
Half of current hospital patients are for covid. Not with covid but for covid.
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.0 -
That graph says half of hospital patients who have tested positive for covid are being treated for covid.pblakeney said:Half of current hospital patients are for covid. Not with covid but for covid.
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kingstongraham said:
That graph says half of hospital patients who have tested positive for covid are being treated for covid.pblakeney said:Half of current hospital patients are for covid. Not with covid but for covid.
And given the current infection rates, which I suspect are waaay higher than official data, if the number of my friends succumbing in the last couple of weeks is anything to go by), that number is still, in real terms, remarkably low.
It doesn't stop the media using relative terms like 'half of' and percentage increases that make the critical care situation sound much worse than it is.0 -
All about the wording I suppose.
Bottom line is that we'd be much better off with 5000 less patients in hospital.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.1 -
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I guess A&E turning away patients due to a lack of beds is just the new norm.briantrumpet said:ICU numbers remain low.
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.0 -
pblakeney said:
I guess A&E turning away patients due to a lack of beds is just the new norm.briantrumpet said:ICU numbers remain low.
Cumulative effect of NHS underfunding, backlog from previous lockdowns, and numbers of staff staying at home with covid (the fools... shouldn't they just go in anyway and tell everyone to wash their hands more?).
It's not good, but it could be a whole lot worse. Obviously it's horrible for those needing critical care now, but taking the wider perspective, it's not the disaster it might have been, given infection rates now.0 -
pblakeney said:
All about the wording I suppose.
Bottom line is that we'd be much better off with 5000 less patients in hospital.
Of course we would be, but the NHS in particular works on a system of 'acceptable levels' of infection/whatever, as 'zero level' of any disease costs a very high level of $s.0 -
I guess my main point is that this is far from over yet. And it won't be for as long as people think that it is. You don't want to be having an accident on your bike either.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.0 -
pblakeney said:
I guess my main point is that this is far from over yet.
And it won't be for as long as people think that it is.
100% agree with that. Though if 95% of the population don't give a stuff about catching it or spreading it, it feels rather Canute-ish trying to make the point.0 -
You'll hear about it if they have to go to hospital though. For whatever reason.briantrumpet said:pblakeney said:I guess my main point is that this is far from over yet.
And it won't be for as long as people think that it is.
100% agree with that. Though if 95% of the population don't give a stuff about catching it or spreading it, it feels rather Canute-ish trying to make the point.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.0 -
To be fair there are a lot of Canutes out there.briantrumpet said:pblakeney said:I guess my main point is that this is far from over yet.
And it won't be for as long as people think that it is.
100% agree with that. Though if 95% of the population don't give a stuff about catching it or spreading it, it feels rather Canute-ish trying to make the point.0 -
If they did not release people from hospital and many people would have died in hospital corridors Would this also be illegal.rick_chasey said:0 -
This post beggars belief.john80 said:
If they did not release people from hospital and many people would have died in hospital corridors Would this also be illegal.rick_chasey said:
Have a ponder about why this might be an analogy.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mallon0
