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Are you worried about contracting coronavirus?

  • Yes, I am absolutely terrified

    Votes: 12 15.6%

  • Yes, I am slightly concerned

    Votes: 35 45.5%

  • I am neither concerned or unconcerned

    Votes: 7 9.1%

  • No, I am slightly unconcerned

    Votes: 6 7.8%

  • No, I am totally unconcerned

    Votes: 6 7.8%

  • Bring back the old poll

    Votes: 3 3.9%

  • Charlotte Awbrey tits out doing the Macarena

    Votes: 2 2.6%

  • I believe VoR is evil

    Votes: 11 14.3%
  • Total voters
    77
Kate said:
Oh no :( are you allowed to go and see her?

Also did @Lucille mean THAT reaction?!
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I went to see her yesterday when I heard and it was truly awful, as she understandably was very upset with not only her husband passing but now she “trapped” in the care home. She has a sister who is also very elderly that lives a couple of hours away up Inverness way, but she wouldn’t be able to look after her. They have no other family, and never had children. They also have very few friends as they have also passed away, and they only had eachother, really. :(
 
I am half tempted to bring her here and have carers come in between if it was an option but really not sure I could commit to that.
 
Tetris-Rock said:
If you are concerned, literally just lie about symptoms and book a test. I’ve done it.

I don’t feel guilty about doing so as the testing centre near me almost always has a fair number of appointments.
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I got an invite from the Zoe symptom study to do so, but by last night was getting better (plus another negative lateral flow test despite a thorough poking) and at this point whatever it was has basically gone and just left, not to be graphic but "the occasional productive clearing of the throat". So whether it was dog particles, extreme pollen, a cold or covid, it's dead and being ejected at this point :)
 
The vaccine numbers have gone down quite significantly in the last week or so.

86% of adults have had a first dose. Are we reaching the uptake ceiling?
 
The director at the Drama school I work at has tested positive. The most worrying thing for her is that she's late into her pregnancy, but the symptoms aren't bad.

We had training on Friday, but we weren't really in contact despite sharing the space, so I'm not concerned that I have it. It means that apparently I have 10 days isolation from Friday though. Friends are saying just to take regular tests, but I dunno how it works with incubation periods.
 
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Barnacle said:
The director at the Drama school I work at has tested positive. The most worrying thing for her is that she's late into her pregnancy, but the symptoms aren't bad.

We had training on Friday, but we weren't really in contact despite sharing the space, so I'm not concerned that I have it. It means that apparently I have 10 days isolation from Friday though. Friends are saying just to take regular tests, but I dunno how it works with incubation periods.
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Oh just ignore it, everyone else seems to be. :eyes:
 
Barnacle said:
The director at the Drama school I work at has tested positive. The most worrying thing for her is that she's late into her pregnancy, but the symptoms aren't bad.

We had training on Friday, but we weren't really in contact despite sharing the space, so I'm not concerned that I have it. It means that apparently I have 10 days isolation from Friday though. Friends are saying just to take regular tests, but I dunno how it works with incubation periods.
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If you've been told to isolate, you have to isolate.

Even if you test negative, you still isolate. The result doesn't matter.

Exactly what I had last week (and from the previous Friday), except mine was from the app.
 
lolly said:
If you've been told to isolate, you have to isolate.

Even if you test negative, you still isolate. The result doesn't matter.

Exactly what I had last week (and from the previous Friday), except mine was from the app.
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OK yes do this, forget what I said.
 
lolly said:
If you've been told to isolate, you have to isolate.

Even if you test negative, you still isolate. The result doesn't matter.

Exactly what I had last week (and from the previous Friday), except mine was from the app.
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We were told by the director that as far as she knows we have to isolate. I just tested and I'm negative so I expect I'm fine, but will isolate regardless.
 
Barnacle said:
We were told by the director that as far as she knows we have to isolate. I just tested and I'm negative so I expect I'm fine, but will isolate regardless.
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From next month, contacts of people who test positive won’t have to isolate if they’re double-jabbed but for now unfortunately it’s still the case.
 
Far as I heard the app notification isn't legally binding but if you get pinged by the test and trace people then it is.
 
As much as 'legally binding' has ever meant throughout this anyway..!
 
I was just quite BLUNT about it due to what I went through last week when my employer didn't know what to tell me.

My boss told me I could go to surgery as long as I tested negative. I told him I wasn't comfortable with that, or at least not without the explicit agreement of the health centres where I would be working for the period. So I phoned the first one and spoke to the practice manager who pretty much couldn't believe I was even asking. You have to isolate, regardless of your result.

I also posted last week about how when I went to the testing centre I was sent away whereas Mr L was let in. I think it's quite clear now that we both should have stayed at home immediately I received the app notification and ordered a kit by post. However, in the panic of getting the notification literally as I'm heading out the door to go to work, I clicked through the app to the instructions on how to get tested, and that takes you through to the GENERAL advice - and telling me where all my local test centres are, if I have symptoms or not. There ought to be specific info on what to do if you click through from the app (i.e. stay the fuck home), but if there is, it's definitely not where it should be. I think they let Mr L in because he just turned up saying he wanted to get tested, whereas I specifically said I'd received the notification, so staff at the testing centres should be asking better questions as well.

Not that this all matters from July 19th anyway :)
 
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What I'd like to understand now is how the current state compares to regular flu. We might be in this for a while now, with the government no longer interested in keeping any restrictions in place. So 100 deaths a week, about 1000-2000 people in hospital at any one time. How does that compare to flu each year? Do we need to get past the stats now because it's no different to flu and we've long since accepted that, or is still high enough to be a pandemic of concern?
 
UK has about 20,000 flu deaths a year. Ish. But it varies.

What I'm not sure on is the number of flu hospitalizations compared to covid, but I suspect going into hospital is less likely with flu. That might be because of how we are trained to react to flu though.
 
It’s incredible how bad the numbers are for vaccinated adults in Trump/red states. Those places are going to have a very long winter.
 
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I just done a test as I have never done one before, and it came up VOID. I am NOT going through that again.
 
Nobody is getting the vaccine. An extraordinary amount of people think it’s a conspiracy, or they’re American and therefor invincible. And delta has barely even begun to spread there.
 
It might not be THAT bad. Even in the reddest state, most people 65+ are getting the vaccine. So even if there is community spread, the death rate should remain pretty low. It probably won't be like last winter.
 
Hmm not what I read, article said in some counties it’s as low as 30%. You’re there though I’m sure you know better!

probably in some more of these rural places where it’s low the population is also so low that maybe it’s not too bad overall

Still. Idiots.
 
Oh no, you’re right, the vaccination rates are very low in some rural/red counties. they’re just not that low among the elderly, who are the most likely to die from covid.

agreed that the people not getting vaccinated are idiots. And selfish. It makes me so upset because we’re so lucky that it’s so easy to get a vaccine, and people all over the world want them, but so many people are just refusing
 
I will say that part of the reason that rates are so low in the south is that there is a history of rightful mistrust of the medical field in the black community.

most of the people I interact with are educated white liberals, who are the most likely to get educated, so I may have a skewed view of things
 
There needs to be more said about Long Covid in the young, because even young people who had very mild symptoms initially are having some severe cardiac issues months down the line :(
 
It's a crisis waiting to happen, and horrific that the govt are effectively treating kids as an experiment in "wild herd immunity". Had a scared 16yo telling me just yesterday he'd love to have it to ease his mind and lamenting the "just let under 18s die / get long Covid" approach. Get them jabbed FFS
 
Ellie said:
There needs to be more said about Long Covid in the young, because even young people who had very mild symptoms initially are having some severe cardiac issues months down the line :(
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It’s “funny” because I thought I was asymptomatic when I had covid, but it took a good 3 months for my lung strength (while running mostly) to be back to normal
 
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