Coronavirus.

[SketchyMagpie]

I'm wondering about how big 10 Downing Street actually is if Boris's kronies can have a party in his house and he didn't even know about it.

Makes me laugh how they keep saying "there was no party but I'm told the social distancing rules were strictly observed". Good to know that precautions where taken at this party that didn't happen.

Dominic Cummings has also put it out there that they had a party on November 13th.... considering that was the day he quit, I wouldn't be surprised! XD

 

[staffordjas]

The restrictions they're talking about bringing in are just the 'Plan B', so working from home and covid passports for big venues. Nothing about lockdown or limited numbers meeting in a household yet.

Our christmas tree has beaten any office and computer equipment to the only spare bit of space in the house this year !
So as hubby is working shut away in an office of his own now at work (original printer room , converted to isolate him away from the only other person in their office) and commutes on his own by car , he can stay put there!
The landlord of the building made it a condition of working there that they MUST wear masks from the start , so won't be any change there.
16 months working from home last time was long enough to be crawling around the house in silence during conference calls, and hurdling the ethernet cable across the floor from desk top on the dining table to the modem in the lounge!

 

[Theresa Green]

What happened when the weapons of mass destruction met three Downing Street parties

Find out after the Christmas break

 

[tek-monkey]

The restrictions they're talking about bringing in are just the 'Plan B', so working from home and covid passports for big venues. Nothing about lockdown or limited numbers meeting in a household yet.

Lockdown is for new year

 

[proactive]

Lockdown is for new year

Might be for you but not for me. Not this time.

 

[Thehooperman]

Lockdown is for new year

@tek-monkey, I do believe you've misspelt lock-in old chap. Get with the twatty Tory groove fella

 

[SketchyMagpie]

Might be for you but not for me. Not this time.

I'll do it if it's the smart, logical thing to do. Not because I'm told to.

I don't know though, I'm still hopeful it'll be avoided. Only time will tell I guess. I just hope things aren't really bad by the time we get to Christmas.

 

[proactive]

I'll do it if it's the smart, logical thing to do.

I'll pick the bits that are sensible and logical to protect me and others. The rest can go to hell. But that's what I do anyway, regardless of what the government tells me to do

 

[Cue]

Okay hear me out, a wild idea: what if the main reason NHS is overwhelmed is actually because of the constant systematic dismantling and defunding of it over the last 11 years, and it would be doing just fine during the pandemic if it been properly looked after…?

 

[Theresa Green]

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[SketchyMagpie]

Okay hear me out, a wild idea: what if the main reason NHS is overwhelmed is actually because of the constant systematic dismantling and defunding of it over the last 11 years, and it would be doing just fine during the pandemic if it been properly looked after…?

It's a contributing factor but it's clearly not the *main* reason during a pandemic. Just look at how hospitals around the world have also been overwhelmed.

I'm not in any position to say either way, really, though I do know a lot of NHS workers and have read a couple of pandemic-specific books by those who have been on the front lines and I've not seen anyone make that argument (ie that they'd be coping fine if the NHS was properly funded).

 

[Theresa Green]

Coronavirus hides in your fat

It can attack your fat directly

Your fat is biologically active

The virus attacks these fat cells when you get infected

If you have a lot of fat your immune system within your fat can over react to the infection and cause a cytokine storm within your body

Happy Christmas to all

( theoretical until peer reviewed )

 

[staffordjas]

Coronavirus hides in your fat

It can attack your fat directly

Your fat is biologically active

The virus attacks these fat cells when you get infected

If you have a lot of fat your immune system within your fat can over react to the infection and cause a cytokine storm within your body

Happy Christmas to all

( theoretical until peer reviewed )

I remember Boris saying , when he came out of hospital, something like "My underlying health condition was being too fat".

That's what spurred me on to losing 3 & half stone ( as well as Craig from Corrie who'd lost 10 stone ) . Thinking cutting out all the rubbish foods and cider for 12 weeks would give me a better chance of surviving Covid gave me a good incentive.

 

[SketchyMagpie]

That's good going staffordjas, congrats!

 

[staffordjas]

I thought I heard Boris say last night on his briefing (and the writing on the screen underneath) that if you're a close contact of a person who's tested positive , under the new plan B rules , that you no longer have to isolate if double jabbed but get daily Lat Flow tests instead in order to keep business going. ...

Found this ...

Daily Covid tests to replace self-isolation for omicron contacts, says Boris Johnson

PM wants to ‘minimise disruption to daily life’ as he sets out plan B and other changes

www.independent.co.uk

Yet GOV.UK site today is still saying to isolate if close contact of Omicron variant ???

So do those new rules start from today or not? Can't see any dates mentioned , apart from work from home guidance starting from 13th Dec .

 

[proactive]

I thought I heard Boris say last night on his briefing (and the writing on the screen underneath) that if you're a close contact of a person who's tested positive , under the new plan B rules , that you no longer have to isolate if double jabbed but get daily Lat Flow tests instead in order to keep business going. ...

Found this ...

Daily Covid tests to replace self-isolation for omicron contacts, says Boris Johnson

PM wants to ‘minimise disruption to daily life’ as he sets out plan B and other changes

www.independent.co.uk

Yet GOV.UK site today is still saying to isolate if close contact of Omicron variant ???

So do those new rules start from today or not? Can't see any dates mentioned , apart from work from home guidance starting from 13th Dec .

It's very unusual for Boris to announce new 'rules' and for there to be confusion in the aftermath.

It would seem that those at my work that can work from home would really rather not. So back to workplace social distancing like it was in the lockdowns it is. That means I'm banished to the RV again.

 

[staffordjas]

Get ready to buy earplugs when all the anti-mask brigade sing their way around supermarkets.........on one of the latest Javid articles an hour ago

 

[BobClay]

Does this mean I have to invest in ear plugs as well as a mask !!! ???

 

[staffordjas]

The restrictions they're talking about bringing in are just the 'Plan B', so working from home and covid passports for big venues. Nothing about lockdown or limited numbers meeting in a household yet.

This has the dates on when each restriction comes in..

When will Plan B be reviewed? Everything we know so far

Boris Johnson has reintroduced social restrictions in response to spread of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 but steered clear of a tighter clampdown

www.independent.co.uk

Don't like this bit lower down.........'He said lockdowns are a possibility and cannot be ruled out'

 

[proactive]

Get ready to buy earplugs when all the anti-mask brigade sing their way around supermarkets.........on one of the latest Javid articles an hour ago
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Anybody tries that near me will wake up in hospital and it won't be from COVID.