Coronavirus.

SketchyMagpie

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Such is the boredom of isolation (I'm stuck in my room to protect the household) I just worked out how many people at the gig would have had Covid based on the last prevalence figures and I reckon it would have been around 88 and a half people though I don't know how half a person got in.
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
Such is the boredom of isolation (I'm stuck in my room to protect the household) I just worked out how many people at the gig would have had Covid based on the last prevalence figures and I reckon it would have been around 88 and a half people though I don't know how half a person got in.
Shame - it'll be the half-person that got you, probably.

They'll have been much more infective - bodily fluids everywhere, etc.
 

littleme

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Such is the boredom of isolation (I'm stuck in my room to protect the household) I just worked out how many people at the gig would have had Covid based on the last prevalence figures and I reckon it would have been around 88 and a half people though I don't know how half a person got in.
Hope you're not feeling to bad @SketchyMagpie , several of my colleagues have again come down with it again this week, and my middle son after a trip abroad, and today I have a sore throat (fingers crossed its not it), I'll test again later.

Had to make a decision today at work as to what to do with a customer who had Covid. Poor lady was a single parent & had no one to help her with shopping from home, she'd tested her son (about 8yrs old) that morning and he was negative, so she came masked up, and he pushed the trolley and picked up all the items etc... I took her to closed off self scan and scanned the items for her so we could stay away from the other shoppers.

I have to say I was very thankful for her telling me & that it was my choice to help her.... After all how many people are now out & about with it with no protection and not telling people. How many people are working & have it (I know a few) as now company policy is that you can still come into work.

**edit. Rather rediculously my work have a works meal planned for tonight, just over half of the staff are going (I made my excuses not to go a while ago).... Being as there's been 2 colleagues in the last week that have come down with it, just how many will have it in 10 days time....
 
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Glam

Mad Cat Woman
I'm back in work tomorrow night, after 9 lovely long days off. Wonder how many cases I'll be going in to. The problem with our patients is you can't physically make them stay isolated in their bedrooms. A lot think that the Coronavirus is just something made up by the goverment.
 

staffordjas

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After all how many people are now out & about with it with no protection and not telling people. How many people are working & have it (I know a few) as now company policy is that you can still come into work.

**edit. Rather rediculously my work have a works meal planned for tonight, just over half of the staff are going (I made my excuses not to go a while ago).... Being as there's been 2 colleagues in the last week that have come down with it, just how many will have it in 10 days time....
Sons place won't allow staff to work who have it. Lots do turn up with 'just cold symptoms' , get sent home again and told to test and then find out later they test positive .
 
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SketchyMagpie

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I think I might have turned a corner with the symptoms, hopefully. Switched meds yesterday which may have helped. Saturday was just really, really awful but then then yesterday was mostly OK and I don't feel too bad today either, save for coughing lots. Will probably still be isolating until the weekend because my positive line is still thick and dark but I think the combination of Lemsip Max, manuka honey and lemon in hot water plus the remains of my vaccine protection are finally kicking it to the curb. All this without a fever, too, which means I almost certainly had a mild case, as bad as it was for a while.

In short, I don't ever want to contract this again and if I did I would never want anyone else to catch it from me. It's insane seeing reports about how some people are now expected to go into work with a positive test if they're not feeling too rough.
 
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tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
In short, I don't ever want to contract this again and if I did I would never want anyone else to catch it from me. It's insane seeing reports about how some people are now expected to go into work with a positive test if they're not feeling too rough.
I once got a bollocking for being ill so often, so next time I was ill I went to work. I took out the entire dev team and half the office in general, got a bollocking for coming to work ill :roll:
 

joshua

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I think I might have turned a corner with the symptoms, hopefully. Switched meds yesterday which may have helped. Saturday was just really, really awful but then then yesterday was mostly OK and I don't feel too bad today either, save for coughing lots. Will probably still be isolating until the weekend because my positive line is still thick and dark but I think the combination of Lemsip Max, manuka honey and lemon in hot water plus the remains of my vaccine protection are finally kicking it to the curb. All this without a fever, too, which means I almost certainly had a mild case, as bad as it was for a while.

In short, I don't ever want to contract this again and if I did I would never want anyone else to catch it from me. It's insane seeing reports about how some people are now expected to go into work with a positive test if they're not feeling too rough.
Glad you are improving, i guess large gatherings are still unsafe, i wonder how many will bring something unwanted back from glasto ?
 

tek-monkey

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My brother, who lives with my parents at the moment, also now getting sick. Ran out of tests though, so now you gotta pay to know if you're ill? What if they all start going to the doctors?
 

SketchyMagpie

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Yeah, I was lucky to still have a stash of 5 or 6 boxes. They're very expensive if you want to test daily and have other household members test.

On the large gatherings thing, they're certainly more dangerous now than a couple of months ago. When levels are low I think you can mask up and attend pretty safely but when the prevalence is so high that you're never going to be more 40 people away from someone who is infected.... yeah. Sure we're going to see a big post-Glasto spike.
 

tek-monkey

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Yeah, I was lucky to still have a stash of 5 or 6 boxes. They're very expensive if you want to test daily and have other household members test.

On the large gatherings thing, they're certainly more dangerous now than a couple of months ago. When levels are low I think you can mask up and attend pretty safely but when the prevalence is so high that you're never going to be more 40 people away from someone who is infected.... yeah. Sure we're going to see a big post-Glasto spike.
I saw the images of Green Day that I missed and was glad I wasn't there TBH.
 

Withnail

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actually, you ARE doing harm to everybody - you don't think you are but you are.

You are actively advocating that people do NOT do all that they can do to NOT harm other people.

THAT is harming people.

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cj1

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Has @gilbert grape done anything but express his honest opinions on a public forum. Does he not have the right to do so? At 6+ months since most people have had a covid vaccine is there any evidence that it is preventing transmission? looking at current infection rates within a highly vaccinated population the evidence looks weak. Anybody have 2022 data sets on this point?
 

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
Has @gilbert grape done anything but express his honest opinions on a public forum. Does he not have the right to do so? At 6+ months since most people have had a covid vaccine is there any evidence that it is preventing transmission? looking at current infection rates within a highly vaccinated population the evidence looks weak. Anybody have 2022 data sets on this point?
I thought it was established quite a long time ago that the vaccination didn't really stop transmission as such, but made you less likely to get it (or get particularly ill) which meant you were less likely to transfer it? The chances of a vaxxed or unvaxxed person to pass it on are the same if both as ill as each other, but the chances are the unvaxxed person will be more ill (hence them proportionally taking up more hospital beds).

EDIT: Also as soon as testing stopped being free we changed the scope of transmission data available, meaning it cannot be compared to when testing was regularly carried out.
 

SketchyMagpie

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Has @gilbert grape done anything but express his honest opinions on a public forum. Does he not have the right to do so? At 6+ months since most people have had a covid vaccine is there any evidence that it is preventing transmission? looking at current infection rates within a highly vaccinated population the evidence looks weak. Anybody have 2022 data sets on this point?
Vaccination is intended to stop serious illness, not prevent transmission. That it does have an impact on transmission is just a bonus.

The data for vaccination drives bringing down deaths during covid waves is beyond definitive at this point.

As for GG, it's not that he has "honest opinions" that's the issue, it's that he expects of us (to acknowledge his 'evidence') what he's not willing to do in return and insults us if we present counter evidence.
 
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SketchyMagpie

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Ugh, have now developed a weird and sore rash on my hand, must be Covid (no sign of a bite or anything) since I've not been out of my bloody room except to go the loo since last week? Apparently it's a thing that sometimes happens after infection with the immune response.

edit: friend who is an NHS worker said it happened to her with her feet, took 3 months to heal with steroid cream. Luckily it's just like a pound coin sized area at the minute and not on my drawing hand.
 
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littleme

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Ugh, have now developed a weird and sore rash on my hand, must be Covid (no sign of a bite or anything) since I've not been out of my bloody room except to go the loo since last week? Apparently it's a thing that sometimes happens after infection with the immune response.

edit: friend who is an NHS worker said it happened to her with her feet, took 3 months to heal with steroid cream. Luckily it's just like a pound coin sized area at the minute and not on my drawing hand.
Covid toes

 
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