Corona Virus: How Are We Doing?

[SpokeyDokey]

Another batch of Covidiots rear their dopey heads:

Friend of Lovely Wife has invited her mid 30's son and girlfriend up to their home in The Lakes for next weekend.

Son and girlfriend are residing in a Tier 3 area!

The Mother says that following a phone call when the son said he is desperate for a mum hug (!) she invited them up.

Both son and girlfriend work in the NHS (!).

Apparently all will be ok as they (son & girlfriend) "know what they are doing".

My patience has worn very thin with people like these.

 

[lane]

Another letter from my daughters school; another two members of staff that makes 7 in the past two weeks. The school has about 1,300 students compared to my Son's college which has about 2,000 all post 16. My son's college has less members of staff testing positive, they have a strict mask policy. My son's college is in Nottingham (top in the country for covid) my daughter's school is in Derby much lower rate of covid. I would question is my daughter's school are doing enough to protect their staff; well I think they clearly aren't. If I was a member of staff at the school I would be asking some serious questions.

 

[lane]

Looking at a recent set of accounts they have 165 staff so that is over 4% tested positive in the past two weeks. Does that seem high?

 

[lazybloke]

Another batch of Covidiots rear their dopey heads:

Friend of Lovely Wife has invited her mid 30's son and girlfriend up to their home in The Lakes for next weekend.

Son and girlfriend are residing in a Tier 3 area!

The Mother says that following a phone call when the son said he is desperate for a mum hug (!) she invited them up.

Both son and girlfriend work in the NHS (!).

Apparently all will be ok as they (son & girlfriend) "know what they are doing".

My patience has worn very thin with people like these.

There are 4 living next door to me, and I can see their drive from my kitchen when I'm washing up - so it's easy to count their guests to see how far they are stretching the rule of 6 each day. It's often into double figures.

In many ways there are community minded ;they both work in the local community, and are involved with the local schools. They helped their elderly neighbours during lockdown, and they regularly have their own aged parents over. But they also mix with countless other people, so they are a significant infection risk. They had FOUR carloads of visitors in their house at the same time on Friday afternoon/evening!
Of course, they were the first to join the thursday night clap - but even that wsa their excuse to throw a weekly party and have loads of people over & mixing.

 

[Andy in Germany]

I hope he makes a complete recovery. I am aware that even in younger people the virus can do damage, it's not just the very old. A Liberal MP here caught the virus at 48, thought she was likely to die and said her goodbyes, did in fact recover but weeks later still gets out of breath going up steps and can no longer sing. Whether this will remain so time will tell.

That said, I'm starting to wonder if there is too much panic being spread by government overreaction to the spread. It's not possible to stop it, shouldn't the measures be targeted at the most vulnerable? For example, from today pupils in schools will have to wear a mask all day, but this demographic is not driving the spread and is not likely to suffer from the virus if they get it. Is this really necessary? Is this going to do long-term damage to development and well-being?

I think it right to question this, but I have not joined the anti-vaxers or loony conspiracy theorists.

Trouble is, they go to school, exchange viruses, possibly without symptoms, then go home, where perhaps Grandma comes over to look after them because mum and dad are back at work. I don't think it's to stop school children getting ill per se but stop them carrying the virus to more vulnerable people.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Today our local town went into "High risk": the outbreak was tracked fairly quickly to a local football match last week... And the fact that the teams decided to have a pi§§ up afterwards in the clubhouse, despite the maximum group size being 15 at the moment.

Apparently those who attended are in a great deal of trouble, partly from the law and partly from local who quickly worked out exactly what happened*...

On the other hand, it's good to note the universal brotherhood of humankind: in all nations everywhere there is a hard core of plonkers...

*ETS: Not implying anyone broke patient confidentiality here, but in a small town the sequence of events was pretty obvious...

 

[Julia9054]

Another letter from my daughters school; another two members of staff that makes 7 in the past two weeks. The school has about 1,300 students compared to my Son's college which has about 2,000 all post 16. My son's college has less members of staff testing positive, they have a strict mask policy. My son's college is in Nottingham (top in the country for covid) my daughter's school is in Derby much lower rate of covid. I would question is my daughter's school are doing enough to protect their staff; well I think they clearly aren't. If I was a member of staff at the school I would be asking some serious questions.

It depends if the members of staff caught it from each other/the pupils or if the 7 cases are unconnected and caught outside school.

 

[lane]

I don't know the answer to that but with 7 in two weeks I would be surprised if there wasn't transmission within the school, but it could be a coincidence.

 

[fossyant]

A colleague has had both her kids sent home from school and they have to isolate for two weeks. No day trips over half term, stuck in the house.

 

[vickster]

A colleague has had both her kids sent home from school and they have to isolate for two weeks. No day trips over half term, stuck in the house.

They can catch up on all the missed learning from the spring, should keep them busy

 

[fossyant]

They can catch up on all the missed learning from the spring, should keep them busy

Oh that's Evil. She's already had enough of home schooling and working.

 

[vickster]

They must be able to go outside?
if they do the learning on their own, she still gets the time off work

 

[stowie]

Of course, they were the first to join the thursday night clap - but even that wsa their excuse to throw a weekly party and have loads of people over & mixing.

Nurses, doctors and careworkers died in the first wave administering help to those with the disease and (certainly in the case of careworkers) getting pathetic levels of support in terms of PPE. We saw pictures of nurses sitting in corridors utterly dazed after working multiple shifts. People on the front line lived away from their families in order to minimise risk of spreading the disease.

I think the least I can do is to wear a mask when I am told to, wash my hands, try to socially distance and keep to the rule of six by not throwing parties . I mean it doesn't seem much of a sacrifice in comparison.

 

[lane]

i would do that for purely selfish reasons anyway, never mind anything else.

 

[fossyant]

They must be able to go outside?
if they do the learning on their own, she still gets the time off work

Garden... still stuck at home... shes working full time (or trying) with the schooling/arguments. Her hubby is out at work (lucky sod).